And If Thou Wilt, Forget

a TMA fanfic

Table of Contents:

Love, strong as Death, is dead
Tim meets Gertrude for the first time and gets hired to the Institute.
What, neither choose nor wish to choose?
Tim does his first official job outside the Archives for Gertrude.
For once I dreamed of you
Gerry meets Tim for the first time.
Believe, but leave that truth untested still
Gertrude lays out the facts of the Fourteen, and all that entails.
Make haste to mount, thou wistful moon
Gertrude and Gerry set off on their fact-finding mission.
I live alone, I look to die alone
Gertrude notices something off about Gerry.
For this they wait, one waits in pain
Gertrude and Tim wait for news about Gerry.
Scarcely saved from the gulp of death
Gerry gets discharged from the hospital.
And what you spurn, I'll wear
Tim and Gerry prepare to leave for Pittsburgh.
Heart-sick with hope deferred
Christmas Eve in New York City.
That all my past results in "if"
Gertrude begins to have suspicions.
And never give a thought to night
Tim gets a good lead on the Circus of the Other.
Come home across the desolate sea
Gertrude summons the boys back to London.
But silent made my choice
Tim returns to the Institute.
And yet we little understand or know
Tim meets the new Archives crew.
One round monotonous of change
The new crew settles in.
So wilt thou toil in patience, and abide
An unexpected problem.
Forbear her tears, forbear her blood
Tim and Gerry do some investigating.
It had been mine, and it was lost
Gerry finds an unexpected book.
To know he still is warm though I am cold
Celebrating a one-year anniversary.
Alone by day, alone by night, alone days without end
Tim's worst nightmare.
Bring you scathe, or bring you grace
Tim pays a visit to Martin.
Blackness of blackest darkness close to day
Tim and Gerry investigate the Hither Green Dissenters Chapel.
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye
Sasha encounters Michael.
Of labor you shall find the sum
Tim suggests Jon re-record a few statements.
What seems is not always as it seems
Tim meets Dr. Elliott.
The little shivering gaping things
Jane Prentiss attacks the Archives.
Hope dead lives nevermore
The aftermath of the attack on the Archives.
I would not cast anew the lot once cast
Tim returns to work.
Whilst full my river flows down to the sea
Tim and Gerry investigate the tunnels.
Not smiles but scalding tears
Jon encounters Michael.

Bonus Content:

The Poems of Christina Rossetti
The full text of the poems used for chapter titles and the title of the work as a whole.
Gertrude's Cipher
The cipher that Gertrude developed to encode her notes.