#a timeline of abram (and Andrew’s) comfort

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Anyway onto the juicy stuff

Okay so. Evermore and Palmetto both have glove etiquette, but in Evermore Nathaniel never had to worry about it, because he was expected to constantly be wearing gloves from first day he’s able to after getting nasty scars on his hands. Except for when he’s working or helping Nathan work. The nobles and specifically Prince Riko made it clear that they had no desire to see how ugly his hands were. (This is also why he has a habit of wearing a little of his hair down on the left side; it helped cover the scars on his cheek that ruined his pretty complexion.)

Then he comes to Palmetto and Day introduces him to a whole new set of rules. Gloves are a common and important part of dress and fashion, but people are also able to decide whether or not to wear them at any given time. The only real rules on gloves are when not to wear them; you always take off gloves to eat or drink, and to offer your hand in greeting or service.

Nathaniel gets to kind of ease into it; he’s not around anyone important enough to need to offer proper greeting or help, so mostly he takes his gloves off to eat in the servants quarters, where he doesn’t deal with more than curious glances. There’s a lingering fear of letting anyone important see his hands, no matter what Day says to assure him otherwise.

Then Nathaniel becomes the prince’s guard. Nothing changes for a while - the prince has always been more self-sufficient than most - until one day Nathaniel sees the prince eyeing the fall from his horse. (Really Andrew is trying to get up the courage to dismount, because even if the fall isn’t actually an issue for him, his fear of heights sometimes catches up to him when dismounting horses.) Nathaniel understands by now that he’s allowed and expected to help, so he reaches out - and remembers. He’s also acutely aware that the prince hasn’t yet seen his hands, then also also acutely aware of how serious Day was about the proper etiquette, and slips off his glove. The prince gives his hand a curious look, but accepts the help and all but crushes Nathaniel’s hand in his as he finally makes the fall. Even on the ground, though, he doesn’t let go quickly. Instead, the prince’s thumb brushes once across the back of Abram’s hand and he turns his hold, pulling Nathaniel’s hand up to examine it. The only thing keeping Nathaniel in place is the bone-deep instinct that he isn’t to deny anyone, especially a prince. Maybe the prince would decide he didn’t actually want to see Nathaniel’s hands and Nathaniel could go back to wearing his gloves with little more than a strike to the cheek for making the prince look at them.

But the prince does no such thing. He drops Nathaniel’s hand and continues on as normal. Nathaniel does his best to do the same, but that’s probably the first kind skin to skin contact he’s had in years. He isn’t recovering as quickly as he imagines he should.

(Meanwhile Andrew was NOT about to let an opportunity to hold Nathaniel’s hand slip like that, and he finds that he doesn’t mind the roughness. Most other guards were pulled from a much more privileged crowd - usually who had some callouses or scratches at most. Nathaniel’s hands show Andrew that this one isn’t all bark and no bite. Andrew… really likes them.)

Gradually, Nathaniel (likely soon or now Abram) gets used to taking off his gloves. He doesn’t without reason, it takes him a while not to feel naked without them, but it only takes a few more instances for him to realize that the prince truly doesn’t mind his scars. Helping the prince from his horse becomes easy habit (GS isn’t necessarily tall, but neither is Andrew. No step stool = Abram’s help).

Maybe there’s even a few times Abram is completely gloveless when he’s around only Day or the prince. He finds himself hiding his hands subconsciously when he’s not thinking about it, but he’s never once told to cover up.

Then Abram is kidnapped, taken back to Evermore. All the same rules are enforced and more. In this case, gloves aren’t all that different or upsetting. That much is okay.

It’s when he gets back that things change. Since he’s blind for a while, he’s relying much more on touch and hearing. It’s also a good tactile reminder; if he were still in Evermore, he would never be bare handed. This is when he truly gets used to not wearing gloves. (During this time he’s also touched more gently and more often than ever in his life. Others’ bare hands on his naked skin to care for scars and rashes and fever, first Day and medics and then Day and Prince Andrew. Abram finally, finally realizes that this is what he’d been missing. He actually finds himself calmed and cared for in being touched.)

Even when his sight returns, Abram only wears gloves out of doors or to formal events. Slowly and so, so carefully, Andrew finds more small reasons to touch Abram’s hands, and Abram always finds rationalization to accept. Then Abram even leaves his gloves in his saddlebags or pockets when they go out.

Winter hits. Abram has very few burn scars on his hands, but even the simple knife scars can seize and ache in cold weather. By now Andrew is very attentive to Abram’s pain or discomfort, so he notices. Abram’s hands hurt.

