;poe

[hatejakku]

Sex Pollen Pre Relationship
Poe Dies Pre Relationship
Nightmare Early Relationship
Hogwarts AU Pre Relationship
Poe Almost Dies Pre Relationship
MoM AU First Night
Slightly Older Hogwarts AU
Post-TLJ
Bodyguard and Prince AU; overflow
Massage Pre Relationship
Oblivious Poe AU
Cyborg Poe AU
MoM AU Sex Pollen
FO Infiltration Sex Ring
TFLN
Soulmate Tattoo AU
Finn Marries Someone Else AU
Evil Finn AU; overflow: 1, 2
MoM AU Poe 10 Yrs Older
Vamp/Were AU
Missing for a Year/Telepathy AU
MoM AU Poe 'canon' updated
Dark Possessive AU
Married on Yavin AU
MoM AU Sexy Outfits
MoM AU Subway Sex
MoM AU with Melodies!Finn; overflow
MoM AU Photo-Op Kiss
Nearly Old Men AU
MoM AU Rule 63
Online Dating AU
MoM AU Poe Lost His In-Game Memories; overflow
Trans Poe AU
College Roommate AU
TIE Pilot/Prostitute AU
MoM AU Finn Returns from Port-Out
MoM AU Manipulative Masturbation Machine
Canon AU Manipulative Masturbation Machine
Shape Shifter AU; timeskip
FO Sexual Torture AU
MoM AU Finn Has a Boyfriend
Hades AU Finn Left Alone
MoM AU Apocalypse
MoM AU Poe Died in Canon
Canon AU Handjob in a Hospital (inspiration)
MoM AU Another Apocalypse
WWI Pen-Pal/Love Letters AU
Institutionalized Prostitution AU
MoM AU Body Swap
Post-TROS Victory Party

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[flightforfreedom]

Things sometimes could fly, thanks to being hit or kicked or random weird things happening. Floating was a completely different story!

Poe glanced around as Finn pointed stuff out, and slowly paled.

"... This - this doesn't make any sense. You saw it?"

[hatejakku]

"I saw it." Finn certainly sounded sure but- "I could have been dreaming. I don't know if I sleepwalk. I've lived alone before you came in. I could have been sleepwalking." But Poe heard them fall.

"It doesn't make sense, but- but I saw it. I know what I saw." Did he? "It's happened twice now- No, it's happened more, hasn't- Where's my phone?" Why hadn't he recorded it!?

[flightforfreedom]

“Finn - Finn—“ Poe said, reaching out to grab at his arm.

“Stop. No phone.” He grimaced. “Look, if- I’d something weird is happening, we need to figure it out, but the last thing I want... don’t record me. Please. Keep this between us.”

He swallowed.

“... it happened when I was asleep, right? Maybe just - maybe just bunk with me for a while.”

[hatejakku]

"Wait, you believe me?" Sorry, Poe. Finn was about nine paces behind.

But he shook himself and tried to think. Okay. Okay, okay. If this was actually happening, then recording it would definitely be a bad idea. No one could know about it, especially with how everyone had been treating Poe lately. It would be terrible if they even thought that this could be happening.

So- So, yeah, okay. He took a few deep breaths. "Yeah. No, yeah, you're right. That makes sense. Okay. We can do that." They could even do it tonight. Finn sure as hell wasn't going back to sleep any time soon.

[flightforfreedom]

“Something keeps waking me up. We’ll... we’ll set a test, somehow.” He should be more skeptical, he knew. But weird little inconsistencies in his life lately we’re starting to tug at his mind, and he found it unfortunately easy to believe Finn.

“We’ll... bowls of water. We’ll set some around the room. You sleep with me, and either you’ll see them, or - or they’ll splash when they fall.”

[hatejakku]

Between the most handsome man Finn ever met saying the words 'sleep with me' and this whole telekinesis ghost nonsense, all he could actually think about was how much of a mess this going to make.

