@vex-vern and @addesin what do u have 2 say for urselves 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BLESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT HIS GILLS OMFG

FUCK

FUCK

FUCK

HNNNNGGGGG

I AM GOING TO HANG THIS ON M GODDAMN WALL

HOW DID YOU DO THIS IN SUCH LITTLE TIME IT’S A FUCKING MASTERPIECE

THE SHADE OF HIS HAIR, THE PEARLY PALLET OF HIS SKIN

I AM GONNA SCREAM

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PAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG YESS!!!! xD TRUST YOU TO TURN THIS INTO SOME GLORIOUS AU!!

GDI VEX THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

VEX VEX VEX VEX I HAVE A SKETCH SOMEWHERE THAT’S BASICALLY LIKE THAT OK

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!! RACHEL!! OMFG I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!!! Please Rachel please!!!!!

VEX STOP LEAVING AUS AT SAD PARTS WTF. I DEMAND A HAPPY ENDING STAT

omFG SWIFTY HAS THIS SKETCH????? I AM GOING TO DIE HAPPY THIS IS NOW ALL I WANT PLS MAKE MY FINAL WISH COME TRUE BEFORE I ETERNALLY REST

also aly oops my bad i swear there’s a happy ending in my head, i always pause at the worst places to go write the full fic ahahahaha my bad :p

neil gets left for dead when his siren family leaves him behind. without his link to them, neil is incredibly vulnerable, and he gets hunted down the tengu clan lead by riko who eat siren flesh to stay young. neil is cornered and washed up on the beach when the SS Exy rams into riko and andrew tears one of riko’s wings in the process of saving neil. 

the Exy crew drag an injured neil hissing and spitting onto their ship. neil is desperate for water, but andrew has him strung up and makes everyone else go below deck. because andrew recognizes neil. andrew doesn’t trust neil not to drown them all. 

neil’s fin dries out and suddenly he has legs. he screams and thrashes and his magic voice sounds nothing like magic, it sounds like a scared little boy’s. andrew hesitantly brings neil cupfuls of water and neil drinks straight from his hands. this close, andrew can see the flare of neil’s gills straining in his neck, the iridescence of his drying scales, the fan of his long eyelashes. 

neil looks up at him through them, bent over andrew’s hands, and he bares his fangs. “if riko doesn’t come back and kill you, i will.”

andrew laughs. 

NEIL IS THE EXY’S RELUCTANT PRISONER AND THEY COERCE HIM INTO LEADING THEM THROUGH THE MAGIC-INFESTED WATERS TO AN IMPOSSIBLE ISLAND WHERE THEIR MAP LEADS. NEIL WARNS THAT WHATEVER THEY FIND MIGHT NOT BE WORTH THE PRICE, BUT NO ONE LISTENS, AND ANDREW IS STILL STRUGGLING TO TRUST HIM. NEIL IS DRAGGED ALONG ON HIS PAINFUL HUMAN LEGS AND HE GROWS TO LIKE THE HUMANS’ DUMB, INNOCENT FACES AND GENTLE HANDS AND “FAMILY”. 

FUCK YES VEX BLESS

THIS IS EXACTLY THE SHIT I CAN GET ON BOARD WITH (pun slightly intended??)

FUCKING BLESS 

PRETTY SMOOTH SKINNED NEIL WITH HIS FLUTTERY LONG LASHES AND NAILS LIKE RAINBOW SCALES AND EYES BLUE AND CLEAR AS THE OCEAN. 

NEIL WITH VITILIGO THO. NEIL WITH PRETTY HALF-TANNED SKIN AND ARMS ON MOSTLY HIS LOWER HALF AN PALER SKIN ON HIS TORSO AND FACE, WITH FLECKS AND SPECKLES IN TRANSITION. WITH HIS FINS, HIS FINS HE HAS PRETTY RUDDY SCALES THAT GLIMMER AND SHINE IN THE SUN AN REFLECT OFF THE WATER TO MAKE PRETTY AUBURN SHADES LIKE HIS HAIR.

ANDREW DRAWING HIS FINGERS ACROSS NEIL’S PRETTY SPECKLED FLESH AND DRINKING UP THE WAY HE SHIVERS AT HUMAN TOUCH AND WARMTH. 

