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get a little lonely every year around this time by liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
18 Dec 2022
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“I still don’t have a boyfriend to bring to the stupid Starbucks holiday party,” Joe said mulishly.
“So you invent some dashing, romantic reason he couldn’t make it,” Nicky said.
When he shook his head, Joe’s curls wobbled a bit. Not for the first time, Nicky restrained the urge to reach out and touch. “There’s nothing dashing or romantic about missing a date,” Joe said firmly.
“He’s a surgeon who had to perform open-heart surgery on a four-year-old to get her home in time for Christmas,” Nicky offered. “He’s a fireman busy putting out electrical fires in overdecorated houses.”
Joe burst out laughing. “Who would believe that?”
Or: Joe asks Nicky to be his fake date to the holiday party at the Starbucks across the street from his little independent café-slash-bookstore. Nicky has no self-preservation and is completely in love with Joe, so of course he agrees.
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peaceful, easy feeling by Aniron84
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
21 Jan 2024
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It's a snowy morning in Chicago, and Nicky wakes up in Joe's arms.
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- Part 2 of Chicago 'verse
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15 Sep 2026
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in a space that they belong by Aniron84
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
16 Dec 2023
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“I was just wondering,” Nicky asks the clerk, “are you sure you don’t have any others of this kind?” His accent is stronger, when he’s nervous—which is anytime he talks to strangers, really—and he winces a little, but the clerk doesn’t seem to notice.
“No, just that one,” the clerk says absently, eyeing the clock over the checkout counter with something that looks like longing. “Feel free to try it out, and if you like it we can order a different size for you.”
And he really wants to try it out, is the thing, because the articles he’s read say you should test a mattress for at least 15 minutes before committing. But there’s already a customer on this bed—a man, effortlessly beautiful in a way Nicky could never dream of being, with the softest black curls Nicky has ever seen, and a beard Nicky wants to feel against the inside of his thighs. And isn’t that an image to have in his head, right as the man opens his eyes to see Nicky standing awkwardly by the side of the bed.________________________________
Or, oh my god, there was only one mattress.
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- Part 1 of Chicago 'verse
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15 Sep 2026
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heaven is not fit to house a love like you and i by clownereye
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Mar 2024
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When Joe moves to a city closer to his friends, it's mostly to find the inspiration he has been missing from his life for months.
He finds it in old poems, in the first sunny days of spring, and in the owner of a hidden away bookshop.
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14 Sep 2026
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down for you always by dreamtiwasanarchitect, liadan14
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 May 2021
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Joe squints a little. “So you were born in what, the 1060s?”
Nicky nods. “1069, I believe. I died during the first crusade. For the first time, anyway.”
“Wow,” Joe says. “You are very well preserved.”
Joe's a millennial with student loan debt, a dead-end career as a personal trainer, and a lumpy futon for a bed. He's also the new immortal.
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- Part 1 of the new me (is really still the real me)
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13 Sep 2026