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Playing Detectives Pt 7 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
After investigating the Gates’ mansion Wednesday finds herself more alone then ever and Y/N contemplates how much he can trust those around him and how much they trust him, when Mayor Walker thinks he’s cracked the case he’s suddenly hit by a car, and after putting her friends in danger the Sheriff has forbidden Wednesday from investigating the case.
Last night in the hospital someone killed Mayor Walker, pulled out his breathing tube thingies, and I would bet my life on the theory of the person who ran him over was the one who killed him. Now everyone is in attendance at his funeral. It’s raining, me and Wednesday are sharing a black umbrella. Despite our fight it’s not my place to be mad at or to forgive her, it’s Enid and Tyler’s, we’re in a mature healthy relationship so we don’t fight over petty stuff like this. And also despite our fight we have a case to solve and a monster to hunt down, my chest still hurts from the wounds the monster gave me, but Wends’ stitches are holding up alright. During the night Wednesday discovered a music box that belonged to Laurel Gates which contained many pictures of her, I’m not saying I want a stalker taking pictures of me but it feels kind of inconsiderate that only she got stalked.
Me and Wends look over across all the people here, all the potential suspects. Bianca and the mayors son share some glances and Ajax is there for Enid, the Sheriff and his son look at each other.
All of a sudden a shadowy figure is hiding behind some trees, he runs off and me and Wednesday share a quick glance before we run after him through the trees. We lose sight of him and slow down, he then drops down behind us and Wednesday grabs the sword hidden in her umbrella and jabs it towards him.
He then holds the blade between the palms of his hands and he sends an electric shock through it causing Wednesday to quickly drop the sword.
“Still as sharp as ever, my pig-tailed protégé.” The man says, wait what, he knows Wends.
“Uncle Fester.” She says as she gives him a big smile. I’m sorry Uncle who now.
The man takes off his hat to reveal an incredibly bald head.
“Uh, hi.” I greet him.
“Who is this?” He asks.
“Y/N Barron, Wednesday’s partner.” I answer.
“Barron, oh I’ve met a few of you in my lifetime, whenever one’s around you know it’s going to be a good time. And might I inquire what kind of partner you are to Wednesday?”
“A few different kinds.” I answer causing him to laugh a little.
We start to walk through the foggy forest.
“How long have you been stalking me?” She asks.
“Just blew into town this morning and was hit by a wave of nostalgia.”
“I thought you didn’t go to Nevermore.”
“I didn’t. Your dad got all the brains, but I used to drop in on him. Usually from the ceiling with a dagger clutched between my teeth, just to keep him on his toes.”
“Of course.”
“He filled me in on what’s been going on. Monsters, murder, mayhem. What fun! I told him I had a job in Boston, but I’d be checking up on you.”
“What kind of job?”
“The kind that means that I need a place to lay low for a couple of days.” I love Wednesday’s family more every time I meet them.
Me and Wednesday take him over to the bee hives.
“This place belongs to a friend.” She informs Fester.
“You actually made multiple friends. That poor kid will be going home in a body bag.” Wednesday looks down in guilt and I do the same. “I like a hideout that comes with snacks.”
“Those bees are hibernating.” I tell him.
“They’re practically Eugene’s children.” Wednesday says.
Fester opens one of the hives to try and get one.
“That means do not eat them!” She yells at him.
He looks disappointed but puts it back while Wednesday glares at him.
“You know, when you give me that death stare, you remind me of your mother. Speaking of scary things, you know what kind of monster you two are dealing with?” Alright that was just hilarious.
“We haven’t been able to identify it.” Wends says as she shows him the drawing of it.
“It’s called a Hyde.” He says handing back the paper.
“As in Jekyll and Hyde?” I question.
“Hm-mmm.” He confirms.
“You’ve seen one before?” Wednesday asks.
“Oh yeah. In ‘83, during my vacay at the Zurich Institute for the Criminally Insane. Where I got my first lobotomy. But you know lobotomies. They’re like tattoos. Can’t just get one.”
“Tell us about the Hyde.” She cuts him off.
“Ah. Olga Malacova. Jeez, she had it all. Beauty, brains, and a penchant for necrophilia. Olga was a concert pianist, until one night she transformed in the middle of a Chopin sonata. Massacred a dozen audience members, and three music critics.”
“What triggered her? Or did she just change on her own?”
“No idea. I only saw her in group electro-shock therapy.”
“There’s never been any mention of Hydes in any outcast book. And Nevermore is reputed for having the best collection.” I point out.
“You guys try Nathaniel Faulkner’s diary?” He asks us. “Before he founded Nevermore Faulkner traveled the world, cataloging every outcast community.”
“How do you know this?” Wends asks him.
“You think your parents can’t keep their hands off each other now, oy vey. I showed up unannounced one night in Gomez’s dorm room. Let’s just say I wasn’t interrupting a pillow fight.” NO NO NO NO NO, I did not need to hear that now, I did not need to hear that ever, I need to pour bleach into my ear later so that way it will wipe this memory from my brain.
“Uncle Fester. The diary, where is it.”
“The Nightshade’s Library. Your dad parked me there and said I should settle in for a long stretch. And that’s when I found this nifty little safe, I was hoping for a stash of cash or jewels but instead I found a diary.”
“We’l sneak into the Nightshades Library tonight. In the meantime lay low. If you are discovered I will disown you and collect the reward tied to your capture.” Wednesday warns him as we turn to leave.
“I’d expect nothing less.”
After a second Wednesday barges back into the shed and shout at him to leave the bees alone.
— — —
Apparently Enid went to go find something from their room while she’s bunking with Yoko and they got into an argument, she ended up saying that Wednesday endangers everyone that she comes into contact with, which is honestly kind of true.
We are currently heading down into the Nightshade’s Library.
“Uncle Fester?”
“Who’s uncle Fester?” Xavier says appearing from the shadows.
“What are you doing here?”
“Since I’m an actual Nightshade, I don’t have to explain myself. What’s your excuse for creeping around in the middle of the night.”
“Research.”
“On the monster? I’ll save you two some time. There’s nothing in here matching that thing.”
“Isn’t that convenient.” Wednesday says.
“You know what your problem is Wednesday?”
“I would love to hear your piercing insight.”
“You don’t know who your real friends are. I’ve been on your side since day one. I literally saved your life. I believed your theories when nobody else did. And what do I get in return? Just nothing but suspicion and lies.”
“Fine you want honesty? Here it is. Every time the monster’s attacked, you’ve been right there. Starting with Rowan at the Harvest Fest. Then on Outreach day, you arrived just minutes after the monster disappeared, yet you say you didn’t see it.”
“I didn’t realize proximity was a crime.”
“Then there’s your drawing obsession. You have drawn the monster dozens of times yet you’ve never seen it. Or so you claim. You even drew where it lived. Then when Y/N and Eugene went to investigate, you tried to kill them so they wouldn’t spill your secrets.”
“You think I would hurt Eugene? Y/N, you think I would try to kill you?” He asks us, I remain quiet, I haven’t know what to believe over the past few days.
“Let’s not forget your oh-so-convenient appearance after Y/N and Tyler had been attacked at the Gates mansion.”
“If I am the monster then why haven’t I killed you?”
“Because for some reason I cannot fathom or indulge you seem to like me.”
“What’s to like?” He says.
“Dude just back off, she doesn’t owe you blind faith, she deserves to think for herself about who she trusts.” I tell him.
“And your problem, your a psycho. Be honest here, your not trying to stop this monster to avenge it’s victims or to bring peace of mind to their families, you’re just bored and want something interesting to do. You have no empathy, you don’t care about anyone, you are just as heartless as that monster.” He tells me.
This may have started as me being bored, but after Eugene got attacked this was personal. I care about him, he’s my best friend, I care about Wednesday and I don’t want to see her be the monster’s next victim.
Wednesday looks angrier then I’ve ever seen her. “He has to go through more pain then you will ever know.” She says spitefully, her words laced with venom and I smile at her.
She could be talking about my panic attacks, or she could be talking about her vision of me, what did she see, what was so bad that it would garner this kind of a reaction. I’m glad she defended me though, it’s nice to remember that she likes me too despite not showing it much.
With that Xavier leaves and Fester jumps down behind us.
“How long have you been lurking?” Wends asks him.
“Long enough to feel the tension between you guys. Yowza. Seriously, you could cut it with an executioner’s axe.”
Thing comes into the room and Fester hears him. “I’d recognize the patter of those fingertips anywhere. Hello Thing.” Thing taps angrily at him.
“You can’t still be mad about the Kalamazoo job. It wasn’t my fault.” With that Thing lunges at Fester and starts to choke him. “ You said you could crack that safe in 30 seconds. Five minutes later we were still standing there, you’re all thumbs.”
“Enough.” Wednesday says commandingly like a mother breaking up two kids. “Let him go. Show me the diary.”
Fester walks us over to a portrait of Ignatius Itt
“Here it is. Iggy was Faulkner’s right hand. Trained a generation of Nightshades. And behind Iggy Itt.”
“Wait you guys know Ignatius Itt?” I ask them.
“He’s my cousin.” Fester answers. Ok, cool, perfectly normal that my girlfriend is actually related to my personal hero, not like I am freaking out right now. Maybe Wends can introduce us.
“Do I have time for a snooze, or can you crack this quickly?” Fester remarks as Thing begins to try and crack the safe.
After a few times Fester says that this is turning into a replay of Kalamazoo. Finally he opens the safe revealing the diary.
— — —
We make our way back to Wednesday’s room as Wednesday begins to look through the journal.
“These are some sweet diggs. How’d you swing your own single?” Fester asks her.
“My former roommate couldn’t handle my toxic personality.”
She finally lands on the page about Hydes. “Faulkner describes Hydes as artists by nature, but equally vindictive in temperament. Born of mutation, the Hyde lays dormant until unleashed by a traumatic event or unlocked through chemical inducement or hypnosis. This causes the Hyde to develop an immediate bond with its liberator who the creature now sees as its master. It becomes the willing instrument of whatever nefarious agenda this new master might propose.”
“Artist by nature, doesn’t that sound like someone we know?”
“Anyone willing to unlock a Hyde is a next-level sicko.” Fester says.
“That means we’re not looking for one killer but two.” I point out.
“The monster and its master.” Wednesday says.
Someone knocks on the door, me and Fester go to hide in Enid’s pile of stuffed animals.
Ms. Thornhill walks in and begins to talk with Wednesday about how Enid is going to room with Yoko for the rest of the year, how she cares about Enid, how she’s becoming a better person, and that she clearly misses Enid. Stuff like that.
“Uncle Fester, Y/N.” She shouts looking for us, he accidentally knocks over one of the plushies causing Wednesday to walk over and uncovers us.
“Hey! Being a solo lobo has its perks. You get to live by your own rules, do whatever you want. Just look at me.”
— — —
We went to Xavier’s shed.
While Wednesday distracted him me and Fester put a tracker on his bike.
“Did you two place the tracker?” Wends asks us.
“Don’t worry we got you covered.” Fester answers, handing her the device to track Xavier.
“Okay. Let’s hit the road.”
We walk over to the transportation Fester has arranged for us and reveals it to be a dog walking company’s motorbike with a Dalmatian pattern. We look at him for a few seconds.
“What? I picked it up on my way out of town. You know me. I like to travel incognito.” He hands us a couple of helmets with a matching pattern.
Fester drives the bike as Wends sits in the passenger car and I hold onto his back.
We follow Xavier to a secluded spot by the lake where a car is waiting.
Dr. Kinbott’s car. Kinbott’s the master.
— — —
Me and Wednesday go to Weems’ office to tell her about the doctor.
“Principal Weems, it is imperative we speak with you about Dr. Kinbott.”
“Wednesday, Y/N. We were just talking about you.”
“Speak of the devil.” Kinbott says behind us with a tray of tea.
“And she shall appear.” Wednesday says.
“Dr. Kinbott was just discussing your assessment Wednesday. I need to sign off on it before she can send it to court.”
“Well, what’s the verdict, Doctor? Am I cured?” She asks Kinbott.
“I’m glad you find it amusing. The judge assigned to your case won’t.”
“I’ve explained to Dr. Kinbott that you’ve recently been taking small but meaningful steps towards embracing your new Nevermore family.”
“Yes, I think I’ve actually reached the half-hug stage. I’ve been reading about hypnotherapy. It might be a good technique to unlock my inner Wednesday. Are you a devotee?” Babe I love you, but dropping hints that we know that a serial killer is a serial killer isn’t the smartest move.
“Yes, very much so. I applaud your new willingness to delve deep into yourself. We see each other on Monday, we can start then.”
“What did you so urgently need to discuss?” Weems asks us.
“It can wait, now if you excuse us we have homework to finish.”
— — —
Me, Wends, and Fester sit in the Weathervane to discuss our approach.
“Kinbott has to be Xavier’s master. The Hyde lays dormant until unleashed by a traumatic event or unlocked through chemical inducement or hypnosis.” I say.
Fester starts, I don’t know how to say it, drinking, chugging, slurping, the ketchup.
“Are you listening? She must’ve figured out he’s a Hyde and used hypnotherapy to unlock him. That would explain their secret sessions.” Wends says.
“I think the kid behind the counter has clocked me. Yeah, he’s walking over. I’m going to put him in a Romanian sleeper hold. Cover me.” Fester says referring to Tyler. Oh dear god, I would love to see that.
“Relax. He’s not interested in you.” Wednesday tells him. Cmon Wends, it would only have been a few seconds worth of Fester choking out Tyler.
“Uh, made you a quad. On the house.”
“Hey, thanks kid. Need a refill on this puppy too.” Fester thanks him. This man is my idol.
“Tyler, this is my uncle Fester.” Wends introduces right when Tyler started looking confused.
“Oh uh. Hi nice to meet. Ow!” He shouts as Fester zaps him chuckling.
“Is that?” Tyler asks recognizing the monster from when it attacked us.
“It’s called a Hyde.”
“That’s it, from that night.”
“Your father gave you explicit instructions not to be near me.” Wednesday tells him.
“Yeah, my dad’s not here and I’m on my break.”
“Well, apparently a Hyde needs to be unlocked by someone. It’s master.”
“Holy shit.”
“Tyler! What did I say?” The sheriff shouts from the entrance way as Fester disappears again.
“Uh. For the record Wednesday was trying to keep a distance. I was the one that sat down with her and Y/N.”
“All right. Putting these up around town. It’s a bank robbery suspect and he’s a real creep.” He says handing us a wanted poster of Fester. “You haven’t seen him have you?”
“No.” Wends says.
“Yeah, he’d be pretty hard to miss.” Tyler chuckles. “I’ll pin it on the bulletin board.”
“Barron, how’re the stitches holding up?” He asks me.
“They’re alright Sheriff.” I tell him.
The sheriff shakes his head at Wednesday before turning to leave. “Why do I waste my breath.”
“Thank you, but you didn’t have to do that.”
“Yeah your family’s very colorful.”
“Ironic considering Fester’s the black sheep. He’s harmless.”
“So about rescheduling our date.” I’m sorry, what?
“Between the monster and my uncle.” Yeah she’s busy, she doesn’t have time for dates, believe me.
“Hey, no excuses. Figure after what happened last time, you owe me.” That entire sentence was just one big red flag. Plus you got off light compared to me.
“I can’t sneak off of campus. All eyes are on me.”
“You won’t have to, I’ll come to you. 9:00 p.m., Crackstone’s Crypt.”
After that he goes back to work and me and Wends leave to head back to Nevermore.
“I don’t have to go.” She tells me.
“I know but I think you should go.” I tell her despite hating the idea.
“Really?”
“Yeah, I know we’re pretty certain that Xavier’s the Hyde but until we’re one hundred percent sure, we shouldn’t rule out anybody else. I don’t trust Tyler and if we make him think you actually like him then we can keep him from knowing we suspect him. I reason.
She smiles the tiniest smile ever at that. “I knew there was a reason I picked you as my partner, for the case and for life.”
“And believe me Wednesday Addams, when this case is over I will take you on a lovely picnic date in a cemetery.” I tell her, causing her smile to grow.
— — —
While Wednesday is on her “date” Me and Thing are going to watch over the diary.
We are sitting around talking about random stuff, favorite movies, favorite books, opinions on Mondays.
“Look, I understand that you enjoy the consistency of hatred that Monday provides but I personally only find comfort in knowing a grumpy orange cat that enjoys lasagna agrees with me.”
Me and Thing argue a bit more before I go out to get a breath of fresh air.
I wonder how Wednesday’s manipulation of Tyler is going right now. Why did I suggest this plan, it’s stupid, damn it.
Suddenly the door swings open and a hooded figure barges in, before I can reach for my sword they stab me in my back several times and I feel a sudden pain in my head before everything goes black.
— — —
I wake up in the bee shed. Me and Thing are lying on the table both of us seemingly having just woken up. Wednesday seems like she’s about to cry and Fester is standing over us having used his shock powers to save us.
“For a minute we thought you picked your last lock buddy.” Fester tells Thing.
“Who did this to you two?” She asked us.
