The Nightmare meme

[stockingfeats]

You're having a nightmare, and you aren't alone. Someone is here with you in tonight's strange, dark dreamscape--for better or for worse.

1. Chased: Bears, tentacly monsters, giant vengeful wasps. You need to escape from it but you can't find a way.
   
2. Trapped: Elevator, sinking ship, cave. You're in and you can't get out.
   
3. Performance: It's often quoted that people fear public speaking more than they fear death. You don't know the script, you've never seen this Powerpoint, the teleprompter is blurry as hell... forget falling, you're about to die on stage.
   
4. Hated: You know those dreams where everyone you know accuses you of something terrible and they all hate you now? Yeah. It's that one tonight.
   
5. Disaster! You're on an island and a volcano erupts! You're next to a river and it floods! Never mind how geologically, climatologically, or physically likely it would be in this location in real life, it's happening now.
   
6. Haunting past: Your bad memories are just waiting for you to let your guard down, and what's more unguarded than sleep?
   
7. Wildcard: There are infinite nightmares in infinite combinations... why not put together your own?
   

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[the_cupbearer]

"Can you promise me you won't get mad when I mess up, or when I get stuck somewhere...not here, and not now?" Ganymede asks, leaning in against Ashley and wanting him to wrap him close in those strong arms that could lift him with ease.

"I don't mean to. And I don't want it to hurt what we have, but sometimes...it's impossible to not fall into that. It's like rereading a book. I know what happens."

[ironrider]

"I can promise you I will always do my best to be understanding, that we'll talk. I would be a liar if I promised to never get upset."

He does just that, wraps his arms around him and buried his face in the crook of his neck. "I know it's scary not to know what happens. I get that. I won't ever give up on us and what we have, Ganymede. It will always be me and you."

[the_cupbearer]

Ganymede enveloped himself around Ashley, tucking his chin against his husband's neck with a hum, squeezing him tightly as Ash's arms circled around him. He liked being held just like this; he wasn't coddled, but he was secure, safe, loved. He could feel Ashley's breaths tickling his skin. "I want you and me forever, baby boy," he whipered, soft agaist his love.

"You said you wouldn't let me get lost when we were in California. Don't let me get lost now."

[ironrider]

"I won't let you get lost...I'll keep an eye on you if you wander." His fingers draw shapes against his spine as they sit there. "Guide you back before you can get lost. Think it's my turn." He smiles against his neck. "Dare."

[the_cupbearer]

"I dare you...to show me what you're most embarrassed about," he murmurs. "Anything."

[ironrider]

"You're good. Keep asking me things that you know will make me forfeit." Ash bites his neck where his shoulder meets. "I have no fucking shame." His playful smile fades and he looks his husband in the eyes. "I'm embarrassed by every relationship I have had where I settled. Where I tolerated being treated in ways that hurt me because I was desperate to have what other people had. Shit, I justified the way I let people treat me. I didn't ever think someone could love me like you do so I just took whatever came my way and I tried so hard to make those relationships work even when they were destroying me."

[the_cupbearer]

"I've played this a lot," Ganymede murmurs with a grin, threading his fingers into Ashley's hair and curling them, almost a tug but not quite. He wants to hold his husband close.

"Don't be embarrassed by the past, or the mistakes you've made, baby. All of them, all the things good and bad that have happened, led us together." Ganymede hums against Ashley's skin, soft and nuzzling. "I made them work too, for better and worse. And all of them pale against you."

[ironrider]

"I like the way you think about it. That these mistakes brought me here. To you." He believed in destiny. That some things just are and nothing you can do will change it. Eventually it would happen. Ash feels that way about their relationship. "We were inevitable."

[the_cupbearer]

"If I'd stayed with Armarus, or gone looking for him when he left...I wouldn't be here with you," he murmured. "Every new beginning comes from something else ending. It has to."

And he might have hated those endings while he was in the middle of experiencing them, but what they brought was better by far. "I'm glad we found each other when we did, though. That it didn't take any longer." There had been an almost magnetic pull between them almost from the moment they'd met, and Ganymede hadn't wanted to suppress that for anything.

[ironrider]

"You're wrong. We still would have made it here. Even if you had gone after him." Ash knew that in his heart, didn't doubt it for a second. "This was happening long before either of us dared to admit it."

