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the lover speaks about the monsters by esperante
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), Black Doves (TV)
12 Mar 2025
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In the heartbeat of ringing quiet, Nicky turns to Joe, memorises his eyes, eyelashes, and forces a smile against the blank shock on Joe’s face. “Eyes closed, love,” Nicky whispers against his beard, “I’ll keep you safe.” Joe frowns, and tears spring to his eyes, clutching Nicky’s forearm still. Nicky loves him so much.
Nicky is a professional hitman and meets Joe at a club.
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Someone was going to upstage young Dr. Khan today – a young woman doctor.
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Justajoo by esperante for s_k
Fandoms: Rang De Basanti | Paint It Saffron (2006), Luck by Chance (2009)
12 Nov 2011
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They Make a Desolation and Call it Peace by esperante for themis
Fandoms: A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
18 Dec 2010
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By December, Baitar House was echoing in its emptiness, and Firoz had trouble falling asleep.
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Bhai holds his hands cupped together, as if around the flame of a diya, and then points to himself. He points to Khadija, and spreads his palms wide before pointing upwards, to the sky, signing for the sun.
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Nile’s eyes are darting between them both, obviously thrown off by the open aggression, and Joe sighs. This is not the first impression he would have liked to make. Across from him, Nicky’s mouth is pressed into a thin line. “I’m sorry, Nile,” Joe says. “Nicky and I had a complicated beginning, and now we find it too easy to slip into arguments.”
Nicky closes his eyes and breathes in deeply through his nose. “Yes,” he says. “Things often become more heated between us than we mean them to.”
Or: Joe decided to forge his own path in 1102, and it takes the events at Merrick Pharmaceuticals to shake up the status quo.
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24 Aug 2025
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a love even time will lie down and be still for by gallifreyburning
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
30 Oct 2023
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Joe and Nile have been raised by witches. They both want something different out of life and out of love -- namely, Nile wants to experience the magic of everything, and Joe wants to use his magic to protect himself from the fallout of passion that can go wrong. But one day when Nile brings trouble home with her in the form of a dead man, and a detective named Nicolo who comes looking for answers, Joe is forced to confront everything he's spent his entire life trying to avoid.
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05 Oct 2024
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She was starting to feel almost normal when Hap cautiously whispered, “Nile. Did…did you dream?”
“Yes,” she said, feeling a chill, “Four people in a boxcar. Three men and one woman; I just saw their faces and not their daemons.” She chose not to think about that cold, dark place. It was hardly an earth shattering dream. If she were speaking to anyone but her daemon she would have tried to dismiss it.
Hap let out a strained laugh, “I dreamed too. About four daemons whose humans I couldn’t see…”
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17 May 2024
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Together, they strip the corpses of fallen soldiers like scavengers, sending prayers of forgiveness to their respective Gods, and take what they can carry on two horses. Eilat is several weeks of hard riding away, and from there Yusuf is insistent they take a merchant ship to Aden. Nicolo soon loses all feeling in his behind and thighs. Yusuf continues to alight from his horse as if having awoken from a pleasant nap. “It’s all about rhythm,” he tells Nicolo, moving his hips to demonstrate. Nicolo contemplates killing him, for whatever good that will do.
Yusuf asks Nicolo to run away with him; Nicolo agrees, with reservations. Serious reservations. If only he could remember what those were.
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13 May 2024
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Death shall come and have your eyes by WhimperSoldier for Stella_Sirius
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
16 Apr 2022
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He had seen the shaggy wolves prowling around the abbey, watched as they trailed the group of men as they made their way into town but no one had ever been attacked. Father Francisco made it clear that there was a difference between the wild wolves which watched them with keen eyes through the brush and Reparata's shape.
Nicoló let his hand drift into her fur to calm himself as Father Francisco pulled him aside only a few months after she had Settled. He tutted when Nicoló cried.
Wolves, he said, had no place in the house of god.
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24 Apr 2024