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"You've never even given me your name," Hob calls out. He fails to hide the hurt and frustration in his voice, his nose tingling with the promise of tears.
The semblance of a sad half-smile flickers across his stranger's face. He replies without hesitation, without discussion.
"I am Dream of the Endless."
At last, something real. Peculiar, and it raises even more questions. But the answer is honest; Hob can tell.
"So… just… Dream?"
"I go by many names – but yes."
"Why tell me now? What's changed?"
Dream answers, unblinking.
"Everything."
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In which Hob and Dream reunite after Dream's escape. A story about healing, longing, change, and forgiveness, featuring lots of cuddling. And tea.
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Hob has been around death. Living in London throughout multiple plague outbreaks and fires, as well as making a living soldiering and dabbling in banditry, will do that to you. What he doesn't know is that Death has been around Hob as well. He has no idea that when his Stranger left him that night in 1389 after their first meeting, the woman who came up to him, laid a hand on his shoulder and said, “Good luck, friend,” was Death incarnate.
Hob doesn’t know that he is one of few things in this world that has been Touched by Death and lived. Had he known this, he might not have been as confused as he is when his body slams into the floor of a dim, candle-lit cellar and he finds himself surrounded by hooded figures and a gold circle on the floor. That is all he manages to perceive before everything goes blurry and consciousness slips away from him again.
Here in the Darkness.
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Roderick Burgess' spell does not summon Death, but someone who has been touched by Death. Hob Gadling ends up in his cellar instead of Dream.
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- Part 1 of Touched by Death, loved by a Dream
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“Dream of the Endless,” Roderick sneers, and taps the handle of his cane on the glass. Dream of the Endless blinks once, out of sync, but otherwise doesn’t respond. There is something terribly inhuman about him, something Ethel can’t define but recognizes on the same level of awareness that knows there is something lurking behind her in the dark.
They keep a tiger in the basement, in a cage of glass and willpower, she thinks to herself, and follows Roderick back upstairs and does not sleep at all that night.
(or, ethel cripps gets sick of roderick's shit and instead of stealing from him and running away, she frees dream from his cage)
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What if... the Endless were a healthy and loving family?
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A chapter for each sibling saving Dream and one of them all saving Dream.
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- Part 13 of All My Sandman Stories
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A Different Kind of Burn by Ruby_Casablanca
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
04 Oct 2022
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While the guards took their stimulants and were careful not to dream, the rest of the household had to sleep. Servants and family, guests and partygoers all slept in the numerous suites, tucked under covers with heads cradled by goose-feather pillows. The deepest, calmest sleep only his ruby could provide collected into a thin trickle of dreaming - not strong enough to carry him home but strong enough to keep him hopeful. Strong enough for Morpheus to close his eyes and let his mind slip away in the current, if only for a little while…
There was only one mind he knew on this mortal plane, only one place he could end up, after all.
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Wherein Hob dreams of war, Morpheus dreams of an escape from his prison, and over the span of many years, they fall into dreams that blur the lines between friendship and something more.
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“Sister,” Morpheus cut over her, “why are you doing this?”
Death glared at him. “Why?? You seriously have to ask me that? I don’t want to see you scarred, Dream!” she snapped angrily, hurt. “If this goes wrong, you’ll carry the scar of this until the end of this universe! I don’t want that, and setting aside the part where I love you, brother, the very thought of it is abhorrent to me, to my very nature! And I don’t want to see that poor women withered away into little more then a spiritual tumour for you to bare!”
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Lilly's gaze fixed on his eyes and the stars, the galaxies, the universe in his pupils. When he reached for her she stepped back with a gasp. “What are you?”
“I am everything I have ever told you I am, that my sister told you I am. You just didn’t understand, didn’t appreciate, the scale of what that meant. I have never lied to you, Lilly.”
Her eyes were wide and frightened as she whispered, “Dream...”
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When a single mistake creates a cascade of events with only two possible outcomes, either joy, or tragic devastation, all pieces on the board must be brought to bare.
With the Endless, magic, and love, lies just a hair's breadth away from the depths of insanity.
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The Corinthian was left sitting in the alley, blood drying on his hands. If all he had wanted was to be in the waking world, he had gotten it. He could run off to wreak havoc upon the world until Dream found him again, but it was never about that. Sometimes, he thought, we run just to be caught. He picked up the knife he had dropped.
“My lord,” he whispered into the silence, clutching the knife tight. “I’m coming.”
In which Dream decides not to be a total dick and the Corinthian decides to save him.
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It’s been said that a man’s word is as good as his bond. Back in 1789 Hob Gadling gave his word to his strange benefactor to be there, were the Stranger to ever need him. And to that word he’ll hold. Had it been up to him, Dream of the Endless would have never called for help, not from anyone. So perhaps it’s a good thing that it’s not up to him. For once a man’s word has been given, it is binding…
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While Jessamy observed, she planned. The glass wasn’t something she could break in whatever small span of time she might get, but the binding circle was just paint, and paint could be scratched at by a raven’s beak and talons.
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Build An Altar (Fix Your Heart) by Fractalspaces (LotusRox)
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
31 Jan 2023
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Hob had first stumbled upon, and then been dragged into this whole esoteric business. The chance of sating both his wanderlust and his loneliness had been to good to pass, and there he'd gone - Faking it until he'd made it. Conning this secret society at leisure, posing as the immortal Count of St. Germain. For once, he didn't have to lie about his age...
