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coldsaturn:

The Foxhole Court – Andrew & Neil – Beautiful Crime

Song: Beautiful Crime by Tamer

thanks to @korakos​ for writing this story  

thanks to @everythingthatmatters for creeping everyone out with the countdown. see you in a few :^ 
thanks to @aionwatha for existing, and also for the feedback on the video xD 

“Today’s sobering “0” had arrived during lunch. Neil didn’t know what to make of it or what to expect next. It was as anticlimactic as it was nerve-wracking.“

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“PILLOW FIGHT!” with andreil ^_^

rainbow-femme:

Neil and Andrew were making their bed together. The foxes had all gone on an end of summer trip together to a set of cabins in the woods, far away from the incessant questions from reporters about their upcoming season.
Neil had tossed a pillow at Andrew, assuming he would catch it and put it back in its place, the two having been a bit careless with them the night before. But instead, it hit him in the chest before falling back to the bed. Andrew looked at it a moment before throwing it back at Neil, hard. He lifted the end in one hand, looking at Andrew. Andrew stared back.
“Don’t start something you can’t finish, Abram.”
“And if I can?”
“Don’t expect mercy.”
“I never have.”
Andrew nodded at this, picked up a pillow of his own, and swung it at Neil’s head.
Neil jumped back, hitting the pillow with his own and knocking it from his hand, getting Andrew hard on the jaw as he went to retrieve it and making him stumble to the side before getting Neil hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him, then under the chin, knocking him onto his back. Andrew tried to pin him but Neil got away, getting to the living room and grabbing a second pillow off the couch.
Andrew had followed, throwing a throw pillow at Neil’s head and slamming him hard in the back as he dodged. Neil swung both of his, getting Andrew in the head and the ribs.
The others watched in silence from the porch. Nicky sighed.
“I thought pillow fights were supposed to be sexy.”
Dan grinned. “They’re too competitive to be sexy.”
“Well at the very least Neil could take his shirt off.”
Neil by this point was balanced on top of the couch, unsteady but using the high ground to his advantage. Andrew was attempting to take him out at the back of the knees. Kevin looked like he was about to be sick.
“Our best goalie and striker are purposely trying to injure each other. The season will be over before it starts.”
“They’ll be fine. The worst that will happen is they break a lamp and Allison loses the security deposit.”
Allison seemed unperturbed by the idea, calling for Neil to take Andrews head off while Matt made bets on who would win.
After another twenty minutes Andrew got Neil pinned to the carpet, using the pillow to hold him down by his chest.
“Yield.”
“Death first.”
“That could be arranged.” He was breathing heavily and his face was blank as ever, but Neil could see by the easy set to his shoulders and the casual hold he had on the pillow that he was enjoying himself.
“Yes or no?”
“To killing you? Always yes.” He leaned down and kissed Neil, reaching up with one hand and closing the blinds, blocking the others view from what he intended to do to Neil next.

Send me a ship and a prompt!

i.
he’s problematic.
you know it, you know it, day one, you know.
he’s trouble in every sense of the word.
he’ll burn your whole world with no remorse
and you probably won’t even mind it, because hey,
it’d be interesting.
(he’d be interesting.)
you’ll watch your world turn to ash, and then
you’ll watch his eyes glow in the dancing flames.

oh, the things he could do to you.
oh, the trouble he could cause you.

ii.
of course, he’s a liar.
they’re all liars.  no one’s honest, of course, of course.
definitely not him, definitely not you.
but he’s more than that, isn’t he?
because trouble doesn’t just lie, trouble
goes to lengths too far to mask the truth. trouble
is burned trails and locked safes and carefully dyed hair.  trouble
is a past desperately buried, gasping, scared.

trouble is a rabbit that knows all too well what it’s like for a fox to pounce on it.
(a fox,
like you.)

iii.
he’s entertaining, right?
there’s always another surprise, always another secret.
there are skeletons under his bed and monsters in his closet,
smoke rising in his wake.
he’s a rabbit, he’s scared, he ought to be.
a man who can’t keep his mouth shut,
a man who doesn’t know when to quit,
a man who has stopped counting risks—

a man like that has a target on his back,
and the bullet’s already been fired.

iv.
he’s dangerous.
he’s too smart, too quick, too willing to walk through fire to save you.
(to save anyone, come on, where’d your perspective go)
when did he become the fox?

he’s a liar but so are you, you know you are
(lying by omission is still lying, where’d your goddamn perspective go)
he’s working his way around all your secrets,
finding all the things you won’t say,
all the things you won’t admit,
not even to yourself.
it’s just twisted enough to feel right.

v.
how long until you’ll admit it to yourself?
you’re not scared of heights, you’re scared of
falling, you’re scared of him.
you’re scared of what this is, of what this means.
you’re scared of the fact that you stick up for him, too, now,
scared of the fact that you’re seeing this sober,
feeling this sober.
scared that maybe this wasn’t a hallucination after all.

you’ve never liked problems.  problems are things to be dealt with,
in any way you see fit.
(you should stop that.  he’s seen enough blood spilled in his life,
are you really going to add to that?)
he is a problem and it scares you.
he is a problem and a liar, but
you’re amused.  you are, you know you are,
you’re amused you’re entertained you’re scared.

you have a list of things that he is.
that is not nothing.

admit it.

