wolven7 | Dreams. Farscape, alternate realities, and Futures, conflicting histories.

It starts with a set up. There are bits and pieces of things i need to find, and sometimes John Crichton and I are the same person, and sometimes we're not. Sometimes mech_angel and Aeryn Sun are the same person, and sometimes they're not. There is an apartment.

There is a woman, in my apartment, and she's almost Courtney Love. She's a gold-digging whore, and she's somehow managed to have my child/ren, when we've never had sex. Sometimes they're twins, and sometimes, only one boy. I'm left with a responsibility to her, for the child/ren, so I cannot leave them, and start my life, as i'd like to. My parents don't know about them, and neither does mech_angel. The shame of it has kept me from telling anyone, and somehow no one has found out. If I kick her out, I'll have to start paying allimony; the only thing she asks is that she and the child/ren get to stay, and live in the same apartment.

There is an apocaplyse. There are aliens, or star-spawn, or something , and they are trying to enslave humanity. There are forces that are trying to accelerate the process, and there are those who are trying to fight back. In my house, there are many rooms, and there are dimensional rifts. Places where one setting flows into another, and can be changed to flow elsewhere. Taye Diggs is stalking through my house, searching for me. He's wearing the white uniform, from "Equilibrium," only more industrialised. More metal, more straps. He's looking for me, and there are people in my house, attempting to kill me, and find the Gauntlet, so that they can steal it. I move through a door, and into a flashback.

I'm at Scorpius' house, a few months, possibly years ago. He's inviting me in, as we've become respected collegues, but nothing like friends. I use his bathroom, and, behind me, there is a cabinet, with a dresser, and chest of drawers, and I realise that i'm Also in my own house, as it matches my furniture. I'm pissing, and i look down, into the toilet, which is oddly futuristic, and i see some sort of hologram, or solid-light construction of a prism/star/sphere shaped thing, inside of a metal framework. I hear Scorpius over my shoulder, outside the door, and i hear him smiling, smirking, because he knows i won't remember this, until i Do, later. I know there is something in the cabinet, behind me. I turn.

Flashes of underground complexes, of ramps, and tunnels, and Doom. Aliens are invading, and they're being helped by various governments.

Back in the house, I'm running through rooms, as people are firing rockets, at me. The rockets have this weird Christmas Light kind of cone, on the front, and they look really cheesey. I wonder why the hell the agency couldn't have just gone with standard Black. I duck, and pick one out of the air, and toss it at Taye Diggs, who explodes, just as i make it into the bathroom, which has one of those double farm-house style doors. I close the bottom, but not the top, and, in the bathroom, i see the cabinet, and a smaller curio cabinet, directly next to me, and the door, with about four feet of space, from the bottom of the thing, to the ground. The inside is panneled in a light coloured wood and mirrored and, when I open it, i can hear peole talking, and laughing, and I can hear things changing. Behind me is the cabinet dresser, but i know that all that's in there, now, is the potential for a door, in the future. In the curio cabinet I see the Gauntlet. And I put it on, and nothing happens, while everything happens. I walk outside the bathroom, and Taye Diggs is waiting for me. He smiles at me and says "You didn't need to blow me up. We're on the same side, now, anyway." We go down the escalator, next to my bathroom, and into the complex, underground, to begin the fight.

I'm in the future, and i'm confused. There are people, here, with me, as well. Al, mr_hinzelmann, Bob, and others, wandering around. The future is strange, as, everywhere you step, a titanium grey path comes up under your feet, and a few feet in front of you. You can make paths, wherever you go, and they are there as long as you intend to use them. Most paths disappear as soon as someone starts a new one. My mother is here, and she's explaining the new world to us, as there is a prophecy about me coming forward, and needing to learn. I look around and say how great it is, because now we can make that movie about the Future, with Realistic sets. The square is an open air version of Lenox mall, and brighter, and doesn't feel like death, and entraping consumerism. There is one covered section, and that's where the rides are. There's a ride, and a movie, and i'm walking through the line, and i read warnings, on the walls, about getting wet. I get to the door, after going through a winding corridor, and I see that the ride is something abot a canoe, and i have a violent aversion to it, almost immediately. I turn and run out of the corridor.

I'm back in the square but something is different. People are more still, more cautious, around me. I see a girl, by a set of stairs, from the Ninja Gaiden Xbox game, and, on the landing in the middle of the stairs, there is a creature with giant raven wings, and purple-black armour. As i move closer, i see that it has the face and body of a panther, and a lot of the disposition of a loving wolf. I also see that it is dying. The girl is trying to reach it, pet it, let it know that it's ok, and safe. The people are afraid. It sees me, and knows me, and, for a second, the girl is my daughter, and we are the same person, while she is also her mother, mech_angel, who is Not me. We reach out to pet and comfort, and it shies away, a little. I rest my hand on its muzzle, and stroke under its chin. I carry/it flies away, into a section that's a hallway, and in through the open top half of the door to the cabinet bathroom, and it lays down, to die. It becomes a small baby bat, in an empty box for sparklers, but is still magnificent and majestic. My daughter is looking for the Gauntlet, to go back in time, and prevent the course of events that will cause the Death, she has just seen, and I know that she won't find it. She looks in the curio cabinet, but all she sees is Dark wood panneling, and fewer mirrors. The Gauntlet is gone. I remember what Scorpius showed me. The panneling changes to a lighter colour, and everything feels as i know Italy feels. My daughter and I begin the search for the Gauntlet, and I know where it is, but i also know that it won't fully be there, until we've searched for it.

We've found two, and we wear them, as we step through the door behind the cabinet dresser. Her mother doesn't need the Gauntlet; it doesn't work, with her genes. We go back, to change the future, and save a life. I wake up

I woke up about three times, this morning... Didn't really feel tired, but wanted to sleep, each time. It was a good sleep, like i'd been away for weeks, rather than two days.

I've got to do that paper, today. I've got a good few opening lines. I'm not going to get a lot done, till after the sun goes down. I know that much. But i can at least be thinking about it.

I'm going to buy the DVD boxed set of "Lain," today. So don't buy that for me, if you were planning to, for whatever reason. I've got a Coupon :)

Anywho, i'm off.

Ta.