All For the Game Oneshots

Mouth pain and annoyance

Tw: wisdom teeth. Mouth pain. Past sa implied (Andrew's backstory), drug addiction and drug abuse mentioned, past medical malpractice implied (what happens when Andrew was in the mental hospital.) slight suicidal thoughts (mentions of past ones, and Andrew doesn't consider doing it presently.)
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Andrew POV

The first time it happened he hadn't thought too much about it. Really it hadn't even crossed his mind. He just thought the pain in his mouth was from getting his in the face with an exy ball during a game.

It had hurt like a bitch but that was to be expected.

But then it happened again, this time on the other side of his mouth. It wasn't exactly pain yet but annoying.

And then there was random ear pain. The two combined was enough to make Andrew want to stab everyone near him. He somehow refrained.

Unsurprisingly Neil noticed first. It was on a free afternoon where they were just sitting and Andrew kept moving his jaw trying to alleviate the pain.

"Drew? What's wrong?"

Andrew shrugged and gestured to his mouth. He put a hand up to stop Neil when he opened his mouth again. "I'm not going to a dentist."

Neil nodded and didn't bring it up again for a week
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He noticed Neil's worried glances. He could always feel Neil's eyes on him but this especially was getting too much.

"Staring." Andrew pointed out, trying to not wince when he talked. He couldn't help it though. Something he hated.

If he had just been with Neil it wouldn't have been a big deal. But he wasn't. They were at  a team mandatory movie night.

He didn't know why Neil wanted to go to these things, he hated movies, but he did so Andrew went with him so the junkie didn't somehow get abducted on the walk between the dorms. But also he didn't like not being around Neil.

"Drew, we need to talk about your-" he was whispering but he still cut himself off, looking around the room before switching to Russian. "Mouth."

The use of the language had Nicky and Aaron looking over. Everyone was used to German and French being used at this point but Russian was still uncommon.

"Not now." Was all Andrew said. He wanted his mouth to numb and he wanted to not think about what could be causing this.

There were many possibilities. Maybe some random tooth disease he read in a book once. Or a cavity, though he tries to take good care of his teeth. But the most likely one was one he refused to consider.

He decided he wouldn't even think it.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Aaron asked, Andrew looked over and saw his twin frowning.

Andrew shrugged. He didn't plan on telling med student Aaron his issues. Aaron who was a bit paranoid after reading a bunch of medical shit.

He once told Andrew he thought Andrew had a tumor, he did not... Aaron had a nightmare and was convinced, so he wasn't rushing to let his brother know.

Not that he told him a lot. Especially about when he was in pain. Aaron would try and get him to take pain meds, and despite the fact that Aaron had personal experience with drug abuse he didn't understand the absolute hatred Andrew had of it.

"Andrew." Aaron said sternly when he looked away. "Is it your mouth? You keep messing with it."

He hated how concerned his twin sounded. He hated the way that now everyone was looking At him because the idiot was speaking in fucking English and everyone could understand him.