Price of Admission - InterNutter - The Adventure Zone (Podcast) [Archive of Our Own]

My fingers slipped. Again.

I don’t know why, but I keep writing these angsty Taako and Angus Bond minifics.

Completely Random TAZ:BA Thought #3

Taako listens patiently to Angus reading him the Caleb Cleveland series, because he’s usually cooking and doesn’t have time to read. He’s heard every book all the way through except one.

It’s called Caleb Cleveland and the Sinister Chef. And it’s based, very loosely, on the tragic event in Glamour Springs.

On the first reading, Angus got as far as the bodies in the fairgrounds before Taako had a full-on panic attack and actually drops and ruins the dish he’d been working on.

Angus realises why in seconds, and puts the book away. Hides it from Taako so that he should never find it. That book used to be his favourite because it was based on a real live unsolved murder. He never thought he’d be reading it to the chief suspect who still, despite everything, felt guilty about it all.

It’s years before Taako asks, “Did Caleb catch the chef? In your book?”

Angus lies for the first time in his life. “No. He deduces that someone else used the chef as a pawn in a complicated land grab ploy. And that’s the guy that Caleb gets, sir.”

His ruse isn’t discovered for centuries.