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• A Long Way From Nowhere by Cheese1249

  Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  24 Apr 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard
  • Kevin Day & Neil Josten
  • Aaron Minyard & Andrew Minyard
  • Kevin Day
  • Neil Josten
  • Aaron Minyard
  • Andrew Minyard
  • David Wymack
  • Allison Reynolds (All For The Game)
  • Nicky Hemmick
  • Abby Winfield
  • Betsy Dobson
  • Danielle "Dan" Wilds
  • Matt Boyd
  • Seth Gordon
  • Renee Walker (All For The Game)
  • Alternate Universe
  • Childhood Friends
  • Growing Up
  • Protective Andrew Minyard
  • Protective Neil Josten
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • First Kiss
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Childhood Friends to Lovers
  • No Smut
  • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
  • Non-Graphic Rape/Non-Con
  • Child Abuse
  • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
  • Foster Care
  • Child Abandonment
  • Gay Andrew Minyard
  • Demisexual Neil Josten
  • David Wymack Adopts Neil Josten
  • Betsy Dobson Adopts Aaron Minyard and Andrew Minyard
  • He had no choice
  • She did have a choice!

  Summary

  Neil Josten ran.

  Well, Nathaniel Abram Wesninski ran. He doesn't use that name anymore, though; his mother made sure of that. He hadn't been Nathaniel ever since Mary shoved papers declaring him 'Neil Josten', grabbed his forearm, and ran. It takes her all of two years on the run and multiple close calls before she realizes that they'll never be safe if they stay together.

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  TL;DR
  Mary drops an 8-year-old Neil Josten on the doorstep of one David Wymack. This is his story.

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Start of Staying Put

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,384

  Chapters:

  2/?

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