when you wake
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


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#1
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
Remi isn't in the wagon. That much is clear enough by the smell. This lazy bit of knowledge doesn't rouse him from sleep just yet. Remi has awoken in Ronin's bed a number of times unintentionally since discovering his new magic, and the uncomfortable bed beneath him and the warm body at his side tell him that its happened again.

Soothed by the knowledge that across the world a certain fox who has been apprised of this new ability won't panic when he finds Remi gone, the alchemist just moves himself closer to the body next to his. His arms move to wrap around the Star's torso as he shifts to properly spoon his husband. Ronin is normally the big spoon, but Remi doesn't mind at all reversing their roles. With his cheek against the hollow of Ronin's ear and the dull light he can sense through his eyelids, the alchemist is quite sure they have time to doze for another hour or so at least.

Or perhaps not doze; there's nothing quite like lazy, sleepy morning sex with the Star to start the day off properly. This is where Remi's thoughts have gone as he lets himself fall back to sleep.
The Lullaby
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Finn Rosencrantz


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#2
awareness is the enemy of sanity
Finn has come full circle, or so it feels. He no longer possesses the frenetic energy of the sick, and nor is he filled with a wash of hopefulness and spirit. His misplaced confidence gone, his thirst for travel and change similarly snuffed out. Since his apparent mishap with his medicine, the Spyglass has returned to his books and his research, retreating back into the shell that holds his sanity. And it was one of those nights where a sleeping aid is necessary, and so wakefulness does not come for him easily this morning.

But blankets around him begin to feel heavier and heavier, like ropes enircling him, pressed around his waist and against his ear, and his brows furrow as he tries to drag himself to full consciousless. His lips part to release a sigh - there's something not right about this, and he knows it. He knows it but he cannot quite get to it--

Strong arms dragging him back, the press of flesh against him, sour breath across his face. Bruises and pain, pain for pleasure, pain and nothing else until--

Finn gasps and flinches away, and were it not for the body wrapped around him, he'd have propelled himself right out of bed. But he can't, he's trapped, and hands desperately claw to rid himself of the thing shrouding him.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
Remi Taliesin
the Bastion


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#3
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
Remi feels Ronin's hands flailing against him, but rather than be alerted to what has clearly gone horribly wrong, he instead smirks into a head of dark hair. "Normally I'm the one who does the clawing, but alright." He mumbles sleepily and sweetly. "And if you're late for something, you can just tell them that something came up." Of course this is where Remi's strength all too easily keeps the man in this bed near to him as his hips thrust gently forward, pressing a good morning erection against the man in his arms.

Now, you might at this point be wondering how it is that Remi hasn't realized that Finn, whose body type is a laughable approximation of Ronin, isn't Ronin. The answer is simply: Remi is tired and starved for the realness of physical contact.

However as both Remi's mind and magic become more awake, he feels the spools of terror and disgust as they unwind from a mind that bears no resemblance at all to the Star. Blinking his eyes open and seeing dark curls where a boyish mop of hair should be, Remi instantly stiffens and releases the body next to his.
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Finn Rosencrantz


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#4
awareness is the enemy of sanity
It's a sound of quiet and complete distress that rakes up through Finn's chest, escaping behind clenched teeth as the body (because it is a body, he realises with horrifying clarity) presses further against him. His attempts to fight and claw away die there and then; Finn retreats far into himself, somewhere he can try and wake himself from what must surely be a nightmare. Bile burns at the back of his throat and tears sting his eyes; he barely recognises the voice in his ear, but it's enough to rip open wounds he's not even aware were ever healed.

Then the arms release him and Finn is out of bed like a fleeing animal, though he doesn't get far. There's not much in his stomach at this time of the morning, but rest assured what is there is emptied, sour and acrid, onto the floorboards beside the bed. "Oh, gods," he retches, collapsing onto his side and simultaneously trying to scrabble away.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
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#5
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
Remi's body has already thrown up once in response to intrusive thoughts of Finn, and despite the smell of sick that wafts up like a slap to his senses, the alchemist is racked by shock which keeps his stomach twisted and stone-like in his belly. "Oh my gods—" Remi manages as he scrambles in the opposite direction of Finn. There's hardly room between the bed and the wall, but the alchemist finds a way to fit himself in it, as he stumbles toward the end of the bed and the ladder that will take him down.

