Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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It should please him, perhaps, that they think of him.
That, in moments such as this, when they are bared of vestments and writhing with lust, intertwining on the rumpled sheets, their thoughts are of him and only him - their need, their dreaming, calling him to witness.
He should be pleased, that they love him... after a fashion, at least.Pleasure is the last thing Dream of the Endless feels, watching Calliope and Hob Gadling joined in lovemaking.
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- Part 1 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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"I would show you stars," Dream murmured heatedly. "I would show you galaxies and far-off planets no mortal eye has glimpsed before, I would lay you down upon the milky way and make the moon flush from our lovemaking- why are you laughing, Hob Gadling!?"
Or: Hob introduces Dream to a particularly... stimulating... marvel of the modern world.
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- Part 2 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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"When you... when you stopped being what you were, and started being what you are. Was it..."
Gault struggled, for a moment. Lightning flashed over her chest, but it no longer looked like lightning, did it? It looked like beautiful fireworks in the night sky.
"...difficult? Too?"
"Oh." Something about Lucienne softened. "Oh, Gault."Or: Gault is still a little unsure of her new role as a dream - fortunately, Lucienne has gone through similar changes, once upon a time, and is willing to help.
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- Part 3 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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Hob was not ashamed to admit that he'd simply stood there and stared for a small eternity; he himself wearing one of his lovelier fancy suits from the early 1800s, dreamed up to be in perfect condition, and Dream...
Dream was wearing a black tablecloth.
A black tablecloth that, despite very much being voluminous enough to cover, well, a TABLE, did not manage to conceal much of Dream's body to passing onlookers.
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- Part 4 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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Rose Walker finds out that her weird, worryingly-ready-to-murder-her-for-the-greater-good, King-of-Dreams greatuncle is dating her favourite history professor in the objectively worst way:
Through the campus WhatsApp group.
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- Part 5 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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Passing Stranger! (You Do Not Know How Longingly I Look Upon You) by WyvernQuill
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
26 Feb 2023
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“Soulmates.” Hob says, simply, and it feels like old magic to speak it into existence, to forge the bond between them into words at last. “You and I are soulmates. And I think that you are lonely, that you need and miss me when we’re apart... just as much as I miss you.”
“Soulmates.” The Stranger repeats, flatly, his sonorous voice barely a rumbling growl. “Hob Gadling, we are not soulmates.”
Or: Hob has known that Dream is his mildly star-crossed soulmate since their first meeting in 1389, but believes they have a mutual understanding not to acknowledge it; Dream, meanwhile, was under the impression that the Endless have no soulmates whatsoever, up until their sixth meeting in 1889.
Finding out they're wrong comes as a bit of a shock to both of them.Series
- Part 6 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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"Love." said Desire of the Endless, and there was something oddly young and frightened in their glowing golden eyes. "As you, brother dear, I have fallen in love with a human, and require your aid as to what to DO about it."
"Ah." said Dream.
And then promptly collapsed into a hysterical fit of laughter again.Or: Desire finds themselves in the same boat as Dream, and asks what to do about it. Turns out, Dream hardly knows, either...
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- Part 7 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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The young man turned, and asked, determination and cowardice both flickering in his eyes, “Professor, do you think it’s wicked to help the devil?”
For a moment, Hob thought - and tried to not let his mind dwell overly long on an entity he had long thought demonic.Is it wicked to help the devil? Less than to love one, surely.
A story in which Hob becomes a history professor a century earlier, Alex receives some inspiration towards bravery, and Dream is very grateful indeed.
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- Part 8 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)
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Not Yours Only (Nor Left My Body Mine Only) by WyvernQuill
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
26 Feb 2023
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“I have something to ask of you, my elder brother.” Dream began, without much preamble. “I do not ask lightly, nor frivolously, and in exchange, I shall gladly offer whatever boon or service you might wish to ask of me. It is a matter most close to my heart, for it concerns…”
Dream paused. The words still held a strange weight to them that made them difficult to speak aloud.“..it concerns my soulmate, Hob Gadling.”
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- Part 9 of Bedtime Stories (Sandman Prompt Fills)