JUST SIREN!NEIL BLESS.

time for a portrait

aly this addition made me happy-cry into my trashcan

AND SWIFTY YOURS MADE ME HAVE A HAPPY EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN PRAISE MY SIN SPOUSES HALLEFUCKINLUJAH

PLEASE WRITE THE FIC VEX PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

I’M DOING IT I’M WRITING THE THING I LOVE YOU ALL TOO MUCH AND APPARENTLY I HATE MYSELF xD

PAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG YESS!!!! xD TRUST YOU TO TURN THIS INTO SOME GLORIOUS AU!!

GDI VEX THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

VEX VEX VEX VEX I HAVE A SKETCH SOMEWHERE THAT’S BASICALLY LIKE THAT OK

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!! RACHEL!! OMFG I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!!! Please Rachel please!!!!!

VEX STOP LEAVING AUS AT SAD PARTS WTF. I DEMAND A HAPPY ENDING STAT

omFG SWIFTY HAS THIS SKETCH????? I AM GOING TO DIE HAPPY THIS IS NOW ALL I WANT PLS MAKE MY FINAL WISH COME TRUE BEFORE I ETERNALLY REST

also aly oops my bad i swear there’s a happy ending in my head, i always pause at the worst places to go write the full fic ahahahaha my bad :p

neil gets left for dead when his siren family leaves him behind. without his link to them, neil is incredibly vulnerable, and he gets hunted down the tengu clan lead by riko who eat siren flesh to stay young. neil is cornered and washed up on the beach when the SS Exy rams into riko and andrew tears one of riko’s wings in the process of saving neil. 

the Exy crew drag an injured neil hissing and spitting onto their ship. neil is desperate for water, but andrew has him strung up and makes everyone else go below deck. because andrew recognizes neil. andrew doesn’t trust neil not to drown them all. 

neil’s fin dries out and suddenly he has legs. he screams and thrashes and his magic voice sounds nothing like magic, it sounds like a scared little boy’s. andrew hesitantly brings neil cupfuls of water and neil drinks straight from his hands. this close, andrew can see the flare of neil’s gills straining in his neck, the iridescence of his drying scales, the fan of his long eyelashes. 

neil looks up at him through them, bent over andrew’s hands, and he bares his fangs. “if riko doesn’t come back and kill you, i will.”

andrew laughs. 

NEIL IS THE EXY’S RELUCTANT PRISONER AND THEY COERCE HIM INTO LEADING THEM THROUGH THE MAGIC-INFESTED WATERS TO AN IMPOSSIBLE ISLAND WHERE THEIR MAP LEADS. NEIL WARNS THAT WHATEVER THEY FIND MIGHT NOT BE WORTH THE PRICE, BUT NO ONE LISTENS, AND ANDREW IS STILL STRUGGLING TO TRUST HIM. NEIL IS DRAGGED ALONG ON HIS PAINFUL HUMAN LEGS AND HE GROWS TO LIKE THE HUMANS’ DUMB, INNOCENT FACES AND GENTLE HANDS AND “FAMILY”. 

FUCK YES VEX BLESS

THIS IS EXACTLY THE SHIT I CAN GET ON BOARD WITH (pun slightly intended??)

FUCKING BLESS 

PRETTY SMOOTH SKINNED NEIL WITH HIS FLUTTERY LONG LASHES AND NAILS LIKE RAINBOW SCALES AND EYES BLUE AND CLEAR AS THE OCEAN. 

NEIL WITH VITILIGO THO. NEIL WITH PRETTY HALF-TANNED SKIN AND ARMS ON MOSTLY HIS LOWER HALF AN PALER SKIN ON HIS TORSO AND FACE, WITH FLECKS AND SPECKLES IN TRANSITION. WITH HIS FINS, HIS FINS HE HAS PRETTY RUDDY SCALES THAT GLIMMER AND SHINE IN THE SUN AN REFLECT OFF THE WATER TO MAKE PRETTY AUBURN SHADES LIKE HIS HAIR.

ANDREW DRAWING HIS FINGERS ACROSS NEIL’S PRETTY SPECKLED FLESH AND DRINKING UP THE WAY HE SHIVERS AT HUMAN TOUCH AND WARMTH. 

