AceOfShadows
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Lot Thirty Seven - The Vault by AceOfShadows
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
08 Sep 2019
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What should have been a simple night at an auction house - pick up anything too dangerous to be left lying around, watch a bunch of humans argue over fake occult items and then return to the bookstore with Aziraphale for copious amounts of alcohol - goes terribly wrong when Crowley discovers the auction house owner, Mallory, is hiding something far more dangerous in his vault than he was letting on.
An Ethereal something to be exact.
Which leaves Crowley to wonder - how exactly did he not realise Aziraphale was missing?
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The One That Remains by AceOfShadows
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
07 Jul 2019
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"And it is told of Maglor that he could not endure the pain with which the Silmaril tormented him..."
The Silmaril did not burn Maglor, as one had burned Maedhros. But that did not mean he was free of the burden it set upon him, nor the pain of so many past misdeeds.
A short introspective What-If piece.
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Dragonglass by AceOfShadows
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
28 May 2018
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There are two times when absolute stillness is required, his mother had told him as a small dwarfling. The first is when someone upsets a horde of angry Elves and hiding is the best option...The second is when you find yourself nose to nose with a very large dragon and you do not wish to find yourself eaten...
Gimli, son of Glóin, displeased with his first solo adventure to the Iron Hills, sets off on a different far more ambitious task: to bring back a supply of the much-prized obsidian, also known as Dragonglass from the Withered Heath. But the Grey Mountains are forbidden for a reason, and Gimli quickly finds himself trapped in the nest of a young dragon with whom he must forge a tentative alliance if he ever wishes to escape.
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Definitely Not A Local by AceOfShadows for scrimplications
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
07 May 2018
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In Minas Tirith, a bored barkeep tends a quiet tavern, and gains an eventful afternoon when he is visited by some unexpected (and unusual) patrons. Unfortunately for him, Legolas has no idea how mortal currency works.
(From here on out, Gimli will pay for their ale, thank you)
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Patior by AceOfShadows
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
21 Apr 2018
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In a dark future, a prisoner waits for execution - but upon his death, he awakens to find himself in the past among friends, with the knowledge of what is to come. He must find a way to set the future on the correct course, but who can he trust? Where did it all go wrong the first time?
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- Part 1 of Patior ‘Verse
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Patior ‘Verse by AceOfShadows
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Apr 2018
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Trials of the Fellowship by AceOfShadows
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
16 Mar 2017
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After a mission gone wrong, Nicky is left trapped after an explosion and dying over and over, unable to do anything but wait for his rescue.
Written for the Whumptober 2020 prompt "carrying".
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- Part 5 of Whumptober 2020
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- English
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21 Dec 2024
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Nicky wakes up in an unfamiliar room, but the purpose of it is far from unfamiliar to him. He's experienced many kinds of torture in his life, but this just might be the one that finally breaks him.
Bookmarked by AceOfShadows
20 Dec 2024
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The pain is never easy to bear.
And with that Joe isn't referring to the fist of the security guard's leader – may Keane rot in hell – , which is mercilessly rammed against his larynx.
It's about the gun in Nicky's mouth
Another night after Merrick's story.
Bookmarked by AceOfShadows
20 Dec 2024
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Joe has learned since becoming an immortal that head injuries don't always heal all at once. This is especially true when some bastard blows your brains out.
Or: a fic about what might have happened after Nicky was shot by Keane if the old guard healed just a little differently from TBIs.
Bookmarked by AceOfShadows
20 Dec 2024
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whatever here that's left of me by paigian
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
13 Jul 2021
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"Nicky is making himself a coffee, bleary-eyed from a fitful sleep, and trying to recall if Joe is drinking it this decade, and if he is then does he take it with sugar?, and he’s also thinking about The Odyssey, which is sitting in amongst a pile of books in the next room.
He’s thinking about a question written in the margins, scrawled in Booker’s handwriting: how long does it take for a man to return from war? Does he ever return, can he ever return, what does it mean to return home, when home is not home and he is no longer the same man?"
After Merrick, Nicky's right shoulder starts hurting, and it doesn't stop.
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Bookmarked by AceOfShadows
19 Dec 2024