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"Dear God, how the past comes back to haunt us."
Neil Josten has spent his whole life trying not to be seen — dyed hair, fake names, and lies sharp enough to keep him alive. He was never supposed to stay.
But then David Wymack shows up after his final game with an offer he didn’t ask for: a spot on a crumbling Division I team. Neil knows he should disappear, like always.
Instead, he hesitates. And that’s all it takes.
Because the past doesn’t like to be ignored — and the moment Neil stops running, it starts to catch up. With it come old ghosts, buried names, and the dangerous possibility of something he’s never really had: a home. In this All For The Game AU, the Foxes play hockey — and Neil never ran.
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Everything’s fine. Then my phone rings.
I want to ignore it and just focus on that ridiculously pretentious cologne of his. I’m content. Christopher and I have been good lately. I had a decent shift — no fatalities, no serious injuries, only four calls. At the end of the day, I picked Chris up from school, we went grocery shopping, and cooked dinner with Buck — he cooked, I peeled the vegetables, Chris set the table. Afterward, we did the dishes, and Chris gave up pretending to care about us and went upstairs to talk to his friends on the phone.
Eventually, it’ll stop ringing, I think.
Buck shifts beside me.
“Eddie,” he murmurs, brushing his knuckles lightly against my arm. “Your phone’s ringing. It’s your mom.”A short look at Eddie Diaz’s mommy issues and Buck’s grief.