Morpheus Fields Chapter 6
Morpheus Fields Chapter 5
Tommy spent the better part of the day with Lisa. She cried over the loss of their family and she cried over the coming baby. She cried over missing Tommy, over Tommy’s continued drug use and how the father didn’t want shit to do with either of them ever since Lisa had told him she was pregnant. Tommy told her how he felt about her leaving and then he told her how he had felt deserted when she left him over the drugs.
They cried a lot together that day. It was good for both of them.
Tommy was so busy with her, that it never entered his mind to shoot up or get high. He had missed Lisa. A lot.
Adam watched all of this behind his invisible cloak and smiled as brother and sister reconciled. Maybe there was hope for Tommy.
Adam felt hope stir in his heart since Lisa had come back into the picture. It had been three days, and Tommy hadn’t even gotten stoned. She may have just made his job easier. The only problem was, he couldn’t stay away from Tommy. He was here during the day as well as in his dreams.
He looked down at his charge and smiled. Lying down in the bed with Tommy, he entered his dreams. He found himself standing and watching a young Tommy of three and Lisa, who looked to be around fourteen playing on a set of swings. Tommy giggled with glee as Lisa pushed him high up into the sky.
"It’s like flying, sisser." Tommy yelled in between squeals of laughter. "Higher!"
Adam tried to remain unobtrusive but as the swing slowed, the young Tommy looked over at him and Adam could see the adult knowing in his eyes. Suddenly, the adult Tommy was standing beside him.
"You’re happy your sister has come back in your life." Adam stated it simply and clearly.
The weekend found Tommy with his sister once again. He hadn’t been high since he’d spent the first day with her and his dreams had become increasingly strange. The blue eyed Adam kept showing up and the things he had been dreaming about doing to that man…well, he hadn’t ever felt that way about a ‘dream’ man or woman before. It wasn’t as if he cared that the dark headed god was male, nor would it be the first time he had been with a man, but dream about one like that? No, he hadn’t done that before, not like this.
And he kept appearing in his childhood memory dreams. How was that even possible? He had a feeling there was more going on that he knew.
"TJ?"
"Huh?"
"You zoned out on me. What are you thinking about? Are you…" Lisa bit her lip, not wanting to bring up the drug problem she knew that her brother had since it had separated them for some time.
"I was thinking."
"About?"
"Have you ever dreamed of someone that you’ve never met but when you dream of them, you feel you know them?" Tommy looked at her, but through her, as if he was seeing something, or maybe someone else. "I’ve been having these dreams of a man…"
"A man?!?" Lisa exclaimed.
He seemed to come back from where ever his mind had taken him. "Yes, a man. Is that a problem?"
"No! No of course not but you’ve never expressed an interest in…well that."
Tommy laughed. "You haven’t been around for awhile, big sister. How would you know?"
Lisa face reddened at the admonishment. "Of course. I didn’t mean anything. Tell me about him."
His eyes misted over again. "He’s very tall. Quiet. Very dark hair, so dark it has a slight blue tint. And his eyes…they are blue as well. A beautiful blue. He just watches me most of the time; doesn’t say much. And he shows up in all of my dreams, even the bad ones, the ones with Mom and even Dad in them."
"So you’ve never met him? Haven’t seen anyone like him before?" Lisa asked with concern.
"No. I would remember. I’ve never seen anyone like him before. And…" He bit his lip.
"Go on." Lisa encouraged.
"Well, I think he can change my dreams. Once, when he was in the field, you remember the field where we used to go on picnics when Mom wasn’t wasted?" Lisa nodded. "Well, once I was there and suddenly all the flowers changed to red. All of them Lisa and you know how I feel about red. It wasn’t me."
Tommy looked at her closely to see if she thought he was losing his mind, because saying it out loud, it made him wonder. "Do you think I’m losing it, sis?"
Her concerned look worried him. She had been wearing it for awhile now. "Does he…well, does he have wings?"
"Not at all. Why?" He furrowed his brows together.
She went to the book shelf and pulled a book down, handing it to him. "You might want to look this over." She gave him a quick look. "Don’t laugh until you read it."
"Greek mythology? You’re serious?" Tommy looked incredulous.
"Just look up the bits on dreams and Nyx and Morpheus, okay? And then we’ll talk about it again, okay?"
"All right."
He wasn’t going to tell her that he had no idea what this book could do to help him figure out what the hot guy was doing in his dreams.
Adam watched as Tommy read the book his sister had given him with a frown on his face. The human was learning things that could be dangerous to him. Even still, he couldn’t find it in him to erase Tommy’s mind of these things. He could have easily done so, but he found that he wanted Tommy to remember everything about him and every bit of time they spent together.
It was true that he had hidden the fact that he watched over the man during the day at times and even found himself wrapping the blonde in his arms at night without his knowledge, but what harm could come from Tommy knowing what the humans had written about him. It was just the briefest of sketches anyway and held only harmless truths. He found himself craving more time with Tommy and knowing what the Sisters had told him, he knew why.
He couldn’t give in to that, however. Tommy needed to fulfill his fate, even if it kept Morpheus from completing his in totality. He was a God and humans are reborn. He had time that humans did not. But re-birth happened for the humans and Tommy’s soul would be re-born again. He could wait.
Tommy snapped the book shut; a look of deep concentration on his face as he picked up the phone and called his sister.
"Do you know anything about lucid dreaming?"
Morpheus Fields Chapter 7