The Gatekeeper Dreams
Title: The Gatekeeper Dreams
Rating: PG
Characters: Jeong Jeong
Word Count: ~400, complete
Summary: Jeong Jeong has a disturbing dream. Unfortunately, his dreams--especially the disturbing ones--are often prophetic.
Notes: AtLA/Dresden Files crossover, written for the Round 3 Writing Bingo at atlaland, prompt 'crossover' (naturally).
The Gatekeeper Dreams
The Summer Queen needed an heir, as The Queen Who Is must be balanced by The Queen Who Is To Come and The Queen Who Was. Everything always must be balanced among the Sidhe. Winter and summer; ice and fire; giving and receiving; debt and payment; past, present, and future. It was something humans--in their forever unbalanced mortal world, ruled by tumultuous emotion and base need--would never understand.
Queen Ursa, as was her right, chose her consort solely according to her own wishes.
She chose Ozai, the King of the White Court.
Faeries and vampires were equally perplexed by this decision. The vampires theorized that even a Sidhe queen could not resist the hypnotic seductive power of their King. The faeries theorized that there was some bizarre, severe power imbalance in the wider world, which their Queen did not deign to explain but was working to rectify.
The Queen and the King smiled at their subjects' talk, and said nothing.
***
The Gatekeeper had a dream.
The Queen of Summer bore a child. A boy, whose name was not spoken among the Seelie fae. The Queens of Sidhe stretched back into the mists of time, when beings from beyond the Outer Gates still walked the world. An unbroken line of Queens, mother to daughter, and not a single son.
The boy was sent to his father, the White King.
Ursa bore a second child. A daughter, the Summer Lady.
The Gatekeeper awoke.
He quickly transcribed the dream in his dream journal. Touching a hand to a blank page, dark purple ink swirled up under his fingers to form his handwriting, capturing the details of the dream before they vanished from his memory.
He pondered the dream. Changelings--the children of such a union would be changelings, born with the choice to be fae or human. Or, in this case, fae or White Court vampire, a human with the demon of Hunger twined in body and soul.
The girl would choose to be Sidhe.
The boy…
The Gatekeeper deliberated. The White King would most likely kill the child, as he killed all of his male children. The Winter Queen would certainly dispatch assassins, although she would wait and watch before making her move.
He decided. He would tell Iroh what he had seen, what he suspected. And if everyone else failed, the Blackstaff would kill the boy himself.
Jeong Jeong wished once more that he had never taken on the mantle of Gatekeeper.
--end
Rating: PG
Characters: Jeong Jeong
Word Count: ~400, complete
Summary: Jeong Jeong has a disturbing dream. Unfortunately, his dreams--especially the disturbing ones--are often prophetic.
Notes: AtLA/Dresden Files crossover, written for the Round 3 Writing Bingo at atlaland, prompt 'crossover' (naturally).
The Gatekeeper Dreams
The Summer Queen needed an heir, as The Queen Who Is must be balanced by The Queen Who Is To Come and The Queen Who Was. Everything always must be balanced among the Sidhe. Winter and summer; ice and fire; giving and receiving; debt and payment; past, present, and future. It was something humans--in their forever unbalanced mortal world, ruled by tumultuous emotion and base need--would never understand.
Queen Ursa, as was her right, chose her consort solely according to her own wishes.
She chose Ozai, the King of the White Court.
Faeries and vampires were equally perplexed by this decision. The vampires theorized that even a Sidhe queen could not resist the hypnotic seductive power of their King. The faeries theorized that there was some bizarre, severe power imbalance in the wider world, which their Queen did not deign to explain but was working to rectify.
The Queen and the King smiled at their subjects' talk, and said nothing.
***
The Gatekeeper had a dream.
The Queen of Summer bore a child. A boy, whose name was not spoken among the Seelie fae. The Queens of Sidhe stretched back into the mists of time, when beings from beyond the Outer Gates still walked the world. An unbroken line of Queens, mother to daughter, and not a single son.
The boy was sent to his father, the White King.
Ursa bore a second child. A daughter, the Summer Lady.
The Gatekeeper awoke.
He quickly transcribed the dream in his dream journal. Touching a hand to a blank page, dark purple ink swirled up under his fingers to form his handwriting, capturing the details of the dream before they vanished from his memory.
He pondered the dream. Changelings--the children of such a union would be changelings, born with the choice to be fae or human. Or, in this case, fae or White Court vampire, a human with the demon of Hunger twined in body and soul.
The girl would choose to be Sidhe.
The boy…
The Gatekeeper deliberated. The White King would most likely kill the child, as he killed all of his male children. The Winter Queen would certainly dispatch assassins, although she would wait and watch before making her move.
He decided. He would tell Iroh what he had seen, what he suspected. And if everyone else failed, the Blackstaff would kill the boy himself.
Jeong Jeong wished once more that he had never taken on the mantle of Gatekeeper.
--end