Nov 25, 2023
*though tears*
and…and they solved it…in a squad…
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*though tears*
and…and they solved it…in a squad…
7 Solve it Squad with trans Scrags?
I love trans Scrags! Thank you for the prompt❤️
“Hey Scrags why do you dress like that?” Gwen asks one day, they were driving to their next mystery, something about a giant rabbit Scraggs hadn’t been paying attention.
“My parents are transphobic so I have to settle for looking like a lesbian stereotype." Scrags shrugs while scratching Cluebert behind the ears.
“So what your saying is murder then we get you get that sweet sweet gamer juice.” Ester replies “Keith does the stabbing and I cover it up.”
“Fuck ya I want to stab some transphobes!” Keith exclaims.
“We’re not stabbing my parents!” Scrags jumps “We’re not stabbing anyone! We solve mysteries we don’t start them.”
“I mean if we aren’t murdering your parents I could at least give you a hair cut.” Gwen offers.
Scraggs hates having long hair. His mom had refused to let him get his hair cut short because ‘That’s not ladylike’ and he never had enough money to afford to get it cut himself.
“Ok!” Scraggs agrees excitedly as the van stops.
Keith holds up a hand mirror for Gwen while Ester munches on chips and suggests what to do next and Cluebert curls around him while he sits on the edge of the van.
“Gimme some chips Est.” Scrags requests.
“I think if I did Gwen would murder me.” Ester laughs.
“I would” Gwen admits “No eating until I’m done.”
“Gwen” Scrags whines.
“No.” Gwen replies firmly.
“We could blackmail your dad into letting you get those shots shots shot shots,” Ester points out “He cheating on your mom by the way.”
“We’re not blackmailing my parents. Wait what?” Scrags exclaims trying not to shift.
“Yeah he’s sleeping with Mrs. Witherspoon.” Ester informs them before begrudgingly giving Cluebert a chip.
“Man Mrs. Witherspoon has bad taste.” Keith remarks “No offense Scrags.”
“None taken have you seen my dad?” Scrags asks.
“I’m done.” Gwen smiles as she takes the scissors away.
Keith hands Scrags the hand mirror. He can’t help it as a giant grin stretches across his face, his hair is short! Finally!
“Not to be sappy but I love you guys.” Scrags says as he pulls Gwen into a hug, he feels tears of joy in his eyes.
We Fall Apart
Description: The fallout of the night that changed everything
Warnings: Pet Death mentioned
They all were in shock. Keith silently drove making a conscious effort to not look at anyone else in the car. Gwen looked out the window, watching the rain hit. Ester stared at the floor berating herself because she was supposed to know what to do but how could she have known that this would happen. But no one was worse off then Scrags.
Scrags was curled up in a ball sweatshirt covering his head. They all knew he was crying. He hadn’t stopped crying since Gwen had managed to drag him out of that horrible room. He hadn’t eaten anything. He hadn’t said anything. He had only gotten louder when they first got into the van, the memories flooding his mind. He was utterly destroyed, but no one knew how to comfort him.
When they finally got back into town Scrags didn’t say anything to them. He ran home before anyone could say a word.
The three of them decided to give Scrags some time to himself. But he wasn’t any better a week later, if anything he was worse. He stopped responding to any of them. He intentionally avoided them whenever possible. Eventually they decided enough was enough and went to confront Scrags.
“What do you guys want?” Scrags muttered annoyedly as the three of them surrounded him.
“We just want to talk.” Gwen replied softly as she stepped forward slightly.
“So you corner me!” Scrags snapped as he stepped back slightly.
“We both know this is the only way you’d have this conversation.” Ester sighs “Why have you been ignoring us?”
“I thought the brainiac could figure anything out.” Scrags answered coolly “You always said you knew everything Ester and look where that got us!”
“Scrags!” Gwen snapped “What the hell.”
“What do you expect Gwen?” Scrags asked hysterically “You all said ‘Scrags everything will be fine your just being paranoid’ over and over until I believed it! I stopped trusting myself! You three said we’d be fine that we’d all be fine! This isn’t fine Gwen!”
“Scrags... I know this is hard..” Gwen started.
“No! I don’t want to hear it!” Tears fell from Scrags’s eyes “None of you know what this is like!”
“Your right.” Keith agreed “We don’t know what it’s like but we don’t want everything to end, we’re all still friends right?”
