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juicegremlin · 3 months
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Bedroom Hymns | By JuiceGremlin | 8k | E |
Allison Reynolds does not get jealous. Not when she's sober, at least.
Renee takes it upon herself to remedy the situation.
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l-mialamia-l · 9 months
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I posted my second AFTG/Andreil fanfic! It’s a college archery AU, check it out if you’re interested :)
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jeremy-knoxs-on-wood · 3 months
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✨️Master-Post
Aftg:
Fanfiction:
Fanart:
•Andrew Minyard in Goal
•Aaron Minayrd </3
•Yeehaw Andreil
•Andreil Orpheus and Eurydice
•Andrew Vs. Sir
•Little Kevin with Kayleigh
•Aftg Anastasia AU
•Fem!Jerejean
•Fem!Jerejean with makeup
•Kerejean sketch
•Kerejean puddle <3
•Kerejean Hockey!!
•Jerejean
•Renison
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writingpuddle · 1 year
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possibly its cheating to describe a fic you yourself prompted me to write but i still have a fantasy that one day i will write a renison sequel to glencaster lodge. i have so many beautiful scenes planned out for it (and so little time for writing these days 😭). but theres this whole scene i really adore where allison designs a dress for renee (white, with pastel rainbow on the hem, based off a photo allison saw of renee in college) and theyre supposed to go to a fancy gala together but renee just gets very tense and realizes she doesnt want to go mingle with a bunch of rich fashion people, but she feels awful and guilty because allison went to the trouble of designing her the perfect dress. and allison is like fuck that. i didnt make the dress for them, i made it for you, and if all you ever do is wear it in private then i will consider myself priveleged to have ever seen you wear it.
anyway they are very sweet and i stg i will write it one day but for now please just picture old lady renee in a white dress with rainbows on the hem because i love that image so much.
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Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.
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taciturnwrites · 9 months
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Fandoms and Relevant Tags
This is not a complete list of fandoms I am in, nor ones I will/have written fanfiction for, but I would say these are the top ones. Currently I’ve only posted fics for one fandom, but I have ideas and drafts for more fandoms, so please note that there are definitely more that aren’t listed currently!
Fandoms / Ships
Dead Poets Society (anderperry, knarlie, mitts, chrisginny, etc.)
Merlin (merthur, morgwen, knights ships, etc.)
The Sandman (mainly dreamling but open to more)
All For The Game Trilogy (most ships but especially andreil, renison, and dan/matt)
…and many others lol
Important Tags
self-explanatory tags
#taciturn writes / all of my writing
#kw : dps / all my dead poets society fics
#kw : sandman / all my sandman fics
#kw : merlin / all my merlin fics
#kw : aftg / all my foxhole court fics
long- fic tags (everything to do with my longer fics!)
#ifaalll fic / dead poets angst fic | "it feels an awful lot like love"
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aftgficlibrary · 6 years
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Soulmates
Apparently it was meant to be (Note: this post was long so it for now only includes completed fics. Will be updated when others are completed)
last updated: 31 January 2019
Coming Home by wesawbears (T | 1,235 | 1/1)
Kevin, Jean, and Jeremy are all born with two soulmate marks instead of one. It takes them a while to find each other.
Falls by nekojita for ApprenticedMagician (M |  7,002 | 1/1)
Nathaniel ends up at Edgar Allan/the Nest after all, and what helps him through everything (Tetsuji's abusive demands, RIKO, being pushed to his limits to be the best) is often the dreams he has of the young French boy whose name is embellished on his wrist - Jean. The boy whom his mother told him to never mention to anyone, especially his father.
So what happens when that boy ends up at Evermore one day?
A soul mate/Neil/Jean fic for apprenticedmagician on Tumblr for ATFG_Exchange's winter gift exchange.
Your Face by lanalua (T | 1,464 | 1/1)
Each of Andrew's drawings of his soulmate is different: different haircut, hair color, eye color... That can't be good. 
this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart by giucorreias (Not Rated | 483 | 1/1)
it's the small details
I felt your pain when you were gone byElfo98 (G | 3,533 | 1/1)
Another Soulmate AU where Neil and Andrew can feel each other's pain and how the Foxes find out.
Or: my take on the Baltimore incident because I can't seem to get enough of it.
Paint Splatter Freckles and Godly Go Fishby Issylang for quensty (G | 1,115 | 1/1)
"When Jean was younger, much younger, he would sit in his mother’s lap while she traced the sun on his left shoulder blade and sang love songs in soft French. He would stare at the black heart on her wrist, the one that perfectly matched his father’s, and imagine the little girl that shared his sun. When Jeremy was very little his mom and dad would corral him and his older sister into the living room after dinner. With a child in each lap, they would recount the history of soulmates; how Zeus, in fear of their power, had split the people of earth in half, and they were destined to spend the rest of their lives in search for their other half. How, in a moment of kindness, Zeus had marked the pairs, so that they could follow their symbol to their other half." Just a cute, short Jerejean Soul mate au. 
Marked by beautifulmagick (G | 1,164 | 1/1)
Neil Josten's soulmate mark is on his shoulder. Andrew can never forget that.
Empty Kiss by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot) for ApprenticedMagician (M | 1,987 | 1/1)
Based on a Tumblr prompt for an empty kiss.
met you in the dark (you lit me up) byharrytomlinsonwhoops (M | 3,085 | 1/1)
it starts like this:
the elevator doors are closing, and aaron, after seeing one of the cheerleaders inside, doesn't bother running for it.
she holds the door for him anyway. she's got curly hair, and dark brown skin. her eyes are a bright green that he doesn't expect when she stares down at him. she's half a head taller, but he finds that he doesn't mind looking up to her.
"hello," she says, her eyes lighting up, and aaron thinks: oh. oh no.
a memory unrepressed by orphan_account (T | 7,387 | 1/1)
“So, what, you think I’m real, you’re real? That we’ve somehow… I don’t know, astral projected to this place?”
“I don’t know what I think,” Thea said slowly, a strain on her voice as if she hated to admit it.
“Well, the sun is– Fuck.”
“What?” Thea looked around as well, then froze.
There was no sun. There were no clouds. No shadows. It was indisputably light out, as if it were day, but the light seemed to have no source.
Groaning, Dan buried her face in her hands. “What is this, I don’t like it.”
let me love the pain you're going through by MadHatterNO7 (T | 1,526 | 1/1)
Neil remembers his mother saying, "Soulmates don’t exist. They aren’t real. They are a burden that would get you killed."
