A Little Faith (2001 words) by
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Fandom:
The Old Guard (Movie 2020)Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko, Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Nile Freeman
Characters: Andy | Andromache of Scythia
Additional Tags: Minor Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Past Relationship(s), Character Study, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Drowning, References to Depression
Summary:
Nile had come back. Maybe because Andy and the rest of them were people she thought were worth saving. Maybe because they're all any of them have left. Maybe because Nile cared about them, this group of empty, broken-down soldiers, not worth a damn. They were, incredibly, something Nile wanted to preserve.
It's fucking ridiculous. Baffling naiveté that will get Nile caught before she reaches her first century.
God, how Andy hates the babies.
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Down Time (6035 words) by
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Fandom:
The Old Guard (Movie 2020)Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolo di Genova
Characters: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani, Nicky | Nicolo di Genova, Andy | Andromache of Scythia, Nile Freeman
Additional Tags: Minor Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko, Pirates, Pre-Canon, Canon-Typical Violence, Established Relationship, Canon Compliant, Character Study
Series: Part 1 of
Stories on a YachtSummary:
Joe feels it even now, how the smell of salt in the air stirs memories. He vaguely recalls the seaside and ships docking at ports as a young boy, how muscled men would carry crates and sacks filled with all the things they'd traded. He thinks he used to swim in rivers where the water ran blue and crystalline, where fish scattered at his feet when he walked by. Something about the water calls him and leaves him with an ache that stings of home.
"Are you all right?" Nicky asks in soft Italian.
Joe turns to him, the sun just missing Nicky's chair. He grins and reaches out to take Nicky's hand, to kiss the back of it.
"I was just remembering you in a pirate hat," he says.
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A story about loss, immortality, and pirates in the 1600s.
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Family Ties (4011 words) by
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Fandom:
The Old Guard (Movie 2020)Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Nile Freeman/Jay, Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Nile Freeman
Characters: Nile Freeman
Additional Tags: Minor Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Nile Freeman, Implied Relationships, Past Relationship(s), Bisexual Character, Light Angst, Immortality, Loss
Series: Part 2 of
Stories on a YachtSummary:
"I have a story," Nile says.
She thinks of her father, of how her memory was the first thing to go, how if it weren't for the pictures she keeps on her phone, she'd forget the shape of her father's eyes. She looks at Nicky and Joe and thinks of all the good things they no longer remember. Then she turns to Andy and imagines being so old that nothing makes sense anymore.
"What is it?" Andy asks, leaning forward on her chair.
Nile sits up at the edge of her seat and lets her hand fall on top of Andy's. She looks down at the gray-blue floor between her feet and thinks of going to New York City for the first time, of the buzzing of a city come to life and the rush of people. She thinks of her father's wide smile and his arm around her shoulders.
"Let me tell you about the Metropolitan Museum of Art," she says.
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