Dead Boy Detectives fics
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I Will Hold Your Hands To Stop Them From Shaking by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
04 May 2024
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“You don’t have to know how to dance”, Charles says, and he is so close that Edwin can make out the shadows each eyelash paints onto his face. If he had a breath still, the sight would take it. “I never learnt it either. Just move with the music, and I promise that if I spin you ‘round, I won’t drop you.”
_____It doesn't take Charles forever to figure out the rest.
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Good Enough by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
05 May 2024
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It’s quite flattering, definitely special, having someone like Edwin love him.
But most of all, it’s fucking terrifying.
Because no matter what he does, Charles cannot fuck this up.Series
- Part 2 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Won't Fear Love by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
25 May 2024
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„We should go a date“, Charles says on a perfectly bland Tuesday, looking up at Edwin from whatever he is doing at the moment.
If Edwin wasn’t dead already, he would suspect that Charles is trying to kill him.
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Five times Charles takes Edwin on a date to figure out if he could fall in love with him, and one time when he has an answer.
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- Part 3 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Possession by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
11 May 2024
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“It’s an experiment of some sort”, Charles explains, putting one of his hands on Edwin’s thigh and aching for it. “You know when I kiss you and you don’t feel feel it, but you still feel it? Somewhere in your head, or soul, whatever. I wanna do that. I wanna touch you and see if I can make you feel that”
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How to overcome the limitations of your non corporeal form by just really, really wanting to.
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- Part 4 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Never Knew ’Til I Met You by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
13 May 2024
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“Charles”, Edwin says one night, "One of our clients has asked me to go on a date with him. This Saturday."
A tie in with Won't Fear Love.
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- Part 5 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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A Little Of That Human Touch by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
17 May 2024
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The case had sucked, Charles doesn’t really know how else to put it, and if he is honest with himself, he doesn’t think he has the strength to even try anymore.
It’s nothing new that cases with children just grate on him in a way that might have to do more with his own past than with what actually happened, but this time, it’s even worse, because it doesn’t even feel like they helped.Sometimes, you need your detective partner-slash-best friend-slash-love of your afterlife to make you feel better after a tough case.
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- Part 6 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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The Most Tender Place In My Heart by coloursflyaway for Riwuen
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
20 May 2024
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There is something said about the concept of hindsight, only that Edwin isn’t sure if it’s something good, per se.
Because now that he knows what he feels for Charles, it’s like his brain is working overtime just to make sure that he is, in fact, in love with Charles, which is slightly ridiculous, since it only takes a single look for Edwin to confirm it again and again and again. It’s the way his heart flutters, his eyes get stuck on one of Charles’ features, his fingertips aching for the warm buzz touching Charles grants him.
And yet, in those quiet moments between cases, or sometimes deep at night when they are both busy with their own research, Edwin’s mind wanders through the three decades they have known each other, searching and finding those moments in which Edwin could have known he was in love with Charles, had he ever allowed himself to consider the possibility.Edwin goes down a trip down memory lane, and Charles needs someone to spell it out to him that he is in love.
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- Part 7 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Cry With Joy At The Depth Of My Love by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
26 May 2024
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“Edwin?”, Crystal asks, and Edwin would say something snarky, maybe even something mean, but Charles is wrapped around him like he’ll never let go again, and there are more important matters at hand.
“Crystal, what has happened here?”, he asks, and a few seconds later, their new psychic is standing in front of him, trousers splashed with the coffee she dropped, disbelief written across her face. “I was gone for a few hours and now Charles… and the whole building…”
He’s not quite sure how to put it, most likely because he still doesn’t understand, and Crystal looks at him like he come back from the Cat King’s lair with an additional head.
“Edwin”, she says, slowly, like she is still searching for the words, “what are you talking about? You’ve been gone for six weeks.”____________
Edwin takes the Cat King up on his initial offer, so instead of a few hours, he is gone for six weeks.
Charles isn't good at coping with it.Series
- Part 8 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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I And Love And You by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
10 Jun 2024
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“Well, so, since I think you’re the best person in existence, the thought that you love me, that’s pretty special”, Charles tries to explain. “And that makes me feel pretty special. That you could love me.”
Edwin stays silent for a while, but he doesn’t look away, seemingly figuring something out, making a decision, or a third thing somewhere in between.
“That makes sense”, he eventually says, speaking slowly, almost like he is still thinking about it. “In that case, I shall endeavour to tell you more often.”
Edwin tells Charles he loves him again and again, until Charles can say it back.
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- Part 9 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Dead Boy Detectives Prompt Fills by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
15 Dec 2024
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A collection of prompt fills for my favourite Dead Detective boys ♥
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- Part 10 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Boy Problems by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
13 Jun 2024
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Edwin phases through the wall right next to Crystal’s TV and it is a wonder and a testament to her mental fortitude that she doesn’t throw her bowl of ice cream right through his head.
And he’d deserve that, too, not just because barging into other people’s apartments without knocking is rude, but because Crystal had made it very clear that she needed an evening to herself, with absolutely no dead boys around, just her, too many snacks and the mental equivalent of fast food that is Love Island.
Charles is acting strange, and Edwin needs some help figuring out why.
