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(DISCONTINUED) Walking Along a Knife's Blade by clumsylittlewriter
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
28 Mar 2023
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DISCONTINUED, BEING REWRITTEN
"Andrew felt an ache in his chest at the difference between the Neil Josten he had known and the man standing in front of him. Neil Josten had had a light in his eyes, an excitement and a joy for a game he had sacrificed everything for. Though he had been skittish, and blunt, and sometimes idiotic, he had also had a vigor for life Andrew had never seen before.
The man standing in front of him was cold, calculating, pragmatic. He didn’t do silly, human little things like dream. Where Andrew had become human in the ten years since they had last seen each other, it was as if Neil Josten had done the opposite - chipped away at the pesky shreds of humanity he had left until there was nothing but a blank kind of darkness. It was as if he had ripped away his soul."
(An AU where Stuart does manage to kill Nathan in time, but Neil is whisked off to train as the next Butcher instead of continuing as an exy player. Andrew knows Neil is alive, but is told he just has to move on and forget about the auburn-haired pipe dream that understood him better than anyone else. And he tries to. Oh, how he tries...)