JUST SIREN!NEIL BLESS.

time for a portrait

aly this addition made me happy-cry into my trashcan

AND SWIFTY YOURS MADE ME HAVE A HAPPY EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN PRAISE MY SIN SPOUSES HALLEFUCKINLUJAH

PAHAHAHAHAHAHA OMFG YESS!!!! xD TRUST YOU TO TURN THIS INTO SOME GLORIOUS AU!!

GDI VEX THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

VEX VEX VEX VEX I HAVE A SKETCH SOMEWHERE THAT’S BASICALLY LIKE THAT OK

YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!! RACHEL!! OMFG I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED!!! Please Rachel please!!!!!

VEX STOP LEAVING AUS AT SAD PARTS WTF. I DEMAND A HAPPY ENDING STAT

omFG SWIFTY HAS THIS SKETCH????? I AM GOING TO DIE HAPPY THIS IS NOW ALL I WANT PLS MAKE MY FINAL WISH COME TRUE BEFORE I ETERNALLY REST

also aly oops my bad i swear there’s a happy ending in my head, i always pause at the worst places to go write the full fic ahahahaha my bad :p

neil gets left for dead when his siren family leaves him behind. without his link to them, neil is incredibly vulnerable, and he gets hunted down the tengu clan lead by riko who eat siren flesh to stay young. neil is cornered and washed up on the beach when the SS Exy rams into riko and andrew tears one of riko’s wings in the process of saving neil. 

the Exy crew drag an injured neil hissing and spitting onto their ship. neil is desperate for water, but andrew has him strung up and makes everyone else go below deck. because andrew recognizes neil. andrew doesn’t trust neil not to drown them all. 

neil’s fin dries out and suddenly he has legs. he screams and thrashes and his magic voice sounds nothing like magic, it sounds like a scared little boy’s. andrew hesitantly brings neil cupfuls of water and neil drinks straight from his hands. this close, andrew can see the flare of neil’s gills straining in his neck, the iridescence of his drying scales, the fan of his long eyelashes. 

neil looks up at him through them, bent over andrew’s hands, and he bares his fangs. “if riko doesn’t come back and kill you, i will.”

andrew laughs. 

NEIL IS THE EXY’S RELUCTANT PRISONER AND THEY COERCE HIM INTO LEADING THEM THROUGH THE MAGIC-INFESTED WATERS TO AN IMPOSSIBLE ISLAND WHERE THEIR MAP LEADS. NEIL WARNS THAT WHATEVER THEY FIND MIGHT NOT BE WORTH THE PRICE, BUT NO ONE LISTENS, AND ANDREW IS STILL STRUGGLING TO TRUST HIM. NEIL IS DRAGGED ALONG ON HIS PAINFUL HUMAN LEGS AND HE GROWS TO LIKE THE HUMANS’ DUMB, INNOCENT FACES AND GENTLE HANDS AND “FAMILY”. 

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Okay so I opened up requests and got like. 3742938 messages which I did nOT EXPECT FUC 

But a good number of them took up my JereJean offer (WHICH I ALSO DID NOT EXPECT FUC) and this you fam were first along with @vex-vern and @rileybluuseys (who actually had another JereJean request that I’ll make separate from this one) but this got a lot of my inner feelings about them out at once so that I can FINALLY START WRITING FLUFF ABOUT THEM now that I’ve gotten a lot of the burn out of the way.

This is mostly for my boy, Bean Valjean, who deserves to be happy in life, and needs people who love him. And also Jeremy Knox. Who struggles with life for like four thousand words. U can do it Cap.

“Are you scared of him?”

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I M GONNA FUCKGIN CRY I LOVE THIS SO MUCH FUCKKKKK

JEREMY BEING SCARED OF JEAN 

“You can’t fix him. We can’t fix him. You have to put your faith in him.” THE MOMENT I GOT AN ADRENALINE RUSH I AM ACTUALLY SHAKING THIS WAS TOO MUCH

JEAN TRYING TO PLAY WITH A SPRAINED ANKLE AND JEREMY PULLING RANK FUCK ME UPPP

“Every time they enter the same room, Jeremy finds himself instinctively moving between them.” it’s too late, go on without me, i’m done with this cruel world