So Andrew buys him new gloves, lined with soft, warm fur. Abram is both pleased and disappointed - pleased because any gift from Andrew is a good gift, and disappointed because the prince expects him to wear gloves again. But the first time Andrew sees Abram wearing them indoors, he says easily, “They’re to keep your hands from the cold. Wear them only as much as you need.” (Because, again; he’s not going to admit it, but he loves Abram’s hands.)

It probably takes a long time for Abram to get accustomed to much more touch. He likes holding the prince’s hand, he’s used to that this far into their courting, but anywhere else with anything more than clinical intent - sometimes including with clinical intent - he gets overwhelmed very easily.

Andrew is careful with him. Like we mentioned in the last post, Andrew’s had about six to eight years longer to get readjusted to wanting and touching; Abram is essentially starting fresh. It’s a lot for him to handle.

(Don’t worry, though, I promise they figure it out. Just like they always do, in every universe, for all of our mental health.)

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Time Travel/Immortal AU: Andrew’s Side

This has been in my drafts for ages. Time to yolo post lol

As the title says, I had this AU and well, I’m not gonna finish it, but I still wanted to share it. The plot is completely thought out (kinda). There was a bunch a research that didn’t want to do and I wanted to do a good job (especially with the Native American aspects of the story) so in the end it got scrapped.

This is a mix of notes and small snippets of the story. Some of it is better written than others.

[original snippet] [Neil’s Side]

Andrew is immortal. This will follow his timeline and his POV.

Under the cut because this is a very long post.

The Beginning

Andrew Minyard always knew he was different. He knew this before he met Neil when he was 7 winters old and before he fell into the lake and stopped aging. He knew he was different when he developed an awareness of his surroundings. When he looked down at his pale skin, or caught a glimpse of his yellow hair and blue-green-brown eyes, it was impossible not to see the difference between himself and the rest of the tribe with their dark hair and brown skin. He’s asked about it before. They say he was born from the village chief’s daughter and a man blessed by the good spirit.

Born in year 1007.

Born in a small hunting and gathering community that recently learned how to plant crops so they’ve settled down. A village where he would have to collect fruit as a chore.

So the Vikings came around 1000AD, stayed for a couple years, then left due to hostile natives (see Beothuk). Idk how it happens, romance or something more violent, but Andrew’s mother gets pregnant, the vikings leave, and then Andrew was born blue eyed and blond (that’s probably not how genetics works...). Defs black sheep of the tribe but it was another set of hands for hunting/gathering. (Research note: vikings were from the ‘good spirit’ so because he was an offspring they may have given him a special position?) Everyone in the village is basically family.

Meets Neil(18) at age 7 (1014 AD).

“You’re shorter than I remembered and that’s really saying something.” Andrew instantly dislikes him. “Also, stay away from islands.”

The first time Andrew met the man he would come to know as Neil Abram Josten, it was the year 13 B.I. (before immortality). Which made him the ripe age of seven in mortal years. He's had a lot of time to think about it and he's decided that his life span officially started and ended when he fell into that lake. (Neil has told him at various points in his life that that’s not how the calendar system worked. LIke Andrew cared.)

He also came to the conclusion that finding Neil on that hill was the kick start to all the weird shit that'd happen to him in his stupidly long life. Of course it would all start with him and of course it would all end with him too, but that's not for another couple thousand years.

Anyway he was seven and doing some chores for the chief that involved climbing some god awful hill not once, not twice, not even three times, but as many times as it would take to collect enough cherries to feed the entire village which Andrew could tell you reached a number way over ten. It was somewhere between trip number seven and eight when Andrew noticed the man. Well, it was a little hard to miss the beat up and bloody man in strange clothing sitting by one of the only cherry trees that was short enough to be reached comfortably.

���Who are you?”

The man lifted his head, his eyes were the color of a cloudless sky in the middle of the day. And of all things, he smiled and laughed with blood in his teeth. Andrew waited. The man quieted before finally speaking. Instinctively, Andrew knew he was forming words in some structured way but nothing registered as understandable.

There must have been something on his face because the man said something else. It sounded different but just as unknown. He did it two more times before: “I’m Neil. How old are you Andrew?”

“You’re bleeding,” Andrew stated. His eyes roamed over the way the man’s, Neil’s, right arm draped over his midsection and the spot of blood on his chest.

Neil winced, “Don’t worry about it. I’m fine.”

