The Sandman x Reader - Neil Gaiman (Lucifer x you x Dream)

06: He Told Me All My Dreams and Plans Would Unfold

The nights seemed empty, you had no way of changing it, you could no longer lucidly dream and all you could do was sleep. Your mind seemed so full and raging when you woke it was almost sad to see you this way. But it was the way that it was. Because you had crossed a line in the Dreaming and your precious Dream boat was simply punishing you, albeit childishly, but you had to learn some way...

...Even though you didn't understand why you were being punished, let alone that you were being punished in the first place.

However, your days went smoothly, bar for the occassional head pains and amnesia. You might wake up somewhere and not know how you got there or not be able to remember an evening or perhaps even an entire weekend. But you were managing, alone and naiively, but all the same. You were managing.

Meanwhile, in the Dreaming, Morpheus was busying himself with trying to find the true background of yours, tearing the letters from the books as all they were were lies. But Lucienne had grave news for him.
She came waddling in, the way she does as a librarian fae. She lifted up a scroll in a golden tube. "Sir, we have a problem..."

Morpheus hummed, not exactly listening. 

Lucienne sighed and slotted the scroll into the binds of the book resting in her lord's lap. He looked up at her with a confused, annoyed brow but when he looked down at the scroll, his eyes narrowed and seriousness overtook his features.  

He popped the scroll case open and sprinkles, powder and glitter exploded into his face. He coughed, a cloud of stardust pluming from his lips.

Lucienne tried to not smile at the instance.

Morpheus' face, hair and tongue were painted with the glittery substances. He peeled his eyes open and blinked. <<Delirium, of course.>> He tutted.

He read the scroll, seeing the small doodles of dragons and dinosaurs, one even had the horn of a unicorn but he chose not to address its incomprehensible impossibilities. Instead, he read the jumble of words. He then tilted it upside down and read down the spine. It read, ''Your precious human has become my victim.'' There were lots of letters after that he assumed was Delirium trying to write out the sound effects of her clapping excitedly.

His brows furrowed and he sighed. <<Lucienne... I must attend something right away. You will be well to look after things here while I am gone, yes?>>

"Of course, my lord. If I may speak out of term, what could be so important to leave your throne once more?" She asked, worry in her features.

<<I created a problem and... I shall be the one to fix it.>> Morpheus explained boldly as he strode away and slipped through a whirling portal of sand.

Lucienne sighed tiredly and plucked the scroll from the floor, tried to read it but could make very little sense out of it. She discarded with the other mail within Morpheus' pigeonhole. She picked up the books on you and furrowed her brows as she whispered through uncosnciously clenched teeth, "I wonder what you were doing with these books, my lord?" She realsied how some of it seemed changed. She chose not to involve herself however as she saw how concentrated Lord Morpheus was while trying to achieve whatever it was he was aiming for.

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Dream appeared in the realm of the Waking to watch over the being he had so desired to find, there you sat in a kitchen diner with a cup of (least fav drink) sipping on it like your life depended on it. Dream took note of the way how one of your hands seemed to be trying to fight for the mug, trying to take it away from the other. His brows furrowed in pure confusion and intrigue.