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Avalon Jordan ([info]bluelantern) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2010-06-02 19:35:00


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Entry tags:inactive - avalon, inactive - henry jordan, inactive - josh casey, inactive - katima sers, plot - "dream a little dream"

I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
Backdated to May 28th

He waited until she was sleeping, until he could find Katima. Stuck in the Dreamtime the way he was, Avalon was all but helpless in that place. He couldn't leave for he was trapped, he couldn't move around in the Dreamtime due to being tied up.. but one thing that he could do was use his rather unique powers to find his lover and go to her through her dreams.

Unable to control someone's dreams himself, Dreamwalking was always a risk for him. If he managed to walk into a nightmare, he could be hurt - it had happened in the past. He could only hope that Katima wasn't troubled while she slept. Not sure what situation he might find himself, he slipped into her dream and then hung back a bit, waiting to see what he might find.


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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 10:52 pm UTC (link)
Katima rarely had nightmares. She had heated dreams--most featuring Alerron--but she also had simple dreams as well, calming dreamscapes where she often found herself retreating just to be still. This night was one such night and as Avalon slipped into her dream he found himself in a vast field of blue and pink flowers. It wouldn't take him long to realize this was Korugar. Katima was dreaming of home. He would find her lying on her back in the field, looking up at the vast blue sky though she felt him, just on the edges of her awareness and her dark head turned and looked to where he had just entered her dream.

"Avalon?"

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 10:57 pm UTC (link)
"Katima.." he said softly as he went over to her side and sat down next to her in the grass. "This is a beautiful place.. are we on Korugar?"

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 10:59 pm UTC (link)
"In so much as you ever really are anywhere in your dreams other than where your body rests, but yes." She smiled. "Just down that hill is my parents' house and to the left, way off in the distance is the city. This is my favorite place, between home and the unknown." She moved closer to him. "What are you doing here? I was getting ready to come look for you. The boys are frightened."

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 11:03 pm UTC (link)
"I'm not anywhere that they will be able to find me," said Avalon sadly. Unable to quite deny the urge, he tugged Kat into his arms and hugged her tightly. He was afraid, though he wasn't sure he could explain to her in a way that she would understand.

"I came to try and tell you where I am.. but I don't know if it'll work. You may not remember." he then said in just as sad of a tone.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 11:07 pm UTC (link)
"Try. I...tend to write my dreams down the instant I wake up and I usually get a lot of details down." She hugged him equally as tightly. "We can't wake you up, Avalon and I don't have to be Josh to know your body won't last forever that way. Tell me where you are. I'll find you."

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 11:11 pm UTC (link)
Sighing out a breath, Avalon leaned in towards Katima and simply clung to her. "Whenever you dream, you go to another realm." he explained, "That realm is called the Dreamtime. We're actually in the Dreamtime now, but.. I'm elsewhere in that realm."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 11:15 pm UTC (link)
She took what he was saying in and closed her eyes as she tried to build a new version of reality within her mind so that she could place this idea of Dreamtime logically into scope.

"Where in Dreamtime are you? How do I get there?"

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 11:22 pm UTC (link)
"It's.. not so much a place as.. a realm." he tried to explain. "Malicor has me in some area that he's either created or taken over - I can't tell. When I leave here, I'll go back to being in a box.. wherever he put me." Avalon said. He lifted up a hand, and long fingers trailed over Katima's features with open affection. "I don't know how you can get there from the waking world, save by going to sleep.. But unless you have some sort of control over your dreams.. I don't know how you might find me." he drew in a breath, "I'm afraid, Katima. Malicor intends to kill me, but I think he's using me as bait."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 11:25 pm UTC (link)
"Malicor. Henry's right." The crimson-skinned girl shuddered, though it wasn't certain if it were the mention of Malicor or Avalon's touch that caused the reaction. She did, however, press her face into his hand before moving to nuzzle her cheek to his.

"Have you ever heard of lucid dreaming, Avalon?"

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 11:29 pm UTC (link)
Shaking his head, Avalon said softly "No, not under those terms. Is it anything like mindful dreaming?" he asked. "Where.. you're able to control what you are doing?"