“They covered their face, it was my own fault, I didn’t keep my sword with me.” I answer.
“Cowards.” Wednesday spits. “I promise that whoever did this to you will suffer. An dit will be slow, long, and excruciatingly painful.”
Thing and Wednesday pinky promise on that before we do the same.
“I’ll stitch you two back up. They found your motorbike so the sheriff wont be far. You need to go.” She says getting up. “Maybe next time steal something a little less conspicuous.”
“Where’s the fun in that? All right I’ll lay low here tonight, keep an eye on Thing, and I’ll skedaddle in the morning.”
“I guess I’ll see you at your arraignment or the next family reunion.”
“You’ll always be my favorite Wednesday.”
“Be sure to tell Pugsley that. It’ll give him a complex.”
While she stitches the wounds on my back she notices my frown. “You’re sulking, more then usual.”
“Scars on someone’s back are their shame.” I answer.
After saying that she kneels in front of me. “I promise I will give whoever did this much worse.”
“I am sure you will.” I say smiling. We kiss and she goes back to stitching me up.
— — —
After stitching me and Thing up Wends went to go report her room being ransacked to Weems.
Turns out she knew of the monster being a Hyde and revealed that they were banned from Nevermore 30 years ago and that she didn’t tell the Sheriff to protect Nevermore. The two of them argued, noting really different from every other interaction they have.
We are now walking to our next class when Bianca walks up to us.
“Come with me. I have information about Mayor Walker’s murder.”
We walk with her down to the Nightshade’s library to find the Mayor’s son handing us some papers.
“Printed these off of my dad’s computer. Seems he was trying to track down someone. Laurel Gates? Looks like he started right after Outreach Day.”
“Must have recognized her there.” I remark.
“According to British police Laurel was presumed drowned, but no body was ever recovered.”
We look through the files.
“The gates mansion was purchased a year ago by a 90-year-old candy heiress. She then mysteriously died and gave all her belongings to her caregiver, Teresa L. Glau. It’s and anagram for Laurel Gates.”
“Laurel secretly buys her old house and then comes back to Jericho as someone else. Why?” Bianca questions.
“Revenge on all the people she blames for her family’s misfortunes. Your father. The coroner. My parents. Most of all, Nevermore.”
“How exactly does the monster fit into all this?” Bianca asks.
“The monster is a Hyde and it’s doing Laurel’s bidding. She controls it.” I answer.
“You know who Laurel is, don’t you?” The Mayor’s kid, Lucas that was his name, that was really bugging me shit, gotta remember that next time.
“Yes, but the real question is how are we going to get her to see us?” Wednesday asks.
“I may have an idea.” I respond.
— — —
“I’m sorry, you two want couple’s counseling?” Kinbott asks.
“Yes, despite how perfect it may seem our relationship has a few problems.” I say.
“Um. Okay, sit down, I guess. What seems to be the problems?” She asks us.
“He doesn’t appreciate my cello playing.” Wednesday said quickly. Okay I asked her one time through factime on Enid’s phone to keep it down because I was trying to sleep.
“She forgot to feed my pets the one time I asked her to.” I retort.
“He has an unhealthy obsession with anime.” She says. Unhealthy is a strong word, do I watch a lot of it yes, does it take up most of my time, yes, do I sometimes ignore other tasks to watch it, yes. Alright I might actually have a problem.
“She doesn’t tell me everything that I need to know.” This gets her attention.
“What?” She asks.
“The night Rowan died, when you touched my hand you had a vision. What was the vision Wends?” I ask her.
“It was nothing important, can we get back to our plan?” She asks referring to our plan to lure Dr. Kinbott into a false sense of security and tricking her into confessing.
“No, it’s about me isn’t it? What did you see?”
“I didn’t see anything.”
“Bullshit. What was it that has you so rattled that not even you are willing to tell me?”
“It wasn’t anything!”
“What was it Wednesday!”
“You’re going to die!” She reveals.
“What?” I ask hoping I misheard her.
“You die fighting the Hyde.” She says again.
I remain silent for a moment before sitting back down. “Ok.” I simply said.
“Aren’t you scared or angry?” Wends asks me.
“No, not really, I mean, I’d rather die fighting then being killed without putting up a fight. Besides I never really believed in fate or destiny to begin with, and if it comes down to a fight between me and the Hyde, I think I’d win, I got great swordsmanship skills and now that we’ve narrowed down our list of suspects then we can stop them before they kill me.” I explain. Honestly even if I die fighting, it’d be good to know that I died protecting everyone I care about and that I’d die as a hero.
“I think this is a little above of my pay grade.” Kinbott says nervously. Understandable, not every day you find out a teenager standing right in front of you is destined to die a horrible, brutal death. Also she probably wants to remain as far away from anything involving the Hyde since it was her who awakened it.
Wednesday gets up looking angry. “This is your fault to begin with. We know you’re Laurel Gates, we found this in your childhood bedroom.” She says handing her the music box from her bag. “You’ve come back to Jericho to seek your revenge. And so did Mayor Walker, which is why you had to kill him. Who better to slide in and out of the hospital undetected than a psychiatrist under the guise of visiting another patient?”
“Wends, what happened to the plan?” I ask. She really has a problem with just explaining to our suspects that we know that they might be killers.
“You’re not actually accusing me of murdering the mayor?”
“The roses you left in Eugene’s room were your mistake. They’re the same variety I found near your childhood bed.”
“I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“There’s only one reason an overqualified psychiatrist like yourself would settle in the inconsequential backwater that is Jericho. It allowed you to crawl through the troubled, young minds of outcasts until you found one that you can manipulate to exact your revenge.”
“You know what. I don’t have time to deal with your delusional fantasies. I have a patient emergency.”
“Who? Xavier?” I ask.
“We know all about the secret sessions you’ve been holding in your car. I also found the cave where you’ve been holding sessions to unlock his Hyde.”
“And even if you guys aren’t the killers, it’d still be kind of weird that you hold sessions in your car.” I point out.
“You are so out of line.” She tells us.
“Do you know hoe violently unpredictable a Hyde can be? It was your plan to have Xavier committed before he could turn on you too.”
“Wednesday, Y/N, you two need help. More help than I can give you.”
She reaches for her phone. “Who you calling? Xavier?” Wends asks.
“Judge Reynolds. I’m going to recommend that you two stay in a juvenile psychiatric facility for observation.”
“Oh, please. We all know that we’d be running that place in a week.” Wednesday says. “Times up Laurel.”
We both leave the office.
— — —
Me, Wednesday, and Weems are sitting in the Jericho ER. Turns out Kinbott just got attacked by the Hyde while calling Weems to talk about our recent visit to her office.
The Sheriff comes out of the room and walks up to us.
“She’s gone. Dr. Kinbott’s dead.” He tells us.
“This ends now.” Wednesday says dramatically.
We both leave the hospital.
— — —
We both go to Xavier’s art shed with an ambush planned. Wends waits inside for Xavier while I hide outside with the cavalry.
We can hear faint talking inside when Xavier goes inside as he and Wednesday argue about the case.
The Sheriff and I barge in seeing Xavier holding a knife.
“Freeze. Drop the knife. Down on your knees.” He says arresting Xavier. “Cuff him. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for you. Appreciate the help Addams, Barron.
“You framed me! I shoulda let Rowan kill you.” He shouts at us as he gets dragged out by the cops.
— — —
Me and Wends go back to her room to find Enid putting all her stuff back.
“Hey.” She greets us.
“You’re back.” Wednesday says.
“I’m gone for a few days, the place gets trashed, and Thing and Y/N almost die. Someone’s gotta look out for you guys.”
“What happened to rooming with Yoko?” Wednesday asks.
“Yoko’s great. I just decided I needed a few more boundaries.”
Enid starts to put down a line of tape to separate the room in half which is apparently something they’ve been doing.
“Skip the tape.” Wednesday tells her.
“Don’t tell me Wednesday Addams is mellowing out.”
“Never. More like evolving.”
“Well, one inch of duct tape at a time.”
“Why the sudden change of heart?”
“Because we work. We shouldn’t but we do. It’s like some sort of weird, friendship anomaly. Everything you’ve said about me is true. But I don’t apologize for it not anymore. It’s just who I am.”
“Thing said he missed you.”
“I missed him to. I’m sorry about Xavier.”
“We’re not. He’s a liar and a killer.” Wednesday says
“Besides there’s nothing quite like the feeling of being proven right.” I say as me and Wends smirk at each other.
“OMG, I ship you two so hard. I was honestly expecting you to get with Tyler at first but you two just work so well together.” Oh shit, right, Tyler.
“I still need to tell him about us and how he and I won’t be together.” Wednesday says.
“Well I heard he’s working the late shift.” Enid says.
“Alright, you go talk to Tyler, and I’ll leave so you guys can catch up.” I say before leaving.
— — —
I make it back to my room. I feed my pets. I lay down on my bed.
I look over to Eugene’s empty one. “We got him buddy. I can’t wait for you to come back.”
I start to contemplate the future. Now that the case is over me and Wednesday can go on a few dates, the Nevermore Hummers can get back to it’s usual routine when Eugene get’s back, Wednesday’s made peace with both Enid and Bianca. Everything feels perfect. It’s never felt this way before. Why does it feel like this won’t last, I’m probably just being paranoid but it feels like there’s one piece missing.
Suddenly I get a text from Enid, or at least Wednesday using Enid’s phone. When I read it I’m shocked, it makes so much sense yet I can’t believe it.
Tyler’s the Hyde.
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kingluffy5 · 3 months
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Playing Detectives Pt 6 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
After managing to clear Wednesday’s father of a decades old murder charge Wednesday and Y/N have officially began their romantic relationship, now that parents weekend has ended the partners are able to focus on their own murder case, but the school may be a target in a new part of the investigation as a threat in burned into the lawn
Wednesday asked to be alone tonight as she is trying to contact her ancient ancestor Goody Addams, which is why I protested heavily when Enid invited me to her birthday party, Wednesday even told Thing to not have a party under the penalty of death. But Enid insisted that I be there. She’s one of the only one’s who knows, we didn’t tell her, she walked in when we were kissing in the beekeeping shed, it was because of the heat of the moment, we were looking at some of the pictures on the board, theorizing about the case, listing potential suspects. While we are still pretty sold on Xavier we’re trying to keep an open mind. But back to the party, since I know that Wends would absolutely hate it, I decided to get her something she would legitimately enjoy having. Xavier is handling the cake, I think he might be finally over his crush on Wednesday which is good, it’s healthy for him. Enid said she made Wednesday a snood, whatever the hell that is. We’re having it in Crackstone’s Crypt, which is where they were racing to during the Poe Cup.
We’re all waiting here for her and Enid right now, me, Xavier, Yoko, Divina, Gwen, Amelia, Jack, and Jason. We hear them approach the front door right now, this is going to end horribly. Some of them run around like ghosts or something, I have no idea what they’re trying, I’m just doing my best to stay out of her line of sight. When she gets to the statue everyone comes out shouting surprise, Xavier holding the cake, and singing happy birthday, when she looks at me a shake my head signaling that I had no part in this whatsoever. She then turns to Thing, who is dressed ever so fashionably in a tiny party hat made by Enid.
“I should have known you were behind this. What part of ‘no party under the penalty of death’ do you not understand?”
“I thought my cake design was pretty inspired.” Xavier said.
“The pink balloon was my little touch, why don’t you make a wish?” Enid chimes in, I just sigh as Wednesday just gives her a glare.
She then looks over and sees a phrase in Latin etched into the stone, we go over to translate it.
“Fire will rain… when I rise.” She translates, we then look at each other recognizing it as what was burned into Nevermore’s lawn, so the threat has something to do with Joseph Crackstone.
���Okay, that’s not really a wish.”
“The first part of the phrase was burned into Nevermore’s lawn, well it can’t be a coincidence.” Wednesday says.
“Wait, we’re never eating that cake, are we?” Ajax asks.
While we’re kneeling I take the chance to apologize. “I’m sorry about the party, I tried to stop them, and I failed.”
“You will pay for your failure later, we have work to do.”
As she brushes her fingers over the phrase she has another vision, I catch her before she can fall, everyone is shocked at the fact she suddenly passes out. “Don’t worry, this is normal.” I assure them but they only look more nervous at that statement.
— — —
Me, Wednesday, and Enid are in their room as Wednesday is drawing some gate she saw in her vision, I’m gonna be honest here, I’m the artist in this relationship from what I’m looking at.
“Don’t blame Thing, the party was my idea, I believe everyone deserves to be celebrated on their birthday.” Enid confesses.
“I prefer to be vilified.”
“What happened, it looked like you were having a seizure?”
“I wasn’t that lucky.”
“Can I at least get some kudos for pulling one over on you?” Enid asks.
Wednesday just looks at me giving me a slightly tired look. “She has a point.” I whisper. She does take a second to consider Enid’s trick.
“The subterfuge was impressive.”
Thing then pulls a massive box from under Wends bed with a letter from her parents wishing her a miserable birthday, she opens the box to reveal a taxidermy kit with a frozen squirrel.
“I would have preferred live squirrels” Wednesday commented.
“While we’re still accepting presents.” Enid says as she presents Wends with a wrapped present. Wednesday tears it open to reveal a shawl of some sorts in the color black. “Well, do you like it?”
“What exactly is it?” Wednesday asks.
“It’s a snood, silly, I made it in your signature colors.” She responds. Ohh, that’s what a snood is, I have to give Enid props, Wends does look beautiful in black. “And you want to know what the best part is? Me and Y/N have ones too.” She says holding up one in pink and one in white as me and Wends stare at her with our eyes wide. “We can all wear them together in class.”
“Oh, Enid, this is far too unique to wear to something like class. I suggest we wait for a more special occasion, like a funeral.” I nod along, I gotta respect her for sparing Enid’s feelings.
“I guess I should probably give you my gift now.” I say walking over to Enid’s massive pile of stuffed animals, I reach into it and pull out a black sword I forged with a hilt modeled looking like two snakes tangled together.
Enid and Wednesday looked at me shocked. “What?” I ask.
“You hid that sword in my stuffed animals?” Enid asks.
“Yes.” I respond.
“With the blade completely uncovered?”
“Unsheathed, but yes I wanted Wednesday to pick out her own one.”
“And you don’t any problem with the way you did this at all?”
“No not really, what’s wrong?” I ask.
“What if it stabbed me?” Enid yelled.
“Oh it would not have stabbed you, no one would be so clumsy that they would fall onto a sword and get stabbed.” I say looking over to Wednesday who shakes her head, signaling that yes, Enid is that clumsy. “Well how do you like it Wends?” I ask her.
She walks over and takes the sword looking completely enamored with the blade. “I … love it.” She says looking back to me, she struggled a bit to find the words but manages to get them in the end.
— — —
Me and Wends are now looking at the scorch marks on the lawn, inspecting the burns. I sniff at the burns and smell standard gasoline so this didn’t appear supernaturally, not as fun, Xavier walks up to Wends and starts talking to her about her visions and the party and whether or not he’s the monster. He says when she’s ready for his help he’ll be ready, pretty presumptuous if you ask me, I know nobody but Enid knows but seriously you’re gonna try to get with my girlfriend.
She told me a little bit ago that she and Bianca talked during the dance, I think that they bonded a little, at the very least I think that their rivalry is over and they’re cool now.
We decided to head over to visit Eugene since this wasn’t going anywhere.
— — —
Wednesday’s talking to him about her past birthdays with her family, they sound awesome. We hear someone walk in and we see Dr. Kinbott.
“Wednesday, I haven’t seen you since our session with your family which was one I won’t forget, and Y/N not you since our breakthrough before the Rave’N.”
The two of them talk about the events over the past few weeks, Wednesday saving her father and her and her mother’s grave digging excursion, turns out Dr. Kinbott had a session with Eugene’s parents. We’re about to leave before Kinbott asks a question that shocks us.
“Who’s Goody?” How in the hell does she know about Wends distant ancestor.
“She’s a very distant cousin, very distant.”
“Seems like she doesn’t see you for who you are.”
“She sees more than you know, I want to assure you I remain as cold and harmless as the first day we met.”
“I doubt a cold, heartless person would be sitting by her friend’s bedside feeling some guilt for his condition.”
“I didn’t ask for a free session.”
“Consider it my birthday gift.” Kinbott laughs.
We then walk out slightly spooked by Kinbott’s question.
— — —
We are now sitting across from each other in the Weathervane, Wednesday reading a book about pilgrims, me writing some theories about the possibility of Kinbott being involved in all of this. All of sudden Tyler sets down a cup of coffee with happy birthday written down on it and sits down next to me.
“I know you’re usually a quad kind of girl, but I’ve been working on that all week.”
“Birthday, yes. Happy, never. Is there anyone Thing didn’t tell?”
“Well who do you think delivered the cake? Yeah, I went with the 98% dark chocolate ganache knowing your… preferred color palette. Oh is that, uh… that Enid’s gift?” He asks referencing the snood Wends had next to her.
“It’s perfect if you’re fleeing a war-torn country on foot.”
“Come on don’t you like a day that’s all about you?”