Neil supposes he knows why.
His mother's soulmate was never his father.
Watermark by fairietailed (T | 4,689 | 1/1)
He hops into the kitchen on one foot, catching his mother before she carries the bowl of peas she’s holding into the dining room.
“Jeremy?” Her eyebrows pull together in concern at the look on his face. “What is it?”
“I don’t know,” he says, sticking out his foot. “I think it’s my soul mate?”
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In which bruises and scars from your soulmate appear on your skin, and Jeremy's skin is a myriad of colored stains.
What are you scared of? by shipsgalore (T | 1,704 | 1/1)
“I couldn’t -- you weren’t supposed to be real. I didn’t think that I would ever have somebody love me, Jeremy. I’m just broken. I’m broken and you can’t love something that’s broken.” He wants to take his hand out of Jeremy’s, to end this entire discussion, but the burning of his nerve endings is welcoming. He wants to feel this every day of his life. 
hard to find by jaylocked (M | 3,199 | 1/1)
Jean has learned to hate the letters on his ribs.
He can remember a time before, back when he still had the sky above him and his future before him, when the letters fueled his insatiable, childish imagination. But then he lost the sky, lost his future, lost his language, and the letters changed.
accept yourself by jaylocked (T | 6,498 | 1/1)
In which Jeremy Knox tries to figure out what soulmates mean in a world of divorced parents, sappy best friends, Exy, and scowling, abused backliners.
My Own by hazelNuts (T | 728 | 1/1)
Andrew doesn't believe in soulmates, so what's the point of having a soulmate mark?
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine by A_Nobelmonster (Not Rated | 839 | 1/1)
Prompt: Andrew and Aaron are platonic soulmates that can feel each others pain.
Pain by ke_xia (M | 810 | /1)
There’d been a point once, when Andrew was a boy, that he’d been told stories of soulmates and had had grand visions of finding his own. Sharing a soul with one person who could feel your pain and whose pain you felt in return- now that felt like true love. And a soulmate had to love you; that was their entire reason for existing. Not like his mom or his dad, whoever they were, nor any number of the foster parents he’d gone through, nor any of the “brothers” and “sisters” he’d had throughout his few years in the system. No, none of them had ever loved him, but there was someone out there, someone who did even though they didn’t even know him yet.
/Graphic Depictions Of Violence /Rape/Non-Con
Exactly by jostenminyard (onceuponahundred) (G | 783 | 1/1)
A soulmate au where all the foxes (minus Nicky). But Neil broke his because its dangerous to love. Andrew broke his because fuck love. Aaron broke his because Andrew made him as part of the promise. Dan broke hers because of the man hating thing. Matt's broke on accident while he was high. Riko forced Kevin to break his. Renee broke hers in the gang. Allison broke hers to piss off her parents and the "I chose this one" thing. Seth broke his because he wasn't gonna let a clock decide his life.
a new kind of grace by starfleetbanana (T | 1,997 | 1/1)
'“You got it wrong, Josten. She keeps me on a leash” She said and left Neil to his own very dramatic and tragic existence.
Allison was fearless and, even though Renee had a soft spot for her foxes, she was deadly and sharp-edged. They fit together like a Swiss knife next to a gun'.
Soulmates AU where they see in black and white until they meet their soulmates and stop seeing colours when they die.
we're here to see the colour grey bystarfleetbanana (E | 2,143 | 1/1)
Neil had grown up sure he was the kind of person who’d never get to see in colour. There were people who spent their entire lives without knowing what colour was like, and he’d already accepted a life on the run wouldn’t give him a chance to even figure out who had made his entire world change.
Soulmates AU where they see in black and white until they meet their soulmates and stop seeing colour when their soulmates die.
when the world turns grey bystarfleetbanana (G | 1,972 | 1/1)
Allison had never seen colour in her life until she'd stepped into the Foxhole Court. But then Seth Gordon died. He’d died and she’d kept dancing in the middle of the dance floor with one of his friends while the colourful lights swirled around them. She’d drunk a blue cocktail and smeared her dark red lipstick on a napkin.
Soulmate AU where they see in black and white until they meet their soulmates and stop when their soulmates die.
with the lights on by starfleetbanana (T | 1,801 | 1/1)
'Medical professionals classify hysterical blindness as “conversion disorder,” a condition that causes you to show psychological stress in a physical manner. While there are many causes of this disorder, most of them point to some type of anxiety or other psychological trauma that triggers this temporary blindness'
'When the haze went away he tried to focus his vision on something more familiar. Everything that surrounded him was a deep shade of black that threatened to swallow him up, and it didn’t take him long to notice he was at Castle Evermore.'
Part of the Soulmates AU where you see in black and white until you meet your soulmate and stop seeing colours when they die.
your crown of thorns holds roses by quensty (T | 4,444 | 1/1)
Three days after he signs his death sentence to Palmetto State, five after Andrew Minyard sends him flying breathless to the ground, Neil's gaze snaps to the locker room mirror and stares, frozen, at the word threat scrawled along his spinal cord in terrifying, heavy bold.
All in all, he isn’t thrilled about the situation this puts him in, but, based off the negative connotation, it isn’t one-sided either. On the bright side, at least this means his soulmate doesn’t harbor any grandeur delusions about him.
Like fields of poppies by A_Nobelmonster (M | 3,340 | 1/1)
Soul mate au . Andrew has always had more dark soul marks than most adults see in their life. He's used to it. Used to a life based on survival . And then he turns fifteen, a red dot appears. the color of a romantic soul mate. Suddenly the thought of living for the person that gave him his mark is the only thing keeping him alive. Just one chance to know the poor fucker meant for him. As usual It's more than he bargains for.
/Rape/Non-Con /Underage /Self-Harm
To die by your side would be such a heavenly way to go by A_Nobelmonster (T | 494 | 1/1)
Short drabble about the beautiful pain of a fictional person made real by his friends love.
/Major Character Death
The Story of My (Loveless) Life byconstellationsofsentences (G | 3,281 | 4/4)
If there's one thing Jean hates more than Riko and the rest of the Ravens, it's his soulmate and their inability to listen to anything but Taylor Swift. Jean thinks his head's going to explode.
starring Jeremy and his basic white girl music.
when the lights go out by flybbfly (T | 1,705 | 1/1)
Neil wakes up gasping in a bed next to Andrew, unsure if in this lifetime they love or hate each other, are meant to murder or save, and Andrew rolls over and presses closer to Neil in his sleep. His armbands, some form of them omnipresent in every lifetime, are poking out from beneath a pillow.
one of many by Saul (T | 2,859 | 1/1)
They first meet in their dreams.