Andrew immediately decided that this man was an idiot.

Andrew takes care of Neil (for the first time and certainly not the last). Notices his skin is like his kinda. His hair is different than the tribe’s and his eyes are definitely different. Neil stays in the orchard for a week and then leaves.

“Thank you Andrew. I’m going to go now.” (Something about how Neil wished he had some chocolate to give him)

“Why?”

“I have to,” Neil said. “The next time you see me, remember, Age and Year if you know it.”

Andrew turned from the cherry tree to look at Neil’s retreat but he was already gone.

Convinced he’s met a god.

Immortality

Immortal doesn’t mean immune to disease. Harder to get sick. Can be killed.

(1027 AD) Goes through trial to become a man after 20 winters (the trial is from ages 15-20. Andrew was held back so long because they thought he would grow taller and there was debate as to whether or not he had to take it).

Trial, he has to travel away from the village and live in solitude for two moons. Then when he comes back he must tell the elder what he has learned.

Travels pretty far. Finds a clearing with a huge lake. Looks fake but I dunno… Somehow falls in. Travels back to village and surprise! He’s been gone for more than 2 months! Weird.

Years pass. Andrew grows and then stops at the height of 5 foot even. Mostly everyone is taller than he is. Trains with the others on fighting (knives, staffs, bows). Not allowed to help with raids because he’s hasn’t done the manhood thing. Asks about it. They say no. They want him to be a little taller. The year he will be twenty winters old, the chief summons him from his cherry picking and tells him that he may go on his journey because obviously he’s not getting any taller. So Andrew packs up his knives and some dried meat and cherries and goes. He heads west and then south for just over one moon cycle. Skirts around some neighboring tribes. Nature stuff. Stumbles into an abrupt cliff. It’s small and at the bottom is a lake. Andrew walks to the edge, heart pounding because you know, heights. Decides to go to the lake’s edge. Slips on moss or something and falls into the lake. He knows how to swim but every second in the water seems to add 10lbs to his body. He’s holding his breath and the moment he cannot any longer, he opens his eyes and he’s lying on his back in some grass dry. It’s now day/night/morning/idk. He sees the cliff. But there’s no sign of a lake. He checks himself and there’s nothing different. He kinda just shrugs and turns in the direction of home.

Leaving the Village

(1302 AD) Out lives his generation and the next 4. Tribe starts treating him differently. Does not like. So he leaves. (Research Note: 6 months to 1 year to walk from village to central america or village to west coast or west coast to east coast)

Travels south where he’s heard stories of land of just grass and holes so large that the dirt that filled them formed hills larger than anything he’s ever seen.

He does go back every couple decades and stays for a year or so.

“Is that the last of the fish?”

Andrew nodded as he passed the string of fish to Kanguyak. She bowed her head slightly, her long braided black hair swept forward. She was his age, or more like she was the same age as his outward appearance. He remembered when she was born. It was spring and a bunch of daisies had just began to bloom. That's where her name came from. He remembered when her mother and her grandmother were born. He remembered learning how to fish along side her grandmother's father. Four generations, however long that was for he had lost count of the winters, was a long time. He no longer had anyone to ask if it was normal to live as long as he has.

“I'm leaving.” Andrew stated. Kanguyak looked up from where she had started cleaning the fish. Her eyes held something that made Andrew uncomfortable. Then she nodded.

“Okay. If you come back tomorrow I'll have some dried fish ready.”

Andrew shook his head. “I'll be gone by tonight.”

(1337) Meets Neil (20) by the grand canyon.

For a while now all Andrew could see was dirt in every direction. It wasn’t the fertile dark dirt of his home, nor was it the rocky dirt of the extremely large hills he just came from, this stuff was sandy, brittle, red, clay. When it rained the mud caked onto his feet and made it hard to walk.

As Andrew walked, he felt something in the world around him. He was coming up to something soon. It was a hollow feeling. Like if he breathed it wouldn’t quite reach his lungs. It was like when he saw the first large hill, how when he walked closer it just got larger and taller. Impossibly so, but it was in front of him and real. It was like when he scaled the large hill and turned the corner and saw the world from height of a bird. How he saw for miles.

He kept on walking straight. And there. On the horizon, it started. It was a line. A cliff he knew. A sudden drop off. But the closer he got, he knew it wasn’t just a normal cliff. It was a chasm. A large one. Like the hills, impossibly large. He looked to the left to see if there was a way to get to the other side. There wasn’t. It stretched on forever. He looked to right to check that side but his eyes caught on a figure sitting on the edge. Fire red hair. It was… Andrew wracked his brain for an answer. “Neil…” Andrew whispered the first word he’s said in probably years.