“Every day is all about me. This one just comes with cake and a bad song.”
“So, if I asked you out to a non-birthday, song-free dinner… would that be something you’re interested in?” I’m sorry, but what the hell is with guys and asking out my secret girlfriend, I know it’s secret but come on, well I trust Wends so I’ll stick to writing stuff down.
“I have a tight deadline, emphasis on dead.”
“Term paper?”
“It’s about how whitewashing the sins of our past will come back to kill us all.” Subtle babe. She then slides him her drawing of the gates she saw in her vision and asks if he knows what it is. He doesn’t, real helpful.
“Did I do something? I just feel like ever since the Rave’N you’ve kind of been ghosting me.” Well with a combination of having no phone, a murder case to investigate, a prophecy that will have the two of us decide the fate of the school, and the fact that she has a boyfriend, she doesn’t have a lot of time for whiny teenage boys with daddy issues.
“Am I wrong?” He asks. God this is like a scene in a bad romcom, dude she’s no into you.
Wednesday remains silent. “Guess I got my answer.” No shit Sherlock, damn, I really hate Tyler, I kind of feel bad, he didn’t do anything wrong he just likes a girl who’s not into him, and it’s not like he knows about me and Wends.
He leaves our table and when his dad walks in he goes to get him his usual coffee.
“The threat burned onto Nevermore’s lawn, it’s also etched on the wall inside Crackstone’s crypt.” Wednesday tells the Sheriff.
“Don’t tell me you’ve been out there digging up more bodies.” Come on man, everybody’s got hobbies.
“There’s a connection there. I know it.”
A look of skepticism spreads across his face. “Alright, I’ll put out an APB on the dead pilgrim.”
“I figured since you no longer had an old vendetta to obsess over then you’re free to solve a real crime.” God I love this woman.
“Your father and I buried the hatchet. Maybe you should do the same.”
“I don’t bury hatchets, I sharpen them.”
— — —
Wednesday went to Xavier’s art shed to ask him about the gates she saw in her vision, apparently he had a massive painting of Wednesday playing her cello. Thing said he hit on her a little, said stuff about he couldn’t forget her even when he tried. Thing is honestly awesome.
When we were talking about theories me and Wednesday started kissing, we got to work on not getting pent up during those moments, and Bianca walked in when she was returning the snood Enid made for her. Why is it that whenever someone find’s out about our relationship it’s because of their lack of privacy.
She just gave us a genuine smile, returned the snood, congratulated us, and left.
We are now at the Gates’ old abandoned mansion, the kid Mr. Addams was accused of killing, the family who all died horrible deaths. Not that they didn’t deserve it.
We go inside the estate to investigate but we hear someone walking around inside and rush to hide. Mayor Walker walks out and calls the Sheriff saying that he thinks that he figured out who’s behind it all of this and that they need to meet at the Weathervane. Me and Wednesday hide in his trunk as he finishes his call and drives off to the Weathervane.
We wait for him to get inside but he is suddenly hit by a blue car. We jump out and I call 911.
After the ambulance picks him up we sit inside with the Sheriff who looks like he’s having a bit of a panic attack.
“He’s alive, barely, I’ll take you two back after I get your statements.”
“We already gave it to your deputy. Blue Cadillac with no license plates.”
“It sucks, I always wanted a Cadillac and now I’ll just associate it with murder.” I complain, now I guess I’d just have to settle with getting a Mustang.
“Yeah, I know, I want a better one.” He then puts down a tape recorder. “What were you doing in the back mayor’s SUV?”
“We saw him coming out of the Gates mansion.” I answer.
“The Gates mansion, the hell were you doing there.”
“We were house hunting.” She quips. “I overheard the voicemail he left you, I was intrigued.:
“Back when the mayor was sheriff he used to have a lot of wild theories on cases that he couldn’t solve. So we’d dissect them over pie sitting in that booth back there. Most of the time they went nowhere.”
“Call me old fashioned but when someone is run over on their way to give the police key information, it usually means they were onto something, and all signs point to the Gates family and that house.”
“The Gates family, how every last one of them is dead and I don’t believe in ghosts.”
“Maybe you should.” I finish before Wednesday stops the recording and we leave.
— — —
We are now getting chewed out by Weems, apparently getting involved in the murder of Rowan, the attempted murder of Eugene and the Mayor, the Monster running around trying to kill them, the possibility of a centuries old conspiracy, and a prophecy that will determine the fate of our school is what she considers getting involved in every bad thing to happen.
“As of now the school is on full lock down and your off campus privileges are revoked until further notice.”
After getting chewed out like that we go back to our rooms. Wednesday is writing her novel and I am sharpening some my swords which I’ve been sneaking into my room recently.
— — —
Wednesday said that we’re going to the Gates mansion at 8, while I would bring up the rules and our punishments I feel like we’re way beyond that point by now.
I notice a car just outside the Nevermore campus boundaries so I bring my sword with me, this one has ice runes engraved onto it, I figure that if I get the chance freezing the monster may be our best course of action.
I hop in the backseat to only see Enid wearing her snood next to me, Wednesday in shotgun wearing her own snood, and Tyler in the drivers seat dressed to impress.
“Wait he’s our Uber driver?” Enid asks.
“Uber driver, I thought we were going on a date.” Tyler says, what made you think that, Enid also gets weirded out by this due to her knowledge of me and Wends secret relationship.
“I thought this was a girls’ night out.” Enid chimes in, yeah screw the date, that’s the weirdest thing anyone though Wednesday would be doing with them tonight.
“I thought we were hunting the monster and investigating an abandoned mansion.”
“There’s been a change of plans.” Wednesday answers leaving us all confused.
“Hey what’s with the weird matching hoodie scarf things?” Tyler asked.
“Don’t ask, just drive.”
We drive off to the old Gates mansion so at least I wasn’t lied to. But Wednesday really shouldn’t have dragged Enid and Tyler into it, the two of us should have been more than enough for this and she didn’t have to manipulate both of them.
“You seriously want to go in there? This place is creepy AF.” Enid asks
“I know.” Wends responds.
“Okay this isn’t what I signed up for.” Tyler says.
“Ditto.” Enid adds.
“I didn’t want to celebrate my birthday by going to dinner or a surprise party. I want to do this.”
“Then you shoulda just said so, you didn’t have to trick us.” Tyler points out.
“If you want to go you can. I’m going to go check out the garage.” Me and Wends walk off into the house.
We try forcing the door open before Tyler tries and then Enid finally manages to bust it off it’s hinges with relative ease.
“Werewolf thing.”
We then enter and find a car under a tarp, blue Cadillac.
“Okay this just took a dark turn.” Enid says creeped out. “We need to call Tyler’s dad right freakin now.”
“Why? So he can take me and Y/N back to Nevermore and get us expelled? It’s not gonna happen.”
We walk further into the house.
“This is the night I’m going to die.” Tyler says.
We stare up at the portrait of the gates family for a good few seconds so Wednesday can narrate her life in her head.
We walk into the library when Tyler asks if we’ve seen enough.
Wednesday looks between two columns before pulling a secret lever on one and opening a secret compartment, inside being a portrait of Crackstone and a number of candles, all recently lit.
“Who doesn’t have a spooky built in altar in their family library?” Enid says.
“Ours in the living room. More seating for year-long Dia de los Muertos.” Wednesday answers. I swear to god I fall more in love with this woman every day. Enid starts to whimper as we step into the altar, messages are written on the walls in red. Wednesday checks the candles and confirms they are still warm. She tells me and Tyler to check the rest of the ground floor while she and Enid check upstairs. Me and Tyler split up to search in different directions I search the kitchen and dining room for a little bit.
All of a sudden I hear scratching and I turn and come face to face with the monster, I have no time to dodge or draw and can only be scratched across the chest as it starts to run to the stairs. I run after it with my sword and use the runs to send shards of ice flying towards it. A few get it on the back causing it to roar and charge at me, I side step and manage to get a slice at it’s arm before it hurdles into the wall. Hopefully the noise down here tells them to get the hell out of this place. The monster charges at me again but this time ducks under my blade and makes another swipe at my chest. I finally collapse on the ground.
I begin to crawl after it and I hear Tyler shout out. “Guys down here.” Before seemingly getting attacked by the monster. I hear the monster roaring and Enid screaming in the house.
After a few minutes Tyler finds me and brings outside and leans me against the tree. He got a huge scratch from the monster on his arm and a smaller one on his chest.
Suddenly Wednesday and Enid run up to us. Enid looks terrified and Wednesday actually looks worried about me.
My heart starts to beat uncontrollably and my breathing gets faster and faster till I’m hyperventilating. Shit it feels like my hearts going to just jump right out of my chest, I can’t hear anything besides that, nothing but my heart, it’s only going quicker. Everything’s getting blurry, I can’t tell if that’s from blood loss or the panic attack. I think another person showed up but I can’t tell.
Suddenly I feel a hand grasp my own and I look up and see Wednesday, wearing an unusual look of care and concern across her face.
“You’re okay.” She starts telling me repeatedly, suddenly Enid grabs my other hand and the new guy who I now recognize as Tyler starts putting some cloth over my wounds. I look over everyone helping me and my heartbeat starts to go down and my breaths get slower.
“Can you walk?” Wednesday asks me, I try to stand but to no avail.
“What happened to him?” Xavier asks worried.
— — —
Tyler and Xavier helped me back to Tyler’s house where Wednesday is stitching me up.
“Thanks.” I say.
“Look, we need to get back before Weems realizes we’ve been gone.” Enid said.
Suddenly the Sheriff walks in. “What the hell happened? This was you wasn’t it.” He says walking up to Wednesday but Tyler stops him and Wednesday starts to take him to the mansion so I get up to get with them.
“No, you’re not coming.”
“But-”
“No. Enid take him back to Nevermore.”
We complied and Enid helped me up and we managed to get to Nevermore without me falling down onto the ground.
Wednesday eventually sneaks into my room through the window.
“How are you?” She asks in her deadpan.
“Fine.” I simply reply, seriously no sorry you got hurt, I shouldn’t have put our friends in danger, we should go ask them to forgive us.
“I told Weems about our prophecy.” She says.
“That’s nice.” I say a little disinterested.
“Are you mad at me too?” She asks annoyed. “You didn’t have to come.”
“I’m not mad at you for me getting hurt, I signed up for this when we agreed to be partners. I’m mad that you dragged Tyler and Enid into this, they had nothing to do with the case, but you put them in danger anyway. Did you learn nothing from Eugene, he almost died, they could have died.” I yell at her. This seems to start to get through to her. “And the worst part is you don’t seem to care about this.”
“Enid moved to Yoko’s room.” Wednesday admitted.
“I’m sorry to hear that but she had every right, she has done nothing but be supportive and kind towards you, she stayed at the mansion because she valued your friendship and you took that for granted, you’ve pushed everyone who’s given a damn about you away.”
Wednesday seems to accept her mistakes and leaves the room. I’m not even mad at her, I just want Enid to be okay, and to a much lesser extent, Tyler to receive minor injuries. Wednesday needs to get called out or she will do this over and over again until someone she cares about will die. I’m also mad because it still feels like she doesn’t trust me, what did she see in her vision when she touched my hand, I want her to be able to tell me on her own but this is just getting ridiculous, what was so bad that she couldn’t tell me.
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Playing Detectives Pt 5 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
When Wednesday went to the school dance with Tyler, Y/N realized how he truly felt about his partner, meanwhile he and Eugene staked out the cave and caught someone burning and evidence there was something inside, and Eugene got attacked by the monster.
I had been spending the last couple of nights hanging around Eugene’s hospital bed, he’s going to make it, but he’s still really badly hurt. I usually stay until the nurses kick me out, I’m on a first name basis with most of the hospital staff at this point. Me and Wends talked for a little bit, she offered me her deepest sympathies over Eugene since we are roommates which is her way of hugging me and telling me everything will be all right.
However this weekend I wouldn’t be able to hang out in Eugene’s room because I have to deal with another one of this school’s annoying functions, Parent’s Weekend, don’t get me wrong I love my family, it’s just that some of them are a bit on the weirder side, plus my cousin Gojo will just flirt with all the girls and my cousin Oliver will just flirt with all the guys.
The run down on the family tree is that there is my grandfather Tim Barron, he had my dad Oscar, my uncle Austin, my uncle Eddie, my uncle Francis, my uncle Richard, my uncle Joseph, my aunt Jane, and my uncle Toji. Tim’s brother is Issac Barron. My dad married my mom Maxine, they had my oldest brother Arthur, the dead one, my oldest sister Ruby, my sister Elizabeth, then there’s my brothers Jason and Jack and my sister Amelia. My uncle Francis had my cousins Skyler, Oliver and Gwen. Then my uncle Toji had my cousins Maki and Gojo.
Other than my parents none of my uncles or my aunt really had successful marriages but aunt Jane is dating someone she thinks is nice right now.
Now even though it is called Parent’s Weekend all of them are coming. So this weekend I have to deal with the stress of my entire family being in one school, Eugene’s injuries, my emerging feelings for Wednesday, her family being in the same school, and solving a murder investigation that also involves our destiny to determine the fate of the school involving a clash with a murderous four hundred year old pilgrim. There is also something I’ve been wondering about, the night Rowan died when Wednesday touched my hand she had a vision, then the night of the Rave’N she was worried about me going out and running the risk of dealing with the monster, so now I just want to know what she saw in her vision of me.
— — —
Me, Jack, Jason, Ameila are all standing out by the gates waiting for our various family members to arrive. Most of them arrive in various limos but uncle Francis, Skyler, and Oliver all pull up on motorcycles doing their best to make in entrance. We greet our various family members and before I know it I’m face to face with my parents.
“Son.” My dad says deadpan.
“Father, Mother.” I return.
We stand there a few seconds before breaking out into laughter and hugging.
“How have you been?” My mom asks me.
“Fantastic, solving a murder investigation that involves a monster and Jericho’s founder Joseph Crackstone.” I reply.
“That’s my boy.” Dad says proudly wrapping and arm around my shoulder before turning to my siblings.
“Hey, assface.” I hear and as I turn I’m met with my sister Ruby.
“Shit brains.” I greet before once again laughing and hugging my relatives.
“Hey Y/N.” My sister Elizabeth greets.
“Hi.” Hi say hugging her.
We all start to head into the quad to hear Weems’ speech. Nevermore’s a haven blah blah blah. Stuff like that. The only part I paid attention to was when she said that Eugene is on the mend.
“That’s your roommate right?” My cousin Maki asked me.
“Yeah.” I say before walking off the second the speech is done.
I head over to Wednesday and Enid, I know Enid’s got it rough with her mother since she isn’t able to wolf out like the rest of her family so I try to be there for her when I can, but the fact that my family has contributed this much to overpopulation means I don’t have a lot of free time during Parent’s Weekend to comfort her about her situation.
“That is not your fault okay, the monster hasn’t attacked anyone in the past week, maybe you finally scared it off.” Enid said to Wends.
“Yeah it’s not your fault Wends, it’s mine.” I say trying to comfort her.
“Maybe the monster went into hiding to avoid this weekend.”
“Y/N, are you really choosing to talk up a couple of girls rather than be with your own family, I know you’ve always been popular with them but still.” My uncle Francis asks me walking over with my grandpa.
“Where are my manners, Wednesday and Enid, this is my uncle Francis Barron and my grandfather Tim Barron, grandpa, uncle, this is Wednesday Addams and Enid Sinclair.” I introduce
“Addams, are you Gomez’s kid?” Francis asks her.
“Yes, speaking of which I knew I should’ve worn my plague mask.”
“Well look at my family talk about toxic pack mentality, I give my mom thirty seconds before judgey claws come out, let’s get this over with.”
We all walk over to each of our respective families.
— — —
What is one of the arguably weirdest moments of the weekend so far is when my dad and Wednesday’s dad reunited.
“Oscar!”
“Gomez!”
The two ran up to each other, hugged, then did a secret handshake that only belongs in bad teen movies from the 80s. I talked with my family about the case and Eugene, leaving out anything about my feelings for Wednesday, but of course leave it up to Jack and Jason to ruin a good thing.
“Did he tell you guys about his hot goth girlfriend yet?”
“You know he’s got a girlfriend now right?”
“It can’t have been just me who thought he was aroace right?”
That kind of stuff.
Some of my family is talking with Wednesday’s, my brothers are talking with her’s, my dad and some of my uncles are talking with her dad, and my mom and aunt are talking with her mom.
“Would you look at that, our families is getting along so well” I point out.
“I know, it’s awful.” She replies.
— — —
Wednesday’s family went to go to family therapy while I continued to hang out with mine, some of us went into Jericho to hang out, we went into the Weathervane to grab some coffee and I noticed the Sheriff sitting down. He looks up and notices all of us, he had particular trouble dealing with my cousins Gojo and Oliver, they were the ones who most often broke the law.
“No, no, you two can not be back again, not again.”
“Well hello Sheriff Galpin, what can we do for you?” Gojo greeted him.
“Hey, it’s alright I’m helping him with the murder investigation, he’s cool, Sheriff you don’t have to worry my family is only in town for the weekend.” I defuse.