It isn't as miraculous or smooth a transition as the How To Be Fated: A Guide on Soulmates made it out to be.
The mirrors of our skin. by IceBreeze (T | 862 | 1/1)
When night falls, they remind themselves of who they are.
Ask the Messenger by Metis_Ink (T | 32,614 | 5/5)
Jeremy Knox and the soulmate.
Guest starring: Exy, a transfer student, generalized anxiety, older sisters, drunk lesbians, bread, cake, a shed, the beach, the absence of Hennessy, Star Wars, Renee Walker, self-taught smooth talking, gratuitous French, No. 1 Trojans fan Kevin Day, relationship drama, general drama, the power of Friendship, questions, answers, team spirit!, and, of course, romance.
Bleed for you. by IceBreeze (T | 860 | 1/1)
When you meet your soulmate, you get a nosebleed. It makes every meeting messy and leaves little room for subtlety. 
in this world, there's no such thing as soulmates by kwritten for growlery (G | 801 | 1/1)
for the prompt: what disasters we live
Now I'm Covered in the Colors by alaynes (T | 9,752 | 6/6)
Nathaniel Wesninski is six years old when his first soulmate mark comes in. 
A name was just a name until you said it by maeusetod (Not Rated | 5,106 | 1/1)
Andrew Minyard did not believe in fate, but for a moment it seemed fate did believe in him.
Colours by Q_Jem_Bee (T | 2685 | 1/1)
Colours were splashed across your skin at another being's touch: They were the colour of your soul.Neil's was blue, but no one knew that. No one was going to know.
Careful Hands by fairietailed ( M | 13,797 | 4/4)
“You’ll probably never meet them,” his mother said one day at a diner in Texas. It caught him off guard.
“What?”
“You’ll probably never meet them,” she repeated, nodding in the direction of the lilac bruise splashed across his forearm. “Your soulmate. You’ll most likely never live that long.”
“I know,” he said, and hoped that she believed him.
In which bruises and scars from your soulmate appear on your skin, and both Neil and Andrew paint each other like a canvas.
/Violence
Crystal Clear by exactly13percent (superagentwolf) ( T | 3,114 | 1/1)
Your crystal is your heart and soul, manifested. You must keep it safe. Neil and Andrew don’t have typical crystals. For one, they aren’t whole. They’re little pieces, broken by years of wrong. But Kevin’s magic shop brings them together, and they figure maybe broken doesn’t mean destroyed.
Marked by justdk ( T | 2,488 | 1/1)
Neil Josten does not believe in soulmates
Empty Kiss (Filling the Void Remix) by Dancyon ( T | 1,604 | 1/1)
Neil sometimes wonders where it all went wrong. (In the quiet spaces between his breath and Andrew’s, he already knows.)
Soulmate au where Neil should really know better.
/Violence
Life After the Fire (The “Like Fields of Poppies” Remix) by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot) for A_Nobelmonster ( T | 2,542 | 1/1)
very first touch leaves a mark, a colour on another’s skin, marks of love or hate, family or anger, friendship or lust. Neil is the boy without colours on his skin, with scars instead of marks. All he wants is to leave his mark, to be real, to be remembered.
/Violence
written in the stars by cloudtalking ( T | 2,095 | 1/1)
this is the boy that turned andrew’s world from night to day. the boy that turned shades of gray to blinding colors, and never seemed to notice nor care.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAX!!!!
paint my skin in painful truths by Dancyon ( Not Rated | 1,115 | 1/1)
a world where every time someone touches you, they leave a tiny tattoo that represents you and them and your future. Neil doesn’t remember a lot of good touches, and he doesn’t have a lot of happy tattoos, but with Andrew by his side he thinks he might like himself a little bit more.
This is mostly fluff with some angst, because this is still me.
Black and White until Tonight by booksareourlove for queenofseventeen ( T | 508 | 1/1)
His mother told him colours weren’t real. His mother told him she had never seen the colours of the sky. His mother told him that they were broken. People like them weren’t meant for something as delicate as colours. As soulmates. Colours weren’t real but he would still like to imagine the colours of the sky.
The world is black and white until you meet your soulmate. For some, seeing colour is not like jumping into water, but rather walking through mist until you realise it’s actually raining and your clothes are soaked.
stay as long as you need. by lolainslackss ( T | 2,995 | 1/1)
The soulmate timer counts down to your soulmate’s death. Apparently, Andrew’s soulmate doesn’t have long to live.
in pieces by archieknight ( G | 6,146 | 1/1)
Was it this difficult for everyone, or were they all just so broken that their pieces couldn’t fit the way destiny wanted anymore?
paint my body gold by cave_canem (T | 12,050 | 1/1)
That winter, Jean comes close to his soulmate for the first time in years. He knows this because his side is burning where the mark is branded in his skin. It’s pain unlike anything he’s ever felt: pulsing with his heartbeat and glowing through the skin; almost soft with something like a forgotten childhood memory.
never an empty room by cloudtalking (T | 6,510 | 1/1)
for @kevinyard: a trans neil kandreil soulmate au
soulmate (noun): a person or persons with whom one shares a soul with.
visit (noun): 1. an act of going or coming to see a person or place socially, as a tourist, or for some other purpose. 2. when a soul is stretched thin and snaps closed, causing one to see and be seen by their soulmate
/Graphic Depictions of Violence
A Home, for the Holidays by zen_fox (M | 3,321 | 1/1)
Three Christmases, in the lives of three soulmates.
good game by unrain (T | 1,996 | 1/1)
I don’t like you, but I can’t deny that your shot was a game winner sprawls around Kevin’s throat.
Neil’s words are a fucking joke in comparison. It’s not quite the death sentence that is a simple hi or a hello—which is a soulmark that’s kind of pathetically tragic to have in this day and age, because it just makes everything a trillion times more difficult and is basically the equivalent of your soulmate kissing you goodbye and saying see you never. But Neil’s words are pretty damn close to being that pathetically tragic. If only his soulmate wasn’t so unimaginative and dull.
Speak easy to me by The_time_it_takes (Not Rated | 3,370 | 1/1)
between hoping and believing by cryptidkidprem (T | 47,332 | 16/16)
Jean convinced himself a long time ago that he doesn't have a soulmate. Or maybe he just wants to believe that. Things would be easier if he was destined to be alone. It will at least hurt less when he inevitably winds up that way anyway.
