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Andy’s heart stops. All the blood leaves her face and rushes directly to her ears. The only thing she can hear is the sound of it pumping through her veins. Copley and Nile are both studying the photo closely, but Andy hardly notices them, even right beside her. All she can see is the blood, the look on her face, the tremble in her jaw as she died –
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She is almost four thousand years old – there is quite little that feels older than her in this world, but Discord feels older. She feels ancient compared to Quynh, especially with all of the knowledge she holds that Quynh does not. “You have been withholding it from me, a carrot to keep me here so that you do not have to find a stick. It is hard to punish someone who has lost so much, is it not?”--
For five years, everything goes smoothly. Five years of Booker in exile, five years of Nile on the team, and five years of Andy grappling with her newfound mortality.
But, like every other plan they've ever had, it has to go to shit at some point, and go to shit it does.
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She takes another drink. It’s almost sour in its potency. She licks her teeth and stares out the window some more, eyes drifting across the dirty street. There’s a tavern not too far from here. She’s already drunk, doesn’t need the alcohol. But she needs to feel something, anything, and unfortunately, throwing herself out of the window is a good way to get noticed.
Andromache sighs and downs the rest of her cup. She sets it down on the night table and ignores it when it clatters onto its side and rolls just to the edge of the surface and stops. Frozen in time, almost, on the cusp of falling but not yet given all the way over.Or: Two scenes, one hundred and fifty years apart. A study on Andy and Booker, and their monumental failings as partners.
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lay me in my grave (as you have lain in yours) by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Jul 2025
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Strange, Andy thinks, the way the courses of her life and Nile’s are pulling them in opposite directions, granting them this brief junction for however many more years Andy can eke out, before they are separate again, left to have lived the vast majority of their immense lives without one another. Andy thinks, desperate for the briefest of moments, that she needs more time for this, for Nile, more time to guide her, to prepare her, more time to carry the weight that has been breaking her back for millennia so that Nile can live without the pressure on her spine. She understands, finally, why her mother cried as she went. Andy thinks she might, too.
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Or: Andy and Nile through the years, together, and apart. A story about mothers and daughters, about scholars and warriors and countless gods. About faith. -
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The two of them laugh and Nicolò rolls back over. Yusuf is glad. He would take Nicolò into his own body if he could, so that the two of them would never know another moment’s cold, another day without the other in their lungs and their heart and their hands. He thinks that perhaps, they will not have to anyway. Yusuf tangles his fingers in Nicolò’s hair and kisses him until they are both dizzy and brimming with joy. There is no need to worry about the Church, not here. Not now, when they are trying to build something beautiful with each other. Yusuf will raze the earth before he allows Rome to take anything else away from the two of them.
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Of course, in all the years of their very long life together, Rome has come back to haunt them time after time, and Joe thinks it prudent not to tell Nicky about that unspoken vow, so long broken.Or: Nicky's struggles with his faith over the years, through Joe's eyes.
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"We are not anything to each other," Quỳnh repeats, three days later.
Andy pauses, still holding out a cup of mango juice. "I know," she says.
"Why, then?" Quỳnh asks. Her face is a little wind-burned, and she looks furious, all of a sudden.
Andy shrugs, because there's nothing else she can do. Her throat feels bare, despite the choker she's taken to wearing against that very feeling. "You're on my team," she says. "I'm not - I'm not saying you're mine. I know you're not."
OR: on the way to rescue the rest of their team, Andy and Quỳnh fall in love again.
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01 Jan 2026
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"I saw the others left," Quỳnh says, and Andy's breath catches.
How long has Quỳnh been watching? How many times has Andy not seen her? How many times has she failed Quỳnh?
"Where did they go?" Quỳnh continues.
"Mission," Andy says. "I'm—"
She doesn't know how to say it.
"I always go first," she settles on. "And they keep throwing themselves in front of me."
OR: in which Andy stays behind while the team runs a mission, and she doesn't believe her eyes, at first, when Quỳnh finds her.
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31 Dec 2025
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In the hours after the escape from Merrick, Nile adjusts to the reality of her new life.
Andy twists in her seat to glare backward, but surprisingly she’s not looking at Nile; she’s looking at Nicky.
“This is your fault,” she tells him.
Nicky blinks placidly, dried blood still spattered on his face. “I have done nothing.”
“You know what you did,” Andy says. “You’re contagious.” She points at Nile. “If you start saying everything happens for a reason, I'm not letting you speak to Nicky anymore. I’m not gonna have two of you giving me lectures about some higher calling.”
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09 Dec 2025
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Beyond Measure and Reason by NocturnalMorningPerson, paigian
Fandom: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 May 2021
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04 Dec 2025
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The captain asks, “What sort of prisoners are you?”
Yusuf laughs and says, “Guess.”
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28 Nov 2025