What Dreams May Come

It had been three days since Rowena had attacked him and still he could hardly put her out of his mind. He could feel her dreams when he dreamed. There had been more than enough contact between them to manage that but he was so afraid of entering them he held back. This morning though he had the courage and so he had stayed up all night so he could hopefully find her sleeping if she slept at all.

He decided to go as himself. The less he manipulated someone’s dreams the more natural they were to the dreamer. He was afraid that if he changed much at all that she might be able to detect him and he didn’t want to know what she might think about him poking around in here.

It was a shock at first, witnessing her dreams. Proof that she had been alive for at least 300 years. The people were dressed appropriated for the times he thought she was dreaming about and he found what she was seeing threatening to suck him in completely which was always a danger for him. Losing himself in another's dreams was dangerous, especially for nightmares but he had been doing this for years now and knew how to avoid that.

Ooc; from here you can write what you want and be as crazy as you want. All he is doing is watching but she will also see him. In historical events he will appear as himself and she will see him. However because he is not changing anything she might just conclude that it is her dreaming about him. However she could also try and interact with him as well which could change that assumption.

Rowena dreamt almost every time she slept. It had been strange to her at first, considering that she was no longer mortal, but had long since grown used to it. She had enough strength to venture out into the day for a few hours at a time, but normally slept during the day and ventured out at night. Since her encounter with Seth she had found it difficult to stop thinking about him. She knew that getting involved with him was dangerous, but for some reason she felt drawn to him. She knew that there was more to him than he let on and wondered if he did not have some sort of ability or power.

It was just after dawn and Rowena and been asleep in her apartment for just over an hour. She did not sleep in a coffin, but in a normal bed like everyone else. However, she used heavy blackout blinds to keep out every bit of sunlight she could. Everyone in her building assumed she was a normal person who just had a night time job. No one suspected anything suspicious.

Slowly images started coming into her mind. At first she dreamt that she was back in Paris during the 1940s. She had killed more than her fair share of German soldiers during the war. She dreamt about one German officer in particular whom she had allowed to bed her before killing him. He had been strong and had struggled against her, but she had been far stronger than him and had held tight to him. She had witnessed him rape a French woman several days before and took her time in killing him. It had taken hours. She had rather delighted in torturing him.

Slowly, her dream morphed, as it always did back to Scotland. She found herself once again in the halls of Huntly Castle...just hours before her transformation. She knew this dream well...but something was different this time. Suddenly, she looked over to see Seth standing at the end of the hallway. Her eyes met his. Rowena knew she was dreaming, but wondered what Seth was doing in her dream. She could sense him...feel him with her mind and she knew that her mind wasn’t making him up...but that he had somehow invaded her mind and her dream.

She walked down the hallway towards him. On one wall Seth would see a painting that had been done of her. It had been completed just four months before her ‘death’ and still hung in the castle. As she approached him he would see her dressed in a period dress. Her long, red hair was pulled half back and in many ways she looked exactly as she had when he had first met her. However, one striking difference was her eyes. While still a beautiful green, they did not glow in the same way...nor was her skin quite as pale.

“What are you doing here Seth?”

He had been content with just trying to learn what he could about Rowena and he marked the painting he saw into his memory for later. But it was her...addressing him that surprised and frightened him. Should he flee then lie about it later? He doubted he could hide much from her and if she found out...lying was out of the question...unfortunately.

“Dreams are how I can really...see someone. I do not know how I do it or why I can I just know that I can and so I do,” he tried to explain. Unless someone was like him they could not affect their own dreams. Dreams were part of a subconscious state that went where it went. She could respond to him, react to him but besides being able to know his mind, a wall existed that shut her out of his thoughts. She could feel it there, touch it with her mind and even bend it outward but it only just flexed back. He shook his head. “No...I think maybe I’ll keep my thoughts to myself for now, but...there is much I can do here,” he said and the grin that appeared on his face might make her feel, for once, like the lamb. Along the halls flowers of all shapes and sizes sprung out and those in her dream reacted to them as they were afraid of what was happening. They were actually quite beautiful but them appearing like that startled everyone. As she looked at them and then back at Seth she would immediately see a large, white tiger where he had been standing. It turned in the hallway, its long tail streamed behind it and it looked back at her though it had his eyes. It would be clear that he wanted her to follow him. As she did he moved out of the hall. As she followed through the doorway she stepped out into a hilly, green grassland that went on and on as far as she could see. She also noticed that her clothes had suddenly disappeared and she wore not a stitch.

