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When I Want Something Else From You by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
08 Jun 2025
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Aaron doesn’t mean for it to happen. It’s important that that is firmly established.
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In the midst of his own failed relationship and the downward spiral of his brother's mental health, Aaron finds himself developing feelings for the one person he never thought he would. The one person he really, really shouldn't.
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'Til We Get It Right by sambutwithbooks for Mercey
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
19 Feb 2024
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If they were other people, if this were some other time, Kevin could reach over with his scarred left hand and cup those similar scars on Neil’s cheek until he’s looking back at him. If they were anything but what they are now, Kevin would know what Neil’s mouth tastes like, what noises he makes when he’s kissed.
“Is Neil available?” Nicky’s voice haunts him, the question under his skin like a splinter of wood he can’t dig out.
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Nine Times Kevin Wished He and Neil Were Something More (And One Time They Finally Did Something About It)
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Snowflakes In My Stomach When We're Kissin' by sambutwithbooks for KweenDay
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
20 Dec 2023
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The delivery man knocks again, an impatient rat-tat-tat that has Kevin grinding his teeth as he opens the door and-
It's not his takeout delivery.
Neil Josten is standing in his doorway.
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It's Christmas Eve and for the first time in three years, Kevin is on his own. Alone and trying to make the best of it, Kevin isn't prepared for Neil to show up at his doorstep- especially since Kevin has been trying so hard to avoid him.
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"You never told us you went to Evergreen," Dan says, hands on her hips like she's someone's backyard barbeque dad.
Went to Evergreen. It's such a funny way of putting the hours of frightened travel, of handcuffs and screaming men and a dark bag over his head until civilization was a distant dream and there was nobody around to hear him cry and beg for help.
Nicky went to Evergreen the way Neil went to Evermore- shackled and owned.
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Nicky is already having a massively bad day when he lets slip to one of the rookies which camp his parents sent him to. Unfortunately for him, that rookie recognizes the name and Nicky is forced to deal with the reality of what happened to him instead of deflecting it away.
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Andrew breaks his arm two games into the season and it feels a little bit like Neil’s world snaps with it.
(A snapshot of Neil and Andrew between Andrew coming home from the hospital and going back home to Palmetto State.)
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Written for the AFTG Then & Now Fest prompt from alcego: Andrew breaks his arm. They deal with everything that follows.
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The first person to tell Neil they love him is actually Matt.
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An AU/companion piece to "Like Holding A Knife By The Blade" where Andrew is the one to say "I Love You" first this time.
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Dialing Numbers Till I Get It Wrong by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
25 Sep 2023
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Aaron knows in his bones that Neil wouldn't have his number in any other circumstance. Their current forms of communication involve pointed silence, cursing, and exy terminology only- if they ever willingly started up a textual conversation the world might literally fold in on itself.
This is why, when his phone buzzes with a text from Neil on Thursday afternoon, Aaron's first response is annoyance at Neil for breaking the status quo. They’ve got a vibe going and this is harshing it, thanks.
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Aaron gets a confusing text from Neil one afternoon and proceeds to have a crisis about it.
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"Talk to me, Andrew- I thought you were getting better-"
Better. It's like a lit match to kerosine- Andrew slams his hands down on the counter, crushing the chips before he sweeps them across the room. Better.
Better- like Andrew is something to be fixed. That he even can be fixed. Nobody understands how hard he is trying but everyone can tell when he backslides- Abby, Wymack, the other Foxes, and even his own family have a silent language they use when Andrew Minyard is being a fucking problem again.
He is so sick of being this vulnerable, he-
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Companion piece to Who You Were Before. Andrew's PoV post-nightmare: where he goes, and how he finds his way back home.
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- Part 2 of On The Edge Of A Night
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There’s a ring in the bag they give him, along with his soiled uniform.
The blood doesn’t bother him, even if his stomach clenches as he remembers that it’s his-it's the ring on a chain that snags his attention and holds it.
A wedding ring.
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Fifteen years post-canon, an accident on the court wipes Neil and their life together from Andrew's memory. It takes a while for him to find his way back to it.
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But I Have Twice The Heart by sambutwithbooks for dayurno
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
31 Jan 2023
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Kevin Day has the longest legs Andrew has ever seen.
Whether he’s striding briskly across the unkempt stretch of grass their school calls a yard or hitching them up around Andrew’s hips as they grind together in the back of his car, they’re one of Andrew’s favorite parts of him.
________With the end of their senior year fast approaching, Kevin Day has been sneaking around with Andrew Minyard for months. They both know their time together is limited between Kevin's big dreams of going to Harvard in the fall and Andrew's complete lack of any, but the longer they spend together, the harder it becomes to let go.
Things get even more complicated when the Moriyamas- Kevin's adoptive family- figure out what Kevin has been up to and tighten their hold on him.
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But I Can Try (If You Like It) by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
30 Oct 2022
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Opening the door felt like the rush of every bad decision Neena had ever made. She knew she thrived on adrenaline; she loved to make risky plays on the field and craved the thrill of a getaway in a car that could barely hold her.
