A loud noise, noisy and annoying interrupts the quietness in the room. Karl jumps at the sudden noise and Poe looks up from writing his novel, frantically grabbing his phone, and looking at the screen. Ranpo, his rival, the one he writes his novels for, was calling him, this took Poe by surprise.
He answers the call, "Yes?" Poe asks "Ah, hello Poe, I was wondering when your novel would be ready," Ranpo said from the other side of the line "Oh, uhm- I'm currently working on it, it's almost done" Poe lies, looking at the novel only having only 5 chapters done. "That's great! I'm excited to see how fast I'll be able to solve it, goodbye!" Ranpo said, hanging up. "Goodb-" Poe was not able to finish since Ranpo already hung up. "Goodbye-" he says, looking at his lock screen.
He looks back at the novel, searching for the plot that Ranpo would never expect, a plot so unexpected, that not even Ranpo would believe it is real. Poe stands up, pacing around the room, quietly talking to himself brainstorming and writing down ideas in his notebook that could possibly be the plot. "Maybe a suicide? or a faked death? It will be too easy for Ranpo" he says as he crosses the ideas out of his notebook, writing down more ideas that come into his mind.
He stops and walks to the kitchen, pouring himself a glass of water, and drinking it while he still thinks about the novel. It seems like he can not stop thinking about it, he re-reads the ideas in his notebook, crossing more and more ideas out, writing more explicit ideas to the ideas he finds good, repeating the process again and again, till he only has a few left.
It starts raining, and Poe works on the novel, hoping Ranpo will have a hard time solving it or at least take longer than it does. Poe looks outside the window and sees the rain pouring, water drops hitting the ground, and clouds covering the sky in gray-blue-ish colors. Karl is sleeping on the desk. Poe sighs as he has to light a candle since the last one burned out.
He looks at the clock "It's only 10 am?" Poe says as he looks at the novel. He continues writing, flipping through the pages of his notebook looking for which plot to choose, but not seeming to be happy with any idea. Eventually, Poe gets an idea, it looks like a light bulb lit over his head, he starts writing in his notebook, combining the top three ideas, also making a sketch of how it should work, what evidence got left behind, and what evidence got faked, eventually having the perfect idea.
His eyes light up as he re-reads the ideas in his notebook, putting in some extra detail and finally being happy. He starts writing, completely forgetting time, rest, and energy. Poe's mind is only focusing on the novel, so much that he forgets to feed Karl, Karl does not like it, so he jumps onto Poe's head, trying to remind him that he needs to feed him.
Poe looks up, seeing Karl standing on his head "Oh, hello, sorry I forgot to feed you" Poe says as he gives Karl something to eat, Karl makes happy Raccoon noises and jumps onto Poe's desk, curling up on his favorite spot on the desk falling asleep again. Poe continues writing the plot of the whole novel, the details, and the real solution to the case, focusing on it again.
As Poe finishes the novel, Poe looks at the clock "Oh it's 1 am" he notices, as he stretches himself and extinguishes the candle. He groans in tiredness and pets Karl, "I guess I didn't eat... but oh well," Poe says, Karl wakes up and jumps down the table, growling at Poe, hinting that he should eat something "I'm fine Karl, don't worry, I'll eat tomorrow something," he says, Karl still growling at him, not being happy with Poe not eating anything.
Poe slightly smiles at Karl and pats him on the head. He walks to his bedroom and changes into pajamas, getting ready to go to sleep. As he finishes, he lies on his bed and puts his covers over himself, listening to the raindrops hitting against the window. Karl decides to join Poe and curls up at the end of the bed, both falling into a deep soft sleep.
Both get waken up by a loud noise coming from outside, Karl crawling to Poe being scared, Poe looks outside, it is still raining, they see lightning and hear thunder a few seconds later, "shh it's fine Karl it's just a thunderstorm" Poe tries to calm down Karl, petting him, "you are a brave Raccoon you know?" Poe says trying to tell Karl that it is okay to be afraid. Karl snuggles up next to Poe still scared, Poe pets him and tries to fall asleep again.
Poe sits up, thinking about what could happen, he is nervous about Ranpo solving his novel fast, even tho he is sure he made it extremely mysterious, at least he hopes that. He thinks more and more, what if it goes wrong? what if it is actually bad? what if Ranpo will not be surprised by it? what if it takes less time for him to solve it? Poe is overthinking every single outcome of it, maybe Ranpo would even say he has gotten worse, that would be the worst possible thing that could happen, right? No. Ranpo could destroy his novel by how easy it is (Not a thing Ranpo would do but Poe is overthinking soooo, it happens)
Poe was stressing over it too much now and he wakes up Karl by accident, Karl crawls over to Poe and tries calming him down by sitting on his shoulders, slightly snuggling with his head to calm him down, trying to tell Poe that it will be fine. Poe eventually stops stressing, because he is tired and falls asleep, Karl curls up next to Poe and sleeps too.
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Last Letter // -Ranpoe
FanfictionART IS NOT MINE It is a rainy day, and Poe is writing his new novel, hoping Ranpo will have a hard time solving it or at least take longer than it does. Poe looks outside the window and sees the rain pouring, drops hitting the ground, clouds coverin...
