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Edwin's teeth are worrying at his lower lip. He's staring up at Charles under lashes like he's nervous about looking directly. If he could be less pretty, Charles would almost appreciate it.
Edwin is pressing his fists together.
"Mate, what's got you so worked up?" Charles says, almost snappish with exasperation.
"It does seem a little, permanent, don't you think?"
Charles glances at his rough sketched design of their door sign: Dead Boy Detectives.
"Yeah, I think it bloody does."
Or, 1990, their first year together. They set up a business. Charles navigates his loss. Edwin has a panic attack. Charles falls in love. And they go to the cinema. Not in that order. Follows on from "We Didn't Matter, He and I".
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- Part 6 of Not Orpheus and Eurydice
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27 Oct 2025
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the slow trickling thaw that sets the banks in half by Ingi for gracefulpinecone
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
21 Dec 2024
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Let the record show that Crystal is full of good intentions, and it's not her fault that Edwin is as prickly as a porcupine and not even half as cute.
Crystal and Edwin, after Port Townsend. Growing pains are had.
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01 Aug 2025
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The Case of the Hellbound Souls by JUBE514
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
01 Aug 2024
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Edwin blinks, his hair in disarray, his clothing all rucked up from being carried. His blue eyes are blown wide open, looking around frantically.
Charles untangles himself, doing a little ungraceful flip-roll across the floor to get his legs and head the correct way around to actually face Edwin, scooting forward on his knees to grab ahold of Edwin’s shoulders. “Are you okay, mate?”
Edwin’s eyes lock onto Charles. There’s something weird in his gaze, looking right at Charles but not right at Charles. There’s ink on his shirt, half hidden by his blazer, smeared in with frantic motions of a fingerprint. He’s got a little sizzling mark right at the divot of his collar, already disappearing slowly, Charles can’t help but run his thumb over it, trying to wash away the pain like a smear of dirt on a cheek.
Edwin flinches.
Charles rips his hands away, still hovering only inches away. “Edwin, please, mate, you’re scaring me.”
Edwin looks confused, right into Charles' eyes, and asks—
“Who—who are you?”
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13 Jul 2025
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And, bloody hell, he shouldn’t be tired. Ghosts didn’t need sleep. They were made entirely of energy! Charles was -
“Bollocks!” He pushed himself upright with a muffled curse and only minimal effort.
Of course, he was tired. He was tired for the first time in nearly 20 years because an angry minor deity had thrown him straight into Edwin’s energy-eating sigil. He remembered his back colliding with something solid hard enough that it dazed him; he remembered scrabbling towards the sound of Edwin’s voice, and not much beyond that.
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13 Jul 2025
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Of a youth who loves me by Aliquis
Fandom Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
27 May 2024
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