Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: The Corinthian/Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman) Characters: The Corinthian (Sandman), Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Dream of the Endless | Morpheus Additional Tags: Rare Pairings, Complicated Relationships, Secret Relationship, Oral Sex, Light Bondage, Angst and Feels, Light Dom/sub, fucking in the library, clueless dream, Sexual Tension, Corinthian backstory, serious workplace misconduct, Control Issues, Secrets, Dreaming lore, duty vs. passion, author is a corinthian apologist, give Lucienne a sword 

Summary:

“Corinthian,” Lucienne says. “I would suggest that you stop this behaviour.”

“Or what?”

She looks up at him. His smile seems to take pleasure in her frown, to mock it delightedly. “Or I shall tell his majesty that your presence here impedes my work. Unless,” Lucienne adds, “you want me to tell Morpheus.”

Still, that cocky smile. He leans on a nearby shelf as if he doesn’t intend to go anywhere else.

“You want his attention,” says Lucienne. “It doesn't matter if he’s punishing you or praising you.”

The Corinthian shrugs. “It’s all the same, isn’t it?”

- Lucienne tries to keep the Dream Lord's greatest creation under control.

Chapters: 15/16 Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Hob Gadling, The Corinthian (Sandman), Cain (The Sandman), Abel (The Sandman), Roderick Burgess, Alexander Burgess, Ruthven Sykes, Ethel Cripps, Delirium of the Endless Additional Tags: Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess, Hob in the Dreaming, semi-canon-compliant, eventual polyamorous relationship, when your two most devoted friends meet up and have to deal with all your issues, BAMF Hob Gadling, BAMF Lucienne, Everyone's a BAMF in this except Dream, Nursing an anthropomorphic personification back to health, Falling In Love, restoring the dreaming, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions, Hob is trapped in the Dreaming, Dream has only been in the fishbowl for a decade, Jealous Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Murder Mystery Vibes, Masturbation, interdimensional pining, Polyamory

  Chapter Summary:

A resolution-- and another kind of family dinner.

Chapter 12! This one is important!!! AHHHHH

“It is you!” Delirium exclaims, and sways on her feet. Dream wonders if traveling here has cost her some strength, but it doesn’t seem that way. She sways again, closer to Dream, and on instinct he reaches out a hand. She catches it in one of hers.

“Oh, big brother,” says Delirium, shifting her weight from one foot to the next. “You were gone a really long time.”

Dream blinks, tilting his head. “You seem different somehow, sister. What happened while I was away?”

She only shrugs. “Buncha stuff. I changed a lot. I’m sorry, I’m not the way I was when you left.” She squints at him. “Maybe you aren’t, either.”

“No, I suppose not.” He seats himself on the edge of the bed so as to be on eye-level with his sister. “My memory is fractured, little sister. It took me days to remember how to summon you and our other siblings, and now I have only called you here by accident. Where is everyone?”

“Busy,” comes the simple reply. “They’re always busy.”

Tears prick at the corners of Dream’s eyes, unexpectedly. “Didn’t they know I was gone?”

"’Course we did. It was Destiny. He said not to do anything...well, he didn't say what we should do. So we didn't. Anyway, I missed you. It was wrong what happened to you.” She looks at him. “Dream...? If it were me that was kidnapped, you'd come finding me, wouldn't you?"

Dream grasps his sister's delicate hand. "In a heartbeat."

Chapters: 9/? Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Hob Gadling, The Corinthian (Sandman), Cain (The Sandman), Abel (The Sandman), Roderick Burgess, Alexander Burgess, Ruthven Sykes, Ethel Cripps Additional Tags: Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess, Kissing in the Rain, Hob in the Dreaming, semi-canon-compliant, eventual polyamorous relationship, when your two most devoted friends meet up and have to deal with all your issues, BAMF Hob Gadling, BAMF Lucienne, Everyone's a BAMF in this except Dream, Nursing an anthropomorphic personification back to health, Falling In Love, restoring the dreaming, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions, Hob is trapped in the Dreaming, Dream has only been in the fishbowl for a decade

At different points in my life, I’ve had to change passwords for my email and social accounts to avoid privacy breaches, and last month all of them were compromised at the same time

But you know what has never, ever been under threat or needed a password change?

