okokok so yesterday me and @happyminyards started talking abt the foxes sneaking pictures of andreil to put up on the wall at the court and it becomes a Thing. like they start a competition to get the Ultimate photo but no one knows who’s taking what pics because they always put them up when no one else is around and anyway let’s go

so like, andrew and neil right

they’re not exactly what you’d call affectionate

especially in front of other people

but they have these Moments sometimes

where they seem to forget they’re not alone and the foxes get a glimpse of the Tender Touches

like after a particularly rough game where neil is sporting a fresh black eye and is maybe possibly concussed and andrew’s world seems to narrow to neil and he barely acknowledges the other foxes’ existence

bc neil is leaning against his locker, looking tiny in all his gear and his head is lolling like he’s about to collapse at any moment

and andrew just storms over to him, blustering through everyone else and not stopping until the tips of his shoes are touching neil’s and he cradles neil’s face in his hands, turning it slightly to inspect the bruise forming on neil’s cheekbone and around his eye

while neil just watches him blearily, one hand absently lifting up to lock around andrew’s wrist

and andrew’s face is still carefully blank but neil can see the concern there even if the other’s can’t.

andrew whispers, “okay?” in german and neil nods his head slightly, not wanting to dislodge andrew’s hands

and eventually andrew just sighs, tipping his head forward until their foreheads press together

and it’s only a second, just so they can catch their breath, but nicky catches it

the picture is a little blurry around the edges but andrew and neil are both in focus, eyes closed in a rare moment of vulnerability

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ok just bear with me here we know that neil could literally not care less about keeping his phone on or even charged and i imagine this wouldn’t change when nicky finally convinces him to upgrade to an iphone so just picture our boy leaving his phone all over the damn place and the foxes casually picking it up and taking a couple pictures before returning it to him

btw nicky sets a passcode for neil before handing it over (it’s totally 0310 let’s not kid ourselves) but you don’t need to know that to get to the camera so

nicky and matt take such goofy pictures like even when they’re trying to look good they exaggerate it so much that it’s funny

matt also takes a lot of group pics bc his arm is long enough to include himself in them amazing

nicky is the one responsible for most of the pictures of andrew’s group because

kevin literally could not care less for this. does it contribute to their exy skills? then get that phone out of his face nicky god damn it

he only takes a picture of himself once and its at some historical exhibit

aaron also never takes pictures bc he would never do neil the favor(?) of picking up his phone for him but you can bet that katelyn’s snuck in a couple of them when she runs into neil at parties with the vixens

in one picture she’s actually caught aaron laughing at some lame science joke ~~the nerd~~ and neil will never admit it but he thinks it’s the perfect example of why they’re right for each other

but his favorite is the one of aaron being used as an armrest by katelyn (probs taken by another vixen)

allison somehow manages to document anyone’s embarrassment on both her phone and neil’s

matt and dan take the most obnoxiously adorable couple pictures and at least a third of them originated on neil’s phone

renee pops up in group pics with all the girls but usually she ends up taking a lot of candid shots of the team

like she’s just really good at catching that one moment where everyone’s engaged and happy

allison and dan eventually talk her into taking a couple pictures of herself too, usually right after she’s redone her hair

and basically they all do their best to fill neil’s phone with pictures of themselves so that even when they’re not around in person he’ll remember that they’re family and they’ll always be there for him

and they just want to record every happy moment like a tangible wish for these memories to slowly outweigh every one of neil’s bad ones

and then there’s andrew

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Wymack walking in on andreil making out I’m cackling

seairis:

this has probably been in my inbox for over a month D: im the worst

it only happens three times before wymack, through sheer force of will, just chooses to stop walking in

it’s not that he always knows when the two of them are making out it’s that he just one day was like “i’m never walking in on them again” and he hasn’t

but the three times he does are a goddamn shit show

the first time is during summer practices after baltimore

it’s just outside the stadium actually

he’s not walking in he’s walking out

he thought he was safe and that andrew and neil were still in the changeroom

nope

they’re out here, leaned against the maserati, andrew’s hands up the back of neil’s shirt, neil’s finger’s twisted deep in andrew’s hair

wymack just sighs heavily but he figures, he’s seen worse, he averts his gaze and walks to his car a few spots away from andrew’s car

and then neil moans

like loud enough for wymack to hear him??? good god these are his children

he mumbles “i don’t get paid enough for this” and yells back at them “get that away from me or go get forms for the marathon”

neil breaks away to yell “sorry coach” through a smile and wymack thinks he’ll have his peace now but andrew growls and pulls neil back in for another kiss

wymack emails neil confirmation that he signed them both up for the marathon before the hour’s over

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hatehateslove:

It’s years down the line, Andreil are on a date

It’s not a big deal at this point, they go out to dinner whenever they get a chance, still playing for different teams.

