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So he liked rainy days. Days like this one, standing in the bus shelter, watching the rain pour down and make a river of the street, waiting for the bus that would take him and Beard to a museum they’d been meaning to check out for ages, thinking about the rainy day he’d found Nate standing alone in the rain without an umbrella and decidedly not thinking about the last time he had seen him. Ted’s not a worrier.
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Ted thinks about a rainy day, and he doesn't worry about anything at all. -
in an alternate timeline's light by plentyghosts
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
22 Sep 2024
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Charles has been standing outside the office for approximately five, maybe ten, minutes with his ear pressed to the door, listening. Listening to the shuffle of footsteps, the knocking and turning over of the trinkets that covered the office, trying to formulate some sort of a plan in his head.
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Returning to the office one day, Charles encounters what he thinks is an intruder. He ends up with much more on his plate then he expected. Meanwhile, Edwin Paine has been having a very stressful day. -
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Through the window, the sky has never seemed so unreachable, so wide and unending as he blinks up at it with glossy eyes. In the depths, a star blinks back at him. He recognizes it as Arcturus and isn’t sure what to do with the unsettled feeling it stirs in his chest.
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Monty, freshly human, doing totally fine. Really. He's just so super excited about all this. -
A little fall of rain (can hardly hurt me now) by plentyghosts
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
12 Jul 2024
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In the dark he sits silent and does not see the ink pooling beneath the tip of his pen gone still. A few feet away, a series of small thuds and the sound of something rolling unceremoniously into a corner tells him Charles has failed to catch his ball in the sudden and enduring darkness. And Edwin…
Edwin cannot move.
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When a thunderstorm causes a power outage in the dead boys office, it rekindles an old fear for Edwin. Thankfully, Charles is there, and he has the perfect solution. -
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In which Edwin does not like to wonder and he is absolutely not pining for his best friend.
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The Long Road by plentyghosts
Fandom The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
19 Jan 2022
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Fics documenting S.Q. handling the aftermath of the book series and Mr. Curtain's treatment of him. Don't have to be read in order but the fics are all connected to each other so it does help things make a little more sense.
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Wildland (Notes from Heather Mountain Lookout, North Cascades, Chelan County, Washington. May 7 - October 18) by mellxncollie
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Sep 2025
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It's Charles' third summer as the fire lookout on Heather Mountain. Edwin, a writer looking for a bit of fresh air and inspiration, is the new relief lookout. Before even meeting, they begin to leave notes for each other around the tower.
aka the fire lookout au, a story told entirely by notes, journal entries, letters, and lookout logs.
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15 Sep 2025
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“Thanks,” Charles said, quietly.
“It’s just a shirt,” Edwin muttered, though it wasn’t really what he meant.
He ducked his head, suddenly unable to stand the sight at all: Charles, with exhaustion written into the cut-glass lines of his features and pain in the stiffness of his back and still he managed to look at Edwin with gratitude for handing over a fucking t-shirt.
Something was burning inside him, deep in the recesses of his chest, something protective and furious, that made him want to wrap Charles up in his arms - and in a t-shirt and his maroon jacket with the red plaid lining and his new black coat with its steadily-growing collection of lapel pins and maybe a blanket on top of that, and bundle him away somewhere that he would never be cold or hurt again. Somewhere Charles could be safe; maybe somewhere they both could.
-devastating domestic au strikes again: the boys are alive together late 90s/early 2000s, they talk in circles around trauma, go to a party, fight off the horrors to protect each other, and Edwin comes up with the plan
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10 May 2025
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the sound of their breath fades with the light by KiaraSayre
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
30 Apr 2025
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Charles Rowland wakes up in a weird place, meets a weird boy, and things get weird. Also, they do a lot of walking.
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01 May 2025
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“Your son is gone,” they tell her. “It was… an Act of God.”
She cannot think of a single thing to say for a very long moment. And then she has many things to say, most of which are not at all appropriate for polite company.
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Edwin Payne's mother, before and after.
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There's a lot that Edwin and Charles don't talk about. Frankly, after 30 years together, you don't have to say much for the other person to get the point. But Port Townsend and Crystal and Niko knocked their dynamic off-kilter, and by the time they return to London and finally get back to "normal," "normal" has changed. "Normal" is now Crystal's bright laughter, Niko's earnest affection, and Edwin's faint smiles. "Normal" is an unnameable ball of emotions tangled up in Charles' chest. "Normal" is Edwin looking at him, and Charles hearing those words all over again.
Charles, I'm in love with you.
OR, Charles figures out what it means that Edwin is the only person in the world he'd run into Hell for.
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16 May 2024