“That’s still one weekend longer than I have the patience for.”
“So do you have the DNA test back yet?” I ask.
“No, hold on this might be it, hello, you got the test?” He says answering a phone call. “Ah shit.” He says before walking out.
“Woah, dad what happened?” Tyler asked him.
“You know the local coroner? He just blew his brains out.”
Later we see Wednesday and her family storming out of Kinbott’s office and Bianca and her mom come in and start talking, I feel like they both want their privacy so I stay with my family while we hang out.
— — —
I manage to get some alone time when I head to the bee hives. It’s there that me and Wednesday run into each other.
“So, how was family therapy?”
“Awful, my mother still refuses to tell me the truth about Garret Gates, the man my father is accused of murdering.” She vents.
“That sucks, I sorry you have to deal with that.”
“Are we going to beat around the bush forever or are we going to finally talk about what happened last weekend?” She asked me.
“Which part, a lot happened?” I asked for clarification.
She then pulled me into the shed for some reason.
“You know even if someone was watching they probably only started getting suspicious now.”
“How could you not tell me you’re having panic attacks?”
“I didn’t know my mental health is any of your concern, what does it matter anyway?”
“If you have a panic attack in the middle of us dealing with the monster then it could put you at risk, and I don’t want to lose one of the only bearable people in this place.”
“As touching as that was, you don’t need to worry I’ll be fine.” I say before leaving the shed.
We gather some honey and head over to Eugene’s room to talk to him, this is Wends’ first time seeing him after the attack. Turns out she had Thing keep an eye on him.
“He didn’t deserve this, I should be in that bed.”
“Don’t say that Wends, it’s not your fault.” I say trying to comfort her.
We then feel hands on our shoulders and we turn around quickly to be met by Eugene’s parents, Sue and Janet, turns out he was talking about us all the time. We decided to leave as they deserved to have time with their son.
— — —
We’re now at lunch in Nevermore sitting with our families. Apparently Wednesday saw her mom visit Garret Gates’ grave earlier. My family and Wednesday’s are still joking around with each other. Enid and Ajax have seemed to patch things up since the Rave’N, Enid is still dealing with her mom’s disappointment in her lack of wolfness.
Suddenly the Sheriff is bursting in avoiding principal Weems’ questions and heading straight for Mr. Addams.
“You’re under arrest for the murder of Garret Gates, you have the right to remain silent anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, you have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford an attorney one will appointed for you.”
Everyone sits there shocked at the scene unfolding before us.
— — —
Enid vented to me about how her mom wants to send her to lycanthropy camps to help her wolf out which is beyond messed up, Wednesday visited her father and is now convinced of his innocence, of course I believe her, she’s usually right about these sorts of things.
Later that night I’m woken up by the sound of my phone ringing. “Hello.”
“Y/N.” I hear the familiar deadpan voice on the other end.
“Wends, what’s up, I thought you didn’t have a phone.”
“I don’t, I need you to come down to the police station.”
“Why?”
“I’ll tell you when you get here.”
I sneak out and head to the station where I find Wednesday, and her parents in a couple of cells, she explains the story of how they got arrested to me and to say I was shocked and disturbed would be an understatement.
“To prove your fathers innocence you dug up a grave and stole the corpse’s finger to prove they had died before your father killed him?” I ask just to check.
“That is correct.” Wednesday confirms.
“And you didn’t invite me!” I shout, this could’ve been a very fun night of digging up graves and foiling conspiracies.
We end up going over our plan and the next morning Me and Wednesday’s brother Pugsley, bailed them out, it was then that me Wednesday, and Mrs. Addams go to Mayor Walkers office to talk to him about our theory.
He confirms that Garrett died of nightshade poisoning after his father gave him some to spike the punch at the Rave’N 30 years ago but he accidentally got some in his system. I swear that dance is cursed.
We manage to blackmail him into dropping all charges against Wednesday’s father. While we were at it I wanted to ask for a pet camel provided by the town but Wednesday said that was stupid.
— — —
Wednesday finally managed to start opening up to her mother about her powers and Mrs. Addams explains some of the aspects of their powers and their ancestors. Mr. Addams and the Sheriff managed to work things out as well. Enid finally stood up to her mom and her dad praised her, I always liked that guy. I have no idea what was going on with Bianca and her mom. My family congratulated me on freeing Mr. Addams and all of our families left, after they left Wednesday realized something shocking. Which is why we are barging into Weems’ office right now.
“You’re a shape shifter.”
“That’s a fascinating theory.”
“I curious to find out how Sheriff Galpin feels when I tell him.”
This causes Weems to admit to impersonating Rowan after he died and lying to the Sheriff, and that she had Rowan’s family support, that Rowan was driven insane and that his death managed to allow them to stop him or the school from being in hot water.
“I’m doing what I did to protect the school and shield the students from harm.”
“Tell that to Eugene, how are you protecting him?” I ask her.
We then hear shouting outside and look out the window to see fire burning on the lawn saying fire will rain.
— — —
I asked Wednesday to meet me in my dorm before we head to bed.
“Nice pets.” she compliments.
“Thanks, so there’s something I wanted to talk to you about.” I tell her.
“Go on.”
“With everything going on, the chances of either of us getting hurt or dying is only getting higher so there’s something I should probably tell you.”
Wednesday looks a little nervous when I say that but manages to speak up. “Spit it out then, what is it?”
“I like you Wednesday, as in more than friends or partners.” I say, a look of shock spreads across her face. “I know you probably don’t feel the same way and that you’d probably think of this as a distraction from the case but I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if you never knew and I-” Before I can ramble on any more Wednesday closes the distance between us by kissing me.
We stay that way for a few seconds before she pulls back.
“I can’t deny my own personal feelings for you, we seem to be compatible in many different ways, we understand each other and are able to be around each other without vomiting, which can’t be said for most of the school.” She says, I laugh at the last part. “As annoying as your brothers are, I … care about you enough to look past them.”
We then kiss again for a few more seconds before Wednesday leaves and I spend the entire night wondering what just happened.
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Playing Detectives Pt 4 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
Y/N and Wednesday learned of a potential new lead in their case in the form of Jericho’s founder Joseph Crackstone, meanwhile Wednesday’s latest stunt puts her on thin ice and when they learn that the monster is actually human Y/N and Wednesday start considering who they can trust.
I already have enough on my plate to deal with as it is with the prophecy only getting more confusing as a four hundred year old pilgrim who discriminated against out casts and tried to kill Wends’ ancestor is now seemingly involved, as well as the monster being a human, now I have to consider who I can trust outside of Wends anyone is a suspect, and of course Xavier just about proving that the Rowan we saw was a doppelgänger. But I also have to deal with possibly one of the worst things about this place, the Rave’n, one of our many school dances. I used to get asked a decent amount but I think they gave up trying, that or no one wanted to go with me after the scar on my eye took up part of my face. I would ask Wednesday to go as friends but our time would be much better spent focusing on the case.
Another thing on our plate is that Ajax stood Enid up on their date, I had to stop Wends from shooting him with a nail gun. I asked him about it and it turns out he stoned himself and missed the date, I suggested he tell Enid but he was too embarrassed, and I won’t tell her because it isn’t my place to.
At the moment however I should focus as me and Wednesday are sneaking into the morgue to inspect a dead body, we got word that the homeless guy we found in the old meeting house had been brutally murdered. Me and Wends slide in under the door as Thing sticks bubblegum onto the camera.
“Find the files on the monsters other victims and make copies, don’t pout, your scalpel skills are questionable.” She tells Thing as we go to find the body.
“Remember on my thirteenth birthday when Uncle Fester got me that cadaver, you sliced right through that man’s carotid.”
We check various containers and make occasional comments.
“Magnificent hematoma.���
Eventually we find the one, Wednesday starts recording her findings as we check the bodies injuries and Thing makes copies.
We see that the body’s left foot is missing when Thing starts telling us people are coming, we shut the container and hide in some empty ones.
The Sheriff and Mortician talk for a minute before the Sheriff leaves, the Mortician then opens the container with Wednesday in it but believes her to be a dead body and then leaves.
Thing opens our containers but Wednesday requests five more minutes inside.
— — —
Me and Wends are hanging out in her dorm putting our findings on a board.
“When I suggested giving your side of the room a makeover I did not have Ted Bundy’s Pinterest in mind.” Enid says.
“Still not as creepy as your stuffed unicorn collection.” Wednesday replies.
“Is this why you snuck out last night?”
“We may have made an unsanctioned trip to the morgue to copy the files of the monster’s victims.”
“Okay, there are so many levels of ew in that statement I don’t know where to begin.”
“We need to get inside its head, discover any patterns or anomalies, we’ve already made a big discovery, turns out all of the monsters victims have had body parts surgically removed, the first one a kidney, the second one a finger.” Wednesday says while handing Enid pictures.
“Wednesday, I don’t feel-”
“Third a gall bladder, and the bearded man from the meeting house two toes, do you understand what this means? These models aren’t mindless, he’s collecting trophies like a seasoned serial killer. It’s impressive, actually.” Wednesday says as we turn around and see that Enid has fainted. We turn back to Thing and request that he fetch the smelling salts again.
— — —
We are in Thornihill’s class now, I’m dozing off as I sit next to Gwen, I get excited when I hear Thornhill bring up something about sexual trickery but get disappointed when I realize she’s just talking about plants.
Bianca makes some joke about the Rave’n which causes Thornhill to solidify herself as my favorite teacher by revealing that because of the dance she isn’t going to assign homework.
Xavier talks to Wednesday about the dance but she says something about sticking needles in her eyes, we then both notice the scratches on his neck.
We look to each other and silently agree to follow him.
— — —
We follow him to his art studio and hide behind some trees.
“We need to do this, Xavier didn’t get those scratches from fencing, he’s hiding something.”
We walk into the studio and see several pictures of the monster looking like they’re staring right at us.
“I suppose every artist needs a muse.”
“A muse is a pretty girl or a bowl of fruit, this is just creepy.” I say
“Xavier you just said that much more interesting.” Wednesday said as she grabbed some pictures.
We head out but Xavier spots Wednesday, I duck behind the shed to avoid being seen.
“Wednesday.”
“Xavier, hello.”
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing, I just saw you come out this way, what is this place?”
“It’s kind of my private art studio, I cleared it out and fixed it up so Weems lets me use it.”
“How very entrepreneurial, I would love to see inside. Why don’t you give me a tour?”
“Not right now, it’s a total mess.”
“I shadowed a crime scene photographer last summer, I’m not easily fazed.” I feel like she wouldn’t easily be fazed even if she didn’t shadow ad crime scene photographer.
“Maybe another time, why were you looking for me?”
“I wanted to go over Ms. Thornhill’s homework assignment.” Damn it Wends Thornhill didn’t give out homework, now he’s going to realize that we think he’s the monster.
“She didn’t give us homework, remember?” Shit, shit, shit shit. “Why are you really out here?” Double shit. “Is this about a certain dance that makes you want to poke needles into your eyes, perhaps?” Well, that was lucky. “I’m all ears.”
“Are you really going to make me ask?” Wednesday said. Wait what?
“Oh, absolutely.” Why this cocky, why would Wends actually go with him, I thought she hated the idea of dances just like me.
What then followed was a near half minute of Wednesday trying to ask Xavier to the dance before finally managing to spit it out. I don’t know why but when she finally asked and Xavier said yes it felt like my stomach dropped and everything just stopped for a second, why would I be disappointed about Wends going to the dance with X-, oh shit, I see what’s happening, I am starting to like Wednesday romantically, well shit, this sucks, we’re partners and good friends, being a couple would just ruin all of that.
— — —
While it’s clear that Wednesday is only going with Xavier to get info and check to see whether or not he is our monster, it still honestly feels sucky. And now I have to deal with therapy.
“I do actually have something I want to talk about today.” I say when I sit down.
Dr. Kinbott looked shocked by this and immediately grabbed her notebook. “Really, ok, what is it?” She asked.
“There’s this girl I like who I’m really close to, and I just realized I like her as more than friends, and there’s a dance coming up and she’s going with someone else and I know she’s not interested in him she’s just going for other reasons but I still feel shitty about it, I also don’t want to ruin our friendship by asking her out, and would I be a bad friend if I don’t feel happy if she was happy with someone else?” I ramble.
“That’s a lot to unpack, let’s start with this girl, is it Wednesday?” I normally would say no but the shocked face I give her manages to reveal the truth. “I see you two walking around a lot, you would be cute together, why do you feel like your friendship would be ruined by asking her out, or why do you think she would say no?”
“Well we just work so well as friends and partners, and I know that she would say no because she is this pretty, cool, smart, girl who seems to have guys throwing themselves at her, I don’t want to be selfish by putting my desires before our friendship.”
“It isn’t selfish to put your own happiness first every now and again.” She says trying to support me.
“Why would she go out with me, she’s perfect, and I’m broken.” I say putting my hand over my scarred eye as I smile at Dr. Kinbott.
“What do you mean by broken? Is it your scar? How did you get it?”
“Under normal circumstances I would never tell you this, but stuff has been feeling shitty recently and … I guess I finally need to let some stuff out to someone who doesn’t share my last name. I had another brother once, my parents first kid, he had bipolar, some days we were best friends doing everything together, others he hated me and stayed in his room all day, one time during dinner, on one of his bad days, I was joking and being loud and it was annoying him, so he grabbed his steak knife and cut at my eye, my parents rushed me to the hospital and not long after that he put a shotgun in his mouth.” I confess, telling the story for the first time since it happened.
I start to break down and the doc comforted me, handing me some tissues and saying it’s alright while all I said was either it’s my fault or that I’m broken. God I miss Arthur, so much.
— — —
After that I walked around Jericho before running into Wednesday.
“Where are you coming from?” She asked.
“Therapy.” I answer. “You?”
“Enid wanted to take me dress shopping but I managed to get out of it, now come on let’s go see the Sheriff.”
We then walked over to the Sheriff’s office and showed him the pictures we found in Xavier’s studio.
“We both know there is a monster out there, if we’re going to stop it, I think it’s time we put our differences aside and work together.”
“And this is your stake for me to deal you two in.” He then takes out any other picture and compares them. “I’m sorry, you gotta do better than that, you got some nice detail though.”
“We didn’t draw it.” I inform him.
“I need to know who did.” He says.
“Unless we’re exchanging intel I’m not at liberty to say.”
“Why would I share information on an ongoing murder investigation with a couple of high school kids?” He asks.
“Because we go to Nevermore and you don’t, don’t you want some eyes and ears behind those ivy covered walls?”
“Listen, Velma and Shaggy, why don’t you and the Scooby gang stick to your homework and leave the investigating to the professionals.” He says before getting a phone call, personally I feel like I would be Scooby but alright. “What?” He starts to talk on the line before calling us back.
“Let me see that sketch again, the person who drew this, that your suspect? When you bring me some concrete evidence maybe we’ll talk.”
We then finally leave the office but we end up running into Tyler.
“Don’t wanna ask what trouble you’re in now.”
“Nothing we can’t handle, your father’s in particularly frustrating form today, avoid.”
“Welcome to my world, you guys have the Rave’N this weekend right? It was all the buzz at the Weathervane today.”
“I must be the only one not obsessed with this stupid dance.” Wends says.
“So you’re not going?” He asks
“Actually, I was forced to ask someone as an act of self preservation.” I died a little inside when she said this, liking someone is so annoying.
“Sure that happens, I guess. So who is it?”
“Xavier.”
“Got it, hope you two have fun.”
“I’m not sure why you’re upset.”
“That’s kind of the problem, I mean call me crazy Wednesday but you keep giving me these signals.” I’m sorry what signals, occasional conversation is signals for this guy.
“It’s not my fault I can’t interpret your emotional Morse code.”
“Then let me spell it out, I thought we liked each other, but then you pull something like this and I have no idea where I stand, am I in the more than friend zone or just a pawn in some game you’re playing?” Well at least when I like a girl, I don’t blame her for not liking me back.
“I’m just dealing with a lot right now, I need to prioritize.”
“Thanks for cleaning that up, I guess, give me a call if I ever move up your to do list.” Tyler says before walking off.
“Not one word.” Wednesday says to me and Thing.
— — —
Wednesday and I moved our murder board into the beekeeping shed, with Eugene’s permission and Enid’s insistence.
“No worries. Mi colmena es us colmena. I assume this is the creature that’s been rampaging in the woods”
“You told him?” Wednesday glared at me.
“We told your roommate.” I said deadpan staring at the board.
“Mr. Fits banned me from bug hunting until further notice. Speaking of monsters with sharp claws can you give this to your roommate, put in a good word for me?” He asked Wends. “I hear she’s still sans date for the Rave’N.”
“Eugene.”
“I know the chances of her asking me are next to zero, but I don’t care. I’ll keep putting myself out there until Enid finally sees me.” God I need this kid’s confidence.
“And if she never was.”
