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03 Nov 2025
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“Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”
“Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.
“How do you know?”
Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.
That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.
“He has to know,” Andrew says.
“Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”
Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.
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14 Oct 2025
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“What about your alpha, Neil?”
Neil’s eraser skids to stop, pink shavings tumble to the floor from his vicious back and forth. Mouth pinching, he breaches the mental moat he'd constructed to block out the group's frivolous chattering and looks across the table. “My what?”
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18 Jul 2025
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a cigarette with his number on it by yourinsomnia
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
27 May 2025
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Aaron desperately needs to prove to his employees that he isn’t homophobic, and that he can survive an entire night of shameless flirting with another man. Just to be safe, though, he sends Andrew in his place.
Neil agrees to go on the date and put on his best performance to expose some asshole as a homophobe—if it means getting the Lana Del Rey concert tickets Allison is holding hostage.
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13 May 2025
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“I think he’ll come to you,” she concludes. “Each person experiences attraction and sexuality in a unique way. It is possible there’s a kind of fear there, something foreign and unfamiliar to him.”
Andrew mulls this over in his head. He thinks of Neil’s lingering gazes, of the recent reappearance of that warm blush on the tops of his cheeks. He considers, also, the inherent vulnerability of allowing oneself to be desired, and the shamelessness of desiring another. It’d make sense that Neil, both rabbit and fox, immense in his attempts to make himself minuscule, would be wary of something so terrifying.
Alternatively: On Neil Josten’s apprehension regarding his own attraction to Andrew Minyard, told by Andrew’s increasingly flustered and consistently perplexed point of view.
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15 Apr 2025
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Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
23 May 2016
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She could be so small, he marveled. She was a cat, sleek and windy. A mouse, whiskers perfect and round ears quivering. A moth, fragile and dusty. A caterpillar, wriggly and colorful. She almost disappears.
“Alex,” his mother chided, her voice low and hand tight around his upper arm, but if she wasn't looking at him it would've taken him a moment to know who she meant. She was scared, she’s terrified, her pupils are dots, even though they were just in the second last row of a near-empty greyhound bus. “Stop playing. Are you listening to me?”
In his hand, Marie turned into a pill bug and curled up tight. He closed his hand around her, making her disappear.
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30 Jan 2025
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After an upbringing lacking in mundanity, Neil just wants to live a “normal” life. He’s got a home, a circle of friends, a job — why not give casual sex a shot?
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26 Nov 2024
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February, 1996: Andrew gets into his car and disappears over the horizon, leaving Aaron and Neil behind to pick up the pieces.
Two and a half years later, he walks back into their lives.
Please do not translate or republish this work.
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- Part 1 of like water.
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27 Oct 2024
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The Each Uisge and the Glashtyn – predatory waterhorses with a penchant for eating humans. But in the fae world they’re known as Augus and Ash, two brothers entangled in each other’s lives despite not seeing each other often since Ash moved out. When Ash visits Augus at his lake one day, looking for some company, he sees something he can’t forget. It launches an obsession that ends up having serious consequences for the both of them.
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- Part 3 of Fae Tales - AUs, Oneshots and More
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11 Oct 2024
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It doesn't make sense. Neil was fine. More than fine. He’s safe at home with Andrew, and this should be the best possible ending to one of Neil’s best days, but when Neil squeezes his eyes shut, all he can see is —
Riko grinning with vicious pleasure as he slices Neil open. Riko’s eyes reflecting the glow of the lighter licking Neil’s skin. Riko laughing as a tattoo gun needle digs into Neil’s cheek.
Riko, Riko, Riko, smothering and impossible to escape. Panic knifes through Neil as he yanks uselessly against the handcuffs. No, no, no —
And then he’s saying it aloud, “No, no, no,” because there isn't a gag cutting into the sides of his mouth. Because Neil isn’t at Evermore. He’s at home with Andrew, who’s right there when Neil opens his eyes — only near the foot of the bed now, not touching Neil at all.
Neil has long gotten used to reading the faint shades of emotion that pass for expressions on Andrew’s face. But never, not even in Andrew's medicated, manically expressive days, has Neil seen Andrew wear anything like his current look of horrified shock.
Neil agrees to try the handcuffs in bed. It goes badly. Cue angst and h/c.
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28 Sep 2024
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Laurent is ten when he loses his entire immediate family in a freak car accident on the Arles Autoroute. Laurent is eleven when he sells his soul in exchange for the death of his uncle and ten years to enjoy it before he must pay the price. Laurent is one day shy of his twentieth birthday, the last he will ever celebrate, when he meets Damen.
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25 Aug 2024
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“Please keep my secret, Daddy.”
Beautiful, whip-smart, and a little sadistic; it is clear to just about everybody that Laurent found his calling when he started working as a Dominant.
Everybody except for Damen, who has some big ideas about what would suit him better. Ideas that Laurent feels compelled to explore. Does that make Damen right about him?
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15 Aug 2024
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Laurent is a ragdoll, pulled down into the dark at improbable speed. The lift it makes in his stomach is odd, like the giddy drop on a rollercoaster. A moment of elation, perhaps, before he dies.
He breaks the surface.
His gasping mouth now pulls in air, his feet firmly on the rock bottom of the spring and legs holding him up unshakably. Water streams from his head, down his body, as though a bucket had been dumped over his head. He reaches up to push his sopping hair from his eyes.
“Naiad,” a voice says.
Laurent stills. Psychological collapse should be allowed, by the universe, to be a solitary affair, especially when it happens in a state of complete undress. It’s unfair on a cosmic level that Laurent should be happened upon by a stranger in his current condition.
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On holiday with his brother in Ios, Laurent bathes in a hot spring. Unfortunately, he drowns. Even more unfortunately, when he surfaces somehow, he finds himself thrust back in time. Dropped into the middle of a mythologised ancient war for the Akielon throne, he is determined to get back to the modern day - even after ending up kidnapped (or perhaps rescued) by the rightful King, Damianos.
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- Part 1 of even in another time
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13 Aug 2024
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"I think," Damianos said softly, "that you have not been treated the way you deserve."
For the first time in his life, Laurent did not know what to say back.
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05 Aug 2024
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Andrew steals the wrong car.
It changes everything.
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12 May 2024
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Ronan makes a series of questionable choices. Adam is just Trying His Best. There is a child - a small one. The gang's all here.
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14 Apr 2024
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Two years after a messy breakup, Ronan reaches out to an estranged Adam to ask for a grisly favor.
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12 Feb 2024
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Ronan flashes his lights twice when he sees Adam’s wiry form emerge from the doors of the factory. He watches from across the parking lot as Adam squints at the car and starts to make his way over; he likes watching Adam move, even when it is in this slow, sluggish way, evidence that the first of his two shifts at the factory tonight has already taken its toll. Ronan doesn’t honestly even know what Adam does in the factory, only that he comes away exhausted and tense and usually mad about something he doesn’t want to talk about.
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27 Jan 2024
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Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater, Dreamer Trilogy - Maggie Stiefvater
05 Jul 2023
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It was on a dark stretch of road ten minutes later that Ronan said, “They wanted to kill me. Dad and Mor. They were going to.”
Ronan finds out about Mor and Niall's plan; Adam knows something about inherited violence.
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26 Jan 2024