20 Works in Protective Death of the Endless
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Dreams may never die but Dream himself fears he has a short time left of his existence upon returning back home after his unexpected reunion with his son. The Kindly Ones will soon arrive but not with news Dream was expecting.
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- Part 2 of The Seventh Kingdom
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de las estrellas que admiré, yo no escogí sino la que yo amaba by crownedbysunfyre
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Game of Thrones (TV)
21 Jun 2025
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La herida del cuello comenzó a cerrarse, lentamente y casi con crueldad. La carne se movía, palpitaba, se buscaba a sí misma como raíces encontrándose en la oscuridad. Los bordes sangrantes se unieron, hilados por una fuerza que no era magia ni mano humana. Donde antes hubo muerte, ahora había piel limpia.
El hombre inspiró. Regresaba de la muerte, volvía a la vida, frente a los ojos incrédulos de los norteños, gente de frío y cuentos llenos de imposibilidades, que no podían dar razón a lo que sus ojos veían.
Y en ese instante, la nieve volvió a caer.
O: Jason vuelve a la vida por segunda vez entre la nieve y un árbol extraño, desnudo y rodeado de desconocidos, y no hay vuelta atrás.
Robb, en consecuencia, vive.
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- Part 5 of jason todd across the universes
- Part 17 of for what, for whom, must i kill and be killed?
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to be something Death can touch by vibrantnymph
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
11 Jun 2024
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Jenny Green has really been through it since she started letting apartment rooms to truant teenage girls and their dead boy detective friends.
Death decides to drop in to see how Jenny is coping with all the near-encounters with Herself.
She isn't. Coping, that is.
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'Oh someone tell me why I'm alive, I don't even pray And yet, I have been saved' by Maelstrom22
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
08 Jun 2024
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On the 7th of June in 1389, a man drunkenly mocks Death, and for some reason known only to her, she grants his wish to never die.
This is how Hob Gadling found out he was immortal.
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It was uncommon for demons to find themselves in the living world. And if they did, they were extremely solitary beings. Thankfully, that attribute made them easier to deal with. Not to say exorcizing and banishing them was easy, per say, but it was better than if there were multiple.
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- Part 71 of Traumatized Dead Boys
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Despite all of the busy days they had, the agency sometimes just took a day off to enjoy life. They weren’t often, about once or twice a month, but it was their favorite day. Sometimes they’d just sit around the office playing games and watching movies, others they’d hit the town and explore.
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- Part 61 of Traumatized Dead Boys
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There’s not much use thinking about those times, anymore. He will always be Hob Gadling, but the biggest part of what that used to entail had stormed away on a rainy night like this one hundred and thirty years ago, and hadn’t come back.
Hob remembers the ache in his chest in 1989. He remembers the glow of the pub, so much warmer than the pale light cutting across the alley now. He remembers staring at that empty chair for hours—first with anxiety, then with concern, and eventually with bitterness.
“You dare suggest one such as I might need your companionship.”
Hob had dared, and he’d paid for it.
He’d walked out of that pub in 1989 and not looked back.
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It's 2020, and Hob Gadling is old, tired, and bitter, dancing the waltz of London's underground black market. Word has spread about something from the Burgess Estate going to auction, and who is Hob to deny himself and his team the opportunity to get their hands on it?
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Isn’t it poetic that Dream will die of Hanahaki Disease of all things? He's always been one for metaphors, daydreams, poetry… It is the most fitting death for a soul like his. And yet, it does not feel fair.
The first time the tattoo artist called Dream spoke to the flower shop owner called Robert 'Hob' Gadling, he only had insults and threats for the man with a warm smile. Now that Dream's heart beats for Gadling, Hob won't even look at him without a glare. Their only interactions are filled with insults and screaming, and even though Dream has made an effort to change, Hob hates him with passion. There is no chance Hob will ever reciprocate his feelings, and so all Dream can do is enjoy the remaining months of his life and, ironically, finally live his life to the fullest.
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- Part 1 of Ink and Thorns
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"I was taken, against my will. A plot -by a nightmare I created- to keep me caged. For a century I was locked away, my tools of office, stolen. I am powerless now. Powerless save for that stone," Dream laments.
Hob looks from the Endless to the necklace welled on his palm, a defeated, heart-stricken understanding pulling on his features.
"To get your power back you need to destroy it," he echoes, voice weak.
"Destroy me."
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Dream of the Endless finds himself free of Fawney Rig and without his tools of office. Powerless and with no dreams left in his kingdom to siphon power from, he must turn to the only remaining source, the artefact he fashioned to keep Hob Gadling young.