“She will, I’m playing the long game, my moms say people will appreciate me when I’m older, I know they’re just trying to make me feel better, but-”
“Listen people like us, we’re original thinkers, intrepid outliers in this vast cesspool of adolescence. We don’t need these inane rites of passage to validate who we are, Y/N?”
“Most of the people going are self absorbed shit bags anyway.” I chime in.
“Exactly.”
“So you’re not going to the Rave’N either?” He asks us.
“I’m not.” I say.
“Actually, I am, with Xavier”
“I see.”
“It’s not like I like Xavier, I just have ulterior motives, sketches are the closest thing me and Y/N have to a lead to try and stop this thing.”
“That circle, I think I know where that is.” Eugene tells us.
“Show us.”
We walk through the woods for a few minutes before coming across a cave that looks like the circles in one of Xavier’s drawings.’
“You think it’s in there?” He asks us/
“Only one way to find out.”
We walk up to the entrance.
“I’m not a huge fan of enclosed spaces, I’m claustrophobic.”
“If you hear me screaming bloody murder there’s a good chance I’m just enjoying myself.”
We then walk into the cave and look around with our flashlights, we find deer bones and find some shackles attached to the wall with scratch marks around them and a claw jammed into the rocks.
— — —
Me and Wednesday go into Xaviers studio to find something to match for DNA to present to the Sheriff.
After we grab something Xavier walks in.
“The hell you doing he asks us?”
“How do you know what the monster looks like? Or all these just self portraits.”
“What, you think it’s me? I saved your life.”
“So did the monster. Or was that you the night Rowan was killed?”
“You are so out of line right now.”
“We’re just trying to uncover the truth, and your art seems to have a recurring motif.”
“Yeah, this creature’s been haunting my dreams for the past couple of weeks, I try to block it out, but I can’t so I just come in here and paint it, when I was painting this one the claws reached out of the canvas and took a swipe at me, that’s how I got these scratches”
“I thought you were able to control your ability.”
“Not when it comes to this thing.”
“Maybe it’s just your guilty conscience.”
“I told you I’m not the monster, okay?”
Wednesday then takes out the drawing of the cave.
“So you just happened to draw pictures of it down to the location of its lair in the woods? Those are some pretty vivid dreams.”
“You were in there before, when I caught you, that’s the only reason you asked me to the Rave’N isn’t it? To try and cover, you are unbelievable.”
“It’s nothing personal.”
“It never is with you is it? I mean, do you even care about anyone or anything at all, Wednesday? Get out! Both of you out!”
We do as he requests and leave to go to the Sheriff’s.
— — —
We hand the Sheriff our DNA samples.
“That’s the claw of the monster and that’s a dried blood sample from a potential suspect, he used it to dab scratches on his neck, run the DNA test and see if they match.”
“I’m sorry, do I work for you?”
“You asked for concrete evidence, that’s it”
“Where’d you get this? And who’s the suspect?”
“Run the test first then I’ll explain everything.”
“I’m not playing games.”
“Neither are we Sheriff.”
“Bernice, bring me a DNA authorization form please.”
— — —
Me and Wednesday were now back at Nevermore, we saw Eugene sulking by the fountain.
“Why so glum?” She asked him.
“Saw Enid at lunch, asked if she got my honey.”
“It’s not like I didn’t warn you, since none of us have a date to the dance-”
“We should all go together!” Eugene said enthusiastically.
“What? No, I was going to suggest we stake out the cave and identify the monster, whoever it may be.”
We then looked over at Xavier before walking off.
“Don’t worry man, someday you will get a girl who genuinely loves everything about you.” I comfort him.
— — —
Me and Eugene spent the better part of the afternoon getting ready, I was bringing minimal supplies, flashlights, some snacks if we get hungry, and I snuck one of my swords from my forgery with some runic engravings on it for extra measure just to be safe, the runes give it some ice powers and stuff, also some walkie talkies.
We began to head downstairs to meet Wends and head out.
“You excited buddy? Your first stake out.” I ask him.
“Yeah, I also just wanted to say thanks, if it wasn’t for you and Wednesday I wouldn’t really have any friends so it means a lot to me you guys are including me.”
“When you’re an outcast amongst outcasts it’s probably smart to stick together.”
“Yeah, not many others here love bees as much as us.”
“Also I have a massive pile of manga in my closet.” I confess. “The only ones who know are now you and Thing.”
“What?” He laughs.
“Tell anyone and I’ll kill you and hide your body in one of the hives.” I threaten also laughing.
We keep walking until we see Wends, in a dress, with Tyler, shit.
“Wednesday, what’s going on?” Eugene asks her. “What happened to staking out the cave?”
“Don’t worry we get it, we’ll check it out ourselves.” I say turning to head out.
“No, it’s too dangerous, stand down.” She tells us. “We’ll go together tomorrow night, understood?”
“Come on Wends, this our first real lead in a while. I’ll watch out for him.” I offer, she should go and have fun, even if it isn’t with me.
“You especially shouldn’t go.” She tells me almost as if it was a warning.
“Come on, here.” I hand her one of the radios from my bag. “We can be in contact at all times, if things gets hairy we’ll call.”
“Fine if you must go, you will remain by your radios at all times, and at the first sign of danger, run.” She tells us sternly
“Yes ma’am.” I say jokingly.
With that we part ways, Wednesday to the Rave’N with Tyler, me to the cave with Eugene. But, if there is one thing I know about Wednesday is that she always looks forward to the next thing, she never looks back, so why did I notice her looking back at me when we left.
— — —
We’ve been here for half an hour by this point, I always loved the vibe of the woods at night, the bugs chirping, owls hooting, the moonlight shrouded by the clouds. It just feels peaceful. Eugene talks in his voice recorder about how there has been no movement but he did here a type of bug he liked so that’s nice.
“Hey man put that thing away for a second will you?” I ask.
“Sure what is it?”
“What I’m about to tell you never gets out, you will tell no one, not Enid, not Thing, nobody.”
“Not even Wednesday?”
“Especially not Wends.”
“This feels a bit more serious than a giant manga collection.” He jokes.
“Yeah it is, I may or may not have been developing romantic feelings for a certain goth girl in our beekeeping club.”
“First we’re called the Nevermore Hummers, but wait, you seriously have a crush on Wednesday?”
“Yeah.” I confess.
“Well why didn’t you ask her to the dance?”
“I don’t know? First she was going with Xavier, then we were staking out this cave, and now she’s there with Tyler.”
“I can’t believe she bailed on us for the dance.”
“Don’t blame Wends, she’s been focusing on the case a lot, she deserves to have fun.” I defend her.
“But you’ve been focusing on it just as much, you should be able to go as well.”
“Yeah, I guess, but it wouldn’t feel the same not being there with her, at least when she was going with Xavier I knew she didn’t have feelings for him, but with Tyler it’s different, she’s choosing to be there with him right now.”
We then wait around a couple more hours before we hear a car pull up to the cave and someone gets out. They walk over to the cave before throwing in a Molotov cocktail. After throwing it in they shine their flashlight directly at us and run away as fast as we can.
We run for a few minutes before hiding behind some trees. We stop to catch our breath but we start to hear the monster snarling and we continue our run.
In the distance I can hear Wends shouting our names, either that or I’m just hallucinating. Before I know it Eugene trips over and loses his glasses, I turn to try and run back but the monster gets to him before I do. He slash my sword at it a few times before it runs off.
“Eugene, wake up kid, it’s gone, you’re alright.” I try to say to him. Before I know it I’m hyperventilating, my vision’s getting blurry, and everything is feeling numb, I don’t even notice it until Wednesday shakes me and yells my name.
“Y/N”
That starts to take me out of it as I notice her hand on mine and her terrifying yet somewhat comforting stare into my soul.
Thornhill runs in and yells. “Is he’s alive!”
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Playing Detectives Pt 3 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
Finally starting to move a few steps forward into their investigation Y/N have discovered the existence of a secret society, found the second half to the drawing the details their destiny, and while they were at it they knocked Wednesday’s mortal enemy down a peg, however they have just been seemingly kidnapped.
The two of us are now tied to couple of chairs, after the bags are ripped off of our heads a projector is used to shine light into our eyes and in front of us stand several hooded figures wearing masks, most of whom are clearly people we know.
“Who dares breach our inner sanctum.” Bianca says distorting her voice
“You can take the mask off Bianca.” Wednesday replies.
Everyone takes off their own masks as well, Bianca, Ajax, Xavier, Yoko, Divina, even Jack, Jason, Gwen, and Amelia are there.
“Wait I preferred you with it on.” Wednesday says, which me, Jack, and Jason laugh at.
“How did you get down here?” Xavier asks.
“Rowan showed us.” I respond.
“Left pocket.” Wednesday says.
Xavier walks over and takes the drawing out of her pocket and unfolds it.
“We tracked the watermark down to the Poe statue and then we solved the riddle.”
“Wait there’s a riddle? I thought we just snap twice.” One of them questions.
“Well aren’t you the brightest in the bunch.”
“The Nightshade are an elite social club, emphasis on elite.” Bianca says.
“We have roof parties, campouts, the occasional midnight skinny dip.” One of the says.
“And Yoko is an amateur mixologist.” Another says.
“She makes a killer virgin mojito, it can get pretty wild.”
“Wow do you guys even have a bed time, last I heard the Nightshades have been disbanded.” Wednesday says sarcastically.
“Yeah, the group kind of lost their charter thirty years ago after some normie kid died.” Xavier answers.
“But we have a lot of wealthy alumni so Weems looks the other way as long as no one makes any waves.” One of them answers.
“Wait how come none of you guys ever told me about this?” I ask my siblings and cousin.
“We tried to you just never cared to listen to us.” Jason answered.
“Name one time.” I challenge, seriously I pay attention to them and care about what they’re up to, I find it hurtful they don’t think that.
“A few months ago when I first joined I tried to tell you but you said you were busy reading.” Gwen says.
“One month ago we were going to invite you to take the pledge but you said you couldn’t talk because you were going to beekeeping.” Jack says.
“I literally was about to invite you for the third time to take the pledge last week but you said you had to go down to your forgery.” Amelia points out
“You have a forgery?” Wednesday asks.
“Yeah Weems lets me have as long as nobody gets stabbed and all the swords I make stay in there.” I explain.
“We’re getting off track here what is your history with Rowan?” Wednesday asks.
“We booted that loser last semester, question is what are going to do with them?” Bianca says. “Only members are allowed in this library.”
“I say we invite her to pledge.” Xavier says. “She has a legacy.” He then points to a picture of Wednesday’s parents when they went here.
“What about me?” I ask.
“We could invite him too.” Gwen suggests.
“After the crap she pulled in the Poe Cup there’s no way in hell, we talk about not making waves she’s a tsunami, and Y/N is like her shadow.” Bianca says rejecting us, I personally think of me and Wednesday as equal partners so the shadow comment wasn’t appreciated, especially with the glare I earned from Xavier after it.
“Just because I beat you at your own game, let me save you the trouble, I’m not interested in joining.”
“Me neither.” I say.
“You’re seriously turning us down.” One of them says sounding offended.
“Can you believe it.” Wednesday says sarcastically.
“Untie them.” Bianca orders.
“We freed ourselves five minutes ago.” Wednesday says as we hold up the ropes and I flip them off.
We then get up and hand our ropes to Xavier, as we make our way to the staircase one of them blocks our way, this one had a black eye, I don’t know how they got it but I have a feeling Wednesday was involved.
“Do you want a matching black eye?” She threatens as I crack my knuckles.
We then make our way up the stairs before Wednesday stops. “It’s amateurs like you who give kidnapping a bad name.”
We then leave.
— — —
I’m now sitting in my next Therapy session having to deal with avoiding some of Kinbott’s exercises.
“What does this ink blotch look like?”
“The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.”
“And this one Y/N”
“The birthmark on my uncle’s ass.”
She sighs and puts the cards down on her lap. “Y/N, we’ve been having our sessions for half a year at this point, and we barely made any headway, so stop bullshiting this and for once give me a straight answer.”
“We have made progress, several weeks ago we realized a trigger for my panic attacks are moments where I feel guilty for some reason or another.” I point out.
She just holds up the card, I sigh and take a good look at it. “A cat and a bird.” I answer.
“Hm, that answer indicates that the patient is holding onto guilt from a traumatic experience they believe is there fault, what do you think is that experience?”
“I have no idea.” I lie through my teeth, I know perfectly well what it is, and I don’t have any intention on telling anyone.”
We run out the session talking about stuff that has been going on at school and stuff.
— — —
Me and Wends are standing out in the quad holding the drawing of the two of us and the pilgrim surrounded by fire up to where the events are apparently going to take place.
We were also out in the quad because of Weems’ announcement, we will all be doing jobs around Jericho as part of, in my opinion, the most horrible part of the year, outreach day. But today we have to deal with going to some unveiling of a statue in the town, it will have performances by Nevermore students, I know Enid and Gwen are doing one of the performances so I’ll watch for them.
Now we are getting handed the envelopes saying where we are working.
“Yes, I got Pilgrim World, I do have natural people skills and a love of preforming so it’s kind of the obvi choice. What did you guys get.” Enid asks us.
“I got the Weathervane.” I answer.
“Euriah’s heap, whatever that is.” Wednesday says causing Enid to grimace.
“It’s this weird creepy antique store, you’ll like it though, I’m crossing my claws Ajax and I get paired together.” Enid says excitedly.
We then look over at him and Xavier and I hear him say he’s got the Weathervane as well, that should be fun.
Enid leaves and Weems comes over and tells Wednesday that she will be playing her cello alongside the Jericho high school band.
We hop on one of the vans to Jericho.
Wednesday goes to talk with Xavier while he’s staring some blank wall and I go off to explore a little.
We then go sit at the town square as the Mayor thanks us for our generosity and makes some corny joke before Weems dismisses us.
“Enid switch volunteer assignments with me.” Wednesday asks her.
“No, Euriah’s heap is definitely not my bag.”
“It’s an emergency I need to check out Pilgrim World.”
“But Wednesday this isn’t a fair trade why would I agree to spend the entire day at some dumpy emporium of crappola.”
“Because Ajax is going to be there, Thing took sneaked a peek at his assignment, but if you’re not interested.”
“No, oh my god, thank you, you’re the best.” Enid thanks her before running off.
“Good luck at Pilgrim World, I got that one last year a lot of Normies work there and they hate Nevermore kids.” I warn before we part ways.
— — —
I’ve been working here for about an hour and nothing really special has been going on, when Tyler tried to show me and Xavier how to make the coffee I showed him I already know how. I saw Weems, Thornhill, and the Mayor talking for a little bit but I didn’t really care what they were talking about, probably just boring stuff about taxes or bills or whatever adults talk about.
When I catch Xavier glaring again at me I decide that enough is enough.
“Look man, either you can actually yell at me or you can keep pouting like a baby, which will it be.”
“I don’t know, so far pouting seems to be doing just fine.”
“What is up with you, we never really hung out but now it feels like you hate me.”
He then sighs and leans against the counter. “Honestly I’m just jealous of you and Wednesday, somehow you made it so she doesn’t hate being around you at every moment.”
“Dude me and Wednesday aren’t dating if that’s what you’re worried about, we’re just looking into Rowan and the monster.” I answer, I don’t know why but when I say that me and Wends aren’t a thing I feel a little twinge in my chest.
“Yeah she was asking about him and Crackstone earlier.”
“Crackstone?” I ask.
“Jeez, it’s like I’m the only one who knows anything about him, he founded Jericho, he was in some picture she was looking at that had you two in it as well.” He tells me.
“Thanks, that’s really helpful, and me and Wednesday are really only friends, we cool?” I ask him.
“Yeah we’re good.” He says.
“Hey you ever gonna tell everyone what happened to your eye, I know it happened a few years ago and that you missed a few weeks of school for it but other than that not even Enid knows?” He asks.
“Nah, and no offense we may have just gotten back on good terms but if I ever finally tell everyone what went down with my eye it most certainly won’t be you.”
We share a quick laugh before he walks off to help a customer.
I help a few more customers before Wednesday walks in, sadly she’s in her Nevermore uniform, I would have paid anything to see her in the Pilgrim uniform, Eugene better have grabbed me a picture.
Xavier went to greet her, but she quickly turned him away, saying she’s there to talk to Tyler.
“You know the original pilgrim meeting house from the 1600s, do you know if it’s still around?”
“What’s left of it is out in the woods but it’s pretty much in ruins.”
I finally walk over to them and look at the map.
“Show us.” She says, he points to where it is.
“But it’s kinda sketchy, squatters and methheads use that place as a crash pad, my dad has to clear it out every couple of weeks, what’s this about?” he asks.
“Nothing.” She says.
“You guys are really becoming obsessed with this whole monster in the woods thing.”
“Would you rather I developed an obsession with horses and boy bands? Thank you for the help.”
I go to grab my stuff to tag along while Tyler says he could take her later which she rejects, why do I feel happy that she turned him down.
“I’m taking my lunch brake boss.” I tell Tyler tossing the ridiculous apron behind the counter as I walk out with Wednesday, I notice Xavier looking at us, I swear if he still thinks me and Wednesday are dating I will trash his art studio.
