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saw you in a dream (the sweetest apparition, such a pretty vision) by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
31 Jan 2022
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Nile smiles. "But God is bullshit?"
Booker shrugs. "Maybe. To me. But that doesn't make Him any less real to Nicky, or to you. Doesn't make it any less sacred."
Nile looks into his eyes, calm and steady. Thinks green might be her favourite colour.
"Yeah. Well, I think you're a good person, Book."
Or: Booker and Nile fall in love, and also fall asleep.
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15 May 2022
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Every day brings with it a fresh batch of work, and a man throws himself into his bed late at night without having completed what he had expected to do; then in the morning he hurries to the unfinished task of the previous day. Life goes, and there is no time left to think, no time to consider the direction that one's life is taking. - Pyotr Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Nile and Booker meet up mid-exile, get into productive trouble, and go on a journey (metaphorical and literal).
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19 Apr 2022
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One hundred years. It was unfathomable. She’d tried to argue, tried to make her point, and she’d thought in the moment that maybe she’d at least gotten them to consider a shorter sentence, maybe just a separation for everything to cool off, and then they could work through shit. But a hundred years of exile?
In which Nile takes matters into her own hands.
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17 Apr 2022
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You're born with the first words your soulmate says to you on your skin.
What happens when you live more than one lifetime?
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10 Mar 2022
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They’ve been down there for a while now, taking careful samples, but mostly taking notes. Their transport ship is nearby. Nearby-ish. They’ll need to report back soon, just to confirm everything’s going well.
Sex pollen. Why did it have to be sex pollen?
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14 Feb 2022
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There was nothing accidental about the way he pressed himself against her. Or the way her body responded.
Written for the prompt Booker/Nile + dubcon, Booker intimidates her.
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13 Jan 2022
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As a team, they’d all dealt with some shitty people, but the group she and Booker had infiltrated that night was really something else. It was an old boys' club, exactly the kind of thing you picture when you hear that phrase, and they were all living up to every damn stereotype there was. A bunch of rich old white men chewing on expensive cigars, laughing about their money, groping their eye candy du jour. She’d had to get up, simpering at Booker and stroking her fingers along his arm, just to get away from the conversation he’d gotten involved in: yachts. Fucking yachts.
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13 Jan 2022
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March is the new October. I will (try to) post a different kinky shortfic for Booker & Nile every day.
Now COMPLETE, as of March 31, 2021 🥲
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05 Jan 2022
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À quoi bon se bousculer? by sindirimba for flawlessassholes
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Dec 2021
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“Baby,” she murmurs, scratching her nails down along the back of his neck, making him groan softly. “What’re you up for?”
His lips twitch and he pulls back slightly, eyes searching her face. “Hmm, we need to do the dishes, don’t we?”
Written for the Book of Nile Cozy Nights Gift Exchange!
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27 Dec 2021
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Andy maintains eye contact as she unpins her “roommate wanted” sign from the board and crumples it in her hand.
Nile blinks.
“I think you show promise,” Andy says by way of explanation.
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28 Aug 2021
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Blue-eyed matador by FlamingoQueen
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
27 Jan 2024
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The asset is programmed not to strike a handler. Not to struggle no matter who is doing what to it. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to shy away when technicians approach torch-first to take it apart and put it back together in the name of science, research, progress. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to object to the mouth guard, the restraints, the chair. Not to beg or plead when it is left empty and hungry in its cryo tube. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to so much as consider harming an operator, the highest of all members of the organization. And...
And if the silent, liquid fury in the asset’s eyes is any indicator, the asset does not comply.
(Or: The one where the asset is thawed out during the Chitauri attack on New York, escapes, and goes hunting for revenge with the Avengers hot on the trail.)
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- Part 1 of Blue-Eyed Matador (the series)
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16 Aug 2021
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Hallowed Ground by shinelikethunder (tenlittlebullets)
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
07 Apr 2015
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Bucky thinks about cleaning guns, or doing field maintenance on his arm, and tries to pretend he's repairing something delicate as he traces the lines of violence carved into Steve's flesh.
It'd be nice to believe that's what he's doing.