The man, Neil, turned and smiled. He was older, but not by much. His hair was different, longer on top, shorter on the sides. Curly. His clothes were still strange. Weirdly fitted to his body and colored in strange ways with weird markings. He shouldn’t have been there. Did he not age also? But that wouldn’t explain how he disappeared all those hundreds of years ago, nor did it explain his sudden reappearance now.

“Hello Andrew. How old are you?” his voice was the same but without the tinge of pain.

“Tell me your age and the year if you know it…” echoed in Andrew’s head. He still didn’t really know what he meant by year and his age, well he lost track a while ago.

“I don’t know. Maybe 300 winters. Maybe more. It’s hard to keep track.”

Neil’s smile grew. Andrew’s eyes were drawn to the giant hole of emptiness behind him. Neil followed his gaze.

“Is this your first time seeing the Grand Canyon?”

“Do you know what chocolate is?”

“You’ve mentioned it once.”

“How many times have you met me?”

“This would be the second.”

“You mean you remember a conversation you had over 300 years ago?”

Andrew doesn’t answer. It’s obvious.

(Neil gives Andrew a chocolate bar. First bite: Andrew thinks it’s very sweet, like honey but not. Second bite: He liked it. Third bite: He was in love. Fourth Bite: It was gone.)

Stay on the edge until the sun sets and Andrew notices how the sun reflects on Neil’s eyes and how his hair is the color of the sky at sunset. The way Neil smiles makes him uncomfortable. But it’s not bad.

Idk stuff happens. Neil tells Andrew the story of the giant who dug a hole. The hole formed the Grand Canyon and the dirt from the hole formed the Rocky Mountains. Neil travels with Andrew as he crosses the Canyon [2-3 months]. When they’re across he disappears again.

“Do you know the story of how the Grand Canyon was made?” Neil paused for a second, his head tilted to the side in thought. “And the Rocky Mountains too I suppose.”

“Mountains?” Andrew asked.

“Ah, I don’t think there’s a word for it in your language. It’s, uh, a very large hill?”

Andrew nodded. Mountain. It sounded way better than referring to them as large hills. He nodded for Neil to tell the story.

“So,” he began. “You know the Sun and the Moon gods? They had three children together: Air, Water, and Land.”

Andrew and his Chocolate Adventure

(1353ish) Andrew is hanging out around the Mayan Empire. He’s treated well because the people low key think he’s a god(?) maybe because of his skin/hair/eyes. He fights in tournaments and he wins one and the award him with a drink. It’s chocolate drink and it’s disgusting by itself but to die for with a boat load of honey.

Word spreads that a being with hair of fire has been caught and will be sacrificed to the gods and Andrew’s like “hair of fire? Sounds familiar” and lo and behold it’s Neil (16) (Andrew still low key thinks he’s a god). Andrew breaks him out and they leave south/central america. Once they’re out (2-4 months), Neil leaves again.

A Bunch of Stuff Happens

(1580) Roanoke: Idk what happens here but Neil just turned 19. 

(1692) Salem Witch Trials aka the case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time over the course of 70 years.

(1625) There's a little girl Gretta that helps her pa sell supplies to Andrew at the inn they run.

(1640) Gretta has married. Her and her husband decide to move the family to Salem to be closer to some distant relatives. On the way there Andrew runs into them on the road. Gretta thinks he looks familiar but does nothing about it.

(1692) Andrew wonders into Salem to pick up supplies and wow there’s some sort of riot going on. Gretta, an old lady now, sees Andrew and remembers him from earlier in her life and accuses him a witch since he hasn’t aged.

Neil’s (17) there at some point. And they both escape.

(1749) Idk what Andrew is doing but Neil (18) has a shoulder wound.

“Ouch! Stop it, it’s still tender!” “You still have that wound?” “For you it might have been 700 years but to me it’s been like a week. God Andrew.”

(1793) Andrew goes to visit his village again. It’s been about 100 years since his last visit. Finds nothing. He asks around and finds that the village was raided by a neighboring tribe with the help of the foreigners so they had guns while his people did not. This happened 10 years ago. His people were all dead, slaves to other tribes, or absorbed into other tribes.

The Horrors of Early Psychiatric Practices

(1856 Age: 849) Gets captured and put in an asylum.