— — —
We arrive at the ruins of the old pilgrim meeting house and start to investigate.
Thing signs that he was expecting more when an old homeless guy asks her who she’s talking too, Thing manages to scare him off by grabbing onto his throat.
We look around a little more before Thing asks if she can control her visions.
“No, I can’t just touch something, my visions happen spontaneously.”
He then signs that she should ask her mom for advice.
“I’d rather dye my hair pink then ask my mother for advice, oh you want me to prove it to you.” She then goes around touching various parts of the ruins before grabbing a Taco Bell bag, sarcastically saying it would give them some real insight, and faking a vision. For as closed off and deadpan as she is, Wends has a great sense of humor.
“We could still give it a shot.” I suggest.
“No, my visions are about as predictable as a shark attack.” She remarks walking away, but when her hand touches the door she has another vision causing her to fall, I catch her and lay her down on the ground. While she’s out I decide to make small tall with Thing.
“How do you get you’re nails to look so good?” I ask
‘Me and Enid give each other manicures.’ He signs
“Ah.”
‘What makes your family outcasts?’ He asks
“We are wizards but we mostly focus on alchemy and runes.” I answer
We then spend a while just chatting about mine family and his and Wednesday’s.
“It looks like it’s going to rain, maybe we’ll get lucky and have to miss the statue thing” I say looking at the sky.
Wednesday bolts up looking shocked. “Thing, Y/N I saw her, the girl from my visions, her name is Goody Addams and I believe she is my ancestor from 400 years ago.”
Now, if I went to any other school and befriended any other girl, then this would sound insane, but since I don’t I wasn’t as shocked as one might have been hearing this, I was still shocked, but not as shocked.
We then get up as it started to rain and we heard sounds coming from outside, we look and suddenly the monster reveals itself. As quickly as it appears it runs off. We run after it and followed it’s tracks, but something strange happened, the tracks started shifting from that of the monster to human tracks.
“The monster is human.” Wednesday thinks out loud.
“What the hell are you doing?” Xavier asks holding his umbrella suddenly appearing from out of nowhere.
“We were following the monster.” Wednesday answers.
“Wait you saw it, it’s here, you have a death with or something?”
“What exactly are you doing out here?” Wednesday asks him.
“I heard you were checking out the old meeting house, guess I’m just lucky when I did.” He says as if we couldn’t have handled it ourselves.
“We did learn one thing, the monster is human, it’s tracks turn from monster prints to human ones.”
“Show me.”
We turn to show him but the rain washed the tracks away, Xavier scoffs at that.
“We know what we saw.” Wednesday says.
“I’m trying to keep an open mind.”
“How big of you.”
“I think you may be right about Rowan.”
“Why the sudden change of heart?” I ask him.
“I texted him again today, said maybe we should meet up over spring break and go snowboarding like we did last year, only this time he texted right back and said he wouldn’t be able to make it.”
“Only you never went snowboarding last year.” Wednesday realizes.
“Part of me wanted to blame his recent weirdness, I didn’t want to think that something bad had happened.”
“The cover up is always worse than the crime.” Wednesday says.
“I need you to be honest with me, why did you guys come out to the old meeting house in the first place.”
“We were trying to lean more about Crackstone, figure out how he’s connected to all this.” I say.
“Yeah and you were trying to use your psychic abilities, right.” He says to Wends.
“What makes you think I have any?” She asks.
“Lucky guess, when did they start.”
“About a year ago, when they happen it feels like I’m touching live wire, I usually enjoy that sensation.” She says
“Yeah, but you can’t control it and that freaks you out.” He says “My dad’s a psychic.”
“Vincent Thorp, my brother’s his number one fan.” She reveals. “Watched his Vegas special so many times I’m surprised it’s not imprinted on his eyeballs.”
“So I’ve lived with the self described master and the first thing he’ll tell you is that the visions can’t be trusted, they only show you one half of the picture.”
“I saw Joseph Crackstone as clearly as I’m seeing you now, he gathered all the outcasts in the meeting house and burned them alive.”
“Okay he was a sadistic asshole, so what it was 400 it has nothing to do with now.”
“But what if it does, you saw Rowans drawing, Crackstone was standing in the quad.”
“Your creating a story in your head and using visions to back it up, they’re showing you what you want to see.”
“Are you mansplaning my power?” She asks rhetorically.
“All I’m saying is my dad, the expert, would tell you that psychic ability isn’t rooted in logic, their triggered by emotions, and let’s be honest emotion isn’t your strong suit.”
“I believe Rowan was right, something bad is going to happen and we need to stop it.” Wednesday says referring to the two of us. “Starting with that monster, whoever it is.”
We walk off to go to the town square where for some reason it looks like it never rained and me and Wends were completely dry.
Wednesday went to go set up her Cello while I went to go sit by me family.
“Where are you and Wednesday coming from?” Gwen asked.
“The old meeting house in the woods, we were looking into some stuff and found out that the monster is actually human.” I say
“That’s crazy.” Amelia said shocked.
“That’s what Xavier said when he showed up.” I pointed out.
“Did he really have to be a cockblock for such a romantic date.” Jack said teasingly.
Eventually the Mayor starts to make his speech so I take that as my signal to doze off.
I thought I heard something and when I looked over my shoulder behind the stands I see thing light a match and throw it onto a trial of gasoline, this trail led into the statue’s fountain feature causing it to explode.
While most people ran away me and my family were laughing our asses at the fact the Wends stayed to play her Cello.
— — —
After the explosion Wends was sent to Weems’ office. After that Enid had her date with Ajax and I went to sleep, but not before congratulating Wends on a job well done in Jericho today, turning a dreadfully boring assembly into something truly entertaining. I’m also excited to start making some real progress on the case, figuring out who Rowan’s imposter is and who this monster is, are they the same person are they even connected. Who is it, and what is their goal.
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Playing Detective Pt 2 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
After having witnessed a monster commit murder and learned of a fate destined for them, Wednesday Addams and Y/N Barron begin to unravel the mysteries of their school and the conspiracies that plague their town.
When I woke up I expected that during the day me and Wednesday would be questioned about the murder of Rowan, what did the monster look like, where did it run off too, did it look like one of our classmate, not gonna lie, it has the same bulging eyes as Kevin from my ancient literature class. However, when we were called to talk to the Sheriff he told us something that confused the hell out of us, Rowan’s body was never found.
“How could you use a dead body?” My pale, monotone, friend asks the Sheriff.
“Because there never was one to begin with, there was no footprints, no blood stains, no sign of a struggle, no nothing, nada. My search party looked all night.”
“Well your search party must have left their seeing eye dogs at home.” She retorts.
I stay quiet during this conversation, I’m honestly just wondering where Rowan could have gone, even if he was alive when we left him he couldn’t have made it far enough away before dying of blood loss later, so what the hell happened. Eventually we end up in Weems’ office, she brings up how nobody has heard from him.
“Dead people are notoriously bad at returning calls.” Wednesday says sarcastically.
“You got anything to add on Barron?” He asks me.
“One person saying that a kid was killed by a monster is something you can just write off as them being crazy, but two means there has to be something going on.” I answer.
“Well knowing the family history of both of you then I would say you’re both crazy.”
“Wednesday if the monster kills me next then please say I told you so to this fool for me.” I tell her, but she almost shows a split second of emotion when I say that.
The sheriff then sits down and asks us what we were doing out there with him.
“We heard a noise, went to go investigate and that’s where we stumbled upon the attack.” I explain.
“Then what happened?”
“We ran into Bianca Barclay and told her to go get help, next thing we knew we woke up in our respective dorm rooms.”
“Just to be clear this monster wasn’t a bear or some other wild animal.”
“I’ve hibernated with bears, I’d know the difference.” She says, I laugh at her response and look at her amused.
“Alright Sheriff, I think that’s enough for now.” Weems chimes in.
“Actually we would like to speak to Sheriff Galpin alone.” Wednesday says.
“Do you now?”
“Yes, we do.” I say.
Weems and Galpin get into a bit of back and forth before deciding to give us five minute alone to talk to him here.
“Someone is trying to cover up Rowan’s murder, it’s the only reason to scrub the crime scene.” Wednesday tells him
“Oh, is that your professional opinion as the daughter of a murderer.” Galpin responds.
“My father is twice the man you are, and the only thing he murders is the occasional opera in the shower.”
Alright I would actually really like to hear that.
“I did join my uncle for a summer internship where I helped him clean up crime scenes, if you let me investigate I could probably find something.” I add in
“Is your uncle forensic cleaner?” He asks.
“ … Sure.” I lie.
“Look Addams, Barron, it’s been a long night and I’m tired of your games,”
“We’re not playing games, we’re telling the truth, you wan to reject our claims but you can’t.” She says.
“And why is that?”
“Because the three know there is a monster out there and Rowan is his latest victim.”
All of a sudden one of his deputies comes in, “Sheriff, you’re gonna want to see this.” Then she opens the other door to reveal Rowan staring there, alive obviously, this has to be one of the few times I’ve seen Wednesday shocked in the short time I’ve known her.
— — —
My and Wednesday got bombarded by other students asking a bunch of different things, stuff like why we made up the whole Rowan getting murdered by a monster. The only ones who believed me were Jason, Jack, Amelia, and Gwen. Wednesday said that after her therapy session Tyler told her he believed us.
Ajax is trying to convince me to be part of his team for the Poe Cup but is failing miserably.
“Come on Y/N, we’ll dress as clowns.”
“You’re not a very good salesman.”
“We’ll look terrifying, we can crush the other teams.”
“As appealing as that sounds I got some other things I want to do.”
“Like what?”
“Not have to deal with Xavier’s glaring, ever since me and Wednesday ran into the woods to stop Rowan and saw him get murdered he’s been weird around me.”
“I think he’s just jealous that you’re getting close to Wednesday.”
“Getting called crazy, psycho, and schizo by everyone does tend to drive to people together.” I say sarcastically.
“Alright, well I’ll see you around, and make sure to cheer us on during the race.”
“Would I cheer for anyone else?” I ask him.
“Wednesday.” He replies.
“Like you wouldn’t sink your own ship if Enid gave you puppy dog eyes.”
That ends our conversation as he walks off to go ask other candidate s to be part of his team.
— — —
Me and Wednesday walk into Weems’ office. She told me this morning about a watermark she found in the drawing Rowan had so we were going to ask to speak with him, it would also be nice to find out how he survived.
“That wont be possible I’m afraid, he’s been expelled.” She reveals
“For what?”
“Never you two mind, he’ll be on the first train out this afternoon, what were you doing out in the woods with him in first place?”
“We told you already, we heard a noise and went to investigate.”
“That excuse might have placated the Sheriff but you can’t fool me.”
“You had a psychic vision didn’t you Wednesday, I realized you might be having them when we passed by that accident and knew that the farmer broke his neck, your mother started having visions around your age, they’re notoriously unreliable and dangerous, I remember at first she thought she was loosing her mind, have you spoken to her?” She asked, Wednesday remained silent. “Maybe the person withholding information here is you.”
“May we go now?”
“Not until you’ve picked you’re extracurricular activity, we want our students to remain well rounded.” Weems says.
“I prefer to remain sharp edged.” Wednesday retorts.
“I took the liberty of putting together a list of clubs that have openings.”
“How thoughtful.”
“You need to pick one by the end of the day, I’ll be keeping my eye on you, no doubt you’ll find something to tickle your fancy.”
“The last person who tickled me lost a finger.” Wednesday said walking off.
“Ooh beekeeping I’m in that one, it’s awesome.” I say pointing to it on the list.
— — —
Me and Wednesday part ways after that and I head over to beekeeping where I get to greet club president, my roommate, and one of my closest friends, Eugene Ottenger.
“Hey Eugene, just want to warn you the new girl might come over to check out the club.” I tell him while putting on my suit, then all of a sudden I hear an ear piercing sound and a bunch of the werewolves barking.
Eventually Wednesday comes over and Eugene walks up to her.
“Are you interested in the ancient art of beekeeping, Eugene, Eugene Ottenger, founder and president of the Nevermore hummers.”
“Wednesday, Wednesday Addams, am I late or is it only you two?”
“The hive life isn’t for everyone, most kids are afraid of venomous insects, are you willing to feel the sting?” He asks her, which she smirks to.
She then goes into the shed to put on her suit.
Eugene then starts talking about bees and Wednesday walks off. When he notices she’s gone he sighs and I run after her shouting sorry to him.
— — —
We run up to Rowan as he gets into a car.
“Rowan we need to talk.”
“Wednesday, Y/N, I’m not allowed to speak to anyone.”
“You had a lot to say the other night when you tried to kill us, told us we’re destined to destroy the school remember, where did you get that drawing?”
“I just went into the woods to clear my head, then you two came after me.”
“Wednesday, Y/N, you two shouldn’t be here.” Thornhill tells us.
“Yeah, back off and leave me alone.” He says, well that was a pleasant goodbye.
Thornhill and Rowan drive off leaving us standing there watching.
— — —
We reunite in Thornhill’s class where we ask Thing about Rowan as he was sent by Wednesday to tail Rowan.
“How do you lose him in a bathroom with no windows?”
Thing taps in response.
“A lefty wouldn’t have failed me.” Ouch, it honestly hurts seeing Thing look so defeated
“Calm down Wednesday we all make mistakes.” I defend him.
“Well now we have to gather all new evidence ourselves since he lost our only lead.”
“I see you two made a friend who isn’t related to you, even if it is a plant.” Bianca says having not seen Thing.
“We go for quality over quantity.” Wednesday retorts, nice to know she thinks of me as a friend.
Bianca walks off having no response to Wednesday’s insult and we all go to our seats.
Wednesday tries to find a seat and Xavier chimes in.
“There’s an open seat next to me, if you can handle sitting next an elite sit snob.” He offers, I kind of wish I was there when she said that but I know that he would just find some way to blame me for it, seriously can’t this guy accept that me and Wednesday are friends. He then makes the spider he was drawing come to life.
“I doubt Wednesday is impressed by your little tricks Xavier.” Ms. Thornhill taunts him, alright she has to be my favorite teacher.
“Admit it your a little impressed.” He says before Wednesday smashes is drawing causing it to erupt into smoke.
“Wednesday we are thrilled to have you join us in our journey into the world of carnivorous plants, now, who can tell us the name of this beauty.” She says standing in front of her desk wearing her very red boots and pointing to the plant on the left side of her desk.
Wednesday answers when Bianca raises her hand which causes the two to start insulting while talking about the plant each other which only ends when Xavier says, “Are we still talking about flowers.” As annoying as he’s been over the past few days I have to admit that was pretty funny.
“Thank you ladies for those illuminating insights, clearly the plants aren’t the only carnivores in class today.”
— — —
After class I go over to beekeeping.
“So, you and Wednesday seem pretty close.” He says implying something, I really don’t feel like killing the only roommate to not ask to move after a week of rooming with me so this is a very annoying conversation topic to deal with.
“We’re friends and nothing more.” I tell him. “Well we are also bound by destiny to determine the fate of the school.” I say revealing the existence of the drawing to Eugene.
“Wait I thought you hated the ideas of fate and destiny.” Eugene says confused
“I do, which is why the drawing Rowan showed us before getting gutted by a monster annoys me so much, and just seers in general, they act like they know everything.”
“Still not clear on how he is dead, didn’t everyone see him after that night?”
“Yeah, I’m confused about that as well.”
“Well don’t worry, I believe you.”
“You can put the suit on in the shed.” Wednesday says talking to Enid as they walk up the path in between the hives.
“Hey Enid, you joining? I though you hated bees?” I said.
“No I’m just covering for Wednesday while she investigates the crime scene.” She reveals
“If Weems comes sniffing around keep your distance, look grim, and don’t say a word.” Wednesday tells her.
“Payback is gonna be a bitch.” She says putting on the headpiece.’
“I’d expect nothing less.”
“Blab and I’ll squeeze you like a honeycomb.” She threatens Eugene.
“Snitches get stung, it’s hive code, besides, I should be thanking you, this is the most girls I’ve ever had in the shed, other than bees.”
“Shocking.”
“I’ve always had a thing for werewolf chicks.”
“The chances that Enid ever becomes romantically interested in you is less than one percent.”
“So I still got a shot, yes!” He celebrates.
“Let’s go.” She tells me.
“Hey, what if I don’t want to get involved in this.” I say, I mean I do, but she could have asked.
“Oh please, we’re both involved in this, and we both know you are just as invested in this as I am.”
“Good point, besides I’ve been so bored recently, I could use some entertainment, so we partners?” I ask holding out my hand.
She looks me up and down before shaking my hand, “Partners.”
— — —
We walk to where we were attacked and where Rowan was supposedly murdered. I have my C.S.I. supplies with me. All of a sudden Tyler pulls us behind a tree and covers our mouths, I prepare to elbow him in the gut but I hear a dog barking and realize the Sheriff was walking around the area.
After he leaves we pull away and he apologizes.
“Thanks how’d you throw them off?” Wednesday asked him.
He then takes something out of his pocket.
“Coffee groans.”