Or maybe he'll jump and twist an ankle. At least that will give him something else to think above over and above having just rubbed his morning wood against Finn of all people.

"—I didn't mean to—" He stammers through dry lips, green eyes frantically darting around for whatever he might grab to cover himself with. This being Finn's room, the closest thing is of course a book, which he shoves against his erection hard enough to make his toes curl in slight agony.
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#6
awareness is the enemy of sanity
The periphery of his vision is little more than blurred shadow, and Finn manages to press his back quite firmly against the wall as Remi scrambles in the opposite direction. What are you doing here? he wants to ask as he realises with a new clench to his guts just who has sidled up to him in the middle of the night (or whenever the Lullaby snuck into bed with him, who knows). What do you want? Why won't you leave me alone?

But it's all Finn can do to merely gasp for a breath that seems to get more difficult to catch with every inhale, and his fingers spasm against his knees. "Don't--" he manages as Remi starts to grab at things; it's bad enough that he'll never be able to sleep up here again, let alone having to move apartments completely.

"Think I'm gonna pass out," he mumbles, as if it's happening to someone else.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
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#7
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
"Okay, I'm sure I don't smell that bad.." Remi begins, his boyish frivolity still turned up to a level that only Ronin would appreciate in the midst of a crisis. Quickly the alchemist realizes that Finn isn't joking, and despite the gulf of things between Spyglass and Lullaby that push them away from one another, Remi drops the book and rushes across the bed. It's an elegant movement, speaking of controlled strength and pure instinct—not that there was anyone around to appreciate it—as Remi all but flies to Finn's side.

Despite his strength, Remi is purposefully gentle as he reaches out for Finn, wanting only to lean his body against his bedside table. "You'll hit your head otherwise." The Lullaby mumbles almost apologetically as he frowns at Finn's hunched-over position which would surely leave him with a lump on his forehead were he like this when his senses left him.
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Finn Rosencrantz


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#8
awareness is the enemy of sanity
In some alternate universe, Finn would be able to answer - he might even be able to appreciate the joke in such a situation. Unfortunately, in this universe, the Spyglass's tongue feels thick and useless in his mouth, and he has broken out in a clammy sweat. His vision is swimming too much to even react to the other man closing the distance between them; instead, he moves like he's made of clay, easily manipulated and put into place.

And then Finn's senses do leave him; his eyes roll back and he's gone, out cold for the next few moments. In that time Remi will find clothes neatly folded on top of a trunk, though whether they fit him is another matter. He will also be able to take in the room where the Spyglass resides, if he so chooses, the chalkboard in the main apartment filled with research, a guitar collecting dust against one wall.

Then Finn comes around again as if from a deep and powerful slumber, groaning as his hand moves to his eyes. He squints around, hissing out a pained breath; his head pounds, and his mind feels as though it's filled with cotton wool.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
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#9
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
Though Finn is the taller of the pair, Remi wouldn't dream of putting his clothes on. Having slipped into Finn's skin once tells the alchemist all he needs to know about privacy when it comes to the Spyglass, and though this might be a situation where rules can be broken, for once, the alchemist doesn't. Instead he reaches into his own memories, clothing himself in a regular t-shirt and trousers.

Remi wants to pause the moment and memorize every inch of this place. He wants to touch the spines of all the books, find the places where dust-trails speak of objects often moved, and to imagine what it might be like to inhabit this space comfortably. He doesn't though, instead keeping his eyes firmly fixed on the ground. He hardly lets himself look at Finn, despite wanting to map the Spyglass in precisely the same sorts of ways.

Remi even resists the urge to move the man into the bed, opting instead to leave him where he sits slumped against the bookcase. When Finn's eyes open, it will be to find a glass of water next to him, and the alchemist standing about as far away as is possible. Arms wrapped around his large frame, Remi is quite literally a man-shaped shadow in one of the corners.

