Brief Moments
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The tall fields whizz past, turning into trees, then fields, then back to trees again. Charles keeps driving—and he keeps looking, feeling it well up in his chest all over again, every time.
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- Part 1 of Brief Moments
- Part 3 of Darling, in any life
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Edwin doesn't know what he expects Charles to do. He feels more exposed than he has ever been in the lacy undergarments, stockings, and sheer cover-up adorning him now. Moreso even than when he is completely naked. This ensemble is delicate; almost strategic in what it reveals. What it frames for Charles's sight.
Edwin feels exposed—but not embarrassed, or afraid. How can he be, with Charles's eyes so intent on his body? How can he feel anything but beautiful?
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Edwin wears Lingerie for the first time.
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- Part 2 of Brief Moments
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Every time they kiss, it gets harder and harder to stop.
The air’s heavy between them, and the light of the office is dim in a way that makes it all feel sort of hazy, really; sort of holy. The weight of Edwin in Charles’s lap, there on the sofa, is enough to make him a bit dizzy. Enough to have something humming, low and wanting, down in his belly—in his hands—in his thighs.
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- Part 3 of Brief Moments
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Assorted snapshots following the development of Charles and Edwin’s friendship pre-canon.
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- Part 4 of Brief Moments
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Getting her memories back is weird.
There's a lot of stuff that hits Crystal over the head from the start—and that's mostly the big, awful, world-altering stuff, like the fact that she made a guy walk into traffic at fifteen years old, or the fact that her closets are full of at least three years' worth of stolen designer bullshit. But there's other stuff, smaller stuff, that just kind of... slips back in the sides, unnoticed until something makes her notice it.
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- Part 5 of Brief Moments
- Part 1 of And They Were Roommates
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If Edwin could ever know cause for a second death, it would be this: Charles, looking utterly devastating in an honest-to-goodness red velvet suit, the top two buttons of his cream dress shirt tastefully undone and his gold chain settled under the open collar in place of a tie.
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- Part 6 of Brief Moments
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“This is highly unprofessional,” Edwin huffs, a few ticks after the cupboard door clicks shut behind them. “We are here on a case, Charles.”
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- Part 7 of Brief Moments
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There's another little part of Charles—a quiet, shivery, tucked-way-down-deep little part of him—that… that likes it, more than he ought to. A part of him that likes Edwin pressed against him and holding him still and clamping a hand over his mouth to keep him quiet.
All at once, he's thinking back to Hell—but not in the bad way he's been having those thoughts, lately. He's remembering how Edwin did this same thing down there: his hand over Charles's mouth, keepin' him hush.
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- Part 8 of Brief Moments
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An Excerpt from the Journal of Edwin Payne: Trust by PantryJesus
Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)
13 Feb 2026
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I enjoy exposing you.
It is incredibly uncouth of me; I know this, and there is a great measure of shame in me because of it.
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- Part 4 of To be so Known
- Part 9 of Brief Moments
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Edwin keeps goin’ translucent enough Charles can see the windowsill straight through his throat, before he shudders and takes a breath and—forces himself, it looks like, right back whole again.
“C’mon, mate,” Charles says. “Whatever that is can wait ‘til later, yeah?”
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- Part 10 of Brief Moments