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Andrew & Aaron's time with Tilda

How long were Andrew & Aaron living with Tilda? And could you talk a little about that time? Like did Andrew pick up immediately on the fact that Tilda was abusive/Aaron was an addict, or was it a gradual realization? Did him and Tilda get along at any point? Or for that matter, did he and Aaron? I can see Andrew being pretty guarded but maybe a little hopeful it'd work out (hopeful isn't quite the right word, but maybe a little less pessimistic about the whole thing than I imagine he was).

I feel like I only have vague answers for this, sorryyyy

Aaron grew up with Tilda ((poor bastard)), but Andrew was only with her for ..................... um ... X number of months

I know there's a conversation somewhere, unless I deleted it in the final rewrites. where Aaron points out that Andrew made the promise to him in X month but didn't kill Tilda until Z month. Alas, vodka, thy power destroys my ability to properly search things. Sorry anonymous D: I have no specific numbers for you right now. But it was less than a year, if that helps at all. It probably doesn't.

The first time Aaron met Andrew was when Aaron was brought to Andrew's juvie facility, and Andrew knew then that something was off – he'd seen enough abuse in other foster kids & juvie inmates and had suffered enough himself that something about Aaron seemed wrong. Aaron wrote his bruises off as Exy related, but Andrew played Exy at juvie, and no one he played with could get injured like that, not if they were wearing proper armor.

Aaron was not okay, so Andrew did everything in his power to get released to Tilda's care

Andrew hated Tilda from the get-go, in part because of suspicion and in part because Tilda had dropped him off like a used shirt at the goodwill donation center. Those first couple months he was in South Carolina, though, he and Aaron had a wary but chatty relationship – Andrew was trying to dig information of Aaron without giving away anything of himself, and Aaron was doing the same. Tilda's murder was what broke their fledgling relationship.

((Andrew spent that time heckling both Aaron & Tilda for the truth, but neither one would give an inch))

Andrew found out about the drugs after juvie & before Tilda's death, and he was pretty fucking displeased. Aaron let him in on that secret thinking it'd be something they could bond over.

But you're right – "hopeful" does seem like a strong word, but Andrew definitely felt some vein of that. He thought he could keep Aaron. He'd protected him from Drake, and he could save him from Cass – they'd be okay in the end, right? But then Aaron chose Tilda over Andrew, and that kind of screwed everything up. Andrew was more than a little bitter over this, and more than a little spiteful, and that irritation colored a lot of their interactions in the books.