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Two fractured people. One impossible thing between them.
Andrew doesn't hope. Hope is just loss that hasn't happened yet, and Andrew has had enough loss to last several lifetimes. He exists on the margins of his own life, keeping everyone at a careful distance, surviving one day at a time and calling it enough.
Neil is a dead man on borrowed time. He is chronically ill, the Moriyamas' circuit has its hooks in him too deep to pull out and his father is after him, ready to kill. He is meant to die one way or another.
They find each other at the bottom. Two people who had already stopped expecting anything good, stumbling into something that feels impossibly close to hope.
For a while, it almost is. But fate doesn't negotiate.
Neil cannot outrun what's always been waiting for him. Andrew cannot outrun the loss that's always been coming.
They were never meant to survive, let alone love.
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"Andrew didn't want to die anymore. He just didn't know how to live either." - Andrew
"Death sounded like a promise from here. He knew, that his last breath would be the best one he'd ever taken." - NeilAlternate Universe, Soul crushing angst
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13 Jun 2026
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Such a beautifully written fic. I love angst and typically shy away from mcd fics BUT this one got me hooked and how everything was written was perfect esp about anticipatory death and grief 💞
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09 Jun 2026
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in the arc of your blade by IntrovertedBookWorm
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
23 Mar 2026
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Neil Josten has spent his whole life running—from his father, from his name, from the moment he knows is coming. Figure skating was supposed to be a way to exist without hiding. Instead, it got him disqualified, erased, and left sleeping in a storage closet.
Andrew Minyard doesn't skate for joy. He skates for money and because Kevin Day showed up at his rink one night with a broken hand and nowhere else to go. Touch is not an option. Trust is not a word in his vocabulary.
They're forced to skate together anyway.
Now they have one year to qualify for the Olympics. One year to learn lifts and spins and the impossible art of being seen. One year before Neil's past catches up and takes everything.
But Andrew keeps looking at him like he's worth staying for. And Neil keeps thinking that maybe—just maybe—somewhere in the arc of Andrew's blade, he's finally found someplace he doesn't have to run from.
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05 Jun 2026
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Neil Josten finally found a place to belong — he's not running away anymore; he finally has a place to call home. He just might even stay there forever. And his “forever” means watching The Great British Bake Off with Andrew from the couch in their tiny apartment.
It was supposed to be the “forever” that no one could ever take away from him, from which he would no longer have to run. But the past catches up with him again, and Neil must give up the comfort he has found in his life. He has to give up his life with Andrew. Forever.
Neil tries to live without Andrew in London. But his heart remains forever on the couch in their apartment.
Five years later, a promise from the universe that Neil will never see Andrew is broken, sparking his hope for “forever” once again.
▂▂ ২ OR in which Neil is in the Witness Protection Program; he is dating Andrew during college until people linked to his father pose a threat to Neil’s safety again. Neil is forced to live with his uncle Stuart and cut off all contact with Andrew. They meet again five years later, now working at the same place.
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- Part 1 of Promise
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20 May 2026
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5 times Neil ends up in the hospital and nobody tells Andrew
+The 1 time someone has the common sense to tell Andrew and Andrew decides, fuck, he has to marry Neil."If you didn’t keep ending up in the hospital, I wouldn’t have to marry you just to be able to know when you get hospitalized,” Andrew said.
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19 May 2026