Somehow Neil ends up at the Foxhole Court instead.
Wymack doesn't look surprised to see him, but he makes Neil swear he won't fail any classes before he'll loan Neil games to watch.
Day: Monday, April 22nd / 23rd*
Time: 11:35 AM EST
*Due to the Leap Year, I have opted to highlight the day rather than the date to keep the events in occurrence to the 2007 year. I will continue to mark both days accordingly.
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aftg fic where everything is the same but the story is just told through bee’s therapy notes. just imagine the jump between sessions.
session 36: andrew is doing well this week, spending time with family and kevin, feeling needed. slight paranoia regarding new recruit, spoke about coping mechanisms when feeling as if loved ones are threatened. discussed the upcoming school year.
session 37: andrew has drugged the new recruit and interrogated him. tells me they’ve come to an understanding. no signs of remorse. discussed possible legal consequences of actions and how we could have addressed that more healthily. scheduling in for extra sessions to work on impulse control.
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Jean: I don't believe in therapy and some random shrink lady isn't gonna help.
*a few moments later after he remembers that Betsy is therapist to Neil, Kevin and Andrew*
Jean: well I still don't believe in therapy but I low key respect her because no one else can deal with those difficult personalities and not go insane
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Once the foxes become more comfortable with each other, they begin to nag. Mostly little things, usually humorous things. They nag on Nicky for being too forward sometimes. They nag on Neil for his horrible life habits. They nag on Dan for her mother henning. They nag on Kevin for everything. It's fun, it's what families do. They all just pick on each other for fun.
It takes a little longer for them to feel comfortable nagging Andrew though, which, is understandable, but one of the first things they start picking on him for is his lack of communication in general. He NEVER talks. They just want him to participate sometimes.
Renee and Neil find this funny because Andrew talks A LOT just not around the foxes. He's not comfortable.
See, Andrew is fucking weird. Everyone knows this, but the foxes think he's weird in a “mysterious, murder you in your sleep, was totally the kid everyone thought was going to shoot up the school” kind of weird.
Andrew is not that kind of weird. He's a different breed entirely. He plans out how he'd survive the apocalypse, any of them. He is constantly fighting back the most wild intrusive thoughts. He is 24/7 existential crisis. His head is a wild fucking place.
But he is trying. Making progress. Trying to be more open and approachable, as Bee says. So he talks. Out Loud.
And the foxes hate him.
In the most monotonous voice ever
“Do you ever feel like your bones are dirty? Like, I could totally strip my meat suit and just give my ribs a good bleaching.”
“If that light fell out of the ceiling it would kill at least three of you and seriously injure the rest of us.”
“Nothing is stopping me from buying five ice cream flavors at once, but I'm learning self-control and Bee would be disappointed.”
“Currently having a manic episode. Should I A.) call Bee, tell her I'm not doing too great, and talk about my symptoms and how to best cope? B.) find the nearest mall and spend every dime I have in less than thirty minutes. Or C.) go apeshit and try to fight anyone and everyone who looks at me in a less-than-kind way. Children included.
*stage whisper* there's a secret fourth option but I'm saving it for later ;) (pronounced Semicolon left facing open parentheses. Yes he says this out loud)”
disappears for less than five minutes and comes back with three furrbies and a corndog, one that is obviously not from the mall's food court.
He's so fucking weird. Like, weirder than Neil, and it's awful (so good dude, the foxes eat it up)
And it's not the manic Andrew on meds. It's just Andrew. He's still Andrew. He's still quiet most of the time and he is still grumpy and apathetic, but he's also comfortable enoughto just blurt random shit out and have fun watching everyone figure out how to respond. He's found safety in his new family and he can openly be who he is without fear of judgment or rejection. He's happy in a way he's never felt nor ever thought he'd get to experience. He's just Andrew.
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Do you think the adults ever looked at neil and andrew and just remarked about how young they look? 18 and 19 at the beginning of the books. they’re like Babies compared to them.
Like imagine betsy listening to andrew tell her about how he feels responsible for the safety of his family. and he’s just. so so young to have this much weight on his shoulders.
And abby tracking neil’s scars with her eyes. sure she’s seen a lot while working with the foxes, but this… not to mention wymack picking neil up from the airport and noticing how small he is when he’s cradling his broken body in his arms. how he has more scars and bruises than unblemished skin
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I'm sorry but the comedic potential of Betsy not knowing Exy really needs to be explored like:
Neil, talking his teammates and what they are working on instead of himself: Kevin keeps rebounding to himself to show me that I need to step up my game but-
Betsy, who didn't even know there was a step limit, let alone that you could bypass it by rebounding the ball off to yourself: yes, of course, go on.
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Aaron and Andrew cancel their Wednesday session with Dobson to come to practice on time.
Day: Wednesday, April 24th / 25th*
Time: 2:45 PM EST
*Due to the Leap Year, I have opted to highlight the day rather than the date to keep the events in occurrence to the 2007 year. I will continue to mark both days accordingly.
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OK I had this in the tags of a different post but it needs its own
Andrew and Wymack get tipsy together on Wymack's lumpy couch. They do this once in awhile to commiserate on Neil and Kevin and life in general. It's cathartic and they're assholes to each other and about the foxes and complain a lot and if feels kinda like the opposite of therapy but is surprisingly helpful for both of them.
And one time, Wymack confesses that one time he, Abby, and Betsy got drunk together and got a little Silly. Something that you can't do too often after a certain age but the rarity of it makes it all the better. We're talking ordering deliver from two different places by accident. Bad karaoke into Abby's TV remote. Using an entire box of bandaids on each other because why??. And Wymack, wobbling a little and smiling in a way he doesn't often but is infectious in their inebriated state, shows Andrew a shaky cellphone video of Betsy with 6 bandaids on her face, holding her phone close up to her face slurring out "did- did'jyou know... you c'n adopt an adult in south crarolinna? I'm gonna.... I'm gonna adopt that little blonde punk"
Andrew chokes on his next sip and is so so lucky to still be in the euphoric stage of drinking bc if he were in any other mindset that would have cracked him in two
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