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Thomas is minding his own business, mildly overcaffeinated and stretched out on his favourite bench basking in the warm early-summer sun, when strong fingers wrap around his wrist and he’s unceremoniously hauled to his feet.
“Okay? Hey, hi. How about hands off the merchandise?” he snaps, stumbling to keep his footing as whoever grabbed him drags him into a quick walk. Then he looks up and gets an eyeful of exactly who disturbed his almost-catnap and immediately reassesses his reaction, voice dropping into a heated purr. “Or maybe not. Hello, handsome.” Because currently steering Thomas across the grass is the gorgeous, fascinating, extremely uptight guy that Thomas has been watching and lusting after since the start of the semester.
Tall, Sharp, and Fascinating pastes a stiff smile on his face as he stares determinedly ahead. “Play along and you’ll earn yourself a night of sex before I send you on your merry way.”
And far be it for Thomas to turn down the opportunity being laid at his metaphorical feet. He shrugs with a grin at his soon-to-be one-night stand. “Well, I’ve probably done worse things for a fuck than whatever this is going to be.” -
The Case of the Ghosts of Milleflora Opera by megs_bee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
28 Jun 2026
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A new show opens at Milleflora Opera House, but each night someone in the audience falls asleep during the performance, dreams unusually realistic dreams, and dies by morning, leaving distraught ghosts behind. It should be a straightforward case....right up until it isn't.
Edwin does not like coincidences—he believes the world simultaneously too random and too orderly—but he accepts that they do, on occasion, happen. But this morning brought a third ghost to their door in as many days, this time only minutes after the sun has even risen. A third ghost to have slept and dreamt and died before sunrise at the very same opera, well.
That is most emphatically not a coincidence.
Charles nods his agreement. “So we’re taking them all on, then. One big case.”
“Indeed.”
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A little breaking and entering, a little magical arson (Is this how you always make friends?) by megs_bee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
26 May 2026
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It was a shit case, even though they’re all back in the office safe and mostly sound. But Crystal’s exhausted, which makes her meaner than she intends to be, and Edwin’s having a not exactly quiet freak out and pacing circles around the office. Which leaves Charles holding it all together, when all he really wants to do right now is break something. A specific something he should’ve remembered long before today.
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“One of those ghosts is back at the witch’s’ house.”
The Cat King lazily opens one eye with his best pretense of disinterest. “Oh? And which ghost is it?”
Marmalade sniffs derisively. “I don’t know, the rude one.”
“That doesn’t narrow it down,” the Cat King mutters. But he doubts it’s Edwin. Which leaves the Cat King wondering what Rowland is doing in Port Townsend.
Ugh, he’s going to have to go find out. Fuck only knows what one of those Dead Boy Detectives will get up to if left unsupervised, especially without the other one there to haul on the reins. Just look at the last time.Charles and the Cat King commit some crimes, clear the air, and maybe even end up (reluctantly) something like friends.
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To hear you is to love you (a purr by any other cat would sound as sweet) by megs_bee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
25 Apr 2026
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He always forgets, in the years between returns.
Maybe if he was burning through his lives more than once a century or so, he’d remember, but he’s honestly done pretty good for himself on that front. Hard to really regret not fucking up hard enough to lose a life on the regular.
But three lives stretch out behind him, number four lays spread before him, and he’s forgotten again in between.
Thomas feels as though he is overflowing with joy—at which point he immediately shatters it all.
The joy bubbles up, champagne and butterflies, and turns to a hum and then he purrs for the first time in years—
—and it’s changed, it’s different, it’s wrong—
—he always fucking forgets.The Cat King's purr sounds different with each new life, and he's having An Emotion about it. Luckily Edwin is there to offer some comfort.
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My hopes were heaven-high (they are all fulfilled in you) by megs_bee
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
24 Apr 2026
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It’s not that Charles minds helping Edwin research. The opposite, really. He’s not a studier the way Edwin is but it’s been absolutely aces learning all sorts of stuff about magic and the supernatural over the years of his afterlife. The universe is so much bigger and stranger that he ever knew or could have guessed. Plus, when whatever Edwin’s looking for isn’t urgent, it’s a really nice way to spend a quiet afternoon together. One of his favourite ways, if he’s being honest.
Then Charles’ mouth works faster than his brain, as usual, and he asks, “You ever seen one? An angel, I mean,” before immediately chastising himself.
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Charles scoffs. “You literally insisted on walking in front of me. If someone sprang a trap, it was you.”
“No, no, no, ghostie. The writing on that little faery lock says that this is a trap for ghosts; the gate only seals if a ghost walks into it.”
“...Oh.”
Thomas makes eye contact, and smirks in an exaggerated manner that flashes one of his canines. He tops it off with a wink and watches how Charles goes from momentarily deflated right back to petty narrowed eyes and ever constant pacing.
He doesn't stop or bother with eye contact again to say, “so.. what's the plan? Can you dispel it?”
“Well there certainly seems to be a way for the gate to open…” Thomas stalks around to be behind Charles, leaning over him by the shoulders to murmur into his ear suggestively. “If you're willing to swallow your pride and do what needs to be done.”
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14 Jul 2026
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I wish that you would stay (in my memories) by Hse11z5
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
04 Jun 2026
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Niko was gone (had been gone, continued to be gone) for over nine months. Charles was there, but he was not. He was always with Crystal now, and never meeting Edwin's gaze. And Edwin was so alone he couldn't stand it.
"Edwin's hands stilled and his eyes focused on a spell entitled To conjure a shadow version of one who is lost. The warnings were longer than the spell. He had read no more than three lines before Edwin knew he was not using this spell to bring back Niko. The warnings explicitly stated that this shadow version was not linked to the person you had lost. It was an entirely new being, created from the spell caster and their memories of the missing person. Edwin would not attempt to build a new version of Niko. There was no way he could ever recreate her smile, her laugh, the things only she would say. He could never be what she was. He would not insult her memory by trying.
But he was not thinking about Niko.
All he could picture was Charles.
He knew, in every logical part of himself, that it would not be real. But it might be enough."
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13 Jul 2026
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Edwin is sick. Charles skips his afternoon class to take care of him.
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11 Jul 2026
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We'll Lay Here For Years Or For Hours, Your Hand In My Hand by HavocCallsFromBelow
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Jul 2026
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Edwin can feel eyes on him as soon as he steps through the cupboard door; this might have been a mistake, letting Charles talk him into something this daring. He tries tugging the shorts down and then his sleeves, to no avail, though. He knows that in this day and age this length is considered appropriate, but he still feels too exposed. Straightening his back, he fixes his gaze on Charles, who still hasn't said anything, who is no longer even looking at him.
Or: Edwin wears something new, and Charles can't keep his hands off any longer.
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11 Jul 2026
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It had been a quiet week. Even though ghosts could not feel the temperature of anything that was not supernatural in nature, business still reliably slowed down every summer - and the current heatwave was, of course, no exception.
So Charles and Edwin had the place all to themselves. They'd closed early and sent the girls home, who'd been drooping on the small office sofa like a pair of flowers that had wilted in the heat.
But the two boys weren't affected by the weather like that. They just had the rest of the day off to enjoy themselves.
When the boys close shop early, Charles takes care of Edwin, and then himself.
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11 Jul 2026