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Title: with a change of mind (comes a change of heart) [or read on Ao3]

Fandom: Vampyr

Pairing: McCullum/Reid

Rating: Teen

Warning: None

Tags: Post-Canon, Canon Compliant, Case Fic, Enemies to (almost) Lovers, Canon-Typical Violence, inappropriately timed moments of attraction, Complicated Relationships

Summary:

A nurse discovers the body lying across the steps of Pembroke Hospital. A throng of bystanders quickly congregates—hospital staff and a few patients. The nurses, inured to the horrors of present-day London, dutifully begin shepherding the patients away while someone fetches the doctors.

“He’s dead,” Swansea pronounces shortly after arriving on the scene, palm resting on the corpse’s unmoving chest. He examines the body more closely, prodding at the torn throat and hums thoughtfully. He adds, “How odd. Judging by the unusual lack of blood at the wound, it appears the cause of death may have been exsanguination.”

『Or, Reid has to ask McCullum for help when a murdered body is left at Pembroke.』