Jupitermoon4 - Spacefox

AU:

Neil doesn’t meet the foxes, he’s instead caught by the FBI

He helps them catch his father and bring down his empire.

One day he’s brought in to Andrew’s lecture as a guest speaker

The Q&A at the end:

Student: Have you ever killed someone?

Neil: There’s two FBI agents at the door who advised me against answering that specific question. There’s your answer.

Student: What’s the best way to get fake documents?

Neil: I’m legally required to say “don’t”.

Student: What’s the most illegal thing you’ve ever done?

Neil: See, that’s a trick question, because if I answer it becomes the most illegal thing I’ve admitted to.

Student: What’s the hardest lie youve ever had to tell?

Neil: “Sure, I’d love to do a Q&A with a bunch of people who are weirdly obsessed with my father and decided to study crimes because they don’t have the balls to commit them.”

Student: Are you afraid your father’s people will come after you?

Neil *at the end of his fucking rope*: No, I feel completely safe. That’s why I’ve got armed federal agents waiting outside.

Student: How’d you get caught?

Neil: First of all, rude. Second, the FBI made a very compelling argument

Student: …which one

Neil: “cooperate or find out exactly how many laws you’ve broken” - said by a guy holding a very thick file. Direct. Effective. Hard to argue while zip-tied to a chair.

Student: What’s something you miss about your old life?

Neil: being able to leave a room without seven cops and a judge asking where I’m going.

Student: If you could do it all over again, would you?

Neil: I’d rather set myself on fire. I know you don’t understand that reference, but trust me when I say it’s funny.

Student: how many identities have you had?

Neil: Simultaneously or in total?

Student: …total?

Neil: enough that I had to check my ID before answering roll call

Student: what’s the worst crime you’ve ever committed?

Neil: do you want me to answer this as Neil Josten or Nathaniel Wesninski? The distinction matters.

Student: Have you ever made someone disappear?

Neil *looking over his shoulder at Browning*: goodness gracious no

Student: How many languages do you speak?

Neil: enough to talk my way out of things… mostly into them, though

Student: Why did you agree to talk to us?

Neil: it was this or community service

He’s as unhelpful as possible.

His entire goal is to waste everyone’s time while making it just interesting enough that no one can call him out on it.

And Andrew? He’s watching. He’s enthralled. He’s interested, and isn’t that odd.

The professor looks like she regrets her entire career. Half the class is too stunned to speak. Browning is wondering if the punishment for beating up the most valuable witness the FBI has in custody would be worth it. (It would)

Anyway long story short. 5 minutes in Andrew’s in love

And honestly THIS got me screaming and squeaking in ukrainian

Yulia Tymoshenko is questionable political figure in general btw just saying. But she's also more often than not becomes a victim to ukrainian meme space so it is just one of the moments why it is so wow to see her being mentioned in the musical.

Sidenote: shared ukrainian gen z childhood experience was to root for and to ask adults to vote for her just because she's the only woman (can't say for everyone but it's very close)

what the Trojans expected: violent dangerous giant ex raven 👹🔪

what they got:

what the Foxes expected: traumatized poor baby angel runaway 🥺😇

what they got:

strangers from hell text posts!!

Do you have any very romantic Andreil? In character, but fics of them growing together and finding where their sharp edges fit together without hurting each other. I dunno i was just rereading Trust Fall (and Welcoming Arms) and Progress Comes in Small Steps and i had a need for more. Can be au or post canon or whatever! Thank y’all; i’m grateful for everything you do!!

Andreil fitting their broken edges together and healing is so satisfying to read and good for the soul! This ask took us a long time because life kept happening so we had less time to read fic and for the library. Then we started to worry that we could not do this topic justice, and that made it so much harder to post an answer. We welcome reader recs in the comments. -A & S

referenced in the ask:

‘progress comes in small steps’ series here

‘Trust Fall (And Welcoming Arms)’ here

building trust/developing relationship

‘Hold me close, in fact bury me’ here 

‘right side of rock bottom’ here

‘Sophomore Slump’ (since updated) here

‘on the tip of my tongue (say something)’ series here  

‘the icarus to your certainty’ here

‘I can't make you love me (if you don't)’ here

‘overturn the violence’ here

‘Unspoken’ here

‘lessons in trust’ here

‘Every Choice Leads to You’ here

‘I Just Want You’ here

‘Andreil: Into The Future’ series here

‘I Will Always Choose You’ series here

‘stop the clocks’ here

‘Broken’ series here

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the most romantic smut here

andreil getting married here

fave andreil breakup/make-up here

andreil dramatic reunions here

Andrew is soft about Neil here

Neil professes his love for Andrew here

recs for getting comfortable with sex/exploring sexuality here

flashes of intimacy by mostly_maudlin [Rated T, 7241 Words, Incomplete, Updated Feb 2023]

a series of andreil flashfics on touch & closeness.

NB: find the art by @emry-stars-art that inspired ch. 13 of this fic here

paradise by saturnwaves [Rated E, 38360 Words, Complete, 2022]

Neil and Andrew take a very well deserved vacation.

tw: explicit sexual content 

Artist!Neil AU series by Fortheloveofexy [Rated G/E, Collection, Complete, 2021]

Part 1: May We Meet Again [G, 10732 Words]

Neil hurriedly pulls out his sketchbook and crosses the street. “Excuse me,” he says in fluid German, waving his hand to catch the short blonde's attention. He’s soundly ignored right up until he’s next to the man’s table. “Hi, sorry to bother you,” he smiles politely, “But I was wondering if I could sketch your portrait?”

tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon

Part 2: Paint Our Lives In Color [E, 41386 Words]

It's been two weeks since Neil followed Andrew to the States, and life couldn't get any better. Neil has never really known what home feels like, but he imagines it must be something like this.

