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    What if Neil's father caught up to him in Millport? What if Agent Browning had seen more of Nathaniel in Neil after Baltimore, and figured the FBI could use the help?

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    Neil works for the FBI to hunt down the criminals they can’t catch, in return for staying out of jail after Baltimore. Agent Browning isn't all that good at his job, Matt just wants to be friends with his squirelly roommate, and Andrew is the first person Neil doesn't want to lie to.

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    "So far, Andrew’s heard the song on piano, cello, acoustic guitar, a goddamn bassoon, and even whistled across the crowded dining hall yesterday - which made Andrew immediately stand and search for the culprit, but to no such luck.

    This thing isn’t original. It belongs to something. Someone wrote it, put it out into the world, and Andrew missed it.

    Two weeks of this. Two weeks of hearing the same lyric-less melody echo through rehearsal rooms, courtyards, open windows. Two weeks of his perfect memory turning up nothing. No title. No composer. No words to match that achingly melancholy, and yet smiling beat.

    It’s taunting him.

    Andrew has been cursed, and he is going to find out by what song if it’s the last thing he does.

    And no, that is not overdramatic. It’s just a fact."

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    Neil didn’t mean to steal a car belonging to a local gang, and he certainly didn’t mean to steal the gang’s getaway driver, Kevin Day, along with it.

    Unfortunately for Neil, Andrew Minyard doesn’t care why he stole the car (or Kevin), just that he knew how to drive it - and honestly, who made Kevin the getaway driver, anyway?

     

    A Baby Driver AU, but it's so loosely connected that you don't need to know anything about the movie to read.

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    “It’s a little difficult to think clearly with a knife pressed to his jugular, but Neil manages to wonder if he should’ve let the FBI send him to jail instead of here.

    It makes sense, unfortunately, that after finding Neil bruised, burnt, and bleeding out on the cold cement floor of his father’s basement, Special Agent Todd Browning might have had some concerns for Neil’s health.

    Neil just didn’t expect that concern to include his mental health, too.

    Browning had offered Neil a choice that day - after listing out, like, fifty reasons why he thought Neil might benefit from some therapy.

    Life in prison or a sixty day stay in a psych ward, followed by freedom.

    Neil thought the answer was obvious, but his new roommate still hasn’t removed his blade from Neil’s throat - which Neil is now realizing isn’t actually a knife, but a razor blade taped to the butt of a toothbrush - so he’s rethinking that answer a bit.”

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    The one where Neil and Andrew meet in Easthaven.

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    If Andrew had met Neil today, at the ripe age of twenty-five, when the dark is just the dark and not a threat, and when he doesn’t need to balance on rooftops to feel things anymore - maybe things would be different.

    Maybe better than okay.

    But he didn’t meet Neil today - he met him seven years ago as Aaron’s new friend, when the word "want" was a foreign body in his mouth, and so things are just okay.

    He is okay, and he is in love with his best friend, who isn't in love with him, and it is okay.

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