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Slightly belated, but thanks everyone so much for all the glorious, glorious content we’ve had over the last few weeks! There’s a massive range of stuff, so do check it all out and make sure to leave comments, kudos, likes and reblogs!

A Thief and a Liar
Andrew/Neil, Kevin/Jean | 15k

After two years in prison for a crime he absolutely did commit, Andrew has his next heist all planned out. All he needs is a team of thieves as talented as he is.

An Ocean’s Eleven AU where the Foxes like to steal things, Riko owns several casinos, and Andrew has a score to settle.

• Fic by gluupor
  
• Art by c-dragon-art
  

Apart from Your World (A Part of Mine)
Neil/Jean | 17k

David is shipping him off to the Isle of Anglesey and, frankly, Neil could use the time and distance away from an ugly break-up that still hasn’t smoothed over. The problem is, if he isn’t being reminded of his ex (courtesy of working alongside his identical twin brother), then he’s being reminded of the mother who abandoned him (courtesy of their assigned patient who suffers the same affliction she once did).

All around, it’s shaping up to be anything but the trip he signed up for.

• Fic by ApprenticedMagician
  
• Art by llheji 
  

and all the roads will disappear
Andrew/Neil | 19k

He made his decision, jumping head first into the idea with the kind of reckless need-laced spontaneity that had driven him to Palmetto in the first place.

“I should go back,” Neil said, tracing the road that connected Denver to Arizona and then, farther away, California.

Ten years later, Neil’s safe from his past, but he won’t let himself forget. Soon enough it’s just like old times: Neil in a car and the vast stretch of the road straight ahead. Only, Andrew is at his side and Mary is not, and isn’t that the root of the problem?

• Fic by cave_canem
  
• Art by broship-addict 
  

crossed out
Andrew/Neil | 21k

When Neil gets kidnapped in Binghamton, the Butcher sends him to an assassin training program in Russia. He comes back two years later a blank slate programmed to bring Kevin back to the Moriyamas. The Foxes don’t plan to let that happen.

• Fic by flybbfly
  
• Art by aminiyard 

Crazy Ex Boyfriend
Nicky/Erik | 16k

Nicky, a rich lawyer from Seattle, finds himself distressing over the meaningless of life when an old flame shows up and sends him into a craze to find that spark again. He drops everything and moves across the country to follow the man of his dreams.

• Fic by foxes_in_henrietta
  
• Art by whatbutandreil
  

False Equivalence
Neil & Katelyn, Aaron/Katelyn, Andrew/Neil | 22k

Some part of her had known it would come back to Neil. He was the one who had cracked the twins the first time. Of anyone, he was the most likely to have a solution for this as well.

Although the events of the previous year resolved a lot of issues, Katelyn quickly discovers that not every problem has been addressed. As she attempts to map a future in which Aaron has both her and his family, she finds herself once again working with Neil Josten—to unexpected results.

• Fic by sunrise_and_death
  
• Art by vaevitum 
  

finger on the trigger/pedal to the floor
Andrew/Neil | 38k

Neil and Kevin, operatives for the highly secretive US body known only as ‘the Agency’, are very good at their jobs. Maybe Neil isn’t the patriot that Kevin is, but he can recognise the need for people like him, and, if nothing else, he is loyal. However, in the wake of an assassination attempt on the president foiled with the help of talented-but-civilian sniper Andrew Minyard, of the chipped shoulder and the uncanny knack for seeing right through people, Neil begins to question who it is giving him orders.

However, asking questions is a dangerous game. If Neil isn’t careful, he’ll end up dead - or worse than.

• Fic by badacts
  
• Art by lio-zehel
  

Fluke

Andrew/Neil | 13k

Before today, the only things Neil had known about Andrew was that: he was Kevin’s possibly cryptid roommate, he was the only person Kevin knew that actually stood up to Professor Riko when he was being an asshole besides Neil, and that, despite the fact that Kevin and Neil saw each other almost every day, and treated each others’ apartments like they were their own, Neil had never seen him before.