And then there's Jeremy, who's been dreaming of meeting his match for years. For some reason, Jeremy seems determined to convince Jean that sometimes he might actually be able to have the things he hopes for, and that soulmate or no, Jean Moreau has people who will stick with him.
You're a flashlight in a dark room by trubenblack (Not Rated | 1,712 | 1/1)
The foxes in a world where everyone has their soulmates name written on them in their soulmates handwriting and the stories of how each of them dealt with them.
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Why is aftg fan fiction so good?? Like the books are A MESS, but some of the fanfictions are the best I've ever read. Like wow. Just... wow. Always relatable to pull me out of a reading slump.
Does anyone want any recs? Or has any recs?
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g0dhood · 2 years
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Chapters: 1/5 Fandom: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard, Allison Reynolds/Renee Walker (All For The Game), Matt Boyd/Danielle "Dan" Wilds Characters: Andrew Minyard, Renee Walker (All For The Game), Neil Josten, Allison Reynolds (All For The Game), Danielle "Dan" Wilds, Matt Boyd, Kevin Day Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Supernatural Elements, Alternate Universe - Fantasy, horror? a little bit?, Mythical Beings & Creatures, neil is a siren, andrew is a sleep-deprived disaster gay, also he's a writer, Angst with a Happy Ending, just a tiny bit of Angst, Mildly Dubious Consent, Sirens, Mild Sexual Content, Small Towns, Magic, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, book clubs and warm beverages Summary:
Andrew is a literary prodigy who hasn't written anything in almost ten years. In an effort to salvage whatever creativity he still has, he moves to the mysterious seaside town of Fox Hollow, only to find that writer's block is the smallest of his problems.
Neil is a siren who's fed up with random people falling for him.
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wulfrann · 3 years
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A wingman winged (Palmetto by the Sea part 1)
All for the game
Rating: Teen and Up
Relationship: Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard, Neil Josten & Allison Reynolds, Allison Reynolds/Renee Walker (side)
Additional Tags: AU - Modern Setting, AU - No Exy, First Meeting, Eden’s Twilight, Neil ‘Best Wingman’ Josten
[Part 1 of the Palmetto by the Sea series - Chapter 1/1 - 3k words - Published 2020-12-10]
Summary :
It's a Saturday night at Eden's, and Allison needs Neil's help to approach the object of her long-suffering crush - that is to say, she needs him to distract the girl's intimidating friend long enough that she's able to approach in the first place.
(TW: alcohol, sexual harassment (short-lived), brief display of violence, smoking)
[Read on Ao3]
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A wingman winged
The music thumps the ground in rhythm, low and deep like a pulse as it throbs through the club and reverberates into the bodies twisting as one on the dance floor. Eden’s Twilight isn’t really Neil’s scene, but the dark aesthetic and ever-shifting neon lighting make it easy to blend in. The shadows bend and stretch over his scars, reducing them to odd tattoos at first glance - and he makes sure he never gets a second. The clothes he’s wearing are nice enough and all black, but neither form-fitting nor revealing. Standing next to Allison’s brand of tastefully flashy clubwear, he’s no more than a foil. Seduction is her domain, and she thrives on it.
Which is what makes the fact that she’s asking him for help absolutely baffling.
“I’ve seen you wrap more than half this crowd around your little finger like it was nothing. Why can’t you just do the same with her?”
“You don’t understand,” Allison repeats for the third time that night. She has her chin in her hand and is leaning over her drink, swirling the expensive cocktail around with her straw. “I’ve tried everything, and the most I’ve gotten is for her to look at me. She hasn’t even tried to buy me a drink.”
“Have you tried talking to her?”
Allison scoffs. “I don’t set myself up for failure. She’s given me no sign that she’s interested. Besides, that little troll of a man she keeps around would probably bite me if I tried.”
Neil snorts at that. He’s seen the man in question glare people away, from both himself and his friend, all evening - on one occasion, he’s almost certain that the man even pulled out a knife. There’s no mistaking the way that the light glinted off of the blade, not even from across a crowded nightclub. Neil would recognise that brief flash anywhere.
His friend though, she looks friendly enough. White hair dyed rainbow at the tips, a silver cross, a few piercings. She’s wearing a black dress that wouldn’t look out of place in daylight and a soft smile that Neil is tempted to believe is fake just because of how earnest it looks. She’s also got the muscle structure of an athlete, a fact which Allison has reminded him of enough times that he’ll probably never be able to forget.
“Couldn’t you just accept your defeat and move on?” Neil tries, but he’s known Allison long enough that his heart isn’t in it. She’s never been one to give up.
“Don’t be ridiculous. Have you seen the arms on her? I’m getting her in my bed whether her little bodyguard likes it or not.”
“What if she’s straight?”
Allison shakes her head at him in that way that means he’s failed at some kind of social task and starts to count her points off her fingers. “Neil, the woman is ripped, has an undercut, rainbow hair, and armpit hair.”
“How do you know-”
“I have eyes. Besides, that blond troll she always comes here with is definitely gay, and everyone knows queer people travel in group.”
Neil throws a skeptical glance towards the unlikely duo, but doesn’t argue. None of what Allison listed strikes him as particularly telling, but he’s been told that his ‘gaydar’ is ‘absolutely abysmal’ on numerous occasions by about everyone he knows except Kevin, who's just as bad as him if Allison can be trusted.
Neil might as well accept his fate. “What do you want me to do?”
Allison grins at him. “I knew you’d see it my way.”
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Locating the two of them isn’t as easy when he’s not sitting on the upper level but standing right here in the crowd, surrounded by people and blinded by the rapidly changing lights. Years of hyper-vigilance end up paying off once he’s gotten his bearings right, however, and he starts making his roundabout way towards the section of wall they’re leaning on. The man is sipping on some kind of drink and staring blankly into the distance while the woman does most of the talking, though she does glance in Allison’s general direction more than once in the amount of time it takes Neil to reach them. He doesn’t blame her - even he has to admit that Allison’s dancing is a thing of beauty.
Neil, on the other hand, only ever pretends to dance. He’s gone out with his friends often enough that he’s picked up a few generic moves and can blend in, but it just - doesn’t appeal to him. Still, what little grasp he has on it is enough to get to his target unnoticed.
One falsely awkward step later and he’s got a glassful of whiskey and coke soaking into the man’s black tank top and dripping down his pants.
