#mchaller

By the time Hayley is a teenager Mickey and Maggie have been divorced 8 years. They were also married for 8 years. (They likely divorced when Hayley was about 5).

Mickey repeatedly asks for another chance and for Maggie to marry him again.

Mickey and Lorna were friends who then got married for 1 year, realised that they weren't in-love and Lorna was a rebound wife for Mickey, and got divorced.

Cisco is called Cisco because there was already a Dennis in the Road Saints and his surname is impossible. He's actually the Cisco Kid.

Lorna and Cisco are just as cute in the show as they are in the books.

Book Cisco wears shirts with no sleeves and Lorna has severe and loudly spoken objections to him wearing a suit and tie.

Mickey and Maggie have a weird exes with benefits things going wherein he's in-love with her and she still very much reaches out to him for emotional and physical needs.

Maggie has a key to Mickey's house.

Mickey actually has very little money.

Mickey pays for Hayley's elite private school (and later university).

Hayley decided to become a lawyer (prosecutor) in her teens, studies it, graduates, decides 'maybe I don't want to be lawyer' and takes a gap year.

Mickey has other long-term relationships.

When the California fires take Maggie's house, she moves in with Mickey and they start a real relationship again.

"I looked up to see my ex-wife slide into the booth next to our daughter. She landed a kiss on Hayley’s cheek before the girl could go on the defensive. She was at that age. I wished Maggie had slid into my side of the booth and planted one on me. But I could wait."

They have been divorced for 8 years at this point (having also been married for 8), and he still refers to her as his ex-wife who he still loves.

They still hook up. At least 3 different times in this one book, Maggie or Mickey initiate sex just for being with the other person. There is no emotional turmoil etc that leads to it. Just... let's have sex.

""Marry me again, Maggie."

“Do I have to answer right now? Is it a one-time thing or can I think about it?”

“I can’t think of being with anybody else.”"

And it is canon that Maggie hates public displays of affection, Mickey still kisses her in public. They had a vanilla sort of sex life. Maggie likes it when they're walking and Mickey puts his hand on the back of her neck. She calls him Haller and Michael and is still very much in love with Mickey and initiates contact with him.

ehehe this is a gooood one. I'm setting this in s1, right at the end of Chaos Theory. Like yes this is already in my top 3 McHaller scenes but also. I can make it even more insane

Mickey takes Maggie into his arms without thinking, the look on his face spurring action from his heart rather than his mind. "You were trying to do the right thing," he assures her, rubbing her back. "Getting the witness to talk is your job."

"It's my fault he's dead," she says, her voice choked and her face buried in his shoulder.

Mickey shakes his head. "You didn't pull the trigger."

"He had a daughter, Mickey. Fuck, Hayley was... she saw the whole thing. I couldn't get her out of there while everything was happening..."

"She's okay, Mags," he reminds her. "She's safe. I know you didn't want her there, but she's thirteen, it's not our fault she does what she wants."

Maggie looks up at him, her brow furrowing with doubt. "I can't get him out of my head, I don't even want to know how Hayley's doing."

"She's doing alright," Mickey insists, cupping Maggie's face in his hands and tucking her hair away from her face. "It's not your fault," he repeats. He wants to pull her closer, but they're already flush against each other. Mickey risks leaning in, his eyes on Maggie's the whole time.

Her eyes, on the other hand, flick down to his lips as he ducks his head. He skirts his fingers along her jaw, tilting her chin up when he finally leans down to kiss her.