Aaron letting himself collapse on the floor after an intense footwork practice session where Kevin breathed down everyone’s necks so they would be perfect for finals.
His lungs are on fire, his legs have the consistency of jelly left in the sun for too long, and he is exhausted from all the assignments and tests he has had to work on and study for. As soon as Wymack whistles the end of practice, he tosses his helmet away, falls to his knees first, then willingly lets gravity pull him down until he’s sprawling on his back. He doesn’t care one bit. He’s just tired. He hears footsteps coming his way.
Matt appears from above him, looming high, and looking just as rough as he is. “You good buddy?” he asks. They’ve gotten closer ever since Aaron switched dorms with Neil. Aaron nods silently.
Matt stretches his hand outfor Aaron to take but he shakes his head. “The floor is great right now,” Aaron wheezes.
Matt snorts. Then he does something Aaron didn’t see coming. He crouches and lets himself lay down next to him. “Huh,” Matt says after a beat. “The floor is great right now indeed.”
Aaron stares at him, wondering what’s going on.
Before he can figure it out, Nicky sprawls on Matt’s other side. “Goddammit, I’m fucking parched,” his cousin says through ragged breaths. “Are we having a floor party? Why wasn’t I invited?”
“You just invited yourself,” Aaron answers. There is no heat in his voice.
“Oh Maaatt,” Dan’s voice comes from somewhere on Aaron’s left. She flops down on top of her boyfriend. “I can’t stand up anymore. Day is gonna be the end of me.”
“He’s gonna be the end of us,” Nicky cries dramatically.
“You should thank him. Erik is gonna love those thick thighs,” Matt smiles.
“Got anything you want to admit to the general public, Boyd?” Nicky fires back, playful grin on his lips.
“Keep your flirting away from here,” Aaron groans.
And then the bane of his existence appears in his field of vision, Andrew silent by his side. “You flirt with Katelyn all day long, that’s rich of you to say.”
“Fuck off, Josten.”
“Can’t face the truth?”
“I wasn’t talking to you.” Aaron cannot add anything else as a full water bottle lands on his chest.
“Drink,” Andrew commands quietly Aaron grumbles. He opens the bottle. But he freezes. Because Andrew sits down next to him and tugs Neil down on the floor with him. The redhead willingly lets him and soon enough, half the team is on the floor surrounding Aaron.
Renee, who until then had been helping Allison clean up the court, calls Kevin to join them. It takes a lot of convincing before he joins them too, but eventually all the Foxes are there in a circle. Aaron ignores the feeling in his chest. He ignores the fact that despite thinking he would always be alone, he now has a family, no matter how dysfunctional. He won’t admit it out loud—not yet at least—but he is grateful for every single one of them.
Even Neil, no matter how hard he denies it.
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Oops...
Hey Gang!! It’s taken me so long to write #64 from This List that I hadn’t realised how long it had gotten...
I checked the word count for the first time in a while and it’s up to 11.7k, and I have yet to finish😬
When I get a chance I’ll be editing the first 7k or so, and releasing it in two parts!!
That will come Sunday/Monday I’d imagine, so look outfor that!!
To help you out, here’s another sneak peek:
“I don’t like that they’re here, I left for a reason,-”
His voice loses it’s righteous anger and instead goes soft and loving:
“-and that reason, was to live a nightmare, terror, tyrant free life with my beautiful wife and our wonderful son. I don’t intend to ever let them take that from me, and I certainly don’t intend to let them stay longer than necessary. Once they leave, we’ll have to move, find another place to live.”
Freya seems soft and receptive at first, her smile audible in her hum, but she quickly huffs and tuts and responds:
“Come on, Merlin, really? It’s not as if Arthur is going to get back to Camelot only to send an army after us, we jut saved his wife’s brother.”
There’s another pause, and though the knights can hope that Merlin is thinking over and carefully considering her point, their hopes are, once again, dashed, when he opens in mouth maybe a minute later. His voice is quiet but strained, though over its strain it’s brushed in the confidence of a man who has never, at least on this particular subject, been proven wrong:
“You don’t know Arthur like I do.”
~
BIG OOF
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Is there any hobbies that you like to do that none of us ( your followers ) know what it is?
I think I've been pretty transparent regarding my hobbies. I don't think I've not revealed any. Generally;
Sonic and collecting Sonic merch
Cats and attending Cat shows
Writing for fansite(s)
Reading
Bloggin' on here :P
Going outfor walks, health permitting.
Gaming. Since 1990!
Making pixel art.
Eating.
Sure there's more but I'm somewhat mind-fogged and can't recall right now.
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Crowley: Angel! This is the Supreme Archangel of all Heaven, your former boss who tried very hard to cast you into hellfi reand destroy you. He's not our friend.
Aziraphale: I don't think he really has any friends.
Crowley: Exactly.
Aziraphale: Yes, exactly.
Crowley: What does your exactly mean, exactly? I feel like your exactly and my exactly are different exactlies.
Aziraphale: He doesn't have any friends so he needs us.
Crowley: What I need is for him is to be nowhere near me and the precious peaceful fragile existence that I have carved outfor myself here.
- Good Omens – Season 2 Episode 1
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