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i'm alright with a slow burn by incurableromancer
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
07 May 2023
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Back in college Joe and his friends used to joke about selling out, finding rich patrons and being paid obscene amounts of money to paint pretentious abstract pieces. Ten years later, Joe's the only one who actually did it. Finding himself with more money than he'll ever need, an utter lack of passion for his craft and no friends left in the city, he runs away to a tiny town on the coast to try and rediscover whatever it is he lost of himself along the way. Luckily for him, the overly friendly manager of the motel he's living in and said overly friendly manager's two year old son are all too eager to help him out.
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17 Jun 2025
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i'm alright with a slow burn by incurableromancer
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Twenty-Three Seconds by KushielsMercy
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
12 Sep 2022
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Nicky was the lucky one. He was only dead for twenty-three seconds before the EMTs jolted his heart back into a frantic rhythm. Joe was gone for a full three minutes before they pulled him out of the wreckage, the sub-zero temperatures working alongside the medics to drag him screaming back to life.
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25 May 2025
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Twenty-Three Seconds by KushielsMercy
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your love is sunlight by kaydeefalls for Mary_berry_boo
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Jul 2023
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The worst part is that Nicky knows he's too old for this shit. A summer romance—that all-consuming passion crashing over you like a tidal wave and lasting about as long—is one thing for a teenager. But he's much closer to thirty than twenty at this point. He should damn well know better.
Yet here he is, flat on his back in the late morning sunlight, his shoulders splayed halfway off the side of the bed, sheets rumpled beneath him and Joe's beard rough against the skin of his inner thighs, and it's the closest to God that Nicky has ever felt.
(Modern!AU. Nicky's a bartender in Cinque Terre, Joe's a tourist just passing through, they fall in love. Because of course they do.)
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11 May 2025
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your love is sunlight by kaydeefalls
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When Joe meets Nicky, it's love at first sight--at least until it becomes abundantly clear that Nicky hates him, for no reason at all. For lack of any better ideas, Joe decides to be the bigger man, suck it up, and just be polite when their social circle forces them to interact.
Of course, that would be easier if Nicky's daemon wasn't literally the sweetest, warmest, kindest, most wonderful daemon in the world.
How, exactly, does an asshole like Nicky wind up with a daemon like that?
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05 May 2025
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To Stay Skoll
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The pain is never easy to bear.
And with that Joe isn't referring to the fist of the security guard's leader – may Keane rot in hell – , which is mercilessly rammed against his larynx.
It's about the gun in Nicky's mouth
Another night after Merrick's story.
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03 May 2025
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Safe and Sound by Everything99