Andrew on a professional exy team and all of the team have fairly gotten used to him, but still keep their distance because Jesus fuck, this guy isn’t kidding around with his threats, more than one of them have been on the receiving end of his knives. Then Neil joins the team, and he reels Andrew in, he calms him down and isn’t that just like seeing a pig fly?

seairis:

this might have derailed a bit yikes

• for the first few months of practices andrew was just eerily apathetic. he’d block the goal, mostly, and run drills, (still better than most but obviously without any serious effort,_ but he never said anything, he never seemed to even break a sweat, and he was out of the change room almost before anyone noticed he was in there
• its sort of unsettling like he has a presence on the team but barely
• and then
• its mid game, some motherfucker from the other teams taunting andrew making gross homophobic comments at him
• andrew doesn’t react once
• even his teammates, who don’t know or care for him really, are getting pissed off at this guy
• there’s like 4 seconds left in the game this guy really needs to get a rise out of andrew so that his team can make a goal to tie the game, because they’re losing
• he says ‘bet he looks so good bent over, eh?’ (because after aaron’s trial everyone knows about drake my poor son)
• he plays it off like it’s directed at a teammate not at Andrew
• 2 seconds. Andrew blocks the last pass they make, hits it so far up court no one could bring it back and lunges at this guy
• he’s got him down on the ground with a knife pressed under his helmet to the bottom of his jaw
• the buzzer rings
• andrew has to be torn away from this guy, who’s nearing a coma at this point
• andrew turns on one of his teammates, the one who’d pulled him off and wraps a hand around his neck, making sure he feels the knife in his armband
• “don’t put a leash on me”
• the rest of the team backs off immediately, and he lets him go
• by the time that’s done the other teams left the court completely and he can’t murder that guy like he wanted to
• next practice is tense, his whole team is afraid of him
• one of them mutters something like ‘fucking psycho’ and andrew aims a rebound at him so hard he gets knocked over, winded
• he pretends like he didn’t even know he was there
• there are five more knife situations, and over a dozen other physical altercations, both on and off the court by the time neil going the team two months later
• and then: Neil

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