“Do you want to come back to the court tonight?” I MADE AN AUDIBLE SHRIEK

JEREMY IS JUST AS MUCH OF AN EXY JUNKIE AS KEVIN AND NEIL AND PLAYING WITH JEAN GETS HIM OFF OK

*FUCKING RENEE SCENE JESUS I’M NOT OK*

“He is not here anymore.” “He is!” i M GONNA PUKe TuT

“I want you to stop playing for him,” Jeremy says, “and start playing for me.” JEREMY DEMANDING JEAN’S GAME. *THE* MOST ROMANTIC THING TO ME. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

what if neil post-canon takes every little exy fuck up personally? 

neil fumbles a pass and thinks, this is it, ichirou will know, i’ve doomed us all.

neil loses his mark and he thinks, i’ve failed my team. 

neil hesitates to shoot because he thinks, what if i miss, what if they realize i’m not worth it?

i headcanon neil as blissfully happy after everything’s over, of course, but what if he’s not? what if he has these moments of panic? what if he puts so much pressure on himself to succeed for his family’s sake that he’s crushed every time he trips up even slightly? what if he chafes under the weight of his responsibilities to others, something he’s never dealt with in his life? 

WHAT IF NEIL DEVELOPS AN ANXIETY DISORDER OVER THE VERY THING HE USED TO USE TO COPE?

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY PLAUSABLE??

RIGHT????

like, i want neil to be happy. i do. truly. (mostly mwahahahmmmmyes. i do.)

but neil’s never had attachments before. now, all of  a sudden, he has a team full of family whose lives rest on his shoulders. he’s turned exy into his weapon, but if he doesn’t wield it properly, the weapon will turn on him. 

everyone gets a little worried when neil starts spending all of his free time watching exy footage with kevin - but they’re not too alarmed yet. neil loves exy, they all know this. but neil starts pushing himself harder at his nightly practices with kevin, too. pushing too hard. he nearly blows out his arms again one night. kevin loses it. coach temporarily takes neil’s court keys, hoping neil will settle a little. it just makes neil more panicked at their regular practice. 

kevin won’t let him come to the court the next night. neil runs for miles instead. he feels like he may never stop. 

it comes to a head when they play the trojans in a televised scrimmage. the game has no real stakes, it won’t effect their seasonal standing. but neil can feel a target on his back. on kevin’s. on jean’s. 

the foxes loses by 3 points.

 neil has a panic attack in the showers. 

andrew drags neil to bee two days later. neil feels the urge to run again, stronger than it’s been since he first saw the foxhole court. andrew stuffs neil in a chair and holds him down by the shoulders, resting his head on neil’s. bee watches them both and waits patiently, but neil refuses to open his mouth. 

so andrew opens his instead. 

andrew shares all of neil’s secrets one by one. everyone knows them by now, but hearing them doled out of andrew’s mouth when neil has kept his silence hurts. he’s never felt betrayed before; he had no one to betray him. andrew keeps sharing, telling bee everything he thinks she needs to know. bee shares advice in return, but the blood rushing in his ears blocks it all out. 

andrew guides him out of bee’s office with a hand on his back and a sure set to his shoulders, like he thinks he may have helped. how can he know neil so well but not know what he’s just done?

 “didn’t i tell you, neil,” andrew says, “bee’s not so bad.”

that night, neil packs his one bag and runs. 

#the foxhole court#HAPPY SADURDAY WATCH ME MAKE THIS WORSE#i debated whether or not andrew’s actions are too ooc here#but i think that andrew takes a ton of liberties with neil in the text#particularly regarding neil’s well-being#and if he thought he knew best what would help neil he’d do it#without deeper reflection on how neil will take his actions#the same way andrew killed their mother without considering aaron’s feelings#because he decided that was the best course of action for their safety#andrew lives and breathes a means to an end mentality#and he struggles with emotions since his are so off-base#so if he thinks that bee an help neil#he’ll makes bee help neil#and if he thinks neil keeping secrets from bee is bad for neil#he’ll tell neil’s secrets#and neil would NOT take kindly to that when he’s in such an anxious and paranoid state#if he were less panicked he may have understood andrew’s actions#like understands andrew regularly#but in this scenario#in this headcanon#neil’s not clear-minded enough to see andrew’s intentions#he only sees a betrayal of trust#tfc headcanons#angst angst angst

