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  1. Public Bookmark 68

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    He just wanted a mocha with too much sugar. Instead, he found a dark bookstore run by a man who doesn't know how light switches work and a dog that looks like it eats intruders for breakfast.

    Neil is a walking disaster who doesn't realize he’s being watched. Andrew is a man who watches everything and feels nothing—until now. The Foxes are still broken, the "reunions" are still a nightmare, and Andrew is pretty sure the book he just bought is poorly edited.

    But he’s going back tomorrow. Not for the book. For the "bat."

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    A universe where Neil never joined the foxes and now we follow a depressive (not new..) post graduation and pro Exy goaly Andrew as he discovers a newly oppened bookstore owned by a traumatized Neil Josten who this time very much lost his vision in Baltimore ;b

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    13 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 15

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    "Hi dad, do you have one of those granola-" Kevin noticed Neil at the same time as Neil turned around in a panicked flourish. Neil stiffened at the sight of Kevin, as if he was almost bracing for impact. Kevin's face in turn shifted from surprise, to recognition, to sheer disbelief, to something like solace.

    Only one second later,Kevins was running forward and his arms wrapped around Neil in a hug so tight that it looked painful. Kevin was fresh off a growthspurt and had to bend his back to be leveled with Neil, but he didn't seem to mind; his only focus was on the boy he was currently engulfing. Neil was tense for only a moment before hugging back with the same ferocit

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    Six months after Mary's death, thirteen year old Neil gets taken in by Kevin's family where he'll maybe learn how to be safe for the first time.

     

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    It's fics like this that let you know the author used to be really into the DreamSMP/j

    Title from the song Dreams by the cranberries

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    11 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 70

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    Neil has been on the run since the day he turned into something his father didn’t want, but losing his mother changed everything. Neil can’t survive on his own, he just isn’t strong enough, the only tool he has left in his arsenal is to stay shifted, remain a wild animal for as long as possible. He only gets drawn into a populated area because he’s starving, and he only stays for a little bit because he can’t help but be intrigued. Then Kevin fucking Day gets involved, and suddenly Neil is stuck.

    Injured, paranoid, and trapped in the body of an animal, Neil is at the mercy of the foxes’ kindness. And he’s never been one to put faith in the kindness of others. But the foxes are, in their strange ways, kind; Abby is firm in her care, Wymack is gruff in his concern, and Andrew is hilariously blasé in his curious interest. But Neil is running for a reason, even if he’s not sure he wants to run anymore.

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    11 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 77

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    After Mary's death, Neil knew he had to keep running.
    He had promised his mother.
    But what happens when Wymack goes to Millport and recruits two boys with more trauma than sense and a desperate need for contact? How will the other Foxes react?

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    10 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 13

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    Three and Ten are raised in a lab and have yet to see the sun. At night, they make-believe their names are Andrew and Neil and nobody can hurt them.

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    09 May 2026