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Of the many things Nile had anticipated about being functionally immortal, this wasn’t one of them.
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Nile learns what happens when you die an excessive number of times on a mission, and suffers with Joe and Nicky. Andy's there to help.Series
- Part 2 of Tastes Like Home
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One shot stories from Gwyn's life as an immortal that didn't fit well within the series. Some featuring other members of the Old Guard. Some just her. POVS vary. Enjoy...
Chapter 1: Booker over hears Gwyn and Ioan talking about Ioan's first Pride, and tries to help make him feel comfortable expressing himself.
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- Part 9 of These Lines Across My Face
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When Joe finds out his roommate (and secret love of his life) Nicky is paying way too much for his shitty gym membership, he proposes they fake an engagement so he can add him as his partner to his University Faculty rec pass and their way nicer facilities. Shenanigans ensue.
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Cheese Is Life (Everything Else is Details) by ReaperWriter
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
22 Dec 2020
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When Andy has a bad day, Nicky makes her a favorite food with help from Nile, and gives Nile a small window into food as team history.
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- Part 1 of Tastes Like Home
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Professor Yusuf "Joe" al-Kaysani has pretty much given up on finding romantic love. He believes it's a thing. Just maybe not for him. And that's fine. He has lots of love in his life. He's a son, a brother, an uncle, and a friend.
Then his departmental partner in crime Nile Freeman asks him to let her set him up with someone she met at New Faculty Orientation, and Joe can't quite say no.
So here he is...wasting a perfectly good Friday night.
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Nile sets up Joe and Nicky on a blind date, and it goes pretty darn well. -
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Nicolò's arms wrap tight around himself when he sleeps. Yusuf notices.
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- Part 3 of One of the Wonders
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Psychopomp- A Guide of Souls to the Place of the Dead.
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When each of the Guard meets their final death, there's someone there to meet them and take them home.Series
- Part 8 of These Lines Across My Face
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The world Nicolò grew up in, if he must describe it, was grey. Oh, the sun shone enough in Genova. But it rained frequently as well. And like mainly cities in the lands once ruled by Rome, houses were built on top of shops, with more servants quarters or rooms for let on top of that, three or four floors high. When he ran those streets as a boy, without thinking of it, he could traverse the city from the harbor to the far city gates and never leave the shadows.
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The world that shaped Nicolò and the path that led him to a fateful meeting outside the gates of Jerusalem.
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- Part 2 of One of the Wonders
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After he learns the man's name is Nicolò, that he is not actually a Frank, that he was a priest before he took the Cross, he learns he is Genoese.
That he too grew up on the edge of the sea, almost due North from Yusuf.
And in that, Yusuf learns to understand him.
Because Nicolò is a quiet man, not given to boisterous conversation simply to fill silence. He speaks when he has cause. And his wit is as sharp and piercing as Yusuf's own sword. But he keeps his own counsel most of the time.
His eyes though. They are like the sea. And like any man who grew up near her, Yusuf can read the change of moods in the variety of colors found in those waters.
****Yusuf meditates on the way Nicoló's eyes change with his moods. And then learns some new colors and their meanings.
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- Part 1 of One of the Wonders
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When Booker met Gwyn, one of the first things she did was sacrifice herself. When the end of their long friendship comes, it's no surprise that she leaves him the same way.
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- Part 7 of These Lines Across My Face
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Hagiography: Writings on the Lives of Saints
Ten glimpses into Gwyn's life and her meditations on faith, prayer, and grace.
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- Part 6 of These Lines Across My Face
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Booker has two older immortal women show up at his apartment in the same day. Things go to shit from there.
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Booker meets Gwyn, Quýnh gets revenge and finds it hollow, Booker helps someone and gets the help he needs to accept responsibility in return, and things ends in a much better place than they start.Series
- Part 5 of These Lines Across My Face
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Gwyn and the Team spend a few days in Boston before splitting up, Gwyn to go meet Booker and the Team to take a job. Gwyn reconnects with her platonic former husband and asks him for help on a mission of her own. And gets to surprise Nile with an unknown talent while the team is out to dinner at a pub.
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- Part 4 of These Lines Across My Face
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Looking for Heaven, Found the Devil in Me by ReaperWriter
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
17 Aug 2020
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“Shit!” Nile sat up, panting hard. Five months, two weeks, and three days since she’d bled out on the floor of a house in Helmand. Since she’d risen and become an immortal. Since the dreams began. She’d dreamed of the others until she met them. She still dreamed of Quýnh off and on, though it had been a couple weeks. Nicky told her that Booker had dreamed of their lost sister off and on for years.
But this face was new.
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When Gwyn suddenly appears in Nile's dreams, the team journeys to Seattle to find out what happened to her in Paris all those years ago and why she's reappeared now.It's not a pretty story.
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- Part 3 of These Lines Across My Face
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She dropped her hand. “But truly, Nicolo, if I’ve caused you offense, please, let me right it.”
“You’ve done nothing to me, Gwynog.”
He stepped away, putting his back to her and lifting free the filled water skin. He turned from the shore, ready to climb the embankment when she asked, “Is this because you were a priest?”
The waterskin fell from his suddenly nerveless hands. “Did Jesus or the Virgin tell you that?”
Gwynog moved around to face him again, her face open and guileless. “No. Yusuf did. Did you mean it to be a secret?”
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After Nicolo learns exactly who Gwynog is, he fears her condemnation for fleeing his vows to the Church. When she seeks him out, what she has to tell him instead surprises him even more.Series
- Part 2 of These Lines Across My Face
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Silence reigned for a time. Finally, Andromache sighed. “You cannot stay here. In time, people will notice you don’t age. And your God’s love or not, they will turn on you.”
“I know. I am already making preparations.” Gwyn’s smile dimmed a little. “I will miss these mountains of home.”
“We are warriors. Our way is to also help. To fight for those in need,” Quỳnh said. “We can teach you.”
“That isn’t my path.” Gwyn swam to the edge of the pool, climbing out and then squeezing her hair out. She began to dress. “Your path is to shield the weak. Mine is to heal and serve them."
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What if destiny had called someone who wasn't a warrior? How might their existence have impacted The Old Guard over the years?After the events of the film, as the team lies low and lets Andy heal, she, Joe and Nicky tell Nile the story of another loved one they've lost.
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- Part 1 of These Lines Across My Face
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Imogen had often imagined her wedding as a little girl. In all her imaginings, it never went quite like this.
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- Part 1 of I Thee Wed
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AU-Modern (No Powers)
Sam runs a veteran's support group when he meets Steve, who lost his everything in the war. Just as they find something new in each other, that everything comes back.
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The Collateral Damage of Tree Sex by ReaperWriter
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies)
04 Dec 2018
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Quill's congested. The reason makes him lose his shit.
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Trollhunter by ReaperWriter
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Movies), Black Panther (2018)
04 Dec 2018
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Bucky versus the modern world.