Morpheus Fields Chapter 7
Morpheus Fields Chapter 6
"Lucid dreaming, you mean like controlling your dreams as you dream them, right?"
"Yeah, that. Do you know anything about it at all? Or can you recommend a book about it other than the one you gave me? It mentions it, but doesn’t really go into it."
"Hold on, let me check this one book I have."
"K."
"All right, here’s what I’ve found. It says that you need to be in a trance like state and that you will need to practice to get it right. It also says that you need to…"
Tommy listened as his sister talked, stopping her at the parts that didn’t make sense and having her clarify and re-read them to him. They talked for what seemed like hours but in reality, it was only about one.
"Okay, I think I’ve got it. Thanks sis."
It was quiet on the other end of the line.
"What are you thinking Lisa?"
"Are you really going to do this? What if this man isn’t a man?"
Tommy laughed, "You mean what if he is this Morpheus? I don’t believe that but I do think this lucid dreaming can help me interact. If I can do it, that is."
"Can I ask a question without you getting angry with me?"
Tommy had an idea about what she wanted to know. "I haven’t always been high when I’ve dreamed about him Lisa, if that’s what you are going to ask."
"I… sorry, TJ. I just wanted to make sure, that’s all."
He sighed. This was an old argument between them and had driven them apart at one time. "It’s alright, Lisa. I understand. If it makes you feel any better, I haven’t used anything since you’ve came back, not even pot. Not once."
When she didn’t say anything, he didn’t know what to say to her so he just told her thank you and hung up.
Adam waited for night to come. He made himself stay way, even though it was hard for him. He felt like he needed some space from his human charge. He was becoming emotionally involved. He had been having dreams of the human, erotic dreams where he was doing things to him that he hadn’t thought of ever doing to a charge before. He had to admit to himself that the Sisters may be on to something. And thinking that they could be right about Tommy made him angry. His job was to keep Tommy alive so that he could fulfill his destiny, not to see to his death so that he could have him.
He rubbed his eyes and remembered what he had been telling himself for awhile now, humans are reborn; they get more than one chance. He could wait. He had time. The dark thought drifted through his mind, ‘And what if he has a fate to fulfill the next time and the next and the next? What will you do then?’
His possible future with Tommy suddenly looked very bleak.
He made his way from his bed of ebony, through his poppies, and outside, walking to the Gates instead of thinking himself there. He needed to walk and the time to think.
"You’re in deep thought, my son." Nyx said as she walked beside him.
"I hate it when you do that, Mother, just pop in. It’s invading."
Her laughter tinkled across his mind. "I’m the ruler here, more than any of the others and you are my son, of course I just ‘pop’ in."
He huffed but couldn’t argue the point. "I wanted time to think. I didn’t expect company."
"You’re thinking of your human." A statement, not a question.
Growling, he spat, "He’s not my human, Mother."
"But he should be."
"Irrelevant."
"Again, that’s what should be. You should have him, Morpheus, he belongs with you. The Sisters, while you may not like them, or appreciate what they do, even for the Gods, they are rarely wrong. Why will you not just take him?"
He spun, his face a mask of fury. "Because, Mother, wasn’t it you who told me how important this fated thing he must do would be for the humans down the line? Wasn’t it you who has told me over and over that we don’t stop them from reaching their destiny? How could I change that now, for my own gain?"
"But son…"
"No! I won’t take him from what was meant to be. Besides, he will be reborn."
"And if he is reborn as a she?"
"He will be reborn again."
"And you will wait?"
"I will wait. What choice do I have?"
"You are a God, Morpheus, we always have a choice."
"Go away."
Laughter followed her as she dissipated into the grayness.
"Fuck!" He had to calm himself down before he visited Tommy in the dream world beyond the Gates. He took a couple of deep breaths. Somehow, he had to find his equilibrium. Tommy was going to be the death of him, if he could die. With a bitter smile, that looked more like a grimace, he stood looking at the horn gate and stepped through.
As he entered Tommy’s dream, it was the field, like normal but it felt different. He looked around for the younger version of Tommy but didn’t see him. He could feel him and knew that he was close, in the field somewhere, but he couldn’t see him.
"Looking for me?"
Adam jumped as Tommy spoke to him from behind and turned to look at him. Time moved different in the human world than it did in the one he lived in. Was it possible that Tommy had learned too much about him? "How did you do that?"
Tommy smirked, coming closer, so close Adam could feel his breath across his lips as Tommy looked up at him. "I’ve been practicing. Where have you been?"
Adam’s eyes went wide. Tommy was in control and sentient in this dream. "You’re lucid."
"For now." Tommy moved in closer, until they were touching. "Who are you?"
"I told you who I was." Tommy wrapped his arms around him. "What are you doing?"
"I want a kiss before I can’t hold on to the control. And you just told me I could call you Adam. You didn’t say that’s who you were."
Tommy watched as Adam’s eyes lightened up. And then the smile appeared. God, he was even more beautiful when he smiled.
"You’re entirely too intelligent for your own good." Adam slipped his hands around Tommy, sliding them down Tommy’s back.
Tommy pressed as close to Adam as he could. "Well kiss me, mystery man, before I lose the control I’m fighting for here and then tell me who you really are."
Adam moved his hands down to cup his ass and pressed him in and he closed as his eyes and he felt Adam’s plump lips brush over his. He was having none of that; he opened his mouth and slid his tongue across the seam of Adam’s lips, licking for entrance. He moaned when he tasted Adam’s mouth as it opened and moaned louder still when Adam began sucking on his tongue. And then he had no control as Adam took control of the kiss, teeth cutting into the inside of his mouth from the pressure of Adam’s lips and tongue. Adam pulled him up by his ass, gripping it harder, grinding them into each other. Tommy tore his lips away, gasping for air and then releasing it in a deep moan.
"Tommy…" Adam panted and kissed him again.
Tommy felt dizzy and knew that meant that he wasn’t going to stay lucid during the dream much longer. He had only managed this long due to practicing for the past week while Adam hadn’t visited his dreams. Tommy broke the kiss again. "I’m losing it. Tell me who you are."
Adam looked at him as he felt himself fading back into the dream, losing his lucidity. Just before his command of the dream slipped he heard one word from Adam’s lips.
"Morpheus…"
Tommy snapped his eyes open and sat up in bed. He looked at the clock and saw it was four in the morning. "God damn, Lisa was right."
Adam stood in the shadows of Tommy’s room, watching. It seemed he was always watching. What would happen if he allowed Tommy to see him and finished what they started in the dream world? Would that keep Tommy from what he was fated to do? He didn’t know and wasn’t willing to see the Sisters to find out.
He couldn’t take that chance. Someone else was going to have to take over this assignment. He was going to fuck it up. Still, he couldn’t let it go, could he? He felt that maybe all of this was out of his hands and for once, being the God of Dreams wasn’t going to help him at all.
He faded into grey and stepped on his home land.
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