VEX YOU CAN’T JUST LEAVE ME LIKE THIS

#WHAT THE FUCK #BRING HIM BACK #tbh i’ve always been interested in how andrew might be the one to cross the line #because usually in theories it’s neil that does #and andrew is so careful and knows how to handle things #but what if he’s not #i love flaws #i want them to fix this #PLEASE #LET THEM FIX THIS

SAME! I THINK IT’S SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING AND IN-CHARACTER IF ANDREW CROSSES THE LINE. because andrew understands physical consent and the navigation of sexual situations SO EXPLICITLY. he takes SO MUCH CARE with that aspect of neil’s vulnerability - and with his own. 

but andrew has no idea how to navigate emotional boundaries. that’s ALL neil. andrew says “i hate you” and neil hears what he’s really saying underneath. andrew kills his birth-mother and neil realizes the reason why. andrew starts a relationship with neil AND NEIL ACTUALLY MISSES THIS CUE. NEIL DOESN’T REALIZE HOW SERIOUS ANDREW IS ABOUT HIM UNTIL AARON CHALLENGES THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND ANDREW CHOOSES NEIL. clearly, there are communication issues, and they are 90% coming from andrew’s end. 

so when neil breaks down, andrew takes action, which is what he does best. but neil’s blind to his reasoning, he just sees the results. andrew hands his understanding of neil to an adult that neil has yet to learn to trust. 

so neil runs. 

he makes it all the way to the train station before he pauses to think. he scrambles through his bag for his wrinkled map and sits in a shadowed corner to plan his course. he bought the map in hopes that the team could plan more trips with it. 

thinking of the team makes his stomach roil. he forgot to eat dinner. he was too busy replaying all of his secrets spilling out of andrew’s mouth. when andrew and bee realized he wouldn’t participate at all, they started discussing him like he wasn’t in the room. it made him feels miles away. it only made sense that his feet now took him where his mind had gone. 

the next train will take him as far georgia. he follows the train-track line with his finger, but he stalls when he hits a circled town. he marked the spot because it supposedly had an exy museum. he wanted to go with the foxes. 

fuck. neil presses the heels of his hands into his eyes and sucks in air. he is leaving the foxes. when ichirou finds out, will he give neil a head-start? the best hunters let the fox try to outrun their hounds first. for sport. neil gasps. when did breathing become so hard?

i could stay, neil thinks. the notion hooks and tugs under his skin. he wants to stay. 

neil starts to fold up his map. his phone buzzes. fate, he thinks. andrew must be calling me home. 

i should go home.

it’s not a call, it’s a text. 

it’s not andrew - it’s bee. 

please forgive us for pushing, she says, we just want to help. 

andrew hates ‘please’, neil thinks, a little numbly. neil thinks he might hate it, too, when it’s said on andrew’s behalf. 

an hour later, the train pulls away from the station. it takes neil with it. 

WHAT THE FUCK VEX? THIS IS WHAT I WAKE UP TO? YOU BETTER FIX THIS STAT. THIS IS NOT OKAY

FUCK YOU GUYS I AM MAKING AN EXECUTIVE DECISION HERE WITH THIS AU

Neil is only gone for a couple hours before the team starts to worry. It takes Andrew longer, but he’s content to wait. Everybody is in a panic but Andrew seems unfazed by the disappearance, doesn’t act in any way out of the ordinary. If he’s angry or hurt by Neil leaving, no one is the wiser. 

A day passes and worry turns to something a little more panicked. Kevin is freaking out about the upcoming game without their starting striker. Dan is pissed that Andrew must have done something to Neil to send him away. Nicky is an emotional mess, convinced Neil is hurt somewhere alone. 

It’s Allison who finally snaps and confronts Andrew after the third day, with Renee behind her playing mediator. 

“You need to get Neil,” she says, staring down at him on the bench during water break.

Andrew’s grip tightens on his racquet but he looks impassive. “I’m not his keeper.”

“The fuck you aren’t!” Allison snaps.

“You did promise you’d look after him, Andrew,” Renee says gently, but her expression is neutral, unreadable. 

Andrew huffs, crumpling up his paper water cup before dropping it in the trash. 

