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palmettofoxden:

Consider: An interviewer asks Andrew and one of his teammates about some of the players on the other team and when asked about Neil, Andrew’s teammate says “Neil Josten is married to exy” and Andrew immediately interrupts “No. My name’s Andrew, not exy.”

And that’s how the public and Andrew’s team find out about Andrew and Neil and how everyone who already knew about them finds out they’re married.

The interviewer says “Hold on a second, you’re married to Neil Josten?” And Andrew says “I better be or that ceremony was an even bigger waste of time than I thought it was.” Andrew completely ignores any further questions.

humongousvoidbear:

Things Neil Josten likes about Andrew Minyard that he would die get stabbed before admitting:

  • When Andrew leans in first to kiss him. Oh boy oh boy it’s dangerous how much Neil likes that. How much Neil treasures the trust which Andrew Minyard has placed in him to do something like that.
  • Andrew’s obsession with everything sweet. It’s the one part of him that is so completely unexpected, so not Andrew, the boy who smokes cigarettes like drinking water, the boy who buys Maseratis when he’s fucking nineteen. He would kill for chocolate ice cream.
  • The hand on his neck whenever he’s dying inside.
  • The back which he can lean against when everything else is collapsing.
  • The one constant thing in his runaway life. No matter where he goes, how far he goes he knows Andrew would be there for him. Even if it was just to make sure he doesn’t get himself killed.
  • Andrew’s neck. Neil finds it the most vulnerable part of Andrew’s body and being allowed to kiss it?? That’s another level of dbjdfhydu he can’t handle.
  • The percentage. Everytime he adds another number, everytime it increases Neil feels something he had never dared to hope for.
  • The honesty. He could be unapologetically honest to Andrew without giving a second thought as to what he would think. And for a man who’s lived a lie for most of his life? This is excelsior.
  • The fact that Andrew is three whole inches shorter than Neil.
  • His broad shoulders.
  • “I hate you but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t blow you.” Don’t fucking tell me Neil doesn’t think bout that every damn day.
  • Everytime Andrew blows cigarette smoke in his face he feels like smiling. How the smell of smoke and ash which used to remind him of his mother now reminds him of the man he shares a house with.
  • How much Andrew threatens him. It’s a daily thing. Neil could say, “I’m going running.” And Andrew would say, “If you get hit by a car, it’s my fault.”
  • The fact that Andrew finds him interesting.
  • Stay.

((send me prompts!))

((Andrew’s version))

humongousvoidbear:

Things Andrew Minyard likes about Neil Josten that he would literally die before admitting:

  • His hands. Andrew would never ever not in a billion fucking years say he likes Neil’s long fingers which look like they are made for playing the piano. Would never tell anyone how unafraid he is of those hands coming close to him because he knows to his very core Neil would never do anything Andrew didn’t want him to do.
  • Neil’s scars. Not in a gross way. They just remind him that Neil has gone through so much, has survived so much and is still a constant annoyance in Andrew’s life. He’s not going anywhere, and as much as Andrew hates that, how can he really hate that?
  • The time when Neil refused to go for Exy practice on Andrew’s birthday, even after Kevin almost killed him.
  • Neil’s hair. How wavy they are. How they are an anchor when Andrew feels like he’s about to drown and never resurface.
  • Their back and forth bickering. It’s another stupid, pointless reason to wake up in the morning.
  • The way Neil always closes his eyes before kissing Andrew, as if he’s living a dream.
  • The way Neil looks while sleeping. Thinking of nothing, his blue irises visible even when his eyes are shut.
  • Neck kisses.
  • The way he can tell Neil anything and Neil would accept it. Like fuck, he could probably tell Neil “I killed someone cos they cut in front of me in the ice cream line.” And he knows Neil would answer, “I hope you hid the body well.”
  • The shared cigarettes. Andrew would never be with someone who detested the smell of smoke.
  • Neil’s biceps and calf muscles. Need I say more?
  • He could listen to Neil talk all day. Andrew suspects it’s why he hasn’t buried a knife in Neil’s gut yet, just cos he likes listening to Neil.
  • As much as he liked the secrets game, he enjoys everything being said even more. Neil knows almost every inch of Andrew’s life, but he didn’t flinch. Didn’t run away from the “monster” Andrew thinks he is.
  • Neil’s mouth. Not that way psshtt who am I kidding totally that way The mouth which has gotten him in trouble more times than he can count. The mouth which can strip you off everything with just a word.
  • “Kevin and I talk about your intricate and endless daddy issues all the time.”. Trust me no one enjoyed that more than Andrew.
  • “It’s always yes with you.”

