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Astro always seems to know when he's dreaming. In fact he's dreaming right now.

He's in the lobby. But instead of the empty quiet place he grew to knew. There were people there, wondering around and talking to one another. Smaller humans came up to him, poked him, pulled on his hat saying that he looked so cool. It was kinda overwhelming. Across the room he saw Dandy. He was running around playing with the smaller humans. He looked like he was having fun.

Dandy spotted him and waved.

Astro waved back.

The dream then shifts to him and Dandy sitting in a playroom talking with one another. Astro was rubbing his eyes and Dandy took notice.

"Hey buddy, you okay?"

"Oh! I'm fine no need to worry."

"But you've been rubbing your eyes a lot lately and that doesn't seem normal."

"...."

"Astro you can tell me anything."

"The photos....."

"Hm?"

"When they take pictures of me. It hurts my eyes and makes me uncomfortable."

"Oh I'm so sorry. Hey I could ask the workers to tell people to stop."

"R-really?"

"Yes of course! Anything for my best friend!"

"Will they even listen?"

"Yup. They always listen to my requests!"

He was right. The employees always seemed to listen to Dandy when he asked him something. The flower could get away with almost anything. But he only does so if his friends needed it. That's what made him so amazing.

The dreams shifts again. Astro is standing in front of a rule sign. And one of the new rules on there said:
No photos around Astro.

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Astro wakes up. He yawns as he sits up....

Wait something doesn't feel right. He can't feel the bed under him. In fact he couldn't feel anything around him. He looks around finding himself floating in the air, head almost touching the ceiling. He lets out a panic scream flapping in arms around and kicking his legs in a panic.

The door to the bedroom is kicked open and Dandy runs in with a wrench in his hand.

"Where's the danger! Did something happen?! Did a raccoon get in?!" The flower looks up to see the flouting moon.

"Oh hey, you can still do your magic."

"My what?!"

"Ohhhh right you don't remember that..."

"How do I get down?"

"I don't know, I don't have magic!"

"And I didn't know I had magic!"

"Ok let's calm down. Try to reach out to me."

Astro took a few breaths and tried reaching out towards Dandy. Two of his hands met with the flowers. He was still in the air and he wasn't sure how to get down.

"See. I got you." Dandy said with a smile. That seemed to calm the moon down enough that he floated to the ground.

Astro sighed. "Can you tell me what just happened?"

"Oh right. Uhhh well oh god how do I explain this? You see when you were made you were given the ability to do magic. You could do all sorts of things. Floating, making things float, putting people to sleep, light shows, dream walking, and so much more. But after everything that's happened I thought you'd might of lost the ability to do magic."

"Well I guess I didn't...."

"I know! That makes me so happy! You used to love doing magic."

Astro looked down at his hand. He wasn't sure how he felt about this. Magic? Was he not able to do it before staying with Dandy? Makes him wonder what made him forget. He wonders a lot these days. The he realized something.

"Wait did you say dream walking?"

"Yeah."

"What's that?"

"Oh. Well you would go into people's dreams sometimes and make sure they were not having nightmares and stuff."

"Can that count for me as well? Like can I be aware that I am in a dream?"

"Yes....? Why you asking?"

"Well.... Uh I think I can do that now? Maybe?"

"Really! That's great!"

That's when the two realized that they were still holding hands. They quickly let go and Dandy looked away in embarrassment. Astro never understood why Dandy did this sometimes. His face would get red would turn away in embarrassment. Maybe it was a flower thing?

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Dandy continues to fiddle with his hands. He looks over at Astro who has fallen back asleep. The flower smiles his moonlight looks so peaceful sleeping.

The flower had feelings for the moon for years now. It started to happen when he noticed himself staring at the moon for too long, then he started getting jealous when Astro was hanging out with someone else. He didn't know what was wrong with him. Their cartoon counterparts were just friends so they also should be just friends.

Right?

Dandy would lay on his bed for hours thinking that there was something wrong with him. He should not feel this way. He should not like Astro more than just a best friend. Should he tell someone about this? Probably. But definitely not a human worker or his handler. So he told the one person he knew who would 100% keep this to herself.

Teagan.

He had told the teacup his problem to her on one of their private tea party's. She gave him a small smile and told him that it was okay for him to like someone more than a friend.

"But the cartoon...."

"Who says that you have to be like the guy on tv?"

"You know.... Everyone. They expect me to be the star of the show. They expect me to be perfect."

"Dandy. You are not perfect, nobody is but that's ok. All you need to be is you. The real you"

Dandy smiled, yeah she was right. Teagan always had a way with words. She then told him ways he could tell Astro how he felt about him.

The sad part is that he never did tell him in time. He never managed to tell the moon how he felt about him. He was too late.

Looking back on it now he still wishes he could have said something. But now the moon barely remembers that they are friends and telling him that Dandy likes him would probably make the moon uncomfortable. Besides romance is something they don't need at the moment.

What they need is to survive.


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Ha angst and fluff we love it.

Teagan is a queen


Also there is someone down below who can still remember the past as they have not fully twisted yet. I wonder who 😏

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