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The Knife That Binds by Kittleskittle, mythicait
Fandom: Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
18 May 2022
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Aloy journeys through the Forbidden West on her search to rebuild Gaia and save the world from falling to more than one danger. When she runs into an old partner, she's drawn back to him over and over again, until even she can't deny what he means to her.
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Derek blows some more smoke out. He chooses to look at Stiles’ mouth instead of in his eyes, again. “I need you to bring someone back.”
“Back.”
“From the dead.”
“Absolutely not,” Stiles scoffs, shaking his head. “Not for you, not for all the money in the world.”
Derek looks at him, just looks. He is not going to accept no for an answer, and Stiles knows it, but it doesn’t matter, because Stiles will not do that. He cannot do that, not again. “Why not for me in specific?”
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Sailing the Stars by esama
Fandoms: Assassin's Creed - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order (Video Game), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
12 Mar 2021
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Desmond accidentally strands himself in distant future, where the Solar System has been long ago abandoned, and humans have spread themselves across the stars.
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“Do you know what you are here for?”
Jesse scratched behind his ear, a little thrown. This, right here, was why Jesse fucking hated going undercover. Talk, talk, talk. Usually, Jesse got bored very quickly, and when Jesse got bored, his trigger finger tended to get itchy. Besides, they’d confiscated his goddamned gun. That was a downright depressing thing to do to a man, that was.
“I’m here as hired muscle, yeah?”
“Yes,” Hanzo said disdainfully. “‘Hired muscle’. What do you know about me?”
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“Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn al-Kaysani, called al-Tayyib,” Yusuf said, pointing at himself. He had to repeat himself several times before the man frowned and glanced up at his face.
“Yusuf,” the man said, pointing at him. He had to try a few times to get the intonation right, after which he carefully attempted the rest of Yusuf’s name, if with less success. It surprised Yusuf that he bothered, given what they’d been doing to each other. The man pointed back at his pale, gaunt face. “Nicolò di Genova.”
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manage me (i'm a mess) by technically_direct
Fandoms: Venom (Movie 2018), Marvel Cinematic Universe
13 Jan 2021
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The thing about Eddie, right, is that he's kinda an enormous fuckup. And it's starting to catch up to him a bit.
For real, the BEST thing to happen in those six months after he and Anne broke up was getting an alien parasite, and that was accounting for the whole 'it was eating his organs' thing.
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Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."
Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.
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13 Mar 2021
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hello 911 i was made to have emotions
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In July 2019, a marine research vessel off Norway picks up a blip on its radar. In Budapest, Nile Freeman wakes from a nightmare.
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How Booker, having crossed a line, is driven by stormy exile to his home country in France; and how from thence he made his course to some kind of equilibrium; and of the things that befell him; and in what manner Sebastien le Livre came back to his own country.
Booker shoots the albatross, fails to die, and makes his peace.
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- Part 1 of the ornithology anthology
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Quynh’s eyes snap up to meet a collision of phenomena so strong it nearly blinds her, brightly wild and loving for eternity and heartbreaking in its loveliness and endlessly forgiving and deathless inky black. The full force of it pulls her in, like gravity.
It is quê hương, the home of her heart, her soul.
More than anything, Quynh wants to reach out her fingers to trace the edges of Andromache’s face, but something raw and red and raging instead commands them to lie still, so there they sit, not touching, not breathing, barely even being. Call it cowardice. Call it the anxiety of being harmed. Call it heady memory that sticks in the now. Whatever it is, it seizes her whole against her will.
Quynh wishes she could do more, but that’s not in her nature right now.
(Or: Quynh and the intersection of her past and future)
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A Genovese fleet appears in the port city of Jaffa, just outside Jerusalem, bringing reinforcements to the siege around the city. Soon after, the city falls. Two men meet and kill each other. This is the story of how they fall in love.
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After her rude introduction to her new life, Nile has to work out the rest of what it means to be immortal with her new family.
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Tabula Rasa by Prevalent_Masters
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
16 Jan 2021
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“I was just looking at the books,” he said, and Yusuf huffed. But later that night, Yusuf looked at him long and hard, like he was trying to puzzle something out.
“What?” he said, tearing a piece of bread off a loaf and stuffing it in his mouth so as not to get lost in Yusuf’s eyes, which he found highly distracting.
“I didn’t know you could read,” Yusuf said.
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Or, a brief history of Joe, Nicky, and the printed word.
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17 Feb 2021
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SCREAMS THERE ARE CITATIONS
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"Wait, hold up a sec. So if you were around before them -- how old are you?"
The men all go quiet, and Nile wonders if she's just committed some kind of immortal faux pas. "It is irrelevant," Quỳnh finally says. "Old enough to know there is no point looking backwards."
"You're the oldest," Nile murmurs in awe. Older than the Crusades. How much older? A few hundred years more? A thousand?
"No," Nicky says quietly. "Not the oldest."
Canon-divergent AU. Five hundred years ago, they lost Andromache to the sea. Now Quỳnh leads the team, a new immortal just woke up, and some pharmaceutical company is getting a little too interested in their business.
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"Do you think we'll dream of each other, now?" Nicolò asks unexpectedly. "Like we do those two women?"
It startles a real laugh out of Yusuf. "Who knows? Sometimes, Nicolò, I think I must have dreamed you entirely."
After escaping the fall of Jerusalem together, Yusuf walks away from Nicolò in order to return home and move on with his life. It works for a while. Fifteen years later, Nicolò shows up in his dreams of the two immortal women.
(In which Yusuf needs time to come to terms with destiny, and Nicolò to make peace with himself, before they can meet on equal ground.)
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Yusuf half expects the bite of steel for his efforts, or at least a jolt as the soldier pulls him back down into the dirt—instead, just a hand in his, warm and rough.
“Yusuf,” he says, hand on his chest. “I am Yusuf Al-Kaysani.”
Something sparks in the blue eyes across from him. “Nicolo di Genova.”
Nicolo. Something familiar that has no reason to be.
Or, in which Yusuf and Nicolo kill each other, learn each other, and long for each other, somewhat in that order.
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- Part 1 of calico skies
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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.”
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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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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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The first time, they do not kiss.
Yusuf does not know if a man like Nicolò even wants to be kissed. He understands the moonlight-pale stares from across the fire, understands the hesitant touch on the inside of his thigh that sparked this, but still, they do not kiss.
It’s been six years since they’ve met, a year since they’ve last tried killing each other, and Yusuf refuses to wait any longer.