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10 Aug 2021
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reach out and touch (don’t think of america) by Cephalopodsalad17
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies)
17 Sep 2021
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They stared at their hands and then at each other. Bucky wondered if it felt the skin hunger the way he did. Maybe they could help each other. Maybe it would be too much. He didn’t know. There was no precedent for this.
Slowly, he extended his right hand again. So did the Asset.
Their fingers met, flinching back from the barest graze at first. Then, when nothing happened to discourage or punish them, they clasped and gripped each other.
“We can touch,” Bucky marveled. They were touching and it was easy.
Forget breakfast, he thought wildly. I want to take you back to my bed and squeeze you like a body pillow.
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17 Jun 2021
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11 Jun 2021
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Tabula Rasa by Aelara_Vayne
Fandoms: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics), Thunderbolts (Movie 2025)
22 Apr 2022
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If Bucky thought there'd be no price to pay for pretending to be the Winter Soldier again, he was wrong. When you can't trust your own mind, who else is there?
Arc One (1-24) - Canon
Arc Two (25-53) - Post-Canon, Part One
Arc Three (54 - 85) - Post-Canon, Part Two
Arc Four (86 - ongoing) - Post-Canon, Part Three
Edit: Added this to Thunderbolts tag because it is about more or less the same team, but written years prior to movie.
No spoilers for movie contained within, but it may appeal to some fans of the movie looking for found family dynamic.
Not complete, but Arc 1-3 can be read as complete stories.
Yelena appears in Act 4, Alexei does not appear.Series
- Part 9 of ex cineribus resurgam
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23 Apr 2021
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Sébastien could do nothing about the fact that they had not married for love, but he could make sure his new wife was not condemned to a marriage without pleasure.
Written for the prompt Nile/Booker + Regency!ruined Nile’s first nights with her new husband.
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05 Apr 2021
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He woke again, frozen and in pain, his neck crunching horribly, but his legs still worked, almost. The camp was abandoned. He scrabbled through the grass for supplies, coming upon a tarnished combat knife. Sebastien took it and cut down a fellow deserter to steal his clothes. Russia was a fucking nightmare. Six layers of clothes would not be enough, but he would make do with doubling a regular uniform.
Why wasn't he dead?He had a sick thought as he stared at the knife, and impulsively slashed his hand open. He shouted in pain, but after a few seconds, the wound began to knit back together, and once he cleaned his hand in the snow, there was no sign of the injury at all. He felt his neck. The strangulation bruises were gone.
What.
West and south. He had to go west and south. Home. To Camille and the children. He shoved his hands inside his coat, looked at the sun, and began walking. The tears froze to his face as the wind picked up.
A look at Sebastien le Livre's life from his first death in Russia to finally joining the Old Guard for good.
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- Part 3 of old guard history
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25 Feb 2021
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Nile checked her gun. "How long does it take to get used to all the blood and guts?"
Booker laughed. "You ever seen Joe or Nicky when the other one's leaking badly?"
"So, forever."
"I can only say that I'm not used to it yet." He looked down at himself. "But if it's mine, it's not as bad."
"Is that why you jumped on the grenade?"
"I don't know. I saw it, I went for it. If I weren't immortal I would be dead many times over. I'm not a fancy fighter." He took a peek and got grazed on the side of his head. "Ow. Fuck. How are you handling the transition?"
"It's weird," she said truthfully. "Everyone's a million years older than me."
"Yeah," he said with a horribly insincere grin as blood trickled down the side of his face. "And they'll never really get it. Quynh was a hundred by the time Andy found her. Joe and Nicky died together. And then there's us."
Everyone else is very old and paired off, so Nile decides her cohort needs to unionize. Any good union comes with benefits, even it takes you both ten years to be ready for all of them.
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25 Feb 2021
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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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22 Feb 2021
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Back when he was a soldier in Napoleon’s army, Booker had come to the conclusion that using the back entrance was decidedly unpleasant and definitely not for him.
That is, until Nicky and Joe hear about it.
Inspired by a kink meme prompt here.
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01 Feb 2021