#theme:badday

[aftgficlibrary]

I’d like to rec willing to give by seeingrightly, it’s very soft and somewhat angsty and overall lovely and well written

thanks for the rec-Halley

willing to give by seeingrightly (Not Rated | 5,015 | 1/1)

Andrew wakes up and climbs out of his bunk and gets ready for class, and Neil doesn’t. His eyes open periodically, and he watches Andrew move around the room, but he doesn’t get up even though he also has class.

Normally, Andrew is the one who has bad days.

[aftgficlibrary]

Can you help me find a fic where the team is having dinner at abbey's and neil cuts himself by accident and kinda goes into autopilot and starts trying to fix his hand while the team is kinda freaking out in the background

This is literally my favorite aftg fic of course I can help you-Atlas

Those That Broke Us by WriteThroughTheNight ( T | 6,652 | 1/1)

“Neil doesn’t talk about his mom and doesn’t think about what she’d do to him if she saw him now. He has a family, he has Exy, and he has Andrew. He has more than enough, more than he ever could have dreamed of.

Neil doesn’t talk about his mom until a warm fall day outside the locker room, waiting for the start of their game with his team and family. It’s a place that she doesn’t belong, where not even a memory of her belongs, but she wriggles her way in and takes root in his chest.”

Or

Neil reveals, piece by piece, what life with his mom was like.

[aftgficlibrary]

Neil has a cat that always goes into his neighbors (andrews) apartment. They go from accidental joint custody of this cat to sharing truths and falling in love. I know it’s alternating pov and complete I just can’t find it. Thanks so much if you can. It’s my all time fav fic.

I think it’s this one! But if you’re looking for fics involving cats, we have a secret cat tag here!-Atlas

we might be hollow (but we’re brave) by stttmsbwa (M | 40,681 | 4/4)

Andrew is looking to live his life in peaceful nothingness, but his new neighbor’s cat won’t stop sneaking onto his balcony. As much as he tries to not make it into something, Andrew finds himself drawn to the mysterious and tempting man next door.

Neil is just trying to find a reason to not leave Palmetto after everyone else has moved on. But he never thought he would want to run toward something in favor of running away.

(In a slightly different world, two people find themselves meeting in a softer setting and in just as much need of each other. A story about dealing with pasts, sharing secrets and a cat who is an asshole yet manages to charm everyone around it.)

[aftgficlibrary]

Hi, I’m the anon who asked about the fic involving andrew having a bad day; it wasn’t Starting Tomorrow, but thank you :/

I’m so sorry we couldn’t find it :( but another fic was rec’d, so thank you to them and this should be it-Scout and Fall

naneism and SpangleBangle said:

could also be “right side of rock bottom” by allyasavedtheday

right side of rock bottom by allyasavedtheday (M | 20,019 | 1/1)

Neil thinks it might be the first time he’s taken a breath in days.

He hadn’t realised it because he’d been so caught up in packing and saying goodbye to everyone but now that it’s over he remembers his self-imposed countdown was meant to be up by now. It’s the end of the school year and five months ago, he thought he’d be dead by now.

Instead he has a team and a future and a home and Andrew.

(The last two might be interchangeable.)

*

A little look into Neil and Andrew’s relationship after The King’s Men where they learn to touch, to talk and to trust.