The first thing Sebastian did was disarm those he held in their dreams. She was also not a vampire here. She had no fangs, no super strength and she could actually feel the coolness of the wind and the warmth of the sun as it rose above the trees in the distant horizon. The tiger sat and licked its paw as it waited for her to get her bearings and it would allow her to come up to it. .

Rowena had never heard of anyone being able to enter and manipulate someone else’s dreams before. The thought both frightened and intrigued her. She had known that there was something different about Seth, and clearly this was it. Her dreams were where she was vulnerable and she felt quite...exposed to him. She had no powers here, which meant he was in control. It was a very strange feeling for her. Rowena decided to try and see if she could enter his mind, but found herself blocked. It was frustrating to have to surrender completely to him like this, but she decided to just see what happened. Suddenly, flowers appeared out of the stone walls. She could hear her family reacting in fright to what was happening. She looked back at them, but as she turned her attention back to Seth she found a large, white tiger where he had just been. She was frightened for the first time in a very long time, but she followed him. It led her outside and onto a hilly, grassland that stretched out in all directions for as far as she could see. She also suddenly felt cool and she looked down to realize that all her clothes had disappeared. She was now completely exposed to him in every way...totally and completely vulnerable. She actually trembled a little as she slowly approached the tiger.

One of Sebastian’s little tricks he had learned was that he made himself invisible, though always near his construct and she would still be able to sense him and think the construct was him. This time his construct was the tiger. In order to learn anything about the people he visited in their dreams, anything real anyway was to give them a trickle of his ability. Just enough to guide his construct to their will. While they thought it was he, himself that led them it was actually their own subconscious that moved the construct and designed the subsequent landscapes. This one with rolling hills must be something from her memory of Scotland. Her subconscious might have made it different to a degree but it certainly looked like some green that might appear in Scotland.

It was a peaceful place and even as he looked around, a ring of stones appeared on a hill. Not far from that was a small lake or pond with a haze of mist that hung low over it’s still surface. The Tiger padded forward again just staying ahead of her. It stopped once more when they reached the lake. It looked back toward her expectantly and a small bit of steam rose from the lake's surface. At dusk it always steamed like that and she walked down the small bank into it. The water was warm, it must have been from her memory of it. When she looked back at the cat she would notice it was gone. However a shape appeared in the water below her. Slowly it rose up out of the water. It was Sebastian, naked as the day he was born and he immediately took her into an embrace.

He already knew that pain and torture were not something she wanted. Her dreams proved that much. Also, she had grown bored of having dominion over every man she victimized. Here though he had made her flesh and bone, Blood and muscle and nothing more. He kissed her passionately, the mist enveloping them both. He made love to her like to people who were mortal might. And again he gave her just enough of his ability to guide their love making to what she really wanted or at the very least, her subconscious really wanted. Her orgasm must have frightened her at first. She stiffen unsure of what the feeling was and then, as her body shook from the aftershocks of it she smiled and he smiled back and laughed as he rolled off of her. He wasn’t at all certain if she could have something like that as a Vampire. Here though she was just Rowena, a woman...a beautiful woman he found he had no designs to try and manipulate. She had come to him after all and that had made all the difference to Sebastian.

OOC-Should we leave this thread here and jump to maybe the next night?

ooc: Certainly, however it would be great for her to appear and scare the daylights out of him. can you project her entry to start it?

OOC-yes, in just a little while I can

OOC-New thread