Hello! I love your blog so much, especially your TFC headcanons and fics! I was wondering if you would ever consider writing some kind of sequel to the headcanon about the Foxes’ bets expanding on Andreil’s wedding in Neil’s senior year? Of course you don’t have to if you don’t want to, but it would make my life :) Have a good day!
Andrew was tired of fighting with security and hospital staff every time Neil managed to land himself a trip to the ER.
He was sick of Allison Reynolds telling him “We care about Neil too you know” every time security managed to get him back to the waiting room.
He hated the knowing look on his cousin’s face and the sneer on his brother’s.
Most of all he hated not knowing and he hated that Neil would wake up in that room alone and panic.
It didn’t happen often, but it happened enough that Andrew was tired of it.
So when Neil ends up in the hospital with a concussion during his senior year, Andrew makes the drive to South Carolina and makes a decision.
This particular hospital remembers Andrew from two years before when he took down two security team members the day Neil had emergency surgery for his appendix and Neil’s nurse has enough self preservation to pretend to not see him sneak into Neil’s room.
Neil’s first words when he wakes up and sees Andrew are “what the fuck happened?”
Because head injuries make it hard to have a serious discussion Andrew has to wait until Neil’s mostly coherent, it takes a couple of days.
When Andrew checks Neil out of the hospital and muscles him into the Maserati to take him back to Fox Tower Neil turns to him and says “We should just get married.”
Neil is only slightly surprised when Andrew says, “I know.”
Two weeks later they’re signing their marriage licence with Betsy Dobson as their witness.
It’s simple because it’s just a legal thing. They get married in a courthouse, both wearing jeans and Neil wearing Andrew’s pro team jersey. Betsy dresses up for it because she wants to and this is important to her. This boy that she cared about, that she was worried wasn’t going to make it to graduation, getting married.
Neil doesn’t tell the team because he doesn’t feel he has to. Nothing has changed, really, now Andrew and Neil just have more legal rights than they did before. The ring he wears on a string around his neck is mostly for his own sentiment. The fact that Andrew has one too would only be baffling to someone other than Neil or Renee.
The next time Neil end up in the hospital it’s for two broken ribs and Andrew pretends not to be affected when the doctor asks, “Are you the husband?” and Andrew gets to say “yes”