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Smoke. That’s it. Booker smells so good because he doesn’t smell like smoke. “You smell good?” Nicky says again, still confused.
Booker laughs. “Thank you again? You’re really tired, Nicky. Do you need help? With the baby?”
“I mean, not that you don’t smell good. Like your cologne, and your cooking. But. No smoke?” Nicky asks. Fuck, he’s so tired.
“Oh. That,” Booker says. He sounds. Hesitant? Nicky’s not sure. His brain is fuzzy. “I quit,” Booker continues.
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11 Jun 2021
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If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
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Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.
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- Part 1 of Fic Tennis - The Old Guard
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03 Jun 2021
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Too late, Booker realizes he‘s shown his hand. It’s not purposeful, he just can’t help the way his eyes go entirely too soft, watching Joe chat with the waitress who had just dropped every single one of their drinks. He’s telling her about his ill-fated job at a bar in their second year of university, making her laugh through her tears and helping her mop up the mess of spilled beer.
Booker’s just about to get up and help them, he is, but he’s taking a single moment to wallow in how kind Joe’s smile is. He also apparently remembers Joe’s time as a bartender very, very differently, than Joe. Joe is currently describing himself as a naïve, hapless twenty-year-old who could never remember drink orders and broke more than a few glasses trying to be smooth. Booker does not recall it like that at all. He forces himself up at last, grabs a stack of napkins off the empty table next to them and goes to help, but he’s a split second too late.
Nicky’s coming back from the restroom with a pile of paper towels in his hands, and he’s staring straight at Booker.
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26 May 2021
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“Book, look at yourself,” he says. “This is fucking sad. They’ve already lost their mom. Now they’re gonna lose you, too?”
Booker can’t look at Joe. He can’t see those eyes— Sophie’s eyes— so concerned and so sad and so disappointed. “Fuck off,” he says. “Get the fuck out of my house.”
Joe shakes his head. He bends over and saddles a duffel bag on his shoulder. “You want your sons back?” Joe says. “Get sober. Then we’ll talk.”
Fourteen months after the death of his wife, Booker hits rock bottom. But he didn't know that getting sober would mean gaining so much more.
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- Part 1 of The Steps Verse
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24 May 2021
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What God Gave You, He Gave To Me by LittleRedCosette
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
29 Apr 2021
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“Nicolo would never risk the fates of children over his own.”
“And look where that got him!” Andy roars, her throat burning with a desperate rage that has nothing to do with the pills, and right there, in that precise moment, she watches, devastated, as the words carve ruin into Joe’s grief-stricken face.
She hears the tiny intake of Booker’s breath, sees the even tinier lift of his shoulders towards his ears.
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An Old Guard, incomplete, and how they find each other again.
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- Part 1 of there i will be buried
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01 May 2021
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down for you always by dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 May 2021
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Joe squints a little. “So you were born in what, the 1060s?”
Nicky nods. “1069, I believe. I died during the first crusade. For the first time, anyway.”
“Wow,” Joe says. “You are very well preserved.”
Joe's a millennial with student loan debt, a dead-end career as a personal trainer, and a lumpy futon for a bed. He's also the new immortal.
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- Part 1 of the new me (is really still the real me)
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Bookmarked by Lyliibee
26 Apr 2021
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Five years since Joe had gotten down on one knee, the beaten silver ring he’d had made special held out, the perfect size for his finger. Five years since he had looked Joe in the eye, his own wide and terrified, and said no. Five fucking years since he’d fled the party and disappeared with nothing more than a note left on their counter saying he was sorry.
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lustrum; a period of five yearsSeries
- Part 1 of Lustrum
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26 Apr 2021