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Joe is an incurable romantic. Nicky doesn't really believe in an institution that promises only what he already has.
Or: Five times Joe proposed to Nicky and one time he didn't.
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- Part 1 of what it means to be married
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01 Sep 2020
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“This isn’t what it looks like,” Nicky says.
“Okay, sure,” Joe says, looking like he’s ready to bang his head against the wall. “Because it looks like you just kidnapped our neighbour’s babies, Nicolò.”
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01 Sep 2020
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“He has a crush on him,” Joe says around a mouthful of carrots and points his fork at him for emphasis. To someone who once has had Joe’s scimitar rammed through his chest, it’s not exactly a terrifying gesture, but it still feels a tad more aggressive than Nicky thinks the situation warrants.
(In which archaeologists make a discovery, Joe is upset, and Nicky trolls historians.)
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25 Aug 2020
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He wants Yusuf to hold his hand again. Grab his ankle. Flick his ear. Thrust his sword into his chest and breath into his mouth.
Yet, they have the long ocean of eternity ahead of them. These whims are nothing but a swell under their ship: gone as soon as they come. Nicolo knows better than to jump overboard and drown alone trying to chase them.
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Alternate title: "You'd Feel Pretty Weird If You Developed a Crush on the Only Other Immortal You Know, Right?"
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23 Aug 2020
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Nothing But A Song by paperstorm
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
11 Aug 2020
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“Happy – what did you call it? Octocentenary.”
“Do you think we’re the only two who have ever celebrated such a thing?”
“I couldn’t say for sure. It does seem likely.” Joe reaches back behind himself for the bottle, and holds it out between them. “To us.”
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AKA, an imagining of that time in Malta.Bookmarked by azoric
22 Aug 2020
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“He has a crush on him,” Joe says around a mouthful of carrots and points his fork at him for emphasis. To someone who once has had Joe’s scimitar rammed through his chest, it’s not exactly a terrifying gesture, but it still feels a tad more aggressive than Nicky thinks the situation warrants.
(In which archaeologists make a discovery, Joe is upset, and Nicky trolls historians.)
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21 Aug 2020
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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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21 Aug 2020
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third for a word and the song keeps going by Macremae
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
05 Aug 2020
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It was honestly shaping up to be a pretty uneventful year before the Vatican got on Nicky’s bad side.
Or: three times in 2008 that the team genuinely thought about killing Nicky if only to get him to shut up about the changes to the Catholic English Mass and his unrelenting opinions on them, and one time Nile did.
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13 Aug 2020
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Bring me your pain, love….
Unclasp it like jewels, the gold
still hot from your body. Empty
your basket of figs. Spill your wine.Bookmarked by azoric
13 Aug 2020
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With Andy, Nile’s been learning to survive immortality. Joe and Nicky, it seems, are determined to teach her how to live through it.
Or: Nile spends a week with her gay immortal dads and they all get to be soft and happy for a while.
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13 Aug 2020
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Joe in short shorts. It does things to Nicky, so he does things to Joe. It's how balance and harmony are kept within the universe.
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- Part 1 of Clothing Kinks
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10 Aug 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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09 Aug 2020
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Nicky, Joe, and the road to forgiveness, paved with moments of stark beauty.
i. your lover in starlight
ii. rainstorms & thunder in the summer air
iii. small kindnesses
iv. the first breath after dying
v. the beat of his heart against yoursBookmarked by azoric
05 Aug 2020
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Perhaps he and Yusuf were simply companions, in the most common understanding of the word. Com panis—those who break bread together. Each day they shared their meals, water skins and unleavened bread passing silently from hand to hand. For endless months they had walked in each other’s steps, remaining at each other’s sides through the desert sands and now through the snow. There was not…love between them, however; not as Nicolò had known it. They had set aside the hate that had once turned their swords against each other, but what remained was unquantifiable.
It vexed Nicolò, frustrated him to wit’s end. Trudging along behind him, Nicolò stared at the back of Yusuf’s head, watched his cloak as it billowed in the wind. He felt he had not taken his eyes off Yusuf once since the day they first laid down their weapons and clasped arms in mutual surrender. And still Nicolò could not understand his own heart.
All Nicolò knew was that as heaven and earth so moved, he would not be parted from this man.
On a journey through the northern wilds, Nicolò and Yusuf grow closer.
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05 Aug 2020
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What the stars whisper of us by cosmiceverafter
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
01 Aug 2020
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Joe and Nicky spend quality time together in the great outdoors.
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05 Aug 2020
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“Tutto bene, Nicky?” Joe asks, voice rough from sleep. He keeps his voice low, so as not to wake the others, but Nicky doesn’t miss the sharpness in his tone. Joe is already on alert.
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05 Aug 2020
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He's imagined their reunion many times. He's imagined sweeping Nicolo off his feet with eloquent declarations of undying devotion, imagined being the one swept off his feet by Nicolo’s quiet sincerity. He's even imagined the unlikely possibility that the spark will have died, that the sight of Nicolo won't set a fire in his blood the way it always has.
Or: Oh, that time in Malta.
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04 Aug 2020
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Rec 87
Mystery Work
Part of baberainbow graveyard
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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04 Aug 2020
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Nico wriggled out of his trousers and his underthings, enjoying himself when he saw Yusuf's gaze get warmer. All these years and he still loved the way Yusuf looked at his body, like a prize he was covetous of. Nico liked being coveted.
"You're not undressed," he said, and Yusuf kicked off his final layers, exposing his whole body to the evening air. Outside, Nico could still hear the bustle of the street, mothers calling out for their children, old men arguing, someone laughing, but in their room, in their bed, it was just the two of them, as it always had been.
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04 Aug 2020
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deliver us unto each other by strictlybecca for modernnature
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Jul 2020
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Five prayers Nicky makes on his own, plus one with company.
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04 Aug 2020