pipedream:

DUDE DUDE DUDE THIS IS MY SHIT OKAY 

• the obsession starts on the roof
• neil is looking up at the stars and realises that during his life on the run, he hasn’t had time to learn any of the names of the stars, so he points to a cluster and asks andrew if he knows if it has a name
• andrew, who read a book about it once for class and retained everything answers: “that’s cygnus”
• “huh. and what’s that one then?”
• “ursa minor”
• and neil is just fascinated because he’s never really stopped to think about it and these shiny things are literally fucking huge glowing plasma-balls
• space is badass and neil can appreciate 
• so he reads up on constellations and when they go up to the roof, neil will just sit there and mutter under his breath all the constellations he can see
• (andrew tells himself it’s not strangely endearing)
• eventually neil becomes as bad as kevin is with history facts
• “hey andrew, do you know that we’re on a collision course with andromeda? andrew, it’s travelling towards us at 250,000 miles an hour” “go the fuck to sleep, neil.”
• “if we were astronauts we wouldn’t be so small, do you know astronauts can grow 3% taller in space?”
• “black holes man. fuck black holes.”
• neil has google alerts on for meteor showers bc ?? it’s literally flaming space rocks giving you a free lights show who doesn’t want to see that
• we don’t kiss our boyfriends under the stars, we kiss them under meteor showers like men
• neil definitely has a hard on for the aurora borealis and he definitely pesters andrew to drive them to spots where they’re most likely to see it 
• andrew gets neil a telescope for christmas like a really fucking expensive one but ofc it means nothing 
• “you’re straining your eyesight without it and you look stupid in glasses.”
• “i look hot in glasses”
• “just take the gift and shut up.”