((Neil’s version))

sirfluffkins:

casual andreil touches:

  • Sitting on a couch, leaning against each others backs and reading or watching exy
  • Neil using Andrew’s shoulder as support while inspecting his shoes
  • Andrew putting a hand on the back of Neil’s neck when they standing at a crowded bar
  • Neil hooking his fingers in to Andrew’s hoodie to get his attention
  • Andrew running his hand over the small of Neil’s back when he’s walking past
  • Forehead touches to check each other’s temperature
  • falling asleep with their fingers intertwined between them
  • Neil softly fixing Andrew’s bed hair
  • Andrew playing with Neil’s fingers when he’s bored

palmettofoxden:

The Foxes come up with a new ‘assume things about Neil’ game where they take turns and try to earn a point by guessing something true about Neil that they don’t already know.

  • The game comes up at random times
  • And the team does him the courtesy of keeping their assumptions non-sexual because they like having him actually answer
  • Neil plays along every time because he wants the Foxes to know him and he doesn’t like to hide things from them anymore
  • Plus, he loves finding out how well Andrew knows him
  • Andrew is the best at the game
  • Kevin’s also pretty good at it
  • He’s not quite at Andrew’s skill level, but he is much better than everyone other than Andrew
  • Nicky gets very disappointed when he is wrong
  • He gets personally offended over it and insists he and Neil need to spend more quality time together
  • Matt is thrilled any time that he guesses something right
  • Dan mostly guesses tame things, but every once in a while she’ll say something a little riskier
  • Aaron’s guesses tend to be baiting to see how fucked up Neil’s life really was with things like “Neil Josten has been shot.”
  • And Neil ignores the looks he gets as he says “True.”
  • On Andrew’s turn, he says “Neil Josten has never studied for a single test in his life.”
  • Neil says “True.”
  • On Renee’s turn, she says “Neil’s favourite colour is orange.”
  • “True.”
  • Neil can practically hear Andrew thinking how pathetic it is to base his favourite colour off of their team colour
  • When it’s her turn, Allison stares Neil down and says “Neil Josten has never kissed a girl.”
  • Jaws drop as Neil calmly says “Wrong.”
  • Nicky’s turn is next and he’s sure he’s getting an easy point as he says “Neil Josten has only ever kissed one girl.”
  • “Wrong.”
  • Neil is aware of Andrew’s eyes on him and the fact that he’s going to have to explain some of the blanks between what he’s said and what that sounds like later

vaasmontefuckyou:

vaasmontefuckyou:

Please,,, someone do a tfc ghost adventures au……

  • “My name is Kevin Day. I never believed in ghosts until I came face to face with one.”
  • Renee as their psychic: “I feel lots of bad energy here. It’s a boy. He doesn’t want us here. He doesn’t like you in particular.” Points at Aaron
  • Kevin: “great, Aaron you will be in this room alone later and try to get attacked or something”
  • The ghost is Neil
  • He fucks with them a lot. Especially Aaron and Kevin who is just like Zak in Ghost Adventures “HEY YOU FUCKING COWARD GHOST IF YOU’RE HERE LET US KNOW”
  • Neil throws stuff at them
  • Andrew can see ghosts actually
  • No one knows because “well no one asked”
  • It’s just as stupid as the show but Andrew and Neil fall in love as always
  • Nicky’s approach is usually: “if you’re here and want us to leave say so by harming Seth”
  • Anyway Aaron gets left behind in the basement which is supposed to be “one of the most active places in the house”
  • (they are in the Wesninski residence where rumor says Nathan Wesninski killed over 50 people, including his own son before getting finally arrested a few years ago)
  • Aaron hates it but he curses at the ghost that doesn’t like him anyway
  • “You know what ghost? I don’t like you either. Fuck you”
  • Neil scares the shit out of Aaron who’s fucking out of this shit like “nope I am done here fuck Kevin and fuck this stupid show”
  • Neil just laughs to himself because these ghost hunters are always the same idiots like they asked for this ok
  • “You are really childish” a voice says then and actually scares the shit out of Neil
  • It’s Andrew
  • Neil thinks “asshole” and wants to pass through Andrew to give him some bad chills and some very negative energy
  • Andrew: “don’t even fucking think about it”
  • That’s how Neil learns Andrew can actually see him
  • So when the Foxes return a few nights later and Kevin wants to send Aaron back into the basement because he invoked the strongest response they had ever seen
  • Neil makes a joke out of leaving a mysterious message on a dusty mirror that just reads “send the cute one”
  • Nicky’s immediately like “he wants me!!”
  • They start to argue among each other who is actually meant
  • In a crystal clear, not even remotely ghostly, voice Neil says then: “Andrew. Send Andrew ok”
  • Everyone loses their shit

