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    The one where Andrew makes a perfectly reasonable request and Neil takes it too far like the dumbass he is.

    Or, relationships are complicated and communication is hard. They don't always nail it.

     

    So, Andrew has hit his limit. Neil’s charged silence next to him is so loud that Andrew can’t read over the buzz of it in his ears.

     

    “Get out,” he says, turning to glare at Neil.

     

    Neil blinks at him.

     

    “Whatever stupid thing you’re obsessing over. It’s irritating. I don’t have time to solve your problems for you. Handle it. I have to study.”

     

    Instantly, he realizes it was a mistake. He watches Neil’s face and body shutter up, closing tight like he’s locking down for a hurricane. It took so fucking long to get Neil to open up in the first place. Andrew had to peel him open one truth at a time. Fuck.

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    14 Jan 2025

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    "Hello," Dan said. "I'm sorry to tell you that you're all dead. This is the Afterlife; your placement here is dependent on your actions during your lifetime. Now, I have some exciting news for you-"

    Nathaniel snorted loudly. "You don't expect any of us to actually believe that we made it into the Good Place, do you?"

    "Why not?" asked Dan.

    He jerked his thumb in Andrew's direction. "Well, before you came in, Exhibit A over here had just finished telling us that he died when he crashed a car on purpose in order to kill someone. What's the cutoff for how many murders committed before someone doesn't qualify for the Good Place anymore? Is it more than zero?"

    "Speak for yourselves," cut in Kevin. "I think I deserve to be in the Good Place. I have a large number of devoted fans and am very talented."

    Nathaniel was quiet for a beat, before pointing at Kevin. "Exhibit B."

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    12 Jan 2025

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    “Have you considered the possibility that Neil has chosen you, but believes you have not chosen him?” Renee says. "Have you ever explicitly told him what you want?”

    “Neil knows what I want,” Andrew snaps. This is not Andrew’s fault.

    “How do you know?”

    Because Neil always knows. He is as fluent in Andrew’s micro-expressions as he is in German and French. He knows which head tilts mean “go on” and which ones mean “shut up.” Without ever asking, he learned what it meant to see Andrew wearing double layers of long sleeves, or taking multiple showers in a day, and learned to hand Andrew the car keys.

    That has always been the most terrifying thing about Neil — his patience to wait, watch, listen, learn. The prospect that if Neil were given enough time, there would be no part of Andrew that was just Andrew’s anymore.

    “He has to know,” Andrew says.

    “Does he?” Renee says. “Have you ever known Neil to assume that he is wanted?”

    Five times Neil tells someone that he and Andrew aren’t dating, and one time Andrew uses his words to set the record straight.

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    09 Jan 2025

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    The recorded number of times someone hit on Neil Josten and got nowhere, and the one time Andrew didn't even have to try.

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    07 Jan 2025

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    Three pulls away, wiping his eyes on a gloved hand. He sniffs, wraps his other arm around Peter’s shoulders, and pulls them back together. Peter hopes that somebody’s there to do this for Three at least every now and then—to find him when he needs to be found, to give him a shoulder to cry on. He’s not sure that anybody actually is. He’s not sure that it’s anybody’s fault.

    He looks down at the grave. 

    GWENDOLYN MAXINE STACY

    1996-2014

    BELOVED DAUGHTER

    YOU WERE TAKEN FROM US TOO SOON. WE LOVE YOU ALWAYS.

    (In which Peter Parker has more friends in other universes than in his own. Also, there's a clever, pretty blonde in his Organic Chemistry class.)

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    06 Jan 2022

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    everyone is miserable and about to jump off something