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1''[[http://games.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600080372 Coming Home]]'' by [[http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/profile.php?no=17030&view=story Chaosdreamer]] is ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' fanfic with a simple premise: [[FirstEpisodeTwist what if James]] [[NotHisSled didn't kill Mary?]]
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3James is in despair after Mary finally succumbs to her terminal illness despite his hope. His father invites hims to stay with him after Mary's funeral for emotional support which James accepts.
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5But then James' mourning is interrupted when something dark comes after him. He tries to ignore it, he tries to dismiss it as his imagination. But it does not rest until James goes to Silent Hill....
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8!!Tropes:
9* ArmorPiercingQuestion: James's conscience is quick to point that when James is mourning Mary that James doesn't mention loving Mary when he mentions that their marriage was anchor for him and how her death disrupts the established pattern in his life.
10* AgentScully: Frank is hesitant to believe James when he tells him he is being attacked by monsters, [[JustifiedTrope but to be fair to Frank his son has been dangerously depressed and suicidal]] after his daughter-in-law's death.
11* [[spoiler: AndThenJohnWasAZombie: James is turned into a demon.]]
12* AscendedExtra: Frank Sunderland, who served as a ContinuityNod in ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'', has a prominent role as he takes his distraught son back in after Mary's funeral.
13* TheBeard: Mary is implied to have been one to James as its pointed out to him that he enjoyed the fact that Mary was often too sick to have sex and his feelings were platonic not romantic.
14* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Quite literally, the monsters of Silent Hill calls James through his phone to talk to him to make him come to Silent Hill.
15* CassandraTruth: When James tells his father that he believes that something is out to get him, Frank dismiss him as being paranoid.
16** ContagiousCassandraTruth: Unfortunately by the time Frank found out the truth, nobody believes him when he tries to get help.
17* ClosedCircle: James is trapped in Silent Hill after he gets into a car accident getting there. The monsters make sure to destroy his car to make sure that he can't leave.
18* DownerBeginning: The story begins during Mary's funeral with James in despair over her death. It doesn't get any better for James.
19* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Due to its status as a DeadFic James is turned into a demon and is forced to remain in Silent Hill to protect his father and he and Frank will never see each other again]]
20* [[spoiler: DeusSexMachina]]: James becomes a HumanoidAbomination [[spoiler: after being forced into sex with Pyramid Head and Vatiel]], he even notes that its a plot to a bad porno.
21* FirstEpisodeTwist: It's mentioned in the summary of the story that James didn't kill his wife, Mary.
22* ForWantOfANail: The forces in Silent Hill have to resort to different methods of making James stay in Silent Hill since he doesn't have his obsession to find Mary.
23* HellIsThatNoise: A textual example with the supermarket mike.
24* [[spoiler: HumanoidAbomination]]: by the end, James.
25* InSpiteOfANail: Despite James not killing his wife, he goes to Silent Hill anyways. Although in this fic it is because the monsters attacking him at his home are demanding that he go to find answers.
26* KickTheDog: Pyramid Head and the other monster brag during their phone call to Frank that they will sexually assault James when they get their hands on him. Which they do solely to rub it in that Frank is helpless to stop them.
27* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: James is rather disturbed and disgusted that he started to enjoy [[spoiler: Vatiel and Pyramid Head's physical and sexual abuse of him.]]
28* NotHisSled: The premise is that Mary died naturally of her illness and James had nothing to do with it.
29* PoliceAreUseless: The police do investigate James' disappearance but then dismiss the case believing that James left to get away from an overbearing father.
30* TraumaCongaLine: James' wife dies after years of suffering a terminal illness. Then he gets stalked and attacked at his own home and gets into a car accident during his search for answers. The two people he finds in Silent Hill is either a sexual predator or psychotic. He gets cornered by Pyramid Head and Vatiel [[spoiler: is raped by the both of them and transformed into HumanoidAbomination. He then is forced to deny his father's rescue of him for his father's safety.]]
31* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Frank is quick to dismiss James' fear of a stalker and monster as paranoia and doesn't stop his son from going to Silent Hill to find answers. His actions result in James' monster gloating to him over the phone how he drove James to them and results in James being assaulted and sexually before being forced to stay.

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