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As Long As You'll Have Me (5 times Dream of the Endless proposed to Hob Gadling+ 1 time he didn't have to) by lemoneyshipz for softestpunk
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
30 Aug 2023
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Every hundred years Dream of the Endless would appear at the White Horse Tavern, to ask for Robert Gadling’s hand in marriage. And every hundred years, he is rejected.
aka. my take on five times Dream proposes to Hob prompt, inspired by @softestpunk 's fic, but also a fishbowl rescue fic because I need to write at least one
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- Part 1 of Dreamling 5+1 times proposal
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Ever since their missed meeting four months prior, Hob has been seeing his Stranger in his dreams - trapped behind endless walls of glass.
Hob has steadily been breaking the walls down, but he doesn't know what any of it means, or what it is doing.
Until he finds his Stranger able to see him, standing on the other side of a single pane of glass, where he is trapped.
This leaves him with only one possible option and way forward - rescue!
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his heart, beneath the floorboards by imnotcryingipromise
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
12 Jul 2023
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"I will revoke our deal," Dream threatens, before he can bite his tongue, his grief and frustration lashing against his insides like boiling water in danger of spilling. The cruel ultimatum echoes off of the cavernous basement walls.
"What did you just say?" Hob demands, aghast. He is trembling all over, his shaking hands falling from Dream's face defeatedly.
"You will leave me here. You will let me rot in this forsaken place, as I have for so long now, or you will age and die.”
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Lieutenant Robin Stone attends an end of war celebration at the Burgess mansion in hopes of forgetting his ghosts for an evening, unaware of the familiar face entrapped beneath the floorboards.
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It's past midnight and Hob has been slowly and steadily going through the most part of a bottle of whiskey. He wishes he hadn’t had so many centuries to build up his tolerance because right now he could use the sweet oblivion of drunkenness instead of this tipsiness that’s heightening his maudlin mood.
Perhaps, he will finish the job at home, with a true bottle of old whiskey, one of those he’s saved for special occasions.
And what a better occasion than being stood up by your not-friend slash centennial crush?
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Or, the year is 1989 and Hob Gadling lies in wait at the White Horse.
The man he meets every century does not show up, but someone else does and it sets a rescue plan in motion. -
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It's a square gem in an antique gold setting, real antique gold, with the sort of dullness to the metal that tells its age. There's nothing particularly ornate about it. The ruby itself is a simple cut – he’s not a jeweller, doesn’t know what to call it precisely, but it’s square-ish and bevelled at the edges – but it catches the light in such a way that it makes it seem like it has a thousand facets all across the surface of it. The rain creates a stippled effect, and even through two separate panes of glass Hob can see his reflection peering back at himself through the ruby’s deep face. £2500, says a placard set in front of it. Early 1900s RUBY pendant - real!!!
In 1989, drunk and heartsore and stumbling home from the soon-to-be-destroyed White Horse, Hob Gadling -- world's most loyal hound -- comes across a familiar-looking ruby in a pawn shop window.