Summary: A friend is a friend, even a few realities removed.
(or: Hob meets a different Dream. He deals with it with as much grace as he can. Which is to say, not much at all.)
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Square/Prompt: B3 - Obsession | @dreamlingbingo
Rating: Teen
Ship(s): Dream of the Endless | Morpheus/Hob Gadling
Additional Notes & Warnings: Show!Hob meets Comic!Dream and Comic!Hob meets Show!Dream (Yes, Based On That Fanart by Alexxuun), First Meetings (Sort Of), Matthew Being A Menace
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Hobās day starts with a rude bird.
Matthew, the aforementioned rude bird, announces his surprise visit with a loud āINCOMING!ā All before swooping into Hobās small apartment through the open window, honing in on his toast, landing, and then tearing into it with gusto.
Itās six thirty-nine on another gray, drizzly morning. Hob is still groggy and his lukewarm coffee is mostly on the floor, partially on his shirt. A talking raven is eating his breakfast. Surely, this has to be some sort of ominous thing and not just the actual baseline mundanity of his life. Talking ravens have to be harbingers ofā¦something. Lost breakfasts. Crumbs. Friends who havenāt been in touch for the past three weeks and five daysāokay no, itās too early and heās too caffeine-deficient for that train of thought right now.
Sighing, he tries to pick at the piece of toast Matthew hasnāt devoured yet, only to be met with a quick snap of a beak. āGood morning to you too,ā grumbles Hob as he gets up to make his breakfast. Again.
In the kitchen, he hears the telltale susurration of sand from behind him. Hob feels a smile steal across his face immediately, then bites it back almost just as fast. He continues making his second breakfast. As heās adding another piece of bread to the to-be-toasted pile, he says over his shoulder, āDream, your bird is eating me out of house andāā
"Oh fuck," croaks Matthew suddenly, āShit, I forgotāā
Alarmed, Hob whirls around, butter knife and Dreamās favorite brand of strawberry jam at the ready. And he comes face to face with his friend. Or at least, some version of Dream. One with wilder hair and sharper angles, drawn like dancing shadows of tree branches. This Dream smiles with more fang in tooth when he greets Hob with a familiar, resonant tone.
āHello, Hob Gadling.ā
Hob drops the jam jar.
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Hobās day ends with a rude bird.
It had been a long day in a long line of long days and all Hob wanted to do was enjoy a nightcap before sleeping the weekend away. The loud, insistent tapping on the door was not part of the plan. Even as heās standing in front of the door, Hob contemplates just pretending to not be at home. The hammering on the door gets more intense, almost as if sensing his thoughts. With a defeated sigh, Hob opens a door. And of all things, a raven swoops right in.
It flies down the hall, towards the rest of his condominium with a battle caw, doing a sweep of the space as Hob trails a few paces behind it, utterly bewildered. Ravens areā¦omens arenāt they? Bad luck or some shoddy housekeeping in this case. He wonders what his old friend would have to say about that, might bring it up next time he deigned to drop byāno, not something worth contemplating right now. At least without a good amount of alcohol in his system.
By now, the bird has perched on his leather sofa, making its mark on the upholstery. Hob slowly approaches it when it opens its beak and, in a clearly American accent, announces, āALL CLEAR BOSS!ā
Another layer of confusion is added when Hob hears a deep sigh from the entryway. The raven continues on, āCāmon Boss, you know I had to vet this randoā,ā and Hob cannot believe he left the door open. He tunes out the talkative raven as he makes his way down the hallway. On the way, he grabs anā¦umbrella. It has some heft at least but heās definitely had to make do with less in the past. Twisting it around in his hands, Hob starts thinking about different scenarios and exit strategies and how he is not in the mood to move on to a new life, whoever is at the door better be ready for his ferocious umbrella backhandā
At the doorway stands his friend. Or some other form of his friend. One with a softer lines and sleek planes, like a reflection on the surface of a still, fathomless lake. This version of his friend smiles with only a small curl of his lips, greeting Hob with a voice he misses despite himself.
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