hs_olympics | BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

Genre-Mixing

Hey, shippers! Welcome to your very first bonus round proper--we hope you have lots of fun with it! This time around we're going to be asking you to mix it up a little--each fanwork posted for this round will be a mish-mash of two different genres, blended together in a delightful incestuous slurry to create an UNSTOPPABLE CREATIVE CONCOCTION--er. Or. Something.

Yeah, we're genre-mixing. That's what we're doing this round.

Rules

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campus story + murder mystery, Jane<3Terezi

ah okay so this is my first time writing either of these characters in depth so I hope that it turned out well!
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Jane rummaged through the old desk, looking for clues. Or rather, she rummaged through the new desk that someone had painted to look old (quite poorly, too) all for the sake of the game which Jane was now playing. Her college had decided that a great end-of-the-year celebration would be a campus-wide game with a prize of a thousand dollar check, enough to attract the attention of students (but also enough to warrant a price to pay to enter the contest), and in the end it was decided that a murder mystery was the best choice of games. Anyone enrolled in the school could play, and each person had to have a partner. Naturally Jane picked Terezi, seeing as she was the best person, besides herself, at the sort of puzzles and mysteries the game entailed. At least that’s what Jane said. Terezi was more into throwing things around and occasionally eating the hints for fun (even though she claims that the wind blew the paper away) than solving the actual puzzles needed to find the clues. The main reason Jane picked Terezi to be her partner was really pretty simple. They were dating.
How it happened was a rather interesting story in of itself, but Jane prefers not to go into that. It started with a marathon of Sherlock with a group of friends and progressed to Jane and Terezi being locked in the closet so they would stop squealing right before the best parts of the show and stop saying the lines with the characters and finally ended with the two wanting to freak out everyone else (though Jane will be very quick to point out that it was Terezi’s idea). Somehow they managed to form a relationship from that and even though it doesn’t make a lot of sense, either now or at the time, both Jane and Terezi are glad the clusterfuck went precisely the right way to come to this endgame.
Even if Jane was questioning it right now.
“Can’t we just find someone who works here and rough them up?” Terezi complained, leaning against the nearest wall and tapping her foot impatiently against the desk.
“No! Terezi that is not how a murder mystery works! We have to solve the puzzles, which you would probably enjoy more if you were to pay attention and help…” Jane trailed off as she came across a tattered-looking journal with “Diary” written in big black letters. To whoever put on this thing, way to be inconspicuous. She thought to herself.
“It’s how real murder mysteries work! Don’t you watch TV ever? All they do is beat people up to get information! That’s how you get work done! Real life murders don’t even have clues laying around in plastic baggies all ready for you to find!”
Jane whirled around to face her girlfriend. “These are not ‘in plastic baggies’ they are clues and cyphers for us to figure out! Like this one” she held up a diary page that had some scribbles on it. “This is a masonic cipher telling us a code for a safe, which we need to find. Surely you can help me find that, right?”
“Okay okay I’ll help! Hehehe I hate you see you so mad.” she cackled. “It’s probably in the desk somewhere, since it’s not like the school is going to add a wall-safe just for the mystery. So just look in the desk drawers! It’s way too simple.”
Jane nodded, but didn’t move.
“Aren’t you going to check?”
“Nope! It’s your turn to put some effort into this.”
She pouted, but Jane just smiled back. “Augh you’re so stubborn when you want to be!” She smiled back at her girlfriend. “And I totally love that.”
Terezi walked over to the desk and began opening the lower drawers of the desk and cabinet behind it until she found a cheap looking safe with the kind of lock you find on a middle school locker, with four little dials to put in the number. “What’s the password?”
Jane just handed the diary over for Terezi to read. “Jane I don’t know the cypher if you want to win you have to help me out here. You know I’m more into the murder than the mystery!”
“Alright you do have a point. The code is 4-0-0-4.”
Terezi dialed the numbers out and pulled the lock down and off the case. “Fuck yeah!” she exclaiming, thrusting a fist into the air. “We got the next location! It says we need to check out the woods near the lake. And then there is some gibberish beneath it and then there’s some gibberish written below it.”
“Hm? What’s it say? Wait no, give it here!” Jane reached around Terezi trying to reach the piece of paper.
“Hahahah come on Jane give me a second to give it over before you go and molest me to get the paper!”
“This is most certainly not molesting! Gah just let me see it I love ciphers! What kind it is? Let me see the paper!”
Terezi laughed for another moment, letting Jane try to get the paper from her before turning around and handing over the paper.
Jane quickly produced a pen from her pocket and began making notes on the paper. “Let’s see, ‘GJJF’ has two letters that are the same and it’s only four letters so it’s likely J is either E or O…” she mumbled to herself, writing three versions of the alphabet staggered differently. After another minute she smiled vibrantly. “I got it! We need to be looking for some sort of bone and that will mark the final clue! And it says we need to be looking up. Maybe it’s in the trees?”
“I so picked the right partner for this.” Terezi grinned. “Let’s go find that body!” Terezi grabbed Jane’s hand and dragged her running outside, past students who were still stuck on older clues.
By the time the pair reached the woods they were looking for they were both panting.
“Okay now let’s look in the trees to find this thing.” Jane managed to say between breaths. Terezi, who was in much better shape than Jane, nodded ecstatically and began searching the branches. “Are you sure it’s going to be in the branches?”
“Yes! The cipher said ‘better look up’! What else could it mean?”
“I saw that paper and I’m pretty sure it said glfablahblah.” Terezi said grinning widely. Jane just rolled her eyes. “It says wzoozm gjjf pk, first of all.” now Jane was grinning too. “And second of all, keep looking! Don’t make me chase you up that tree!”
Terezi laughed and turned back to looking. “Fear not Watson, I’ll solve the murder you just sit back!”
“Oh please, it’s obvious I’m Sherlock here! You fit Watson way better. You even have an injury!”
“I do not!”
“Your eyes are only bad because of a science accident, that counts, Watson! Now keep working while I do the deducing and puzzle solving.”
Terezi stuck out her tongue but went back to searching regardless. Another minute later and she shouted out to Jane. “Hey I found it! There’s a plastic skull here with a piece of paper!” She tugged the paper and read it. “Dude! This is it! We just have to redeem this and we win! Jesus fuck this is awesome!”
Before she could even finish talking she was just about tackled by Jane. “We win! I knew we could do it! This is amazing!”
Terezi cackled before leaning down and kissing Jane on the lips. “You’re amazing.”
Jane smiled widely, almost as widely as Terezi, before leaning in to kiss her again.

BONUS ROUND 1

Bonus Round 1

PROMPT: TEAM KARKAT<3SOLLUX

FILL: Team Davesprite<3Karkat