agapantoblu:

stellamai:

vvorkangelica:

headcanon eden’s twilight is actually a gay club and neil just doesn’t notice because 1) he doesn’t swing and 2) most of the time he’s there he’s pretty preoccupied

Oh my god imagine Andrew dragging Aaron and Kevin to a gay club. And everyone just thinks it’s for Nicky’s benefit, especially after the “incident” with Andrew beating up those four guys, so they don’t say anything. Nicky still has no idea about Andrew and Roland. He just thinks Andrew disappears outside to smoke when he’s not at the table drinking because they’re in a gay club. He doesn’t think it’s Andrew’s scene in more ways than one.

Also, Neil totally gets hit on by a ton of people and they barely even get two words out before they’re frightened away by Andrew’s glare. He doesn’t notice a thing.

Reason 3 Neil never notices: when he finally get to Eden’s without being “pretty preoccupied” he’s already realized that he swings in one direction alone, which is Andrew’s, so he spends his time staring at him and doesn’t pay any attention to all the rest.

(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

home sweet home; andreil

winterblues:

  • I can’t help but think a lot about Neil and Andrew just doing domestic, mundane, couple things.
  • Neil and Andrew at the grocery store. Neil noticing Andrew’s stocking up on all the sugary foods and beverages he can get his hands on, so he wanders off to the veggies and health food aisles to make sure Andrew balances his diet. “No more ice cream breakfasts, okay?” Neil says, when Andrew just shoots him a blank stare, Neil shrugs. “Don’t look at me like that, I’m just trying to keep your inevitable risk of diabetes at bay.” Andrew barely blinks. “You’re diabetes,” he mumbles. At this, Neil breaks into a small, slightly teasing smile, “Besides, I want you to cook for me.” “And I want you to shut up,” Andrew replies, dryly. “I guess neither of us are going to get what we want.” Despite this, slowly, steadily, Andrew does start improving his eating habits, and when he realizes that Neil is a disaster with an electric lighter after he almost burns down their kitchen twice, Andrew begins cooking for him on the regular. Neil always ends up staring at him while he cooks, and Andrew pretends like it doesn’t affect him, like it doesn’t make him hyperaware of his every move. Bee suggests new recipes to him every weekend, and Andrew begins to cook so surprisingly often that Neil would never dare say it aloud, but he swears that Andrew might actually be enjoying it.
  • Neil gives Andrew a shoulder massage on the really bad days and distracts his mind with talks of the latest additions to the Fox lineup and how he thinks they need to up their game if they want to succeed. This is new. This feels new. Andrew is not used to this sort of thing and has trouble at first, tensing up against Neil’s touch almost immediately, and so Neil knows to be extra careful. This is alien territory for both of them because Neil has never known how to be gentle and Andrew has never known gentleness, but it turns out that Neil’s really good with his hands. Eventually, Andrew leans his head back against Neil’s stomach as he kneads the tension out of his muscles and just lets go. It’s difficult at first, because the last time Andrew allowed himself to be this defenseless, this bodily loose and relaxed… No. This was different. This was Neil. Neil would cross himself out a thousand times over at even the mere idea of hurting him. He was okay. He was… He was safe. After giving him a massage, Neil leans in to kiss Andrew’s neck, but before he has the chance, Andrew’s already flipped him over and straddling him, “Yes or no?” he mumbles gruffly, but Neil’s already choking out a hoarse, breathless fuck yes as Andrew runs his hands up his arms and entwines their fingers before entrapping him under his body with a vehement, sealing kiss that leaves them both gasping for breath. 
  • Andrew falling ill with the flu and insisting that he doesn’t get sick, even as he’s coughing up his lungs and running a high fever. Neil doesn’t buy into his bullshit for one second and insists on dragging him to the doctor’s office. That’s when Andrew quietly admits his loathing of doctors, stemming from a general distrust of society and never having been to one before. Whenever he got sick before, he would just take care of it on his own. And then he had Abby. Neil insists that despite Abby’s qualifications, Andrew needed to go see a real doctor. Neil successfully wears him down and they end up visiting the doctor together. In the waiting room, Andrew is crushing Neil’s hand so tight Neil knows it’s going to leave a bruise. Neil doesn’t care. He managed to convince Andrew to make the trip. That’s all that matters.
  • Whenever the Foxes come to visit them, Andrew cleans out the entire house. Makes sure every surface is scrubbed and not a thing is out of place. He makes them all take their shoes off at the doorstep and warns Nicky he’ll make him bleed if he hoists his legs up on the recently polished coffee table.
  • Andrew and Neil working out together, and Neil once again, being flabbergasted by just how much weight this boy can lift. It feels like some strange metaphor for all of Neil’s baggage he took at face value and handled like a rock. “You’re staring again,” Andrew points out, sitting there in a muscle t-shirt, his skin slick with sweat, his blond tufts pulled back by a thin black bandana, performing a 180kg deadlift like it’s practically nothing. “Yeah,” Neil manages. “Get used to it already.”
  • The two of them getting away for the weekend from everyone and everything. Driving, driving, halting at terribly lit gas stations in the middle of nowhere to buy cigarettes and soda, star-gazing on the roof of the Maserati, Andrew knowing every constellation by heart, Neil gaping at him in quiet, captivated awe. The two of them falling asleep in dingy motel rooms after making messy love. The comfort in the little things and just purely enjoying one another’s existence, one another’s presence. Neil’s head on Andrew’s shoulder, Andrew pressing a kiss to the pulse point of Neil’s throat, Neil fiddling with Andrew’s hair, Andrew shivering when Neil bites promises into his neck, Andrew’s hands underneath Neil’s shirt, killing his scars with his kisses.
  • Listen I could go on forever but I need to STOP.

