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Natasha Romanoff ([personal profile] outstandingbalance) wrote in [community profile] undergrounds2017-02-05 09:53 am

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
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[personal profile] longterm 2017-04-06 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
Nancy is such a hypocrite. She says not to talk about something and then does that exact soame thing, giving a final word that Cesare can't reply to without seeming like an asshole. He smiles slightly and rolls his eyes, making it very clear that he doesn't agree. Truth be told, he still doesn't quite understand how she chose Cooper over him in the first place. He still feels as if it was an accident that soon enough will be fixed and rectified. He shrugs and changes the subject.

"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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[personal profile] stauncherhearted 2017-04-06 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe because he never made it clear that he was interested in her besides some great sex and a drink or two. Perhaps if he had asked, they wouldn't be in this situation. But Cooper had told her he loved her.

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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[personal profile] longterm 2017-04-10 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Cesare lets out a small laugh and rolls his eyes slightly.

"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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[personal profile] stauncherhearted 2017-04-10 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"You paint?" He'd been drawing in the dream she had had. She remembered the charcoal staining his fingers.

"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?"