90% of the time, you’re lying to yourself // es

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wymack:

here’s the summer camp au that @philosophium and i talked about like a century ago, hope you eNJOY!!

  • Andrew volunteers at a summer camp as a counselor and no one knows about this until Matt has to pick up his little cousin or some shit and
  • “Is that Andrew???”
  • so naturally Matt calls Neil
  • “Did you know about this?????”
  • Neil’s so casual about it like, “Yeah I go there sometimes too.”
  • seriously though Andrew is so good with the kids
  • he loves them because they’re so happy and nothing has tainted them yet
  • he doesn’t flinch away from their touches because they’re kids and they aren’t going to harm him, they just wanna show him their drawings they made for him??
  • Andrew coloring with the kids!!
  • making little flower crowns for them!!!
  • he keeps all of the friendship bracelets they make him!!!!
  • and he wears them all the fucking time!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • all of the children ask about his armbands and Andrew just sort of avoids answering by saying, “Well they match my boyfriend’s armbands.”
  • and the kids are like, “Ohhhhhhhhh.”
  • and then one day Neil shows up and all of the kids jump him screaming, “Hi Andrew’s boyfriend!!” because they know who he is immediately by his armbands
  • the kids run back to Andrew, dragging Neil along with them (Neil is laughing), and the kids are like, “Your boyfriend is so pretty!!”
  • Andrew kinda smirks and looks at Neil when he says, “He is really pretty isn’t he?”
  • Neil fucKING BLUSHES

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andrewjmnyrd:

ten favorite scenes [5/10]

“Andrew looked as he always had, and Neil knew his face as well as he knew every iteration of his own. Despite that, something seemed different. Maybe it was the sunlight streaming through the window, making Andrew’s pale hair shine brighter and his hazel eyes seem almost gold. Whatever it was, it was disorienting.” 

The Foxhole Court Thoughts

kells-coat:

My favorite thing about the All For the Game series is how like… no one understands Andrew. They go on and on about how Andrew just does things that doesn’t make sense and he does unforgivable, senseless, violent things

and then Neil comes along. Neil whose mother beat him to keep him alive, who in her own violent way loved him even if it made him hate her and traumatized him, who couldn’t afford to be gentle even if she had the capacity for it. 

He knows violence as an act of affection and protection when he sees it.

He recognizes that when Andrew kills Tilda, it wasn’t for himself because Andrew accepts violence towards himself as a normal part of his life and he could care less. It was to protect Aaron, his brother. He realizes that when Andrew tells Aaron to “Fuck off” when they first find each other, it wasn’t for any other reason but that Andrew was willing to suffer alone to keep Aaron safe from Drake’s abuse. Andrew goes back with Aaron to Tilda’s home where he knows that he isn’t wanted, that he’s hated even, to protect him from her heavy hand. Aaron, who was only ever hit out of resentment rather than survival, can’t understand that level of caring. 

He can see that when Andrew beats strangers for assaulting his cousin, it wasn’t to protect his own sexual identity, it was to protect his cousin, his family, even if he doesn’t believe in blood relatives. Nicky, who was never hit by his parents (that we know of, at least), whose familial abuse was verbal and psychological and emotional rather than physical, knows that Andrew was protecting him but didn’t see it as anything more than Andrew being territorial, of protecting his things rather than protecting someone he cares about because, let’s be real, Andrew would not tolerate Nicky or protect him if he didn’t care about him; if they had had a deal like Aaron or Kevin or Neil, I’m sure we would have known about it. He may be a complete asshole to Nicky and treated him like he was an outsider, but I don’t remember reading any part of their relationship as some kind of deal. 

