Imagine Andrew not shaving over Christmas break because he’s lazy. But that gives Neil a chance to learn scruff feels soft when it gets longer and now he can’t stop touching Andrew’s face.
A messy thing I wrote in like an hour because I saw this post by @acerenee and then I realized I could use this with the prompt ‘on the commute home’ on the Andreil card from @aftgbingo so like. Yeah
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Neil needs to get to work, and this line hasn’t moved for the past fifteen minutes.
It’s not often that he has to go to campus, because most of his classes are taught online.
Today, however, is special; he needs to physically be on campus for a faculty meeting. But he’s going to be fucking late because somebody is holding up the ticketing queue. He should’ve just gone for the ticket machines, in retrospect.
“Hey!” a man behind him yells. “What the hell is taking so long?”
A few other people shout their dissatisfaction and demand to know the same.
A slew of frantic sentences fly down the line. There is a buzz of murmured confusion among the people, and Neil sighs.
He pushes his way through the crowd to the front of the line. A tall, frustrated man is hunched over the ticket window, throwing a “Patience, please!” to the line of angry people behind him.
The problem is – he is speaking in Russian, and nobody can understand a lick of what he is saying. Nobody but Neil, anyway.
“Excuse me,” he says in Russian. “May I help you?”
The man stops rambling to the station agent behind the window and turns to Neil, eyes widening in surprise. Then his face breaks into relief and delight as he begins to explain that he needs to get to the museum but he wants a three-day pass that covers zones A to C, with a 1-day pass that covers only zone D.
Neil relays this information in English to an unruffled Minyard, who performs the transaction with brisk efficiency. It’s quite contradictory to his claims of I do not care about this job.
Hey there. Since some people have expressed interest in seeing more of the AU – yes, I’ll continue it! Can’t leave Andrew pining forever. Or can I? ;D
It’ll take a while though, since I have a few other WIPs that need to be finished. In the mean time, you could always check out my other fics on the blog or on Ao3 ;DD
And no worries – it’s not annoying at all! Have a great day/night buddy
more kevin and neil headcanons that no one asked for but im delivering anyways
☆they both have like 30 friendship bracelets from each other because it started as a joke but now its……….competitive
☆THIS VINE
☆kevin, texting neil: answer your phone i need to talk to you
☆neil: ok hold on i cant find it
☆kevin: ok
☆kevin, 5 minutes later: youre a terrible teammate you know. youre killing me. youre killing your striker
☆when press bring up the ravens at inappropriate times they both like to pretend theyve never heard of them and have no idea who they are
☆Physical Altercations over uno
☆before games neil sits on kevins shoulders and they wont stop challenging the other team to joust with their exy racquets
☆wymack: kevin neil is swearing on camera again, go clean up after him
☆kevin, rolling up to neil with the cameras still on: what the fuck dude
☆when the team stays overnight for away games kevin and neil like to go out and try to find the shittiest 2am diner they can get to, and then they rate it afterwards. they have a list
☆they tried to study together once but it backfired spectacularly and they spent 5 hours talking about exy instead. math final who
☆theyre Those Sport Dudes who yell at the tv and get up and walk around the room with their hands in their hair when they watch games
☆just sit down and shut the fuck up PLEASE
☆they go to those service dog training places and sit on the floor and let puppies slobber all over them
☆blackout drunk kevin, mumbling barely distinct backstreet boys lyrics, gets fireman-carried by a furious neil back to the dorm
☆they enable each other too much. in all aspects of life ☆what im saying is they need a Mom Friend to tell them when to stop bc otherwise theyll keep hyping each other up until theyre dead ☆kevin: keep the kitchen clean and safe or so help me god ☆neil, a travesty to god and the church and everyone who witnesses him, who has been kicked from the kitchen 6 different times and is about to make it 7 by detonating the everloving shit out of this frozen pizza at 3750 degrees: of course ☆carly rae jepsen stans
☆kevin knows neil leaves his phone fuckall places so he very secretly calls it and when neil goes to pick it up and answers, kevin, on the other line, sitting on the living room couch 2 rooms away, pulls a ‘since youre up wanna get me the protein shake from the fridge’ and neil HATES. HIM.
31. Do they finish each other’s sentences? Pick up any phrases or habits from each other? Know when the other is hiding something?
Neil: Matt and I have a special relationship where we finish each other’s –
Matt: – sentences.
Neil: Please don’t interrupt me.
Lol for real tho, Neil can predict Matt’s speech patterns and behaviors pretty well. He’s always been observant – living in an abusive household and on the run does that to a person – and he sometimes finishes Matt’s sentences because he notices that it’s things like this thatsends Matt over the moon. Matt (and Nicky) are the biggest memes and Neil, through exposure, picks up on a few slangs and vine jokes from him. You’ll find Neil saying, “I won’t hesitate, bitch” or “Then perish” with the most blank expression and Matt will crack the fuck up. Sometimes Neil won’t get all the references, but you know how even when you don’t really get a joke you’ll pretend you do and then you’ll probably google that shit up when you’re alone? That’s what Neil does, all the time, and that really helps when Matt starts quoting a vine or movie line and Neil can actually finish it. Matt isn’t too good at lying. This, coupled with Neil’s expertise in reading certain aspects of people’s behavior, makes it almost impossible to hide anything from Neil. But he doesn’t have a reason to, anyway. He considers Neil to be his best friend and he Neil’s so you can back off right now Kevin and he’d talk to him about his problems if he has any and if Neil is okay with it. (And Neil is always okay with it, because he has Matt’s back, just as Matt has his). Neil, though. Oh boy. He’s good at keeping secrets and lying, if the 3 books aren’t enough of an indication. He keeps his promise to stop lying to his family though, but habits die hard, man. Sometimes he’ll unconsciously hide things from Matt and Matt will sort of notice that there’s something going on but he will never push Neil to talk about it. He’ll just let him know that he’d always be there for him if he ever wants someone to talk to.
41. Are they party-goers? What are they like when they’re drunk? Does it happen often?
Matt is a party-goer (parties with his teammates, with other jocks, etc), and Neil – not really. He enjoys partying with the Foxes, especially if it’s after-game celebrations and holiday get-togethers, and he’ll enjoy a night out at Eden’s, but he’s not exactly the life of the party. He likes to observe, and maybe sometimes he’ll dance when Dan or Matt drags him to the floor. Matt is a happy drunk and he likes to hug and cuddle with whomever he can reach (that is to say, his girlfriend and the rest of his friends) and he’s a Great hugger. Contrary to popular consensus, I believe that Neil isn’t a lightweight. He’s not on Andrew’s level of course, but his tolerance isn’t anything to laugh at either. (People forget that he’s used to drinking on the run, when he has wounds to be tended to, and that he drank a few shots at the cabin and didn’t show any effects at all – he just commented on “the harsh taste” but not anything else). He’ll join his friends for a couple of drinks, but I don’t think he’ll ever really like the taste of alcohol. Nicky thinks it’s sad that he won’t ever find out what kind of drunk Neil is, but at least he has bofa Matt’s beefy arms wrapped around him 😉
Nothing but My Aching Soul 