palmettofoxden:

An incomplete list of the different answers Andrew has given reporters when they have asked why he and his ex-teammate turned rival Neil wear matching armbands:

  • “Kevin’s marking his new exclusive court team with the armbands. So far we’re the only ones picked.”
  • “It only took a few months of knowing him to know he was going to be my mortal enemy, so I marked him with the armbands so everyone would know.”
  • “Neil Josten is a copycat piece of shit with no sense of personal style.”
  • “We’ve been together since university. We secretly live together. We own cats. It’s disgusting.”
  • “The armbands are how Wymack marked the worst troublemakers on his team. Neil was so awful no one managed to rank after him.”
  • “Neil lost a bet and has to wear those armbands for ten years.”
  • “They’re to hide our matching sleeve tattoos from a drunken night his freshman year.”
  • “I forgot about his birthday and had an extra pair lying around so I used them as a shitty present. He’s been wearing them for years. Pathetic.”
  • “What armbands? I have never seen him wear armbands.”
  • “Wymack marked his best players with them. What a shame his own son didn’t earn any. Kevin cried the day Neil got his.”
  • “Which one’s Neil again? Is he that really tall dealer? No? Then who am I thinking of?”
  • “Nicky gave us the same gifts every year because apparently ‘we are impossible to shop for’.”
  • “Wymack marked the players that smoke with armbands ‘as black as our lungs are going to turn’ to try to shame us into quitting.”
  • “They used to be friendship bracelets, but now they mark my burning hatred for him.”
  • “Neil Josten changes his appearance so suddenly and extremely, we had to mark him so we would recognize him when he showed up to practice. I guess he got used to wearing them.”
  • “Neil’s so pale if his arms see direct sunlight, he gets third degree burns. No one knows why. It’s just his arms. Doctors are stumped.”
  • “He stole them from me years ago and wears them at all times to taunt me. And so that I can’t steal them back.”
  • “He hides knives in them. He’s a real danger to himself and everyone around him. I can’t believe no one’s stopped him yet.”

No one fully believes any of the answers and they’re all taken as sarcastic.