hello, dean. what were you dreaming about?

[venatical]

Who: Dean Winchester and you!
When: Day 86-88
Where: Dreamland.
What: Dean goes to sleep with the intention of getting back to that city, which leads to some potential for lucid dreaming! Check the comments for scenarios. If you want something specific, let me know!

Warnings: Blood, light gore, talk of torture.

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The city

[venatical]

The buildings are shiny and strange, totally unfamiliar, and Dean stops abruptly to look around him. This place is wrong, but it feels right too, like he wanted to be here. Now that he is, he's not sure why. Someone walks by him, and Dean watches closely, but he can't see their face; he can't see anyone's face as he turns in a slow circle and spots more people, a few here, one over there.

The way they're walking has him nervous, looking over his shoulder. Whatever they're afraid of, Dean should be afraid of too, right?

day 87

[nevermindtherunning]

When the Doctor opened his eyes, he was shocked to recognize this place. He had been here before with Fortescue! Fingertips traced the crystal walls until looking over and once again seeing a clear figure amongst the blurry.

"Hello?" He turns and walks toward Dean, but realizes the figures were acting different than they had the previous time; like in a hurry or avoidance. Something felt entirely different here.

[venatical]

He hears the voice and turns around. Oh, it's the Doctor. He knows him from that wackadoo blow-up-the-cape plan. Maybe they can blow up the rock candy city together, and Dean will be so disappointed to find out that it isn't, in fact, rock candy.

"Hey," he calls, and then watches as a figure moves away from him. Dean tries to focus on it, whatever it is, but he can't, almost gets a headache trying. The Doctor's easier to focus on, and he needs to give his eyes a rest.

"Guess you climbed the Big Rock Candy Mountain too, huh?" That's right; Dean was trying to get here. He wanted to be here. He has questions about this place.

[nevermindtherunning]

"Not rock candy." The Doctor would know, he licked the wall in hopes to figure out more concrete evidence with what they were dealing with, and yet his answer was inconclusive.

"I've been here before... but the 'people' weren't acting like this. They avoided us like we were a nuisance and walked around us. This time it's like they do know we're here..." He recognized this man also from the cape, and it begged to wonder if something bigger was happening. The Doctor didn't sleep or dream much, but lately he had, and it's been all people from the village.

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It's not made out of candy? That's the most distressing news Dean's heard about that place yet, and he frowns around at the buildings like they've betrayed him.

Wait... This is a place; Dean was trying to get here. He's been here before too, and he thinks there's something suspicious about it, at least if no one's owning up to ever having dreamt about it before. Most of the things he's hopped into, or had someone join up with him, have made some kind of sense. This doesn't.

He turns around, scanning as far as he can into the distance, but it just seems like more of the same.

"They're nervous about something. Can't tell if I'm getting it off of them, or they're just freaking me out. You say you've been here before. You know what this place is? I'm trying to figure out whose dream this is supposed to be."

[nevermindtherunning]

"No, I don't." The Doctor's eyes narrow, as his mouth remains open - clearly his 'lost in thought' look.

"I've been to a similar place before, Midnight. Diamond-based geology, sapphire waterfalls, but you couldn't see any of it with the naked eye. You'd go blind. But this is different... Perhaps still in the Xion star system, but I'd have to have the TARDIS to look that up."

He watches as more people quickly pass, "I wonder why we're seeing this place."

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"Got me. I think I was trying to get back here tonight, but I know this isn't the first time I've been, and I know other people have come here too. And if it's no one's dream, then how'd it get here? So far I haven't hopped into anyone's dream without knowing whose it was eventually."

He tries to approach one of the figures, but they move past him and he's left watching them, then turning around again to see if he can see anything else here -- anything at all -- but it's all the same.

"Do you think this is something we're supposed to see, or do you think it's something that slipped in through the cracks?"

[nevermindtherunning]

There's an inhale as the Doctor rubs his nose and finally looks back over to Dean, "Knowing this place, Cape Kore, I think it's something they want us to see. They being those bloody scientists. I don't dream, not normally, so this is more than 'slipping through the cracks' in my book."

He vaguely wondered if he thought hard enough, he could make the TARDIS appear, and he wished he could, but it really wouldn't make a difference. The Doctor was growing really tired really fast of these games.

[venatical]

"Yeah. There's a lot of that going around, actually," he says thoughtfully, thinking about Cas and the other angels.

"Well, they sure don't make it easy for us to figure out what the hell this is supposed to mean."