9 Works in Audrey | Hob Gadling's Lover (The Sandman)
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What Is Immortality If Not a Series Of Losses by itsaseamonster
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
29 Sep 2025
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Six hundred years. Seven meetings. Countless dreams. And in them, Hob forgets to pretend he doesn’t want more—because the only constant in his long, immortal life has always been his friend.
- A fix-it Dreamling fic I started writing even before watching season 2.
- We follow Hob from the very beginning.
- Every chapter is character development *jazz hands*
- Centuries of pining, bad decisions, and unbuttoned shirts.
- Real plot starts happening in chapter 3!
- Hob has a lot of dreams! I wonder why! (from chapter 4)
- Extremely self-indulgent. Probably turns into a buddy comedy with will-they-won't-they energy. (They will.)
- Slow burn? Absolutely. Smut? Eventually. Emotional devastation? Without a doubt.
- A lot of hurt no comfort but it has a happy ending, I promise!
- English is not my first language and this is not beta read, we die like Hob doesn’t -
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“Who are they?” Hob asked
Seventeen-year-old Hob Gadling hates Shakespeare, avoids his homework, and lives under the heavy weight of grief and an alcoholic father’s volatile moods. With his dreams of college slipping through his fingers, Hob’s only escape is the golden meadow beyond his backyard — a quiet, wild place where the world feels softer, and his pain a little more bearable.
But everything changes the day they move in.
The Edvardsens — a mysterious family of seven adopted siblings with strange names, stranger auras, and a mansion that’s been abandoned for decades — have arrived from London, trailing secrets, whispers of fame, and a history even older than Hob could guess. When he meets Death, radiant and self-possessed, something shifts. And when he finds him — the boy in black, reading alone in the meadow — Hob begins to feel like his story might finally be starting. -
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The one where Hob Gadling gives his word to be there for Dream, to aid him in anything, everything, and he keeps it. Even if most will never know.
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- Part 2 of No Less Valiant
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what was before is left behind by academic_of_the_endless for everythingisconnected
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
23 Jul 2025
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Today, Dream Of The Endless, Lord Morpheus, King Of Nightmares, does not perform his duties. Today, he keeps the blood on his hands out of view of his subjects, of his librarian. Today, he chooses to wash the blood clean from his hands as if it’d remove the stain from his soul. Dream could spare but a thought to remove the blood of his son from the hands that brought about his end, but he chooses to wash it away.
Dream Of The Endless thinks of hands warmer than his own whilst washing the blood of his son. A vow is extracted, a promise is made, and somehow despite choosing Death at every chance, Hob and his daughter give Morpheus a chance at life. Hob, recently bereaved himself finds comfort in the care for his friend, and the life he can share.
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- Part 1 of what never was is now
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Hob is almost painfully aware that Audrey is very, very good to him.
(The Hob Gets Pegged fic).
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and then I go and spoil it all (saying something stupid like I Love You) by Lover496
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022), The Sandman (Comics)
07 Jul 2025
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Dream is *not* unloving, and he knows just the human to prove this with. Too bad that he didn't know said human has a girlfriend.
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If we shadows have offended. by LeotheLionathefootofOrion
Fandoms: The Sandman (TV 2022)
04 Jul 2025
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It's strange how, after that night, Hob starts seeing his friend everywhere.
Hob struggles with thoughts about his friend. Dream struggles with - well. Everything.
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Hob Galding spends century after century, in happiness or hate, wanting more of life, of wonder, of change, wanting one more sunrise; Hob spends century after century thinking of his Stranger, wanting an answer, wanting one more meeting, wanting something more than brief conversations in a tavern every hundred years.
[Hob Gadling's 600+ years of life]
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“Hey. Breathe.”
Dream does. He inhales through his mouth, and blows the soft air back out. Real air. Living air. It pours down his throat like fresh water, and tastes just like it always has- London air. Human air. The hand on his shoulder loosens.
“Again,” the voice orders, and he obeys without question.
His vision is starting to clear now, and he is beginning to adjust to the darkness.
A face starts to take shape before him. A real face, painfully human.
“Okay?” Hob asks.
(The Sandman, but things go a bit differently. A pigeon flies in front of a car several years early. Hob Gadling happens to be in the right place at the right time. The Dreaming doesn't let its master back in, for whatever reason.
Basically, I rewrite the whole story from the orb escape onwards.Wish me luck.)