A Chance to Say Goodbye

"After a series of disturbing prophetic nightmares, 9 realizes that he needs to return to the First Room to find answers before 6's eerie warnings from beyond the grave become a reality."

- official summary

A Chance to Say Goodbye is one of the many Nine FixFics that resurrect the dolls that died during the movie. However, it differs from the normal genre of it by A; having a real reason, a need to bring them back, and B; after they are all brought back, it clearly isn't "the end" just yet.

The fic is an AU, and has even spawned an Extended-Universe RP, "The 9 Renaissance" (the wiki of which can be found here, several sequels and side-stories written by both the original author and various fans, and in the extended-universe/sequels, OCs abound. They also have their own tropes.

The fic was written by chibijaime and can be read in eight parts here.

Tropes included in this work include:

 * Alternate Universe Fic
 * Anticlimax Boss:
 * Also in the sequel,
 * Character Development
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: 2's forgiveness of 1,
 * Easily Forgiven: 2 says he forgives 1 for sending him out to die, and actually looks forward to seeing him again. When asked how, he simply says that 1 did what he thought he had to, and 2 understands. Though somewhat subverted in that while 2 is ready to forgive, 7 is most certainly not.
 * Fan-Preferred Couple: Subverted, and how. Not one of the pairings that occurs in the fic are the ones mainly noted in 9 fandom, with 5 and 7 heavily implied to have had a thing going before the film, despite 9's interest in the latter in the fic.
 * Fix Fic
 * Ho Yay: Oh, it's there all right.
 * Ill Twins: Arguably, 3 and 4. Near the beginning of the fic, they both became weak, and 4 actually has horrible spasms, so they can't go along on any of the adventures to retrieve the others' bodies. Turns out to be a side-effect of five of their number being dead, and they (along with 9 and 7) would die if their friends weren't brought back to life.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: 5 was/is in love with 7, but is willing to give her up to 9, if that's what she wants.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: 1 still has this, though he's definitely better at showing the "heart of gold" part now.
 * May-December Romance: The sequel series/extended universe has some.
 * No One Should Survive That: 7, by some miracle, manages to while they are retrieving 2's body.
 * Pair the Spares: In the sequel,
 * Settled for Gay:
 * "Shut Up" Kiss
 * Talking to The Dead: Literally, in 9's case. First he speaks to 5's ghost, once, and then 6's a few more times.
 * The Un-Reveal: We never really find out how
 * Title Drop
 * We Can Rebuild Him: Since 8's body was completely destroyed in the explosion, the others have to completely rebuild him from scratch.
 * We Can Rebuild Him: Since 8's body was completely destroyed in the explosion, the others have to completely rebuild him from scratch.