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“Edwin,” Crystal says. “You told me once not to treat you like a little fucking baby.”
“I do not believe those were my exact words,” Edwin says.
“Nuance,” she says, and then pulls a piece of paper from her back pocket and smacks it onto the desk. It is an article from a news webbed site, the headline reads: 100-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY SOLVED? BONES FOUND IN ATTIC ON ST. HILARION’S SCHOOL GROUNDS.
“What the actual fuck,” says Charles.
Or, when it comes to Edwin’s afterlife—well, how would Charles put it?—The hits just keep fucking coming.
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- Part 2 of Suo Gân & other melodies
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13 Sep 2025
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Light flares up from the book, white and blinding. When she blinks away the spots from her vision the room is gone. The book is gone.
Dim green light casts a sickly pall down a long, decrepit looking hallway. She takes a breath and nearly chokes on the smell of dust and rot and something else, sharp and unnatural, like ozone. The light doesn’t seem to be coming from anywhere in particular. It gives the place an eerie unreality. It makes her skin crawl.
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Crystal gets a glimpse of where Edwin spent 73 years. Edwin doesn't want to talk about it.Bookmarked by ElectricBird2
10 Sep 2025
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Everyone always assumes that Edwin is older. He wears a suit, he stands with his hands clasped behind the world’s straightest back, and he speaks with the vocabulary of a sixty year old scholar.
Edwin Payne is the definition of sensible maturity.
Right?
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Crystal is in for a shock when she asks why Charles and Edwin don’t try to find more similarly aged friends to hang out with. Edwin should be going out to book clubs or whatever it is old people do. She learned there was a ghost meet up for a Saturday kick about, exclusively for ghost kids, last week after the boys had had to sort out a bunch of older ghosts that decided the rest of the week wasn’t enough for them but that Charles had never gone as a social call.So why does Charles sit around the office pestering Edwin about going to the park and learning to box when they could be busy doing their own things?
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- Part 1 of Dead Boy teeny tiny minis
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09 Sep 2025
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Edwin is practiced at being a ghost. He's practiced at pain, and loneliness, and being misunderstood. But he isn't very good at looking after himself, even when he knows he needs to.
For Painland Week Day 7: Free Day
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09 Sep 2025
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“—and you...”
“A.. violin, perhaps?” Edwin offered.
“Nah,” Charles smiled, one of the quieter sort that seemed, at times, to be reserved for Edwin. “Nah, mate, you're the whole bloody orchestra.”
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or, ten years, two albums, and seeing your queerest self reflected in your best friends eyes.
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08 Sep 2025
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“And what’s stupid is that I could really use some parental advice. Right?” Crystal laughs. “Like… I want my parents to help me find my parents.”
Through the door, she hears Niko say, “Wait. Then who are those people that you’re with?”
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Charles and Edwin wear their disguises more frequently, so Crystal doesn't have to talk to herself. This changes how they relate to each other.- Language:
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08 Sep 2025
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He did not say no.
Edwin cannot stress that fact enough: He did not say no.
When the Cat King… importuned him. When he made his offer. When he made it clear that his interest in the Edwin was carnal, and singular, and predicated on an exchange, Edwin’s freedom for his virginity, Edwin could have said no.
But he did not.
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An AU where Edwin did indeed make The Cat King happy, and must then live with the consequences… Consequences he neither understands nor expects.Fortunately Charles, Crystal and Niko are there for him
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30 Aug 2025
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Did you miss me brother? (if you remembered me at all) by Awesome_3893
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
10 Sep 2025
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Alexander Payne had few personal items with him in the trenches. A wooden carved cross his father had gifted him years ago, on the day he first left for St. Hilarion's. Flowers he pressed carefully between pieces of paper, waiting for them to dry so he could send them home to Anna, his bride-to-be. A few assorted letters from friends. A picture of him and his parents, as stiff and lifeless as they always seemed to be. Most precious to him, however, was the singular photograph of his younger brother Edwin and the treasured few letters the younger boy had sent. These were stored more carefully, at the top of the tin where they were less likely to be crushed.
