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Nicolò looks sheepish. "I killed you yesterday, and you awoke at the same time, the same place. But when I die, I wake at different times, different places. This bolt," he tosses it to Yusuf and it lands in the dirt by his knee, "it killed me yesterday, but I woke up many years from now. I lived several lifetimes in those places before returning here and pulling it from my neck."
Nicky's lives and deaths are different. He is unstuck from time - at every death he revives into a different point in his life. Each time he is struck down he wonders, will he awaken to deserts and swords? Will it be gunshots in cities? Joe and Nicky build a fractured life together, falling in love across two different sets of centuries, then patiently waiting for the other to fall in love too. He meets the rest of their little family out of order, but they still build a family around Nicky's involuntary time-traveling.
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Today, Yusuf is getting married.
Today, Yusuf is going to be mated for life.
It’s what he always dreamed of… well… almost.- Language:
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31 Aug 2024
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Sansûkh by determamfidd
Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (Jackson Movies), The Lord of the Rings (Movies)
30 Jun 2021
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From a Hobbitkink prompt:
The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors.
The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin's line with bright red hair.
(Follows the story of the War of the Ring).
(Bagginshield, Gimli/Legolas) In which recovery takes time, the dead members of the Company take to watching Gimli as though he’s a soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused, Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten inches of guilt and anger.
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06 Jan 2024
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let not time deceive you (you cannot conquer time) by Draco_sollicitus
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
28 Sep 2020
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Nicolo Genova, or Nicky to his American friends, is just trying to get through his PhD program. He's writing his dissertation on Post-classical homoerotic poetry, but he cannot find anyone who speaks an extinct dialect of Arabic so he can translate a famed love poem by a little known poet, al-Kaysani.
Strangely enough, his friend knows a professor on campus who can translate the poem. What starts as a simple request for assistance on his dissertation blossoms into something that Nicky -- shy, reserved Nicky who abandoned his plans for the priesthood months before ordination -- had never imagined for himself: true love.
What he doesn't know is that Dr. Joseph Jones (his handsome, erudite, kind, lovely Joe) is harboring a secret too large for anyone to believe -- and that secret might just cost them everything.
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06 Jan 2024
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don't tell me that part of the story by dana_norram
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
14 Apr 2023
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After so many nights of sleeping rough out in the cold, the barn is heavenly.
The hay prickles the skin of Joe’s arms and neck, but it’s blissfully dry and makes a perfect barrier against the hard ground. He may have fallen asleep a little too fast.
He startles awake hours later with the sun peeking through the roof boards, slowly and still dazed from half a dream, to meet the barrel of a shotgun pointed directly at his face.
On the other end of the gun, there’s the most beautiful creature Joe has ever laid his eyes on.
Alpha Joe is a cowboy down on his luck. Then Destiny brings Nicky into his life. With a gun.
An omegaverse cowboys AU.
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05 Sep 2023