bridge to terabithia aftg au
i had this Idea and I… really just don’t have the energy or time to try and make it into an actual fic so have these bulleted point rambles abt it instead
-andrew is new to the school, because he was adopted by bee thank fuck and has suffered significantly less trauma than in the main series
-nathaniel has been going there, since the butcher doesn’t exactly move around
-andrew likes writing or drawing maybe? and gets bullied because he’s the new kid and he doesn’t exactly bother getting along w anyone
-nathaniel compliments his work and they form a “not” friendship
-they can’t hang out outside of school often because of Nathaniel’s family, but when they do they go to an abandoned treehouse that’s across a lake or some shit idk if I should copy btt that much so subject to change
-they talk a lot and build their own fantasy world, inventing all sorts of people and creatures (and perhaps even a sport, exy. sorry kayleigh stealing your thunder)
-it gets all elaborate. andrew starts to be able to tell more and more that nathaniel is having trouble at home, nathaniel gets gradually more anxious since he knows he and his mom will be escaping soon
-he cant tell andrew what’s going on so he puts his whole heart into his time with Andrew and making good memories. he writes a note to leave andrew not long before they leave but his mom finds out and burns it because the risk is far too great for both them and for andrew, it’s safer for all involved for andrew to know nothing
-so the day comes. instead of Mary taking nathaniel to school that day, they run. Nathan doesn’t catch on for a few hours because he’s used to Mary taking nathaniel to school. when he realizes, he and his men start searching but they’re long gone. Nathan doesn’t want to be exposed or ppl to talk so he frames things so “Mary and nathaniel died”
-andrew hears about the death, of course, and the loss is so great that he shuts down (thankfully he has bee)
-years pass, Andrew heals as much as he can from the death of his best friend, in that time he found out about Aaron and nicky and Aaron is living with him and bee and nicky visits when he can though he’s mostly living with Erik in Germany
-andrew pursued his passion and wrote and illustrated some children’s books based on the world he and nathaniel created
-nathaniel is now living as neil. His mom died a while ago and his dad may or may not still be after him idk
-he finds the children’s books and just “andrew still remembers????” and starts making his way to find andrew
-neil shows up on Andrews door step and Andrew thinks he’s seeing a ghost or a hallucination because there’s no way nathaniel is still around? but he Is
aaaand that’s all i thought of so. enjoy fjdjdjdjd
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