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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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05 Aug 2025
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da adesso fino all'eternità by maroon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
19 Jul 2020
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“So,” Nile begins, sitting in the beat up Hyundai with some meatballs in her lap, still dressed in her running gear. “Sexiled, huh?”
Andy nods, chewing away at her own meatballs. She points at herself. “Professional third-wheel here.”
Nile nods. “Well, they’re in love.” She shrugs, and Andy raises an eyebrow at her. “What? Love makes you do stupid stuff.”
Nile experiences the whole world, learns some disgusting secrets, gains another set of parents—as well as a cranky vodka aunt—and learns what it means to be immortal.
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04 Aug 2025
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“Then why untie me?”
The man grins, terribly amused, and awfully affectionate. Andromache wants to look away, but for some reason, can’t. Maybe because the look in his eye reminds her of herself, a lifetime ago. “Because my beloved is soft, and kind, and will flay me alive if he’d known I tied up a woman.”
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03 Aug 2025
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Joe was the one locked in the iron maiden. He has just escaped, resurfaced, and met Booker. He reunites with the family who abandoned him, and he's not sure how to feel about it until he learns that Nicky has lost his immortality.
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03 Aug 2025
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Nicky cuts himself shaving.
It’s not healing.
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02 Aug 2025
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the difference between prayer & mercy, by dana_norram, (podfic) by cookiemom6067
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
30 Jul 2025
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‘It’s my new boyfriend.’ The words sound absurd even now, maybe especially now, and for a moment, Nicky wonders if he misheard them entirely.
He might have. He should ask Joe for clarification now that it’s just the two of them, but Nicky– he doesn’t want Joe to stop. He needs Joe’s hands, and Joe’s tongue, and the half words being whispered against his ear. Most of all, he needs Joe’s fire, for Nicky’s body still remembers the crash and the feeling of freefall crowded by the moment he stopped breathing as the water swallowed them whole. He has showered since, yes, but Nicky still can feel ice inside his bones, and he needs to be warmed from within.
A missing scene about what happens after Joe and Nicky leave the table following the game night.
Podfic of the difference between prayer & mercy by dana_norram.Bookmarked by Catxtopia
01 Aug 2025
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Let's get tipsy and start a rumour by thekatcameback for redheartglow
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Jul 2020
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Nile vs. Married Life.
Or: Nile and Nicky draw the short straws and go undercover to expose a neighbourhood crime ring. It is not Nile's idea of the best time.
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01 Aug 2025
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“It’s been eighteen months!” said Quỳnh. “First Joe's new boyfriend is a doctor and working shifts, then he doesn’t use social media, then he’s studying in Manchester, then he’s shy and doesn’t like photos – it’s getting transparent. I’m almost embarrassed for Joe.”
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01 Aug 2025
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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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01 Aug 2025
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Before they were Joe and Nicky, they were Yusuf and Nicolò. And there was gravity, there were moths to flame, and there was them.
“You have lost your mind,” said Nicolò. His expression was awe-struck, glowing with hesitant hope.
“I have lost my heart,” Yusuf said in response, emboldened. “You have it.”
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31 Jul 2025
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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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31 Jul 2025
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Two hundred sixty-one years.
Twenty-seven deaths.
And countless near-death moments.
And yet nothing, nothing prepares him for the excruciating agony of watching Nicolo walk out the door and realizing that he is the one who made him leave.
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31 Jul 2025
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If Never Again, If Every Day by gallifreyburning, takiki16
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Jun 2022
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Current-day Nicky wakes up one morning to find himself re-living the first day he met Yusuf in 1099, and Nicolò from 1099 finds himself with a stranger named Joe in 2021. Time-crossed and facing old and new challenges, the two lovers have to find their way back to each other.
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- Part 1 of Fic Tennis - The Old Guard
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29 Jul 2025
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“They are quite the sight, aren’t they?” Adrienne says, sitting down next to him on the log by the fire, offering him the eau de vie once more.
“What are you talking about?” he says, feeling caught out. The bottle is half-empty already, and he does his part by taking a long drink so he doesn’t have to look at her for a while.
“Those two,” she says, pointing her chin at Nicolas and Joseph, who are huddled together with their backs against the wide trunk of an ancient olive tree. “You were staring.”
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(In which Booker is new to immortality, and trying to make sense of Nicky and Joe's love. Andy isn't exactly helping. Or maybe she is.)
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23 Jul 2025
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They took Nicky in 1983. This is everything that happened next.
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23 Jul 2025
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There Are Many Names in History {But None of Them Are Ours} by CypressSunn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Aug 2020
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“Why am I looking at Nicky’s dick?” Nile asks, apropos of nothing.
“Yes, Yusuf,” Nicky turns on him, “do tell us; why is everyone looking at my dick?”
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23 Jul 2025
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Nile watches as Joe gets to his feet and heads towards Nicky, calling out something to him in Italian. Nile is torn between learning Italian, so that she can know what they’re saying, and feeling like it’s an intrusion on something that she’s not meant to hear. "He's very protective of Nicky, isn't he?"
"You're only noticing that now?" Andy asks wryly.
“It all seems a little bit one-sided, that’s all,” Nile muses. “I've never seen Nicky be as...violently protective over Joe.” Andy just hums, and Nile glances over at her. “You think I’m wrong? I know I haven’t been around long, but I’ve seen Joe get killed in a bunch of messy ways and Nicky has never done…that.”
Andy just hums again. “Look again,” she says when Nile throws her hands up in frustration. “Watch more closely. You’ll know when you see it.”
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22 Jul 2025
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A group is hired to kidnap Joe.
It doesn't turn out how they expected.
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(based on the "you don't have him, he has you" meme.)
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- Part 16 of Amiril Fic (Not Cover Art)
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19 Jul 2025
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makes no difference who held back from who by lupus (lupuswrites)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
16 Jun 2025
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"You think if you get something a little stronger in you, you’ll finally get the nerve to make a move on Dr. Novák?”
“Doesn’t seem likely,” Jayce replied.
What Cait didn’t know, what he’d never told her - or anyone for that matter- was that he’d already tried to make a move years ago.
And he’d failed.
Spectacularly.
So spectacularly that it ruined their friendship and drove a wedge so deep between them that now he was no longer Viktor, Jayce’s best friend, and (unrequited) crush. He was simply Dr. Novák, his former classmate and colleague.
And, well, still also his unrequited crush. But that was just about the only thing that hadn’t changed.-
Jayce and Viktor accidentally get locked outside on the terrace together at Piltover University Hospital's spring gala and, face-to-face for the first time in nearly a decade, finally have a long overdue conversation. Mutual pining and years of miscommunication abound!
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25 Jun 2025
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On a frozen tundra, a mystical figure makes the decision to save Jayce's life. Thus begins a journey of destiny, the indomitable strength of the human soul, and love that transcends death, all bound together by the Arcane. The Mage gives Jayce and Viktor a chance to change their fate. And the two humans push back against the natural order of time. Maybe, just maybe... life is not set in stone.
OR, Jayce does not lose their dream. And he will never let Viktor slip through his fingers.
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23 Jun 2025