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The way it ALMOST comes out that he speaks Russian is during a game of Never have I ever with some other Foreign Language Major Freshmen early in his first year. He’s made friends with a lot of the others in the foreign language department but he’s distantly friendly with the majority of his fellow freshman Exy players.

(Their personalities are a lot for him to deal with OK? Nicky tried to drag him to Eden’s once and the thought of a loud busy club almost made him pass out with anxiety. Also if he becomes too close to them one of them is going to ask him what his major is and then they’ll find out that he speaks 10 languages and 5 of them fluently, INCLUDING RUSSIAN. Then it will get back to Captain Neil and Andrew and Fluent Freshman has 0 desire to get stabbed THANKS.)

Fluent Freshman is just so happy to be here, this is nice, he feels safe, he heard what Andrew and Captain plan on doing tonight so they’re not gonna come. He can let his guard down right??? He gets tipsy.

Then his roommates come back when they were supposed to be out all night. Then Nicky comes and joins in because he heard laughter and wanted in, Aaron comes because Nicky came, Matt comes because his roommates came, some of the sophomores come in because hey free alcohol and a drinking game is a good time, and Kevin comes because he got sexiled.

It’s still safe. It’s nice getting to know the seniors and maybe he can be a little closer with his year mates? His fellow foreign language freshmen are having fun and making sure he doesn’t fade too far into the background.

It’s Matt’s turn, Fluent Freshman is tipsy, “Never have I ever become fluent in a different language.”

He’s very tipsy as he raises his hand, “Do I have to take a sip for every language I know or just one sip?” he asks as most of his fellow major friends take a sip and wait to hear the verdict.

“Wow you know multiple languages? Which ones?” Comes a voice from his nightmares. Fluent Freshman turns and there are Captain Neil and Andrew Minyard.

“You’re looking at the Adonis of the Foreign Language department!” His one friend says arm around Fluent Freshman’s shoulder (TRAPPING HIM) “He’s fluent in like...like EVERY language. The profs love him.” A big wet kiss to his cheek may be the final gentle touch he’ll ever know before he’s gutted (LIKE A DAMN FISH)

“Every language?” Captain Neil asks amused.

“Like French, Spanish, German, and uh...wait...what’s the one with an R?” his friend looks at him and in that moment Fluent Freshman can see Nicky going pale, Captain Neil’s eyes widening, and Andrew’s eyes narrowing and his brain works a mile a minute for a lie.

“You’re thinking of the language spoken in Rwanda. I know French.” He answers immediately his face utterly blank as his panic has obliterated every last atom of alcohol in his blood. He needs to sell this lie with his life.

“Oh yeah that's right you do buddy.” his friend pats his head.

“C’mon, lets get you in your bed buddy.” Fluent Freshman says helping his friend up onto his feet.

He ignores how Andrew’s eyes feel on him and how Nicky mouths ‘NICE SAVE’ with two thumbs up.

With his friend’s drunken state as an excuse he flees his own dorm room and has to live with the fact that Captain Neil is excited to have a language buddy he can practice Spanish with.

Captain Neil is nice but if he ever finds out the truth then Fluent Freshman is going to die.

Is Fluent Freshman an Expy of Neil’s own freshman year struggles to keep shit secret? MAYBE.

Only made entirely ridiculous since the threat isn’t the mafia / serial killer dad. It’s that Andrew Minyard might find out that someone other than Neil knows that he likes to be called Darling.

Fluent Freshman treats this threat level the same as Neil did during his freshman year.

Just thinking about some poor Palmetto Freshman who, due to the nature of the Foxes, is super quiet and blends into the background. This poor freshman is a foreign language major (forcing himself to have to talk to people and he likes languages) and he knows a couple languages already!

He hasn’t mentioned his major so no one knows but its fine there will be time to make friends and- did Captain Neil just call the scary goalie милый (Darling)? Their tones give away nothing but the goalie with all the knives responded by calling his weirdly intense captain кролик (Bunny).

He stares at them but Andrew threatens to cut him if he keeps looking (he thinks its about Neil’s scars) and now he has officially missed the chance to mention that he is fluent in Russian.

Cue being subjected to the sappiest shit on the entire planet because Andrew and Neil are fucking extra with the shit they say when no one can listen in. So now begins the long play of trying not to let on that he knows because that would be so embarrassing! So awkward! He masters the art of the poker face by the Fall Banquet. He refuses to sit in hearing distance of the two of them on the bus because last time he listened to Andrew describe in excruciating detail what he was going to do to Neil if Neil let him when they got back to the dorm. (He couldn’t get up and walk away! That’d be suspicious!)

This is his hell but at least he made friends with the other freshmen when he accidentally said “No I think Andrew likes Captain Neil plenty.” Because he was trying not to process the absolutely filthy things Andrew was saying to Neil in what looked like a heated argument.

The only person who knows is Nicky because Nicky came up and asked if he was homophobic (power walking away from Neil and Andrew when Neil sat in Andrew’s lap for movie night because he has LEARNED that lesson) and he panicked because HE IS NOT HOMOPHOBIC and confessed that he is fluent in Russian.

Nicky, wisely, promises to take this information to his grave. The freshman weeps in gratitude.

#Fluent Freshman AU #Andreil #AFTG #AFTG Fic #My Fics #I should really figure out a name for this poor sap #The Exy Expy #edited 5/16/23 because i learned something about the Romani language #In a Masterpost #FF - Pt. 02

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