That more than anything solidified the fact that he really believed this was happening... To hell with it, he'd clean it up. "Yeah. We can do that." And off to the kitchen Finn went to gather some bowls.

[flightforfreedom]

Poe paced, realizing he hadn’t really asked where they should sleep. Eventually he just decided that to hell with the weird butterflies the idea gave him, his room was best. He grabbed a spare pillow for Finn and then padded back to his room, fussing with the bed before padding out to see if Finn needed help.

“Sorry,” he murmured quietly. “I don’t know what’s going on, but I’m sorry.”

[hatejakku]

"Don't be sorry," Finn answered just as quietly, before handing one of the two bowls he was holding out to the other man. "Here, you- Okay, look. Whatever's happening, it's happening to you. It's not your fault. And maybe... it can explain some things? I don't know. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it."

He had thankfully been able to calm down a little while getting the water together. Honestly, the darkness of night helped. Made everything seem less real. He could actually convince himself that this was really a dream. "Where will you be most comfortable?"

[flightforfreedom]

Maybe it can explain some things.

That was precisely what Poe was worried about. That something had been done to him. That the generals had been right, that something had nabbed him and made him into an enemy of the state...

He stood there, awkwardly, unable to say as much to Finn but wanting to. It often felt like Finn was the only one on his side with this at all.

He glanced over at the question, carefully cupping the bowl between both hands. He set it down on the floor next to his bed - about two feet away so that they hopefully wouldn’t get splashed, then gestures to his bed.

“You, uh - you take the side closest to the wall.” That way Finn would have to climb over him to get to the bowls. It wasn’t that he didn’t trust him, he just... needed to prove his to himself.

It wasn’t a big bed, though. Whatever happened, they were going to end up practically spooning just based on proximity.

[hatejakku]

Finn sat his bowl down and climbed into bed basically on auto-pilot. While he was calmer, he still had a hard time believing that any of this was happening.

But it could explain things. Or rather, give them more questions. It wasn't like Poe had just flown into a black hole or something, they knew that already. If he had been captured, how did they do this to him? Who even was 'they' at this point?

Later. He couldn't do this right now. Just... later.

Finn lied on his back and took a deep breath. "You think you'll be able to sleep?" At least, Poe seemed... calmer than him?

[flightforfreedom]

“I don’t know,” Poe replied honestly, climbing into the bed next to him, then turning on his side to face Finn. His expression was grim.

“I don’t know what any of this means, but I should be more surprised, right? I should feel more freaked out. But I don’t. I just feel... tired.”

There was a pause, and then, quietly:

“I need you to promise me something.”

[hatejakku]

Tired was okay. This sounded a bit like shock if Finn was completely honest, which was totally okay. He could freak out for both of them.

He stared up at the ceiling with a worried frown, feeling pretty trapped right now, before glancing over to Poe. "What's that?"

[flightforfreedom]

“If they- if they were right, and something happened to me, and I’m - and I’m somehow a danger to everyone— Just leave. Don’t let me hurt you.”

His face twisted, and a real note of worry shone through.

“I’d never forgive myself. So if something happens, you just run. And you don’t look back.”

[hatejakku]

What the hell did he think could happen? Yeah, this was weird but they could figure it out, couldn't they? Even without the government's involvement. But Poe was several paces ahead again. All Finn could stand to worry about was how to keep this a secret. If it was even real.

Finn turned on his side, facing Poe. "Okay. I promise, but... that's not going to happen. You're going to be all right. We'll figure out what's going on and take it one step at a time." Bold words for someone who wanted to climb in a hole and stay there indefinitely.

"You're not going to hurt me."

[flightforfreedom]

“I don’t want to.”

Poe swallowed, his voice dropping lower, as if he was trying to keep from being overheard despite the house being empty.

“But Finn, I... what if I’ve already done something and don’t remember? People don’t just lose a year for no reason.”