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The Kindly Ones come for her brother.
Death says no.
(A fix it of sorts containing major spoilers for the comics)
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- Part 12 of Sandman Fics
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Though the binding circle had been broken and he once again needed not to breath or eat or drink, he felt…off. Heavy in a way he had not experienced before. Even when he changed his shape, his form felt like it was being dragged down, his eyes burned like he was going to cry, and his head pounded like a feral animal was trying to escape it.
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His time at Fawney Rig left Dream of the Endless much more weary than he'd expected. After his battle with Lucifer, he meets once again with Death, who's big sister instincts kick in.
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Chairs on the table, lights out by meirkive
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
14 Jun 2023
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It had happened all so suddenly; she was crossing the street with her father and another girl, when the car turned the corner at breakneck speed; madly, fatally.
Her father had grabbed her by the arm with a shout and they managed to get out of the way just in time. The other woman didn't.
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Mr. Sandman (Dream Me A Dream (BAHM BAHM BUM)) by d3cafblu3b3rri3s
Fandoms: DCU (Comics), The Sandman (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, The Sandman (TV 2022), Enola Holmes (Movies), Addams Family - All Media Types, Supernatural (TV 2005)
11 Jun 2023
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Jack and Janet Drake are bad parents. We know this, you know this. Why else would they leave their child home alone with Morpheus' bag of sand?
John Constantine: I have this weird magic sand
Jack and Janet: Oooooh
Tim, left alone with the bag of sand: ??
Morpheus, coming for his sand: Who has taken my san- Hello child are your parents home
Tim: No
Morpheus: Well, you're mine nowSeries
- Part 1 of The God Parents of Tim Drake
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The green-eyed Monster which doth mock by MissAlrauna
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
02 May 2023
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You had always felt secure in your relationship with Dream, had never doubted his love and loyalty to you.
Until the day a witch entered the Dreaming.Series
- Part 14 of Sweet Dreams
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A Son Returned by Ahsoka_can_step_on_me
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
18 Apr 2023
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After a battle a child is caught in the crossfire and killed, the dead kids dad is an occultist a very angry occultist.
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Hope is a Waking Dream by locamohita456
Fandoms: The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
21 Feb 2023
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The relationship between Desire and Dream has always been tenuous, but Desire wonders if, after their ill-fated trip to Hell, things are broken beyond fixing. A family dinner and revelations finally force the two siblings to talk.
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- Part 5 of Come and Save Me from It
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Light at the End of a Tunnel by locamohita456
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
16 Feb 2023
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Almost two years after Desire repaired their heart and assumed their position as an Endless again, they venture outside of their realm. But some revelations and surprising meetings threaten to upset the tentative peace they have painstakingly achieved.
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- Part 4 of Come and Save Me from It
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Linger in the Cold by locamohita456
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
04 Feb 2023
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After the Endless family banded together and rescued Desire from their captors, the journey to healing can start. But considering everything that had happened in the last 100 years, the road to recovery is much more difficult than anyone thought.
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- Part 2 of Come and Save Me from It
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[Podfic] who wants to live forever? by ambivalently_certain for ranchdiip
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
05 Oct 2022
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“An Endless?” Hob asks, softly, because it feels like a question that needs to be soft.
“That’s what we are,” Death responds, trying again for a small smile. “Me and D—”
“Don’t,” Hob interrupts, far stronger than he meant to, and Death looks surprised for as long as it takes him to get out, “Don’t, please. I-I want to hear it from him.”
Sympathy colors Death’s gaze even as Hob feels his face burn. Six hundred years, Hob thinks—he’ll be damned if he finds out his Stranger’s name from anyone but the odd man himself.
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It's 1989 and Hob Gadling thinks he's been stood up. Death herself is kind enough to inform him otherwise—and, well, now Hob's got to bloody do something about it, doesn't he?
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“An Endless?” Hob asks, softly, because it feels like a question that needs to be soft.
“That’s what we are,” Death responds, trying again for a small smile. “Me and D—”
“Don’t,” Hob interrupts, far stronger than he meant to, and Death looks surprised for as long as it takes him to get out, “Don’t, please. I-I want to hear it from him.”
Sympathy colors Death’s gaze even as Hob feels his face burn. Six hundred years, Hob thinks—he’ll be damned if he finds out his Stranger’s name from anyone but the odd man himself.
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It's 1989 and Hob Gadling thinks he's been stood up. Death herself is kind enough to inform him otherwise—and, well, now Hob's got to bloody do something about it, doesn't he?