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show a little faith (there's magic in the night) by liadan14 for knoepfchen
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
20 Feb 2022
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Nicky laughs as Joe noses into his neck. “You’ll give me the wrong idea,” Nicky says. They’ve done this before enough times that Joe knows, theoretically, to steer clear of Nicky’s neck; it’s a hotspot for him and intentionally letting his beard scrape along sensitive skin is a little mean.
“What if it’s not the wrong idea?” Joe says.
Nicky pulls away to study him. “What do you mean?” he asks.
Joe shrugs. “What’s a little fun between friends? I don’t want to be alone tonight, and I don’t want to put myself through meeting someone new. Plus, you’ve been a very good friend, and you deserve to be rewarded for it.”
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31 Jul 2026
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I was the life of the party, they wrote that out with a sharpie by cheshirefox
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Aug 2023
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By the time she turns 21, Nile has accepted it as one of those weird facts of life; sometimes it rains frogs in South America, lobsters can't die of old age, and there's at least three people walking around the Earth (or maybe just Chicago and that little part of Florida) that can't die at all.
or; 5 times Nile met a dead person walking and 1 time she was the dead person walking.
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27 Jul 2026
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Nicky feels like he’s the only true human being in the room; he’s the only one shifting with discomfort and wrinkling his nose and feeling so sick at watching what’s going on. “Hey,” he says to the scientists, “Can’t you knock him out while you do that?”
“Why should we? We don’t have the budget for sedatives or pain killers.” One of the scientists says blandly, and that makes Nicky feel like he’s been shoved over an abyss. There should be empathy, or professional courtesy, or common decency, but there’s just a blank look of slight annoyance.
Instead of killing the doctor like he really wants to, Nicky pulls his silenced handgun from a pocket and shoots the victim in the head. “They’re immortal and I don’t get off on watching people writhe in pain. Even if drugs aren’t in the budget you can bet bullets are."
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27 Jul 2026
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The Greatest Fiction Podcast On Stitcher (and wherever you listen to podcasts on iPhone, Android, or other devices) by ContreParry
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
18 Oct 2020
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Joe, like everyone else in the world, produced a podcast. Fans discuss the meta-narrative (clever), extensive research (emphasis on extensive), and its cast (quality). Copley doesn’t get paid enough to deal with this nonsense.
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27 Jul 2026
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Solo is being used, and he decidedly does not like it.
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4 times Solo realizes something is wrong, 1 time he stands up for himself, +1 time he's healed from it.
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19 Jul 2026
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After Uncle Rudy's short-lived but effective torture, Napoleon can't seem to be able to sleep. Illya's attempts to help soon unravel a thread neither of them is prepared to deal with.
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19 Jul 2026
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‘You’re allowed to, you know?’
‘I can’t. Looking gets you killed. Looking gets other people killed.’
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A room full of strangers by Elisexyz for InNovaFertAnimus
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
25 Dec 2022
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At first, when Solo referred to himself and Gaby as his "partners", he was confused. As he continued talking, though, and explained that they live together and don’t worry, Peril, this should only last a couple of weeks at most, we’ll take good care of you until you feel better, understanding slowly dawned on him. Partners certainly explained why he woke up to Gaby clutching his hand, only for her to look at him in horror followed closely by anger and bolt out of the room when he had to admit to having no idea who she even was. Of course she was mad, if she loves him and he doesn’t remember her. He would be mad too.
Partners also explained the way they both kept staring at him, a little awed and awfully relieved, and the way they spend most of their time hovering so close to him.
(Or: Illya has amnesia and thinks he understands what is going on between him and his "partners".)
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18 Jul 2026
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pursuit of happiness by mitzvahmelting for kaijusizefeels
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
20 Jun 2018
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Illya flirts with Napoleon, and Napoleon's reaction is... not at all what Illya expected.
Written for the prompt, "Illya comes into the kitchen and sees Napoleon wearing nothing but an apron." Then it got away from me, because it's Pride Month, so it ended up ruminating a lot on cold war homophobia, the "lavender scare," and all the gay British spies.
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17 Jul 2026
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17 Jul 2026
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Napoleon reflects on his partner while waiting to rescue him. Afterwards, Illya has a unique way of saying thank you for saving his life. Napoleon thinks it’s a good idea... and after Illya saves him, returns the thanks.
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As they wait to go on their next mission, the team splits up for some rest. Napoleon and Illya end up in the same apartment, which leads to some misunderstandings, some reflections, and later, some sleep.
Illya yawned again, his stern face relaxing. “Your country has a saying about that…”
“It’s British. But satisfaction brought him back - that’s American.”
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15 Jul 2026
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Maybe we could be a symphony (and maybe I could learn to play) by Elisexyz
Fandoms: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
23 Jun 2021
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Illya knows what’s coming. He wishes he didn’t dread it as much as he does.
