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He’s so tired. Of being gentle with himself, of giving himself time. Of all the helpful, exhausting little rituals that make it better but don’t make it go away. Of the distance between knowing the way home and actually being there.
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Sequel to Somewhere in Mid-Air, because enough people said they wanted to see more of the recovery and I found I did too. Nicky and Nile deal with the fallout.
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- Part 2 of This Moment and Every Moment
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This work is made up of different stories; some of which are connected with each other and some that are entirely stand alone works.
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Whumptober Day 28:
Someone roughly grabbed the back of her coat and pulled, the air left her in a whoosh as her back slammed into the concrete of the sidewalk, her head bouncing harshly off the pavement. She groaned and blinked against the starbursts of light that popped across her vision to see her mysterious attacker towering over her, a small silver handgun pointed at her.
”Give me everything you have!”
Or; Joe and Nile's supper run ends about as well as can be expected.
My collection of one shots for Whumptober 2020.
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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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“And it’s enough?” Nile asks. “It’s enough to keep you going?”
“It’s enough to make me love this world and so many of the people in it,” Joe says, soft but sure. “We can’t change evil. We can only try to end each day having come out on top of it, and hopefully having helped others do the same. It may never go away, but other, better things aren’t ever going away either. That’s so much more important. Vital. That’s what I’d want you to remember, if you can.”
When you have a seemingly infinite number of days ahead of you, some will turn out well and some won't. And sometimes you can’t tell which is which until the day is over. Nile gets to experience the whole gamut with each of her new family members while finding her way through this weird, wonderful immortal life.Chapter 1: Nile and Quynh
Chapter 2: Nile and Booker
Chapter 3: Nile and Nicky
Chapter 4: Nile and Joe
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One thing the team can always rely on is Nicky being prepared for everything.
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Nicky's pockets are like Hermione's beaded bag.
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- Part 12 of Domestic Immortals and their Shenanigans
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Got my attention in the fadin' light and it's a feeling I don't wanna fight by JuliaBaggins
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
07 Nov 2020
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Nicky and Nile are on a mission together, and a necklace that Nicky is wearing sparks her curiosity.
The story how he got it also is the story of how ages ago, Yusuf and Nicolò fell in love.
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They were all intimidating at first. Not that Nile wasn't used to being sized up, but now, these were her people. For however long she had.
Training with Nicky was simple enough, but Joe was a different story altogether. Andy seemed content to sit back and let her struggle. She preferred to make her own mistakes anyway.
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After Merrick, Nile declares that these people don’t even make being on the run look the same as anyone else.
Prompt: On the Run
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- Part 5 of The Old Guard Whumptober 2020
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Nile walked out of the class with more questions than answers. When she saw Booker, he asked her how it was going with Nicky, and all she had to say back was “interesting.” Which allowed Booker to have a victorious smirk on his face.
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Nile decides to take a class that Nicky teaches. She tends to have more questions than answers.
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- Part 4 of The Old Guard College/University AU
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Nile reveals that she's Aromantic Asexual to the team and Booker learns a new thing.
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"I liked stories about romance because I liked stories about people. But it was never something I saw for myself. It wasn't something I wanted," Nile explains, watching Booker appear struck by her description. He looks away from her, down to his hands where his book is splayed open.
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- Part 14 of The Old Guard Tumblr Prompts
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Nicky and Nile have nightmares, share tea, and play Jenga.
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Death Comes to Me Again, A Girl by SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
26 Oct 2020
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Once, in the earliest days, when she was just starting to wrap her head around the ways her life had changed, the ways she had changed, she’d asked the others what dying felt like for them.
To Nile, it’s what she imagines it would feel like to be a steady breeze on a cool autumn day. To be thoughtless, formless, unstopped and undisturbed by whatever it flows across.
In the dark, she moves through like air, and all is soft.
Beyond the dark, her ribs withdraw from the ripped tissue of her lungs, sharp edges snapping back into place. She’s torn back to life choking on her own blood.
Whumptober Day 1: Let’s Hang Out Sometime
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Day 25 - I Think I’ll Just Collapse Right Here, Thanks (temp title) by Huntress8611
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
25 Oct 2020
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He quickly moved to try and figure out a way to open the door he assumed Nile was behind. This door was much sturdier than the other one, but after a few minutes of trying, he figured it out.
When he finally opened the door, he saw Nile, who was very obviously in pain, seeing as she hadn’t noticed him. He gave himself a few seconds to look her over, and saw that her legs were both covered in blood. Correction, what was left of her legs was covered in blood, because from the knee down on her left leg and mid-calf down on her right, there was nothing.
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- Part 25 of Whumptober 2020
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“How long have you been having panic attacks?” Nile asks Nicky one day, and the answer is a lot more distressing than she expects.
Written for the Whumptober 2020 prompt "wrongfully accused".
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- Part 14 of Whumptober 2020
- Part 3 of Nicky Has Anxiety
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“And you are going to help me.”
Booker’s hands shook almost constantly now, but Quynh’s were steady as she sipped on her drink, smile painted red as blood.
[No 11. PSYCH 101 Defiance | Struggling | Crying]
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- Part 11 of Whumptober 2020
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Promt: Day 15 - Hospital AU
Fandom: The Old Guard
Ship: Nicolò da Genova/Yusuf Al-Kaysani
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"-Hai già incontrato il nuovo Figo del pronto soccorso? - Chiese Nile, sorseggiando il suo caffelatte. Nicolò capì immediatamente che stesse parlando del dottor Al-Kaysani. L'intero ospedale non parlava d'altro, dell'avvenenza del nuovo medico. Ormai si era arreso a zittire le infermiere che parlavano di lui durante le operazioni. Non lo sorprendeva: era davvero un bell'uomo."Series
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Nicky the Archer (A love letter to archery) by KitMiller
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
14 Oct 2020
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There's a small archery club in South Holland that has a special place in Nicky's heart.
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“Nile, answer me, now!” she yelled, “Where are you?”
“F- fire!” she managed, and Andy swore.
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- Part 14 of Whumptober 2020
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Prince Yusuf and his sister Nile are Givers. With a touch, they can bring a dead body back to life. The boy without a name is a Reaper. He only has to touch a living body to end that life. Neither Givers nor Reapers can die by normal means, but that doesn't mean they cannot feel pain.
The boy without a name is sent to kill Yusuf, but nothing can kill a Giver. He's captured and imprisoned in a gilded cage meant to keep him safe and confined as the war wages on. Nile is meant to be his guard and guide as Yusuf returns to fight at the front lines. But soon, the boy learns that there is a far deadlier plot a foot amongst Yusuf and Nile's people than him. And he must decide if his loyalty is to the homeland that turned him into a monster, or to Yusuf and Nile who have only ever called him 'friend.'
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- Part 1 of Cat Chronicles