A O FUCKIN 3

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Hob Gadling, The Corinthian (Sandman), Cain (The Sandman), Abel (The Sandman), Roderick Burgess, Alexander Burgess, Ruthven Sykes, Ethel Cripps Additional Tags: Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess, Kissing in the Rain, Hob in the Dreaming, semi-canon-compliant, eventual polyamorous relationship, when your two most devoted friends meet up and have to deal with all your issues, BAMF Hob Gadling, BAMF Lucienne, Everyone's a BAMF in this except Dream, Nursing an anthropomorphic personification back to health, Falling In Love, restoring the dreaming, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions, Hob is trapped in the Dreaming, Dream has only been in the fishbowl for a decade

Chapter 5

“Like his stranger, Lucienne is not so difficult to read. She has the grace and patience of an ancient being just like Morpheus does, but moves and goes about her business in a very human manner, much like many people Hob has known throughout his long life. Somehow Lucienne manages to embody all of them. She feels like a neighbour, someone you were familiar with in spite of not knowing them very well, nor needing to know. Hob finds himself growing more empathic toward her. He pictures her walking through the vast, empty bookshelves of the mighty library. Imagine how hollow and lonely she must have felt, realising that even all her precious stories were lost. Might she have been bored, or frustrated? He already knows that she blames herself, somewhat. He thinks it would have been so painful to have that thought always in the back of her head.”

AU where another nightmare who has wandered to the Waking World in search of Dream discovers his imprisonment, and goes on a rampage, slaughtering everyone in the house. But after consuming Roderick and his thirst for power, Ethel and her desire to keep her child, and Alex and his longing for acceptance, she finds herself twisted into something terrible…something that no longer wants to free her master and return to his rule.

She walls up the basement, trapping him inside. She hollows out a part of the Dreaming for her to be sovereign over. She watches the house get cleaned up, the case of the murder grow cold, the estate sold and eventually bought by property developers. The developers split the house into apartments and rebrand it as the Pink Palace.

Dream is helpless, watching his rogue nightmare turn into the Beldam, luring unhappy children into her world. But soon he doesn’t find himself lonely, as the souls of these children linger, keeping him company. Years pass, and Dream nearly gives up hope of being freed.

Until a little girl, looking for another door, stumbles into the basement.

Imagine Lucienne finding a new book in the library, a story that a father tells at bedtime to his son, a story about dwarves, elves, a dragon, and a hobbit, and telling Dream, "You know, I think this is going to be the start of something incredible"

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: The Sandman (TV 2022) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling, Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling, Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Lucien | Lucienne/Hob Gadling Characters: Dream of the Endless | Morpheus, Lucien | Lucienne (The Sandman), Hob Gadling, The Corinthian (Sandman), Cain (The Sandman), Abel (The Sandman), Roderick Burgess, Alexander Burgess, Ruthven Sykes, Ethel Cripps Additional Tags: Hob Gadling Saves Dream of the Endless | Morpheus from Roderick Burgess, Hob in the Dreaming, semi-canon-compliant, eventual polyamorous relationship, when your two most devoted friends meet up and have to deal with all your issues, BAMF Hob Gadling, BAMF Lucienne, Everyone's a BAMF in this except Dream, Nursing an anthropomorphic personification back to health, Falling In Love, restoring the dreaming, Mutual Pining, Love Confessions, Hob is trapped in the Dreaming, Dream has only been in the fishbowl for a decade Summary:

Wherein Hob Gadling stages an impromptu rescue after he discovers his mysterious Stranger trapped in the basement of a would-be sorcerer, wherein the subsequent escape into the Dreaming results in Morpheus suffering severe memory loss, and wherein Lucienne, the loyal librarian who's just trying to keep it together as it is, must work with Hob to help nurse Dream back to health and get his memories back. Also wherein feelings develop, as they are wont to do, and rise to the surface, changing everything for the three of them- and the Dreaming.