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• Painting Flowers. by tammy_68

  Fandoms: The Path (TV)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • F/M, M/M
  • Work in Progress

  06 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Sarah Lane & Cal Roberts
  • Dr. Steven Meyer/Cal Roberts
  • Eddie Lane/Sarah Lane
  • Sarah Lane/Cal Roberts
  • Mary Cox/Cal Roberts
  • Cal Roberts
  • Sarah Lane
  • Dr. Steven Meyer
  • Eddie Lane
  • Felicia (The Path)
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Past Child Abuse
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Dissociation
  • Repressed Memories
  • Mental Breakdown
  • Past Sexual Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Underage Drinking
  • Religious Cults
  • Religion
  • Sexual Abuse
  • Canonical Child Abuse
  • Manipulation
  • Emotional/Psychological Abuse
  • Hurt
  • Angst
  • Mental Instability
  • Self-Esteem Issues
  • Confusion
  • Identity Issues
  • Hurt Cal Roberts
  • Traumatized cal Roberts
  • religious trauma
  • Religious Confusion
  • Cults
  • meyerism
  • Meyerist movement
  • Altered religion
  • Altered religious practices
  • Cult
  • Manipulative Relationship
  • Manipulative sarah lane
  • Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism
  • Unrequited Love
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • Everyone is manipulative actually
  • everyone is a piece of shit
  • Maybe except for cal I'm doing the heavy lifting to redeem his character
  • Can you tell I love him?
  • When I put him through hell and make him less of an asshole
  • that's true love
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Trying to squeeze in my story's events with the original show's story line
  • Not changing any major plots in the show
  • I'm writing as I'm watching the show
  • M/M is just for the past child abuse nothing else
  • Cal is a sad little fuck
  • Riddled with trauma

  Summary

  Their co-guardianship was a joke only she understood, the light was a darkness only she could see, and Cal, he was the living, physical representation of just how dark the light could be.

   

  (A lot of the tags especially the ones about abuse are in the past and/or implications, nothing graphic yet).

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  8,849

  Chapters:

  4/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  15

  Bookmarks:

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