If Nicky was anyone else, Andrew would hate him but Nicky moved all the way back from Germany where he was loved and happy and alive to help Andrew and Andrew, although he doesn’t show it, has accepted Nicky as family and cares for him. Andrew cares about Nicky because Nicky cared about him first, after Cass, Nicky was the first one to treat Andrew like he was family and care about him regardless of how broken he was. Yes, he pulls a knife on Nicky when he’s hitting on Neil and although that was probably because of Aaron’s comment about rape or that he himself found Neil attractive, I think part of it was Andrew’s distrust of Neil in the beginning, that he didn’t know if Neil was dangerous. He didn’t want Nicky to get too comfortable around someone he didn’t trust. 

but Neil

Neil sees Andrew’s fathomless rage and loss of control after Baltimore and he sees his threats, and very clear warnings of “Get away from us” as he is supposed to: Andrew, despite what he says, cares about a very few select people and he will do anything and everything to protect them no matter what it costs him, and no matter how much it could hurt him because his own pain is irrelevant. Neil understands why Andrew is violent, he understands that it isn’t senseless, that it isn’t to hurt Neil or Nicky or Aaron or Kevin, it’s to protect. Andrew’s violence makes perfect sense to him and it is the only way he can show how he feels because he’s been so broken so many times that all that is left is a the violence he needs to protect. It isn’t until Neil that Andrew has another way to show that he cares, a new way only for him: kisses and touches and keys, and of course trust. 

Neil understands Andrew which is why he can get Andrew to back down and give ground when he needs to and it’s also why Andrew let’s him, it’s why Andrew let’s him in and why it’s okay to be quasi-intimate with Neil. It’s why they work. For the first time violent affection doesn’t leave scars on Neil’s skin and for the first time someone understands Andrew enough that he doesn’t have to explain himself. 

petalloso:

based on a
conversation i had with @neiljostm about glasses!neil ty kyle for bestowing this blessing upon us 

Neil was
good at hiding things, incredibly so, a product of a chaotic childhood largely
spent doing just that. But Andrew was good at spotting the hidden, especially
when it came to Neil, which is why he is the first to notice Neil’s squinted
eyes and scrunched up nose when he tries to read a banner in the bleachers, and
why he is the first to notice Neil’s reaction time slowing when a ball comes
flying towards him, promptly hitting him in the face.

“I’m fine,”
Neil says, causing a collective groan from his team as he rubs his bruised
forehead. Andrew says nothing, only checks Neil’s forehead with a press of his
fingers, but he takes a mental note of it and does not let the slip up slide
away as nothing, spending the next few days observing all the little tells and
signs that Neil, or at least his vision, was most definitely not fine, and worsening.

Only when
Neil takes three balls to the head at Monday practice does he grudgingly admit
that he might, perhaps, (only a little though, Andrew, it’s not really that
bad), need glasses.

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WRITE ANYTHING ANDREIL! Especially the small gestures they have

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i love these boys i would do anything for them but okay so like

  • they have their own little ways of showing affection that other people don’t really understand.
  • they have some pda, but you wouldn’t know it was happening if you didn’t know them intimately.
  • tiny touches; pinkies overlapping, knees knocking together, andrew adjusting neil’s armbands if they ever slip just a little out of place.
  • the obvious vocal forms of pda; “I hate you”, “yes or no?”, “you’re an idiot”, and the sarcastic and very rare “that’s cute, josten.”
  • (andrew said the cute thing once around nicky on accident, and still hasn’t lived it down over a year later.)
  • Andrew will practically stab you in the hand if you try to take food off of his plate, but he lets neil take whatever he wants. even the last bite.
  • But Neil knows not to try with dessert. That’s all Andrew’s
  • Andrew wears glasses – but only when he’s alone or just with Neil. Neil thinks they’re stupidly hot… So Andrew will wear them when he wants things to happen.
  • It’s no secret that Neil’s favorite spot on Andrew is his neck, but as soon as Andrew feels comfortable enough to let him explore more, Neil’s mouth always finds the spot where his hip dips down to his pelvis.
  • Andrew’s fascinated by Neil’s thighs and butt, fingers always digging in and tongue trailing the freckles that are scattered all over his skin.
  • If they feel like getting close while sleeping, Neil is always the little spoon. It makes him feel safe and protected, and Andrew hasn’t ever gotten comfortable with someone sleeping behind him. They tried it once, and Neil got a black eye. They then decided never again.
  • But usually they’ll sleep face to face, knees layered, toes pressing teasing touches against the back of the other’s calves.
  • Andrew’s feet are always cold though, and Neil can’t stand it. But Andrew pressing them against Neil is the closest he gets to playful teasing, so Neil lets him do it whenever he wants to.
  • Neil presses kisses to Andrew’s neck and temple whenever he can, and thinks it’s a victory whenever Andrew leans even a fraction of an inch closer to his touch.