The hand wrapped around his arm, steadying him, is an unexpected addition. Neil’s previous drink messed his balance at the last minute and he’s pretty sure he’d have fallen to the floor if he hadn’t been caught. The man’s grip is undeniable strong, but it’s the eyes that really hold Neil down to his spot. He can’t quite tell the color because of the many strobing lights and colored neons flashing around, but he thinks they might be brown.
“Oops,” Neil says, straightening himself up with exaggerated movements. The man’s eyes flicker down his drenched top before sliding back up to Neil’s eyes without so much as a frown. “Sorry for your muscle shirt,” Neil adds as an after-thought, digging the word out of an afternoon spent (unwillingly) shopping with Allison.
The man arcs a single eyebrow. “You’re drunk,” he says, with one of the flattest voices Neil has ever heard.
Neil smiles widely, swaying a little on his feet. He still has the man’s hand wrapped around his bicep. “No,” he retorts, slurring the words a bit, “I’m Neil.”
The eyebrow arcs up even higher. Neil’s smile widens. He’s about to say something else, whatever sentence he can think of that would maintain the man’s attention on him, when someone else’s voice cuts in.
“Andrew, you’re soaked!”
Neil turns towards the woman, spying Allison making her way over from behind her, and raises his now empty glass. “My fault. I wasn’t looking.”
She smiles. From close up, it looks even softer than Neil thought. “That’s okay, it happens,” she says, then glances down where the man’s hands - Andrew’s? - is still holding on to him. “Are you okay? Can you stand?”
“Yeah, I just tripped,” Neil reassures her, then looks over at Andrew, whose eyes haven’t left his face. He’s… staring, with an intensity that catches Neil off-guard. And then he’s not, because Allison is coming over and calling his name. The hand drops from his arm like it was burned.
“Neil! There you are.” She puts a hand on his shoulder, then turns, falsely confused, towards Andrew and his friend. “What happened?”
“Nothing,” the woman says, looking a little stunned.
“Your friend spilled his drink on me,” Andrew states, throwing a look at his own friend.
“I was just going to ask the barman for paper towels,” the object of Allison's scheming adds, already half-turning away.
Allison doesn’t hesitate one second before following suit, offering her help. When the woman starts to protest, she takes hold of her arm and all but drags her to the bar. Neil watches the interaction without holding back his smile.
When he turns back towards Andrew, the man is staring at him with a frown.
“Sorry again for your shirt,” Neil offers, though he forgets to make himself sound like he means it. “You should probably take it off.”
The arched eyebrow comes back, and Neil realizes what he just said with a choked laugh. “I didn’t mean it like that. But it would dry faster,” he adds, feeling stupid. Andrew doesn’t look convinced, though, so he feels compelled to add, “I don’t swing.”
“I don’t watch baseball,” Andrew deadpans.
“I’m not talking about baseball,” Neil says, grimacing in disgust. “It’s not even a real sport.”
The look Andrew gives him is the blankest one yet. Neil looks down into his empty glass, then at Andrew’s tank top.
“You really should rinse it down, at least,” he ends up saying. “Otherwise it’s going to stick.”
Andrew stares at him a little longer, then downs his glass and starts to move in the direction of the bathroom. For some reason, Neil follows.
The bathroom is painted mostly black, like just about everything in Eden’s. Only the large sink is white. Neil leans back against it and watches as Andrew grabs a few paper towels from the dispenser and soaks them with water, then starts to wipe at his shirt. He thinks about helping, but remembers the way Andrew avoided touching anyone on his way to the bathroom and figures that there’s not much he could do, anyway.
“You’re not drunk,” Andrew states after a while.
Neil debates lying as Andrew throws the wet ball of paper away and walks to the dispenser to get more, but decides against it. “No, I’m not. I don’t like it.”
Andrew barely glances at him. “You play drunk well for someone who doesn’t like it.”
“S’not hard,” Neil says, shrugging, then figures he might as well come clean and adds: “Allison needed an excuse to talk to your friend.”
Andrew meets his eyes then, eyebrow arched up. “Did she try buying her a drink?”
“That’s what I said.” Neil smiles, then shrugs again. “Apparently she’s been trying to get your friend’s attention for weeks, but nothing’s worked.”
Andrew lets a sharp breath out of his nose, which Neil guesses is the equivalent of a laugh, if the lack of facial expression he's shown so far is anything to go by. “If that’s what she thinks, then your friend’s blind.”
Neil grins. “I’m glad. I thought I’d caught her staring a few times, but I wasn’t sure.”
“Renee likes to think she’s subtle.”
“Well, at least they’re talking now. I don’t think you’re getting those paper towels though,” Neil adds, watching Andrew wash his hands with a distracted kind of fascination. Somehow, the dark armbands encasing both of Andrew’s forearms make his hands stand out. Broad, and worn, with an odd elegance in the way they move. Neil would bet a lot of money on Andrew having some kind of manual career, at the very least a hobby. Something meticulous.
It’s only after Andrew’s wiped his hands and thrown away one last paper towel that Neil realizes he’s been staring, and he moves his eyes to Andrew’s face instead. He finds him with his head tipped slightly to the side, looking at him with the faintest hint of curiosity on his face.
Neil is about to say something - he's not sure what - when some guy he’d barely registered on his radar suddenly steps into his space.
"Hey there, pretty face,” the guy slurs, exhaling cheap booze right into Neil’s face. “Were you waiting for me?"
Neil looks up at the guy's face and begrudgingly resists the urge to bash an elbow into his nose. "Obviously not," he spits.
Hoping that it's enough for the guy to take his hint and leave, Neil starts to turn back towards Andrew. He is immediately jostled back towards the guy as a large hand grabs his chin and twists. "Hey, I was talking to you, Scarface."
"Wow, I've never heard that one before," Neil retorts, rolling his eyes. "You know, you should really make up your mind, asshole. Either I'm pretty or I'm not. Now get lost," Neil says, and is about to jam his knee into the guy's crotch when something tears the asshole away from him. Neil's balance is shaken by the movement, but he manages to stay upright by gripping the sink.
"You don't touch people without their permission. Hasn't anyone ever told you that?" Andrew says, pressing down upon the hold he has on the guy's arm, which he's twisted behind his back with one hand. He has a knife pressed to the guy's throat with the other. His voice is flat enough to cut. "If I see you again, I'll gut you. Understood?"
The guy nods and Andrew sends him sprawling onto the floor. He scrambles quickly to his feet and promptly runs out the door. Light glints off the small knife’s blade, clutched so tightly Andrew’s knuckles look white.
"Thanks," Neil says in the silence. "But I could have handled it."
"I don't care," Andrew snarls back.
