#pl fic

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Title: Haunted

Description: The brothers weren’t both left behind.

Spoilers: For Azran Legacy

Set: AU. Set during that one flashback to Layton’s childhood in AL

Warnings: Major warning for canon character death and gore. Indistinct gore, but still. I don’t think it’s anything worse than what’s seen in The Hunger Games but still

Inspiration: Written for prompt 7 of PL-tober: Haunted House

The red-roofed house is silent as Raymond trudges towards it.

He has only been gone a week, visiting family, but something feels very wrong. 

His neighbours, the Bronevs, prefer to keep to themselves, but they’ve always been kind to Raymond and they promised to feed Raymond’s pet cat.

When he returned home, Grace’s bowl had been empty, her packets of food unopened. Thankfully, Grace had gotten out through a window and has been living off field mice. 

She had run off when Raymond tried to call her in, though. (Much like her namesake!)

Had something spooked her…?

The pit in Raymond’s stomach deepens as he creeps towards the front door, which has been left open by a crack.

“Hallo?” Raymond hollers. “Leon? Rachel…?” 

He’s about to knock on the door, when he smells it. After years spent studying medicine, it’s unmistakable.

Raymond clamps a hand over his mouth and nose. 

He hovers on the threshold of the house— the home of a hardworking father who enjoys board games and a sweet mother who always sends birthday cards and two young boys (too young) who hunt for treasure in the garden…

Nothing, in all the world, can prepare Raymond for this. Whatever awaits him inside will haunt him for the rest of his life.

He wants to flee, like Grace. He wants to call the police and hide while someone else cleans up the mess.

He doesn’t want to see his neighbours— His friends?— dead…

Then he pictures ten-year-old Hershel, fixing Raymond’s broken lawnmower, with five-year-old Theodore trying to help.

Raymond takes a deep breath, closes his eyes and grips the doorknob. Edges the door open. Steps inside. Steps in something…

The metallic reek makes his eyes water. He forces them open even as his vision distorts from the floorboards. And the rug…

Two bodies lie on the rug. The larger one is curled on its side— around the smaller—

Raymond lets out a strangled sob. He stumbles out of the door and discards the contents of his stomach.

He freezes when he hears a tiny voice behind him. “Help…”

Gripping his hair, Raymond shakes his head. It can’t be. He must be imagining—

“P-please, help us,” the voice calls weakly. “My brother— Hershel— needs help…“

Raymond bursts back into the house. He falls to his knees when he sees the seven-year-old sitting up beside his brother’s body.

“Mr. Raymond!” Theodore Bronev shouts. He shakes his brother’s shoulder. “Hershel! Hershel, wake up! Raymond is here! He’s here to help us…!”

Raymond drags himself to Theodore’s side, gazing into those wide dark eyes— anywhere but the rug.

Frantically, Theodore glances from his brother to Raymond. Theodore breathes, “H-Hershel—?”

“I’m so sorry,” Raymond splutters. Theodore starts to cry.

Raymond scoops up the boy and staggers out of the house, leaving the other behind.

[momentofmemory]

pain lines

Me maybe getting 👀👀👀 about the concept of pain-lines scarring

It’s subtle when it first starts.

Scott’s just taken pain from a newly-orphaned werewolf—they got to the pack a miserable five minutes too late—when Stiles passes by. He stops long enough for a silent question about the survivors, and it takes a full ten seconds for the black lines to fade entirely from his skin.

Stiles doesn’t think anything of it.

A month later, locked in a safehouse in downtown Manhattan, he very, very much wishes he had.

wip asks

[laytonfam]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Day one is here folks!!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

In the seaside town of Sebri, a siren is said to haunt the shores and lead people astray. Can Janice, aided by the police chief’s daughters, solve the case while mourning her lost love?

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Chapter summary: Janice, having arrived in Sebri, goes to find Schubert (Melina’s old dog). She meets some old acquaintances and some new faces.

[101flavoursofweird]

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Chapters: 10/10 Fandom: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Flora Reinhold, Original Characters Additional Tags: Layton Kyouju | Professor Layton Spoilers, older flora fic, in which flora solves a mystery, and girlbosses, and processes a lot of grief, there is death and catharsis, that's what professor layton is all about babey, also we are just pretending the anime didn't happen because i truly cannot be bothered Summary:

Six years after leaving St Mystere, Flora is an adventurous young woman pursuing a career as a journalist where she hopes to learn how to solve mysteries. But sooner than she thinks, she is thrown headfirst into a mystery in the remote Ashcliff House, where a little girl claims people in her family cannot die. With only her wits to guide her, Flora must investigate this strange old house and its residents, and find the answer to this death-defying puzzle.

Because ghosts don't exist... do they?

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Finally finished reading this fic! A amazing Flora-solo mystery fic!

[101flavoursofweird]

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Crow & Badger, Wren & Socket, Tony & Crow, Those are the main ones but it’s really just the Black Ravens in general Characters: Crow (Professor Layton), Marilyn (Professor Layton), Badger (Professor Layton), Louis (Professor Layton), Tony Barde, Arianna Barde, Scraps (Professor Layton), Wren (Professor Layton), Socket (Professor Layton), Tweeds (Professor Layton), Tweeds is Gus, Nabby (Professor Layton), Nabby is Roddy, Macaw (Professor Layton), Robin (Professor Layton), Curse localisation name changes, Leon Bronev, I hope that’s everyone, The Black Ravens Additional Tags: misthallery, PL4 spoilers, Friendship, Uploaded from my old account with edits, Targent, Oneshot Summary:

When Targent tries to take the Golden Garden, its up to the Black Ravens to defend Misthallery.

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Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Layton Kyouju Series | Professor Layton Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Claire/Dimitri Allen, Claire/Hershel Layton, Clive & Hershel Layton, Claire & Flora Reinhold, Dimitri Allen & Hershel Layton, Hershel Layton & Luke Triton Characters: Dimitri Allen, Claire (Professor Layton), Hershel Layton, Clive (Professor Layton), Bill Hawks (Professor Layton), Flora Reinhold, Don Paolo, Dahlia Reinhold, Simon Reinhold, Bruno (Professor Layton), Katia Anderson, Anton Herzen, Inspector Chelmey, Constable Barton, Sammy Thunder, Fredrich Beluga, Luke Triton Additional Tags: Angst, One-Sided Attraction, Unrequited Love, Character Death, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Layton dies instead of Claire, Ghosts, Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Afterlife, Period-Typical Sexism, Period Typical Attitudes, Found Family, Adopted Children Summary:

A man who was never meant to admit his feelings for a co-worker does just that and causes history to spiral out of control because of it. What would the world do if the sacrifice lives but the hero dies? Originally written in 2011.

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I wanted to share this awesome AU fic where Hershel perishes in the time machine explosion instead of Claire. Claire and Dimitri then team up to take on what would have been Hershel’s adventures during the first three games. Featuring a BAMF Claire, poor unfortunate Dimitri, Phantom Detective Hershel, his ghost apprentice Clive, Flora getting adopted by Claire, and Don Paolo being a total simp for Claire.  And maybe, just maybe, Bill Hawks getting his comeuppance...