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A place to put my Dead Boy Detectives Christmas fics, written for the Payneland Promptfest and 12 days of Ghostmas challenges on tumblr.
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19 Dec 2025
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Crystal comes back to the agency after Christmas. The boys have something to ask her.
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- Part 2 of Dead Boy Detectives Christmas fics
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18 Dec 2025
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For half a second, Edwin’s vision was filled with a beautiful, ethereal sight. Charles had turned his face up in surprise, eyes wide and lips parted, and his brown eyes reflected the cloud of golden shimmers hovering above him. He was bathed in a gentle light, surrounded by a galaxy of tiny stars.
Then the dust began to settle onto his skin, and Charles’ face contorted. He clapped his hands over his eyes, pressing hard, and drew in a harsh gasp through gritted teeth.
“Charles?” Edwin shouted.
Charles screamed.
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17 Dec 2025
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It’s winter in Hawkins, and Mike and Will aren’t speaking anymore. Living in Mike’s house, Will tries to be invisible, spending most of his time in the basement.
Then the power goes out — and if there’s one thing he dreads more than facing Mike, it’s the cold.
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Seven nights in which Mike and Will have to sleep in the same bed, even though they’re barely friends anymore.
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11 Dec 2025
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"Of course you go! Don't you see how class this is? I mean, Christ, but she's trapped herself with this one. Here's what you've gotta do: you're gonna show up with a total ride as your date and eat all their posh food and drink everything, and rub it right in her face how happy you are."
___The disastrous idea that James might actually attend his ex-girlfriend’s wedding isn’t any less disastrous just because Erin agrees to accompany him, but it is infinitely more appealing. Besides total humiliation, supreme abjection, and heaps of arrested development, what’s the worst that could happen? You never know – maybe it might be fun.
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06 Dec 2025
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The case was supposed to be easy. Fun, even, if you’d asked Charles. It was one of those times when the case brought the agency abroad. Charles always liked those cases. It allowed him to discover the world beyond the UK. For a middle-class boy with a strict and abusive father, it was a gift only the afterlife could offer. So, when their client came and told them that their ghost friend had disappeared into the Paris catacombs, Charles had seen it as a fun way to visit the french capital while doing what they do best.
He hadn’t really thought about the fact that the catacombs were buried twenty meters underground.
And that he was claustrophobic.
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- Part 4 of The Broken & Proud Dead Boys
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03 Dec 2025
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This is Crowley’s problem— he’s always been too damn curious for his own good. Once he gets an idea in his head, something stupid and dangerous like What if I teamed up with an angel to stop Armageddon? or How fast can I go in this massive car down Oxford Street? he simply cannot let it go until he sees it through to the other end.
So now, as he probes at that secret place inside the long hallway of his heart, the dark door behind which he’s stowed over a thousand of years of pent-up longing, the question he knows he wouldn’t be able to rest until he answers is: What if I let myself feel it all?
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01 Dec 2025
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The Book Travelers by dbacklot99
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
12 Dec 2025
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Former police detective Anthony Crowley makes his living selling information on the black market - and there’s something curious going on in a certain bookshop in SoHo, patrons disappearing for days at a time. Of course, once he decides to investigate and meets the gorgeous proprietor, he has other interests to consider.
Aziraphale does his duty as a book keeper, running a discrete shop where patrons can partake of very unique journeys. When a former detective starts snooping around, Aziraphale ends up on the adventure he never dared take.
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30 Nov 2025
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Séances and Summonings (and Screaming) by ahyperactivehero (ahyperactiverhero)
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
11 Feb 2025
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Charles is doing fine after Port Townsend. Sure, he can't let his friend out of his sight without hearing him scream, but that's not a problem. He just won't let him out of his sight.
At least, that was the plan before someone summoned Edwin away right in front of him.
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26 Nov 2025
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Charles isn’t a stranger to having brilliant ideas, he has them quite often if you ask him, maybe slightly less often if you ask Crystal, but Edwin would probably agree with him.
However this one might just be his best one yet.
“I’ve given your confession some real thought, yeah? So… how about we give trying to date a go?” asks Charles.
After a few beats too long, Edwin is finally able to speak.
“Thank you, Charles, but that won’t be necessary,” answers Edwin tightly and doesn’t offer anything else.
