Imagine Andrew and Neil saying really ominous stuff just to screw with everyone, but it’s really just stupid shit
Andrew: it’s taken care of.
Matt: WHAT IS TAKEN CARE OF???
Andrew: it
Later learned that he bought ice cream and ate it
Or
Neil: *sprinting towards the foxes while waving his arm* RUN
Kevin: Why!?
Nicky: YOU DONT ASK QUESTIONS WHEN SOMEONE TELLS U TO RUN DIP SHIT
Neil was on a run and wanted the rest of the foxes to join him
Nicky: the moon…it’s so pretty…
Kevin: it really is…
Neil: are you gonna tell them that’s a tortilla you threw at the window
Andrew: nope
A pile of 4-6 gold medals from his closest teammates/friends
scenic shots of his favorite towns/hipster airplane shots
thea in a killer dress as they head out to a fundraising event
spread out display of the classical CDs he keeps in his car
thea and kevin sitting in front of a gym mirror during a cool down
kevin doing amalia’s hair–comb stuck between his teeth as he works on a section
wymack and amalia during a tea party, a crooked tiara complimenting wymack’s small smile and laugh lines
teenage amalia helping abby cook
amalia and kevin at an animal shelter playing with the dog they later adopt
dan and kevin standing next to each other in opposing team shirts when the college team she coaches plays amalia’s
dan and matt wearing huge smiles across the table at brunch
This is the fic that I did for @curlyhairedneil through @tfcfansgive. Hopefully this turned out alright!! I won’t lie, I really super struggled with the prompt, because we all know I’m not one for fluff writing, but this was… admittedly a lot of fun once I finally figured out where I wanted the story to go.
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Neil doesn’t know what to do on a snow day. Not that he considers this much of one. There’s barely a dusting on the ground, hardly enough to even call it snow. It’ll be gone by tomorrow morning, if not later this evening. He doesn’t get it. Classes – canceled. The whole school – shut down. Even Wymack, the betrayer, had called off Exy practice for the day. It’s not that Neil doesn’t get that, regionally, this is a lot of snow. It’s not even an inch, but to people who live here, who make a home in the south east, this is an abomination. Neil’s been here for three years – has called himself a Fox for three years, holy shit – and they’ve never called a snow day before. It’s unprecedented.
And yet all Neil can see when he looks out the dorm window is a lack of ice and perfect running conditions.
“We’re not going out there,” Andrew says from his spot on one of the bean bags. Kevin is at his desk doing homework. He’s been grumbling for the past fifteen minutes about stubborn coaches and unreasonable fathers. Apparently, not even Kevin could win Wymack over. The court is closed to them.
- Andrew Minyard: “Fuck Stickball and fuck Josten”
- Just to piss Kevin off. Poor Day’s brain fried for a second and he went “Wait, are you changing sport?! What the fuck, Andrew! What is this stickball?! What did they promise you?!” Wymack had to be the one to tell him.
- Neil smiled at the quote as if he was looking at a little fluffy kitten; he got his percentage raised for that.
- Kevin Day: “Be the Queen on your chessboard. Kings never get too far.”
- The poor kid spent weeks polishing his quote and now Foxes spend most of their times after reading it fake-bowing in front of him.
- Jean sends him a picture when Renee shows it to him; it’s just his own face with an arched eyebrow. Kevin answers “Fuck you”, but he smiles seeing Jeremy making faces in the background.
- Neil Josten: “Ohana means family, and family means no one gets abandoned or forgotten – Lilo and Her Weird Alien Dog”
- The upperclassmen cried.
- It took them a week to realize Neil honestly thought the name of the movie was “Lilo and Her Weird Alien Dog” because that’s what Andrew told him.
- Aaron Minyard: “Two chemists go into a restaurant. The first one says -I think I’ll have an H2O.- The second one says -I think I’ll have an H2O too- and he died.”
- he actually wanted to write “Fuck you, Andrew” but Katelyn glared at him until he changed it.
- Andrew gets it, but refuses to laugh on principle.
- Nicky Hemmick: “I’m GGG: Getting Gayer and German”.
- He employed Erik’s help, but the man is a sap and only offered romantic/sentimental quotes, so he had to find something on his own.
- He fought the whole editorial department to have his quote in rainbow colors and he won.
- Danielle Wilds: “I wear steel-ettos to better kick you in the balls.”
- It may or may not be a reference to a certain Raven and a certain banquets and she may or may not take a picture of the quote “@” him on twitter.
- Allison, Matt and Nicky all high five her when they read it.
- Allison Reynolds: “Pretty hurts, steals your money and burns your house.”
- She fucking loves the Wonder Woman movie, so her other option was “Men are unnecessary for pleasure.”
- But after Raven fans trashed her cars she wanted to make a statement, that she could hit back thrice as hard.
- Matt Boyd: “Danielle Wilds, would you make me the honor of taking me as your Proud Trophy Husband?”
- Yup. He honest to God asked her like that. They had actually talked about it already, stuff like “What if I asked you to get married?”, “Now?!”, “No! More dramatically and stuff, but yeah… Would you say yes?”, “Make it more dramatic than Aaron and Katelyn and we have a deal.”
- He brought Dan the yearbook and then knelt when she was distracted reading so when she lifted her eyes there he was, with a ring and blushing to the roots of his hair. Nicky filmed everything.
- Renee Walker: “To be kind and to be helpless are two different matters.”
- Nicky finds it adorable, while Neil and Andrew read it for the threat it is and their smiles are creepy and dark for a moment there. Allison looks proud.
- Jean retweets the picture of the quote and adds “@Alvarez, this is why you don’t fight her”. It’s the first tweet ever in which he “@”s someone and the Trojans are so proud they collectively send Renee flowers.
everyone is posting their entries for @giveyourbacktome-zine so here’s mine
thank you very much for buying the zine!! 💖
tumblr hates big pics, zoom in to admire the fancy shoes i spent way too long crying on
Andrew’s Lot // The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic
I’m not quite happy with how it turned out, cause damn it Neil, what even is your face!!! And I’m still not sure if I like the twins better with shorter or longer hair… And Kevin turned out way to Japanese for a person with no Japanese ancestry what-so-ever (at least I think so?); plus yay to nondescriptive, boring backgrounds!!
who needs them anyway ???how do people even draw?!?!?
Neil is 100% one of those people who will reorganize life just to work around a cat. Andrew thinks he’s an idiot when he crouches on the floor to type at his laptop just because King stole the desk chair, or will somehow find a way to make the bed around the cat instead of simply moving the creature.
However Andrew discovers the opportunity when Neil is still recovering from his appendix being removed and suddenly Neil needs to go for a run. Instead of letting him he grabs one of the cats meowing by the bed and drops it on Neil’s chest and watches the fluffy creature curl up peacefully and begin to purr.
Neil never went for a run.
Matt slammed the doors closed, tugged the handles to make sure the locks caught, and gave Neil a once-over. “Hey,” he said. “Coach made us promise to leave you alone, but are you okay?”
“No,” Neil said, “but I think I will be.”
The King’s Men, chapter 14
I cried more here than anywhere else, yes Neil, you’ll be okay
Nothing but My Aching Soul 