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Neil never expected to have a real passport in the name of Neil Abram Josten. Then again, he never expected to live past eighteen. The witness protection program came in handy, and if his GPA hadn’t been so terrible, he could have built a happy life from scratch at one of the local universities.
Instead, he works as a bartender at Eden's Twilight and occasionally wakes up from nightmares about his dead father or Exy.
And then Kevin Day shows up.
And ruins everything.Bookmarked by astq2837
25 Jul 2026
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Neil runs because it's everything to him, but he also runs because there isn't anything else for him to do. Turns out, freedom and living are foreign concepts to him. Running and survival? Not so much.
He went back to creature comforts, the only ones he'd ever known. What else was he supposed to do? What else was he meant to yearn for? Can't want something you never knew existed, after all.
Enter Andrew Minyard.
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24 Jul 2026
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“What are you planning on doing, Andrew?” Wymack asked him, discarding the piles of paperwork littering the desk and turning his full attention to the conversation at hand.
“Going away.” Andrew told him, lighting up a cigarette and wondering the same thing. He hadn’t figured all the details out but that could be rectified by spending a week in Columbia on his own searching for jobs and apartments. He had enough left in the bank from Tildas’ life insurance to secure a lease until he found work. The only question was where he was heading, he wasn’t interested in sticking around Columbia where he could run into his family.
“You only just got off the meds, have you thought this through?” Wymack asked, leaning back in his chair and scrubbing a hand over his thinning hair. “I know Exy has never been the endgame for you, but I thought you’d stick around for the degree.”
Andrew shrugged carelessly. A degree didn’t mean anything unless you had plans to use it and Andrew wasn’t that committed to his future. “Sorry, coach. Exy just isn’t what I needed it to be any longer."
-Neil was never recruited to the Foxes. Now Andrew must face the world without his drugs and he's not impressed.
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23 Jul 2026
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Neil Josten was done. Done living by his mother's rules. Done being someone he isn't. If he's going to die than so be it but he'll be damned if he dies anything but free and if he causes some chaos along the way well he wasn't raised a saint.
What if Neil was a little more apathetic, a little more sarcastic, and what if he wasn't afraid of himself.
Neil Josten was never supposed to be permanent he was quiet and didn't stand out in the crowd. Nathaniel Wesninski was the son of a killer and that killer taught him the trade, he was too sarcastic, with too much attitude. What happens when Neil learns to be both.Series
- Part 1 of Reluctant Acceptance
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23 Jul 2026
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It’s been two months since he burnt his mother’s body and then buried her bones on a random beach in California, but every night he felt like it had only been hours. Nightmares were mixing with his grief and kept him up at night.
He wondered how long he would survive.
PING!
Neil stilled, scarcely breathing. It sounded like an elevator, or maybe like an alert in a hospital. Like a notification chime. Neil kept his body tensed, ready for whatever made that noise.
‘Error initialising.’
He’s gone insane. The little sleep he’s managed and his grief have converged and melted his brain, because there’s no other explanation for Neil to be seeing words in front of his face right now. “What the fuck?” Neil breathed quietly.
Two months - two months and he’s gone insane without his mother’s harsh guidance.Bookmarked by astq2837
20 Jul 2026