• Fic by vophius
  
• Art by broship-addict
  

Gods Walk Here
Andrew/Neil | 29k

In a place where witches and old gods alike make their home, warring factions of magic are rising to a final stand. Lines have blurred, families have been torn apart and the battle for Kevin Day’s soul is the beginning of the end. Neil Josten doesn’t want to do this, but after several long years, they’ve run out of options. It’s finally time to burn the castle down.

• Fic by CasTheButler
  
• Art by soft-ravenclaw-apollo
  

Groundswell Waves
Andrew/Neil | 18k

By the time the plane lands, Neil has managed to shake off the memory of his mother’s protective grip and urgent hisses. The passengers deboard and the airline employees bid them all a chipper thank you, we hope to see you again.

Neil takes his time, dragging his feet across the washed-out carpets while other people move in big groups around him, talking loudly as they lug their tropical holiday paraphernalia and hop onto the travelator. It’s different, he muses derisively, than all the other times he’s been at an airport, leisurely instead of vigilant.

The airport is old and smells like coconut lotion, and some parts are closed off for renovation. The arrival hall is quiet and dreary except for the rainbow banner that says Welcome to the Aloha State!

(or: Neil moves to a small town in one of Hawaii’s islands, where he works at a beachfront shop, breaks into a public swimming pool, learns how to surf, pillion-rides a motorcycle, and finds a home)

• Fic by ephemeralsky
  
• Art by c-dragon-art 
  

Heart on a Canvas
Andrew/Neil | 20k

Neil is a struggling artist, trying to make a name for himself through his violent, dark paintings. He would happily spend the rest of his life in his studio, covered in paint, if it weren’t for how badly his art is selling, making it hard to make ends meet. He thought he wouldn’t have to rely on his side job anymore as Abram Hatford, his con-man persona, being commissioned by rich people to steal artefacts from other rich people.

What he wasn’t expecting was to be contacted by one Andrew Minyard, rich and without mercy, to get revenge on Riko Moriyama for breaking Kevin Day’s (Minyard’s protegee) painting hand.

Getting close enough to Riko to find his weaknesses is a challenge and Neil is starting to think he bit off more than he could chew.

Not to mention the fact that Andrew has been hiding truths that could mean the end for Neil.

• Fic by dancyon
  
• Art by my-mind-inspiration
  

    

I Want to Believe
Kevin & Aaron | 30k

Aaron Minyard doesn’t think he can be a doctor after all. Instead, he ends up joining the FBI. His assignment? Working with disgraced Bureau star Kevin Day in the so-called X-Files, pursuing cases involving supernatural and extraterrestrial phenomena.It’s been two years, six months since the incident that destroyed Kevin Day’s left hand forced him to run from New York to Quantico. He’s found solace working in the X-Files, but he should have known he wouldn’t be allowed to work alone forever. Aaron’s made it this far in life clawing his way up from the bottom, and he no longer believes in anything he can’t see and fix with his own hands. Kevin Day had it all - a world-class pedigree, a glittering career, fawning academics - and he’s thrown it all away to chase aliens and monsters? Aaron can’t imagine how they’re ever going to work together. Kevin takes one look at his tiny, grumpy, no-field-experience new partner and agrees.

Somehow, it might be exactly what both of them needed.

• Fic by a_case_for_wonder
  
• Art by kitshunette
  

Maybe it was the Zombies
Andrew/Neil | 45k

“Turn it off. I can’t watch this any longer,” Matt said.

“We need to know what’s going on,” Andrew replied flatly.

“Andrew, we know what’s going on – the fucking world is ending. I don’t want to see it anymore.” Matt grabbed the remote off the couch beside Neil and flicked the TV off. Andrew didn’t move to stop him.

Near the end of Neil’s last year at Palmetto, an outbreak of a disease, nicknamed the Brazilian Fever, throws the world into anarchy when the diseased bodies that started piling up acquired a hunger for flesh. With so much on the line, Neil and the rest of the Foxes decide Palmetto isn’t safe anymore. While decked out in orange and Exy sticks, there’s zombies, violence, enemies dead and alive, and the underlying need for survival.

