I have only the most scattered moments of concepts for this AU but
When Edwin meets Charles, there is the slightest hesitation before he says that he escaped from Hell. But it doesn’t read like a lie, exactly, and what could be worse than what he did say, anyway? So Charles just tells Edwin he’s chuffed that Edwin got out of Hell, that it sounds hard, and doesn’t mind about the pause or the funny look that Edwin gives him, either. Almost forgets about them, until the Night Nurse pulls the memory back decades later.
Edwin has always had a certain fondness for fire spells. Charles doesn’t have any sense of smell, of course, as a ghost, so he never knows that the scent when Edwin casts them isn’t the sharp ozone of other sorcerers but something more like fireworks.
Whenever they have a case with a demon, Edwin wears his disguise the entire time. Charles, when he notices, doesn’t say anything because he figures it’s to reduce the likelihood of being recognized and dragged back to Hell, which is true.
Ghosts do not sleep and very, very rarely lose consciousness fully. It has happened seven times, to Charles, curses and venomous bites and spirit-sucking hordes. Each time he woke up back in the office, lying on the sofa, Edwin sitting beneath him cradling his head, with no good explanation as to why the case was now solved or how the fight got ended, and Charles politely did not push.
Time number six was unusual in that he was never sure exactly what knocked him out, except that he thinks he might have been hallucinating, right before. Because the last thing he remembers is Edwin standing over him, eyes locked on their enemy, and light flickering over him like he was in the darkness surrounded by fire instead of in a car park on a sunny day. And Edwin tilting his head, and smiling in a way that looked like a venomous snake about to strike, and saying “Honey, you should see me in a crown.”
When Charles went to Hell, to rescue Edwin, he didn’t find him huddled in the Dollhouse, in the outskirts of Hell.
He found him in the frozen center, chained to the Throne.
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