Faith in Humanity [Male Deputy reader x Faith Seed]

"You Mock the Cleansing?"

Y/N's head was submerged under the Bliss filled water, he was being held under by a cultist as he tried to resist. He was brought out of the water, coughing as he looked up and saw John Seed with Joseph and Rachel in the background. He looked to Rachel, she was just as beautiful as the first time he'd ever saw her. She was looking him in the eyes.

"Rachel-" Before Y/N could continue speaking he was punched in the gut by a cultist, his hands were bound, leaving him unable to fight back. Y/N was knocked to his knees. John sent a civilian to a nearby can as Y/N was dragged forwards towards John.

"Wait, this one is not yet clean." John said as he grabbed Y/N and wend to shove him back under the bliss water until a voice spoke up.

"Do you mock the cleansing John?"

The colour drained from Johns face as he looked out of the corner of his eye, over his shoulder at Joseph.

"No Joseph-"

"Shhh. You have to love them. John. Do not let your sin prevent that. Bring that one to me." Joseph ordered.

Y/N was dragged over to Joseph and brought face to face with him.

"Well hello honey." Y/N quipped as he looked Joseph in the eyes. Joseph smirked.

"Despite all that you have done. You are not beyond salvation. You are not here by accident or by chance. You are here by the grace of God. You've been given a gift. Now it remains to be seen whether you choose to embrace it...or cast it aside." Joseph said as Y/N glared at him, before glancing to Rachel. "Should you join us, your sins will be washed away, and you can be with our sister Faith."

Y/N looked at Rachel who looked at him pleading for him to take the offer.

"Look Elvis shades, only place I'm joining you in...is hell." Y/N said as he Joseph smiled before turning to John.

"This one shall reach the atonement. Or the Gates of Eden shall be shut to you John." Joseph said as he pressed his forehead against Johns.

"Yes. Joseph." John said, looking like he was submitting to Josephs will.

While Joseph and John spoke, Y/N kept his eyes on Rachel. He looked at her wrists, one had a tattoo of the chemical formula for cocaine. She didn't look well. There were marks on her arms as Y/N looked her up and down, seeing her like this was causing a surge of guilt. Maybe if he'd have just waited for her to come back to town instead of joining the military, if he'd have just been a better friend, if he'd have put his foot down against Tracy and told her no more, maybe Rachel wouldn't be in this state.

That was when he noticed something, Rachel was always timid, it came with the bullying she received in school, but there was something off about her, she was scared of Joseph, so scared that she was willing to be loyal to him, to try and impress him. He looked at her again and that's when it hit him why she was scared of him. A primal rage began to simmer in Y/N. He'd seen the symptoms Rachel was displaying right now while on service, and his attitude towards it hadn't changed since.

Y/N turned to John and Joseph, and glared at them both, where words would fail to get the message across, the look he was giving them said it perfectly. Joseph looked at him and saw the look of a man who was making a promise to himself, the look of a man that was going to stop at nothing to kill him. Joseph nodded to John before walking away and leaving with Rachel, John looked at Y/N.

"You will confess. Every sin you've ever committed. No matter how petty, no matter how small...I will pull from you. Then we'll see if you're worthy of atonement." John said as Y/N smiled and headbutted him, breaking his nose. The Cultists all drew their weapons but John stopped them. Laughing as he wiped the blood from his nose. "No...no, don't kill him. It's just another sin to scrub from his soul. Take him with us."

Y/N was dragged away and put into the back of a van alongside two other hostages and a cultist.

******

Y/N was in the back of the fan as one of the hostages poked him lightly.

"If we just confess...if we confess right away. We'll be OK, right?"

"No you'll just make it worse." The other hostage said as Y/N glared at the cultist guarding them.

"Why?" The hostage asked as the cultist tapped him on the knee.

"Because confession without pain isn't confession. You'll scream out your sin, then you'll wear it on your flesh before John peels it off of you. It's a beautiful thing." The cultist said as Y/N rolled his eyes.

"Fucking peggies." The hostage sat next to the guard said, earning a hit to the side of the face with a rifle stock.

Y/N was about to attack the guard but before he could something slammed into the side of the van as the driver was knocked from the van, his hand hitting the volume dial on the radio causing the music to blast from the speaker as the van rolled over.

Oh Lord, the great collapse
Won't be our end
When the world falls into the flames
We will rise again
We will rise again

Y/N hit his head on the roof of the van and blacked out until he awoke a few seconds later, crawling up to the rear doors and trying to open them, he was stopped when he heard a gun readying, Y/N turned and saw a rifle pointed at him by the guard, but before they could shoot the door opened and a revolver shot the peggy in the head. Y/N looked at him as the pastor put the revolver inside a hollowed out bible before pulling out a combat knife and helping Y/N out of the wreckage. He handed Y/N his colt Python nodding to him as Y/N took the pistol and inspected it.

"How'd you find it?"

"Boomer ran to Falls End after the crash, led us to the scene. From there we've been tracking where they were taking you." Jerome said as Y/N smirked. "This too."

The pastor handed Y/N his AK, the Deputy made sure there was one in the chamber before looking at the pastor.

"Johns taken more people further up the path Deputy."

"Then let's go get 'em back." Y/N said as he let out a whistle, the resistance joined him as Boomer walked up to him and rubbed his head against Y/N's leg. "Good boy. Let's move it people!"