Gift fic of loosely-connected Scoobicles drabbles for musekicker from tumblr, set in her Monster Cove AU (in which the talking animals are human-or start that way-and the curse turns the town's inhabitants into monsters and mythological creatures). This has to be the second-strangest ship I have ever written for, but I've had fun writing it so far and I'm looking forward to seeing where it ends. Enjoy!
The first time he is alone with Pericles, they are in an alley and the air is hazy-red and his friends have just tried to kill him.
"A pleasure to meet you, my comrade," Pericles says, legs crossed, one foot swaying lazily back and forth. His purple scarf and encompassing gray coat look old, but well-preserved. Scooby wonders where he got them.
He looks saner than the others described him. Frightening, yes, and his voice is too knowing, drags like a touch, like a body; but
(cold, bitter, sharp as a knife edge)
sane.
There are words exchanged: promises of help, and uneasy acceptance. And then they are on their way to save themselves a town.
