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“If you wish, you may accompany me to my village,” he says, the other man’s hands stilling their motion.
“Do you care for my company?” the man asks hesitantly. “After every time I have killed you?”
Yusuf shakes his head and a low chuckle escapes him. “No, but it seems that you are in a much sadder state than I am. My mother would think me cruel for abandoning you.”
After a tentative truce, Yusuf and Nicolò go home.
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Joe’s beautiful brow pinches together as the reality begins to set in.
They always promised each other that they would go together or not at all—damn God and damn their immortality. But it was always an empty promise; they had no control over when their time would come and it was a thought that kept Nicky awake so many nights in increasing frequency as the years went on. And now, this was the moment, and Nicky never found himself believing in divine intervention more.
He releases the pressure on the wound on his stomach and shifts over Joe’s arm, cupping his face in his bloodstained fingers. “I’m not leaving you,” he rasps, the ache in his lungs growing stronger with each half-breath he manages. “Not til the end, understand?”
At the end of their immortality, Nicky finds himself begging for a little more time in their final moments.
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25 Apr 2026
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IF YOU WANNA CRY WHILE APPRECIATING INCREDIBLE PAINFUL BUT SO GOOD WRITING HIT THIS UP
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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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The most epic bedtime story ever told by TheLoveliestCrime
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
14 Sep 2020
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To satisfy Nile’s curiosity and make her part of the family, Joe tells her the full story of how Nicolò di Genova and Yusuf Al-Kaysani became "NickyandJoe". From Jerusalem to Malta and back again. And Nile doesn’t want the PG version.
It’s a story that has been told in this fandom a thousand times before, but deserves to be told a thousand times more.
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21 Apr 2026
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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.