It's funny you post this now. huntress69 and myself were discussing Mary McGarrett the other day. We kind of came up with a bit of backstory/headcanon for her:
when they were young Mary and Steve were practically inseparable. Where you found one, the other was always within 'spitting distance'. He had her back when bullies would pick on her. But when Steve went to high school that changed. He got into football and just didn't have time for her.
When they were separated to go to the mainland (which in my mind Mary fought with all she had, she wanted them to be placed together) the relatives that took Mary in were emotionally abusive (possibly physically too). She wrote to Steve all the time, but he was so busy being pissed at Jack that he never responded. She also tried to run away, wanting to be with Steve and get away from the abusive relatives. At this point she was drinking and (at the very least) smoking pot. She got a boyfriend who got her into harder drugs, and attempted to prostitute her to his friends.
Steve, of course never knew this was going on because when he finally got over his anger and got in touch with the people Mary was staying with they lied and told him she was doing well, and happy, and blah blah blah. Really they hadn't seen her in months by this time, had no clue where she was staying/who with/what she'd gotten herself into.
When news of Jack's death reached her she was, at first, too coked up to care, then she felt like 'he didn't give a rats ass about me and what I've been through, why should I care about this'. It hits her shortly after that and she's just starting to clean up when she comes to Hawaii. Hence the smoke detector in the plane's bathroom, and why she looks like hell.
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when they were young Mary and Steve were practically inseparable. Where you found one, the other was always within 'spitting distance'. He had her back when bullies would pick on her. But when Steve went to high school that changed. He got into football and just didn't have time for her.
When they were separated to go to the mainland (which in my mind Mary fought with all she had, she wanted them to be placed together) the relatives that took Mary in were emotionally abusive (possibly physically too). She wrote to Steve all the time, but he was so busy being pissed at Jack that he never responded. She also tried to run away, wanting to be with Steve and get away from the abusive relatives. At this point she was drinking and (at the very least) smoking pot. She got a boyfriend who got her into harder drugs, and attempted to prostitute her to his friends.
Steve, of course never knew this was going on because when he finally got over his anger and got in touch with the people Mary was staying with they lied and told him she was doing well, and happy, and blah blah blah. Really they hadn't seen her in months by this time, had no clue where she was staying/who with/what she'd gotten herself into.
When news of Jack's death reached her she was, at first, too coked up to care, then she felt like 'he didn't give a rats ass about me and what I've been through, why should I care about this'. It hits her shortly after that and she's just starting to clean up when she comes to Hawaii. Hence the smoke detector in the plane's bathroom, and why she looks like hell.