First Sentence Fanfic Game
tagged by @cannibalisticcorpse took me a while to get round to it! :D
rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people
Meet me on the Try Line (With @cairngorm-ard)
E, 104K, WIP, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
Edwin pulled on his socks and adjusted them carefully, tugging them up â so they sat as high as they could â before he stood and looked at himself in the scratched mirror fixed to the tiled wall of the St Hilarionâs boys changing rooms.
He looked ridiculous wearing the schoolâs Rugby kit.
He always did.
TSATO: Volume 3: Grief of a Dying Sun (multi author long fic collab this specific chapter with @dbacklot99 and @kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon
E, 74k, completed (still being posted, five parts total), Good Omens, Aziraphale/Crowley
Aziraphale shifted uncomfortably in his bed, in part because of the litany of bruises and cuts covering his skin. Mostly part healed, with a handful fresh and stinging from the long journey home. The mattress was too soft after months of making do with hard ground and bedrolls. It swallowed him and what should have brought comfort only made him feel uneasy.
E, 1.5k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
Charles arches up without even trying, his arse protests as the muscles of his glutes contract against their will. His skin's damp and sweaty and his throat has been dry for what feels like hours as his mouth hangs open, panting and gasping as his hands scrabble around for anything to hold onto.Â
E, 10k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
âCannot believe in a few short hours we will finally be back at the beach.â Charles stretched out over the bed and let his head dangle, upside down, off of the end of it.
Ella hummed in agreement, clearly only half paying attention to him. âYou could have gone back last summer.â
Charles scoffed. âWhat, and leave you here at the mercy of school and your parents?â
She smiled softly over her shoulder at him. âI survived perfectly well before you came along.â
Charles rolled onto his belly and looked at her, standing in front of him with one leg propped up on a chair and frowning down and fiddling with the edges of her underwear.Â
E, 8k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
âOi, Crystal, whoâs that?â Charles nudged Crystalâs shoulder and she turned to follow his line of sight.
âOh fuck off Rowland, no, weâre not doing this again.â
âWhat?â Charles frowned at her. âDo what?â
Crystal raised her eyebrow and handed the cocktail glass over the bar to the two girls standing on the other side, holding out a card machine for them to tap before turning back to him. âThe thing where you see a pretty girl in the bar, flirt with her, dance with her, take her home and moon over her all summer. Then get your heartbroken when she inevitably leaves at the end of August and I have to spend from September until Christmas with you moping on the couch in your underwear eating my cereal.â
E, 2.3k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
Edwin stared at the slip of paper in his hand.
Heâd been staring at it the entire way home, tucked at the back of the train in a corner, pressed up against the glass and hoping to god and back no one sat next to him.
Heâd already known really. A small part of him had been hoping he was wrong, that, on this one occasion, he was just being paranoid and anxious.
But, as heâd trekked across London to a clinic far away from anywhere he might see anyone he knew, Edwin had known.
E, 1.8k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
Charles had left the shutters open.
Heâd done it purposefully, pulling them back either side of the lattice window, and now, as it rises over a still sleeping London, the sun floods in, gradual and liquid, the first hazy, yellow rays of light filtering into the space, broken and squared off.
They creep over the desk â crammed full with assorted curios but unoccupied â and fall softly over the empty sofa â haphazardly draped in a blanket and with its cushions missing â before scattering and dissipating across the floor. Dust hangs in the air reflecting light up and across the ceiling and sending fractured blacks and greys dancing over the cabinets and shelves.
Long, dark shadows stretch across the walls, curving over the mirror, the filing drawer and the small side desk, offering some darkened refuge for remnants of night as daybreak pushes its way into the inbetween space of twilight.
Charles loves this time.Â
He loves this time of day at this time of year.Â
Charles Rowland's Guide to Bagging a Boyfriend
E, 38k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Monty/Edwin
âFinch.â Charles slid into the plastic chair on the other side of the table and propped his elbows up on it. âHow you doing mate?â
Monty paused, fork halfway to his mouth and looked up at Crystal, standing behind him, looking completely done with the day despite the fact it was barely ten am. If Crystal looked this fed up with Charles this early on a Tuesday it didnât really bode well for him.
âFine,â he answered cautiously, placing the fork back on his plate.
âBrills!â Charles beamed at him and leant forward, sliding his fingers into each other. âIâve had this epic idea.â
M, 26k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin Crystal/Charles Edwin&Crystal&Charles
âHim?â Crystal looked at the woman â Jenny â dubiously.
â Heâs your lead vocalist?â
Jenny crossed her arms. âYeah? You got a problem with that?â
Crystal held her hands up. âNo, itâs just⊠heâs wearing a bowtie?â
Jenny smirked. âYeah, he is. Heâs still one half of the best group this label has got though.â
Crystal raised her eyebrow dubiously.
M, 1.3k, Complete, Deadboy Detectives, Charles/Edwin
Itâs not that youâre not trying.
You are.
Itâs just that itâs a lot .
Thereâs so many things youâve never paid attention to before, except now they seem like the most important pressing thing on Godâs green earth. Even when you know, you know, you should be giving all your attention to the boy laid out between your legs.
He deserves it.
Edwin deserves everything .
Tagging some ppl i know :D @doonarose @theonewiththeshippinggoogles @pisces-swirlix @skylee-spider-lillis