• Fic by ennui_ephemera
  
• Art by cats-are-assholes

Piece of Cake
Kevin/Andrew/Neil | ??k

Kevin Day is an FBI agent working in the Art Theft division. Sent on a case in Chicago to investigate the theft of La Danceuse, a famous impressionist painting, he meets again with Andrew and Neil, old friends from college with which he cut contact when he left for Ireland seven years prior. Andrew now owns a cake shop called The Foxpile, and Neil works as a consulting accountant. They both take it upon themselves to stuff him with cake and tea.

• Fic by elysabeth
• Art by suolasin
  

Qui N'Avance Pas, Recule
Jean/Andrew/Neil | 36k

Upon reaching a breaking point, a young Nathaniel flees the Nest with his partner in tow to start life anew as Neil in Marseille with Jean ever at his side. It’s not an easy life, not when they often have to lie and steal (or worse) to survive, but they’re together.

Upon a dare, Andrew Minyard joined the FBI instead of going pro with Exy – and is still involved in the world of the Moriyamas, in tearing down their empire. Now he has the best chance to break apart its foundations, and to do that he needs the help of a certain pair of criminals.

• Fic by nekojita
  
• Art by kurakaw
  

Remind me I’m not home
Andrew/Neil | 43k

“My body is in ruins but so is your mind.”

Natalia Wesninski did not like her body or her mind. That’s why she ran away.

Three years later she is Neil Josten and her past is finally catching up to her.

Fiancés aren’t forgiving, changing and accepting yourself is hard, exy is still rough, and the only reprieve he gets is on the field and in the eyes of someone sworn to protect him.

• Fic by queenofseventeen
  
• Art by mistykaru
  

 

Sara means Sun
Alvarez/Laila | 28k

Five years ago, ships with black and red sails appeared on the horizon and wiped out all of the royal family - except one. The Raven King conquered Coralia and is doing everything he can to stay in power. Jeremy of Troia, the rightful heir to his kingdom, has been in hiding for the past five years, but he found something worth fighting for. 

Laila, an Elven Warrior and Jeremy’s best friend, will do anything to protect him. Meeting a cute stranger isn’t going to change that.

• Fic by booksareourlove
  
• Art by sisaloofafump
  

Something, Nothing & Everything
Neil/Andrew | 140k

Neil Josten is yet another name in a long list of identities used to hide a boy long since dead from a past blood had been spilled to forget. Essentially, he is and always will be nothing. And yet there has always been one thing that made Neil Josten real: music. After his mother’s death, music and singing were the only things tying him the threads of reality by the strap of a well-worn guitar. Too bad he’s pretty sure that it’s also going to be the thing to kill him. Especially when Kevin Day, international rock star and blast of Neil’s past comes waltzing back into his life demanding he joins the upstart and infamous band EXY as its new vocalist. To make matters worse, Kevin’s unofficial shadow, Andrew Minyard with a rap sheet taller than he is has taken an interest in the lie that Neil Josten and has made it his mission to uncover the bloodied truth that lies beneath.

By all accounts, Neil should just pick up his guitar and disappear like he’s done so many times before, but the chance to be real and seen is almost enough for him to plant his feet for the first time in 11 years he’s been running. Going into the spotlight means certain death, but Neil’s just not so sure that leaving it would mean anything different.

• Fic by thebashfulpoet
  
• Art by uzea-ke

stars may collide
Andrew/Neil | 20k

Moonlighting as Abram, member of the city’s crime-fighting Foxes, Neil is doing a very bad job at staying under the radar. He’s busy enough between his friends, patrol, and bickering with Andrew at work, but with the Ravens gang finally within reach and the reappearance of the Monster, he might have bitten more than he can chew.

(Or, how both Neil and Andrew accidentally fall in love with the same person twice. Lame.)

• Fic by broship_addict
  
• Art by llheji
  

Sunday in a six-day war
Andrew/Neil | 37k

Andrew is a detective with a sixth sense for the supernatural beings in the city and he stumbles upon Neil Josten, a psychic on the run. He takes him in and makes him his associate, Neil’s talents aid them in their cases. They work for the police department under Chief David Wymack in order to keep the city’s crime as low as they can. At least until Riko Moriyama, the alleged most powerful sorcerer in the world appears to claim back what was once promised to be his.

