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Joe and Nicky meet during the 3rd grade Halloween party; it takes Nicky entirely too long to realize that Joe's courting him, but some things are worth waiting for.
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24 Dec 2025
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A lonely monk with too many jobs around the monastery finds some of them have been done by a mysterious benefactor.
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24 Dec 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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03 Oct 2025
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It's no fun, Nicky is discovering, to be thirty and alone, on the wedding of your only friend, slash first kiss, slash latest in a long line of unrequited crushes.
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16 Aug 2025
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you can take this heart (heal it or break it all apart) by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
31 Jan 2021
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And that hurts most of all, because the perfect man, Joe’s reason to stay and keep trying, to work something new out, forge a new path for himself, he does exist. He sleeps a room away, he has a smile like the sunrise and the dorkiest laugh Joe has ever heard, he’s exceedingly generous and considerate in bed, as he is in every aspect of his life, he has strong, experienced hands, and he’s smart, and he’s going to be a wonderful father someday- and he doesn’t love Joe back.
Or: Oh my god, they were roommates (who were in love with each other).
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07 Jul 2025
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Common Tongue of You Loving Me by thehoney
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
08 Aug 2022
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Nicolò had always known Yusuf was aware of his many shortcomings, but to have them brought into such stark light, one right after another? All while he could say nothing to defend himself? It was unbearable. Nicolò had never felt more like the millstone around Yusuf’s neck, tied to him by circumstance, bound to drag him down.
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Nicolò's past catches him off guard on a sunny day in the form of his estranged brother. Will Yusuf still wish to remain with him, even after he learns how shameful Nicolò truly is?
AKA the backstory for my headcanon on why they usually only speak to each other in Italian.
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04 Jul 2025
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When Nicolò spots the late-night visitor and his human care package at the edge of the swamp, he knows he's being called upon as a healer. He doesn't know that Yusuf is immortal and that the elderly woman he carries is actually his granddaughter.
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28 Mar 2025
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i'm alright with a slow burn by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
07 May 2023
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Back in college Joe and his friends used to joke about selling out, finding rich patrons and being paid obscene amounts of money to paint pretentious abstract pieces. Ten years later, Joe's the only one who actually did it. Finding himself with more money than he'll ever need, an utter lack of passion for his craft and no friends left in the city, he runs away to a tiny town on the coast to try and rediscover whatever it is he lost of himself along the way. Luckily for him, the overly friendly manager of the motel he's living in and said overly friendly manager's two year old son are all too eager to help him out.
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11 Oct 2024
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‘So, you’re Nicky, I take it? I’m Joe.’
‘Sorry, I don’t speak English,’ Nicky says. It’s about the only sentence he knows in English, a dubious badge of honour he nevertheless wears with pride. Or rather, he did until about five minutes ago, when Andy said there was someone she wanted him to meet. In English.
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Modern AU with language barriers: Joe speaks Dutch, English, and Arabic; Nicky speaks Italian, Spanish, and German. Andy didn't know that when she introduced them, but it doesn't really matter.As the poets say, love finds a way.
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13 Jun 2024
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don't know how to fall asleep (unless you say goodnight) by raedear
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
24 Apr 2022
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Based on the break up/make up prompt:
"I was so sleep-deprived after the night shift that I climbed into bed with you (and you just rolled with it)"
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03 Apr 2024
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Because Nicky is a disgusting morning person, and a masochist trying to learn Gaelic, and he’s also Joe’s best friend who Joe is maybe, possibly, slightly secretly hopelessly in love with. And Joe has just invited him to share his bed for probably at least a week.
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Or, some deeply self-indulgent AU fluff wherein they're language nerds living in Edinburgh, set in that funny liminal time between Christmas and New Year.Bookmarked by Crys3
14 Mar 2024
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Omelette that Slide Because I Like You a Waffle Lot by seacliffs
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
23 Aug 2020
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"We didn't invite you to sit," Andy said pointedly to the man who had trailed in after Joe.
He held direct eye contact with her as he pulled out the last remaining stool at the high top table they were sat around and made himself comfortable.
Joe sighed internally, while trying to maintain an easy smile and his affable exterior. "Sorry about him. We'll go."
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Joe's friend Booker invites him to come meet his other friends for brunch so they can heckle their friend Nicky while he works. Joe's ex Merrick makes this difficult. Joe's ex Merrick makes everything difficult.
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03 Oct 2023
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Joe is one of those people, Nicky realizes, who seems to have unlocked the secret that beautiful people have: how to carry themselves, how to exude. Nicky doesn't dislike his own looks -- yes, during his teenage years he'd been self-conscious of his awkwardly big hands and his inescapable nose, especially whenever starting over in a new place -- but as he's grown into adulthood, it's all evened out into an appearance he's more or less satisfied with. But he's never mastered that next-level, head-turning attractiveness that Joe has.
Or: Five times Nicky thinks Joe is one of the most beautiful men to walk the earth, and one time Joe looks objectively awful and truly wins Nicky's heart.Bookmarked by Crys3
12 Aug 2023
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Sunlight by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Aug 2021
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In which Nicky sings to his houseplants and Joe accidentally adopts a dog instead of going to therapy.
Featuring Soup the deaf chihuahua, an offensive amount of plant puns, and Joe discovering that life doesn't have to be a tragedy, because Nicky's gone and turned his into a rom-com.
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25 Jul 2023
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must be an imaginary love (to start with) by kaydeefalls for andrealyn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
03 Sep 2022
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In which Nicky joins a queer football club, makes some new friends, and offers to help Joe piss off his ex by pretending to be his new boyfriend. This is a very reasonable scheme that will definitely not lead to any feelings whatsoever.
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23 Jul 2023
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baba bear and baby bear 'verse by incurableromancer
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
08 Oct 2022
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23 Oct 2022
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Poke that bear till the claws come out by SpaceBat (kuraikon)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 Nov 2020
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Nicky spun on his heel while the man slumped against the wall, gasping for breath. A soft, adoring smile graced Nicky's face and he was once again the loving and caring man Nile knew him to be.
Five times Nile witnessed Nicky being the softest immortal warrior ever, and one time she saw him feral.
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08 Oct 2022
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‘Mmm,’ says Joe, through tight and thin lips. “s delicious, Nile, thank you.’
He chews methodically, slow rolls of his jaw and none of his usual murmurs and gestures of delight. He looks like he’s trying to chew without ever letting what’s in his mouth touch his tongue.
Nile helps the team have a new experience, to mixed results
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- Part 5 of the night utter ripe unspeaking girls
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22 Aug 2022
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I went to bed and I loved you (in the morning I loved you too) by raedear
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
09 Jan 2022
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‘You can have any colour you like,’ says Yusuf, two inches from his ear. Nicolò twitches, flinching back from him and squinting at him in the weak light of the moon through the shutters.
Yusuf smacks his lips twice, and grunts. Nicolò rises up on his elbow, blinking at him. He’s fast asleep.
Five times Joe and Nicky woke each other in the night, one time they didn't. (Plus a bonus extra time.)
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28 Feb 2022
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first come round the corner by meet_the_girl_who_can
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
05 Jan 2021
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Nicky had left Genoa and had come home and now, he’s going to have leave again. Well, not leave as in leave London. To be honest, his life won’t change in any way whatsoever, except maybe it’ll be a little more bearable. And a little less.
But he’s got to move out.
Because he’s in love with Joe.
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27 Feb 2022