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Alexander Payne died during World War 1, in November 1915. He has spent the last 110 years confined to the battlefield where he died and the small town nearby, oblivious to the fact that his younger brother Edwin died merely a year after he had. When Alexander learns about the Dead Boy Detective Agency, he simply hopes he can find a way to break whatever tie is keeping him here, and instead comes face to face with Edwin for the first time in over a century
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30 Aug 2025
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The Case of John Watson's Heart by ajdumpsherstories
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
26 Oct 2024
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The night after he adds a second bullet to his revolver, he meets Sherlock Holmes.
John's heart is wrenched from his chest with cold, plying words. His body is laid bare, more naked than he was in the heat of the warmest Afghan nights. He feels wrung and laid out to die in a sandy ditch, the bullet wound flayed open under icy-blue eyes.
“Dying to your own hand would be incredibly stupid, Watson,” Sherlock says, “If you’re going to die, let your heart do the killing.”
or; John Watson's heart has never been his own; he’s given pieces of it to everyone, but none more than Sherlock Holmes—and he buries him with it.
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26 Aug 2025
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“You’re John?” He asked, mouth agape with surprise. “The John?”
“Um.” John looked between them, Sherlock growing flushed. So he’d mentioned him. “Yes?”
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- Part 3 of lucky stars 'verse
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24 Aug 2025
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Separation Anxiety by ArwenKenobi for gardnerhill
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
06 Feb 2014
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After a bomb goes off, Sherlock and John are sent to separate hospitals
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23 Aug 2025
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John deals with the death of a family member and the fall out.
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- Part 38 of Sugarverse
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22 Aug 2025
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Five times John needed Sherlock to come and get him (and one time they both needed Lestrade).
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21 Aug 2025
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EMERGENCY CONTACT: Sherlock Holmes, RELATIONSHIP: n/a by blueink3
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV)
30 May 2016
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The first time John Watson’s emergency contact is called is the first time Sherlock Holmes finds out that he has the job.
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- Part 1 of The Emergency Contact Series
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20 Aug 2025
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5 times John Watson was there for someone and 1 time everybody were there for John Watson by Ellysees
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
23 Jan 2017
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John is a brave, selfless and kind friend. This is 5 times John Watson was there for someone, whether it be saving their ass, hooking them up, helping them out or whatever. Then one day John’s injured shoulder causes him trouble during a case and a new officer on Lestrade’s force is being a total dick about it. He should have known better than messing with John Watson – everybody’s favourite guy.
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- Part 1 of To be there for someone
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20 Aug 2025
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"I'm calling today to notify you that there's been an accident."
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- Part 1 of Repairing the Broken Things
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17 Aug 2025
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During his third tour in Afghanistan, John is a prisoner of war and is forced to play Russian Roulette. Thereafter, he finds comfort in the act of putting a gun to his head and pulling the trigger.
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13 Aug 2025
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For John Watson, Christmas has always come with the familiar dread of loneliness. Leaving behind a house filled with anger and wine-stained memories, he finds himself in a present still haunted by the ghosts of his past. But then Sherlock Holmes falls into his life - brilliant, chaotic, turning his whole world upside down - and for the first time, there’s a chance that things might finally be alright. Well, if only it could be that easy, for once.
Or: Five times John has a terrible Christmas, and one time he finally has a great one.
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10 Aug 2025
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No one would ever send Sherlock in to defuse a stand-off; but on one unlikely day, that’s exactly what happened.
“Congratulations, Lestrade,” he called out sarcastically. “You’re traumatizing a war veteran.”
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- Part 1 of The Fellowship of Two
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05 Aug 2025
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5 times Sherlock had an excuse to share John's bed, and the one time he didn't need one.
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05 Aug 2025