His lips brush his husbands in a soft, sweet kiss. "I was drawn to you from the moment we met. Nothing, not even you being involved with someone else, was going to stop it. Told you before, it's science." The tip of his nose bumps against Ganymede's and he smiles. "Love, much like quantum entanglement, is an invisible force that binds us, affects us regardless of distance, and is affected by our mutual attention and intention."

[the_cupbearer]

"We are quantum entangled," Ganymede chuckled, clicking his teeth at Ash's nose, sinking into that kiss. "You're beautiful, you know that? Your soul, your...everything. You're my dearest, deepest love." He loved hearing Ash talk about science like he did, making it so easily graspable and so obvious.

"I am so...so glad the universe chose us. I've never known love like this before you, and I never want to be without it."

[ironrider]

"Mmmmm, it's sexy when you say things like quantum entangled." He teases before kissing him again. And again. Buzzing from the weed, a little warm and tipsy from the booze, he is loving the lazy touching and kissing while they talk. "You won't ever be without it. Whatever you need or want from me, it's yours."

[the_cupbearer]

"You think it's sexy when I say anything," he chuckled, pulling Ash close again and snuggling into him with a happy, content laugh. He loved Ash like this, when they were soft and gentle and tangled in each other and wanting just to be able to hold each other. "I want these clothes out of the way," Ganymede laughed. "I want to touch you all over."

[ironrider]

"I think it's sexy when you breathe." His lips bump along his jaw and down his neck. Hands slide under his shirt and push it up his chest and then over his head. Ash finds his favorite spot, where his neck and shoulder meet, and bites gently. The warm, tan skin is rolled between his teeth and sucked with enough force to leave a mark.

[the_cupbearer]

Ganymede chuckled and tilted his head when Ash kissed his shoulder, and gasped gently when those teeth set into his flesh, fingers curling in his husband's hair. "Gonna leave a mark, baby," he murmured, lip between his teeth as he sighed, but didn't move away at all.

[ironrider]

"Of course I am going to leave a mark. Lots of them." That skin was back between his teeth. This time he applied more pressure, letting his sharpened canines appear and gently poke at his skin.

[the_cupbearer]

He made a funny noise at the pokes from Ashley's canines, though Ganymede just flexed his arms tighter around Ashley's shoulders when he felt the pressure begin to turn to discomfort, almost pain. "Are you biting me?" he asked softly, holding tightly with his eyes just barely slitted open. Even if all he could see was the edge of Ashley's hairline and the back of his neck, he didn't want to be in the dark.

[ironrider]

"Marking." He mumbled. Repositioning his mouth he bit another mark into his skin. "You're mine."

[the_cupbearer]

"Always," Ganymede murmured softly, though after that second bite he pulled back just a little bit. "Let me see you like this. I can feel the differences."

[ironrider]

"See me like what?" His eyes open as he looks up at Ganymede. They are bright and gold. "What can you feel?"

[the_cupbearer]

"See you exactly as you are right now," Ganymede murmured, reaching up to trace his fingertips over Ashley's eyebrows, touching soft and gentle. "I love your eyes. When they're blue they're more placid than the ocean, deep and calm, and when they're yellow they're exactly like you are as a wolf."

He smiles slow and serene at the question. "I can feel your teeth. Your claws, your breath on my skin. Your hands on my waist."

[ironrider]

"After I found out about your scars and how you got them I was scared to let you see that side of me." He bumps his nose against the end of his loves. "I never wanted you to look at me and feel afraid." Ash cups his face and brushes his thumbs under his dark eyes. "Your eyes are so fucking beautiful."

[the_cupbearer]

"I have never been afraid of you like this. Afraid, yes, but never of you as a man. Not even when you're not a man," Ganymede tells him softly.

"You are what has made me love my eyes. And my scars. Just as they are, nothing else needed." No covering up, no augmentation, just him. As he was always.

[ironrider]

"Promise?" That was one of his biggest fears. Ganymede being afraid of him, of what he is.

Ash kisses him between his eyes and sighs softly. "Good. I love every damn thing about you. You should too."

[the_cupbearer]

"I promise, sweetheart. I love you because of what you are. Not in spite of it, and not around it. It is you."

Ganymede hums, smiling softly as his husband kissed his forehead. "You make me see myself like I never have before, baby."