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Twins run in the family.
Aaron and Katelyn get married after graduating from Palmetto, before they go off to med school together. It takes them pretty far from Andrew, but they work to keep in touch.
In the last year of their four year MDs, Kate gets pregnant — A happy accident. Then, they find out they're having twins, just, holy fuck. Kate is determined to not let it slow her down, though, because she's a bad bitch. Then Andrew suggests that they move closer to him and Neil once they graduate.
This leads to a few long and difficult conversations. Andrew admits that he would like to see Aaron more and to have a relationship with his nieces. Aaron admits that he does miss Andrew being close by and that they could use the extra support. In the end, they agree after Andrew actually apologies to Katelyn for the way he treated her in the beginning.
No one regrets the decision. Aaron and Katelyn are beyond grateful for the support as they start their careers. Andrew absolutely adores his nieces, more so than he ever thought he could. Neil is happy because Andrew is happy.
But it isn't always easy. It's hard because they both see it; the girl are what Andrew and Aaron could have been if they were never separated. If Tilda had been capable of being a good mother to her twins. And it fucking hurts.
Somehow, this pain leads to Aaron planting a seed in Andrew's mind — What if Andrew and Neil were to start fostering? Andrew thinks his brother has finally lost it. It's ludicrous, insane, impossible, but– Is it? Helping foster kids could be nice, and it's not like they can't stop if it's too much.
Once Neil has his own separate crisis about it, they decide to go for it. Andrew and Neil sure as hell know how not to raise a kid and they have yet to completely traumatise any of the kids in their lives. So a fuck ton of paperwork and hoop-jumping later, they find themselves in a group home to see if there's a kid there they can help.
That's when they find not one kid, but two. Tucked away in a corner they find twin girls, maybe a year younger than Aaron's girls, who only speak Russian. They hadn't intended to jump in at the deepend like that, but something about them puts Andrew on alert. So they take the girls home with them.
And it is so, so much harder than they had expected. They had only prepped for one kid, but that's easily fixed. It's not so easy to fix the fact that the girls absolutely do not trust them. But Andrew and Neil are persistent; they don't push for trust, but they make sure to prove to the girls that they are safe at every turn.
Slowly, achingly slowly, the girl start to relax. They start to open up. And Andrew realises something so much worse than the pain that got them here.
Andrew realises that his twins are like him and Aaron too, but if Tilda left them both in the system. They are the real life result of his own worst nightmare.
consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about
been thinking abt “I don’t know how to do anything without you” and “I don’t know how to live” for like 12 hours now. no reason I’m just thinking
Do you ever feel like you’re missing out on so much just because of being who you are and not someone else? Whenever I see a beautiful girl I wonder how it must feel to be that beautiful and if I’ll ever feel like that. Or when I see someone who’s confident and extroverted and I imagine how nice and easy it must be to be that way. Or when I see someone that’s my age who has already accomplished so much or been in so many places and experienced so many things, I can’t help but feel like time is falling from my hands like sand and I’m not getting better or going anywhere. I grew up watching movies and reading stories that made me believe that life was supposed to be constantly exciting and I haven’t felt that way many times and I just feel so stuck being myself. I wish I could be someone else for a while.
" The grass is greener where you water it. "
; just heard this quote and like,, um okay. Way to break my mind, destroy my thought process and make me rethink everything ?? Thanks for that ?? /pos
who even cares about cringe anymore. write self-insert fanfiction. draw art of yourself meeting your favorite character. write something as tropey and purple prose-y and nonsensical as you want just because it's fun. get emotionally invested in media other people think is dumb. save up for three years to buy the custom fursuit you've always dreamed of having. write a TTRPG campaign where you just blatantly rip off your favorite parts of your favorite media. make crossovers for media there's no logical reason to see crossover just because you like both of them. put on a homemade cosplay and make tiktok lip-sync videos to songs that remind you of the character. write your favorite character/YN fanfiction. join a community theatre and sing your heart out in the ensemble even if you're singing badly. be a furry or a kinkster or a cosplayer or a theatre kid or a nerd or whatever makes you happy even if other people think it's "cringe"
care about things dammit!!!! get invested in things!!! feel feel FEEL!!!! so much of what people call "cringe" is just having emotions and caring about things. fuck them!!! FEEL EMOTIONS YOU NEED TO LET YOURSELF FEEL OR YOUR HEART WILL WITHER AWAY AND YOU'LL THINK EMOTIONS ARE DUMB AND APATHY IS COOL. BUT IT IS NOT. FUCK APATHY. CRY ABOUT A SQUISHED BUG. YELL WITH EXCITEMENT BECAUSE YOU BEAT A NEW LEVEL IN A VIDEO GAME. GREET YOUR FRIENDS LIKE YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THEM IN 20 YEARS EVEN IF YOU SAW THEM YESTERDAY. I DON'T EVEN CARE WHAT YOU FEEL YOU JUST HAVE TO FEEL IT