... And their books let him search for an echo of his Stranger in their lines. He'd keep his distance, he swore. But the loss of the one place he could return to always, the distress of this place being a person-- It had hit him hard.
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(Or, Hob Gadling learns first hand why you don't impersonate another immortal, the perils of cult mentality, and why calling your Stranger your North Star isn't platonic. Not at all.)
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insane. beautiful. WHAT
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When Hob Gadling made a drunken deal with a mysterious man in a pub, he didn’t expect anything to come of it. Waking up the following morning with a golden mark on his wrist was a shock, though less than finding out that he couldn’t die. Who had he made a deal with, and what did he want? His Stranger was far from forthcoming, so he’d have to figure it out himself. That his mark was not just a passkey to an underworld of supernatural beings but the sign that he wasn’t meant to spend eternity alone was enough to send him down paths he never knew existed and ask more questions than were answered. Who, or more importantly what was his Stranger, and did the mysterious man know who Hob was destined for?
(An AU where only immortals have soulmarks that mark their species/type as well as their partner, and Hob has something no one has seen before)
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Of Dreams, Family, and The Bane of Rules by AshWinterGray
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
29 Aug 2022
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Delirium finds her brother in a fishbowl. Which is a weird place to be. Dream is terrified for his sister's safety in this place.
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“Dream, my brother, what our sister is trying to say is that we did not always have a rule among us that we must ask in order to aid each other,” Destruction told him gravely. “It has been so long, we have all forgotten it. But what she speaks is the truth. We may help each other without debts or asking. I think, in a way, we all tried to help. After all, Destiny was the one to tell me where you were and the fate that befell you.”
Dream whipped his head to his older brother.
“What our brother and sister speak is true,” Desire read from his book. “I told Destruction and left him with the choice of what to do. Death told me of the plight and that dictated The Book of Destiny and my own actions. While Delirium’s reactions were more obvious, even Despair and Desire acted in a way to save you. Perhaps without realizing. Fiddling with Desire’s and Despair, trying to keep up your hope while trying to discover the source of your plight, the twins ultimately interfered in affairs that led to you being free so soon. Had our littlest sister not found you, though, I fear your suffering would have been far worse, and far lonelier.”
With those words gripping Dream like a vice, he curled around Delirium, gripping her as tightly as she had held him.
“Thank you, my sister. Thank you.”
Delirium, who was once delight, pressed their foreheads together and beamed in the purests form of delight the dreaming had seen in many millenias.
“I love you, Dreamy.”
“And I you, my sister. I love you too.”
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Over the centuries, Hob had dreamt plenty of dreams about his friend from the tavern. All good dreams, of course.
Very good dreams.
Usually not dreams that featured either of them wearing very much clothing.
But until the talking bird told him otherwise, he hadn't considered that those dreams might be real.
(Featuring: a live Jessamy, Hob rescuing Dream from the fishbowl, a mess to clean and a happy ending.)
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Dream and Desire by alivebutdeadinside_6_6_6
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
03 Nov 2022
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alivebutdeadinside_6_6_6Desire gets caught up in rodricks summoning along with dream and tortured
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All the Precious and Fragile Things 'verse by alteon77
Fandom: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
26 Dec 2023
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All My Sandman Stories by Nightcrawler247
Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005), The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
07 Jul 2025
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Away From The Sunless Lands by Jack_The_Honest
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics), Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
12 Jul 2025
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This story takes place in the waking world, or as mortals insist on calling it… the real world, as if the other realms hold no importance in their daily lives, in their choices, in their dreams.
To mortals and humans in particular the realms other than theirs are of no concern to them, their passage through the landscape of Grey Realm do not affect them, don't define them.
As if what happens to them, in them does not matter.
Black Winged Death was trapped in this version of All Seeing Destiny’s book.
Her wings are bound and the road to the Sunless Lands is concealed from her eyes, her Ankh stolen.She was alone and cold, even if time itself wouldn't bring her to madness, the silence and solitude hurt.
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What are Dreams in one's Waking Hours? by insanepanda
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
29 Apr 2023
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In one universe, one Roderick Burgess spent his waking hours threatening, bargaining and cajoling an unspeaking Endless whom he had trapped within this basement. He would spend the rest of his living years coveting for boons that weren’t his to possess
In another universe, Roderick Burgess had an idea, and this idea became the tiny stone that started an avalanche altering the realities of this universe.
(or: Dream's psyche gets pushed to the brink during his time in the fishbowl, and something inadvertently breaks)
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Jessamy was a raggedy, much mended, button eyed stuffed raven. She was Morpheus's only friend, and he loved her more than anything in the world.
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Morpheus is six, Morpheus is kidnapped, Morpheus is accidentally visting one Hob Gadling in his dreams as a way of escaping his dire conditon. Morpheus needs rescuing, if Hob can figure out juat what these recurring dreams of a tiny dark haird child mean.(Funky little Platonic Dreamling idea that came to me late one night and wouldn't let go, so here we are)
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Aria's Dreamling Bingo Fics 2023 by Aria_Lerendeair
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Hades (Video Game 2018), Kingdom Hearts (Video Games), Shadowhunters (TV), Supernatural (TV 2005), The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
11 Nov 2023
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Fics written for the Dreamling Bingo, all exist as standalone fics that can be read on their own.
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