He’s been living for so long, and his memory is very good. Blessing and a curse.

Had a place and people to call home (even if it wasn’t really anymore)

(1861) Neil (late 19) to the rescue!

The asylum would have been okay if it wasn’t the 19th century.

“Hey Andrew! It’s my turn to bust you out!” “Your turn?” “You’ll see.”

(Side effect of the drugs/immortality)

Becomes a little colder

Neil (19-20) goes on the run with Andrew for a few months so that he’ll be safe from the people looking for them for breaking out.

Some point they get together then Neil leaves again.

A 365 Days of Visits

(1862 - 2227) For 365 years, Neil (30-31) visits Andrew for one day before leaving.

Before Neil leaves they ask each other a question they have to answer the next time they see each other.

(I had a list of questions/answers written down somewhere but can’t find it)

Settle

Sometime in the future Neil (21) settles down and he and Andrew live in peace together for 60 years. When Neil is 30 he has to leave for a year because he lived in that year when he was younger and he can’t be in the same time period twice. Andrew spends that year tracking down the younger Neil (15-16).

The Break Out

Throughout Neil’s life he’s talked about being on the run and being captured at some point. Andrew makes it his goal to break him out. He knows the year and he’s finally figured out the place. So he waits.

It was weird seeing him so young and afraid when the last time he saw him alive and moving he was complaining about aching joints as he helped him into bed that night he died.

The Death of A.J. Minyard

(3000) Andrew gets cancer and dies in a hospital.

“Hey man, should you be out here?” Andrew didn’t give the man an answer. He was just so tired. “Well, okay, if you need anything just tell me. I need something to do while I wait for my sister.” Andrew remained quiet and the man took it as a sign to continue. “You see, she’s pregnant. And she went into labor and it’s already been 3 hours and i can’t believe she just kicked me out, her own brother. I’m the only one here to support her. I don’t see her good for nothing husband anywhere in sight. The trouble I go through for her, she should name her kid Stuart after me. See she’s naming him Nathaniel after the good for nothing dad. Nathaniel Abram Wenisnski. Stuart sounds way better. Don’t you agree? Hey are you okay? Nurse!”

The man said Nathaniel, but Andrew only heard Neil. Neil Abram Josten was born on that day and Andrew Joseph Minyard took the final breath of his very long life.

End Notes: There’s a lot of things that were still getting thought about: Like does Aaron exist? What about Exy? What about the rest of the Foxes? How do Neil and Andrew communicate? Etc. But well, didn’t happen.

I actually did a lot of preliminary research on the Native American tribe Andrew grew up in. (And of course Andrew’s name wasn’t Andrew when he’s born. It was gonna be Anyu and eventually evolve turn to Andrew). 

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executive producers: Aguirre-Sacasa, Krieger, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater

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There are also talks of a spin-off from “The Originals,” featuring Hope Mikaelson

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producer: CBS TV Studios

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I’m wondering (and not sure if this has been talked about yet in a post I simply missed) about how Abram copes with Andrew’s physical affections (or lack thereof) in your lovely royal AU. With the history behind ‘pretty’ that you described for Abram in that last post, I feel like there is so much potential of him expecting to be touched, even before they are courting (but especially during/after), and wondering why Andrew doesn’t—especially once it’s established that he thinks of Abram as ‘pretty’. They are of different station so it would be so easy for Andrew to act entitled to Abram’s body like so many before, especially with Abram in a position where he’s basically serving him in some way. I wonder if it makes him relieved (due to professionalism/personal comfort at the very beginning) or anxious (due to having no ability to tell what is coming for him/later due to doubting if he is really wanted that way if Andrew doesn’t act the same as his point of reference) or a little bit of both for different reasons.

I imagine Andrew to be both a very tactile person and not necessarily so because he is so very aware of boundaries and only crosses them with invitation or purpose. I wonder how that translates here and how his touch plays into how Abram perceives him (and honestly there’s the whole part too where it’s something they have in common, trampled boundaries and bad associations and bone-deep understanding of such) or if they would ever have a conversation about that where Abram wonders about the curtesy of distance and space he is being given.

