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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
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"I'm fine with it," Andrew says, "If you ever want to pretend again."
"Like..." Neil starts off unsurely, a frown on his lips. He gestures awkwardly between them. "Us? Being..."
Andrew gives him a lazy shrug, trying to downplay the whole motion. Together. Dating. Fucking. Whatever the term, nothing quite seems to fit right — but that's because none of them are things that Andrew can truly have.
After an injury forces Neil to retire from his Olympic track-star career, Andrew brings Neil to the sleepy town of Palmetto to try and piece his life back together.
Of course, he catches everyone's interest, even though he's trying his hardest to avoid attention. And it seems Andrew's on a streak of terrible, terrible ideas when it comes to Neil Josten.
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19 May 2026
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Assh0le_Ari: it was fine
Assh0le_Ari: I prefer beauty and the beast
Drew_the_con: okay furry
Assh0le_Ari: FUCK YOU
Assh0le_Ari: Im not a furry!
Drew_the_con: such strong denial my friend
Assh0le_Ari: idek y we're friends when u call me a furry
Drew_the_con: who knows
Drew_the_con: but I do know that you're sus
Assh0le_Ari: I hope ur husband divorces u
Drew_the_con: LOL
Drew_the_con: nah
Drew_the_con: nothing can get him out of this relationship
Drew_the_con: not even death
Assh0le_Ari: I pity the fool
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Or: Aaron and Andrew accidentally become online friends without knowing that they're twin who were separated at birth ft. Trans Neil (my love), married andreil and a rare Aaron shipBookmarked by pipedreamaddy
20 Apr 2026
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Andrew isn't a renowed author. Sure, he has his fans here and there, a few hardcore readers, but he's not famous or internationally known.
So, when he stumbles across his own book in a place where it absolutely shouldn't be and in a language it absolutely wasn't translated to, he makes it his personal mission to find the person behind it.
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31 Mar 2026
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I’ve read this I don’t know how many times and have lived it each and every time 🖤
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After turning down Wymack’s offer in Millport, Neil runs into trouble. With nowhere left to turn, he finds himself drawn to the Palmetto Foxes and the prospect of what will never be his. Exy, that is. Neil doesn’t need friends. Not even a little bit. And if his eyes water as he watches the Foxes welcome the new striker into their ranks it's because he has allergies.
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29 Mar 2026
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Day & Josten run their Private Investigation business out of their apartment and manage to make ends meet without touching Neil's family money. Some months are better than others, but the two of them have been content in their inner city apartment, running around and spying on people for money. Over the last seven years, they've built a life together and it's been good.
Then Andrew Minyard, a lawyer from out of town knocks on their door and presents them with a case that they can't refuse - not with the amount of money offered - or the familiar look in his eye.
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23 Mar 2026
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Neil Josten, a former runaway, finds an unexpected refuge with the influential Hatford mafia family in London, transforming from a streetwise survivor into a confident figure. Under the guidance of Stuart Hatford and his fearless daughter Emma, he gains stability, luxury, and a sense of belonging.
But despite his new life, Exy still calls to him. Joining the Palmetto State Foxes, Neil finds himself caught between his past and present, forming bonds with teammates who are more like family. As danger looms on the horizon, Neil must decide if he can protect the people who have become his home—or if his secrets will destroy them first.
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06 Mar 2026
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It’s 1989. Riko Moriyama rules Westerburg High School and The Butcher rules Baltimore.
Neil and Andrew are so, so over it.
Shit’s about to get real.
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02 Mar 2026
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A simple farmer Andrew, an annoying blind man Neil, and a half-dragon human Kevin and his human companion Jean race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Wymack and Camelot from disaster
Basically just the quest for camelot (1998) but make it AFTG
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01 Mar 2026
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The Hidden Meaning Of Flowers by chaoticas_hell
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
16 Jan 2026
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"Who choked you out?"
"Going for the throat, are you?"
"I’m not a kind person."
"My husband. My husband choked me out."
"The classic. I was a foster kid. Had plenty of adults beat on me for something as stupid as breathing too loud."
"It’s always the stupidest reasons."
"Does he-"
"No. I would skin him alive if ever dared to put his hands on my daughter."
"I have Luna's black roses."
"Oh yeah? She'll be happy when she sees them. She's at a friend's house right now."
"Then I'll start planting."
"Yeah. Could you- could you stay here for a moment? I like the silence but I don't want to be alone."
"Okay."
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Or Trans Neil was in fact sold to the mafia and ended up marrying Riko and ends up hiring Andrew as a gardener and the author still can't write a summary to save their life
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- Part 1 of Flower Language
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01 Mar 2026
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Nathaniel Wessinksi can't go back to the Nest.
But he can't stay with the foxes either.With Riko trying to get Neil back to the Ravens, and back under his thumb, Neil is left with three options. Going back to the Ravens and dying, staying with the Foxes and dying- or running far, far away.
But Andrew had promised Kevin and Jean to protect him. Annoyingly, Neil- the kleiner Hase- is making it increasingly more and more difficult with each passing hour.
TLDR: Neil makes a promise to Ichirou that Kevin, Jean, and himself are better investments if they play with the Foxes than with the Ravens. But with time running out and Andrew stopping every one of his escape plans, Neil has until the end of the championships to convince himself and Ichirou he's better off alive.
DISCLAIMER: this fic is very heavily influenced by Die Free or Die a Failure by Mickey_99 (if you haven't read this fic, it's amazing!) and The Sunshine Court (where Raven Neil goes through the same healing process as Jean.)
TW: will be mentioned at the start of each chapter, but this is a very trigger heavy fic, please don't read if this you're not in a good place to do so!
Enjoy :)
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27 Feb 2026
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Andrew Minyard has just signed on with a new team so that he can support his twin and his twin's wife as they begin their residency and get ready to welcome his nieces into the world. He may not give a shit about Exy, but it does pay well.
The Atlanta Wolves are paying him well enough to ignore the awkward tension of having to play with one of his college teammates again. The only problem is that Neil Josten has only gotten more interesting since the last time Andrew saw him when Andrew graduated from Palmetto State University.
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24 Feb 2026
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Can't Say No to You by nerdzeword for pipedreamaddy
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
22 Feb 2026
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“Did they at least deserve it?” he asked. The man tilted his head and clicked his tongue thoughtfully.
“More than most.”
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Neil and Andrew have a shared hobby.
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22 Feb 2026
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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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22 Feb 2026
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Detective Nicky Hemmick and The Case Of The New Neighbors by P234age
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
05 Dec 2025
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Nicky is well aware that he might get brutally murdered for what he’s about to do, but if it all goes well, then his death will be the turning point in helping his stabby, possibly depressed cousin and his alcoholic friend find the loves of their lives, and that, to Nicky, is a cause worth dying for.
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Jean and Neil move in next door to The Monsters, and no one can decide if they're a couple or not. Nicky makes solving this case his personal mission, because as much fun as it is to watch Andrew and Kevin pine over the mysterious neighbors, Nicky is positive that those two aren't dating.
Positive.
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22 Feb 2026
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When There’s Nowhere Else To Run, Is There Room For One More? by P234age
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
27 Jan 2026
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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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21 Feb 2026