Beholdthearmadillo
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Shivering, Nicky draws in tighter on himself. The room they’re being held in is small, but it’s drafty. The vents keep letting in more bursts of air, and they took Nicky on his evening run. He’s wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and the sweat has long-since become cold and clammy against his skin. He has no real concept of how long they’ve been in here, but he knows it’s been at least three hours. That makes it past midnight. There are goosebumps on his knees.
To his left, Joe shifts.
Nicky starts.
“It’s okay,” Joe says, voice hushed. It’s an improvement over the first hour, when he wouldn’t stop calling for help even though there was clearly no one listening. “We’ll be warmer closer together.”
Romance novel blurb: Kidnapped together, sons of rival business moguls Joe al-Kaysani and Nicky di Genova find common ground...and maybe more.
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nowhere i wish to stay crooked by Prevalent_Masters
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
29 Jun 2021
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Nicolò should set up the rifle right now, make the shot, and be out of the country by lunchtime. He shouldn’t care that Joe’s eyes are a warm, deep brown, or that when he smiles the entire room lights up around him. Nico has killed beautiful people before, many of them, without blinking.
Instead he makes a monumentally stupid decision.
"My bad pickup line worked on you,” Joe says later at dinner. “I saw your sneer and I thought, oh, I must get that man to agree to a date with me.”
Nico snorts. “And despite my better judgement, here we are.”
“Oh,” Joe says, and over to touch Nico’s fingers. “I think your judgement was quite good, don’t you?”
Or: Nico has a job, and that job is Joe. He just can't for the life of him figure out why anyone would want an unassuming museum curator and art restorer dead.
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- Part 1 of Yet Not Alone
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07 Jul 2025
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nowhere i wish to stay crooked by Prevalent_Masters
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The wonderful thing – one of the wonderful things, there are so many of them – about Joe is that he’s an incredibly tactile person. He hands out hugs like candy and he’s always bumping Booker’s shoulder, tugging Andy in to sit on his lap when there aren’t enough seats, high-fiving Nile and kissing her cheeks. It’s just how he is with his friends; it doesn’t mean anything.
The terrible thing about Joe is that he’s an incredibly tactile person who hands out hugs like candy, and it doesn’t mean anything.
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A modern AU in which some things are not as they appear to be, and some things are exactly as they appear to be. -
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"How long?" the man eventually asks. He's not looking at Joe, simply regarding the floor, hands clasped loosely between his thighs.
Joe scratches his nose idly. "Six years."
The man looks up and over, surprised. "You were young."
"We met when I was twenty," Joe confirms, old sadness tugging at the corner of his mouth. “We had seven together.”
Nodding, the man looks back to the floor. He's quiet for a long time, minutes possibly. And then;
"Seven months, for me," he says, very softly, and roughly. And oh, Joe's heart aches for him.
In a world where soulmates are predestined, life after love seems impossible. Joe and Nicky give it a go anyway.
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08 Jul 2025
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the state that you're in by maddielle
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Any day on which a man dies is a momentous day.
Today may be Yusuf’s momentous day.