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like a force to be reckoned with by QuintessentialShip
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Dec 2024
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“You’ve been running a long time, haven’t you? You don’t need to run anymore.”
Charles tried to shake the cotton from his thoughts, but Death was looking at him with the kindest eyes he had ever seen in his life or death. “Um – what about Edwin? You can’t split us up,” was all his mind could grab hold of.
“The ones we share a great love with never truly leave us. There are bonds that even Death cannot break.” She smiled softly again.
Charles felt comforted by that. Edwin would never truly leave him. “That’s – good,” he managed to say. He was feeling pretty peaceful about the whole thing, actually.
“Are you ready to find out what’s next?” Death asked as she extended her hand to him, palm up and welcoming.
Charles looked at Death, with her exceedingly kind eyes and her overwhelmingly tender smile, and her hand an invitation that he could not refuse.
He reached out and took it.
And Charles Rowland passed on to his afterlife.
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When Charles is separated from Crystal and Edwin on a case, a moment of compassion puts him in Death's path, and Edwin has to find a way to bring him home. -
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Charles, drunk from a face full of pixie powder, kisses his best mate.
~I imagine Charles would be extra silly, happy, affectionate and impulsive if he became accidentally intoxicated from an enchanted substance. Luckily Crystal helps him make sense of what happened! Enjoy!
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And they loved happily ever after by QuintessentialShip
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
31 Aug 2024
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I’m crushed. I’m devastated. I’ll give them a happy ending myself.
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Perhaps one of the lingering aftereffects of spending 70 years in hell is that even though Edwin trusts Charles implicitly, he still likes the comforting certainty of taking the lead and setting the pace in bed. Which is just brills, if you ask Charles, because what he likes more than anything is to be pressed into the sheets by Edwin and made to hear just how good and brave and lovely he is.
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Cuban Espresso (or how to take a totally platonic nap with your best mate) by QuintessentialShip for Opossum_Subatomic
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
17 Aug 2024
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Charles convinces his best mate Edwin to take a nap with him.
This ficlet is inspired by Opossum_Subatomic's AMAZING College/University AU Tonight's the Night You Fight Your Best Mate's Dad, which I absolutely love. Charles and Edwin are so adorably devoted to each other - plus protective Edwin confronting Charles' jerk of a father, and protective Charles scandalizing Edwin's uptight, homophobic family. And coffee!! And cuddling! And Charles being the The Most dense bisexual alive. Seriously, go read it and leave some kudos/comments!!!
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“Edwin!” Charles’s head pops through the wall, smiling broadly. “It snowed!”
It’s only the years of training himself not to display untoward emotions—and that was before Hell—that stops Edwin from showing his unabashed relief. “It’s December, Charles. It does that.”
Was that too acerbic? Possibly. Before Edwin can apologize, Charles laughs, like he finds Edwin and his sharp tongue delightful. He has a tendency to do that. No one ever has ever laughed at Edwin like that before Charles, like he’s simply happy to be in Edwin’s presence, without a trace of cruelty. Edwin wonders if one of those rocks those hideous boys threw at Charles hit him in the head and if such injuries ever follow one into death.
“No, it’s proper snow, mate,” Charles says. “Come see!”
In the days before they leave St. Hilarion's and set out to start the Dead Boy Detective Agency, Edwin and Charles are just two boys playing in the snow.
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05 Dec 2024
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"There is no such thing as ghost wine," says Edwin later, sat on the floor of the office, handily trouncing Charles at chess. "I would have read about it somewhere by now, surely. I suspect he was having us on."
"Oh, come off it, mate," says Charles. "He paid us proper, yeah? Why'd he lie about something that's a tip, anyhow?"
"People dissemble for all manner of reasons," says Edwin, primly.
"And they tell the truth for loads of others, don't they," Charles counters, and he reaches up to snag the bottle off the desk. "Come on. One way to tell for sure."
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03 Dec 2024
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your heart in the world, and the world there within by wordsinhaled
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Nov 2024
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Why haven’t they been doing this for three decades? And if Edwin hadn't happened to turn his head when he did, how many there-and-gone-again kisses to the cheek would it've taken Charles to get them here on his own?
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30 Nov 2024
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Charles kisses Edwin on a calm and snowy night.
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22 Nov 2024
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Charles sinks down a little lower in his chair and lets his knees fall open.
“What are you doing?” Edwin says, but he isn’t asking. Not really.
“I miss it,” Charles says. “Bet you do too, eh?”
“Charles.” Edwin sounds uncertain. “Are you…?”
There’s a moment of breath-held silence, wound tight as anything, and then Charles says, quietly, “Tell me—tell me to stop.”
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15 Nov 2024