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11 Jul 2026
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There had been fear in his chest when he first saw Illya, tied up on a wooden chair with rope over his wrists and ankles and a solitary lightbulb above. He’d been terrified for his partner, yes, but as soon as the initial worries over the man’s health had been assuaged, a deep-seated panic had crawled into his mind at the sight. Restraints, a wooden chair, a single flickering bulb. Not exactly the makings of his favourite daydream.
In which Napoleon suffers from PTSD and an inconvenient crush on his coworker, and Illya helps with both issues.
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09 Jul 2026
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08 Jul 2026
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The coffee machine is broken.
Illya stares at the piece of paper stuck over the front of it, the smiley face drawn underneath the damming Out of Order as if it somehow helps. The little touch display on the top refuses to light up, no matter how many times he pokes it.
Illya stares longingly at the broken machine, and then does what he normally does when he finds a problem he can’t immediately fix.
There’s a freshly painted sign over the café opposite as they jimmy the back door open and slip outside, elegant cursive that’s only just readable. “Solo’s,” Gaby reads aloud. “Well, let’s see what they’ve got.”
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During the war, Napoleon fell in love with another soldier. When he died, Napoleon swore he would never love again.
It doesn't take long for Illya Kuryakin to complicate that promise Napoleon made to himself.
And further complicate it by going missing.
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07 Jul 2026
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Saturdays at noon: tea, and crime.
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07 Jul 2026
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The problem comes when Illya enters the bar where they know the mark frequents and spots the telltale ring that they know the mark wears on a figure he decidedly does not expect. The broad shoulders and dark, wavy hair are bad enough, but when the man turns slightly Illya’s breath catches in his throat at the sight of his chiseled jaw and the small cleft in his chin.
Briefly, he considers how amusing it might have been to watch Napoleon attempt to charm his own doppelgänger, but the thought quickly fades in the face of the reality of the situation. The reality is that now he will need to seduce someone who so resembles the man who has lodged himself so thoroughly between his ribs, and who is so completely, utterly off limits for reasons too myriad to list.
(Illya finds an unexpected way of dealing with his unfortunate attraction to his partner, never mind that it is certain to cause far more problems than it solves)
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- Part 1 of Impostors
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06 Jul 2026
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“If you had some terminal disease and you only had months to live, you wouldn’t only tell some people but hide it from me, right?” Gaby says as she leans a little closer to him.
Nope, that didn’t really help. Napoleon’s brow furrows and he tips his head at her in confusion. “…No? Is this some kind of strange philosophical game, or does this line of questioning have a point?”
“Illya’s been extra nice to you lately,” she accuses, like he has anything to do with it.
(Illya's always been a considerate partner, but when he starts doing even more nice things for Napoleon, it's a little confusing. And distressing, given how Napoleon is sure that he definitely doesn't mean it like that.)
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06 Jul 2026
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Then there’s the apron. On one hand, it makes sense: Napoleon can be pretty precious about his clothes, so obviously he’d want to protect them. Even so, there’s something about Napoleon wearing one that makes Illya’s mind skip like a broken record. The top is too narrow on his broad chest, and the way it’s cinched in the back just emphasizes his tapered waist, like some parody of daintiness that doesn’t fit Napoleon Solo at all. And yet, somehow he looks like he belongs in it, like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
(Napoleon wears a lot of random aprons. Illya never expected to be affected by such things. Or, five times Illya sees Napoleon in an apron and has thoughts about it, and one time he acts on those thoughts.)
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05 Jul 2026
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“You are stupid man,” Illya murmurs. His fingers tighten, digging into the soft flesh, though Napoleon can’t tell if it’s meant to be a threat or if the movement is involuntary. A conditioned response, maybe. “Not a single instinct for self-preservation.”
Napoleon swallows against the pressure on his throat and meets Illya’s gaze unwaveringly. “Not when it comes to you,” he says, his voice slightly hoarse. “Tell me you don’t want me, that you don’t want this, and I’ll walk away.”
(What really makes a person “dangerous”? Or, 4 times Illya and Napoleon were warned that the other person was dangerous, and 1 when they decided it was worth the risk.)
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- Part 5 of The Early Days: Napollya Short Stories
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05 Jul 2026
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He should have run the other way as soon as Illya refused to answer his question of ‘why’, or at the very least put the shields up around his heart. Instead he looked deep into the icy blue eyes of a man who should be his enemy—who he’s already too far gone on—and took a leap of faith.
Napoleon Solo does not operate on faith. What the fuck is he doing?
(What they have is a mutually satisfying arrangement and nothing more, and Napoleon tells himself he's fine with that. That is, until he can't pretend that's the truth any longer.)
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- Part 6 of The Early Days: Napollya Short Stories
- Part 2 of Eyes on the Horizon