Being Human: Sleep of Reason [Hal/Rook] 3/? co-written w/ shirogiku

[istne_pieklo]

Title: “Sleep of Reason”
Author: shirogiku, Shaitanah
Rating: NC-17
Timeline: post-vampire revolution
Summary: Hal Yorke took three things from Rook: his job, his integrity and his faith. To get them back, Rook gambles everything he's got left. [Hal/Rook, Hal/Cutler]
Disclaimer: Being Human belongs to Toby Whithouse and the BBC.
A/N: Now with 90

Comments

[zoicite]

I read this yesterday on my phone in my car while stuck in stopped traffic on a highway. I was actually sad when cars started to move before I'd entirely finished! New chapters of good fic should always be posted while I'm stuck in really boring places. That worked out well for me. Good timing. ;)

Of course then I didn't get a chance to actually sit down at my computer and write feedback until just now, so I've been feeling a bit guilty about it for the last 24 hours or so, but still.

I loved the scene with Hal and Snow. Interesting to see the shift in dynamic when Hal is no longer the one at the top.

Rook actually requesting Cutler's company! I like it. ;) Also, "rookery." Yes, good.

The clean-up was... It was a carnage. We found her plucking a guard's insides out, in human form.”
Hal's eyes lit up.

Yikes! Nice bit of horror. And Hal's reaction is great.

And then the entire second half. So violent and so hot. And this line:
“I didn't say I was God. I said I was your God.”
Gah!

I really really love what you are doing with Rook. I mentioned this before, but I never really spent much time on the character, and I feel like this fic is kind of opening my eyes to the nature of the character as written on the show, and also all of the wasted opportunities that followed that set-up. Thank goodness for fic!

[istne_pieklo]

Traffic can be evil. >_< But I'm glad the story made it a bit less unbearable. :)))
I've always liked Snow and I always thought he was a bit of wasted opportunity too. He's genuinely creepy (Hatch is an amateur compared to him; Snow doesn't need magic to be scary as hell) and Mark Gatiss is very talented, so it'd have been awesome if we'd had Snow as a recurring villain like Herrick. Unfortunately, I also find him hard to write))) But this scene with Hal was fun to work on. Hal likes to make it look like he's the biggest fish in the sea, but 4x08 shows how scared he is of Snow and that doesn't change here. XD And Snow definitely gets a kick out of checking up on him and fueling Hal's paranoia. XD
Tbh I don't know if Hal is a shrink's dream or their nightmare. XDD
Thank you so much for reading! <333 What the show did (or rather didn't do) with Rook's character is still one of the things I'm very bitter about. T_T