Neil looks at the tension oozing out of Andrew's every cell and decides to keep silent. It's the right decision, judging by the way Andrew closes his eyes and starts packing up the tension, folding it back inside little by little. Neil knows the feeling.
The knife vanishes from his hand (and into one of the sheaths Neil suspects are sewn into the armbands), and Neil follows Andrew out of the bathroom. They stand by the door for a bit while Neil watches Andrew scanning the crowd with a clenched jaw. The tension is still there, even packed up, even pressed down tight under the surface of his skin. It needs more space than that to leave.
"Let's get out of here," Neil offers.
Andrew glances at him, then nods. Neil takes a hold of the hem of Andrew's shirt and leads the way out of the club.
*
The night's chill is a welcome change of pace after the density of the packed club's air. Neil inhales a gallon of it as soon as they've stepped outside, and hears Andrew do the same. It smells of cigarette butts and wet asphalt. He had no idea it'd rained.
A faint click on his right - Andrew lights a cigarette and offers him another one. Neil takes it and watches the smoke spill out of Andrew’s mouth like magic, grabbing hold of the lighter only as an afterthought. The metal is smooth under his touch and slightly warm over the imprint of Andrew’s hand. Neil brings the cigarette to his lips and takes a drag, closing his eyes to focus on the burning air flow rushing down his windpipe. He blows it out smiling, eyes trailing after the faint grey cloud. Andrew’s eyes are on him.
“Thanks,” he tells him, raising his cigarette in the air.
They smoke in silence. Neil lets the little circle of fire eat away at his cigarette without taking another drag, content just to breathe and to watch as the tension coiled so tight in Andrew’s chest unwinds, seeping out, one exhalation at a time, into the quiet night.
The quiet can’t last forever, however, especially not on a Saturday night at Eden’s doorsteps, and so the peace is brutally broken a few minutes later as a group of inebriated twenty-somethings spill out over the sidewalk laughing loudly and singing songs. Andrew adroitly sidesteps one of them as he staggers to the side before getting dragged back by his friend, brushing shoulders with Neil. They got their stuff back from the cloakroom when they stepped out and Andrew’s wearing a leather jacket over his muscle shirt, black as the rest of his clothes.
Andrew looks at the group staggering its way down the street until they’re far enough they can barely hear them. “Are you hungry?”
Neil shrugs. “Kinda. Why? Are you asking me to dinner?” Neil asks, smile tugging at his lips. “I doubt we’ll find anything open.”
Andrew smothers the butt of his cigarette on the wall and tosses it into the trashcan Eden’s staff left by the door, then gestures at Neil to follow. It goes against about every instinct Neil has cultivated along the years, but he does.
He doesn’t know why. Andrew’s back is broad and he walks at a steady pace, with an assurance that doesn’t look learned and yet still probably is. Neil remembers the way Andrew looked when he bent the asshole’s arm behind his back, like what he really wanted was to break it in half but knew that he had to hold back. His voice hadn’t faltered then, either. Neil wonders if it ever does.
They stop in front of a motor bike parked some way off of the club, street lights glinting off of the metal and black bodywork. Andrew gets a helmet from some kind of locked compartment and hands it over to Neil, who takes it by reflex.
“Where are we going?” he asks, turning the helmet around in his hands. He’s starting to wonder whether Andrew’s even aware that there are other colors outside of black.
Andrew grabs a pair of gloves out of the compartment and slips them on. “A kebab joint,” he says without looking at Neil. “It’s open until 3.”
 Neil considers the bike, then the helmet in his hands. “I’ve never ridden on a bike before.”
“Don’t get on before I tell you to. Don’t make me lose my balance. When the bike leans into turns, lean with it,” he drones out. “If you do that and hold on, you’ll be fine.”
Neil considers Andrew. The solid stance of him. Once he climbs on the bike, he’ll have no control until they stop.
“Okay.”
There’s a buzzing beneath his kin.
*
The kebab joint is a tiny square of neon light squeezed in-between two higher-end shops, and the only open place to sell food for miles around. There are no tables and no interior, just a counter with a window display that reminds Neil of ice-cream shops, filled with meat fillings, some kind of fried rolls, and a handful of sad-looking pastries. The items are listed above and to the sides - hamburgers, kebabs, paninis, all with various meats and side dishes and an array of sauces Neil’s never heard of before. He has no idea where to start, and so asks for the same thing Andrew ordered.
They pack the smell of cheap food and fat in plastic bags and leave the shop front to sit by the pier. The kebab is greasy and would have made Kevin scream, but the meat is tasty and the sauce is good, and it’s somehow the perfect thing to eat right now.
Through the cloud of their food wafts the sharp smell of iodine. They claimed a spot of the pier to sit, legs dangling through the railing, and the wood too smells of salt, is so ingrained with it that it sticks slightly to the skin and leaves imprints of tiny crystals on their clothes.
They eat in silence; the wash and backwash of the sea beneath the pier is a rolling whisper, swishing quietly past the piles and back again, a dark rippling sky in movement. There is no agitation around them, yet still it seems as though the sea swallows all sounds, pillows the silence with its mass, shaping a quietude with depth. It’s a quality of peace Neil has never felt before.
He’s just about finished with his food when his phone buzzes.
[From: Allison] where r u??
Neil snorts. Andrew raises a quizzical eyebrow at him, but he just shakes his head.
[To: Allison] I left 30 minutes ago, but thank you for noticing.
[From: Allison] was busy :-*
[From: Allison] u haven’t been kidnapped right? did u go home?
[To: Allison] No and no. I’m at the pier with Andrew.
[From: Allison] ?????
[From: Allison] was that a joke???
Neil huffs out a laugh, enjoying the confusion, and puts his phone on silent as more texts keep coming in. Andrew’s phone buzzes once, but he doesn’t check it - just grabs a cigarette and his lighter, replacing the smell of their meal with another. The smoke drifts up and disperses, yielding to the handful of stars valiantly fighting against the electrical constellations of city lights. The moon is gibbous amongst them and fractal upon the sea; Neil distractedly notices that it’s waning, as the curve makes a d and Jean’s trick somehow never left his mind, despite his lack of interest in the conversation at the time.
It makes Andrew look even paler, this lighting. His hair is made of silver and the volumes of his face either stand out or cave, stark and almost unreal.
Andrew’s eyes flick to his.
“Staring.”
Neil smiles. He takes the cigarette from Andrew’s hand and takes a drag, blowing memories up, up, up until they’re gone.
“What do you do?” he asks when he hands the cigarette back. “For a living, I mean.”