They go out for Italian bc it’s Neil’s favorite and/or bc they haven’t had Italian in a long time

Andrew gets five cheese ziti and Neil gets a caesar salad bc he’s a nerd

They’re enjoying their meal, sharing stories of their respective teams, the Foxes, their lives in general

Andrew starts glaring at his plate at one point, stopping what he was saying mid-sentence, “…so I told him -”

Neil raises a brow in confusion, asks, “Everything’s ok?”

Andrew just gestures to his plate where there is one piece of fusilli instead of the ziti that was supposed to be in his plate

Neil scoffs, he reaches a across the table and stabs the offending piece and goes, “I guess you could call it, an – impasta.”

He pops it in his mouth and grins at his pun

Andrew

Andrew snorts in surprise, letting out the smallest laugh, before biting his tongue bc that was…weird

Neil is staring in wonder, bc that was at once, the most adorable and the most heartbreaking sound he’d ever heard. Andrew laughed ~~(it was a different laugh, not one laced with mania, all Andrew and none of the drugs, one Neil hadn’t ever heard~~) at a joke Neil made, but stopped abruptly bc he was so unfamilar with the feeling

Neil swallows his bite, smiling gently, prodding Andrew to continue his story about a fan he ran into at a gas station

Andrew clears his throat and does

But the memory is forever ingrained in both their minds as the first time Andrew truly laughed

hobikenobi:

nicky forces neil to get a new phone and eventually neil makes an instagram and as he starts getting more followers he gets more comfortable with having social media and does 60 second Q&A’s with the team at the fans request

the first one he does is with kevin because of popular demand

neil does it on the court after night practice with kevin and he reads a few questions that exy fans have commented on his previous posts

‘kevin, what are you a queen of besides exy? no I’ll answer this, the answer is nothing, kevin sucks”

“fuck off neil” kevin gets serious and the rest of the video is kevin extensively and aggressively talking about exy until the timer cuts off

he does dan next and it’s the cutest 60 second video out there okay dan is sitting next to matt on the couch while neil is filming

he asks her how it feels to be “the best female exy captain in the NCAA” dan gets the biggest smile on her face and scrunches up her nose before she answers

‘oh that’s sweet, who wants to know? I like this person. It feels great! but it’s stressful at times, there is a lot of sexism in the world but I usually ignore it in favor of focusing on how lucky I am to have such a great team.”

matt’s looking at her while she’s talking and u can literally see the love and admiration in his eyes, fans are crying in the comments about how cute they are, so am I

when he does renee, most of the comments are asking about her hair so she explains how she dilutes the bright colors by mixing them with conditioner to make them more pastel

“but that’s the easy part, root upkeep is the worst tho, I hate touch ups.”

neil vaguely knows what she’s talking about cause he’ll sit in the room when andrew helps her with her hair

nicky manages to tell half his life story in 60 seconds

neil uploads a second video of nicky giving advice to queer kids afraid to come out because of strict and religious parents or unsafe home lives

aaron walks away when neil tries to do his so instead neil uploads a five second video that’s just him zooming in on aaron sitting in a beanbag chair playing video games “aaron’s a dick.”

matt gets asked about his boxing background and he beams at the chance to talk about his mom

“she’s so badass, she taught me everything I know, she could kick anyone’s ass” he points at the camera “she’ll kick your ass. better watch out”

allison gives fashion tips, she also roasts neil for how he dressed when he first joined the team “god u guys should have seen him, fucking awful. nicky and I fixed him up tho, but it took a lot of work cause neil likes to make things difficult”

when neil gets to andrew nobody expects him to actually upload anything but when he does the results are hilarious

neil sits next to andrew with the camera frontfaced so half of neil’s face is in the frame, andrew is curled up on the couch with a pint of ice cream and his glasses on “it’s time for your interview andrew”

andrew just stares at him

“why didn’t you sign with the rav- wait that’s a stupid fucking question, we’re not doing that one. alright. how many times have you and aaron been mistaken for one another?”

