kaitegecko:

And he remembered telling Neil he’d stand down and let Neil solve his own problems and don’t come crying to me when someone breaks your face

((but then someone did break his face, with a knife and a lighter and fists and a cleaver))

and kneeling on the floor of a dingy hotel room in Baltimore, MD, staring at the wrecked remains of what Neil used to be, Andrew knew there was no going back from this, he was lost, he was lost, he was found.