Andrew doesn't answer. He just looks at Neil and pulls on his cigarette. A bit of wind blows the smoke sideways, across his cheek and back to land.
"If you won't tell me, I'll guess," Neil says when it's clear he's not getting an answer, and pretends to study Andrew's appearance for clues. "You could be an artist. You look like one." He grins at the unimpressed look on Andrew's face. "Bit of a cursed poet vibe, with the piercings and all that black. Strong aesthetic. I guess you could be a musician, too."
The corner of Andrew's mouth twitches. "Shallow."
Neil shrugs. Appearances tell a lot more than people think, but he's pretty sure he got it wrong. He doesn't actually know how artists are supposed to look like - that's not really the kind of things he learned to watch out for - but it's as good a guess as anything. "It's either that or undertaker."
Andrew blows smoke out through his nose. "Sorry to disappoint, but I just serve drinks."
Neil hums. "Full time?"
"No. I also cook."
"You're a chef, and you still eat food like this?" Neil asks, waving at the plastic bag sitting between them.
"Aide," Andrew corrects. "Anas' is the only decent place still open. I don't see you complaining."
"It was pretty good," Neil grants, then adds, because it's only fair: "I'm a student."
"Late calling?"
Neil smiles. "Something like it."
An eyebrow shaped like a question. Neil ignores it in favor of the sea, but the weight of Andrew's gaze stays fixed on him like an anchor. He wonders if Andrew's trying to guess what something like it may hide; wonders how far away from reality he's wandering, trying to find something reasonable; wonders, even, how he'd react if Neil told him the truth. Whether he'd balk at the scars that prove it or stare at them the same way he's staring at the ones across his face now, blank and unwavering, on the upside of bored.
*
Riding on Andrew's bike the second time is just as exhilarating as the first. The city flies by in a blur - the docks, the bars, the empty streets, they blend together and melt together until there's nothing really left but them, passing. Alone. A figment caught between two worlds.
When Andrew drops him off, the ground still moves beneath his feet. Neil shoves his hand into his pockets and grins, feeling absurdly carefree.
"Thank you. For the ride and for the food - it was amazing."
He means it. Andrew is looking at him like he's trying to figure out if he does. He holds out his hand, and Neil frowns.
He looks to the sky and sighs. "Your phone."
"Oh," Neil says. He puts his phone in Andrew's palm.
Andrew takes one glove off and puts his number in quickly. He tosses his phone back to Neil and brings two fingers up to his temple in salute.
The bike roars to life, the noise filling the street until it's gone. Neil looks down at the brand new contact in his phone, carefully prodding at the little bit of warmth beneath his sternum.
Matt, Dan, Wymack, Allison, Abby, Kevin, his therapist, his dentist and his doctor. Andrew's number brings the staggering total amount of contacts into his phone to a very satisfying 10.
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itslenactually · 3 years
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Anybody have some good Renee x Allison fics they can recommend?
I need more renison in my life 😔
Please,,,,,I'm dying over here
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jeanmoreaun · 4 years
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For a world where finding your soulmate is possible, it’s not particularly common.
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lastrose-ofsummer · 6 years
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No warnings. Renee x Allison, implied Seth x Allison. Hogwarts AU. ~700 words.
Summary: Suddenly, the girl is everywhere: strutting down the corridor, books between her arms; waiting for Jean outside her classes, leaning against the walls; on the opposite bleachers, watching the quidditch game.
On her dreams, at night.
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wishbonetea · 2 years
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Do you have any AFTG fic recs or any fics you're reading currently?
i have all my recs bookmarked publically on my ao3 which you can find here. most are andreil but there's a handful of renison and one jerejean i think
as for current reads, i tend to read more published work than fanfiction but i have just downloaded @eloquent-apollo's metanoia which can be found here, and next on my list is probably @paradoxolotl's inked truth series (found here)
if you have any specific kind of fics you're looking for feel free to shoot another ask!
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lesbianmaki · 4 years
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2 and 77 + a ship of your choice for the fanfiction trope mash up !
first of all, fuck you for picking the only one on that list with fancy latin words that i had to look up. (kidding, now that i know what it means i love this prompt) and i'm gonna do renison because. les bee ants
royal au + in vino veritas
so allison is like. a princess
and renee is her maid/lady in waiting/whatever
basically they spend all their time together and renee is like. a built in friend but also a servant so it's this,,,,,, Interesting Dynamic
and renee is head over heels in LOVE with allison
she's loved her for Years
but she's never said anything because
a.) allison is most likely straight
and b.) she's a servant??? things don't work like that????
so she just. suffers in silence
and tries to pretend everything is normal
and one night, it's this big massive ball at the palace
and allison goes with this handsome prince or count or other guy with a fancy title
and renee's just. vibing in the servant quarters, feeling sorry for herself because she wants to take allison to this stupid ball
when allison demands that renee come to her room, in the middle of the night
and renee's like ????? you're supposed to be at the ball ?????
and so she goes and finds allison sobbing because she found out that her date was only there to like. gain political clout with her father and she really liked him
and so she left the ball early
and while she was leaving
she grabbed a bottle of wine
so she's in her room, crying, and renee's just there like. what do i dO
because she wants to comfort allison but a part of her is also like FUCK YES
so she's trying to be soothing
meanwhile allison is just downing alcohol like it's water
and offers renee some
and renee's like. uh i dont want her to die of alcohol poisoning bt drinking the WHOLE FUCKING BOTTLE
so the two of them are drinking and because they're both lightweights, they get drunk Super Fast
and allison is just drunkely crying and bitching about Men and she goes
"renee, have you ever been in love?"
and renee's drunk Off Her Ass and just smiles sweetly and says yes
and allison is like 👀 WHO
renee knows she shouldn't say but again she is So Fucking Inebriated
so she just looks at allison and smiles in the most lovestruck way. "it's you."
and allison just. stops breathing for a minute
and looks at renee and asks "you're in love with me?"
now renee's drunk but she also has Lots Of Fear in that skinny little ass and she's starting to realize this was a bad idea
so she like opens her mouth and she's about to explain it all away
when allison chucks the bottle put of the way and kisses renee
they both just. fuckinf ascend because oh my god
renee pulls back and just goes "are you sure?"
allison just kisses her again
they're both drunk and allison's makeup is smudged from the tears and she's in a wrinkled ballgown and renee is just in a simple dress and it's all just a mess
but they fall asleep on the floor together, curled up next to each other
and they've never been happier
okay DAMN that was soft but!! i hope you like it!!
