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“Give Copley my best,” Nicky says, yawning.
“Not two minutes ago, you would never forgive him.” Joe raises his eyebrows.
The corner of Nicky’s mouth tilts up. “My best might mean very little, in his case.”
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14 Apr 2026
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Nile gives him a gentle nudge, hoping it comes across as comforting. “So where to?”
She can practically feel Nicky steel himself before finally looking at the tickets in his hands. Nile also turns to look, and she feels her heart break for him.
Paris. ||
or, several conversations held from Trieste to Paris while Nile helps Nicky catch his lying husband in the act of breaking Booker's exile. Spoilers for The Old Guard 2
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06 Apr 2026
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as far as you've come can't be undone by nightcamedown
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
12 Aug 2020
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It’s been only ten minutes when he hears the door open behind him. Too quick, surely, to condemn a man, though he suspects the votes are there. He hopes Nile will bend them toward mercy. He knows Andy will be the one to deliver the verdict when it comes.
But it’s Nicky coming to his side now, resting his forearms on the railing and looking outward.
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16 Feb 2026
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Always a First Time in Everything by NamelesslyNightlock
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
05 Oct 2020
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“Nicky came home with a coyote once,” Joe offered.
“It looked like it needed help,” Nicky muttered. “And I’d never seen one before, how was I supposed to know?”
“That doesn’t actually count,” Nile complained. “I said dog grooming.”
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…or, five times Nile tries to think of something none of the others have ever done, and one time they explain why she doesn’t have to.
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16 Feb 2026
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to forget loneliness (and to remember) by TheLupineScribe
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
26 Jul 2025
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“Why aren’t you rowing?” A voice, coldly accusing, called out behind him. It came as if from someone sitting at the back of the boat. Nicky recognized it, but stayed gazing forwards at the horizon. Dark clouds gathered, blotchy and heavy, as if they were weighing down the entire sky until it sagged against the ocean.
“There’s no point.” Nicky confessed, gentle in spite of the bite in the other’s voice. “I am not going to outrun the storm.”
“‘No point’.” A bitter scoff. “Easy to claim for the man with nothing of his own at stake.”
“We looked for centuries.”
“And I drowned for longer.”
Nicky closed his eyes. The wind was picking up, rippling through his hair and clothes. The boat listed under its force, and the waves were going to undoubtedly follow. Behind him, Quynh stayed silent.
“Ok.” Nicky said finally, quiet acquiescence. “Guide me, and I’ll go on.”
“Row.”
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Or, after nine hundred years, Joe wakes up alone
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03 Feb 2026