I’m like two seconds from passing out bc it’s pretty late here so idk how much sense this ask really makes but I’m having thoughts. I love your AU and your work and hope you have a wonderful day <3

YOU GUYS ALWAYS FIND THE MOST INTRIGUING THINGS TO EXPLORE I LOVE YOU (and your comments/etc, apostrophe-philosophy, are always a joy to read hehe)

(First: find the royal au writing masterpost here 💕)

I’ve been working on/thinking about this ask long enough that I’ve straight up forgotten if this was a thought I had when writing that first post (here) or if you brought it fully to my attention but we can safely assume it’s the latter so thank youuuuu for that truly. I love exploring Abram’s slow inch (and Andrew’s, but he’s had more time to get adjusted) towards finding a healthy relationship with touch 🥲 and oh my GOD don’t let me forget to tell all of you about Abram and gloves

I wrote a scene/lil collection of scenes about Andrew clearing things up here too because I’ve been wanting to explore Abram’s POV for a while 👀 there are references to canon abuse, so take care. As always, sparknotes version and additions below

I LOVE your points about Andrew, I totally agree that once it’s established and he’s allowed, he’s very much a tactile person, he just needs to get there first 💕

We all know for obvious reasons that it never once crosses the prince’s mind for Abram to be anything more than a professional bodyguard, even if he does find him attractive. He’s very good at courtesy and polite distance. How I imagine this goes down in the timeline is this:

1) Nathaniel shows up at Palmetto and he’s never allowed close to important people. Certainly never allowed close enough to touch. Totally safe there. It doesn’t take him long to understand Day really won’t take advantage of him since he never did in Evermore either, so that’s safe. There’s not much else to worry about for that long stretch of time.

2) Nathaniel/Abram becomes the prince’s guard. There’s probably a little anxiety just because there’s plenty of opportunities for the prince to try something, but as time goes on and Andrew keeps the previously mentioned distance, even acting apathetic (as he does), Abram starts to assume that the prince is straight/doesn’t care. It wasn’t as if every single person in Evermore was trying to get at him. Just the ones that wanted to. Obviously, the prince doesn’t want to. It gets to the point that Abram feels comfortable and doesn’t try to constantly watch his own back when he’s on duty.

Then the prince, perhaps feeling a little bold or hopeful or just wanting to say something so he doesn’t keep feeling like he’ll explode, makes a single comment on Abram’s “pretty face”. Even something that could be brushed off as friendly jest, if he really wanted. But Abram completely freezes up. Andrew, of course, notices. He doesn’t try to ask about it then, but he definitely notices. But he assumes that Abram took it as the genuine compliment it was, and that Abram is entirely uninterested or even wary of those advances. So he makes no more comments, he leaves the entire concept as far away as he can get it.

Now that Abram knows the prince finds him pretty, he’s just waiting for Andrew to be the same as everyone else. He didn’t even directly answer to the nobles in Evermore and they were still so bold - but he’s Andrew’s servant in the most direct way, and Andrew is a prince. Surely the prince is even more entitled to him than they were. (When he realizes this is what’s happening, Andrew tells Abram in no unclear terms exactly what is and isn’t expected of him. It takes longer than that for Abram to shake the anxiety he grew up with, but at least after that he can start repeating the prince’s words to himself when he needs to.)

3) that’s cleared up well enough, but then (much, much later) the prince wants to court him. At first Abram can’t think much beyond “there’s no way this is real” but then the more he thinks about it, the more nervous he gets again. He doesn’t know Palmetto courting traditions, what if he’s expected to do something he isn’t ready for. What if now that he’s accepted the courtship he can’t tell Andrew no anymore. It wouldn’t be fair of him to, he thinks, he shouldn’t have agreed so quickly.

But there’s a time they’re out doing whatever courtship things (maybe another horse ride for funsies idk), Abram’s getting nervous about it again, and when Andrew asks for a kiss or to hold his hand, Abram doesn’t answer. He’s also a little confused when Andrew doesn’t just do it anyway, because he hadn’t said no, but Andrew is watching him in the way that usually means Abram is acting too much like he’s at Evermore again. He tells Abram, “Nothing’s changed. You can say no.” And Abram does immediately - not because he doesn’t want whatever he was offered but because he scared himself. Andrew’s still watching him. “Don’t forget that again,” he says. Abram takes a shaky breath. “Yes, prince.”

But as soon as Abram’s past that anxiety for the second and probably final time? Andrew is still as tactile a person as before and gods know Abram is touch starved to hell and back, he’ll take any kind words or touches he can possibly get and he craves them. Specifically from the prince. Who loves to give them.

I’d love to come back and make a fluff post specifically about that point in the timeline if we can collectively come up with enough ideas for said fluff 🥰 for now thanks again for the ask, swear to GOD we’re gonna get these idiots a happy ending, but I’m having way too much fun in the meantime 😂