ty @calamitoustide and @courfee for the tags <33
this is a lil snippet from an andreil fic i'm working on that i am So Excited to start posting :D
Here’s the thing: Neil is running again. That much is clear and that much is true - Neil is running away from it all.
He’d become too complacent, too comfortable. Too used to having everyone around him all this time that he forgot to truly sit and think about the consequences of having these kinds of attachments.
Forgot might be the wrong word - he never forgot.
He was never quite able to silence his mother’s voice in his head, when he caught himself smiling up at Dan after a win. He couldn’t quite stop hearing her warnings, when he sat in the house in Columbia, nursing the back of a drunk Kevin and listening to Nicky’s laughter from the other room. She was there when he spoke to Abby, there when he sat and talked plays through with the team, there in Eden when the bouncers nodded at him and let him through, when Roland slid a coke across the bar, when people passed their table with nods and small waves. She’s been there. This entire time.
She was there, most of all, in every ‘yes’.
In every silent cigarette and every drop of the rain upon the roof beneath his feet. She was there in every hurried gasp and muffled groan, in every pant and sigh, in every quiet rustling of blankets.
In every curve of lips and every eye roll, every breath of laughter and every tentative hand in another. She was there in every fleck of green on gold, hiding underneath every furrow of a brow that Neil took apart, melting into every pore and every crease.
"I shouldn’t be doing this."
"This is wrong. Dangerous."
Oh, how he had found himself attached.
Violently, and overwhelmingly attached. The kind of attachment that took him by surprise, no indications making sense to him, no warnings or signals that could have prepared him for the strength of it. He had no alarm bells, no time to assess the risks and check his blind spots. He was all-consumed.
And then the texts started.
np tags (sorry if you've already done it, i am So behind): @goneinsecondsxo @inevitablestars @poetskings @languagelessonswolfstar @rae-lune @starsworth @againaweasel