I'm just sending you one for now, and take your time, write it whenever you feel inspired! Reylo and #27 "Around midnight, the fever broke." :)
For a Gothic prompt, long overdue; my dear @onstraysod, I hope you will forgive me.
Around midnight, the fever broke, and Rey woke up in bed, gasping for breath.
She had been having the queerest dreams, featuring a shadowed figure stalking the wind-blown moors, searching for her.
The dark night whispered in the wind, calling out to her, coaxing her out of her bed and onto the wild heath.
The inky black called to her, whispered her name like a caress over her hair into the wind.
She stepped out of her doorstep, over the threshold, and out into the night. She was engulfed, overwhelmed by the sensation of sinking down into the ground, the wind wrapping around her, the figure in shadow reaching out to her, calling her name.
But she was not asleep, nor out of doors; she had woken up in bed, drenched in sweat, scarcely able to draw a breath. Whether from the fever or from the dream, she could not say; she knew both had caused her body to be belabored in exertion. She did not remember how many days she had been abed, laid low by the fever; it could have been days or weeks. She closed her eyes once more, to a light but dreamless sleep. The shadowed figure did not come, did not call her name again that night. She almost missed him, the dark figure who had stalked the moors.
She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.
A part of her should have been afraid, should have been angry to see him again. A part of her wanted nothing more than to sink into his embrace, to give in to the dark and her base desires.
Night after night, she visited the land of dreams and walked the moors with her dark lover. Her dreams became more real than life, even after her fever had waned with the moon’s passing.