oh my god they were roommates

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Academy Is… Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: William Beckett/Mike Carden, Andy “Butcher” Mrotek/Adam Siska, Past William Beckett/Tom Conrad (Implied) Characters: William Beckett, Mike Carden, Andy “The Butcher” Mrotek, Adam Siska, Mary the Sheep Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Farm/Ranch, Alternate Universe - Bed & Breakfast, Cows, Chickens, Temporarily Unrequited Love, Repression, Sexual Tension, Internalized Homophobia, Slow Burn, Mike “Sexually Normal Man” Carden, Mike Carden is an Asshole, William Beckett is Stressed, Family Issues, Accidental Voyeurism, Period-Typical Homophobia, I’m sorry to Tom. I’m sure he’s a very nice guy but for the purposes of this fic he is Bill’s evil ex <3 Summary:

January 2009. William Beckett has been running the White Oak Farm and old-fashioned bed & breakfast for two years—since his grandparents passed. He has some help—Sisky, who is like his little brother, and the Butcher, far too sweet and far too fond of animals for his own good, an artist who “rents” an empty barn where he’s converted the hayloft into a small apartment/studio—but, really, life as the proprietor of a small inn is… a bit lonely.

That is, until Mike Carden checks in.