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“Can I help you find something?” Nicky hears, not bothering to look up.
“I’d like to pick up something for my Nonna,” he replies.
“You must be Nicolò! I recognize your voice.”
Nicky looks up, and the most gorgeous man he has ever seen in person is smiling widely at him from behind the counter, causing deep dimples to show through the scruff of his tightly cropped beard. He has freckles dotting his sharp cheekbones and his nose, his eyes are the glossiest, shining brown, his hair is a riot of stunning dark, tight curls, and all Nicky can do is stare at him and think OH.
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On the first day of his summer break, Nicky gets a dreaded phone call about his beloved Nonna: she’s taken a fall in her favorite bakery in Malta and broken her hip. Nicky takes a sabbatical from his job as a professor and heads to Valletta to help with her recovery. He goes to the bakery to thank the owner, Joe, for helping his Nonna and finds himself instantly drawn to the man. The feeling is mutual, but both of them agree that since Nicky will only be in town for six months, it would be best if they kept things casual. After all, neither of them wants to get their heart broken when Nicky goes back home to Genoa.Series
- Part 1 of Life on Old Bakery Street
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02 Nov 2025
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Joe loves Nicky, and Nicky loves Joe.
Unfortunately, Nicky's allergies do not love Joe's cat.
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02 Nov 2025
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30 Oct 2025
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Nicky steps on a land mine in Sri Lanka.
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- Part 17 of Febuwhump 2021
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27 Oct 2025
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It isn’t the fact that the man was clearly naked underneath a dirty, threadbare blanket that catches Yusuf’s attention first. It isn’t the ring of purple bruises around his neck, either, or even the blood trickling down the man’s legs.
No, what strikes Yusuf first about the man are his eyes – big, clear, green as the sea right before dusk, and filled with fear.
“Help,” the man whispers softly, his voice hoarse. “Please…”
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Nicky is being abused by the duke of the town where Yusuf is staying for winter. Yusuf is not going to let that continue, if he has anything to say about it.
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26 Oct 2025
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A collection of ficlets - up to 99,99% about our beloved immortal husbands, and with that hopefully hot chocolate for the soul.
Ideal for short readings on a cozy afternoon, snuggled in a blanket, hot or cold beverage, and snack of choice within reach. Lean back and enjoy these small, non-brain-straining bites in various flavors.
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26 Oct 2025
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26 Oct 2025
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I Can’t Help Falling in Love with You(rovision) by DrottenDrottzen
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
07 Sep 2025
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“Uh…Joe?” Booker looks over to him too, then kicks his foot. “Joe?”
“...I am going to marry that man.” Joe says, with heavy conviction and solemness.
A love story told through the viewfinder of social media. A story about love, music and finding the other half of your heart across the world, through the Internet.
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A Eurovision fic, told through snippets of online media. Joe competes for the Netherlands. Nicky competes for Italy. Joe goes viral simping over Nicky. Romance ensues.Bookmarked by demicool
25 Oct 2025
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A/B/O Joe and Nicky Modern AU by In_agony_and_ecstasy
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
23 May 2021
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25 Oct 2025
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25 Oct 2025
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as if not bound by dana_norram
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
18 Sep 2022
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The events of The Old Guard (2020), but make it omegaverse.
(with a twist)
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25 Oct 2025
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As they approach the end of their senior year, matches are being made. Nicky doesn't expect to have one since he's Pack-less. But sometimes, dreams do come true.
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23 Oct 2025
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side by side (it's always been just you and me) by andrealyn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Jul 2025
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The docks isn't the first time that one of them has asked for time alone over the last thousand years. They're nearly a thousand years old. They've spent plenty of time apart, but it's never ended up lasting very long. After all, being truly alone is a disease that their immortality cured a thousand years ago.
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23 Oct 2025
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Joe first sees him under red lights fierce, graceful, untouchable. A proposition follows: one night. Sex for money.
Nicky agrees. Not out of desire, but necessity.
But something shifts. In silence and in song, in bruised trust and quiet glances, what began as a transaction becomes something harder to walk away from.Bookmarked by demicool
23 Oct 2025
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be by the door, let your heart in (I'll kiss every pore) by eldestdaughtercomplex
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 Feb 2021
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Nicky feels a smile slip onto his face as he takes it all in. Nicky is teaching again. He’s got a classroom that’s his in a good school; Nicky gets to make this space his own, he gets to put his passion for watching other people learn and grow somewhere, he gets to watch as student’s eyes widen when they finally understand something they’ve been stuck on. As those thoughts sink in, as Nicky lets himself realize that he’s back to doing what he loves, someone knocks on his door.
Nicky pushes himself off the wall and looks over to see who it is, only to lose all of his higher brain functions when he sees a very beautiful man standing in his doorway, wearing dark wash jeans and a blue t-shirt. He is possibly the most beautiful man Nicky has ever seen in his entire life, with his curly hair and thick beard and his arms-
“Hey, you’re Nicky, right? I ran into Quynh and she said you came in today, so I thought I would introduce myself. I’m Joe.” Joe offers Nicky his hand and Nicky takes it after he blinks a few times too many. Joe’s smile is very pretty and even more distracting. He needs to get it together, but he can’t, because Joe’s hand is so warm that Nicky misses it when Joe takes his hand back.
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- Part 1 of show me who made you walk the way here
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23 Oct 2025
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the tie that binds us is an unbreakable rope by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Aug 2020
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After nine hundred and twenty-one years, Yusuf and Nicolo have found many ways to tell the other that he loves him.
Yusuf loves words, loves poems and speeches and art he has seen and built and breathed for centuries; Nicolo loves acts of service, loves to help and to protect and to provide. Over the years, gifts are exchanged, touch is treasured, and every waking moment they can spend together, they are inseparable.
Nine hundred and twenty-one years, and thousands of ways to say I love you.
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19 Oct 2025
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The first time Yusuf knows he will love Nicolò forever is when the other man trips over a rock and cracks his head wide open.
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19 Oct 2025
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Demi as in Demisexual, not Demigod by AndromedaSpiral
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Aug 2020
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5 Times Nicolo would have found the word 'demisexual' useful to describe his identity
+1 Time he found out what it meant and got to use itBookmarked by demicool
15 Oct 2025
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29 Sep 2025
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21 Sep 2025