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OR: In order to figure out his feelings Charles asks Edwin to date him, but is promptly refused. When an unexpected turn of events during a case leaves Edwin injured, Charles’ struggles with his feelings have to be put on the back burner. Unless he can somehow multitask…
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26 Nov 2025
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Charles is flummoxed when Edwin reveals that he considers relieving himself of his virginity after hating himself for so long for his desires.
What's a good friend to do but offer to be the afterlife's best wingman?
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24 Nov 2025
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Aziraphale’s brows drew together in puzzlement. “I beg your pardon?”
"The book, how much is it?”
Aziraphale’s eyes widened in alarm as he was confronted with the horrifying realization that people expect a bookseller to actually *sell books*.
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Five times that Aziraphale made someone feel unwelcome in his bookshop, and one time that he did the opposite.
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24 Nov 2025
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Psychomanteum, noun. A dimly-lit room containing a comfortable chair and a mirror angled so that it reflects only darkness, intended to communicate with spirits of the dead.
It is our privilege to welcome you back, one and all, for the Summer 2024 season at the London Athenaeum. As some of you will no doubt be aware, this past winter saw a spate of minor thefts, with one enterprising thief successfully removing a marble bust of the goddess Carpundia. We are pleased to report that the probate court proceedings are now complete, and all of the stolen artifacts have been returned to us. For safety reasons, we must now ask that all rosaries, japa mala, ojuzu, komboskini, misbaha and other similar prayer beads are left at the door and collected upon exit on account of one of our new acquisitions, a devil vitrified in a prism of glass, and the multiple recent incidents of attempted strangulation.
We are proud to present a slate of all new exhibitions and events, including the crown jewel of this season: an exhibition on the 170 year history of the Athenaeum itself by acting head curator Edwin Payne. This is the distillation of an extraordinary life’s work, and one not to be missed.
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- Part 3 of Wunderkammer
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17 Nov 2025
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a part of me that will never be mine by tragedy_machine
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
19 Oct 2024
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Edwin tells Charles he loves him in Hell, but when Charles quickly responds with his own breathless 'I love you', Edwin assumes his friend meant it platonically, so he gives up halfway through his confession, leaving out the crucial 'I'm in love with you' part. Dejected, he decides to keep his feelings a secret.
Meanwhile, Charles has been in love with his best mate for years, so when they unexpectedly exchange 'I love yous' on the staircase of Hell, Charles happily assumes that they've just started dating and are just going at a really slow pace.
Needless to say, they're not really on the same page.
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OR: because of a misunderstanding during the confession in Hell, Charles thinks they're dating now, while Edwin believes his love will stay unrequited forever
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07 Nov 2025
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30 Oct 2025
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In general, Edwin does not consider himself a vengeful person. He’s seen first hand what vengefulness, what clinging to hatred can do to a ghost. Besides, he’s already spent 73 years in Hell, he has no desire to indulge in his wrathful side. But if there is anything that would get Edwin to be vengeful is someone hurting Charles. That to him is the greatest sin one can commit. Anyone who hurt Charles deserved nothing short of the most painful eternal damnation, and if Edwin were to help them get a head start, well, that’s no one's business but his own.
Or Edwin gets to haunt Charles' killers every year (as a treat) ☺️
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- Part 1 of The Hauntings of Edwin Payne
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30 Oct 2025
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Yet another haunted house, ready for investigation.
PaynelandPumpkinFest2025
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29 Oct 2025
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Sure, Charles will never know what their office that he’s spent decades in smells like, or if this sofa would be scratchy or soft as it rubs against his bare skin. But does that matter anymore?
Edwin’s still fiddling with his zipper, and parting his mouth through a gentle sigh, and then—
Why’s he stopping?
“Charles, this is not quite what I meant when I said we should be more transparent with each other moving forward,” Edwin says, and it’s then that Charles realizes he’s phased right through him.
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29 Oct 2025
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A collection of my Payneland Pumpkin Fest ficlets, as the title says!
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27 Oct 2025
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Fresh off a bitter divorce, Aziraphale fabricates a perfect marriage to get hired at a wedding magazine—just a stepping stone on the way to his dream career. It's a foolproof plan, until he needs to produce said husband for the magazine's annual couples retreat.
Enter Crowley, his best friend's mysterious cousin, who agrees, for his own reasons, to play fake husband for a week—no strings attached, no messy complications.
One problem: the more Aziraphale discovers about the real man behind the act, the less fake his feelings become.
Aziraphale thought the hardest part would be fooling everyone else…
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26 Oct 2025