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undergrounds2017-02-05 09:53 am
outstandingbalance) wrote in undergrounds2017-02-05 09:53 am
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Mr. Sandman
6 Feb.
It's February, still cold but Valentine's Day just around the corner and people starting to think of spring, it might not be surprising that romance seems to be in the air. Hard to pin down just what the difference is—but romance seems to be nagging at a lot of minds.
It might be because last night, you had a dream. Nothing clear, but bits and pieces stick with you. Maybe it was just stolen glances and light kisses, or maybe it was flashes and surprising jolts of something more physical, more raw. Either way, the dream doesn't quite fade away when daylight comes.
The strangest part? It's about someone you normally try not to think of that way.
Dreams are like that though, sometimes. It's probably nothing.
10 Feb.
A few days later, and the dreams keep on keeping on. For at least one person, it's every night. For others, it may be more intermittent. It may be just happening for the first time, after a visit to the Redbright Institute or passing through the surrounding neighbor, or after chatting with a particular vampire. It might happen spontaneously. Either way the dreams keep coming, and they continue to be about someone in particular, someone who you've been denying or ignoring your attraction to, but it's getting hard to pretend you don't feel a little warmer when you think about them.
It's starting to seem like there's something a little weird going on here. Even weirder? There's a chance that the person you're dreaming about is having the same dreams. Not just romantic dreams—the exact same shared dreams.
At least, they are if they're dreaming of you too.
14 Feb.
It's been a week now, and the dreams keep escalating. Not only do they become more frequent, they're more vivid. What started with disjointed images and feelings, more impressions than anything else, have evolved into full narratives—ranging from chastely romantic nonsense, imagining that the object of your desire is a knight coming to rescue you from a dragon, or arrived to offer comfort and support in a bleak moment, to intensely erotic. Some of them may be down right silly.
But the common thread is there. They are all about the same person, and they all expose the fact that you care about them in a way that's not as platonic as you've pretended.
And maybe it's about time you confronted that?
On the other hand, maybe you're just riding this out.
Either way, this is getting sorted out tonight. There's not going to be a better time for it
It's February, still cold but Valentine's Day just around the corner and people starting to think of spring, it might not be surprising that romance seems to be in the air. Hard to pin down just what the difference is—but romance seems to be nagging at a lot of minds.
It might be because last night, you had a dream. Nothing clear, but bits and pieces stick with you. Maybe it was just stolen glances and light kisses, or maybe it was flashes and surprising jolts of something more physical, more raw. Either way, the dream doesn't quite fade away when daylight comes.
The strangest part? It's about someone you normally try not to think of that way.
Dreams are like that though, sometimes. It's probably nothing.
10 Feb.
A few days later, and the dreams keep on keeping on. For at least one person, it's every night. For others, it may be more intermittent. It may be just happening for the first time, after a visit to the Redbright Institute or passing through the surrounding neighbor, or after chatting with a particular vampire. It might happen spontaneously. Either way the dreams keep coming, and they continue to be about someone in particular, someone who you've been denying or ignoring your attraction to, but it's getting hard to pretend you don't feel a little warmer when you think about them.
It's starting to seem like there's something a little weird going on here. Even weirder? There's a chance that the person you're dreaming about is having the same dreams. Not just romantic dreams—the exact same shared dreams.
At least, they are if they're dreaming of you too.
14 Feb.
It's been a week now, and the dreams keep escalating. Not only do they become more frequent, they're more vivid. What started with disjointed images and feelings, more impressions than anything else, have evolved into full narratives—ranging from chastely romantic nonsense, imagining that the object of your desire is a knight coming to rescue you from a dragon, or arrived to offer comfort and support in a bleak moment, to intensely erotic. Some of them may be down right silly.
But the common thread is there. They are all about the same person, and they all expose the fact that you care about them in a way that's not as platonic as you've pretended.
And maybe it's about time you confronted that?
On the other hand, maybe you're just riding this out.
Either way, this is getting sorted out tonight. There's not going to be a better time for it
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"Same perks as always." Wealth, power, a place to hide crimes and a plenitude of alcohol and women. Whenever they had fought, Cesare had always been keen to make it clear to Nancy that she was not his only option to sleep with that night. Looking back with softer, kinder eyes, perhaps he had been a bit harsh with her. But spilled milk and all that.
"More booze?" he asks, already pouring himself another drink.
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She still remembered the way he'd gripped her arm, trying to get her to join him and his friends.
But that was in the past.
"I'm glad- it's a lovely hotel. Best I've ever been to." She'd been to a few hotels, truthfully.
"I'd love some, thanks. This is the sake stuff, right?"
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"Your boyfriend doesn't take you to many hotels for the night?" he asks casually, not really thinking much of it. He had presumed that was part of being a good boyfriend these days: taking your girlfriend on dates and nice dinners and holidays in swanky hotels. Or the girl was welcome to do it too. Cesare is a modern man, after all. Cooper seems fine, but it seems like he's missing most of the requirements, requirements that Cesare had already taken care of as a patron.
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"We're not supposed to talk about him, Ces," she says softly. She doesn't want to make anyone mad, wants to keep the respect between them. Talking about Cooper made it harder.
"But he's very good to me."
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"You know, I had a dream about you. That's why I got in contact this morning. I haven't had any dreams in years." There's nothing sexual to how he talks about it. He doesn't see the point. He doesn't think she knows so he isn't going to tell her.
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Cesare hadn't.
Honestly, she never even knew how Cesare felt at all.
He mentions a dream and Nancy swallows too big of a drink. "Did you?" She asks with a blink. Because she'd had a dream with him in it, too. "That's interesting. What... happened...?" She's far too worried she knows.
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"I think I was drawing you? Or painting you? I'm not sure." That wasn't exactly the main focus of the dream.
"I haven't painted in years, not since photography began. Before then, it was just a way to get away with obsessing over naked women." He's a better painter than he's giving himself credit for. He's definitely not in a gallery, but one or two of his paintings are probably in some livingrooms of houses where the people who own it don't know any better.
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"I didn't know that. I'd love to see some of your work." In the dream, it'd been amazing. but that was probably because it was the dream, and he'd been drawing her. Saying amazing things about her.
She presses her lips together, her thighs echoing the thought.
"And were you obsessing over me while you did it?"