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Peter and Nightingale have to get married for MAGIC CEREMONY REASONS. People have opinions about this.
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12 May 2022
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This is a language no one else in the world is fluent in: the glint in Nicky’s eye, the unbearable gentleness with which he pushes Yusuf flat against the bed.
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Joe and Nicky, from 1099 to 2019, through continents and dialects.
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17 Oct 2020
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the other side of this wide night by mellyflori
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Sep 2020
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Just above his eyeline, in dark purple Sharpie, is an addition so recent the ink is still a little wet.
For a good time, call Nicky. Ask him about eating sushi with a fork.
Underneath it is a phone number.Joe isn’t sure how long he stands there, staring at the words, before he says, out loud, “Is... is that a euphemism?”
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- Part 1 of the other side of this wide night
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14 Oct 2020
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‘Yusuf takes hold of the sword by the blade and drives it further into his body, using the movement to pull Nicolò closer. His dark eyes flash as his bloody hand cups the back of Nicolò’s head and draws him in for a kiss.’
Traveling through Greece with Yusuf after fleeing the Holy Land, Nicolò suffers a crisis of faith.
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14 Oct 2020
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The making and the breaking of bread, throughout the centuries.
The first time Nicky bakes bread for them to share — thick, rounded puffs of aish baladi, prepared with the utmost concentration and care — the sun has begun to set in Cairo, staining the sky the same vivid colour as the tangerines that grow ripe and heavy on the trees outside their door.
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14 Oct 2020
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the battle ground between hearts and glances by maleyka
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Aug 2020
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Yusuf has been wed only a matter of hours, and already the first crisis of his marriage looms.
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10 Oct 2020
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“Speaking of keeping up,” Andy muses. “We need to start training you.”
Training, Nile discovers, involves what Andy calls ‘retrieval missions’ and what Nile calls ‘capture the flag’.
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08 Oct 2020
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Yusuf translates medical texts for Niccolò from Greek and Persian into Arabic, and Niccolò spots the substratum of the ideas of the classical authors that he had once believed the basis of his own civilisation that he would go to the sword to defend, translated and passed down and sewn into a no longer foreign script. There are words Yusuf does not know how to translate. They will never, ever know all of the words. The prospect is thrilling.
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It takes Niccolò lifetimes to learn Arabic.Series
- Part 2 of author's favorites
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06 Oct 2020
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“Horses?” Nicky says.
“You know, horses,” Nile says, clearing up nothing. “Like, when you pass some of them in a field or something, you point and say ‘horses.’ Some people do it with cows, but I think that takes the fun out of it.”
“Ah,” Nicky says, slowly. “An American ritual, then?”
“I think it’s more of a ‘less than 900 years old’ thing, honestly.”
Nicky hums. “So much is.”
Or: A post-movie epilogue about being human together ft grocery stores, phone calls, car rides, shitty food, football games, and the wild hubris that you can renovate your own house without professional help.
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- Part 3 of calico skies
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05 Oct 2020
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Five Times Joe Kissed Nicky (And One Time Nicky Kissed Him First) by sheafrotherdon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Jul 2020
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Joe takes the last watch, sitting by the fire, eyes trained on the stars as he listens for intrusion. None comes. He is left in peace to reacquaint himself with Al-Dubb Ak-Bar, Al-Hamal, Ad-Dulfin, and to think of their names in other tongues—The Plough, Aries, Delphinius. As they stretch over and above him, shifting as though some great wind blows them to a new course across the sky, he smiles and thinks of Malta. Such stars that night.
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02 Oct 2020
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Nicolò had heard of what Muslims did to Christian men. Although his companion had been nothing less than honorable towards him, sometimes he would afix him with his intense gaze and Nicolò would be left shaken, not knowing whether his shivers were anticipation or fear. Either way, Yusuf’s big hands and broad shoulders didn’t help the situation.
(The five times Nicolò resisted temptation and the one time he didn't)
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01 Oct 2020
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They took Nicky in 1983. This is everything that happened next.
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01 Oct 2020
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Joseph and Nicolo linger near the door a moment longer, Joseph leaning in to steal a kiss, quick and sweet and a promise of more when they can snatch some privacy. Then he draws back, taking Nico’s hand.
“Come on,” he says, intertwining their fingers. “Come sit down and have something to eat.”
Or: Five times the Old Guard fed each other.
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01 Oct 2020
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“Where,” he hisses, leaning into Andy’s space, “the hell is Nicky?”
Andy doesn’t flinch even when Joe gets up close, his anger unrestrained. She lets it all wash over her before settling her coffee cup on the table. She’s staring at him like he’s the one with a problem, as if he’s gone crazy. “Joe, I don’t know who Nicky is.”
The science community unveils successful time travel and the very next morning, Joe wakes to find that no one knows who Nicky is, other than him. Faced with the prospect of a life without Nicky, Joe will stop at nothing to get him back.
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28 Sep 2020
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The thing about being a thousand years old was that years didn’t feel very long anymore; they were an over-produced commodity. The years of studying at al-Azhar wouldn’t feel like much at all to him now, but back then, they’d lasted centuries, and perhaps it was because all the time he spent without Nicky felt interminable, even before he’d known who it was he was missing. He’d carried with him a vague and inexplicable sense that he was waiting for something to begin, though he knew not what.
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“I think I was in love with you before I knew you.”
Nicky laughed into the corner of Joe’s jaw, breath tickling his neck. After all these years, he’d memorized the shape of Nicky’s nose, the sensation of his stubble at every stage of unshavenness, absolutely every imaginable corner and contour of his body, and the more he knew it the more he loved it, like an old favorite song that developed new layers of meaning every time you listened. “Always the poet.”
“I really do think so, though,” Joe chuckled. “I die of love for you,” he said, switching to old Arabic, quoting Abū Nuwās. “And then I return to life so I can kiss you one more time,” he continued. His own words.
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27 Sep 2020
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25 Sep 2020
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Sarwa is ladling stew into bowls and she hands the first one to Yusuf, who passes it to Nicolo and takes a drink from the now filled flask. “Is he your lover?” she asks.
Yusuf chokes on water and Nicolo pounds his back, eyebrows peaked with concern.
“I—” Yusuf pauses, wiping his streaming eyes.
Sarwa looks at him, nothing but mild curiosity on her face.
Yusuf glances at Nicolo. The firelight paints his cheekbones flickering gold, his eyes hooded and sleepy in the dim light.
“I don’t know what he is,” Yusuf finally admits, still looking at Nicolo.
Nicolo’s mouth quirks and he takes another bite of soup.
“He looks at you like you belong to him,” Sarwa says.
Nicolo keeps eating, oblivious to what they’re saying.
“I think he belongs to me too,” Yusuf whispers.
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25 Sep 2020
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It takes Nile an embarrassingly long time to realize that her thesis advisor is, like, legitimately evil.
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Joe and Nicky are supposed to be on vacation, healing from the aftermath of Merrick and the lab. But the work they do doesn't take a break, and sometimes they can't, either.
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They kill each other once. Again. The third time, Nicolo stands and watches Yusuf heal before he pulls him to his feet. “Come. I will be gentle this time.”
Yusuf laughs at him. “You won’t have a choice.”