“Wymack wont blame you because he thinks it’s none of his business but the rest of us do. You spend the most time with him. You did something.” Allison is barely holding back on shouting at this point, the only thing keeping her back probably some agreement she’d come to with Renee. 

Andrew looks out at the court where Kevin is talking with Wymack. “He’ll be back. He can’t stay away from this stupid game much longer,” is all he says before leaving to listen in on Kevin and Wymack’s conversation. 

Except Neil doesn’t come back. For the first time since joining the team, Neil misses a match. Kevin is livid. Wymack isn’t much better. In fact the whole team is on edge. Andrew’s used to being disliked but the animosity is getting a little annoying. Even Aaron makes a comment that whatever his problem is with Neil is becoming an irritation.

That Saturday, Andrew calls Neil. Unsurprisingly, he phone is dead. Andrew’s jaw clenches, feeling the first twinge of anger. Sunday, he calls again. Still nothing. Monday, during practice he hits balls at his teammates heads until Wymack throws him off the court. He uses the free time to make what he swears is one last call. 

It rings five times before the call is picked up. Andrew’s heart drops to his gut in a peculiar feeling his is unfamiliar with. 

Neil doesn’t say anything but Andrew can hear his tense breath through the line. 

“It’s time for you to come home,” Andrew growls. 

Neil is quiet for a long time. “I’m not coming back,” Neil murmurs. 

“Yes, you are,” Andrew says, like it’s the easiest thing in the world. And why shouldn’t it be?

“I’m not –” Neil cuts himself off, pauses, seams to redirect his train of thought. Andrew can almost imagine the way he’s hunching over himself, one arm crossed over his gut clutching his shirt. Carefully, he says, “I can’t trust you any more.”

Andrew feels his pulse in his ear. Oh. Oh he’s not happy with this at all. It’s too risky to speak, so he doesn’t. Just waits. 

Neil takes that as response enough. He lets out a low breath. “I told you those things in confidence. It was never part of the deal for your to tell anyone else. Not without asking me.”

Andrew’s anger peaks. He grinds his teeth, squeezing his racquet. “So it’s okay for you to shove Aaron and me at Bee to fix our problems? But when I do it –”

Neil interrupts him, voice rising. “You listen to Bee. You actually trust Bee!”

Andrew scoffs, tossing his racquet into a forgotten corner of the locker room. “There is no reason for you not to trust Bee. She wants to help you.”

“There are plenty of reasons for me not to trust her,” Neil snaps defensively.

“Then what would you have me do? You were falling apart!”

“I don’t know,” Neil yelps helplessly. “I don’t know. You could have… you could have just talked to me first?”

“So you could feed me some ‘I’m fine’ bullshit? I know you. I’m not stupid. You wouldn’t have talked to me. You wouldn’t have listened.”

“That doesn’t mean you force Bee on me. I’m not you. I cant just –” Neil cuts himself off with a strangled noise of frustration. 

“You were a ticking time bomb,” Andrew says slowly. Clearly. He will make Neil understand. But not like this. It’s too difficult to talk through the phone. “Where are you? I’m coming to get you.”

Neil doesn’t say anything. Andrew wonders for a moment if he’s been hung up on but finally Neil asks, “Do you even care that you betrayed me? Betrayed my trust?”

That makes Andrew stop. Betrayal is a heavy accusation. One Andrew had sworn himself against. Andrew is nothing if not a man of loyalty. It’s the only promise he’s ever made to himself. It takes him a long time to lowers himself onto the bench by the lockers, elbows going to his knees. “You think I betrayed you?”

“It’s not what I think,” Neil bites, less bitter than Andrew was expecting. Only hurt. “It’s what you did.”

“Neil…”

“I know you don’t care if you hurt me. But I never thought you would throw me to the wolves like that,” Neil says, voice choked. 

Andrew chews the inside of his mouth, dragging a hand down his face. “Neil, tell me where you are. Let me come and get you.”

“You can’t. You can’t,” Neil moans. “You can’t fix this.” 

“Let me try!” For the first time, Andrew raises his voice. He’d almost forgotten he can get that loud. 

Another long bought of silence before Neil whispers, “I miss you.”

“Then let me bring you home,” Andrew says quickly. “Where are you?”

Neil chokes out, “Atlanta? I have a flight for Kansas City in six hours.”

