1 - 20 of 286 Bookmarks by delaurent
Navigation
List of Bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
The paper cranes were Betsy’s idea. She’d brought it up to him in one of their sessions and explained that it could be used to help center Andrew during his depressive episodes. At first, Andrew thought it was an incredibly stupid idea. But as usual, Betsy was right. Creating something from nothing but a scrap of paper did help.
Whenever Andrew felt too destructive, too angry, too hollow, the small paper cranes were enough of a distraction for him to get a grasp over himself again.
Andrew is a high school student struggling to juggle his depression, therapy, and discordant family life when he meets the mysterious new student at Palmetto High, Neil Josten, a former runaway that makes Andrew fall fast. As suggested by his therapist, Andrew makes origami cranes to cope with the mounting pressures of life.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 37,489
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 316
- Kudos:
- 1,665
- Bookmarks:
- 370
- Hits:
- 25,816
Bookmarked by delaurent
20 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Andrew Minyard hates his job. Andrew especially hates the pretty boy with stupid auburn hair and stupid blue eyes that comes into the library every day.
Bookmarked by delaurent
20 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Andrew is a Seer, which means he always knows when trouble is coming his way. This time, trouble comes in the form of a man with a sordid past and a charming smile.
Bookmarked by delaurent
20 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Andrew is a barista at Fox Beans Café who is trying to take hold of his life. Neil is a sudden conundrum who’s keen on getting a date with him.
-
A small slice of Andrew’s life in which he takes a step towards something.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,165
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 100
- Kudos:
- 1,372
- Bookmarks:
- 352
- Hits:
- 20,654
Bookmarked by delaurent
18 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“Inception,” says Ichirou Moriyama.
‘You’re crazy,’ Neil does not say, but it’s a close thing. “It can’t be done,” he says instead, after a too long pause.
An Inception AU. Kevin is the best extractor in the game, Neil spends too much time pretending to be other people, and Andrew? Well, Andrew knows all about inception.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 56,831
- Chapters:
- 25/25
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 519
- Kudos:
- 1,543
- Bookmarks:
- 421
- Hits:
- 22,533
Bookmarked by delaurent
16 Nov 2025
-
Follow You Through The Dark by sambutwithbooks for likearecord
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
05 Feb 2022
Tags
Summary
“Don’t say no-”
“No.”
“Andrew-” Aaron shakes the paper a little in frustration before composing himself. “It’s a quiz bowl. Basic trivia. It runs for five consecutive weekends and there’s a prize at the end. I need you and your sponge brain to help me win.”
His brother has asked him for many things since Bee had pulled Andrew aside to tell him he had a doppelganger wandering around San Jose, California causing trouble but this might be the dumbest thing Aaron has ever asked him to do.
----
When Andrew Minyard's twin brother signs them both up to participate in the strangest trivia competition known to man, Andrew agrees to participate under the stipulation that he is the sole recipient of this year's grand prize: three hundred and sixty-five days worth of free ice cream from Sweetie's. Instead, Andrew discovers a connection of his own with fellow loner and competition participant, Neil Josten.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 22,461
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 109
- Kudos:
- 1,683
- Bookmarks:
- 388
- Hits:
- 14,492
Bookmarked by delaurent
13 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Five times Andrew came untouched and one time he got a hand
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 24,990
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 192
- Kudos:
- 1,677
- Bookmarks:
- 273
- Hits:
- 25,091
Bookmarked by delaurent
12 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Neil comes to The Foxhole Court to do one thing: play Exy. But with the stress of avoiding Andrew's interest, meeting Kevin's expectations, and keeping his real identity a secret, he picks up an old habit: baking.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,316
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 135
- Kudos:
- 1,735
- Bookmarks:
- 478
- Hits:
- 18,227
Bookmarked by delaurent
12 Nov 2025
-
The Twelve (ish) Dates of Christmas by eloquence_and_melancholy
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
19 Dec 2022
Tags
Summary
Allison sets Neil up on a variety of blind dates that all take place at a bar where Andrew works.
christmas fluff au
Bookmarked by delaurent
12 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Neil licked his lips and Andrew’s gaze tracked the movement with the efficiency of a predator. Neil glanced at the fangs again, then down to his bare forearm, then to the fuzzy carpet that laid under the coffee table.
“Neil,” Andrew’s voice was firm, demanding complete attention. Neil met his eyes once again, encapsulated, “You can say no.”
Neil shook his head lightly. Took a deep breath.
“I want to,” And he was surprised that he wasn’t lying.
--
Neil accepts a deal to exchange his blood for extra cash. It goes both exactly the way he expects, and veers totally off track.
Series
Bookmarked by delaurent
12 Nov 2025
-
fame and infamy (you're a fairytale to me) by jemwrites
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
05 Sep 2020
Tags
Summary
When Neil, an enormous fan of A.Doe's novels, stumbles into the quaint town of Palmetto, the last thing he expects to do is stay.
And when Andrew, secretly A.Doe himself, meets the town's newest cryptid, the last thing he expects to do is fall.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,705
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 144
- Kudos:
- 1,903
- Bookmarks:
- 434
- Hits:
- 17,958
Bookmarked by delaurent
11 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Neil's new life in New York City is loud and overwhelming. He's barely making things work with a roommate whose just on the edge of too much, a shitty apartment that can't seem to retain any heat, and a never ending job hunt that keeps coming up empty. What he doesn't expect to find in New York is something to keep him from floating away. It ends up finding him anyway.
