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Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Re-Animator (Movies - Combs) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Daniel Cain/Herbert West, Daniel Cain & Herbert West Characters: Herbert West (Re-Animator), Daniel Cain Additional Tags: it’s a bottle episode you guys, except it’s not a bottle it’s a grave, two idiots falling in love? wrong, they fell into a grave and can’t get out, bury your gays (literally), puns (oh so many terrible puns), Bickering, Period-Typical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Corpse Desecration, warnings in the opening notes, Humor, of the gallows persuasion, Hurt/Comfort, Herbert West being on every conceivable spectrum, severed hand in unlovable hand but none of the aforementioned hands belong to herbert Summary:
“It’s not funny. If people start talking—” “Oh, but they already are.” “No, I mean, if they think there’s something… abnormal about me, you know.” Dan gulps, then winces. “Sexually.” “Yes, that’s what I meant,” Herbert snickers, and then his inflection changes into something mock-serious. “There have been rumors.”
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A helpful guide for grave robbers, from intermediate to advanced.

















