Ana

please read the text after the images if you can!

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part 58 (otw)

sorry for the long text after the images but i think i may as well give a backstory -- i do still need help personally but I'm not linking that here bc the disaster relief fund is more important

power outage the second! i live in the midwest and we had some crazy weather last night with a lot of tornadoes touching down. i'm safe personally but a lot of people and their towns were injured and at Least one person was killed, public buildings and houses have been destroyed, there is debri everywhere, downed powerlines and trees, flooding, there were several tornado emergencies (which is worse than a warning, and a warning is worse than a watch) across the midwest as well as supercells, which dropped a number of tornadoes (here is an article about it)

my area is currently (as of 8ish in the morning) at 85% humidity, with temperatures in the high 80s to 90s with real feels up to 115 and a UV peak of 9 for today (temps in fahrenheit, thats a range of about 27 to 37 degrees celsius with the real feel being about 46 degrees celsius), and my county as well as the surrounding counties and even more counties outside of my state are without power and some are now without homes. stores have generators but most people in my area don't as this kind of weather is a result of climate change and a shifting tornado alley, and because of this as well, most of us in my area do not have tornado shelters to retreat to and we usually camp out in our houses/apartments/schools/whatevers

this is a link to the y'all squad, which directly helps people experiencing natural disasters -- so this can be used when hurricaines and wildfires hit, too

now. south carolina Does experience tornadoes, though not very many. as such, this power outage in the au is being caused instead by a severe thunderstorm

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Don't mind the background, I was tired.

maybe he woke up groaning the next morning, to the sight of his body painted in shades of red and blue. the worst of it is one of his legs, where both his knee and ankle have swollen to twice their usual size. that morning became the first of many when he had to grit his teeth to get out of bed.

maybe he tried to take care of it as best he can. he wrapped it as tightly as he could in gauze, with his fingers digging into his lips as not to wake the twins up by screaming. on the way to work, he picked up the largest bottle of over the counter pain medication he could find, and stashed it where he hoped the twins wouldn’t find it.

maybe he knew it wasn’t healing right. when it still hurt after months, when a drugged-up andrew laughed at his occasional limping, when he got berated by his boss for leaning against the hostess booth at sweetie’s. he knew it even as wymack came to them with an offer nicky could never refuse.

maybe he put in more effort than he could really afford to and was still the worst on the team. he pushed himself until he had to switch to the bottom bunk because he couldn’t climb the ladder at night, until he started eating lunch in the hallways outside his lectures because he couldn’t walk to the cafeteria and back, until he was stealing enough of wymack’s pills that wymack started noticing. of course he’s too slow, nicky, make an effort! of course he’s a disappointment, i expected more from your high school tapes.

maybe he hoped abby would notice without him having to say anything, or maybe he hoped she wouldn’t notice at all. the thing is, he knew he’d done the wrong thing. he knew he shouldn’t have let it get to this. he knew he shouldn’t have kept it a secret, and now they’ve sunk their money on a backliner who can barely walk without a fistful of ibuprofen. he figured it was too late to do anything about it now, anyway, and said nothing.

maybe it doesn’t get better, it only gets worse. still, he manages to mostly hide it, gritting his teeth in a smile that is no more truthful than any other he sported. until he collapses mid-game, and none of the usual ways he’d force himself into standing would work. the game pauses and nicky feels more shame and fear than pain, even as it pulsates through his body. he’s carried off the court and to abby’s x-ray; the first one he gets, but not the first one he’s needed.

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Thank you all for your patience with me AND!! Special thanks to those who went into my asks to help me identify the kind of puppy and some pics i’m so glad cus it’s such a cute fucking breed oh my lordy. And his name. Is peanut butter. Say yellow to him

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Prompt: Snow ❄️

Skiing turns out to be pretty fun.

It's also stupid and reckless—no one who values their Exy career should court injury so carelessly.

Neil ignores him, whizzes past like a lightning bolt, a blur of bright hair, the trail of laughter in the air.

[50 words, funerals, stuart & neil, established andreil, for @aftgtinyfic]