andrew stares at the camera in silence

“tragic. next question. how are you so good at blocking goals?

silence

“incredible. what is your honest opinion about kevin day?”

andrew stares for a couple seconds before rolling his eyes and getting up to walk away, neil laughs and nods “I agree”

BONUS: andrew has neil’s phone while they’re on the roof, neil is holding his cigarette and andrew starts filming, pointing the camera so you can only see neil

“hey junkie, it’s your turn to be interviewed” “alright”

“how does it feel to finally have a real home?”

neil smiles softly, but he’s looking at andrew not the camera “like I’m finally living, like I’ve got everything I could ever want”

there’s a short pause before you can faintly hear “285%” and the video cuts off

allyasavedtheday:

ok so me and @happyminyards were talking about neil constantly tweeting quotes from andrew but never saying who the quotes were from and how the media/exy fandom would be going crazy trying to figure out who neil’s dating and now i have Thoughts and anyway let’s go:

because it has already been established neil and andrew have a lot of profound lines and can be romantic fuckers when they want to be

and sometimes neil is so Overcome by the things andrew says to him he needs to yell abt it

but he doesn’t really know how to especially bc they’re both quite private people and they haven’t shared their relationship w the media yet

so he just tweets a line here and there and it’s almost like an outlet

andrew always rolls his eyes or makes a snide comment when he sees the tweets but he never tells neil to stop so neil doesn’t think he minds

besides neil is capital G Gone for andrew so he thinks everything andrew says is hilarious/clever/beautiful and he wants the world to know

and it’s kind of a subtle/pointed way of reminding the foxes andrew isn’t a monster in the early days

anyway

so these quotes range from andrew’s commentary when they’re forced to watch one of nicky’s movie choices:

“I would rather carve the skin from my body with a rusty spoon than watch ten more minutes of this bullshit”

to quiet, inadvertently sweet in their own andrew way, little comments:

“of course I’m up here with you, you’re the only mildly tolerable person within a fifty mile radius”

one day it’s just “173%”

and this keeps happening pretty frequently, usually every couple of days – sometimes twice a day if andrew’s comments are particularly noteworthy

(though lbr as far as neil is concerned everything about andrew is noteworthy always)

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imagine andrew and neil stuck at the top of a roller coaster tho

titforatat:

like most of my hc’s this turned out team centric, and is super freakin long

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Andreil: first time they act like a couple (like subtle touches or anything like that) in front of the other Foxes.

butiwannabeyoursuperhero:

I’m so sorry it took me so long to reply but I’m free now so I can answer all the prompts!

most of the time, neil and andrew are just content with stading next to each other. they leave the heavy make out sessions for one when they’re alone

but this one time, after a particularly difficult game, which they lost, the nine of them are reunited in one of their rooms, trying to confort each other. they all sort of think it’s their fault

it’s the first time they lose a game since neil made that deal with ichirou, so he’s extra stressed about it because for the first time in his entire life he wants to live (all those years on the run he was merely surviving, which wasn’t really living if he compared it to his life now)

so neil’s sitting on the couch and andrew sits down next to him. neil asks ‘yes or no?’ under his breath and andrew answers ‘yes’ expecting a kiss, but all neil does is place his head on andrew’s shoulder, one arm around andrew’s shoulder so he can play with andrew’s hair.

andrew sighs and grabs neil’s other hand in his and starts whispering in his ear every fucking thing he’s going to do to ichirou if he dares touch him ~~(so romantic andrew, so fucking romantic)~~

now, andrew tries to stay awake when he’s so close to neil because he’s afraid of hurting him if he wakes up feeling someone touch him, but it was such a rough game and he’s so fucking tired he ends up falling asleep like that, one hand in neil’s, nei’ls other hand tangled in his hair, neil snoring on his shoulder.

all the foxes are in their own bubble of selfhatred until they hear nicky whispering under his breath an awed ‘holy fucking shit’. they turn to nicky to see him staring wide eyed at andreil. the only thing wider than his eyes is his grin.

