Part 2 Remember ~Dreamnoblade~

Helping

~he's just tryin a be elpful guwys🥺 alSO OMG I GET TO SEE BASTILLE LIVE!!!!!! They're my second all time favorite band (very close behind imagine dragons) and I'm so excited:)))) now I'll have seen my two all time favorite bands (and really the only ones I class as my all time favorites)

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"What?" Dream asks, a bit louder, becoming frustrated by the person's silence.

The person roles their eyes, visible through the holes in their mask.

They tap their ear again, and then their temple.

"Callahan. Me. I am Callahan. This isn't your own thought. It's me." The person's body language fits the emphasis of certain words.

Dream sits there silently, staring at the person.

How? How are they in his head? Is that actually them? How can he tell if it is?

"Listen. It's hard to wrap your head around but this is how I 'talk'. This is how I have to 'talk'." They do air quotes around both 'talk's. It must be them.

"Who are you?" Dream asks. "Wh- do I know you?" He clarifies, realizing he'd just asked them same thing.

"We've met before." He says. "Though you don't remember."

"How do you know I don't remember?" Dream asks, taken aback. Can this guy read his mind too?

"I made sure you wouldn't remember." He says.

"What?!" Dream nearly yells.

"I make sure no one remembers me. It's not safe for people to know about my existence." Callahan says.

Dream takes a moment to just breathe, thinking of words as he does. "Then why are you here?"

"Because you need help." Callahan says. (I'm not going to continue putting his voice in italics, just keep it in your mind that he's talking through Dream's mind, not aloud.)

Dream narrows his eyes at the other.

Callahan notices the slight change in Dream's posture that occurs along with his hidden eyes.

"You were on your own. They've all been captured, and you being stuck in this bathroom until they 'come back' isn't going to help anyone." Callahan says.

"How do you know they're captured? And what do you mean, they're captured?!" Dream asks, brain catching up with the information as he speaks.

"I know a lot of things." Callahan says simply.

"What?"

"I can't tell you everything." He adds, a slight sadness at the back of his words.

"Then why tell me anything?" Dream asks.

"For the sake of all things living, it's best I do not interfere... but there are exceptions. For instance: now." Callahan says.

"So-" Dream starts before realizing he didn't know what else he wanted to say.

A moment of silence passes between them.

"Can you read my mind?" Dream asks.

"No." Callahan responds, "I can only access the part of your brain that would hear a spoken voice."

Dream ponders a moment, trying to decide which questions might actually get him somewhere. "You know a lot of things..."

"Yes."

"How much?" Dream asks, starting to pick at his nails.

"Everything." Callahan says, "But, like I said. I can't tell you all of it."

"Everything..." Dream whispers to himself.

"I'm here to help you, but there are certain things I can not tell you."

"What certain things?" Dream asks, trying to find a loophole.

"Answering that would tell you the things I can't tell you." Callahan says, voice remaining steady.

"Why not?" Dream asks.

"It would upset the balance, and I'm already upsetting it by intervening."

"How do you know so much?" Dream asks, sitting forwards a bit, and maneuvering his legs so he's sitting cris-crossed.

"I observe."

"Why are they captured?" Dream asks again, hoping this time he'll get an answer.

Callahan seems to think for a moment, the silence stretching. "The royal ball went according to plan."

"What does that mean?" Dream asks.

"There are grey spots I can not tell you about."

"Then tell me the other parts." Dream says, scooting a but closer to Callahan.

"The royal ball went according to the organizers plan." Callahan says after a moment.

Dream makes a few sounds of bafflement (that's a real word?) before saying, "that doesn't tell me much more."

"I know." Callahan says. "The other parts make very little sense to the memories you currently have."

"Then tell me that stuff."

"I can not. It's not my place to tell you those things." Callahan says, raising his hands beside his head.

Dream sits there a second, watching as the other returns his hands to be folded nicely in his lap.

"Who's Dark?" Dream asks.

He hates to even partially believe what a dream is telling him about real life people, but he doesn't have much to go off of.

"Someone you've been having dreams about." Callahan says.

"How do you know what I've been dreaming about if you can't read my mind?!"

"As I said... I observe." Callahan says.

Dream lets out a huff. "Who is he?"

Callahan places a hand on his chin, looking up at the ceiling for a moment.

"He's not the best presence, but the one in your dreams is also helping you."

"No fucking way." Dream says, a hint of anger in his voice. "He isn't helping me, he just hurts me- how does what he do in my dreams affect me in real life?"

"When someone is dreaming, their body tends to do movements such as walking, or talking. These can be related to the dream itself or the body's natural reaction to the circumstances within the dream." Callahan says, sidestepping a direct answer. (Or if you're like me, even without a dream, you sleep like a fish out of water)

Dream, again, narrows his eyes at the other. "You're being vague on purpose."

Callahan, again, raises his hands beside his head, shrugging. "As I said... there are things I can't tell you."

"Where's Techno? And Toua?" Dream asks.

"Captured." Callahan says.

"Clearly. Where?"

"A place not too far from here."

Dream roles his eyes. "Where?"

"You've been there before."

"That doesn't help." Dream says, frustration clear in his voice.

"I'm aware." Callahan says. "Your memory is not something I can help you with."

"You can't help me with my memory?" Dream clarifies.

"Correct."

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~*Dora the Explorer voice* 'who do you think can help Dream with his memory?' *uncomfortably long pause* also, I forgot to update last week, whoops😵‍💫 hope you enjoyed:)