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Between a Noose and a Hard Place by PersnicketySneekeeping
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
21 Nov 2023
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He had no idea how long Quynh had left him dangling from the ceiling. Part of him was glad that she had not felt the need to drown him, the other part resented the indignity of hanging.
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It's the least Booker can do to not betray his family again. He just wished they knew the sacrifice he was making.
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29 Apr 2026
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“I think I am a mistake,” Nicolò confesses.
“I thought God didn’t make mistakes.”
“You tell me.”
Andromache nudges his shoulder. “I do not think you are a mistake.”
“If there is to be a man to walk the world for thousands of suns, let it be a man like Yusuf,” Nicolò says. “A man who understands the weight of the sword, who trades in kindness, loyalty and honor. A man who can find beauty in a simple sunrise.”
“And what of a man like you?” Andromache asks.
“There are already too many men like me in this world,” Nicolò answers. “And we can cause more than enough damage within a mortal lifespan.”
Andromache is silent next to him. Somehow, Nicolò knows she understands. For as old as she is, she has likely seen far too many men like him already.
They stand in silence for a few minutes before she asks, “Do you love him?”
Nicolò ponders for a moment. “I do not think love is enough.”
Nicolò di Genova has lived a long life. He has much to show for it, but somehow still nothing at all.
This is Nicky's companion piece to 'Beautiful Ghosts'. 'Beautiful Ghosts' should be read first (but likely not imperative).
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- Part 2 of Beautiful Ghosts
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29 Apr 2026
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If anyone would ask Booker why he chases Death, he would tell them. It wouldn’t be an answer anyone would expect.
If they would ask Joe, he’d say it is because Booker is selfish. If Nicky, he’d say that Booker is naïve. If Andy is asked, she’d probably just laugh and say that Booker is bored.
But if anyone bothers to ask Booker? He would say that the others aren’t wrong, but they aren’t exactly right, either. Booker would give chase, over and over again, without fail. Because Death gives him the one thing he values above all others: quiet.
Booker is incredibly gifted and has an extreme case of hyperthymesia. He doesn’t remember everything. But what he does remember, he just doesn’t forget.
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- Part 1 of Beautiful Ghosts
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28 Apr 2026
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At the safe house in Goussainville, he could barely disguise his interest. There was Andy and Quỳnh, after all, and Joe and Nicky. Was she supposed to be his, just 200 years late?
Then, it all went to hell. Nile hurled herself from a window. Booker offered her his hand. She accepted. Everything changed. Nobody realized.
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Booker and Nile are generally smart and usually rational immortal beings. They make decisions all the time. So why do Nile's visits always seem to bring warmth and sunshine to Paris? And why does this thing between them feel like destiny?
Or, a Hades and Persephone fusion in which Booker and Nile find family, find each other, and find their fate.
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28 Apr 2026
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“You cannot keep them, Sebastien.”
“Keep them?!” Sebastien hissed, glancing at the boys, “You talk like they would be pets, Quynh.”
“And you talk like they would be sons,” Quynh countered harshly, and Sebastien tried to remember that she was only being cruel to be kind, even as his heart instantly recoiled at her suggestion that he was trying to replace his dead sons with Joe and Nicolò.
AU: The team raises Joe and Nicky from childhood.Series
- Part 1 of Immortal Hearts
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27 Apr 2026
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God, I Pity the Violins by StarSpray
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
06 Feb 2022
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On a walk down the beach in the early hours of the morning, Maglor stumbles upon a body. And then the body comes back to life. Things sort of spiral from there.
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24 Jan 2026
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“Don’t worry, it’s fine.” Nile said, the stab of guilt at ruining the night coming a little harder. Joe had been so excited when he saw the bunk beds, grinning widely as Nicky said don’t let me fall off this time.
Nicky nodded but made no motion to stand up, to return to his husband’s arms. Instead he said, “I’m awake now. Do you want to go for a drive?”
“A drive?” She looked at her watch, it wasn’t anywhere close to morning. Although the idea of getting out of their windowless room is an attractive one, she can’t deny it, “Are you sure?”
In which: Nile is having trouble sleeping, and Nicky likes to drive.
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- Part 1 of Immortality and Family
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23 Jan 2026
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Every day brings with it a fresh batch of work, and a man throws himself into his bed late at night without having completed what he had expected to do; then in the morning he hurries to the unfinished task of the previous day. Life goes, and there is no time left to think, no time to consider the direction that one's life is taking. - Pyotr Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist
Nile and Booker meet up mid-exile, get into productive trouble, and go on a journey (metaphorical and literal).
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22 Jan 2026
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Booker meets Nile while she is still mortal. It changes things.
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[“Dude, you gotta help me out here,” she said again, “are you…en vie?”
The question made him laugh, which was a terrible idea. He breathed through the sudden roil of nausea and finally looked at the very determined Good Samaritan who had resolved not to leave him in peace.
“I am not dead,” Booker informed her gravely, “not yet.”]
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- Part 1 of THE OLD GUARD
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22 Jan 2026
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Nile checked her gun. "How long does it take to get used to all the blood and guts?"
Booker laughed. "You ever seen Joe or Nicky when the other one's leaking badly?"
"So, forever."
"I can only say that I'm not used to it yet." He looked down at himself. "But if it's mine, it's not as bad."
"Is that why you jumped on the grenade?"
"I don't know. I saw it, I went for it. If I weren't immortal I would be dead many times over. I'm not a fancy fighter." He took a peek and got grazed on the side of his head. "Ow. Fuck. How are you handling the transition?"
