15 Works by maih_em
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i'll get a little older (i'll write until i know you) by maih_em
Fandoms: Endeavour (TV)
09 Nov 2025
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“What is it that you’re always writing, Peter? Seems you’re in here more and more nowadays.”
Peter’s hand stilled, leaving a dark ball of ink on the page. “Just letters. For Oxford.”
It wasn’t a lie, not really, because Hope didn’t need to know that he never sent the letters. And anyway, the only reason he never sent them was because they were never finished.
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Peter spent half a decade trying and failing to compose a letter back to Morse, to thank him for that generous and utterly undeserved gift all those years ago. In the end, what brought him back was something he thought was buried for good.
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The first time he went up to Maplewick Hall, Morse was immediately struck by how much he disliked it.
Something kept him coming back, though, and it wasn't the architecture.
It wasn't even the case. Not really.
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Peter’s first impression of the new constable was a scowl. Lips raised, with creases to the sides of his quivering mouth, brows furrowed like Peter had spat on his shoe. A cheap suit with the tacking stitch still in the back, and a plume of crumpled polyester blend shirt erupting from a pair of ill-fitting trousers.
It began as they all do, with snide looks shot from one side of the station to the other.
It only got worse from there.
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“Is that one of them cryptid ones?” Peter asked with a smirk, knowing the answer already. “You know, where the clues are all plain gibberish?”
“Cryp-tic. And they’re not gibberish,” Morse mumbled.
“Well how else do you explain that one? ‘Bump on the rear sounded – little accident’. If that’s not gibberish, then I don’t know what is.”
Finally, Morse’s twitching pen stilled. “You know, there’s a beautiful logic to them when you know where to look.”
Peter snorted. “That sounds like something a serial killer would say about, I dunno, blood splatters or something.”-
Morse and Peter both decide that working the Christmas Day shift would be a great way to find some peaceful solitude in the festive season.
When they find each other's company instead, things work out a little differently. -
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Somewhere across town, fireworks soared up above the skyline and lit the two of them up in red, then green, then gold.
The cold wine-red stain across Peter’s torso was starting to stiffen as it dried.
(AKA Morse and Peter kill someone, and wake up to deal with the aftermath)
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“Careful, or I’ll think you want to get me drunk. Although if you do, you’re going to need to buy me something a bit stronger than this.”
“Is that a formal request?” Morse mused.There’s a new face at the station, and he’s not as shy as one might think. Before he knows it, Peter’s way out of his depth.
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October 20th, 1968 was supposed to be an entirely ordinary Sunday, much like the previous Sunday and the one before that. Except suddenly Peter Jakes, now with a baby girl in tow, stumbled back into Morse’s life as if he had never left, although it was clear from his dishevelled appearance that he very much had left, and it hadn’t gone fantastically for him.
And it just so happened that Morse had been pining after him for the last three years. So there was that too. -
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Morse had been back at the station for two days, and Peter Jakes was feeling reckless.
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T-minus two minutes until utter disaster.
Until an unstoppable force meets an immovable object and two very separate parts of his life collide, leaving him to try and keep the pieces together.
And he was still in his bloody pyjamas. -
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Apparently, Division thought an annual team-building exercise was essential to the running of a successful CID, something which Bright wasn’t too happy about given that his station would be overrun by detectives from other departments for the weekend. This summer, word arrived that they had to complete a hike through the Oxfordshire countryside and camp out overnight like bloody Boy Scouts.
It’s safe to say, nobody was particularly excited for it.
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friendly neighbourhood spiderman by maih_em for ronniebox, iloveyoudie
Fandoms: Endeavour (TV)
14 Apr 2020
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Ronnie Box's evening plans don't go quite in the direction he'd expected.
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Rule one of being undercover is not to get tipsy and tell attractive strangers that you’re undercover. Even when you’re overcome by some inexplicable urge to trust them, because that’s almost certainly down to the alcohol as well.
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When Morse enters the pub, he intends to drink until he is forcibly removed from the establishment. However, Peter Jakes seems keen on ruining his plans, and his idea of emotional support isn't quite what Morse expected.
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in which dirk is oblivious and tina saves the day by maih_em
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
22 Jun 2018
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Everything's a mess. An interconnected web of mistakes on Dirk's part has culminated in something Very Bad (in his personal opinion) from which his friendship with Todd can never recover. Tina, however, knows how humans work, and she has a bit of drunken advice.
[An alternative version of Dirk and Todd's chat in s2e04.]
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a study in unwanted touches by maih_em
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
22 Mar 2018
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Dirk finds himself becoming more and more unable to cope with Todd's careless touches, and doesn't know why. Until, suddenly, he does know why, and he thinks that may be even worse.