Fury paints everything red for a few blinding seconds before Andrew pulls himself back together enough to grit out, “Cancel it. I’ll take the next flight out. Stay right where you are.”

Neil’s voice is weak when he murmurs, “Promise me I don’t have to see her anymore.”

Bargaining is something Andrew can work with. It’s easier to handle bargains and promises than emotions. “Work through your shit then. Find someone to help you. I don’t care who.” 

Everything Neil does has a minute long delay. Finally, though, Andrew hears Neil’s nod even though he can’t see it. The rustling of his ear scrapping on the phone’s mic. “’Kay.”

Andrew is already pulling his practice jersey over his head when Neil says, “I’ll wait for you.” 

Andrew changes back into his street clothes before he goes to find Wymack and tell him where he’s headed and borrow money for a flight. Wymack lets Nicky out to drive him to the airport, and he’s the last passenger to board the 6:55 flight to Atlanta. The first flight he’s taken on his own. The first time he’s had too much on his mind to be afraid when the plane takes off. 

As soon as the plane lands, he’s booting up his phone again, calling Neil. “Where are you?” he asks as soon as the call goes through. 

“There’s an outlet by the bathroom above the shuttle stop in terminal D,” Neil says. “What terminal are you in?” 

But Andrew can already see his auburn hair and wide blue eyes in flashes between the crowd and he’s shouldering through the crowd before he can stop himself. Neil yelps when Andrew grabs him by the back of the neck, pulling them together so their foreheads touch. 

Still on the line, Andrew squeezes his eyes shut and speaks into the phone. “150%.”

Neil lets out a crazed noise that’s between a laugh and a sob.

THANK YOU, ALY! I KNEW IF I WAITED LONG ENOUGH SOMEONE WOULD WRITE THE HAPPY ENDING *FOR* ME >:D

GODFUCKINGDAMN

THE DETAILS OF HIS FACE AND HAIR AND RIBS. EVERY TIME I THINK YOU HAVE KILLED ME DEAD, YOUR ART RESURRECTS ME TO KILL ME *DEADER* GOD 

if andrew saw this he would lose his SHIT. no wonder why he couldn’t resist neil fucking josten wow

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NEIL JEALOUS OF KEVIN’S MAGAZINE xD

NEIL INITIATING 

“This was your idea, dumbass.” AHAHAHAHAFUCK GOODBYE

EVERY TIME ANDREW CALLS NEIL “BABY” I LOSE 20 BRAIN-CELLS I LOVE IT SO MUCH

EXHIBITION KINK. HUMILIATION KINK. MIRROR KINK. JUST. KIIIIIIIIINK. KILL ME

ANDREW BEING MEAN. ANDREW SAYING “BABY”. JUST FUCK ME UP.

AND YOU TOP IT ALL OFF WITH POSESSIVE ANDREW AND BLUSHY NEIL GOD FUCK SHIT GODDDDDD

AHAHAHA ANDREW CALLING NEIL BABY IS MY LIFE AT FIRST I WAS REALLY TURNED OFF BECAUSE I COULDN’T IMAGINE HIM ACTUALLY DOING IT BUT THE MORE I WRAP MY BRAIN AROUND HIM DOING IT SARCASTICALLY AND IT TURNING INTO A THINK THEY BOTH ARE INTO THE MORE I JUST REALLY NEED IT??? ALL THE TIME???? THANK I AM SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT <333 (I’m in the process of editting it because I noticed so many typos and things that spell check didn’t pick up ugh) ALSO BLESS POSSESSIVE ANDREW TBH

SAME??? LIKE, WHEN I FIRST IMAGINED HIM SAYING IT, IT WAS SO MOCKING AND MEAN. AND NOW HE SAYS IT THROUGH A SNEER ALL THE TIME AND THAT LITTLE BIT OF EDGE IN THE WORD GETS NEIL OFF SO HARD. 

I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I WILL 100% REBLOG THE EDITING VERSION IN THE MORNING xD I JUST WANNA SHOVE IT EVERYONE’S FACE AND FORCE THEM TO READ IT LMAO

i’m ashamed of myself because i haven’t touched on possessive andrew much despite that being, like, my number on favorite sin???? note to self: get on this, self. 

