Ever wondered why Edwin and Charles didn't just put Crystal in the bag-of-tricks to travel to Port Townsend?
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This is all just a big misunderstanding, Edwin is certain of it. If she just listened for a moment surely even this insolent –
“Nuh-uh, no way. For the last time, I am not getting into that thing.” Crystal steps back from where Charles is still crouched on the floor of their office, holding open his back-of-tricks.
“I assure you, it is perfectly safe.”
“No way!”
Edwin places his palms together, fighting very hard to keep his voice level.
“Crystal. You are the one who is insisting we go to help that living girl in the first place. It is going to take days if we travel there by the ways of the living, days she might not have. And since you don’t appear to have a pass port…”
“Well, I’m not gonna be able to help Becky when I’m dead!” She looks at Charles. “No offence.” He shrugs.
“You are not going to die,” Edwin insists.
“Oh yeah and how exactly do you know that? Ever stuffed anything alive in there?”
“I did actually, in the early aughts,” Charles pipes up.
“Quite. And all the chickens emerged perfectly sound.”
“Chickens? You put a flock of chickens in your backpack?”
Charles pulls up his shoulders again. “Just the six. But we put them in a box so it wasn’t like they were fluttering around or anything.”
“And they all lived long, fulfilled lives after?”
“Yeah! I mean, until that alb got them, but that was an accident. Not our fault, was it? That thing came out of nowhere.”
“An accident,” Crystal deadpans.
“The point of the matter is that they went into the bag alive and healthy and emerged just the same,” Edwin presses out. “The rest is irrelevant.”
“I really think you’re gonna be okay, Crystal. I’ve kept lit fireworks in here and they were fine!”
“Oh you think I’m gonna be okay? In your bag full of active explosives?”
“Oi, it’s not like there are any in there now! That was a spontaneous short term thing!”
“Did you mirror travel with them?” Neither responds. Crystal huffs. “And the chickens?”
“Well. No,” Edwin finally admits.
“Ended up scaling those bloody flood lights all by myself didn’t I.”
Crystal crosses her arms. “No deal.”
“For crying out loud, woman, just get in the bag!”
“Like fuck I will!”
“I don’t think she’s going to go in the bag, mate.”
“I’m not going in the bag.”
“Fine then, have it your way.” Edwin throws up his hands, turning on his heels and storming past Charles. “You did this to us!”
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland
Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU)
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, ghost lore, Brief Non-Explicit Discussion of Sex, Kissing, Charles Has a Hard Time Being Dead, So Does Edwin Actually But Not As Much, Light Angst, Hopeful/ Positive Ending, Figuring Out Ghost-Relationships / Intimacy, Fluff, Bisexual Charles Rowland (DCU), Mild Hurt/Comfort, as well i guess
Series: Part 1 of An Exploration of Touch
Summary:
Ghosts do not experience touch the way the living do, a fact Edwin Payne has been both aware of and mostly indifferent towards for decades. But as his relationship with Charles shifts, so does his outlook on such things.
A quiet evening back at the office, back at their tentative dance of figuring out what they get to have of this new form of being together. It's not easy being sixteen and dead sometimes.
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I just realised I never made a proper post for this one so just to keep things nice and organised when part II goes up here we go.
hi! are you still working on this (https://www.tumblr.com/smollsmule/761903621939052544/ok-ok-but-you-wanna-know-the-real-tea-ive-read?source=share) fic?
Hi anon,
short answer: yes!
Slightly longer answer: yes, yes I am.
I did get started on this fic while I was writing another story (also DBD), that I wanted to finish first. That one is almost ready to go up (!!!!), but my writing does have the tendency to spiral out of control a little, length wise, so everything always takes a little longer than anticipated. Do be assured though that I am very much still in the thick of the beach story and can't wait to share more of it!!! Thanks for sticking with me, I'm so happy everyone is as excited about this idea as I am!
