My Sunset

Steve Buscemi x Danny Devito

Steve's POV

Day 47 in the Void

Danny,
Another week has gone by. I hope you're doing well. Tom says soon, someone will join the Void and someone will leave. He says he can't tell me who. It's classified. I'm trying something tonight. I'm going to try and lucid dream so I can see you, touch you. I hope to God it works. I'm desperate babe. Not much happened today. Tom and I tried a different game today; chess. I won. He wasn't very happy. Love you.

Steve.

I put away my journal solemnly. I realized as I read my own writing I was getting careless and depressed. I didn't even sign off the entry with 'Love, Steve'. Just 'Steve'. I sighed and made my way over to Tom. There weren't any cards on the table. I look at him with a puzzled expression on my face.

"Ah, Steven. I thought you might like a bit of free time today. I brought you some activities." He gestured towards the spread of craft supplies, CDs, movies, board games, thread, coloring books, markers, crayons, and books on a larger table to his left. I smiled and walked over to the table. I took the copy of Hercules he had on DVD from the table and showed it to him. He gestured to the right this time to reveal a small living room that looked familiar. It was me and Danny's living room. I smiled again and put the movie in the DVD player and started watching it. I began to cry when I heard Danny's voice in the movie, it had been so long. I watched the movie and played Sorry with Tom before I decided to go to bed early.

I closed my eyes and got comfortable. I thought of Danny and kept telling myself to lucid dream. That's how Tom told me to do it. I repeated the words over and over until I drifted off to sleep.

When I woke up I look around. I wasn't in the Void. I was in a grass field. I looked at the sky. Something about wasn't right. Then I realized.

I was lucid dreaming.

I looked around me and saw him. Danny. Smiling at me. I gasped and ran to him. He wrapped his arms around me. I could feel him. I could touch him. It was amazing.

"Danny. Oh my god Danny, I missed you so much." I cried to him. We fell in the grass and he kissed me, slowly and softly, over and over again.

"I missed you to Steve. Here, look." Danny revealed a small plaid tarp and a basket.

"A picnic?" I asked Danny, who nodded. We walked over and sat down on the grass. Danny unpacked the basket and set down sandwiches, cherries, cheese and crackers, champagne, even some cheesecake. He set out the plates, silverware, and champagne glasses. He popped open the bottle and poured us both some of the drink.

"To my lovely boyfriend, Steve. I love you babe." Danny toasted to me with a grin. We raised our glasses to each other and drank. We sat and ate. We talked and laughed and kissed. It was magical. Then it wasn't. Things slowly stared to fade away from the background. No. No, not yet. Please no. I watched as everything, including Danny, faded away and I woke up.

I screamed and cried. I wasn't ready yet. I missed him so much.

"Steven? You alright?" Tom asked as he walked towards me.

"No. I'm not okay Tom!" I shouted angrily at him. He paused his walking. His eyes got sad.

"Oh. I'm sorry then, I'll leave you alone." Tom sadly started to turn around.

"Wait, Tom I'm sorry. Come back." I beckoned him over. He walked over and sat on the edge of the bed.

"I miss someone too you know." Tom stared blankly at the floor, then to me.

"Who?" I asked.

"His name was Benedict. He was the love of my life. We were going to get married. We we're  engaged. But then one, damned day I woke up here. A man explained to me that I was chosen to be the new Void Master. I told him I didn't want to, I had to get back to Benedict. But he said it wasn't his choice and I had no other option." I watched a tear roll down Tom's cheek. The one tear turned into violent sobbing.

"Oh Tom, it's alright." I said gently. He nodded.

"It's been 6 years. I miss him terribly. I wonder if he's moved on. Or if he wonders what happened to me." Tom cried to me. We cried and cried until Tom ended up crying himself to sleep on my bed. I didn't know he slept. I covered him with a blanket carefully and went back to the Void version of me and Danny's living room and watched a couple of movies before I fell asleep again myself.