Can you imagine how much of a problem that would be for Andrew haha.
Living together for nine years would rub each other’s personalities off on them. A Kevin with a spine, a Neil with an even more astounding obsession for Exy.
Andrew would have to deal with not one mouthy brat walking into his life and fucking shit up but two.
Imagine a Kevin that isn’t a coward. Imagine Kevin being fiercely protective of Neil, and vice versa. Imagine two indomitable strikers, a joint force on the court, raw skill matched in speed and technique. They have plays that only they know, they always know where the other is on the court without even having to look. Imagine Neil joining in on the absolute appalled horror Kevin exemplifies when his teammates don’t play up to his standards.
Andrew has his work cut out for him trying to wrangle these two Exy junkies and keep them from getting themselves killed picking fights with just about everyone.
And then things happen, Neil being Neil and growing as fiercely protective of the rest of the team as he is of Kevin. Becoming protective of Andrew. Accepting Andrew for all his flaws, seeing him at his lowest of lows and highest of highs and still being fascinated by him. Kevin would only see Andrew as his wasted potential but Neil… Neil would see him in beautiful technicolor, see Andrew’s loyalty, his honor, his strength.
Imagine them catching feelings for each other. Now, besides Aaron resenting Neil and using him against Andrew so he could have Katelyn, you have Kevin on the other side wondering what the hell this goalie is doing to his fine tuned partner. Neil doesn’t only have eyes for Exy anymore. Imagine how betrayed Kevin would feel.
Imagine Neil wanting them to get along, wanting the two most important people in his life to coexist peacefully. Imagine Neil pulling Andrew onto court and making Kevin and Andrew play each other, to work out their differences with Exy because it’s the only therapy Neil knows.
Imagine Kevin lobbing ball after ball at Andrew and how bored Andrew would be by it. Kevin getting in Andrew’s face, screaming at him. Andrew feeling invigorated with the challenge. And maybe, just maybe, Andrew starts enjoying himself when he’s playing, if only because him besting Kevin riles him up.
Imagine Neil watching from the sidelines, leaning with his chin on his hands, folded over his racquet, smiling, watching them fight each other tooth and nail until it stops being about Neil and starts being about feeling each other out and having a conversation through this sport Neil and Kevin love so much.
Imagine these three being together: friends (Andrew & Kevin), brothers (Kevin & Neil), lovers (Neil & Andrew). Andrew still cant force himself to be as passionate about Exy as Neil and Kevin but he feels alive for the first time and he might even be having a little bit of fun, even if he will never admit it. Neil has never been more content than at the foxhole court, with a home and a family and the sport he loves. And Kevin doesn’t fear for his life, he can just breath and play Exy and fuck any one who tries to stop him.
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