hi i am excited to ask about your wipw for your guardian angel neil. thank you 💚
WIP Wednesday (7/16) | Guardian Angel Neil AU (Part 296)
Neil picks up every item, thoroughly checking them over. Then he runs his hand over the fox-pawed flap of the backpack, looking conflicted. Andrew clears his throat.
"They didn't have a duffel, I checked."
"That's not it," Neil looks up at him. "Andrew, it's just... It's too much. I don't need—"
"Shut up. I already bought it all and I can't take it back. Don't have the receipt." Andrew tells him. Neil plucks up a white strip of paper and holds it out. Andrew snatches it away from him and crumples it into a ball. "Fuck off, just take the stuff."
"Okay." Neil looks down at the pile in his lap, then laughs. "Does this thing have ears?" He says, picking up the cap again.
"Yep, you're a fox now. Meow, or woof, or whatever." Andrew says as he gets out a cigarette.
"I don't think they make sounds," Neil tells him. He starts to pull the price tags off his things, laying them in a neat pile beside him. Then he folds all his clothes and arranges them inside the bag. Once he has it closed again, Neil puts the strap over his shoulder and he looks like every other freshman on campus.
How stupid that, in another life, he might've been one.
"Thank you," Neil says, though they both know it's unwanted and unnecessary. Andrew hums and shrugs and tries to pretend he's not happy to have given Neil these stupid things. But he is. He really is. He blows out a breath, directing the smoke into Neil's face. The angel likes when he does that, the little freak.
Once Neil's lashes stop fluttering, Andrew asks, "You wanna go to the movies later?"