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• expect the unexpected (office romance, that is) by CiaranthePage

  Fandoms: The Darkside Detective (Video Game)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  31 Aug 2023

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Patrick Dooley/Francis McQueen (The Darkside Detective)
  • Patrick Dooley (The Darkside Detective)
  • Francis McQueen (The Darkside Detective)
  • First Kiss
  • Idiots in Love
  • Mutual Pining
  • Suggestive Themes
  • no beta but i did send a lot of previews to my friends
  • using first names bcus they're in love
  • No Fumble In The Dark Spoilers
  • (but there is a joke about it if you squint)
  • Food as a Metaphor for Love
  • Friends to Lovers
  • happens to the best of us
  • My First Work in This Fandom
  • set somewhere between loch mess and don of the dead
  • do you ever pine for your best friend and closest partner for 30+ years
  • only to find out he's been flirting with you peridoically the whole time?
  • also that thing where characters who always call each other by last name/title
  • finally call each other by first name after they confess
  • Art

  Summary

  Dooley comes back from getting lunch earlier than McQueen expected, and a kind offer turns out to be a sign of something more. McQueen and Dooley learn dreams can come true even in slightly dark offices.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,848

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  12

  Kudos:

  75

  Bookmarks:

  8

  Hits:

  559