(bc that court one healed me) Prompt: Imagine how happy Neil is (and Andrew even tho he wouldn’t show it) when they end up on their first team together after the foxes????

badacts:

okay i’m just:

  • them moving in together. neil joins andrew’s team and moves into andrew’s apartment, the one that he helped to choose on a long weekend during the hectic process of andrew’s trade. the one where the agent said, “oh, you brought a friend to look with you?” and neil giving her a glare vicious enough to strip paint
  • neil sells pretty much all the furniture from his old apartment because he doesn’t give a shit about it, but he does bring: a collection of kitchen knives that dan gave him as a ‘welcome-to-graduated-life’ present with the caveat that he didn’t cut himself, a small collection of books given to him by his old neighbour who has a taste for sci-fi and dystopia (he thinks andrew will like them), and a large number of photos from the last several years that he covers half a wall with
  • (he looks at them one by one as he takes them down to pack them, smiling a little with the fondness and nostalgia they evoke)
  • andrew picking him up from the airport, meeting him not inside the terminal but out in the parking lot, where they can stand very close and talk for a little while in something that almost feels like a welcome home to neil
  • andrew doesn’t use all the drawers in his dresser, so neil takes half of them for his stuff. he debates buying a second dresser but writes it off as a waste of time
  • he returns: a pair of sweatpants, a pair of sneakers that andrew left last time he was in town, 2 hoodies with minyard on them, and a shirt that he only theoretically returns, seeing as it goes in with the rest of his own clothes. he’s keeping that one
  • he gets in return: 4 pairs of socks that andrew has somehow stolen from him, and a stretched-out t-shirt that he takes to wearing because andrew’s expression gets intense when it gapes to show his collar bones
  • he likes andrew’s bed, but he brings the sheets he bought himself as spares. the second he’s not looking andrew throws them out because they’re shitty quality and he didn’t live this long to have to sleep with sheets that feel vaguely plastic when you lie on them
  • (neil likes andrew’s bed, and he likes andrew in andrew’s bed, and he likes being with andrew in andrew’s bed. except now it’s their bed. a brief break in unpacking (not a long process anyway) is likely made to take advantage of this fact)
  • andrew hasn’t done anything about the interior paint, which is neutral creams and beiges except for the one bright red wall in the living room. on the day neil moves in, andrew comes into said living room to find neil staring at the red wall with a blank expression. he waits him out until he blinks, breathing just a little too fast, and says, “blue?” 
  • andrew nods (he doesn’t care) (he cares about things that put that expression on neil’s face) (they go paint shopping the next weekend and neil ends up with spatters of it in his hair which stubbornly refuse to wash out)
  • just neil finding room for himself in andrew’s space, which is easy!! because andrew is right there making room for him!!!!
  • neil coming out of the bedroom after putting up all his photos and finding andrew on the couch, on his phone, and just. climbing onto the couch and putting his head in andrew’s lap and saying, “now you’re really going to have to work to get rid of me”
  • and andrew saying, “you know i can’t turn down a challenge”
  • except that his fingers are already in neil’s hair, and neil looks up at him with an expression that says you’re not going to get rid of me, all quirked mouth and eyes like goddamned stars, and fuck him if he isn’t right
  • (renee sends housewarming flowers even though andrew has been living there for a year. neither of them know what to do with flowers but neil is willing to do an internet search to find out)
  • (matt emails a bunch of hideous ‘congratulations on your wedding’ e-cards with flowers and ribbons and wedding rings on that neil never ever shows andrew)
  • their first practice together, the coach introduces neil to the entire team as though he has no idea that neil and andrew are together. he actually does know, but he’s the only one, and he has a bet with the defence coach on how long it’s going to take his players to catch on
  • it’s not like they don’t know who neil josten is. they’ve been speculating about his arrival for weeks, since they heard who their new signing was going to be (andrew hasn’t said a word, only glared at someone who asked what it was like to play with the guy in college. the questions died off after that)
  • neil’s exactly what they expected in practice – fast, cool-eyed and sharp-tongued, shorter in real life than he looks on TV, reckless to the point of self-injury. good. scores on andrew and yells “better luck next time, minyard” like an asshole, and somehow doesn’t get a ball to the helmet
  • he’s not quite like what they expected out of it – sticks close to andrew, smiles more sweetly than someone who talks like that should be able to, defers to the coaches. ‘nice’ isn’t the right word for him, but it’s kind of hard to hate him. except when he opens his mouth
  • their team winning, and neil being the only one to approach andrew (the others have well and truly figured out he doesn’t care for the celebration aspect of winning by now), speaking to him with his head bowed and pulling away with a smile over his face. andrew still looks bored, unless you happen to know him well enough
  • (the others don’t figure it out until neil casually refers to the apartment as ‘ours’, and then doesn’t lie when they ask who he lives with, and also clarifies without pause that they aren’t just roommates in a subtle but unmissable way. they’re insufferable for weeks about it, in a good-natured way)
  • (andrew still considers killing all of them. neil included)
  • a few weeks into cohabitation, round 2: neil looking over his shoulder where he’s standing in front of the open fridge and smiling a little – and then pausing at the expression on andrew’s face. saying, shy, “I like being here”
  • andrew saying, “close the fridge. we have an air conditioner”
  • andrew meaning, i like it too