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ANDREW INSISTING ON LEAVING THE BLINDS UP

NEIL JEALOUS OF KEVIN’S MAGAZINE xD

NEIL INITIATING 

“This was your idea, dumbass.” AHAHAHAHAFUCK GOODBYE

EVERY TIME ANDREW CALLS NEIL “BABY” I LOSE 20 BRAIN-CELLS I LOVE IT SO MUCH

EXHIBITION KINK. HUMILIATION KINK. MIRROR KINK. JUST. KIIIIIIIIINK. KILL ME

ANDREW BEING MEAN. ANDREW SAYING “BABY”. JUST FUCK ME UP.

AND YOU TOP IT ALL OFF WITH POSESSIVE ANDREW AND BLUSHY NEIL GOD FUCK SHIT GODDDDDD

imagine the foxes taking their first team flight, though. maybe they’re going on a vacation together, maybe they’re going to a game across the country, maybe they’re on a press tour, idk. just. imagine. 

they would have SO MUCH TROUBLE with security. 

andrew refuses to surrender his armbands. nobody knows if his knives are still in there but something is setting off the metal-detector and andrew is insisting it’s his piercings. neil knew it was a little suspicious that andrew went and got pierced this week.

dan keeps trying to pass off her body-sized bag full of Exy racquets as a carry-on. 

neil has three sets of  lock picks on his person that get him taken to detainment for questioning. 

kevin causes a minor incident when his fans swarm the building and andrew nearly breaks someone’s arm. 

allison disappears and swans back with neil in tow. she won’t admit to paying off the guard but they can’t figure out how else she got neil out. 

AND THIS ISN’T EVEN CONSIDERING THESE ASSHOLES *ON* THE PLANE

#the foxhole court#allison and matt bought out first class#andrew sit by a window just to prove to everyone that he doesn’t give a shit about heights#but proceeds to spend the next ten minutes clutching the seat#snarling death threats at everyone who GLANCES at him#until he accidentally tears the arm off his chair#allison sighs and pulls out another wad of cash#nicky snatches it out of her hands and starts making it rain#dan starts dancing in the aisle and shooting playful looks at matt as the money goes flying everywhere#kevin starts criticizing dan’s dance moves and says that even as sub-par as her dncing is if she moved like that on the field#she’d contribute more to the game#dan gets pissed#and gives him the angriest lapdance ever#until kevin feels to intimidated and awkward to say anything else#renee calmly and cooly ignores them all and reads a book#aaron sits beside her and hopes she’ll keep the others away#nicky dies laughing and tries to get someone to give him a lapdance#andrew throws the chair arm at nicky’s head#eventually matt and dan join the mile-high club#then andrew and neil take a turn#bets were made#neither of the couples are subtle#nobody uses the restroom for the rest of the flight#tfc headcanons

my headcanon wife continues to literally make the best aus ever

and here we see my sin-spouse making me emotional T-T

i MARRIED ONLY THE BEST OK

we need to round out our trio and get @addesin to write the plane sex pls ;p

BUT ALSO since i have planes on the brain: pilot/steward AU.

andrew is an ex-army pilot now flying commercial planes alongside his co-pilot, allison. dan, matt, and neil are long-time friends and the plane’s stewards. neil spent his life on the run until his father died in prison - now, he evades his fathers’ men by hopping from plane to plane at work. he still dreams of playing exy, but he’s hardly grounded enough to get anywhere near a court. 

(neil’s never flown with captain minyard before, but he’s heard - uh, ok he hasn’t heard good things, this might be a nightmare.)

renee is plane security, but everyone always assumes that she’s a stewardess and that matt’s security. matt’s always SO EMBARRASSED. 

nicky and aaron are civilians hopping a flight to visit erik. this is the first time they will ever encounter andrew, aaron’s long-lost twin brother. 

kevin is an exy celebrity and a small-time business man. he smuggles onboard the plane in a desperate attempt to escape riko, who broke his hand a few weeks ago. 

RIKO IS STILL RIKO, BUT THE MORIYAMAS ARE TERRORIST AFFILIATES AND RIKO TRIES TO HIJACK THE PLANE TO GET AT KEVIN. 

*COUGHS SUGGESTIVELY*

YOU DID THIS. YOU’RE FUCKING WELCOME.

omFG GUYS ALY DID IT ALY WROTE THE SMUT