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 11:31 pm UTC (link)
"That's exactly what it is. You are in a state where you are aware that you are dreaming and can control things. That's how I dream, more often than not. I'm doing it now, which is why the flowers are blue and pink instead of yellow and orange." She kissed his cheek very softly. "Take me with you to where Malicor is keeping you hostage, Avalon. Please."

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 11:34 pm UTC (link)
"I.. I can't." said Avalon with a bit of a whine to his voice. He was quickly becoming more frantic. "I can only Dreamwalk.. I can visit you but I can not take you with me."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 11:37 pm UTC (link)
She thought about this a moment.

"Then I can follow you. Remember how you showed me to block? I can also attach. Dreamwalk or no, you are still a spiritual entity. And if I attach, I will follow. I'll just choose when to let go."

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-02 11:46 pm UTC (link)
"We can try." he replied softly, though he seemed unsure. "I hope that you can attach yourself to me." he then said softly. "I'm scared, Katima.. He's mad.. I think that he's planning something horrible. He's been kidnapping people from my homeworld..."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-02 11:51 pm UTC (link)
"Hey. Don't be afraid. We'll find you and we'll get you out of there. You and everyone else. No matter what, okay?" She framed his face with both of her hands and looked into his eyes. "Please don't be scared, my love. Please. It's going to be okay. I won't let anything terrible happen to you. I won't."

Kat took a deep breath and even in his dreamwalking state, he'd feel her coiling herself around him spiritually.

"I want you to try to come to me in my next dream as well. Just in case I miss details. Promise me you'll try and promise me you'll believe, that you'll hope."

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-03 12:04 am UTC (link)
"I will always hope," replied Avalon as a smile came to his lips. "It's not so much myself that I'm worried about, but the others.. I don't know what he plans to do, I wish that I knew more.. He's not really given me any good clues, he's generally too busy gloating over me. But I do believe, Katima.. ANd I always hope. Those are the two things that I can't seem to stop doing until after I draw my last breath."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-03 12:05 am UTC (link)
"Good. Now. Take me with you. If we're lucky I not only will remember this in detail but I'll stay partially attached to you so you won't be alone."

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-03 12:24 am UTC (link)
Ava gave Katima a gentle smile, and then went to twine their fingers together, his palm pressed to her own. Going to stand, he closed his eyes and took a big deep breath before he said softly, "Hold on.."

The world around them shifted and then fell away like smoke, and Avalon's hand just tightened around Katima's. "I.. I'm not sure what will happen when we get back to me.." he confided.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-03 12:32 am UTC (link)
As the world dropped away Katima's resolve settled and she tightened her grip on Avalon's hand.

"Neither am I, but we'll figure it out. Nothing to worry about."

Outside dreams, Katima's feet kicked a little bit, her body recognizing that they were headed into uncharted territory.

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-03 12:50 am UTC (link)
Avalon lead the way, though as they got farther into things, the progress got slower.. and harder. Gritting his teeth some, Avalon's hand tightened around Katima's and he clung for what seemed dear life.

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[info]lantern_rogues
2010-06-03 01:00 am UTC (link)
What... was this? Malicor watched as Avalon's spiritual self (whom he couldn't contain) tried to cross back into the cell that he had the Naltorian's self locked within.

Feeling the rage well within him, Malicor sneered at the daring of the aliens before him and used his Orange ring to create a wall. He tried to erect it between Avalon and Katima, trapping one on each side.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-03 01:03 am UTC (link)
"It's okay. I'm getting all of this. I am." She gritted her own teeth as well. The whole process was far more painful than she had expected but not quite as painful as the sudden presence of a wall slamming up into her hand just where she held to Avalon's.

"AVALON!" She could feel her hand being crushed as she clung to him.

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[info]bluelantern
2010-06-03 01:08 am UTC (link)
"KATIMA!" he screamed back, though his voice was muffled from the orange wall. Squeezing her hand tightly, he clung for what seemed dear life. The weight between their hands increased though, and he felt his fingers slipping.

"You have to go or he'll capture you too!" he then said, his other hand pressing to the wall, his eyes filling with tears. T he last thing Avalon wanted was for someone else to be taken by the madman.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-03 01:12 am UTC (link)
She knew he was right. She was going to have to let go or she too would be trapped and that would certainly not help the situation. Henry and Josh would have no resources with which to find them and Malicor would...win. The thought turned her stomach and reluctantly, she let go.

