❝ i knew 𝐧𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 to 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ❞

𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐃𝐄𝐍 ─ 𝐃𝐔𝐍𝐄

˚ ༘✶ ⋆｡˚ ⁀➷ 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐬 ꒱࿐
❝ no other 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 makes my 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 as 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 as 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 ❞

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𝓔den.

Would a name ever be as haunting as that?

The name of a garden, given to two people, who had rejected its fruits and ate the forbiden. And the name of a girl Paul Atreides had loved long ago.

Their love story begun, when Paul was nine, and Eden was eight, on his home planet, Caladan, far away from Eden's home planet of Jahkis. A recent alliance between House Vestoris and House Atreides caused the interweaving of their lives, a strong thread of gold stitching them together. If he ever were to be locked away, and made to turn his love for her into the same gold string that connected them, he was sure he would never stop.

For he wouldn't reject the gardens fruits, he would dine on them, and love the earth that had given it. He wouldn't forsaken the garden, he would live out his days within it, dismiss the serpent that dared to tempt and draw him away from his love.

But the serpent can only be ignored for so long.

Eden returned to her home planet Jahkis, at the age of fifteen, just a few months before her sixteenth birthday. She had spent her last seven at Caladan, which her family had traveled to for each, but on her sixteenth she was called home.

On the same day she left, Paul kissed her for the first time.

A tender meeting of flesh that the two had never experienced before. As soft as the grass they would lay on when they would spend their afternoons in the gardens. As pure as the snow that would fall over her home planet during the months of winter. And as desperate as to lovers who had only just experienced the other, before being torn away from each other. But their unrest for each other wouldn't last long. Paul had to help his father with some business, but, the week before it, Paul would go to Jahkis for Edens birthday, and they would be reunited.

And so he counted down the days.

Upon the twelfth, and second to last, week of his countdown, they received news of House Harkonnen's attack on Jahkis. Something so unexpected, yet so expected (due to the fast raising tension, which had been there since the beginning of the Known Universe, between the two houses). There was no word of what had become of House Vestoris, but all that was expected was nothing but the worst.

Paul wept.

The sky of Caladan seemed to weep with him as it stormed all the week after they heard the news. Marking it one of the, if not, thee heaviest and longest rainfall in the planets history

His great love. Thought to be lost to him, just a week before he would reunite with her.

Paul had pleaded with his father to avenge her, to go to war with House Harkonnen, a request Duke Leto reasonably declined. Paul saw no sense while being in the depths of his grief and despair.

A year later, Paul was eighteen, and at the time of, his lost love would've been seventeen. The pain of his lost still caused a heart-wrenching ache in his chest, but his mourning had calmed, and the facade of strength and tranquility that he wore in the day, masked the tears that would fall from his eyes at night.

Tears were not the only thing to come to him at night;

dreams.

Dreams of being attached to a gold string, and a girl (whose face was hidden from him) who was connected to the other end of it. The Déjà Vu struck him like lightning, when he first dreamt of the girl. The locks of golden brown curls, whipped in the wind, the sight of them, so inviting, he tried to reach out and touch them, hoping to quench the thirst that was to feel those same locks under his touch once more. He was sure if he were to touch it, it would feel as real as the sand under his feet, as the two wandered a vast desert.

'Could it be?'

Could it be Eden? Could it be the girl he had loved and lost. Or could it be a vicious dream, with a mere vision of deception sent to torment him.

'Oh let it be her.'

Paul pleaded.

He continued to follow the girl with the golden brown curls, through the desert, waiting for her to turn around. Waiting for just a glimpse at her face. When finally the girl began to turn.

He woke with a start.

Fury took over him. It was not even day. The sun hadn't even begun to rise. Who would rip him away from such a dream?

From that night on, he had the same dream.

Following the same cycle; he would follow the girl with the golden brown curls, and just as she would begin to turn, he would wake. It was a saddening nightly routine, that had become accustom to him, but slowly a yearning to see her face faded (but was still there), and the comfort of just being in the girls presence took over.

Weeks after the first dream, his father informed him of their move to Arrakis (said to be the sister planet of Jahkis, due to how close the planets were), to manage the spice production. The planet was one enormous desert, something that reminded him of the desert that he and the girl traversed in his dreams. The comparison planted a funny thought in his head.

'What if the girl is there...'

The thought turned into speculation. What if her were able to find her.

Upon House Atreides arrival on Arrakis, Paul began the steady search for the girl with golden brown hair, until one day, as he was strolling around the place of his new residency, he caught a glimpse of them, the wisps of golden brown hair. And so as he did in his dreams, he followed her, waiting for her to turn around, and once she did...

He thought that he was dreaming when he finally saw her face.

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❝ do you 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 i have 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 ❞

EDEN VESTORIS ✥ NATALIE PORTMAN
The Lost and Found

❝ i thought i would never see you again ❞

PAUL ATREIDES ✥ TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
The Messiah

❝ i have only just found you, i will not lose you again ❞

PEDRO PASCAL as Quinton Keris
The rest of the dune cast as their characters

˚ ༘✶ ⋆｡˚ ⁀➷ 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 ꒱࿐
❝ say you'll 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞 ❞

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originally watched dune: part one a few months after it came out (due to a timothée chalamet obsession) and after watching dune: part two, my love for the franchise came back and here we are.

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sex, death, violence, religious references

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all my graphics are made by me unless stated otherwise. i only own the plot, my new oc's, and my oc house and planet. All original characters and original plot lines belong to frank herbert and the creators of the dune.