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Kevin is used to pain. Used to the burn in his lungs, the ache in his shoulders, the sharp bite of muscles pushed past what they were ever meant to endure. Pain is familiar. Pain is controllable. Pain is the price of excellence Kevin has always paid without hesitation.
But this pain was another beast. It isn’t the clean pain of impact or the manageable throb of overuse. This pain was bright, blinding, catastrophic. It’s a lightning strike that starts in his lower back and radiates outward. Down his legs. Up his neck. Sharp enough to steal his thoughts.
Andrew drops to a crouch, hands hovering helplessly. His face is pale, eyes holding barely concealed terror. “Don’t move,” he says quickly. “The medics are coming.”
Kevin swallows hard. “I- I can’t,” he admits, the words tearing out of him before he can stop them. His voice shakes. He hates that. “My back-”
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“We’re supposed to play Court together, remember? The three of us.” A pitiful moaned escaped Neil’s throat as he leaned down and laid his head on Kevin’s chest “You can’t leave me” Neil whispered, with a type a desperate panic Kevin is not sure he’s heard from him before “Please”
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Kevin has been lost to the world for long enough, and he is tired of wasting time.
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They could all hear the struggle happening a room away.
“Neil drop it! STOP.”
“You’re not gonna throw a chair at me”
“I’ll do it. I swear to god.”
A manic laugh filled the air.
“DROP IT RIGHT NOW!”
Or: Kevin forgets an essential piece of Neil's food order so Neil must enact revenge, he must.
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Kevin wanted to cry. He wanted to cry for his dad to find him. He wanted to cry for Andrew because he looked dead, slumped against the wheel. He wanted to cry because he didn't try hard enough to warn Neil, who’s now unconscious on the cement road, possibly dead too.
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Kevin grew up in the spotlight, he was used to fan encounters. But when he catches the eye of a certain fan that seems too watchful, Kevin doesn’t realize that he’s become prey until it's too late.
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Riko’s birthday is coming up and usually Kevin would be fine, it’s just another day now that he’s dead. But an interviewer asks questions that bring up some harsh memories that lead to an unforgiving domino effect. Kevin is trying to swim in an ocean that is trying to swallow him whole.
Neil and Andrew try to keep Kevin afloat but only so much can help when the waves keep pushing you down.
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I Am Willing to Eat What the Vultures Will Not by maxworm
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
22 Feb 2026
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Andrew, already, could see a lot of his younger self in Olwen. She had hair so blond it was almost white, and an almost entirely blank look on her face. Her eyes were brown, too, though a much, much darker brown than Andrew and Aaron’s. Maybe Olwen got them from her mother. Andrew’s eyes, in the sunlight, sometimes looked more gold than brown, according to Neil’s disgustingly flattering words. Olwen’s were duller and darker, like maybe, at one point, they could have been the same as Andrew’s, but had been stained by the rottenness of humankind.
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After practice one day, Nicky gets a call from a social worker, asking him if he is available to take in one more Minyard—a nine-year-old girl named Olwen, and Andrew and Aaron's half-sister. They take her in without hesitation. It doesn't take long for Andrew to realize he understands Olwen all too much, and Aaron is quickly terrified that he doesn't understand her enough.Bookmarked by tropicalblend
23 Feb 2026
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The room was a hazy grey, the tears in his lashes blurred it further. Kevin forced normal breaths down his throat and walked to Jean's bed. In the pale light he looked at Jean's face, tucked and hidden by his arms.
Unthinking, Kevin touched his cheek and smeared him red.
Pain jolted up his left hand side.
He woke Jean up.
Or, Kevin takes Jean with him when he flees Evermore.
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22 Feb 2026
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so forgive me if i jump (at the rattle of your keys) by ver_lia
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
21 Feb 2026
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"Would you come if it were a request and not an order anyway?"
If he’d asked, truly asked, I want to see you topped with please, Jean would have cursed him out and jumped on the first plane to South Carolina. And perhaps I guess you could come here is not a stern come to Palmetto that it could have been, but it is not good enough, it is not what Jean wants from him. In the end that’s what’s changed the most: Jean can want things now, not as much as his heart would like to, but just enough to expect something honest from Kevin.
Jean brushes his fingers over the ridiculous print of a beret on his brand new sheets and asks, "Is there even a difference in your vocabulary between those two?"
"Is there for you?" Kevin retorts.or, Jean Moreau agrees to visit Palmetto during winter break. It goes about as well as you might expect.
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21 Feb 2026
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He doesn’t remember the hit. Doesn’t remember getting slammed to the boards so hard the plexiglass shook, or the way it felt like time stopped when he had hit the court floor.
He only knows that when he wakes, there's a searing pain in his head and the hushed whisper of voices around him.
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When Kevin gets a concussion during a game, Andrew and Neil are there to look after him.Bookmarked by tropicalblend
19 Feb 2026
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Kevin spirals the foxes support him. Through this he learns he can recover from the damages the ravens have given him. Even that he can fall in love.
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14 Feb 2026