Series
- Part 1 of Still Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 53,029
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 678
- Kudos:
- 1,959
- Bookmarks:
- 424
- Hits:
- 27,059
Bookmarked by delaurent
11 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Something has to be done. Science is advancing rapidly, creating enemies and weapons that standard security forces can't stand against. People are gaining superpowers, attack robots are being built, dangerous new chemical compounds are being engineered.
SHIELD director David Wymack has an idea: to bring together a group of extraordinary individuals to deal with the threats that no one else can.
He calls it the Avengers Initiative.
Series
- Part 2 of Avengers Assemble
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,276
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Comments:
- 245
- Kudos:
- 1,974
- Bookmarks:
- 306
- Hits:
- 21,062
Bookmarked by delaurent
10 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
They say soul drawings are three things. One: a way to recognize your soulmate. Two: a clue to help you find them. Three: a symbol of what your relationship will mean to each other.
“A key is a hopeful sign, and an interesting juxtaposition with a wild animal’s paw print,” another therapist says to him, years later. Andrew is twelve and he’s never shown this one his soul mark, but it’s in his medical file, like everyone’s is. The doodle of the key, now sharp enough in his mind that even the teeth are the same every time, Andrew let slip by accident.
“A key could mean a lot of things for someone like you,” the man continues. A foster kid, he means. A kid who hasn’t lasted longer than a year in the same household his whole life, he means. “What do you think it might symbolize in your relationship with your soulmate? A place to call home?”
Andrew doesn’t get to have a place to call home. He knows that.
“A door that locks,” Andrew says flatly.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,479
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Comments:
- 144
- Kudos:
- 2,054
- Bookmarks:
- 334
- Hits:
- 14,133
Bookmarked by delaurent
09 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Wymack grunted. “Hey, why don’t I call in takeout from Sweeties and we can eat it in the office? I have a sixteen year old boy in the back of the patrol car right now that I’m running to the station.”
Andrew scoffed quietly to himself and set the phone on speaker to light his cigarette. Muffled, he said, “He better be eye candy if I’m coming to that dump.”
Andrew inhaled deep and closed his eyes for a moment before blowing the smoke out through his teeth. On the other end of the phone, just as he was bringing the cigarette back for another drag, he heard Wymack say, “Hey, my son wants to know if you’re cute.”
Andrew coughed up his lung at that surprise, but he didn’t miss the way that a distant voice piped up with “I want to say yes, sir.”
-
Andrew and Aaron lived under two loose rules after Andrew’s stint in juvie: No more lying, no more secrets. Andrew already had years old secrets to take to the grave, but upon meeting a boy with a fiery attitude and a penchant against staying out of trouble, he quickly realized that he wasn’t the only one.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 146,187
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Comments:
- 401
- Kudos:
- 2,157
- Bookmarks:
- 599
- Hits:
- 71,594
Bookmarked by delaurent
08 Nov 2025
-
gardens /'gärd(ə)n/ by redskiesandsailboats for this_little_lighthouse
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
22 Oct 2020
Tags
Summary
“Andrew,” Renee said, and Andrew allowed himself to lean on her for a split second, only long enough to find his balance. She didn’t waver. “Your nose is bleeding,” she whispered, so he brought a hand up to his face, resisting the urge to lick his lips. His blood was warm against his fingertips.
It felt like his nose was broken.
“Shit,” Neil said again, and Andrew looked up just in time to see an overwhelming amount of dizzying blue eyes and dark auburn curls. He shut his eyes for a moment, but when he opened them again, Neil was still there, vivid and concerned as ever. "Oh god, you're bleeding everywhere."
Andrew spit into the grass at his feet, the taste of copper on his tongue, and said, simply, "Fuck you."
(Or, the one in which Neil is in color guard, Andrew is in drum line, and everyone thinks they hate each other because everyone is literally blind.)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 40,709
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 336
- Kudos:
- 2,155
- Bookmarks:
- 462
- Hits:
- 32,916
Bookmarked by delaurent
01 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
After two years in prison for a crime he absolutely did commit, Andrew has his next heist all planned out. All he needs is a team of thieves as talented as he is.
An Ocean’s Eleven AU where the Foxes like to steal things, Riko owns several casinos, and Andrew has a score to settle.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,416
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 104
- Kudos:
- 2,154
- Bookmarks:
- 542
- Hits:
- 24,671
Bookmarked by delaurent
01 Nov 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Andrew has an unexceptional life working at an IT help desk in Southern California and living with his cousin. Then he gets an unexpected message on his birthday from his estranged twin brother and very strange things start happening. His computer catches fire, two attractive guys seem interested in him, and he keeps imagining that he knows classified CIA intelligence.
These things couldn't possibly be connected... could they?
Series
- Part 6 of Andreil Week 2018
- Part 6 of AFTG Andreil Bingo 2018
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,800
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 163
- Kudos:
- 1,828
- Bookmarks:
- 229
- Hits:
- 18,563
Bookmarked by delaurent
31 Oct 2025
-
Summary
A Stardust AU featuring Neil as a star.
- Words:
- 18,340
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 155
Bookmarked by delaurent
31 Oct 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“I’m not dating anyone,” Neil says. “Andrew and I are just friends.”
“Friends that hold hands and go on dates and make lovey dovey faces at each other in public?” Allison deadpans.
"We're not dating," he insists again. He feels himself deflate in Allison’s embrace and her eyes fall at his expression.
“Trust me,” Neil says quieter. “Because you have no idea how badly I wish we were.”
Or, an extremely ooc andreil high school au! ft. a lot of pining, absolutely no mentions of trauma, and two very oblivious idiots.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,668
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Comments:
- 174
- Kudos:
- 2,205
- Bookmarks:
- 380
- Hits:
- 21,833
Bookmarked by delaurent
31 Oct 2025