[hatejakku]

"We don't know that." Now Finn was whispering, too, like they were both children hiding from whatever the unknown was. "We don't know if you had this before or it's just starting now or if you've always had it- We don't know anything and we can't start guessing like that, okay?

"But we will figure it out. Somehow."

[flightforfreedom]

“I don’t know anything, but I know something happened. And with this weird stuff - I don’t know, maybe someone magnetized me? Maybe I’m a walking time bomb.”

He shifted a little closer, not even thinking about it, murmuring in the dark with Finn’s face close enough to be hard to focus on.

“But as long as you promise you’ll run...”

[hatejakku]

Finn had the sudden urge to kiss him, if for nothing else than to give some measure of comfort. But he didn't.

"You are not a walking time bomb. You're going to be okay." And he was already beginning to regret this promise... "Listen, it's a lot. It's a hall of a lot. But you won't hurt me, all right? Just... stop thinking about it. Try to sleep, if you can.

[flightforfreedom]

Poe sighed.

“... Okay. Yeah. Okay.” He turned over onto his back and immediately regretted it, missing proximity. So instead he shuffled a little closer, until his side was pressed against Finn’s.

It wasn’t that simple. Of course it wasn’t. But he was exhausted and couldn’t do anything. But if he managed to relax, it would make life easier for Finn. So he was going to try.

The Hall of a Lot

[hatejakku]

Finn honestly only half expected Poe to fall asleep. This was just too much with everything going on.

He stayed on his side to allow the other room, trying desperately to stay still when Poe got closer, doing his best imitation of a statue. His mind was anything but still, though, leaping across thoughts about these strange happenings and how close Poe was against him.

Eventually, he relaxed into the close proximity, staying quiet as he watched Poe... That was probably creepy, so he had to remind himself to close his eyes every now and then, even if his gaze did keep finding the others striking profile in the dark.

[flightforfreedom]

It took a long time. But in the end, Poe was so exhausted that he slowly started to drift off. He didn’t really notice when his hand drifted to touch Finn’s knee, almost like an anchor point.

And he didn’t notice when the darkness finally took him.

90 minutes later, after Poe had had some uneasy but dreamless sleep, the dreams began again.

And so did the phenomenon.

[hatejakku]

Finn, who felt far too comfortable with the contact on his knee, was half asleep when he heard sloshing water. Half thinking something had bothered the bowls, he reluctantly opened his eyes to see what was going on.

But the water wasn't sloshing. It was rising in the air, twining together like a braid before combining to form shapes and rivers, things unpredicatable and bizarre.

Finn was frozen, staring wide eyed at the sight, not knowing what to do. Should he let Poe rest? During this? How could he wake him easily enough for it to continue? How was this happening at all.

"Poe," he whispered softly, not really wanting to wake him but not knowing what else to do. They didnt talk about this part.

[flightforfreedom]

He didn’t wake, the voice too soft. His eyes were closed, his breathing even and heavy as the water slipped and twisted around itself.

The bowls were moving now, too, trembling as first and then slowly raising spinning like tops through molasses.

Poe’s hand on Finn’s knee twitched, and everything dropped half a foot before stabilizing and slowly rising again.

[hatejakku]

Finn's breath hitched when everything nearly fell, all but confirming Poe was somehow subconsciously controlling this. Okay. Okay, okay. The water was proof enough, right? He needed to wake him up.

"Poe," he tried softly again, a hand combing against Poe's hair even though his eyes stayed on the scene. "Poe, hey..."

[flightforfreedom]

Poe let out a soft sound at the touch of fingers in his hair, and his eyes slowly fluttered open. This time, the objects didn’t immediately drop. Everything hung in the air, suspended, as Poe slowly roused, turning his eyes to Finn’s face.

He didn’t think to look at the bowls, his heart thumping at the tender touch.

“Did you—“ but as soon as he tried to speak everything crashed to the floor and Poe nearly jumped out of his skin again.