fire and brimstone; heaven and hell
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Enemies to friends to lovers Joe and Nicky. The first half of this fic is quite gory and violent—born of the rage I feel researching the Crusades that it is basically the precursor to Western European colonization of the globe. The second half is of their love, featuring virgin!Nicolò and bottom!Yusuf. Bonus points if you spot exactly where Andy and Quynh make their cameos.
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- Part 1 of fire and brimstone; heaven and hell
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The city of Genoa is subject to no one except God in all things and the emperor in a few, Nicolò says, by way of introducing his city to Yusuf. Yusuf is fairly certain that in Genoa, money is sometimes a substitute for God, but he refrains from commenting as such to Nicolò.
Sequel to 'fire and brimstone'. fire and brimstone was Nicky's side of the story of their first meeting at the 1099 Siege of Jerusalem. In this story, we follow Yusuf through his parting (in the prequel) with Nicolò, where he struggles with PTSD from surviving the violence at the siege. Yusuf's family makes an appearance, and so does Nicolò's family.
In this story, Joe is from a merchant family based in Tunis. As with fire and brimstone, it's quite a hell of a ride, condensed into as few words as I can manage for the amount of historical detail I'm covering. In another universe, this is a luxurious 100k word fic, but you'll still find lines that hurt real good in this.
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- Part 2 of fire and brimstone; heaven and hell