"I'll be back for you...hang on."

Even as she said the words she could feel herself pulling towards wakefulness and at alarming speed. Her body was trying to get her out of there before anything worse could happen and in the waking world, Katima was thrashing and screaming as her body came to.

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[info]lantern_rogues
2010-06-03 01:15 am UTC (link)
Katima may have been retreating, but that didn't stop her from seeing Malicor's anger as it descended down on Avalon.

Without his ring, Avalon was powerless against someone as strong as Malicor. On the other side of the orange wall, the madman came storming out of the ether, wielding his power with a vengeance. Avalon was banded by several colors of light, and sucked off into the blackness behind him just as quickly as she was retreating. The last thing that Katima might have seen was Malicor's malicious smile.

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[info]lantern_kid
2010-06-03 03:35 am UTC (link)
Henry was at Kat's door, his robe hastily thrown around him, as he checks on his girlfriend as she screamed into the night.

"Kat? Kat, what's wrong? What is it?"

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-03 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Katima hadn't screamed so loudly or so much since her parents were murdered years ago and she'd found the bodies. Getting out of sleep was difficult; Malicor's smile kept trying to pull her back, a sense of duty to go after Avalon even at cost of her own life was exceptionally strong. She kicked and thrashed, sending her hand to the nightstand and THROUGH the glass lamp there.

It was the sharp sting of that pain that woke her up, gasping as she fell from the bed onto the floor and broken glass.

"Malicor...has Avalon."

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[info]healingbug
2010-06-04 12:16 am UTC (link)
Josh isn't far behind Henry, just in pajama pants at the moment. He cringes as he senses Katima's injuries before seeing them and quickly rushes to help her off the broken glass and onto the bed. He then immediately starts to heal her. "I'll have you patched up in just a moment, Kat," he says, clearly concerned.

News about Malicor causes the healer to pause and glance at Henry before looking up at Kat. "Any idea where?" he asks. The healer's worry only increases now as he heals Katima.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-04 12:23 am UTC (link)
"In dreams...he has him in dreams...he's going to kill him..."

Having never been healed of anything before, the whole experience is weird to Katima, especially because there are wounds Josh can't heal, the ones that occurred in Dreamtime. Her hand is sore and she flexes it, wincing.

"I tried to hold on..."

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[info]lantern_kid
2010-06-04 12:35 am UTC (link)
Henry shakes his head. "No, Kat... Ava's in the next room. He's not waking up, but he's there. It was just a dream..."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-04 12:36 am UTC (link)
"No, it's not! Dreams are a real place! Another plane of existence and Avalon is trapped there! That's why we can't wake him up!"

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[info]lantern_kid
2010-06-04 12:40 am UTC (link)
"So... he's trapped in a dream? And Malicor's keeping him trapped there like... Freddy Kreuger or something?"

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[info]healingbug
2010-06-04 12:49 am UTC (link)
Josh's frown only deepens as he listens and tries to make sense of Kat's remaining injuries. Spiritual and mental damages aren't beyond his ability to heal...he just has to know what they are before he can try it and use significantly more power. Right now, still confused and a bit too worried about what he's hearing to have an easy time of figuring it out. The healer lets the lanterns speak uninterrupted though.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-04 12:50 am UTC (link)
"Like who?" Kat looked confused. "Is he a Lantern?"

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[info]lantern_kid
2010-06-04 01:03 am UTC (link)
"Freddy Kreuger!" Henry replies. "Haven't you seen those commercials for the Nightmare on Elm Street remake? He's from a horror movie. Stalks and kills people in their dreams."

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-04 03:08 am UTC (link)
"I have no idea what madness you are talking about, but that's sorta right? Avalon told me that Dreamtime is the actual place we go when we dream. He found me in my dream. Malicor has somehow imprisoned him there. We...we have to go get him."

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[info]lantern_kid
2010-06-04 03:17 am UTC (link)
Henry considers. "How?" he asks seriously.

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[info]compassionate
2010-06-04 03:17 am UTC (link)
"I don't know. Maybe...maybe you and Josh should go find Malicor in the waking while I track him in the dreaming?"

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