𝐄𝐲𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ; 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝

TWENTY THREE

"I'm Charles Rowland, this is Frances Burton  and Crystal Palace. We're with the Dead boy detectives" Charles introduced himself to the lady with the long red hair and airy dress "Can you tell us what happened this morning?" The red hair woman stared at the blue waves hitting the bricks, but then she spoke up. "It was the best feeling ever." Frances glanced at Crystal then back at the red head "What was?" Crystal asked with her hands in her coat pockets

"My ex- boyfriend, he never did that touchy feely stuff, and this morning, I heard him telling me he loved me. I heard it over and over" The woman smiled widely, as if she was happy she jumped down "so, you heard something in the water?" Frances questioned, wanting to know more about what happened. "Yeah.. it kept getting louder and louder. It was the louder at the top, I just had to get to him so I followed" The other two males sitting by the red head said they heard a voice as well, one of his father and the other of his wife "this is weird" Frances commented, she got a bit freaked out at the situation. 

"Come on, we need to investigate" Charles and Crystal both walked together in sync, while Frances was following from behind, she heard a voice... a familiar voice.

'Frances, help me!' the British male voice called out for her, Frances snapped her head to the direction where she heard the voice "Frances-" Frances looked at the ocean, seeing a dark shadow of a male with smooth blonde hair and some sort of bow tie on his button up shirt. Her heartbeat against her rib cage as the smoothing voice got closer and closer and clo-

"Frances" Edwin put his gloved hand on her shoulder, getting her attention "Jesus Edwin!" Frances jumped a bit from getting scared "They want to see you" Frances raised her dark brows "why?" She questioned, not knowing why they would want to see her "I'm not sure. Come quick, follow." 

Frances followed Edwin up the hill, where the cat king and queen stood "oh there she is!" The cat queen clapped both of her pale hands together in enticement "why do you want to see me? It's not like I have that stupid bracelet of yours on me" Scarlet chuckled, her white hair blew in the wind making her smudged eyeliner visible with a hint of white glitter on her eyelids "Because I want to see that beautiful face of yours" Scarlet took a step forward to the brunette, a smile plastered on her black lips 

"I have a case to solve, just tell me what you want" Frances crossed her arms while tapping her feet against the ground, impatiently. "Oh don't worry about the case, Charles and Crystal are solving it and getting close" Scarlet smirked "what do you mean getting close?" Frances asked the woman, she stopped hitting her boots against the ground after Scarlet spoke "What I mean is this" Scarlet ran her hand down Frances face, causing her to see things.

When Scarlet ran her hands on Frances face, a hallucination of Charles and Crystal popped up; they were both sitting on a bench while holding hands with ice cream in the other 'I love you Crystal' Charles admitted with a smile on his face, after that he leaned closer to Crystal's face, placing his soft lips on her glossy ones.

"What the hell?" Frances snapped back to reality, blinking her eyes a couple of times to make sure she wasn't hallucinating anymore "Yeah, I can make people see things" Scarlet looked down at her black, sharp nails with a smirk "Why did you show me that?" Scarlet sighed loudly, placing her hand back down near her hips "Just showing you that Charles doesn't like you, he likes Crystal." 

The cat king walked to the side of Scarlet "Such a hopeless romantic. I can relate" The cat king's yellow eyes landed on Edwin's green eyes, his cheek full with redness "I don't like Charles." Frances denied, feeling annoyed at the two "Are you sure about that?" Scarlet snapped her fingers, the cat king step forward, he ran his index finger down Frances lips, causing a shiny yellow line form. "Do you like Charles" Thomas asked, he had the power to let others tell the truth, one of his many talents. 

"Yes, I do." Frances admitted thanks to his powers "why?" Frances tilted her head at the question before responding "I like his laugh, his smile and his present." The cat king removed the yellow line on Frances pink lips, removing his spell "I knew it!" Scarlet clenched her jaw, jealously filling the inside of her body after hearing that Frances liked Charles 

"Charles doesn't like you, why like someone who doesn't have the same feelings? I like you Frances, deeply. We can have lots of fun together-" Frances stopped the angry queen "I'm not interested. Leave me alone, get out of my head. I have a case to solve." Frances took a look at the two before grabbing Edwin's wrist and walking away with him, Scarlet tried to run after them but Thomas stopped her by grabbing her shoulder "let them be" 

"you like Charles?" Edwin turned his head to Frances, wanting to hear it from her. "I guess, I don't know" Frances shrugged her shoulder, she never felt the way she feels for Charles ever in her life, the butterflies she would feel and the happiness, it felt different. "I won't tell." Frances smiled at Edwin, at first she hated him but maybe they would make good friends, maybe.

A/N

What if I make a Crystal Palace fanfiction? I had this idea for quite some time but idrk if I want to lol?

The face claim is Sebastian Croft, a dead boy who died in the 2000's and he works with the Dead boy detectives. He has a sister who has nightmares/dreams of the cases that they are solving, helping them get more clues, and she ofc can see ghosts. LMK if this sounds good cuz idk 😭