Tag: andreil

write that athletic trainer au thx

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au where Neil is a professional exy player and Andrew is the unfortunate son of a bitch athletic trainer in charge of patching him up.

Hate That You Know Me HC

  • most days, Neil begins or ends practice with some sort of injury
  • he’s an absolute glutton for punishment and has a bad habit of talking himself into situations that he can’t get himself out of
  • a fair amount of fights are started by Neil’s mouth, to be sure
  • but there are also a hefty number that are started by his racquet
  • both inside in out of practice, Neil isn’t afraid to high stick a bitch if the card is worth it
  • a good portion of Neil’s time in the stadium is smack inside Andrew’s little room
  • Neil has to take ice baths fairly often because he pushes himself harder than anyone else on the team, and stripping down in front of people isn’t something that Neil does
  • the first time Andrew told him he had to take an ice bath, he immediately bristles. logically, he knows that he can keep some of his clothes on, but it’s hard enough dealing with the stares for the scars that he can’t hide. he’s not really interested in letting it be known that he is a patchwork of ruined, pink skin where it should be a golden tan. shiny and smooth where there should be hair.
  • Andrew immediately senses his tension and leaves the room for a supply run for something Neil doesn’t even really hear him say
  • for the entire duration of his ice bath, no one comes in Andrew’s room
  • it’s not exactly party central to begin with, but there is typically a steady trickle of people coming in to get athletic tape or over the counter painkillers. some of them even come into Andrew’s room for the silence. Andrew doesn’t waste words and if you need five minutes of silence from the rowdy locker and weight rooms, Andrew’s room is where you go.
  • Neil finishes his ice bath and leaves, without seeing Andrew.
  • the clinical way that Andrew deals with Neil, and his growing knowledge of the extent of Neil’s scars, is endlessly fascinating to Neil
  • most people that get a glimpse of his torso when his shirt rides up ask him hundreds of questions
  • all Andrew does is run them over with an intense eye, once, then he never looks at them again
  • Neil hasn’t felt like an actual person in so long
  • they start to have conversations while Andrew is patching him up
  • most of them are about how fucking stupid Neil is and that he is just trying to keep Big Pharma in business by getting busted up every other day
  • Neil might be more interested in Andrew than he’s ever been interested in anyone else before
  • but that is a bitch because he’s never been interested in anyone else like this before
  • Matt encourages him to ask Andrew out, but like, Neil doesn’t even know that he swings at all and doesn’t know how you would tell. how would he even know if Andrew is interested?
  • so he just ignores it. that’s healthy right? because he does it with everything else too
  • Neil is considering googling “how to ask out your cute AT” when he gets high sticked in the face and gets a bloody nose.
  • he doesn’t think it’s broken, but noses always bleed like a bitch so coach wants him off the court and he finds himself in Andrew’s little room
  • Andrew is wrapping an ankle when he catches sight of Neil
  • “don’t get your blood on the floor, I literally just mopped, and you know how much I hate mopping”
  • “was that more or less than you hated me?”
  • “less”
  • Neil grinned and exposed a set of bloody teeth to Andrew
  • Andrew huffed and looked up at the woman whose ankle he had finished wrapping, intending to scaring her off, but she just looked between the two as she hopped down off the table
  • and before she walked out the door she turned to Neil, who wasn’t even aware she existed anymore, and said, “one day you’re going to have to tell me how you won Minyard over with a bloody nose”
  • Andrew looked like he was considering double homicide, but the woman was unfazed and continued walking out the door
  • “you like me?”
  • “I hate you.”
  • “does that mean if I asked you out for coffee, you would go?”
  • “you don’t even drink coffee, Neil”
  • “yeah, so? you do.”
  • “I know six different ways to immediately kill you where you stand without you feeling a thing.”
  • “is that a yes?”
  • “…yes.”

minyardx:

pipe dream

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i. touch me someone, i’m too young to feel so numb // ii. there’s a hole in my soul, can you fill it? // iii. this mess was yours, now your mess is mine // iv. i will hold on hope and i won’t let you choke // v. telling me how you’re going to outlive your body // vi. and a sun to maybe dissipate, shadows of the mess you made // vii. all I want is the taste that your lips allow // viii. might be a sinner and i might be a saint // ix. run away with me, lost souls and reverie // x. now hold the one you love in both your hands, apologize for what you did and he will understand

do you think neil and andrew would want to get married someday tho

pipedream:

FJHFH IM SO GLAD U ASKED okay so i know nora said that they don’t but i think she’s Wrong and let me tell u why,

  • nora says andrew and neil don’t believe in love and i can understand andrew holding on to that mentality for a long time but neil?
  • at the start of the books neil said “i don’t believe in family” and by the end of the second book – not the third, the SECOND book – neil calls the foxes his family
  • and that’s because his perception of family changes in front of his very eyes
  • now imagine that lifetime we know he spends with andrew and how his perception of love would change in front of his eyes in the same way
  • neil realises that love can be whatever he wants it to be, which in his case is the keys, the trust, the honesty and the kisses all that jazz
  • love is andrew joseph minyard
  • now on to the actual point of Getting Married
  • rmr how fuckin ready neil was in tkm to have his name become official and irrefutable??
  • the details of his relationship with andrew may be private, but they don’t hide the fact that they have one – it’s a real and tanigble thing they’ve never been ashamed of
  • i truly don’t think neil would be opposed to the idea because it’s something to say that they are officially a unit, just like those papers he signed in baltimore say that neil josten is a real person
  • andrew would see the perks too, mainly tax benefits he can use to fuel his luxury car addiction and being able to see neil in hospital with no setbacks
  • also if it ever came to it, andrew would be the one to ask
  • fight me
  • it would be a throwaway suggestion he’d make over breakfast and they’d be married before dinner
  • matt literally gets on a two-hour flight just to be witness 
    • andrew wanted kevin because he’d make the least fuss, but neil insisted he owed matt for him having neil as the best man at his and dan’s wedding
  • matt arrives at the courthouse in a smart albeit rumpled suit and his hair is surprisingly nice considering he ran all the way over since the taxi wasn’t getting him there fast enough
  • meanwhile andrew and neil are literally just wearing sweats 
    • neil has his team jersey tied around his waist bc andrew said he couldn’t actually wear it for the ceremony, so they compromised
  • they keep the certificate in their bedside drawer and don’t really talk about it again 
  • but if neil slips up every so often and refers to andrew as his husband well then,

Andrew stood in the hallway, hands stuffed inside the front pocket of a dark hoodie. Neil opened the door wider and stepped out of the way. Andrew glanced past him before entering the room.

The King’s Men by Nora Sakavic

Sometimes I wonder how nervous Andrew was as he stood outside Neil’s door with his hands buried in his hoodie, using Kevin’s inability to practice as an excuse to see Neil. It’s a conscious step forward in initiating something with Neil, not just a reaction to something Neil said or did. Andrew is actively going after something he wants for himself, which is well out of his apathetic comfort zone. 

Even if he thinks he can still back out of ‘this’ at any time.

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you’re not a liar, not to him.
there are words that go unsaid,
things you edge around, half-truths.
you might avoid or omit pieces of honesty,
but you’d never outright lie to him.

so you tell him.  you tell him you’ve thought of
pulling him apart, breaking him,
ruining him.
you’ve thought about what it might be
to put him six feet under.
you tell him how you’ve thought of how much you want him dead,
because it’s true, because you have.
because at least if you kill him,
he can’t look at you like he wouldn’t mind.

10% of the time, you let the truth scare you // es
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