“Deer hunting hack, one of the perks of being a part time barista.”
“Impressive.” I praise.
“I assume your father didn’t bring the blood hound to play fetch”
“Yeah, he doesn’t tell me shit, you must think it’s weird I’m stalking you.”
“No, I consistently stalk my parents.” She says before we walk off.
“Hey what really happened the other night at the festival? Look I swear I won’t say anything to my dad” He asks.
“We thought Rowan was in danger, turns out we were wrong, then he proceeded to use his telekinesis to try and choke us to death.” She says with no hint of emotion in her voice at all when talking about how we almost died.
“Oh shit, why would he do that.”
“No idea, that’s when the monster came out of the woods and gutted him.”
“Woah, woah so you really saw it, and it didn’t try to kill you.”
“It actually saved us from Rowan, that’s what we’re trying to figure out, we came out here to find something to prove Rowan was murdered and that we haven’t lost our minds, yet.”
Then we saw Rowan’s glasses in the grass and when she grabs them Wednesday has another vision.
“You okay?” Tyler asks.
— — —
We then head back to Nevermore, Wednesday said she saw a purple book in her vision, the same one she saw in a earlier vision. So we search the library for the same one but we struggle to find it.
“I don’t usually find students in here looking for actual books, they mostly come to make out.” Thornhill says greeting us.
“We accidentally walked in on two vampires fanging, I can’t unsee that.” Wednesday remarks,
“Is there anything I can help you find?” Thornhill asks.
Wednesday then holds up the watermark and asks her about it.
“I think it’s the symbol to an old student society, um, nightshades.”
“Like the deadly flower, color me intrigued.”
“I was told they disbanded years ago.” Thornhill tells us.
“Any idea why?” I ask
“Sorry.” Thornhill says shaking her head.
We then walk over to our bags when Thornhill and Wednesday begin talking about class and Wednesday’s mom, I start to tune it out sine it seems personal and kind of boring, I catch them talking about Thornhill being a normie and their beliefs in being acknowledged. Thornhill compliments Wednesday’s ability to not let anyone define her before walking off.
— — —
We sneak into Xavier and Rowan’s room to look for the book while Xavier is in the shower. We stumble upon a drawing Xavier made of Wednesday before finding a secret compartment under Rowans bed with a mask in it.
“Rowan’s seems to be full of surprises.”
We then hear a knock at the door and hide under Xavier’s bed before he walks out.
“You’re not supposed to be up here.” Xavier says.
“Good to see you too.” Bianca says
“How did you get pass the house master, use your siren powers?” He asked
“Would it kill you not to think the worst of me for once.”
“What do you want Bianca?”
“To see how you’re doing, I mean I’m sorry about Rowan, I know you guys used to be close.”
“Since when did you give a damn about Rowan.”
“You were the one worried he would do something to Wednesday, isn’t that why you follow her around like an eager eyed puppy? Or is there something more?” She asks him. “Seriously what do you see in her, you suddenly have a thing for tragic goth girls with a funeral parlor fashion sense?”
“Maybe it’s because she hasn’t tried to make me like her.”
“I made one mistake and you can’t forgive me, she treats you like crap and you can’t get enough, besides everyone knows that she’s always hanging out Y/N.”
“Okay why are you so fixated on Wednesday?”
“Because she thinks that she’s better than everyone else, I can’t wait to crush Ophelia hall tomorrow and watch her werewolf roommate crumble.” I’m sorry but anyone who has beef with Enid is a complete sociopath. “It’s gonna be a Poe Cup to remember.”
“Yeah I hate to think what you got cooked up.” Xavier says.
“My game’s already started, I like to win, is that so wrong?”
“And you wonder why I broke up with you.”
“You used to love my killer instinct, we were good together Xavier.”
“Really, or is that just what you wanted me to feel.”
“Trust me, Wednesday Addams is not the girl of your dreams, she’s the stuff of your nightmares.” Bianca warns him before leaving.
When Xavier goes back to shower we both leave his room with a look of disgust covering our face at the conversation we just had to listen to.
— — —
We part ways after that, Wednesday goes to Ophelia Hall and I head to my room.
It is now the day of the Poe Cup and everyone is down by the lake I go over to talk to Wednesday and Enid when I see what has to be the greatest thing ever, Wednesday Addams dressed in a cat costume. If I have to be honest, she looks really good in that costume but I’m trying not to stare.
“So you joined Enid’s team, love the outfit.” I say unable to hide my smile.
“Once this case is over I will gut you.” She warns me.
At this moment the twins walk over to me, “Y/N, we saved you a seat.” Then they notice Enid and Wednesday in their outfits and just start staring at them.
“Alright good luck you guys, crush Bianca.” I shout as I drag Jason and Jack back to our seats.
As Principal Weems starts announcing the race Amelia and Gwen sit down next to us.
“What happened to them?” Gwen asks when she notices Jack and Jason’s wide eyes.
“They saw my friends from Ophelia Hall in their costumes.” I inform her, as a member of Ophelia Hall and a good friend of Enid’s she knew that they were wearing cat costumes so she understood.
“So how did you react to seeing the new girl in her outfit?” Amelia said in a teasing tone.
“Why must people insist that I’m interested in Wednesday.” I complain.
“You didn’t answer my question.”
“I thought she looked fine.” I said going back to looking at the canoes.
“Yeah, sure you follow each other around all the time, everyone thinks you two are into each other.” Gwen chimes in.
“Yeah and they also think they’re both psychos.” Jack says finally snapping out of the trance he and Jason were in.
“Shut up.” Gwen said hitting him on the back of his head.
“You shut up.” He says, the two of them start shoving each other but before it could get good a teacher comes over and tells them to quit it.
“He’s just saying that everyone still thinks the two of you made it up about the monster killing Rowan.” Jason says defending Jack.
“Hey you said you guys believe us.”
“And we do, it’s just that a bunch of people saw Rowan walking around, you know, alive.” Amelia says.
“Come on, I wish Gojo still went here, he would help me out, he’s my favorite cousin.” I say.
“Hey!” Gwen says offended.
We keep making small talk until some of the canoes start coming back from the island in the lake, it’s Enid and Wednesday’s vs Bianca’s. When they’re almost back Wednesday sinks Bianca’s canoe and they win the Poe Cup, I could have done without everyone screaming in my ear but it was still nice to see Bianca put in her place. Everyone goes back to the quad to celebrate and get the Poe Cup handed off to the Black Cat team, Wednesday looked miserable. She started walking off to the Edgar Alan Poe statue and I went to follow.
“Going off with Wednesday huh? Going to celebrate her win?” Gwen says.
I ignore her and go over to her, Enid skips off from a conversation she and Wednesday were having, and we begin to talk.
“How did it feel to crush Bianca’s hopes and dreams.”
“Vindicating, it’s been a while since I’ve had a worthy adversary.”
“Did you just say something nice about Bianca.”
“It was respectful at best, anyway I need you to look at something with me.”
Weems came over to talk with Wednesday and Wednesday told me to leave, but not before slipping me a note that says to meet at the Poe statue later tonight.
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We met later that night at the statue and Wednesday showed me that the same symbol of the Nightshades was on the bottom of the statue’s book. We looked at the poem on the statue and Wednesday wrote it down on her notebook, and realized what the code was, we had to take the first letter of each phrase and it would reveal how to do whatever it is we need to do. The code was SNAP TWICE.
We both turn, look at the statue and we snap twice.
The statue moves backwards unveiling a secret staircase which leads to a library.
We look around for a few minutes before Wednesday finds the book and shows me the second half of the drawing, it is of a pilgrim standing amongst the fire of Nevermore.
“Strange, what do you think it means?” I question.
“I don’t know but we have to find out, this is becoming bigger than just us.” She answers.
We turn to leave but before we can get out we get bags put over our heads get kidnapped.
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My Favorite Pieces of Media Pt. 4
My Top 5 Favorite Deuteragonists
1. Roronoa Zoro
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2. John Marston
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3. L
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4. Jack Sparrow
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5. Arthur Boyle
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My Top 5 Favorite Villains
1. Joker
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2. Kaido
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3. Thanos
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4. Blackbeard
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5. Bill Cypher
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My Favorite Pieces of Media Pt. 3
My Top 5 Favorite Video Games
1. Red Dead Redemption
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2. God of War
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3. The Last of Us
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4. Spider Man
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5. Bioshock
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My Top 5 Favorite Protagonists
1. Monkey D. Luffy
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2. Arthur Morgan
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3. Peter Parker
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4. Kratos
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My Favorite Pieces of Media Pt. 2
My Favorite Books
1. Percy Jackson
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2. Dune
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3. Game of Thrones
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4. To Kill a Mockingbird
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5. Of Mice and Men
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My Favorite Comics
1. One Piece
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2. Batman
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3. Spider-Man
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4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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My Favorite Pieces of Media Pt. 1
My top 5 favorite movies.
Honorable Mentions:
Psycho
12 Angry Men
The Dark Knight
1. Shawshank Redemption
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2. Pulp Fiction
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3. Back to the Future
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4. Kung Fu Panda 2
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5. The Shining
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My top 5 favorite TV shows
Honorable Mentions
Wednesday
Game of Thrones
Seinfeld
1. One Piece
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2. Ted Lasso
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3. Breaking Bad
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4. The Boys
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5. Loki
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GRRRRR IMAGINE TAILUNG ( from kungfu panda ) WITH a leopard reader who has a smaller body than him, LIKE IMAGINE WITH THE SIZE DIFFERENCE HOW NICE CUDDLING WOULD BEEEE
All right so obviously I have to change some things around in terms of story. In this Tai Lung when finding out he is not the Dragon Warrior decides to continue training at the Jade Palace as a master, he is considerably less violent but will still be sassy, and in this au he is actually good friends with Po. This one will be small do to a lack of specificity on what you want and nothing to really base off of.
Tai Lung x Leopard Reader (GN)
Tai Lung has been training for a while and Y/N just wants to cuddle
3rd Person P.O.V.
Sounds of kung fu could be heard from the pool of sacred tears as Master Tai Lung was training with the Dragon Warrior, Po.
“If that is all you can do Panda I just might claim the title of Dragon Warrior yet,” Tai Lung jokingly mocked as the two dueled.
“Don’t start thinking this fight is over just yet Tai Lung, KICK OF AWESOMENESS!!!!” Po yelled as he kicked at Tai Lung’s stomach.
“Po you know I can easily block that right?” Tai Lung said as he flips Po over him.
“Yeah but it gives me the chance to do this,” Po revealed as he stepped on Tai Lungs tail.
“AHH! Mother of - ”
“Tai Lung are you still training!” A voice yelled, one that is able to strike fear into the hearts of legendary warriors such as Tai Lung, Po, and even Master Shifu himself.
1st Person P.O.V.
Here I am walking all the way up to the pool of sacred tears when Tai Lung said he would be done training hours ago, after the recent attack on the Valley by Kai he started training more and more and it is like I barely see him any more. I get he wants to train to protect the people of the Valley but I still want him to come home before I go to sleep.
Once I get to the top of the mountain I see Po and Tai Lung shivering which is weird because even if we are this high up it is still pretty warm out.
“You promised to be home hours ago,” I angrily reminded my partner.
“I’m sorry dear you see we just lost track of time,” He said honestly and guiltily.
“Heroes of the Valley my butt you two would lose your heads without me and Shifu here to make sure you don’t overwork yourselves come,” The statement came from a place of care as me and Tai Lung were partners in every way, romantically, as well as in Kung Fu. While I do not train in the ancient art and am smaller than the likes of him and Po, and would likely easily lose most fights, I make sure Tai Lung takes care of himself.
“You’re right dear, let’s go home and rest,” He suggested.
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We ate dinner in silence and were now in bed, also in silence.
“Are you still made at me Y/N?” He asked.
I growled in response, confirming his question.
“I’m sorry that we were training for so long, and I know it probably does not make up for it but we did genuinely lose track of time,” He apologized.
“But why do you have to train so much? I want you to be home more,” I asked.
“When Kai attacked I was almost powerless to stop him, I didn’t want to have that feeling of you not being safe anymore, I want to always be able to protect you,” He said.
I suddenly curl up into him and bury my face into his chest, “Just shut it you big lug,”
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Playing Detectives Pt 1 (Wednesday x Male Reader)
Y/N Barron is a student attending Nevermore Academy, he befriends new student Wednesday Addams as they uncover mysteries and stop monsters and murderers.
I used to be able to say that I have the weirdest family ever and for it to be honest, that was until I met her, she showed up out of nowhere and took the entire school by storm, and she took that title from me. I was eventually able to reclaim the title. But I’m getting ahead of myself, now buckle up and hold onto your butts.
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I go to Nevermore Academy, a school for outcasts and weirdos, I am one of the most popular among students, Y/N Barron, I am popular because of my family, the Barron family, we are rich and we are powerful mages. My grandfather Tim Barron practically revolutionized the Glyph and Rune systems. Everyday I have to deal with some random students I have never talked to try and act like we are friends, they only care about my family. Don’t get me wrong I have friends, Enid the Nevermore gossip queen and Ajax a guy who is too stoned to care about my family.
At the moment I am trying to read about alchemy when Enid comes up to me.
“Y/N did you hear about the new student, she’s going to be my roomie,” Enid told me excitedly.
“Weren’t you the same person who told me she murdered a student at her old school,” I replied looking up from my book. Enid is a werewolf, although she can’t fully wolf out, she can only extend her nails into claws. She was one of the few people who was my friend for the sake of me and not my family, although with a rep as the school gossip it did take me a while to actually trust her as a friend.
“Well either way I’m happy to finally have someone to bunk with,” She responded, she always looks on the bright side, “She is arriving today and Weems asked me to get you to help me show her around,”
“And I have to help why?”
“Well the Barron family is the school’s largest donators,” She explained, “She also felt that someone with your knowledge of the school and the surrounding area would be able to help,”
“Yay,” I said sarcastically.
— — —
We head up to Enid’s room at Ophelia hall, I show Ms Thornhill the pass Enid gave me from Principle Weems. We wait there for a few minutes for her new roommate.
Eventually Weems walks in with two adults and possibly one of the simultaneously most gothic and most beautiful girls I have ever seen.
Enid runs up and greets her new roommate who we learn is named Wednesday Addams.
“And this young man is Y/N Barron,” Weems said as she introduced me.
“Ah I likely know your parents, they would be?” Mrs. Addams asked.
“Oscar and Maxine Barron,” I replied
“Ah Maxine, don’t you remember her Larissa, such a kindred spirit, she had such a way with words, I’m glad that she and Oscar are still together,” She said fondly, “and how is the rest of your family, Gomez I remember you were close friends with Oscar and his brothers, and is Jane doing all right,”
“They are all good Mrs. Addams, Uncle Francis had a few kids but is still unmarried, same with Uncle Toji”
“Y/N, Enid, would you two be able to show Wednesday around the school and take her to get her uniform and supplies,” Weems asked
“Sure,” we agreed.
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Enid was showing Wednesday around, I’m hanging around too but not really paying attention, while she is beautiful I am just waiting for the moment she tries to be my friend just to get to know my family.
Eventually we get to the quad and Ajax walks up to us, “You Enid you will never believe the dirt I just dug up on your new roommate, she eats human flesh, right off the bone,” he clearly did not see Wednesday.
Enid stepped aside to reveal Wednesday who tells Ajax he’s wrong, and that she feeds her victims to her pets, I have to admit that I found that pretty funny.
Me and Enid keep walking around with Wednesday who gets her things, eventually Enid left to go gossip around school leaving me and Wednesday together.
“Before you ask me about family I should tell you that is one way to get me to never talk to you again,” I inform her.
“Why would I care who your family is or for that matter you are?” she said, I couldn’t tell whether or not she was genuinely asking or she was insulting me but I feel like it was the second one.
“You actually don’t care about them do you?” I asked pleasantly surprised.
“Can you believe it?” She said sarcastically.
“So did you actually kill someone at your old school?” I asked now slightly curious about her
“No I dropped some piranhas into a pool with a imbecile, he lost a testicle, if anything I am disappointed that it wasn’t more.” She answers honestly, “What happened to your eye,” She asks intrigued referring to the scar across my eye which causes it to be pale and cloudy.
“Got into a fight, should’ve seen the other guy,” I said sarcastically, “see you around Addams,” I say ending this revealing conversation.
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I was eating lunch with some of my family, my brothers Jason and Jack, my sister Amelia, and my cousin Gwen, we are the ones who go to Nevermore, the rest have graduated. Jason is factual and thinks purely on logic, Jack is sarcastic and jokey, funnily enough they are twins, Amelia is caring and kind, the three of them are younger than me, Jack and Jason one year and Amelia three years, Gwen is my age and is a gossip which makes her and Enid good friends.
“You got therapy again tomorrow right?” Jason asked.
“Yup,” I responded.
“So you hear about the new girl, she killed some guys at her old school,” Amelia said trying to steer the conversation away from the awkward direction it was heading too.
“Nah, she didn’t do that, she just dropped piranhas into a school pool,” I answer.
“And you say that like it is a normal thing to do,” Jack said.
