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    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.

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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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    Fics written for the Dreamling Bingo, all exist as standalone fics that can be read on their own.

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    As his frantic eyes adjust to the brightness of the globe, he catches just a glimpse of familiar unkempt, raven hair. His relentlessly stuttering heart seems to freeze in his chest, his mind shouting at him, thrashing, like a prisoner forced into solitary confinement, aghast and disbelieving.

    It's unfathomable, inconceivable...

    Hob's worst fears are confirmed as the being entrapped before him lifts his head.

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    Wealthy businessman, Robyn Stranger is invited to the auction of an unknown supernatural being, held hostage by one Roderick Burgess. The immortal willingly accepts the invitation -given his current penchant for liberating enslaved mortals from their deluded, “magic using” captors- unaware that he is more familiar with the being trapped below, than he ever could have imagined.

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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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    IMPORTANT: Between July 17-25, 2025, I'm splitting the longer chapters (15,000 words or more) into smaller ones to make them easier to read for people on phones. Old chapter numbers will be in the new chapter names, so everyone can find their places if they want. Also, there will be a few deleted scenes added (marked as new).

    PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR CHAPTER NUMBER if you're currently reading.

    Fic will be privated for an hour to put all the new chapters through and not bombard subscribers with emails.

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    After banishing his lover from the Dreaming for her betrayal, Morpheus learns that she is pregnant with his child.

    And that she’s been captured by a revenge-seeking Alexander Burgess.

    What the both of them are unaware of is that this will set in motion a cascade of unfavorable events, causing a chain reaction that threatens the whole of existence itself.

    There are four parts/separate novels in this one entry as follows:
    Part I: All of This Past (chapters 1-11)
    Part II: These Tender, Loving Mercies (chapters 12-19)
    Part III: When It All Falls Down (chapters 20-30)
    Part IV: The Dark of War (chapters 31-48)

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    Dream didn't know that he was pregnant with Hob's child until Burgess captured and imprisoned him in the waking world. In the glass sphere, he realised that he was not the only one who was trapped there, and he only had a few months to get them to safety.

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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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    It was beginning to sound like Roderick Burgess had something or someone trapped in his basement.

    Hob was starting to wonder if he should do something about that.

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    Two events take place on the same fatidic evening of June 1916.
    One, Dream of the Endless goes into the Waking world searching for a wayward nightmare and ends up captured by a magic patrictioner called Roderick Burgess.
    Two, Robert Gadling wakes up to a stake in his chest courtesy of the descendant of a certain Lady who once tried to kidnap him (and his Stranger too).
    Both events prove life changing.

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    Magnus Bane receives orders to investigate what is a trapped warlock (or something demonic) in the basement of one Roderick Burgess. He isn't expecting to come across two creatures already planning a rescue of said captive. Even more than that - he isn't expecting the captive to be an Endless, of all things.

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    Hob Gadling, when a talking raven (named Jessamy) shows up to tell him that his oldest friend has been captured and needs his help, isn't expecting to get plunged into a world of magical beings, time travel, and more than his fair share of violence, but. For his Stranger? He would do anything.

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    Division of the Endless. The youngest of her older 7 siblings. Created as an afterthought to help mortals tell time and age. She finds herself regretting her search for her captured brother, Dream of the Endless when she herself gets captured by the same dillusional, power-taking man that took Dream from his world.

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    The first thing Hob notices is that he is sopping wet, the next thing is a stranger standing in his kitchen. Not his Stranger, another man.

    The third thing he notices is that this man is absolutely furious.

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    Hob saves Dream, not everyone is really aware of that fact and still worries deeply. Well, one long lost sibling worries very deeply.

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    Death cannot really quit her job, even to assist her baby brother...but maybe she can send some help instead ?

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    After his failure to summon Death to return his son from the dead, Roderick Burgess takes a different approach to summon a being capable of granting his desires. Another miscalculation summons a Malum, a creature of Desire and a new prisoner to accompany the trapped Endless in his basement.

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    When his captor's child decides to free him, Morpheus's life is about to take a turn. Among confusion about the complexity of human nature, the Lord of Dreams learns about kindness and selflessness from his enemy's daughter, whom he can't help but slowly grow to love. Their time together, however, might just be cut short by an enigmatic curse.

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    The Dreaming is a fluid place. Malleable. Changeable. Illogical. It reaches between and connects different points in time in certain places, allowing glimpses of the past and future.

    What if the walls between the Multiverse are just a little weaker here?

    What if we could see into the Dreaming Next Door?

    Or:

    The only reason Lucifer sees her enter is because he’s already scanning the entrance of Lux to see if the Detective has arrived.

    He changes the next song in his routine.

    (Enter Sandmaiden sounds a bit odd on the piano, but it’s worth it to see the Lady Shaper’s face when she hears him sing the words “I tuck you in, warm within, keep you free from sin, til the Sandmaiden comes!”)

    Aka: the genderbent Morpheus fic bc if Netflix can do it then so can I

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    The Corinthian wants to ensure he has a long, happy life in the waking world. So that, naturally, means Dream of the Endless must be out of the picture. To ensure such a thing, he gives Burgess one last little trump card.

    Dream and Orpheus find themselves face to face for the first time in many a century in the year 1990.

    This fic now has art by Did_you_see_the_light_in_my_heart on AO3. For You My Son? The Universe - Red Butterfly

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    Hob Gadling was not by nature a cautious man but even he knew the value of keeping track of those who would be too… intrigued by his condition. In 1926, a chance conversation in a bar alerts Hob to the fact that Roderick Burgess has captured another immortal, one that sounds eerily similar to his friend.

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