What Dreams Are Made Of

Ship: FennelXJuniper

Summary: Fennel wants to expand her research to human dreams, and her girlfriend is her reluctant Morpeko. But as she finds out, Aurea has some rather…interesting desires for their relationship.

Made by a request from ComptetitiveIntern78

"Please, Aurea?"

"Fenn, please drop this."

"I promise, I won't pry into anything!"

Professor Juniper sighed and shook her head. Her girlfriend, Professor Fennel, had been studying dreams. Up until now, she'd only studied the dreams of Pokemon, but now was ready to move onto humans. Which would be fine…if she didn't want her to be the first test subject. As much as she loved her girlfriend, she had to set boundaries.

"It's not that I don't trust you. It's just that…I'm not comfortable letting someone view my innermost thoughts."

"It's not like I'm a stranger! I promise, anything and everything will be completely confidential."

Juniper wanted to say no, but she couldn't resist the Lilipup eyes Fennel was giving her.

"Alright, but only because I love you!"

Fennel squealed, and gave her girlfriend a big hug.

"Thank you! I promise, you won't regret it!"

Professor Juniper had a feeling she would.

An hour later, the experiment was ready. Juniper was hooked up to Fennel's equipment, with Musharna at the ready to send her off to dreamland.

"Alright, ready sweetie?"

"As ready as I'll ever be."

Fennel kissed her on the cheek.

"You'll be fine, I promise. Hit it, Musharna!"

Musharna took a deep breath, before releasing its dream gas. Juniper breathed it in, her eyes getting heavy as her girlfriend gently rubbed her arm. Before long, she had drifted off to sleep.

"Sweet dreams, babe," Fennel said, before turning back to her equipment. "Now, let's see what we can find."

As it turns out, there was nothing interesting at all. Despite Juniper being in REM sleep, nothing was showing up on her monitor. Fennel sighed, and slumped over in defeat.

"Oh, this is pointless! I can't believe I put Aurea through all this for nothing."

Musharna whimpered, feeling like this was all her fault. Fennel smiled, and patted her on the head.

"It's not your fault, Mushie. I should've known this might happen. Maybe the technology just isn't there to study human dreams just yet."

Musharna smiled, and cooed softly. Fennel was just about to turn off her machines when something on the screen caught her eye.

"No way…could this be?"

It was. The footage was rather grainy, but she could still make it out. It most certainly was a dream.

"Yes! I knew this could work!"

Eagerly, she leaned forward to watch.

The dream was of the two of them on a beach. She couldn't tell where, but it didn't matter. Oddly enough, Juniper had an Ice Cream Cone, but not her.

"Odd…are we going to share it?"

What happened next surprised Fennel, as the two began to undress and…

"Oh my…that's not what I had in mind when I thought of sharing!"

For a moment, Fennel wanted to turn things off and end the experiment. She felt awful for seeing this, for intruding on her girlfriend's personal space like this. But at the same time, she couldn't help but look on. As their dream selves grasped each other, hands covering every inch of the other's body, she couldn't help but feel…pleased. She'd wanted to take things to the next level for a while, but she never knew how to ask. Knowing that Juniper felt the same way…It was wrong, yes…but maybe she could salvage it into something good.

With one last look at her girlfriend, Fennel turned off the device and erased the footage. Regardless of how things went when Aurea woke up, no one else needed to see it.

A few minutes later, Professor Juniper woke up to find Fiona standing over her.

"Hello, dear."

"Hmmm, what time is it?"

"Just in time for dinner. I was just about to start."

"Here, I'll help."

"Oh honey, you shouldn't! You just woke up, I can…"

"I'm groggy, I'm not helpless. Besides, we both know what happened the last time I let you cook on your own."

Fennel pouted, but said nothing more. But as dinner preparations continued, she couldn't help but notice how…hands on her girlfriend was. It seemed like he was taking every chance she could take to touch her, be it by helping her stir the stew or "accidentally" bumping into her. Not that she didn't like it, but it was rather odd of her normally reserved partner.

At last, dinner was ready, and the two sat down to eat.

"So, see anything interesting in my dreams?"

"Well, you could say that…"

"Fiona?"

Fennel sighed, ashamed of what she'd seen, and explained everything.

"Oh…" Juniper replied, her face unreadable.

"I'm sorry!" Fennel blurted out. "I should've stopped when I saw where it was going, and I wanted to, but I couldn't! I…I was wrong. I promise, I deleted the tape, we can forget this ever happened."

"No…" Juniper said flatly. "We can't."

"I'm sorry."

Juniper sighed.

"I'm not mad, I'm just…"

"Disappointed, I know."

"No, not even that, I just…"

Juniper sighed.

"It's just not how I imagined we'd be having this conversation."

Fennel nodded.

"Um, so…do you want to…you know?"

"For a while now, yes," Juniper sighed. "But I know you're rather sensitive about your body, I didn't want to pressure you. I always intended to bring it up eventually, but I didn't expect you would find out like this."

For a few minutes, they remained silent, before Fennel spoke up.

"I want to do it too."

"Really?"

"It's been on my mind a lot too, I just didn't know how to ask."

Juniper smiled, and gave her a big, passionate kiss.

"What's say you and I have a beach day tomorrow?"

"Will there be Ice Cream?"

"We'll have to share."

Fennel smiled, and kissed her back.

"I can't wait!"

"Although…" Juniper said with a devious smirk. "I can't let this intrusion into my dreams go unpunished. I'm afraid I'm going to have to teach you a lesson."

Fennel giggled, and hugged her tight. Maybe her research wasn't a bust after all.