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"You’re right about me feeling a lot of feelings about the whole situation. Andrew tried to do right by me. Was it too late for all of that? Maybe. But it means something to me that he was going to try.”
Charles bites his lip, searching for words. “And it means something to me that someone wanted to stop him. They got away with killing me thirty years ago. You’re not going to let them get away with doing that to me again, are you?”
Instead of submitting his confession for murdering Charles Rowland 35 years ago, Andrew Fairfax has to drag his soul out the lake of St. Hilarion with no memory of who exactly choked these bruises into his neck but he's got a list of suspects and a pretty good idea of their motives. It seems like he's going to need the help of a couple of detectives to connect the dots.
(Or: Charles is having a lot of feelings that he's definitely going to unpack later. Promise. Edwin goes a little bit insane and he's hiding it so, so well. Crystal sees some stuff she'd rather she didn't. And, honestly, Niko has had better weeks. )
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17 Nov 2024
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“Really, Crystal,” Edwin said haughtily, as if he hadn’t been making moon eyes at Charles a moment before. “What exactly is it that you are struggling to comprehend?”
Crystal fought back the urge to scream. “Oh, I don’t know Edwin,” she snapped, “How about the part where the Night Nurse’s desk ended up in flames?”
Or: Crystal returns from a trip with her parents to find the agency in chaos. Edwin and Charles are bickering even more than usual—and Crystal is determined to get to the bottom of it.
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14 Oct 2024
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Because all Charles wants—has always wanted since the first time they ran away from Death together—is for Edwin to be happy. He wants to rekindle that spark in Edwin’s eyes and watch it bloom, free and fearless.
And the thing is… Charles is the one holding the match that can light that fire, isn't he?
Oh.
Or: How a seemingly run-of-the-mill case, ye olde repression, and Edwin Payne’s collarbones give Charles Rowland his bisexual awakening. Though not necessarily in that order.
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09 Oct 2024
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Charles is flummoxed when Edwin reveals that he considers relieving himself of his virginity after hating himself for so long for his desires.
What's a good friend to do but offer to be the afterlife's best wingman?
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22 Sep 2024
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It's been a year and some change since Edwin stood on a step below Charles, bloody, beaten, green eyes sparkling, and told Charles that he was in love with him. He told Edwin it didn't change anything between them, and it didn't. But it didn’t necessarily do nothing to Charles. No, he actually thinks it might have changed him irrevocably and all that. Because lately, when it comes to Edwin, he's been aching.
Then, Crystal and Charles take on a new case: a ghost, 90 years old, still in the asylum she died in over sixty years earlier; lost and confused, and looking for her missing baby. As they work to untangle the story of this woman's life, they realise Edwin may be more wrapped up in it than any of them expected.
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29 Aug 2024