A fine story -- moving and IC. I love the character you've created for Poppy and how carefully you take us through the relationship, step by believable step. The ending is painful, but truthful. Molly in canon is so much the uber wife and mother that at first one's response is to think that she would never do this. But then, you show us how it is because she is a wife and mother -- in wartime -- that she needs Poppy and can justify her actions to herself. And then Poppy herself is so well-done; you develop the layers of her personality well, so that by the end, I can see her acting just as she does. No, there is no going back.
Excellent use of the prompt; I really love that you treated it seriously.
Excellent use of the prompt; I really love that you treated it seriously.