What We Build and What We Burn
[Dream/Hob, Explicit, 23k words]
Tags: (Post-) The Sound of Her Wings, Dream-Sharing (kind of), Mutual Pining, Emotionally Repressed Dream, Hob has Abandonment Issues, they're both stupid and struggling but they're trying their best <3, the working title was: friends tell friends about being locked up for over a century, but then Hob developed issues too so! Fun!!, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Fluff and Angst
Summary:
“For some reason that I have yet to understand, your dreams seem to be trying to bring you to me,” Dream eventually says, his voice a little too even to be casual. “Not only that, but the Dreaming allows you in; it is not something that should be possible.”
Hob turns and takes in Dream’s wary face. “Does it always look like that? So…”
“Desolate?” Dream offers, and his expression doesn’t change, but Hob can read the hurt on him, still. “No, it does not.”
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After Dream finally finds him in the New Inn, Hob struggles to rebuild his trust that this—Dream returning—will always be the case. At the same time, the concern that something has gone horribly wrong grows through meetings, dreams, and details that Hob shouldn't notice but does; not that Dream is much more forthcoming than in centuries prior.
That's okay, though; if Hob has learnt one thing, it is how to be patient. Mostly.
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its soooo hard being a fan of a character that nobody writes with. because when somebody does write with them they never vivisect them on an operating table or boil them in lava or sentence them to death in a medieval style execution or whatever. they just like. give them a few lines of dialogue and then thats it.
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hello I’m the “bay boy” anon 😭 I actually meant “bad boy” help 😭 well it’s all your fault that i wrote it wrong. i stayed up until 5am to read your damn perfect fics, my brain stopped working at some point 😭 joking aside, i saw your update and can’t wait for your next ateez fics! and also excited for this fic, if you write it later on. thank you! ❤️
IJBOL ANON NOT YOU TYPING BAY INSTEAD OF BAD
okay but like hear me out........ wb a bad bay boy..........? (lowkey guys from the bay area are assholes so bad boy beach san would eat...........)
IDK YOU SAID BAY BOY AND I WAS LIKE YO SURFER SAN WOULD BE SO HOT BUT NOW MY BRAIN IS GOING A MILLION MILES AN HOUR AND I WANT TO WRITE BAD BOY SAN, SURFER SAN, ALL THE GODDAMN SANS HELP
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