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All fics in this collection were beta read by heckofabecca.
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“Charles?” The boy asked, startling him from his thoughts. His voice was soft and kind, like his mum’s often was after a particularly rough night with his dad.
Charles looked up, his good eye blinking owlishly. “Who’re you?”
He looked back at Charles, lips set in a wobbly frown. If Charles had to guess, he’d say the strange, stuffy-looking boy was trying not to cry.
There was a long beat of silence. And then:
“Oh, my dear. What has she done to you?”
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Or, after tangling with the spirit of a mad scientist, Edwin is left with a seven-year-old Charles that has no memory of him or their afterlife together. Edwin learns about Charles’s childhood in steps, as Charles finds his way back to the family he’s built by working through the trauma of his past. -
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“Do you recall the rules, darling?”
Charles gives a hazy nod. He’s a bit gone already, if he’s honest—sinking more and more into that fuzzy headspace with every word Edwin says to him—but he remembers.
Edwin leans down, so close his nose brushes Charles’s cheek. So close Charles feels that delicate lace he’s wearing rub up against his chest. He tries to lift his wrists, just a bit. Just to feel Edwin press them back down into the bed.
“Tell me,” Edwin says.
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Charles gets what he wants.
Series
- Part 3 of To be so Known
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that trick is just to hold on (and so we do) by Chrome
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Sandman (TV 2022)
17 Dec 2024
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When Lucifer leaves the gates of hell unlocked and its creatures begin to walk the earth, the world gets more complicated and deadly for everyone--especially those who already linger close to the border between life and afterlife.
For the Dead Boy Detectives, it means encountering a danger that, for the first time, they can't find their way out of together.
or: Four perspectives on Charles Rowland, after Edwin Payne.
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“How can we help you?”
Matthew straightened up, seemingly collecting himself to explain the mission he planned on giving to their agency. Edwin got the impression that it was going to be a rather complex endeavour and felt a tingle of excitement along his spine.
“I introduced myself as Matthew Cifarelli,” their client started, “but that has only been my identity for the past twenty-four years. I have no memory of my life before. I wish for you to find out where I come from and who I really am.”
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Matthew Cifarelli doesn't know who he is. He engaged the Dead Boy Detective Agency to help him regain his memories, not knowing that this would open the lid to a box full of secrets, intrigues and betrayals.
Edwin, Charles, Crystal and Niko investigate in two directions, yet all of them get closer to the same truth. Will they manage to reveal it before the time runs out?
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The switchboard had long sat in the corner of the office untouched.
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Edwin knows that there is only one person he knows who could possibly fix the office's dusty old switchboard.
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- Part 2 of Simon Redemption Arc - One Shots
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Cordelia and Aral try to get a moment together.