crack_van | "Dreaming" by Selenak (PG13)

Fandom: HEROES
Characters: Molly, Ensemble
Length: ~4100 words
Author on LJ:

selenak
Author Website: @ FF.Net
Why this must be read: "Dreaming" is a fairy tale. Set in season two, when Molly was trapped in the nightmare space Maury created for her, this is the story of her travels, trying to escape. It's eerie and otherworldly in places - part fantasy, part horror story, part Grimm's fairy tale (this isn't the Disney version) - sometimes genuinely frightening, and in others laugh-out-loud funny. In the style of Neil Gaiman, Molly travels through the nightmares of the other heroes we know and love (or don't), and each of their own "nightmare spaces" is different, creative, and fitting. A lovely story, and a very unique one at that.

Molly Walker did not have to believe in monsters; she knew they existed. She did not have to imagine other realms and mighty powers, for she knew those existed, too. She had been Little Red Riding Hood, and the wolf had eaten her father and her mother, and the air had been full of the smell of their blood, the sound of their screams, the reek of his sweat as he slavered for yet another meal in his unending greed. But he had not found her, and instead, the brave hunter had come and saved her.

Molly knew about fairy tales, and she knew this: the monsters were real. But so were the heroes. And there was always, always a way out.

Dreaming