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Not That Type of Scarring by i-did (strawberryproblems) for emry_stars
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
28 Aug 2024
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Andrew Minyard has figured Neil Josten out- or has he?
It was many things – little crumbs of truth Neil couldn’t hide – and Andrew noticed them all.
The refusal to change out with the others.
The not-so-common height.
The oversized clothing and his nervous tick of running his hands over his chest, constantly smoothing the fabric flat.
The way he stood between Matt and Seth, surprised by an arm draped around him, as if he had never been one of the guys before.
The most damning evidence was the way his face fell, when Andrew asked what he was hiding under his clothes, and what his file might reveal. Oh Neil was definitely a runaway – but the mystery of “Neil Josten” didn't end there – and Andrew was going to figure it out.Andrew POV through the series, where Andrew is under the assumption that Neil is an incognito trans man.
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Nathaniel watches the boys pop out of the pits they dug, wondering if their foxholes provide shelter from the burning sun. Nathaniel felt the heat of the dirt through his shoe soles like asphalt. He knew he didn’t have eighteen months here, or anywhere, and Romero knew it too. Shooting fish in a barrel. Nathaniel curled his toes to redirect the restlessness pooling in his feet and looked out to the horizon.
A.K.A. AFTG “Holes” AU
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Neil hadn’t cut his hair since his mom died. He had dyed his hair post-viking funeral—he had to. But... cutting his hair was her thing. She always gave him the same buzz cut. Common. Fast. Cheap. Easy.
He remembers the journey her fingers took from the top of his forehead to the base of his skull, the way his skin tingled as she pulled her hands away, not letting his hair tangle and hang on to her hands like it wanted to. Every part of him craved touch, even his hair was attempting to tie knots around her fingers, just so she would stay for a second more. He knew not to ask for it, and she knew he wouldn’t, hadn’t for a long time. And maybe that's exactly why she granted him the small show of affection, that was the first and last time he can remember a moment as soft as that one between the two of them.
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A reflection into Neil's history with haircuts, his relationship with his mother, and him learning to let go yet another moment from his past... in other words, Neil gets a buzz cut, and Andrew likes it.
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- Part 1 of Setting the Record Straight
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Neil vs. The Homosapiens Agenda by i-did (strawberryproblems)
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
23 Apr 2020
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EDIT: UNFINISHED AND ABANDONED, WILL EVENTUALLY PICK THIS UP AGAIN BUT NOT ANYTIME SOON
Neil is sitting in the metal folding chairs in the locker room a week after the Ferdinand interview, and 3 days after his uncle reconnected with him secretly. It was a rather short phone call that can be summed up as “be careful” and “wait for my signal”, when an unknown number texts him “I read your email.”
Stupidly, Neil looks up as if he can see who has figured out his number. He sits there hoping that maybe it’s Nicky or one of the upperclassmen texting from a new number, and not Stuart changing his mind and taking him back to the UK. Neil hesitantly responds with only a single question mark.
The response is almost immediate, “next time don’t use an unsafe computer to log in, but there won’t be a next time, will there, Nathaniel?”
His heart stings with fear, as if the blood turned to ice in an instant, and an anxious buzz of electrical energy burns in Neil’s now bouncing legs, begging to run.
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It is Easier to Run if the World Thinks You Stayed Behind by i-did (strawberryproblems)
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
26 Jun 2018
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Neil is talking to Andrew, telling him his story of his secret twin brother, and how he was left behind.
if you read the books than you probably will be okay because most of it is referenced pretty lightly, like as if Neil doesn't think twice about it, except one scene.
This is basically a Neil monologue, I formatted it similar to the format of a long poem w/o rhyme.