• Fic by YunaDragneel
  
• Art by kurakaw
  

ten of swords
Neil/Jean | 22k

Riko sank into the throne, as the people threw blossom petals and maple leaves onto the ground where they stood, screaming for the new era of peace of harmony and of prosper- as if Riko, the new King of the Moriyama Empire, would be the one to bring about the prophesised Golden Age.

Riko silenced them with a single gesture, hand raised, fingers splayed. Jean was afraid to breathe. Kevin looked like he couldn’t breathe at all.

All eyes were on Riko and his servants behind him.

“My people,” he said grandly, with a shark-like grin, “your change has come.”

and the people roared.

• Fic by nexusaurorae
  
• Art by uzea-ke
  

The Home We Built
Kevin/Aaron | 31k

Aaron and Katelyn decide they want to have kids, and ask Kevin to be their sperm donor. When Aaron finds himself faced with raising the twins alone, Kevin steps in to help.

• Fic by MakeBreakfastNotWar
  
• Art by heybay101
  

The Proposal
Andrew/Neil | 52k

Andrew said he was engaged to Neil to get Nicky to stop telling him he would die alone. Now, Nicky is expecting Andrew to bring Neil to Columbia to meet them all. Meanwhile, Neil just found out he’s going to be deported. Even though they can’t stand each other, Andrew makes Neil a deal. If Neil visits Andrew’s family and convinces them that they’re really engaged, Andrew will marry him and convince the investigator on Neil’s case that they’re in love. But if they’re going to convince anyone, they’ll need to learn a lot about each other.

• Fic by palmettofoxden
  
• Art by neenya
  

The pros and cons of incest: An illustrated guide by the Greek Gods.
Renee/Allison | 15k

In the end, they draw straws; Allison and Dan and Seth, the oldest and the youngest pitted against each other. Some would say it was a game of chance, of luck, but they all knew it was something bigger, something more- that F word no-one dared to utter. They take their straws, their life sentences, and retreat to the corners that are now their worlds. Dan goes to the sky, to the throne on Olympus as bright as her smile and the lightning bolt at her waist; she goes with a laugh and a good natured slap on each of their shoulders. Seth submerges himself in the ocean with choice curses, as salty as the water that is now his kingdom; it is a gift, but he is determined to make it a prison. And Allison- she goes back into the darkness, to the cradle they call the Underworld. It is as familiar as it is not, comforting as it is unnerving, and she settles on her throne. Smiles out at this place she can now call home.

And feels, in the warmth that envelopes her body, that it smiles back.

A story in which Allison is Hades, Renee is Persephone, and some things are not as the myth said they were (others, unfortunately, are).

• Fic by IceBreeze
  
• Art by ghostinas 
  

The Real Folk Blues
Andrew/Neil | 42k

Captain David Wymack and the bounty hunter crew of the Bebop spaceship might be a little out of their depths chasing down the infamous hacker and notorious runaway Neil Wesninski, whose bounty exceeds even Kevin’s wildest dreams. Worst of all, Andrew might actually enjoy it.

• Fic by moonix
  
• Art by louviart, part two
  

Tragic by Association
Andrew/Neil | 16k

Andrew had barely allowed himself to trust the Spear household that had taken him and Aaron in before it was shattered by the arrival of a nightmare in the form of Cass’s son, Drake.

Chris had just watched Mary die and wanted nothing more than to settle down for a number of months until he recovered. He finds himself growing attached to the life that Christopher Wilson leads, which leads to him overstaying his welcome.

One can’t be sure if the two of them meeting was a good thing or not.

• Fic by Robin_Hood
  
• Art by ibncenna
  

Two Bros Five Feet Apart
Jeremy/Jean | 27k

Jeremy sniffed as he looked at his computer screen and the email he had just opened up. Every colourful picture and excited blurb just another stab to his tattered heart. And there at the bottom, the biggest blow of all, “non-refundable.”