"It's weird," she said truthfully. "Everyone's a million years older than me."
"Yeah," he said with a horribly insincere grin as blood trickled down the side of his face. "And they'll never really get it. Quynh was a hundred by the time Andy found her. Joe and Nicky died together. And then there's us."
Everyone else is very old and paired off, so Nile decides her cohort needs to unionize. Any good union comes with benefits, even it takes you both ten years to be ready for all of them.
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21 Jan 2026
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It’s not lost on her that technically, her dating pool is now exactly one person, if she wants to be with somebody who won’t die on her. Still, “you’re my only option” is miles away from being a good enough reason to give it a shot.
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5 Times Nile & Booker Ended Up in a Romance Novel Scenario + 1 Time They Didn’t
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20 Jan 2026
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everywhere on earth you go (you're gonna have me) by nondz (pinkjook)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
07 Sep 2020
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“We’ll just commit to the buddy system,” Nile says.
“Buddy system?” Booker asks, eyebrows raised.
OR: Nile goes clubbing, gets lost in Ireland, learns to swing dance, dies in Portugal, and falls in love. Mostly in that order.
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20 Jan 2026
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Mistress Healer by laru
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
28 Apr 2025
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Keen to escape her life as Tolfalas' midwife, Minnow travels to the mainland. Despite being no stranger to bloodshed, she finds herself completely unprepared for the war against The Enemy, the strange and chaotic customs of Elves and Dwarves, and falling in love. A slow burn and build about a woman working as a healer in a war zone in Middle Earth.
💔 Epilogue is now up 💔
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19 Jan 2026
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To Catch a Falling Star by Drag0nst0rm
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
17 Mar 2019
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A star falls from the sky, Belladonna Took finds a pretty mathom that will make a lovely souvenir, and Elrond gets some extremely unexpected guests.
These are not unrelated events.
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16 Jan 2026
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A Pearl for Fëanor by seilkie
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Jackson Movies)
16 Mar 2026
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Fëanor still has seven children, but one of them is a daughter. And in many things she takes after Míriel.
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- Part 1 of A Pearl for Fëanor
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16 Jan 2026
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The Snow That Changed the Song by Ria219
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
14 Apr 2026
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Sansa Stark dies with blue eyes open and a dagger in her hand, defending the last of her blood. She expects darkness, or nothing at all.
Instead she wakes to starlight, soft voices, and a land where gods walk the shorelines as easily as nobles once walked the Red Keep.
A new body, a new name, a new father made of fire and brilliance and a family warm enough to thaw a northern winter.But peace is never as gentle as it first appears. Even in Valinor, shadows coil beneath marble floors, prophecies whisper through immortal halls, and pride can birth storms older than the world.
Sansa chooses, quietly, fiercely, to do what she has always done: protect the people who are hers.If fate has written doom for the House of Fire, then very well — she will learn the script, take up the pen, and change the song.
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16 Jan 2026
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Identity theft by waitingfover
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
24 Dec 2024
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Nerdanel squinted sleepily at the Maia of Mandos. The only words she caught were: children, Turkafinwë, untimely murder and your's now until their parents return from the Halls. Then the blanket wrapped forms was being pressed into Nerdanel’s arms and the Maia disappeared.
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Eluréd and Elurín are returned to life, and via an unfortunate series of errors, Nerdanel believes that she had found Celegorm’s children.
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16 Jan 2026
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The House of his Enemies and the Slayers of his Kin by Dorkangel
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
18 Aug 2021
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Himring is probably the coldest place that Maeglin has ever been.
He tries to put away that thought, and not to shiver very visibly as he glances up through his lashes at Maedhros Fëanorion. Terrible and fell, his father had always said were the sons of Fëanor, and Maeglin can believe it. Of course, his mother’s stories had been different. But they had been few and far between.
Above, Maedhros shifts forwards in his high seat with a slight rustling of heavy robes, and Maeglin trembles involuntarily. Out of the cold, he promises himself. Only the cold.
“You wish to leave Gondolin,” rasps the lord of Himring, with no small amount of incredulity in his voice. “To come here?”
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13 Jan 2026
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And even though you're scared, You're stronger than you know by HiyoriTomioka
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
17 Apr 2024
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After drinking to much at a party, Maeglin tells Turgon that he feels like no one loves him.
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13 Jan 2026
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One Year by Alienkdk36_78
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
06 Jan 2026
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Maeglin knew that he was fading as he had only One Year to live and was preparing to die alone yet who was this strange stranger who was connected with him though an Osanwe?
Fingolfin: Oh I just form an Osanwe to a stranger.
Maeglin: GO AWAY!! STRANGER DANGER!!
Fingolfin: It’s alright besides he need a friend.
Maeglin: I DON’T NEED A FRIEND!!!! I just want to swallow my remaining life in peace and bitterness!!
later~
Fingolfin: WAIT A MINUTE—
Fingolfin: THAT "ADULT ELF" I WAS TALKING TO—
Fingolfin: HE WAS A KID—
Fingolfin: HE WAS MY KID—
Fingolfin: HE WAS MY GRANDKID?!?!??!
Fingolfin: &#^$×
Fingolfin: MY GRANDSON IS FADING—
Fingolfin: I REPEAT—MY GRANDSON IS FADING—
Fingolfin: CODE RED!!! CODE RED!!!GRANDPA ON THE MOVE
Fingolfin: HOLD ON GRANDSON—GRANDPA’S COMING TO SAVE YOU!!!!
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- Part 9 of Simarillion Fics
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12 Jan 2026