Puzzle Pieces (get under my skin and don’t let me go)

dancyon:

Would you look at that, I finally finished my pitch hit @aftgexchange gift for @bluetheking who asked for andreil? And outsider perspective on them? I did my best darling, but  I know I am terribly late and this is all my still jet-lagged mess of a brain managed to put together, I didn’t want to make you wait longer. 

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The year Andrew goes pro, he feels Neil’s
absence at his side like a gaping wound, wide open and raw. He’s used to seeing
him in his peripheral vision, a heartbeat away from his fingertips.

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He won’t say it, words stuck somewhere in his
throat, choking him, but he thinks Neil can see it in his tense shoulders, in
the frowning corner of his downturned mouth every time they Skype.

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He wonders, sometimes, how they reached this
point. How he let someone learn the crooks and corners of his soul.

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But then again, this is Neil. Neil could see
through him like an arrow.

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