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darcyolsson · 7 years
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riyl chapter 2 is now up!!!
Next up: French. Allison hates French.
read here.
(reflecting in your light is a slow burn, high school au renee/allison fanfic. it would be awesome if you checked it out!! first chapter here)
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aftgficlibrary · 6 years
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Coffee Shop&Cafe
The smell of coffee and respecting boundaries. Love it.
Only Fools by KazBrekker_morelike_KazWrecker (E | 19,833 | 20/20)
A flower shop/coffee shop AU that no one asked for but appeared in my brain and had to get out. Neil never played Exy and never met the Foxes at PSU, but his story with his father remains the same. Neil doesn't like people much but neither does Andrew and everyone knows coffee brings people together
I'm Young and In Love by elenawrites (T | 1,942 | 1/1)
Allison's pining over the cute girl at the coffee shop. Dan finds it hilarious. Renee notices everything. For reneewalkerx for the tfcfemslashnet exchange, title from Lana Del Rey's 'Love'.
The Smell Of Honey by lilaliacs (T | 11, 601 | 4/4)
Martha's was a cozy little coffee shop that always smelled of honey, lilacs and something that couldn't be described as anything less than home. And that's what it was to Jeremy, who had spent his childhood sat on a stool at the tiny bar, coloring in the patterns of the menus, or watching his mother creating the most beautiful cakes and pastries that he had ever seen.
The place was filled with good memories and everyone who came in could sense the atmosphere of peace that seemed to fill the soft light falling in through lacy curtains at any time of day. In fact, multiple patrons had stated that they came in for exactly this, for a break from their everyday stress, to just grab a coffee and absorb whatever magic the smell of Martha's cakes emitted and it was something Jeremy's mother was very proud of. It was also something Jeremy was very proud of, and the reason for him to put his all in making the customers' time there worthwhile. He never thought that one day, doing that would be a challenge. (AU in which everything is the same only that Jeremy isnt captain of the trojans but works in his mom's coffeeshop instead)
I Want You To by minyrrds (T | 21,385 | 8/8)
The Foxhole was a hole in the wall, quite literally. It was painted a muted orange with a series of white paw marks trailing across the wall that glowed under the pale yellow lighting of the café, with a small curled up fox painted right up against the counter. The sign said open, and the lights were on (well some of them were), but there was not a soul else in the café. The chairs were still stacked on the tables, and the register appeared to be turned off. Neil checked his watch, it read 5:26, and he figured he would have to get moving soon to keep to his schedule (even though there was nothing that required him to keep that schedule), coffee cart coffee wasn’t terrible (only it was), and maybe Renee had messed up and meant to tell him a later time (even though he had gotten his hopes up for halfway decent coffee entering his life).
(A fake dating coffee shop au blend!)
Stayin' Up Til We See The Sun by minyrrds (T | 5,184 | 5/5)
It's hard, figuring out a relationship when neither Neil nor Andrew wants to deal with their own problems, but here they are, trying to figure things out anyway.
(a coffee shop, no-longer-fake-dating au!)
you are what you love, not who loves you by gaypeach (G | Incomplete | 1/?)
andrew doesn't even drink coffee. yet he finds himself at a coffee shop with the tackiest orange and white paint in the history of paint.
the neon signs read "the foxes' den" with a trail of pawprints flashing in a pattern that made it seem like they were walking away from whoever was reading the sign.
andrew debates between entering or ending his life right then and there.
(he opens the door anyways)
/Graphic Depictions Of Violence
to know a man by moonix (M | 47,928 | 8/8)
In which the Foxes all work at a coffee shop run by Wymack, Neil is their newest recruit with a dark past, Andrew is obvious, Neil is oblivious, and everyone ships it apart from Aaron, who just wants to study in peace. With guest appearance by a stuffed jellyfish called Josephine.
The Girl with the Dyed Tips by reecesronan (Not Rated | 2,821 | 1/1)
Allison works at a small coffee shop downtown and she has a crush on one of their regulars - the girl with the dyed tips.
Tastes Like Damnation by deathanddestruction (Not Rated | Incomplete | 8/?)
Kevin Day didn’t like his job at the local coffee shop. He didn’t particularly hate it either, but he could count the number of reasons why on one hand and still have extra fingers. One - the hours left him plenty of time for exy. Two - the discounts. Three - a certain customer named Andrew Minyard.
weight of it all by azneara (G | 2,534 | 1/1)
the first time Andrew meets Neil he is not Neil. he has black hair and his eyes are green and his name is lost to the rumble of chatter in the coffee shop.
the boy with the ever changing face and the boy with the face that never changes have nothing in common. except they do.
ink over flowers by stardusting (Not Rated | Incomplete | 1/?)
there's a flower shop opening up across the street and that shouldn't change anything. it really shouldn't, but maybe it does.
sky blue sky by jaylocked (T | 3,709 | 1/1)
Neil collects the cup a moment later, almost absently, as he thinks back to the nightmare that had started his day. He takes a sip, planning to turn away, and is almost assaulted by the sheer quantity of sugar in his drink. Who knew coffee could taste that sweet? It’s disgusting.
Neil looks back to Andrew, who is once more leveling a blank gaze at him, hazel eyes deeply unimpressed. Neil quirks an eyebrow, confused. It’s definitely not worth it to say anything. After all, it’s been engrained in him not to draw attention to himself, to order whatever is blandest and least interesting, to get in and out best he can.
He can feel the weight of Andrew’s gaze on his back as he leaves the cafe, but he tries to ignore it.
start a war by jaylocked (T | 3,213 | 1/1)
Andrew pretends that it’s out of spite that he pours a ridiculous amount of sugar into the drink. He pretends that he’s not disappointed at the lack of reaction when the boy merely raises an eyebrow at Andrew before leaving the shop. He pretends that he doesn’t think about the mystery boy later, trying to decode his careful movements and haunted eyes.
(He’s never been good at pretending, no matter how unreadable the rest of the world finds him.)
i would rather look at you (than all the portraits in the world) by BurningFairytales   (G | 1,814 | 1/1)
Jeremy smiles as he slides the cup closer to him and hands him the receipt. That smile, Jean notes distractedly, makes his eyes appear brighter.
(On the backside of that receipt, written in neat handwriting, is the word ‘Cariño.' )
Give It a Try or Give It Up by Anathennadevice  (G | 534 | 1/1)
Anonymous said: Neil and Allison being great friends?
Neil has so many BFFs, but Lord knows he needs them.
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