#about temp

Outside of Knoxville, Tennessee there is a trio of farms. In the center where these three parcels of land meet, there’s a giant old Cypress tree. There’s a tire swing hanging from one branch, a groove worn into the limb holding it. An old tire, from back in the way backs as Grandpa Gene would call it, hung, eternally swaying in the breeze. 

It overlooks a pond. Barns. Expanses of land. It’s quiet and peaceful. 

On the trunk of that tree, there are names, initials. GJ loves ED. EJ <3s MT. Jim luvs Deedee. Representing the Jericho family and the soulmates they met along the way. Gene, he loved Edna and told the world. Eugene loves Maggie, to this day. Deedee caught the eye of Jim. This is the Jericho Forever Tree. This is the tree where Travis Jericho carved his initials with Lou Wolfe’s after they parted, and where he goes to feel closest to her even now. This is where Ollie will add her soulmate one day. Where Faith will carve Tommy’s name. Where JJ will never get the chance to add her name. Temp wants to put her initials here with someone important more than anything. 

This tree. It’s magic. Aunt Karen never carved her initials in the tree, because the Jericho in love is the one who has to do the carving, and now? Aunt Karen is on husband number three. If you love them, you carve it into the tree to let the universe know. Eugene married Maggie under the tree. There’s pictures of her swinging on the tire in her wedding gown. 

@tckenbythesky

She loves to experiment. The family always gave her broken stuff to fix. And always made things run better. 

ppls in these assholes’ lives @tckenbythesky

Headcanons @ask-alicelockwood

Lenny once caught a guy who was riding a bike, by clotheslining him on a back road. He was a high dollar bounty and she just needed to get him off the streets. Bad guy.

The first time Faith rode a bike was on the back of Tommy’s, on their first date. She was a little nervous when he showed up on a bike, his kutte on. But once he’d put the helmet on her, helped her up behind him, and they were going fast down the freeway? Faith was hooked. It felt like freedom, it felt like love. Holding onto him, nothing but the roar of the wind and the rumble of the machine, she was happy. Laughed. Held on for dear life. And started to tumble into love with him for giving her that experience.

JJ was into speed. Had a dirt bike back in the day on the farm. Went and bought a bike when she moved to Nashville. Sold it for rent money later.

Temp is nervous about bikes. Yeah, she’s curious, but... Not sure if she would like to ride them. Plus, she knows they’re not safe. 

Wren remembers her first serious boyfriend. Junior year of high school. Going to junior prom and riding his bike after, her gown bunched between her thighs, out to the lake. Lost her virginity on the bike. Not a bad first time. Terribly uncomfortable ride home.

When Gabi was in college, she decided to buy a small bike, just something to get her around to her classes. It’s still back home in Texas, her dad takes care of it. It was the only thing that made her feel good (besides target practice, because Texan) when she went through a severe depression cycle.

One of the first memories Kerrianne has is her dad holding her while he sat astride his bike. She loved it. And once, when he had just gotten back from a run, she clambered onto it when the exhaust was still hot. She’s got a little scar left on her ankle from it burning her.

Kris met Thomas in high school, and they were basically opposites, but he still got her to be his girl. Because he was so damned silver-tongued. Grew up around the guys in the MC, they were minor celebs in town and Thomas was one of the princes. Her prince. And when she’d convince him to skip class, they’d go out on his bike and go wherever the wind took them. And usually wound up with them having a couple burgers and fries somewhere.