Or; Neil settles into his new life, makes some new friends and learns a little about the meaning of family.

Set after "May We Meet Again" and before "And May We Never Part"

tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: panic attacks, tw: ptsd, tw: anxiety

Part 3: The Past, Stained Red [Not Rated, 4443 Words]

It had started out as such a normal, innocuous day. A peaceful morning, so far from the shadows of his past that he could almost pretend it hadn’t happened.

tw: panic attacks, tw: implied/referenced rape noncon, tw: vomiting, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced self harm

Part 4: And May We Never Part [E, 3241 Words]

A year has passed since the day they first met, and Andrew doesn't shy away from Neil's perceptive gaze anymore. In fact, he finds comfort in it. Being seen by Neil has become its own form of safety. The world may look unkindly on Andrew Minyard, but in the eyes of his lover, his partner, his person, he doesn't need to hide. Neil sees him and loves him for exactly who he is.

Maybe that's what gives him the courage to do what he does today.

(Set after "Paint Our Lives In Color")

tw: explicit sexual content

Part 5: My Love For You Runs Blue [E 3321 Words]

It had been a shock how much he liked this, when he and Neil had first tried doing things this way. Andrew had expected to hate it, or a best, to be neutral about it. He'd wanted to try anyway, just to prove he could. Just to prove that he could have this.

The knowledge that not only could he have this, but he could enjoy it too had been nothing short of a revelation

(Set several years after "And May We Never Part")

tw: explicit sexual content

NB: this may not be all of it, but you can find art for this fic by @fortheloveofexy​ here, here, and here

Shut Up, This is Love series by lady_flash [Rated T/M/E, Collection, Updated Jan 2023] 

Part 1: I Wanna Get Better [M, 40125 Words, Complete, 2021]

I didn't know I was broken 'til i wanted to change

I wanna get better, better, better, better,

I wanna get better

Or, Andrew persuades Neil to give Dr. Betsy Dobson a chance and the decision starts to change their relationship in ways they didn't expect.

tw: panic attacks, tw: urge to self harm, tw: implied/referenced noncon, tw: implied/referenced child abuse, tw: implied/referenced nonconsensual drug use, tw: implied/referenced abuse, tw: implied/referenced torture, tw: violence, tw: alcohol, tw: explicit sexual content   

Part 2: Wake Up to Your Sunset by lady_flash [M, 49047 Words, Complete, 2023]

Neil and Andrew are living apart. And it's fine. Except when it isn't.

tw: involuntary outing, tw: homophobia, tw: implied/referenced rape/noncon, tw: victim blaming, tw: self harm, tw: implied/referenced suicide attempt, tw: alcohol, tw: violence, tw: explicit sexual content

Part 3: Bunny [T, 6541 Words, Complete, 2022]

How each of the original Foxes found out that Andrew likes to call Neil "Bunny".

That's it, that's the fic.

Part 4: Hop, Little Bunny [E, 1855 Words, Complete, 2022]

Happy (slightly belated) birthday to my fellow Scorpio, Andrew Minyard. Here's some pwp just for you.

tw: explicit sexual content

Roadside Motels (a The Little Things remix) by static_abyss [Rated M, 7108 Words, Complete, AFTG Remix 2020]

Neil's well aware that this is the first time he and Andrew are away from the others. And the idea that there's no one but Andrew for miles sets a low heat in Neil's stomach. They're by themselves on the road and Neil isn't sure what to expect. But he figures he'll know by the end of the week whether this trip was a good idea.

Thorns by mostly_maudlin [Rated E, 17693 Words, Complete, 2022]

Part 2 of Five Hours Away

Andrew and Neil are used to surviving. They are not used to people coming back.

It’s Neil’s senior year, and the five hour drive separating them comes with obstacles they couldn't anticipate. But they’re trying.

They’ll do better.

tw: explicit sexual content

Buried in the weight of your arms by kenkatsuki [Rated T, 3595 Words, Complete, 2017]

Neil grasped tightly at Andrew and hoped to convey all he felt towards the other man. It was so much. Too much. He wasn't sure how it was possible to feel so much for a person when he had learned all his life that feelings were dangerous and risky things, better to be held at bay.

But Andrew had come into his life and Neil would have to lose his fingers and hands and arms to let go of him. Maybe not even then.

No matter what happened they would always find the way back to each other.

mind the angels my love (mind also those words) by skysolos [Rated G, 643 Words, Complete, 2021]

Andrew Minyard has never been good with words. But for Neil Josten, he would try to.

Art

Andrew caught Neil's face in his hands and leaned in art by @laurafromnowhere

Neil kissing Andrew’s scars art by @flockeinc

I‘m not a pipe dream art by @colourofmagic

andreil book scene art by @stopitsaya

happiness for Neil Josten art by @masslowart on instagram

btw is having an author/writer character in a psychological/thriller drama mandatory? specifically yoon jong woo and yook dong sik

i love them sm u dont get it 😭😭😭

*combined ver on profile

my heart is yours, jagi 💘

Why is this korean GL starting like Strangers From Hell? 😂

Plus

just light parallels but it makes me more intrigued

Edit: ALSO