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The rest of the night passes quickly, and soon Hope find herself in bed, fast asleep

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The rest of the night passes quickly, and soon Hope find herself in bed, fast asleep... until Eli stands before her in the glow of the sunset, ocean waves lapping at her feet...The two of them seem like the only living things on Earth.

He reaches for her... fingers out. "Hope, is that you?"

Hope looks around confused. "Am I... really here?" As the words spill languidly off her tongue, she realized Eli and her are dreaming.

Lockwood merely smiles. "You are here to me."
She looks down at her hands... if she tried, maybe she could move them... control this dream...? "Stay with me, Hope. We can be here... Together." Hope reaches for Eli, realizing that she has control of herself, despite knowing that she's dreaming. She touches his cheek, and his skin feels warm and soft... alive... "You are so beautiful, Hope..." she reaches for him, and then......Hope is tangled in silk sheets beside her in a beautiful bedroom. Rolling across the bed towards Eli, he find her, surprisingly, naked... The fabric glides across Hope's skin in radiant luxury...."

Hope smiles, knowing this is the kind of dream she's never experienced this before. Lucid dreaming no less. At least she thinks it is. "This is gonna take some getting used to."

Eli smiles back at her. "You deserve to live like this all the time."

"Aside from my home in New Orleans, I've never been anywhere this gorgeous in real life." Hope replied.

Hope reaches for Eli again, but instead of silk sheets, she rolls through soft meadow grass... with Lockwood, beside her, and is now a black-furred wolf...Dandelion fluff sticks endearingly to his fur... "Hff hff..."

She leans in to lick him... when Mikaelson realized she's a wolf too! A white furred wolf. "Arrr!"

"Aroo!" Howled Eli, as he takes off, bounding across the meadow... and Hope leaps to her feet, chasing after him with joy in her heart...

"Awrrff!" (Hope made that sound)

"Arrooo!" Eli howled again. Hope could run like this forever.. As she sees Eli before her, she leaps onto his back, pinning him to the ground. Together she rolls over and over down a hill... "Rrruuff!"

And then they're both human again, naked and entwined in front of a roaring fireplace. Hope is taken aback by this. "Everything keeps changing..."

"Dreams are abstract. But this-- you and I -- are real." Eli's hands rake up Hope's bare back, making her shiver. "We can be together here as long as we wish. We're free to do whatever we want..." Hope rolls atop Eli, straddling his hips, and lean down until her mouth hovers above his... "Hope..." He waits for her with eager anticipation, but she let only a ghost of a touch skate over his skin... Eli's voice drops low and vulnerable and... hopeful. "You feel so real, and yet I know I'm dreaming... Are you really here with me, Hope?" Eli groans and takes Hope into his arms, reversing her positions so that she is beneath him, his hands roaming her naked skin eagerly. He leans in to kiss her.

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