Moral Code?? (Prompt #3)
AU where Dream, like me, has a list of morals that he wrote down when he first became the admin of the server. Maybe I can use my own list.
So after the exile he goes home- which is a shitty build he has to admit but a home none the less- and finds the list and is, obviously, terrified. He, like again me, has a bit of sociopathic tendencies so he knew to keep his promises from when he is at his right mind.
So that is how he finds himself plotting his own imprisonment. To a prison that is far from fair or being finished.
The plan goes as it should, he is in Pandora’s Vault. Then a few days later Tommy visits and he begs Sam to not let him in but obviously the Warden does not care for his wishes and then Tommy, the 16 year old child that he tormented for months is there with him. In the prison. That is built to contain him.
Then the TNT shit happens and he and Tommy are trapped together for the foreseeable future. He tries to be as nice as possible, giving him space, most of his potatoes and show him how to cook them in the heat of the lava.
But Tommy, being Tommy, is scared and taunts him to have a way to cope. But this just fuels Dream’s bloodlust and as like the canon it goes.
Then just as he is about to punt the potato to his head he suddenly has a flashback and starts to hyperventilate. He backs himself to the corner and starts to recite his moral list to himself. This causes Tommy to be really confused and traumatized but he takes a step towards Dream only for Dream to shout at him to stay back.
Dream shouts at him to stay away from now on and starts to shout for Sam as well. The fucker doesn’t come. Tommy stays away from Dream from a day or so before Dream starts apologizing, even though he knows it won’t change anything.
He tells him about his bloodlust and that he can’t resist his urges if he continues taunting him.
After a day or so Tommy starts to talk to him and ask him what the hell he was reciting a few days ago. Dream tells him about his shitty moral compass and how he knew that power would corrupt him so how he wrote a list long time ago.
Tommy asks him to tell him the list and Dream does, knowing he owes him at least that much.
Then Tommy asks him if he is telling his this to have a way to escape the prison. Dream wheezes his old teakettle laugh and casts his mask aside. He has an exhausted but bittersweet expression on his face and he tells Tommy that, no matter if he is like that now or not he has done all of that shit and that he actually deserved to be here.
Then he turns to Tommy and says that while he deserved to be here Tommy certainly didn’t. At this point Tommy is having the shock of his life as he stares at Dream, his abuser, that has somehow changed so much in such a short amount of time that he suddenly has an idea and asks Dream if he planned to put himself in prison after his revelation.
He answers yes and Tommy exclaims how he knew that he couldn’t possibly pay more than the bloody Admin of the server! And to his surprise the said Admin laughs.
After that they start to talk just to pass the time, both having been deprived from human company for too long. They mostly talk to talk about light topics, like from the Disk War or about their (previous) families.
Though sometimes one of them have an attack and the other stays as much away as possible from the other while trying to console the other in a soft voice, knowing that both of them are dangerous around each other.
They are never within 3 feet of each other even though the cell is only so big. They eat the baked-with-lava potatoes and talk, fully ignoring their toxic past and trying to keep peace. Then one day Sam- the fucker he is- comes to take Tommy after nearly 2 months.
Just as he is leaving Tommy looks back at Dream and, allowing a bit of old bitterness slip in his words says ‘Go to hell Dream, hope I never have to see you again while you rot here for the rest of your life!’
And Dream replies with a big grin ‘Hope I never have to see you again too, Tommy. Don’t forget to start therapy with Mom like we talked. I am sure that you two will find things to bond over and the sessions will do you some good.’
And then he waves. Tommy rolls his eyes and utters a ‘Oh fuck off!’ under his breath but still waves back with a small smile of his own.
Sam is just standing there, confused, and Tommy waves off his questions while he goes back home.
Nobody has to know that he appointed a session with Puffy the next day or what exactly he is telling to himself when he has another Dream flashback. At the end of it all, he smiles. Maybe this visit wasn’t a bad idea after all.