“Hey I saw you talking with her earlier, do you like her?” Gwen said suggestively.
“I don’t know yet, she’s attractive and I find her funny but I have no idea what she is like, I know that she doesn’t care about our family status so that is nice,” I reveal honestly. They all stare at me shocked, I never was interested in someone romantically before so their reaction was understandable.
“I thought you were Aroace,” Jack said confused.
“Well this was fun,” I say getting up to leave.
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Me, Gwen, Enid, and Ajax were in our fencing class, me and Gwen were sparring, the only person in the class who could give me a decent challenge, other then Gwen, was Bianca Barclay, queen bee of Nevermore, we mostly keep our distance from each other.
The doors open to reveal Wednesday clad in black fencing gear walking in the middle of sparring sessions up to Bianca and Rowan’s, Rowan was roommates with Xavier, both were more people I didn’t really talk to, Rowan was bullied a lot so I felt bad for him and whenever I see it happen I kick their asses, but we don’t really have that much in common. Xavier is the tortured artist of Nevermore and Bianca’s ex boyfriend, his dad is some famous psychic so we have something in common but we just don’t get along.
Bianca wins their match after Rowan falls to the ground he complains that she tripped him but the coach acknowledged that it was a fair play.
“Maybe if you spent more time practicing instead of whining you would suck less, seriously coach when are we going to start getting some serious competition?” Bianca asked.
“Do you really want a replay of what happened the last time we sparred,” I said referring to the time I beat her in a match, she gave me a look that said that I was pissing her off but that she would stop. Our staring contest was interrupted when Wednesday challenged Bianca to a match, I was excited to see what she could do and Gwen wanted to see if she could be a first eye witness to something that would explode the Nevermore gossip sphere.
The two started as everyone gathered to watch, Wednesday won the first point while Bianca won the second. “For the final round I invoke military challenge, no masks, no tips, winner draws first blood,” Wednesday challenges. Bianca agrees and the two duel for the win, they spin around a little their blades clash, eventually Bianca nicks Wednesday’s forehead winning the match.
“At least your face finally got the splash of color it so desperately needed,” Bianca trash talks.
“Xavier please take Wednesday to the nurse,” the coach asks.
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“So Y/N at our last session we were talking about how you use apathy as a defense mechanism to avoid talking about anything personal to those close to you,” Dr. Kinbott references.
“Yeah I believe that was mentioned,” I said sitting in the couch facing the doc.
“Y/N we can’t keep continuing doing this where you don’t meet me half way, you have to put in some effort if you want to solve any of these issues your going through,” she informs me.
“I know, it’s just that I spent so many years not telling anyone about anything,” I reveal.
“Why don’t we talk about that, you spent years keeping everything inside so by now you feel that you need to keep it all in, did I hit the mark?” She asks.
“Maybe, I still don’t see why my parents arranged for this, I can diagnose myself, on top of what you just said I also don’t tell people because I don’t want to feel like a burden to those close to me.” I vent
“Well to answer why your parents pay for therapy sessions, last Christmas you had a nervous breakdown and drop kicked a twelve year old after you argued over a video game,” Kinbott answers.
“First of all I would say less of a full nervous and more of a small panic attack, secondly the spoiled brat was insulting me when he only wanted it for myself and I was getting it for one of my brothers,” I defend myself.
“Have you had any more panic attacks since then?” She asks.
“Ugh,” I groan as I lean back.
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After the session I walked around town a little, seeing as I was wearing the Nevermore uniform the townspeople were giving me dirty looks and glares, the normies never liked outcasts. Eventually I looped back around to Dr. Kinbott’s office, it is there that I bumped into one Wednesday Addams who is seemingly shawshanking from Dr. Kinbott’s.
“Ms. Addams” I greet as we both walk away from the office.
“Y/N, did Weems enlist you to spy on me?” she accused.
“Believe it or not I am here of my own free will, it seems that you can’t say the same though,” I say acknowledging her daring escape in broad daylight.
“I am leaving this ridiculous school behind, but not before a decent cup of coffee,” she said as we entered the weathervane.
“Trying to leave without saying goodbye, hurtful Addams,” we walk up to the barista who over the years I’ve learned is named Tyler, son of Sheriff Galpin, the sheriff never liked me or my family because we are “chaotic psychopaths”. Tyler is attempting to fix the espresso machine and it isn’t until it blows another gasket that he finally notices us.
“Holy crap,” he says startled.
Wednesday orders a quad over ice but Tyler says that since the espresso machine is broken they only have drip, “But drip is for people who hate themselves and know that their lives have no real meaning,” we all look over to a costumer who was about to pour some drip into his mug but put’s both down. Wednesday then fixes the espresso machine and then asks Tyler for a ride to the train station which he agrees to do after his shift is over. While we wait me and Wednesday sit in a booth.
“So why don’t you want to stay at Nevermore?” I question.
“I thought I explained that when you and Enid were showing me around,” she pointed out.
“I have trouble paying attention to the things people say, it’s not that I have adhd or something, I just don’t care what they say,” I remark.
“Understandable, my parents sent me here and they are trying to turn me into a version of them,” she explains.
“Hm, personally I would either become better then they ever were or become nothing like them to spite them,” I say.
We were then interrupted by a group of guys dressed in pilgrim costumes, “What are a couple of Nevermore freaks doing out in the wild, this is our booth,”
“Why are you dressed as religious fanatics?” Wednesday asks.
“We’re Pilgrims,” one of the informs us.
“Same thing,” I say.
“Potato Pah-tah-toe,” Wednesday says at the same time.
“We work at Pilgrim World,” one of them says flipping over a flyer, starting to get pissed. The two of us look at it, frankly, a little confused as to why an entire theme park to murders.
“It takes a special kind of stupid to devote an entire amusement park to zealots responsible for mass murder,” she retorts, I can’t help but laugh.
“My dad owns Pilgrim World, are you calling him stupid?” He asks.
“If the buckle shoe fits,”
“Hey guys, backoff,” Tyler suggests.
“Hey stay out of this Galpin!” One of them yells.
“Yeah stay out of this,” Wednesday says as we both get up.
“So tell me, freak, you ever been with a normie?” He asked.
“Never found one that can handle me,” She responded, “Boo,”
We start fighting them, she uses Kung Fu techniques while I use a few kickboxing moves, we make quick work of them when Tyler asks us where we learned them, Wednesday from her Uncle who was a prisoner in a Tibetan Monastery, me from my older sister who did some fights for fun. The fun ends when the Sheriff walks in.
“Ah, Jesus, what did you do this time Barron,” He asks me looking around at the unconscious teenagers.
“Hey I resent these baseless accusations, besides your being sexist, she could have done this just as easily as I could have,” I say.
“So your saying that you had no hand in this,” He retorts giving an exhausted look that only my family could give him.
“Ok I kicked those two in the crotch, and broke that one’s nose,” I admit.
“They were harassing them and they put them in their place,” Tyler defended us.
“Apologies Sheriff, this one slipped away from me, and I see you were involved as well Mr. Barron, well come along Ms. Addams and you too Mr. Barron,” Principal Weems told us.
“Wait a minute, hang on, you’re an Addams? Don’t tell me Gomez Addams is your father?” The Sheriff asked spooked, causing Wednesday to nod, “That man belongs behind bars for murder, guessin’ the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, I’m gonna keep my eye on you.”
Weems ushers us out and to the shuttle back to Nevermore.
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The ride back mostly consisted of Weems chewing us out, Wednesday questioning her for information, and some guy crashed on the side of the road and Wednesday knowing how he died. Once we got back we went our separate ways, Wednesday to Ophelia hall and me to my room Othello Hall.
Later that night while feeding my pets, my raven named Odin, my octopus named Sashimi, and my Axolotl named Gravity, I heard Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones on the cello, I honestly liked that version better.
At the moment I’m studying for some of my classes when I hear a knock at my window, I turn and see a severed hand at the window. I let him in and he shows me a note on his palm saying “call me” and shows Enid’s number, I didn’t realize she gained an appendage as an assistant. I grabbed my phone and FaceTimed Enid to be met by Wednesday looking as pale and dead as ever.
“Wednesday, that means that this five fingered fellow must be yours,” I say.
“That’s Thing,” She informs me.
“Well why would you be calling me at this late hour?” I inquire.
“I have a plan to escape this educational penitentiary and I would like your assistance,” She reveals.
“Sure,” I say, mostly just happy that something exciting is happening in this place.
— — —
Me, Enid, and Wednesday met together at the Harvest Day Festival to enact her plan and to say our goodbyes. Enid and Wednesday bid farewell as we wait for Tyler to get ready, Wednesday went to darts while I did a water gun. Xavier went over to Wednesday to chat her up, sucks for him because she made it completely obvious that she was not interested. Eventually Tyler came over and I reunited with Wednesday, she sent the panda she won over to Weems setting the plan in motion, after the initial distraction I would cause a bigger one luring the rest of them away from Wednesday and make sure no one follows them while Tyler drives her to the station.
“In case I don’t see you again Addams, it’s been real,” I say as I go off to cause a distraction.
I wonder what I should do turn off the ferris wheel trapping people on their, small explosion in the distance, my thoughts are interrupted when a few of the guys me and Wednesday beat up show up in the crowd with bats looking a little angry as they walk towards me. I run away from them, because as cocky and god complexed as I am when it comes to idiots like these, I don’t have any of my stuff with me and I am not going to be able to fight them when they have metal bats and we are surrounded by outcast hating normies. Eventually I run into Tyler and Wednesday who likely have had a similar experience by the looks on their face.
“Let me guess Normies with bats?” I say.
“Yeah, you?” Wednesday asks.
“Yeah,” I say when Rowan bumps into Wednesday causing her to have what appears to be a psychic vision. When she comes to she looks over at Rowan, who is going into the woods, and runs after him, I follow quickly leaving Tyler behind.
We catch up to him, “Rowan wait!” Wednesday yells, whatever she’s seen it must have been bad for him.
“What do you want? Why are you following me?” He questions.
“I don’t have time to explain but you are in great danger,” She reveals to which he just starts laughing.
“I think you got it backwards,” He says then uses his psychic powers to push us back into trees, “You’re the ones in danger,”
“What are you doing?” Wednesday asks in shock.
“Saving everyone from you. I have to kill you,” He responds.
“The gargoyle, that was you?” Wednesday realizes as I just wonder what gargoyle.
“Yeah,”
“It’s always the quiet ones,”
Rowan then sends a page up to us and unfolds it revealing a drawing of a boy and girl who look like the two of us, “The girl in the picture, that’s you, and the boy is you Y/N,”
“You want to kill us over some picture?” I say shocked.
“My mother drew that picture 25 years ago when she was a student at Nevermore. She was a powerful seer, told me about it before she died.” He revealed
“Rowan put us down,” Wednesday tries to tell him.
“No! My mother said it was my destiny to stop this girl and boy if they ever came to Nevermore, because she will destroy the school in everyone in it,” He yells
“Rowan,” Me and Wednesday try to talk to him as he tries to kill us.
Then we all heard a growl as a monster leapt out and started tearing into Rowan’s gut, it then looked back at us and then ran off. We crawled over to Rowan who was obviously dead when the page flew down. We both grabbed at it but when we touched hands her head flew back and she had another vision like the one with Rowan, when she came to she looked at me with a look of slight fear, concern, and pity in there. As I question what she saw she gets up to leave and I follow suit.
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We were now each in our own dorm rooms, we told Bianca about Rowan and told her to tell someone and went back to Nevermore, I now have many things to think about, what was up with Rowan’s prophecy and would we really destroy the school, what was the monster that killed him and what was it’s motive, and lastly what is it that Wednesday saw in my future that worried her, well at least I can’t say that this semester will be as boring as the last one.
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Y/N Barron Bio Pt. 3
Last batch of Barron Family members.
Name: Toji Barron
Relation to Y/N: Uncle
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Name: Maki Barron
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Y/N Barron Bio Pt. 2
A few more members of the Barron Family
Name: Jane Barron
Relation to Y/N: Aunt
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Name: Issac Barron
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Name: Richard Barron
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Name: Joseph Barron
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Name: Skyler Barron
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Name: Gwen Barron
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Y/N Barron Bio
Y/N Barron is the protagonist in an upcoming Wednesday x Male Reader story I am writing and here is his bio along with his family.
Name: Y/N Barron
Skills: Swordsmanship, Blacksmithing, Martial Arts, and Investigating
Appearance: Black Right Iris, White Left Iris, Black Hair, Caucasian, Scar going down Left Eye
Name: Oscar Barron
Relation to Y/N: Father
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Name: Maxine Barron
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Name: Ruby Barron
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Name: Elizabeth Barron
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Name: Jason Barron
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Name: Jack Barron
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Name: Amelie Barron
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Name: Tim Barron
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Name: Austin Barron
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Name: Eddie Barron
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You do Howl’s Moving Castle, right?
Can you do a Prince Justin (turnip’s true human name) x reader fluff? In his human form of course.
Hell yeah my first request, let’s do this, I will take a few creative liberties with this and I hope you enjoy
Warning: mentions of bombing and war, I know this is a touchy subject for everyone now with Ukraine and Russia and Palestine and Israel so if you have any problems with it I don’t want to upset you, I respect the topics as much as I can but Howl’s Moving Castle is a story that tackles it directly, if it will trigger you please don’t read.
Prince Justin a.k.a. Turnip Head x Reader
Reader P.O.V.
I’ve been traveling with Howl for a while now but in just a few months everything changed so much, an old lady named Sophie came to start cleaning saying Calcifer hired her. Then a cursed scarecrow she named Turnip Head started showing up around the castle, he liked hanging around me. Howl’s hair changed back to it’s blue after Sophie messed with his potions and elixirs. Then the Witch of the waste, who is looking really bad all of a sudden, and Madame Solomon’s dog started living in the castle. Then we moved, despite looking still looking older Sophie started looking younger and younger.
The war was still going on and after moving us Howl started appearing less around.
That leads us to tonight, we were all inside, me, Sophie, Calcifer who was looking worse for the wear, the Witch of the Waste, Solomon’s dog Heen, and Markl. Turnip was with the actual castle out in the wastes and Howl was fighting in the war.
He never picked a side in the war, he hated both sides, I agree with him, there are good and bad people on both sides of every war yet somehow innocent people always get caught in the crossfire.
The reason why tonight was so important was that this was the night that everything changed, it started with the war being brought right to our doorstep, we are in the townhouse in the city right now and bombs are being dropped across the city. Howl has come back to defend the house and everyone, but he looks worse than ever, while fighting he transforms into a bird monster and the more he does it the harder it is for him to turn back.
When Solomon’s monsters started appearing outside Sophie switched us to the castle. Everything started getting destroyed and it was pure pandemonium, most of the castle was gone and Sophie gave her braid to Calcifer to give him some extra power. We were almost able to reach Howl when the Witch of the Waste realized that Calcifer had Howl’s heart. She grabbed the heart and in extension Calcifer and was ignited into flames, Sophie grabbed some water to put her out but doused Calcifer as well.
When that happened the castle started to fall apart eventually all that’s left is a single platform that’s running quickly down the mountain.
After that happens Sofie and Heen fall down one side when the plateform starts to brake of the cliff while the rest of us stay at the peak.
Y/N(Sobbing): Sophie … Cal
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After what felt like hours of crying my eyes out alongside Markl I notice a shape flying towards us and I realize who it is.
Y/N: Guys it’s Howl and Sophie
Now what happens next is a little complicated so here is the simplified version, Cal is actually alive, Sophie puts him and the heart back inside of Howl, Howl comes back to life, Calcifer is free to do what he wants we nearly fall to our death when the plateform starts sliding very fans at down the hill, Turnip jumps in front to stop the platform but his pole snaps devasting me in the process as we have grown quite close despite his inability to speak. We land at the bottom Howl wakes up and Calcifer comes back, and Sophie, who is young again, and Howl kiss.
I am now holding Turnip in my lap.
Y/N: Turnip, thank you
I kiss his cheek as a good bye.
But all of a sudden he springs up and turns into a human. It turns out that he was the missing prince from the neighboring kingdom and that he was cursed and only a kiss from his true love could break it. That last part made me blush furiously.
Prince Justin/Turnip: I best be off now, it is time I put an end to this dumb war
Y/N: I agree your highness
Prince Justin/Turnip: And after that I will come back to be with you
Once again I blush.
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We had settled into a quiet and happy little life. We all lived in a flying castle in the sky. Howl and Sophie were at the front overlooking the city below, The witch of the waste was sitting in her chair, Cal was keeping the castle running, Markl and Heen were playing in the yard.
Meanwhile me and Prince Justin sit in the back as we pass the clouds and sit and enjoy life.
Prince Justin: You know if we get married you can become royalty
Y/N(Laughing): Royalty? Of what turnips?
Prince Justin: We could have our own castle someday, one that flies too
Y/N: That sounds nice, just the two of us, starting our own family, as much as I love this one we really should start on our own soon
Prince Justin: Yeah but not for a little while
Y/N: Yeah in a little bit
The End
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