"I didn't want to leave until I was sure you were..." alright, though they both knew Finn wasn't that. So instead Remi settles on, "..awake."
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Finn Rosencrantz


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#10
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At first the sight of the shadow flickering in the corner of the room has the Spyglass firmly believing he is still in some kind of a nightmare. Only then the nightmare speaks and he's brought firmly back into the here and now, a thin coat of sweat chilling his skin and darkening his curls. Dressed only in a pair of sweatpants and still pallid and with his stomach churning, Finn looks more like Remi's corpse at present.

"Why were you... what are you doing here?" he croaks, letting out a shivering breath and pushing himself to sit up a bit, wanting nothing more than to close the world around himself and sob until he's empty. But that isn't possible right now - and the dawning reality that Remi can climb into his personal space whenever he pleases is more sickening than anything that has come before.

"What do you want?"
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
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#11
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
"I didn't mean to be here." Remi says quickly, though his voice is low, apologetic, and ashamed. "It's...new magic. I don't have total control over it yet." He adds, not knowing whether this explanation is making things better or worse, given that he's unable to look at Finn.

"I don't want anything." Though that wasn't true. Though the alchemist had largely forgotten about Finn, since having been reminded of the Spyglass when walking with Ronin through the Silk Houses, his mind has been reinvigorated with new questions and desires surrounding his strange-twin. "I was...Ronin and I were in the Silk Houses the other day. It made me think of you." You know when you dream about something, even though you don't want to? That's all this is Finn. That's all this is. But he can't say the words, because the lie in them rings brassy in his ears and makes him swallow hard.
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#12
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"New magic that puts you in bed with other people?" he asks, trying not to sound incredulous (it's not in his nature, being a researcher), but it's impossible in his current state. A shudder rakes through him, Finn covering his eyes with one hand as if he might be able to concentrate better without Remi right there. The last contact he had with the Lullaby was in his dreams, insane and riddled with sickness as they were. He grits his teeth so as not to tempt a second round of vomit.

But he can't help the twist of disgust in his expression to hear that the Silk Houses made Remi think of him, and Finn tilts his head back against the wall. "Well... how do you leave again?" he asks, unable to help himself. He daren't move from the corner where he's wedged himself, even as he wipes at his eyes, unaware that the tears have rolled down his cheeks.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN
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#13
right now everything you want is wrong
& right now all your dreams are waking up
"Anyone I've shared dreams with." Remi corrects, his jaw clenching, hating the way Finn makes it sounds so repulsive. Makes him feel so repulsive.

The alchemist waits, tense in the silence and not-quite stillness that pervades the little attic room. Part of him wants to reassure Finn, while the other wants to throttle him. But Remi isn't the man he had been when he'd selfishly slipped himself into the other man's body to see what it was like. This new iteration of the alchemist is slightly more measured and a good deal more understanding, if only because of his magic.

"One way is through sleep." Remi answers, before glancing over his shoulder. "The other is through the door." Raking his hands through his curls, the movement of which snarls him back into life and away from the shadows, the alchemist forces himself to take a breath. "I am truly sorry Finn. I never meant to be here. But.." He both wants to hold the other man in his arms as much as he wants roughly wipe the tears from his cheeks, "..Finn, nothing happened. I didn't come here intentionally. I didn't mean for this." There's a pleading edge to Remi's voice now, an unspoken scream that demands he shouldn't be held accountable for something that wasn't his fault.
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#14
awareness is the enemy of sanity
Of course. Because they have shared dreams together, and much as Finn would like to get away from that reality, he can't. So if he believes Remi - and gods, he wants to, much as the feel of him pressed up against his back won't leave - and the resulting conflict has him dragging a knee up to his chest so he can press his forehead against it. "Okay," he says slowly, as if reassuring himself rather than the other man. "Okay. I..."

He has two choices. Listen to the Lullaby and claw back some semblance of sanity, or don't, and make this fraught situation even worse. And so, after a few deep breaths, the Spyglass glances up again. His stormy eyes are a little glazed, a bit flat, but he has regained his composure. "It was an accident, then?" he confirms, needing to hear it once more despite himself.

"I - alright. Alright, I... where is it you meant to go?" With wobbly but careful movements, he starts to get himself back onto his feet, reaching for the glass of water Remi has set down for him and taking a slow sip. "Thank you," he murmurs.
for once you hear the screaming
it never stops
FINN


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