INTERLUDE: THE LOST PEANUTS FANFIC
HPDrummerman
Believe it or not, there was another fanfic I started on after "It's New Love, Charlie Brown" and before the creation of The Next Chapter. It was a Halloween-themed story called fittingly "A Charlie Brown Halloween". In this fanfic, I introduced Franklin's dim-witted girlfriend Melanie and it was here that I also introduced the brother/sister scary duo Verona and Damien, the kids who run the haunted house on Halloween. After I came up with the idea of doing a complete series, I pretty much scrapped this story, which was complete and finished. However, some stuff from this fanfic was preserved. First, I still implemented the haunted house and its ghoulish siblings in the episode "Descent Into Darkness-Great Pumpkin Rising" as well as a ghostly character called The Duchess. Now in "A Charlie Brown Halloween" her backstory was more horrific, involving a guillotine of all things, but in "Great Pumpkin Rising" her death wasn't as gory. Her new origin was a forbidden love affair and when she couldn't have the man she wanted, she ended it all by jumping in a river. The other element I kept from "A Charlie Brown Halloween" was an origin story that was interlaced with the main story. This was indicated as it was typed in italics. Before I deleted "A Charlie Brown Halloween" from the archives, I took the origin story and put it all together for the One-Shot that became "A Pumpkin Patch Most Sincere". So if you ever read "Most Sincere" and wondered why the typing was in italics, there you go. You now have the answer.
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