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"Do you remember the first time we had this idea?" she asked, pulling herself back into the moment.
Quỳnh laughed, shaking her head. "How could I forget? We barely managed to do anything with that garbage."
"A few strips of cloth I ripped from a shirt," Andy continued, "The old stone cock I carried around with horrible grip… all because you said your arm was tired—"
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don't be late (you better come soon) by strangehighs
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
22 Feb 2021
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Very few things make Nile feel young nowadays. Compared to the others, yeah, she was hardly more than a child going into her fifties, but her late teens, early twenties feel like they were in another lifetime (pun intended).
Making out in a tiny cafe’s bathroom when they were supposed to be meeting the others in less than twenty minutes was one of those few things. As Booker’s hand slipped inside her freshly unbuttoned pants, Nile’s musings fled altogether.
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She dreamt of rivers, the comfort of her youth; she dreamt of wandering while the world changed around her and she remained the same until the weight of time felt like a stone crushing her chest with every breath. Sometimes she thought she felt touch, gentle as it offered her morsels of food, sips of water, but it couldn’t be. It couldn’t.
How dreams become reality, and yet they still feel like dreams.
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Smoke and flames, bones, and shriveled skin, danced in his eyes whether he kept them open or closed; the shadows mocked him at every new reminder. He endured more pain than he could put to words, creative torture at the hands of his jailers for a hundred years and more, and he’d lived. The pain he’d felt from the fear of losing the man in his arms was something entirely different. He wasn’t sure he’d been able to survive it.
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It took them a hundred and twenty seven years to find him; five more than the time passed since Yusuf’s first death at Jerusalem. During his first years, before Andromache and Quynh brought him into their fold, he thought the dreams were just that, figments of a mind desperate for answers, even though part of them always felt more like nightmares. The faces of his current companions—laughing, battling, free and happy—were night after night followed by a darkness that seemed to fill his entire body, a despair he couldn’t name.
It took him years to realise that inhuman feeling came from someone as human as himself. A man just like himself.
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- Part 1 of until your heartbeat hurts no more
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It’s just after 7:00pm, somewhere in North America, and Nile needs something to distract her before she gets in the car, points it towards Chicago, and drives until she sees the lights of her mother’s house. Alex Trebek is there - just like he's always been.
(The gang watches Jeopardy!: wagers are made, popcorn is thrown, and peace is found).
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09 Apr 2021
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Nile doesn't think she's ever actually mailed a postcard. She bought some once when she went to Springfield on a class trip, but she just gave one to Mom when she got home.
She isn't sure what to say. Whether she can even safely say anything.
She settles on writing, simply, Wish you were here. She copies down the address that Copley sent over, buys absurdly cheap stamps, and drops the postcard in a mailbox outside one of the sunbaked white resort buildings.
There. Done.
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Or, Nile and Booker fall in, out of, and in love again over the 100-year exile.
(Part I complete, Part II coming soon with a rating bump to E.)
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03 Apr 2021
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A Heart On It's Two Feet by treefrogie84 for gardinha
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
02 Apr 2021
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Yusuf is twenty-seven when he learns the last principle of growing up: you can't go home again. He's thirty-three when he meets the love of his life. He's... a lot older than that when he comes home again.
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02 Apr 2021
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“So this is getting up?” Joe mutters after a minute has passed, carding a hand through Nicky’s hair. “I must remember it wrong.”
In which a very productive time is had by all.Bookmarked by strangehighs
01 Apr 2021
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“You know, we could probably get a little robot to do that,” Nile said. “Put you out of a job.”
“Yep,” he said, nodding seriously as though she’d made an important point. He carefully wiped away some excess glue with a Q-tip. “This is the only thing I do around here.”
The team adapt to new technology as best they can, but sometimes they need to find a workaround.
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31 Mar 2021