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and if you can stay, then I'll show you the way by dwindledintogroans
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Nov 2024
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Charles hadn’t meant to say the words: “like your soul, right?” when Edwin freaking Payne asked for an iced black coffee. But he did, and now he's finding out a whole lot more about the university's resident troublemaker than he ever thought he would.
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I do not own Dead Boy Detectives or its characters, all rights go to Netflix, DC Comics and Steve Yockey. I am not making any money from this fic.Title from 'Mama' by My Chemical Romance.
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14 Feb 2026
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Haunted by the grief of losing Niko and desperate to find meaning in everything that happened to him, Edwin’s drawn back to Port Townsend. Back to the idea that the suffering of a ghost like him, someone tempered in hellfire, can be forged into immense magical power. And he’d only use it to protect rather than ruin.
But magic like this always demands its price. Resisting the pull of his new power proves difficult, and sometimes Charles feels like the only thing keeping Edwin tethered to his old self. Yet Charles isn’t without his own battles to fight and truths to face.
As Edwin tries to protect his friends while safeguarding his secret, Charles fights to save Edwin from himself. Soon, the question becomes not whether Edwin is willing to pay the cost, but whether there will be anything left of him when the debt comes due.
OR: Edwin’s corruption arc vs Charles’ feeling realization arc, FIGHT
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- 11/11
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15 Sep 2025
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"Edwin, mate? It's- it's alright, I'm not gonna hurt you, mate,"
Charles's voice echoes through the factory, concerned and tense. Edwin wishes he could let Charles find him, let him soothe away the panic with consolatory words and gentle touches.
The problem is, Edwin knows what Charles sounds like when he's lying.
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02 Jun 2025
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“Edwin? What was that?” Crystal barged into the room, looking sleep-rumpled and grumpy. She frowned at Charles blearily before looking over to Edwin.
“Who’s this guy?” she asked.
Charles felt his whole world caving in.
“My question precisely,” Edwin stated primly. When he turned his gaze on Charles, it was cold and unfamiliar.
“Who are you?”
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Charles gets cursed on a case, causing Edwin, Crystal, and everyone he's ever met to lose all memory of him. Only one person, or rather, cat, is immune to the curse's magic, and Charles was really hoping he'd never have to see him again.Bookmarked by paintroller21
27 Apr 2025
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“I would rather get ripped apart than play this game with you,” he spat, letting all of the venom he was capable of sink into his words.
The boy’s face crumpled. It was as if Edwin had somehow found the exact worst thing to say to him, like he’d not only stabbed him but twisted the knife on the way out.
The last thing he saw before he died was the boy, face red from screaming as he reached out for Edwin.
It almost looked like he was sad.
XXXSome unknown events in Hell strip Edwin of his memories, leaving him with no knowledge of the last few decades. Charles is going to save him though, even if he has to drag Edwin out, kicking and screaming.
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10 Mar 2025
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blessed be the boys time can't capture by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
16 Jan 2025
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This is dying. This must be what dying was. And if Charles died in an attic with a pretty boy reading him a bedtime story, well, that wasn’t the worst death he could imagine.
Then he woke up.XX
An AU where Charles dies and turns into a vampire when he and Edwin first meet. Together they run from Death and struggle to figure out who turned Charles and what that might mean for their afterlives.
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- Part 1 of there's a room where the light won't find you (holding hands while the walls come tumbling down)
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05 Feb 2025
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Séances and Summonings (and Screaming) by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Feb 2025
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Charles is doing fine after Port Townsend. Sure, he can't let his friend out of his sight without hearing him scream, but that's not a problem. He just won't let him out of his sight.
At least, that was the plan before someone summoned Edwin away right in front of him.
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31 Jan 2025
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The Dead Boys Detective Agency are hired to deal with a cursed blade.
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08 Oct 2024
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blood in the streets of paris by moogle62
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012)
11 Apr 2015
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The door swings open and Enjolras, wild-eyed, stands at the threshold. There is blood on his shirt and on his hands and on - god, Grantaire thinks - on his mouth.
As loud as he was a moment ago, hammering on Grantaire’s door, Enjolras can’t seem to find his voice. He looks over Grantaire’s shoulder at the tiny flat like it’s completely out of his reach and Grantaire knows, understanding blossoming through him like the pain of being kicked in the gut, what Enjolras needs.
“You can come in,” he says, and holds the door open wide.
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23 Feb 2023
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The Icarus Experiment by stvrkey
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Maximum Ride - James Patterson
11 Sep 2020
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Grantaire's family is the largest collection of idiots he's ever seen exist in one place without succumbing to death by natural selection. They're ridiculous, chaotic, sad, furious, utterly codependent, and, er, they have wings. They're also imprisoned in a secret government facility that experiments on them for unknown (but Grantaire's gonna go ahead and say sinister) reasons. The revolution will not be civilised.
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- 6/6
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23 Feb 2023
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Under My Wings You Will Find Refuge by Fiver
Fandoms: Les Misérables - All Media Types, Les Misérables (2012), Supernatural
24 Nov 2025
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"Let me come with you. It's not smart to go around fighting monsters on your own."
"Almost all hunters work alone."
"Doesn't make it any smarter."
In which Enjolras is going to save the innocent masses from the things that go bump in the night, and Grantaire is definitely either a lot more or a lot less than he appears. Neither of them can quite decide which it is.
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- Part 1 of Under My Wings You Will Find Refuge
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- 26/?
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06 Feb 2023
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Five years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, Charles and Erik find themselves in a situation where they must rely on each other for survival. Trapped in a coal mine deep beneath the earth's surface, and having lost his wheelchair to a disaster, Charles fights the nature of his physical limitations while Erik struggles to remain distant. Ironically, in the dark, it is impossible to hide your heart.
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- 7/?
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Bookmarked by paintroller21
06 Feb 2023