Drew Minyard felt like every one of those feelings to her. An apple with the metallic tang of the knife used to cut it. Like waving your hand over the open flame of a candle, never quite feeling the burn.
Drew was leaning against the door frame, the bulges of her muscled arms on full display from the sleeveless tank she was still wearing. Her hair was mussed but mostly dry and there was a hint of minty freshness in the air around her- like Drew had popped a piece of gum into her mouth moments before Neena had opened the door.
She blew a tiny bubble and asked, "Tired?"
Neena shook her head and stepped back, sleeping the last thing on her mind. "Not in the slightest, come in."
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Neena and Kevina's relationship falters after the hook-up at the house party. Against her better judgement, Drew makes a move.
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Make Me Believe That You Need Me Most by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
31 Jul 2022
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The problem was that Kevin expected exy to be enough.
Most people went through life without finding a calling, without a modicum of the talent Andrew had and still found ways to live normal, fulfilling lives.
Exy- and the comfortable life it offered- should have been enough to tempt and satisfy any rational person.
And maybe that was his first mistake- believing that Andrew was a rational person.
---An AFTG bot spat out the "it's fun telling Kevin no" line on Twitter and I was like "haha that's going to tempt me to write a delayed gratification kandrew fic one day" and like the self-fulfilling prophecy it was, it did.
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Waste had been a concept his mother had hated when they’d been on the run together. Five million dollars had probably seemed like a lot to most people but Mary had taken them on the run from a man with far-reaching hands and a burning desire to see them dead at his hands.
Fake passports cost money. Hair dye and coloured contacts and items that changed the shapes of their faces just enough to trick security cameras? Cost money. Simply surviving had quickly made their fortune dwindle down to the dregs before Seattle.
Before that though, Neil had learned how to repair holes in his clothes before he’d mastered fractions, had learned how to stretch out everything he owned until there was no other choice but to toss it. Even his contacts had gone through more than their recommended usage when Neil had been unable to get a new pair.
But food? Wasting food was unforgivable.
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Neil Josten and the power of food and friendship.
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Follow You Through The Dark by sambutwithbooks for likearecord
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
05 Feb 2022
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“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.
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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.
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"It looks like someone got you with a knife-" The words die in his throat as the night comes together in a sharp, horrifying sort of clarity. He can barely speak the idea into existence when he says, "wait- did Andrew do this to you?"
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After a bad night, Neil comes to Aaron for help.
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- Part 1 of On The Edge Of A Night
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Like Holding A Knife By The Blade by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
10 Nov 2021
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“Rough day?” Neil asks, the upturn of his tone making it into a question. He’s being handled with kid gloves and the itching feeling under his skin ignites into fury. When Neil goes to reach for the half-finished cigarette, Andrew jerks his hand away with a scowl.
“Guess that answers that,” Neil says, too at ease in the face of his childishness. “What’s wrong?”
Andrew makes a noise, something derisive and mean. He’s been on edge for days now, the loop of Neil’s voice playing between his ears- how casual and sincere he’d sounded despite the lie on his lips.
I love you.
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Neil has Feelings and Andrew has Feelings about those Feelings.
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The Last Warm Hand To Hold You by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
18 Oct 2021
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When Kevin Day warns him that the Moriyamas will send a monster to collect their star investment, Andrew expects something beastly.
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Five Times Andrew Asks Neil To Bite Him and One Time He Finally Does
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Written for Len's prompt of "awkward soulmate first meeting/ meet ugly" for the 2021 Fall Exchange.
Five Universes Where Andrew and Neil Almost Fuck It Up and One Universe Someone Knew They'd Figure It Out All Along
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Playing Dress Up At My House by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
21 Sep 2021
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“Most of the time people come to college parties to, you know….hook up.”
Neena scoffs. “Believe me, I know. That display downstairs between Allison and Seth was tame tonight. This is the third party we’ve been to this week and I’m already dreading their make-up sex.”
She pauses to rub her fingers through the shorn hair at the side of her head. “I’ve never done that. Hooked up, I mean. Strangers don’t appeal to me.”
Kevina’s brain whirls, a tiny voice repeating 'I’m not a stranger' just as her mouth flies away from her. “Do you want to?”
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Reunited at college after being tragically separated when they were kids, Kevina Day wants her childhood best friend and crush back at her side. On the lacrosse field, at college and anywhere else she can have her.
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From What I've Tasted Of Desire by sambutwithbooks
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
31 Jul 2021
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Kevin dug his heels into the floor of the here and now the way he would've in that fantasy timeline, clenched his fingers the way he would've if he'd had the chance to grip Neil's finely muscled thighs and press up into the heat of him.
His hips twitched when his fingertips hit the top of his joggers and it was at that moment that Kevin realized two things: that he was almost unbearably horny and that Andrew was watching him.
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Kevin and Andrew finally settle the score but Kevin still feels like he has a lot of catching up to do. Neil, as usual, helps and a deal is made. (More Implied Kandreil.)
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- Part 2 of Outrunning The Dark