He sighed and slammed his laptop shut, not caring that his rough treatment could damage it. Right now, he wanted to damage something. A significant portion of his savings had gone into these tickets and now he had nothing to show for it, no girlfriend, no awesome vacation, and absolutely zero chill.

Jeremy’s girlfriend dumps him on the eve of a romantic vacation. Jean fills in.

• Fic by Leahlisabeth
  
• Art by jojen_hewitt (On tumblr: part one, part two, part three)
  

Unbecoming
Ichirou/Kevin | 17k

Loneliness wasn’t something Kevin was accustomed to. He’d never been alone for extended periods of time before. First it was Riko, then it was Andrew.

Now, with Riko gone and Andrew focusing far more time on Neil, Kevin feels like he could be drowning in a future alone that he’d never had to deal with before. In a sea of negative feelings, he’s drowning.

No one expected his lifeboat to come in the form of Ichirou Moriyama.

Especially not when his attempt at surviving had been born of desperation and lies that hadn’t been fallen for.

• Fic by FireflyHannah
  
• Art by still-waiting-for-godot
  

Under a Sea of Mist
Andrew/Neil | 49k

For a thousand years the Lord Ruler has reigned over the Final Empire. Ash falls from the sky and strange mists shroud the night. The skaa labour in the fields and the nobility dance in their Keeps, their glittering lights blinding them to the cruelty in their hearts.

The skaa rebellion is a fantasy and Neil knows it. The Lord Ruler is immortal; there’s no overthrowing him. It’s as much a surprise to him as anyone else when he gets recruited. But as he gets drawn deeper into the plot, he starts to discover things that will change their understanding of magic forever.

There’s always another secret.

• Fic by puddlejumper99
  
• Art by captain-ferid
  

we’ll survive, you and I
Neil/Jean | 51k

“don’t cry, love,” he whispered. jean hadn’t even realized there were tears running down his face. “some things, once you’ve loved them, become yours forever.”

(disillusioned and faithless, jean moreau moves to new york with kevin day after his family was killed in the great war. he’s perfectly fine with his stagnant life now; even if the number on his cheek will always remind him of it, his days in the navy are behind him, and there won’t be another war for a while.

but the twenties are roaring, alcohol is banned but no one really listens, and their next-door neighbor is filthy rich and equally mysterious. jean inexplicably finds himself learning how to heal and love the world again).

• Fic by hiraethia
  
• Art by exyart
  

Winged Flame & Flowering Heart
Andrew/Neil | 107k

As the resident witch of a nameless town on the fringe between civilisation and the lawless dragonlands, Neil has made himself a nice little home. He is safely anonymous, and two mountain ranges away from the family who made his life hell. He has work, friends, even an occasional lover in one of the dragon-herders when he’s in need of company. But his comfortable routine and home are all threatened with rumours of a danger to the dragon herds, something hurting and killing them without explanation. As a witch raised on his father’s cruel breeding farm, he could be the only one to find the cause of it, and to treat it. But doing so may start a deadly chain-reaction to destroy all he has built, and all those he holds dear.

• Fic by SpangleBangle
  
• Art by syrren
  

 

Witch AU

• Art by flowerlezbian
  

won’t let you fall apart
Allison/Katelyn | 15k

During the first game of the new basketball season, a new member of the Vixens catches Allison’s eye. Unfortunately, she seems to be very close to one of the male members of the squad, Aaron Minyard. At least Allison can pursue her friendship. Besides, Allison was straight. Well, at least she thought she was.

• Fic by Jules1398
  

 

yesterday (was hard on all of us)

Andrew/Neil | 15k

The Foxes are the most successful, most dangerous team of agents in the FBI, with a record number of arrests set well above the norm. When a witness tattles on Riko Moriyama’s current violent pastimes, they jet off to an almost nonexistent state to bust up his mini-gang and rescue Jean Moreau from certain death at the hands of his captor. The team is on the clock, and Neil knows better than anyone that if Riko finds out that they’re on his tail, he’ll be in the wind and Jean will be gone forever.

But then Riko offers the Foxes a deal.

• Fic by alaseux
  
• Art by mariesghostsart