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- Part 11 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Heaven To No One Else But Me by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
14 Jun 2024
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We would like to offer you a gift, Edwin Payne, the entity says, and holds out its hand; Charles has to force himself to stay put and not step between it and Edwin, because it feels like danger, even if it shouldn’t. The entity wouldn’t hurt Edwin, he tells himself, and he knows it’s true, it’s just that it is so powerful that even the slightest touch is terrifying and Charles is terrified about losing Edwin all the time anyway.
“Why me?”, Edwin asks, head raised high and the entity’s light reflecting off his skin in a way that makes it look like porcelain, fragile and translucent and beautiful, “Why not Charles?”
There is nothing we could offer Charles Rowland to take his pain away, the entity says and its voice rings out in Charles’ head. But you, we could erase yours. If you wish us to.
Edwin gets the opportunity to go back in time and change his life so he will never have to go to Hell, but price of it is losing Charles; Charles can only stand next to him and wait for his decision.
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- Part 12 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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This Is How For Now We Touch by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
21 Jun 2024
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“I got us something”, Charles answers and pulls a box from the bag he’s been carrying, black and unwieldy, adorned in white scribbles. He’s holding it out like it’s something precious, which Edwin highly doubts it is, considering the look Charles gives him. “Something really really cool.”
Edwin takes a moment to look at the box, the poor quality of the cardboard and the horrible picture of teenagers that are trying to look frightened, and yes, some eye rolling will definitely be necessary here.
“Why on Earth would we need a Ouija board, Charles?”
The grin on Charles’ lips would be obnoxious if Edwin didn’t like him so much.
“To talk to ghosts, of course.”Charles gets them a Ouija board and sometimes, it's easier to talk about feelings when you don't have to say the words out-loud.
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- Part 13 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Reach Out And Touch Faith by coloursflyaway for tragedy_machine, just_slightly_chaotic
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
24 Jun 2024
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And Charles doesn’t notice that Edwin doesn't touch him anymore, maybe for no other reason than that he doesn’t want to, because doing so hurts, but then there’s a night when Edwin walks past him and he raises his hand like he wants to brush it against Charles’ arm – his metaphorical heartbeat picks up at that, like Charles has been waiting for this even more than he realised – but then, a second before his hand connects, Edwin pulls it back like he’s been burnt.
And that, well. That hurts too.
Edwin stops touching Charles; Charles doesn't deal well with it.
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- Part 14 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Kiss You Better by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
15 Jul 2024
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The first time Charles kisses him, it wipes Edwin’s mind clean like nothing else ever has.
No case, not Hell, no amount of exhilaration or fear or devastation, none of it compares to the moment their lips meet, nothing even comes close.They have been talking about… something, Edwin cannot even remember the topic, and Charles gets a look on his eyes that he has never seen before, something far away and yet so aware, and one second, Edwin is talking and the next, there are lips pressed against his, soft and warm and tender.
Charles kisses him and it’s like Edwin is finding a new home in his lips, a new purpose in the hand Charles raises to cup his cheek, a new, yet familiar destiny in the little sigh he breathes into Edwin’s mouth; a kiss of life.
10 times Edwin thinks Charles is kissing him to figure out if he loves him, and one time he knows better.
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- Part 15 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Because My Heart And His Are The Same by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
26 Jul 2024
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“Let's get married”, he tells Edwin, quickly crossing the distance between the mirror and the desk, and this gets a reaction at last, Edwin’s head whipping up to stare at him. “That’s what we have to do. I talked to the witness and her husband, and I’ll tell you about the case later, but they got married when they were dead, because the whole Til Death Do Us Part thing, that should work the other way around too, right? Like, if we are already dead and we get married, then there is nothing left to part us. Makes sense, doesn’t it?”
Charles and Edwin get married before they even know they are in love.
(They find out twenty years later.)Series
- Part 16 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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Breathing Space by coloursflyaway
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
10 Aug 2024
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It happens in the blink of an eye.
A flash of light, violet and yellow and blue, sparkling in a way that would be beautiful if Charles couldn’t taste the curse in it, like rust and blood and soil, and then Edwin is crumbling beneath his own non-existent weight, and Charles knows he is screaming only when he hears his own voice ringing in his ears.During a case, Edwin gets hit by a curse and won't wake up.
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- Part 17 of Dead Boy Detectives fics
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My Light In Your Eyes by coloursflyaway, PapySanzo
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), The Dead Boy Detectives (DC Comics)
13 Sep 2024
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Edwin had told Charles he loved him in the light of a rising sun or in between cases, when he thought Charles had done something clever and when he was sure that Charles had been very silly, when they were alone and sometimes even when Niko and Crystal were around (never around Jenny, though, and Charles was glad about that).
And it had been like a high, a rush every time, because even if Charles could never forget about that first confession, hearing it again had still felt indescribable.
Even if he couldn’t repeat the words back to Edwin and mean them in the exact same way, the thought that Edwin could love him? Incredible. Close to unbelievable. Almost too good to be true.Only that now with Peter around, Edwin is suddenly saying it less and less, and never when the other ghost is around.
After saying it several times a day, Edwin stops telling Charles he loves him (as often).
Charles might just draw the wrong conclusions.And maybe Charles shouldn’t, but he misses it.
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- Part 18 of Dead Boy Detectives fics