the reactions reactions are varied:

nicky has to cover his mouth to stop himself from screaming.

matt is taking pitures from every angle he can get.

renee smiles, content.

allison smiles because she knew all along that they weren’t in it just for sex (because come on, she was in love with seth gordon guys).

dan is just in awe that someone found a gentle side of andrew (she’s in awe that there even is a gentle side to andrew)

aaron pretends to be absolutely disgusted, but he’s sort of happy for andrew.

after the initial shock passes, dan, matt and nicky pay a small fortune to allison and aaron, the only ones who bet that neil and andrew were in a real relationship, not just in for the sex and angry make out sessions.

renee never bet on them because she guessed it was a little rude.

aaron never admits to andrew that he always knew how serious he was about neil.

~~andrew knows anyway. he doesn’t know if he appreciates it or not.~~

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nickyhenmick:

anonymous asked: So in Nora’s extra content she says andreil go on dates to resteraunts/walks on the beach etc, could you maybe right about their first real date?

okay so the first “date” of theirs is while they’re still at palmetto

the food at the dining hall was going to be shit that night and everyone was getting on neil’s nerves and he was gonna lose it if they stayed there so andrew just looked at him and was like “we’re leaving”

neil immediately agrees and texts kevin that they won’t be at night practice

cue “what the fuck neil” text that prompts neil to turn his phone off

they get into the maserati and andrew just drives for a couple hours, headed southeast

the drive alone is enough to relax neil, but then they get into charleston and neil starts to get curious (and a lil excited) about what andrew is planning

they left as soon as they were done with class in the afternoon and there wasn’t much traffic, but the drive was almost three and a half hours, so neil is hungry enough to eat dinner

andrew just glances over at him and maneuvers through the city, eventually turning right onto a street with a bunch of restaurants and saying “pick one”

neil, after all his years on the run, is really really good at knowing instinctively which restaurants are going to be good but not too expensive, so he scans the road before naming one

the place isn’t anything special, it doesn’t stand out among any other american diners, but neil was right and the food is really good

they chat about a little bit of everything: of all the cities neil had been with his mother, charleston was never one of them, so he rambles off some observations about the buildings and the grid of the city that he didn’t realize he had noticed on the drive in

andrew is amused enough to pay attention, and in exchange he recounts a story from high school where nicky dragged him and aaron to charleston for the weekend to try to bond but it didn’t exactly go well

they finish eating but neither of them want to leave yet so they end up wandering the streets

they end up walking on a sidewalk parallel to the beach, and the smell of the salt water surprisingly doesn’t remind neil of his mother, at least, not in a bad way

“have you ever been to the beach? for fun?” neil asks

andrew considers the question as he smokes. “a couple times. cass took me for a day trip once.”

that was more than neil was expecting to get, and he smiles as he looks out over the waves

“i think the last time i went for fun was when i was a kid. maybe 4 or 5 years old? my mom somehow managed to convince my dad that she could take me. i think he sent some security with us, but still.”

“sounds better than the last time you two were at the beach together,” andrew says, partially bc he’s a dick but also because he can tell neil was already thinking about it

neil nods but doesn’t say anything, but the next time there’s a walkway leading down to the sand he turns to take it, stepping out of his shoes to carry them in his hands

behind him he can hear andrew sigh loudly in protest but he follows him down the wooden planks, stopping to remove his shoes as well

they walk up and down the beach, kicking at the sand and occasionally stepping into the waves washing against the shore (and taking breaks to make out since somehow they’re the only people on the beach)

it’s all very cute and gay

eventually the sun has set and both of them are tired enough to know they should leave now if they want to make it back to campus

andrew gets them back to the car much faster than neil could, and neil low key falls asleep in the passenger seat on the drive home

he wakes up when andrew pulls into the parking lot of fox tower, and yawns as he walks inside with andrew

neil asks for permission when they walk through the door to the building, and andrew raises his eyebrows before nodding and neil just takes his hand and holds it as the elevator door opens to take them to the third floor

andrew rolls his eyes but doesn’t let neil’s hand go

they share a bed that night bc neil can’t be bothered to climb into his loft

none of the foxes know where they went, and none of them ever find out, and neil and andrew like it that way. they like that this is their own thing and start doing it more and more frequently, just going to different cities and exploring them for the first time, together

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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