#temperance au

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I Will Be Here When You Wake

The biggest reason Rook refuses to join Eden’s Gate is that Joseph Seed Hot-Crazy scaled his siblings and she’s not even sure he did it right.

Temperance O’Hare had been in Hope County for fourteen months when it all went to shit. Forced to take up arms against what feels like an endless wave of crazed cultists, she’s relying on instincts born in trauma and heartbreak to survive. When an opportunity to decisively tip things in the Resistance’s favour arises she has to use the strange connection between herself and the Cult leader to end things before they can get even worse. But every opportunity she has to deceive the Seeds gives Joseph more access to her, and the more access he has the harder it’s going to be to keep her own soul.

Chapter One: Isn’t It Lovely?

Chapter Two: See Us Together, Must Be A Bad Dream

Chapter Three: Don’t Even Hiccup or I’m Emptying a Round

Chapter Four: By The Time That You Told Me

Chapter Five: I Alone Am The Answer, I Alone Will Make Wrongs Right

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I Will Be Here Chap 3

i’m just warning and preparing ya

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I! Have been! Very ill!

But I have also written a LOT of John this week including this snippet from the next chapter of I Will Be Here:

“And yet you refuse to see my point of view.”

“Not your point of view.” she says, not unkind. 

“Temperance. The virtue of humanity and self-moderation. Restraint from sin. It binds all the others -knowing when patience must give way to wrath, when pride must give way to humility, that’s control, temperance.” The performance rises in him clear across the space between them. Him in his home free to move without fear. Her, in the woods, always feeling a little like prey. “What do you do, I wonder, when you lose control? Do you shake? Gasp? Do you think yourself immune from the light of God? That virtue in your name makes me think you don’t, why else would you let it hold you but as a reminder of who must hold you? Let me play that part for you. Let me find the edges of your self and take you past them. If you trust me, trust this process, I will give you back more than you could ever imagine.”  

Temperance clicks to answer and then lets it go. Honestly, what the fuck John. 

The next chapter should be...Monday? Strangely a chapter that’s mostly an asshole who doesn’t know how to wear a shirt right needs a lot of corralling. 

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I Will Be Here Chapter Two

See Us Together Must Be a Bad Dream

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I Will Be Here, a playlist by carpebooty on Spotify

A playlist featuring Montaigne, Billie Eilish, Mother Mother, and others

An Incredibly Subtle Playlist For I Will Be Here When You Wake

PART ONE/ISN’T IT LOVELY?

i: For Your Love

i will be here when you wake  

ii: lovely

 hello, welcome home

iii: This Baby Don’t Cry

oh, alright, my eyes stay dry      

iv: Bitchslut

 say no i’m a bitch, say yes i’m a slut

PART TWO/SEE US TOGETHER, MUST BE A BAD DREAM

v: Dream Song

you don’t know bad, bad, bad until it’s all around

you don’t know mad, mad, mad until it’s common ground

vi: bury a friend

when we all fall asleep, where do we go?

vii: It’s Alright

i don't wanna know who I am cause heaven only knows what I'll find

viii: Not Human

i saw you there at night your shape appeared in the distance

PART THREE/DON’T EVEN HICCUP OR I’M EMPTYING A ROUND

ix: Stick Up

there’s a cold wind blowing

i’m just warning and preparing ya  

x: Hate--k

there will be no tenderness

xi: Wolf Like Me

dream me, oh dreamer down to the floor open my hands and let them weave onto yours

xii: Fire Drills (LIVE)

tell patient zero, he can have his rib back

PART FOUR/BY THE TIME THAT YOU’D TOLD ME

xiii: The Man I Knew

last night you came to kiss me in a dream but when i woke

what kind of foolishness is this breathe out a lungful of your smoke

xiv: Nightmare

california dreams look what you did to me oh, i can never sleep

xv: Wonderful Life

don’t let go

xvi: Samaritan

i don't remember promising my life and soul to bring you all bliss If i am what you say, i expect to be hanging from a wooden cross

PART FIVE/I ALONE AM THE ANSWER, I ALONE WILL MAKE WRONGS RIGHT

xvii: Severed

but in order to root out the cancer

it’s got to be kept from the sunlight

xviii: Control

the house was awake, the shadows and monsters the hallways, they echoed and groaned

xix: Begging For Thread

strapped down to something that you don't understand don't know what you were getting yourself into you should have known, secretly i think you knew

xx when the party’s over

but nothing is better sometimes once we've both said our goodbyes let's just let it go let me let you go

xxi: The Dying Song

i'll see you soon after evil hath won

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I Will Be Here When You Wake (1/5)

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The biggest reason Rook refuses to join Eden’s Gate is that Joseph Seed Hot-Crazy scaled his siblings and she’s not even sure he did it right.

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Temperance O’Hare had been in Hope County for fourteen months when it all went to shit. Forced to take up arms against what feels like an endless wave of crazed cultists, she’s relying on instincts born in trauma and heartbreak to survive. When an opportunity to decisively tip things in the Resistance’s favour arises she has to use the strange connection between herself and the Cult leader to end things before they can get even worse. But every opportunity she has to deceive the Seed’s gives Joseph more access to her, and the more access he has the harder it’s going to be to keep her own soul.   

AKA: the AU where Rook is much more than she seems in very specific ways.