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"They called you Zombie Boy after I took you," Henry murmured, "didn't they? You came back from the dead, and left something in the dark, in the grave dirt. Something that made you healthy."
Slowly, Will's outstretched hand cupped Mike's jaw. Henry made Will hold him lightly, hardly grazing the skin. He stretched one of Will's fingers out to trace his nail through Mike's face, and though Will had imagined holding Mike an endless amount of times, none of them had gone like this. He'd never wanted to hold Mike like this.
"Let him go," said Will, voice thick with emotion. "You can take what you want from me, you don't need him—"
"But you do," said Henry. "You need him."
When Henry starts to visit Will in his dreams, Mike starts getting inexplicable injuries. The stranger Mike acts— the more time he spends with Will, the more Will catches him staring, the more Mike dismisses the bruises and cuts scattered across his skin— the more Will starts to wonder whether Henry is right about him.
Maybe Henry did give Will a disease, back in the Upside Down. Maybe, as he dreams, Will passes that disease on to Mike, too.
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05 Jan 2026
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"Jon, this isn't—you know you're awake right now, right?"
Jon laughs, low and mirthless.
"No, I'm not."
You—you are, though. This is real, this isn't a dream." Martin gives a small, nervous laugh. "I—I know it feels a bit like one, after everything, but—"
"Yes, it is," Jon says, with absolute certainty. "This is a dream. It has to be."
"Why?"
Jon looks at Martin then, with such sadness and longing in his eyes that Martin can barely stand to hold his gaze. "I wouldn't be here with you otherwise."--
Martin knows that they can't stay here at Upton, that being disconnected from the Eye is affecting Jon. But one more night, he thinks--just one more night can't hurt.
He's wrong.
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03 Feb 2025
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His shirt sticks to his chest and his armpits once he pulls it back on. It’s too heavy, and he nearly stumbles over when trying to get up. More sand has somehow gathered in his shoes, so he kicks them off and swears when it creeps between his toes and underneath his nails and beneath the scrapes on his feet. Sand sticks the ends of his shorts to his knees. The cuts from tripping burn, and he’s read up something about getting sand in cuts in the past but isn’t going to think about it this early. It hurts, but these days, he always hurts.
There is more of him in Logstedshire than there is Logstedshire in him. There’s no spirit left in him to make a flag. He’s left behind more pieces of skin and hair; a chip of one of his canines; small pieces of fabric from his shirt than he can count.
Logstedshire isn’t a happy place, and it isn’t a place for someone like him.
The longer he stays in exile, the longer it chips away at him. There's something wrong with Dream. Tommy keeps seeing his brother at night. Someone is waiting for him out in the woods, winter days keep getting longer, and there's something in the water.
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16 Jun 2022
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Dream comes back this time.
Divergence from the dead don’t dream, chapter 22. Not considered canon to the story, just a very sad “what if?” If you are content with the ending of tddd, do not feel the need to read this! It is not a sequel, it is not essential, nor does it contribute to the closed story I have made.
If you just came for the angst and the bloodshed, go wild that’s all this is <3
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14 Mar 2022
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There’s something wrong with Tommy. Dream will help him figure out what.
Or: Dream starts testing the revive book on Tommy in exile.
Apparently Apollo has cursed me.
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