“No.” Scrags responded as he wiped the tears from his eyes “There’s no more us. There may be a Solve It Squad but I’m sure as hell not a part of it. We aren’t friends. I had one friend and listening to you three got him killed. Just a leave me alone.”
Scrags walked away, and they all let him go. Keith awkwardly glanced at Gwen. Ester looked about to break down into tears herself as she watched Scrags leave. She couldn’t help but blame herself. She had suggested the motel. She had known it would be more dangerous then anything else they had done but she hadn’t told them. She should’ve realized that Cluebert was a risk. But she didn’t. Now Cluebert was dead and Scrags had left them. Oddly she could imagine a Solve it Squad Without Cluebert, but she couldn’t imagine one without Scrags. She couldn’t imagine it just being Gwen, Keith, and her. She could barely stand Keith and while Gwen was nice she enabled him. They needed Scrags, but now he was gone.
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1 with the Solve it Squad?
“Yeehaw, we getting festive up in here!” Keith exclaims as he unpacks Christmas decorations.
“It’s November.” Scrags points out before stealing the tin of gingerbread from Keith.
“Share.” Ester demands holding her hand out to Scrags.
“Don’t you think it’s a little early to start decorating?” Gwen questions as Scrags grumbles and hands Ester a cookie.
“It’s never too early for being festive!” Keith remarks as he takes a wreath out.
“All of these decorations are dog safe right?” Scrags asks.
“Of course.” Keith assures only to make his friend feel better.
“What if now here me out... we don’t decorate at all because we’re going to be spending all of December in the van.” Ester says “Scrags and Cluebert don’t want to spend the entire month between fake pine needles.”
Cluebert nods in agreement as Scrags polishes off the rest of the cookies, Gwen gives him a half-heart glare “I wanted a cookie Scrags.”
“But Festivity! Lights! The smell of pine!” Keith protests.
“Sorry Gwen you should’ve said something.” Scrags squeaks as he throws the empty tin into the trash.
“Basic practicality Keith.” Ester argues “Also those garlands aren’t dog safe.”
“WHAT! KEITH!” Scrags panics pulling Cluebert away from the boxes of decorations.
“Hey Scrags it’s ok we can just throw those out.” Gwen reminds him.
“See now Scrags is panicking because you can’t do basic research Keith.” Ester glares “Maybe you should apologize.”
“I didn’t know that.” Keith mutters “Sorry Scrags.”
“It-it’s ok Keith can we just get rid of those garlands?” Scrags whimpers.
Keith nods and throws the garlands in the trash “We should decorate at least a little bit since we aren’t going to be home for the holidays.”
“Why aren’t we gonna be home?” Gwen questions.
“All our parents suck.” Ester sighs.
“There it is.” Scrags mutters while scratching Cluebert behind the ears.
“While don’t we do something simple?” Gwen suggests “We could get some holiday themed table cloths and put them on the back of the seats.”
“That’s not a bad idea.” Ester muses.
“Ok!” Keith brightens “Lets do that!”
“Why don’t we wait until Thanksgiving is over?” Gwen offers.
“Fine.” Keith whines.
“Well until then off to find out who that T-Rex actually is.” Gwen smiles.
13 with Esther and Scrags please?
Totally! Under appreciated Friendships are my jam!
They had been infiltrating a fancy party when suddenly Ester bolted. Scrags had of course panicked and ran after her.
“Ester you ok?” Scrags asks after catching up with her. Ester is sitting on the floor in an empty hallway.
“In case you haven't noticed, I'm not that great at human interaction.” Ester laughs.
“Est I know that but what’s that got to do with anything?” Scrags questions sitting next to her.
“I panicked. Someone asked me a question and I wasn’t expecting it. People almost always stay in a predictable bubble and when they don’t I don’t know how to handle it.” Ester admits “Before you ask it’s different with you, Keith, and Gwen. I know you guys. I know you guys don’t mean to throw me off. I know you guys don’t want to hurt me.”
“Is it because of your mom?” Scrags asks softly.
“Who else could it be?” Ester sighs.
“I’m sorry Ester.” Scrags apologizes “Ca-can I give you a hug?”
“You shouldn’t apologize for her, she doesn’t deserve that.” Ester remarks “Please.”
Scrags pulls her into a hug. And he doesn’t say anything when he feels his dress shirt get damp. She needs this right now and Scrags would never be cruel enough to take it away from her.