20 Works in Nile Freeman Has the Team's Only Brain Cell
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“You still don’t believe me?”
“Oh, I believe you have a friend named Joe, it’s the tentacle thing I’m having trouble wrapping my head around. I feel like this is some kind of new guy initiation joke.”
“As your friend, you wound me, Nicky,” Nile feigns a look of offense, “Listen, he’s at the gym right now. I’ll introduce you. But seriously, be nice.”
Nicky chuckles, “Whatever you say.”
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Joe and Nicky were separated before being transported to London. On the way, Keane took a special interest in Nicky. This is the fallout, and the recovery, for everyone.Joe watched through tear-filled eyes as Nicky knelt gracefully in front of him, taking his hands and tracing over his palms.
“Do you remember Vienna, in 1979?” Nicky asked, voice calm.
“Of course I remember,” he finally responded.
“They tortured you,” Nicky said, guilt and grief passing over his face. “For days. And they didn’t touch me.”
“I was glad,” Joe insisted truthfully. “I still am.”
Nicky huffed a small laugh. “I know,” he soothed, going back to tracing his fingers over Joe’s palms. He let out a sigh.
“And I am glad it was me, this time.”
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With A Little Help From My Friends by OutoftheBlueDreamer for secondhandsunlight, RosettaRoseburn
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 May 2021
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“God you’re so stupid.”
“Excuse me?” Booker replied and snapped his eyes back to Nile who looked lost somewhere between being upset and incredibly frustrated.
or, Nile catches Booker binding with ace bandages and Booker earns a lecture in safe binding practices.
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- Part 3 of Trans!Booker AU
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Joe doesn’t like seeing Nicky in pain, even when it’s just with a minor sunburn that will immediately heal. Nicky despises sunscreen. Andy and Nile are just watching the show."Joe," Nicky said, closing his eyes to rally himself. "I don't need sunscreen."
Joe ignored him, as he usually did when the discussion of sun protection came up, sorting through his various purchases. They'd landed in Split several hours earlier, and his husband had disappeared soon after they'd made it to their AirBnB. Nile had gone with him, wanting to explore the ancient city, while he and Andy had stayed behind. They'd returned in less than an hour, Nile giggling uproariously, while Joe had been pouting ever so slightly in her direction.
He sighed when he saw the next item Joe took out of his shopping bag. "I certainly don't need aloe vera," he told him, somewhat testily.
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- Part 3 of Art As Inspiration
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Booker fills one mug with coffee for himself and adds a shot from his flask. Nile doesn't comment on it, because they all have their problems. “What did you do, Joe? Did you try to make pancakes again?”
After a mission Nicky is angry and the team doesn't know why. With the only brain cell of the group it is up to Nile to set them straight.
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Concessions and Confessions by meet_the_girl_who_can
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Feb 2021
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“Nile, sweetheart, please tell me you are just dog-sitting,” Joe asks turning the attention back to the canine who has rolled over onto its back, little legs flopping over as it exposes its tummy.
Absently, Joe rubs its belly, fingers sinking into the soft fluff of its chest even as he watches Nile carefully because he’s got to be able to tell Andy he at least asked.“I am just dog-sitting” Nile confirms, “My dog”
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You Are Why (we can't have nice things) by linascribbles
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
09 Jan 2021
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The working title for this was "Andy vs chores" and then it got away from me.
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“We don’t usually do cults,” Andy said to Copley as he proposed their latest job. “Things can get weird.”
Spoiler alert: things get weird.
In which the team takes on a new mission, arts and crafts fun is had, Nicky and Nile share a devastating secret, and Joe has an existential crisis over some paperwork.
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It’s Nicky’s turn. He looks at Joe, who’s responsible for (or at least complicit in) nearly all of his have-evers. What haven’t they done?
“Oh,” he says, as the realization hits. “Never have I ever had a threesome.”
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Pain Doesn't Cure Pain, Only Love Does by Lexzandrihya
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
15 Dec 2020
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He hurt. Physically. Which was odd, considering his immortal healing. Nicolo had stuck a knife into his kidney. And Yusuf had gutted him while saying that, that pain was nothing on the hours upon hours of torture that they had gone through. Nicolo had then stepped behind him and snapped his neck.
When he had woken, his hands were bound behind his back and his legs tied to the fence surrounding the safehouse. The knife that Nicolo had buried in him was still there. He felt his body trying to heal around the blade but it couldn’t.
He supposed this was barely a fraction of the pain that they felt.
He wanted to scream for help, but he knew that he deserved this, and whatever else they saw fit as punishment.
Nile came to him in the morning, horrified. She untied him and helped him up while looking at him with a pity that he couldn’t stand.
He couldn’t stand it. He hated it. He didn't want her pity.
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Joe and Nicky hurt Booker. He runs away and they bring him back. This their story
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And Don't Underestimate the Importance of Body Language by kaybella
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
08 Dec 2020
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A Not Fic about sad Booker in a lighthouse and Nile the kick ass Seal Woman who's like you are proof that no one chooses to be a morosexual but damn I can't wait to kiss your entire face and have you make me crepes
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- Part 1 of If you give a Ship a Group Chat...
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“Nicky locked Joe’s dick in an app-controlled cock cage and now it’s stuck,” Nile tells Andy as she pours a mug of yesterday’s coffee.
(Based on a true story!)
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Booker’s gaze is hollow, but he stares steadily back at Joe. “You have no idea,” he says again. “You said you would walk through fire for Nicky? I would have done that a thousand times for my children, before I ever knew that I would survive it.” He takes a step closer, and Joe instinctively readies himself at the look in his eyes.
“Imagine,” Booker says, his voice low. “Just for a moment, that Nicky is dying.”
Joe punches him right in the face.
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Joe Al-Kaysani likes to think of himself as a good person.
At least this is what he tells himself as the most beautiful Italian man berates him about the merits of laundry room etiquette.
He’d like to say that he has no idea how he got into this exact scenario. But if he did, he would be a big fat stinking liar.
or Joe and Nicky are neighbors caught up in a laundry-based rivalry and fall in love along the way
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Reading the file Copley feels like pulling out his hair. He makes a new account to take care of bail money specifically.
Or five times everyone got arrested separately and one time they all got arrested together.
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- Part 14 of At Our Age Shame Doesn't Exist
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I hate this plan, Andy's phone lights up with the notification and she slaps Nile's hand when she goes to reach for it.
- Joe, Nicky, Nile and Andy clean up the mess in the wake of Booker's exile.
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- Part 19 of fictober 2020
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Booker doesn't know what's happening to him as Nile tries to calm him down.
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There isn't much creativity when you have fake names such as Nicky Smith and Joseph Jones.
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- Part 28 of September Drabbles
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In which Nile drives the getaway car for the first time and quickly learns that there's a reason why everyone in this family drinks.
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A non-murder reunion of the Immortal Family