17 Works in Catholic Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
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A debt of wine and crucifixion by FrozenBrownie
Fandoms: Conclave (2024), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
21 Feb 2025
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Here is the worst-kept secret of Vatican City: For nearly a millennium, Nicolò di Genova has dropped in on every single newly elected Pope to give him the shovel talk. Just to ensure none of them gets any funny ideas about Jerusalem again, or that's how it started out, at least. The Holy See has been closing up the holes in their security after him every time, but there is a new hotel built too close to the Leonine wall, there are turtles ambling around the Vestal Virgins' feet, and a new Holy Father from Mexico City sits the Papal throne. That Thomas Lawrence has quite literally signed up for this doesn't help the matter much.
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The Stiff Heart, by dana_norram and eiseul02 (podfic) by cookiemom6067 for T-Rex (tmishkin)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
19 Dec 2023
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“Today I met a boy who escaped al-Quds,” Yusuf says, and Nicolò stares back at him this time. His clean face is solemn, his pale eyes almost sad, and Yusuf wishes he could see some anger in them. Anything but this. “They killed his whole family.”
“When you say them,” Nicolò blinks, and there is a twitch in his strong jaw. “You mean me. My people.”
Yusuf feels he has been running his whole life.
He ran from his duties as the family’s heir when he refused to marry the woman chosen by his parents. Yusuf eventually made a new home in Jerusalem, and he thought he was done running. Then the Franks laid their siege and Yusuf was killed and brought back to life too many times. Before he realised, he was on the run again. Only this time, he is not alone.
Or; a road trip around the Mediterranean in which Yusuf struggles with his new life, searches for the women in his dreams and learns how to open his heart. Also, there is only one bed.
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Circulus by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock) for twistedsardonic (sfvamp)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
12 Dec 2022
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Five years after the events in London, Yusuf and Nicolò try once again to take a vacation but destiny wants to lend a hand in closing the circle left behind from the ripples of their actions.
But what happens when innocent people become involved? And worse - when they find themselves facing a murderer in his own castle?
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- Part 2 of Memento Mori Series
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Nicky and Joe were just hoping to enjoy a nice, relaxing, extended holiday in London.
Instead, they find themselves weaving through London’s dark alleys, trying to help change history once again.Series
- Part 1 of Memento Mori Series
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Kindred by alby_mangroves, dana_norram, quincette
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
31 Jul 2022
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Brother Damiano shrugs. “Or I could keep prescribing you that so at least you can sleep. Even if you must confess and pay penance for it.”
Nicolò mutters a quick apology to the Lord. The man in his dreams was the same bearded man he saw bleeding amongst fire and death. But he did not always struggle in Nicolò’s dreams, no.
He is always travelling, as if he’s in a hurry. In his dreams, Nicolò has never seen him in the same place more than two nights in a row. Sometimes he would indulge himself with others.
With women, and men. Definitely more often with men, as much as Nicolò tells himself he does not keep counts of those conquests. And sometimes the man touched himself with his own hands. And Nicolò would wake up aroused and miserable. This, Nicolò has never confessed to anyone.
On a summer morning in the Year of Our Lord 1099, Nicolò dies at the river near the abbey.
He was never supposed to be there. He’s supposed to have travelled to the Holy Land so he could worship at the tomb of Christ and ask forgiveness for his sins.
His brothers think it’s a miracle, but after the dreams start, Nicolò knows there’s nothing holy about what happened to him.
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Nicky confesses.
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- Part 1 of may you live until you die
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promises, promises by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
16 Apr 2022
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Nicky had thought it would be an easy enough bet.
All he had to do was avoid dating for the entirety of Lent - and considering he’d been single for a while (and deep in the final stretch of his doctorate), it seemed like a downright simple way to help raise funds for the local interfaith center.
Of course that was before Joe arrived.
Joe - with dimples, doe eyes, and curls and who actually seemed interested in him . . .He could do this.
It was only forty days.
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Their souls were knit together (and he loved him as himself) by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
29 Mar 2022
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The weight of the man on top of Nicolò had pressed him further into the unrelenting ground, dirt and stone dug into his back as he cried out in pain. His wounds had already begun the process of trying to stitch themselves back together, but the saif still in his stomach hindered the ability from completion. The warmth of his body slowly seeped out from the cut flesh, and as the blood pooled beneath his tunic, his hands trembled against the patterned fabric above him.
The soldier who struck him with the fatal blow, stared down at him with dark, glistening eyes and let out a mournful sound, “Found you."
(Or. A slight canon divergence detour where I wondered, "What if they were already immortal when they met?")
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Called You By Name by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Sep 2021
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When Nicolò goes home, he finds out his family commissioned
a stained glass window of him in his old church - as a martyr. -
the stiff heart by dana_norram, eiseul02
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
08 Mar 2021
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“Today I met a boy who escaped al-Quds,” Yusuf says, and Nicolò stares back at him this time. His clean face is solemn, his pale eyes almost sad, and Yusuf wishes he could see some anger in them. Anything but this. “They killed his whole family.”
“When you say them,” Nicolò blinks, and there is a twitch in his strong jaw. “You mean me. My people.”
Yusuf feels he has been running his whole life.
He ran from his duties as the family’s heir when he refused to marry the woman chosen by his parents. Yusuf eventually made a new home in Jerusalem, and he thought he was done running. Then the Franks laid their siege and Yusuf was killed and brought back to life too many times. Before he realised, he was on the run again. Only this time, he is not alone.
Or; a road trip around the Mediterranean in which Yusuf struggles with his new life, searches for the women in his dreams and learns how to open his heart. Also, there is only one bed.
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Nicky and Joe are the epitome of Domestic Bliss in this Modern AU. Though they have different faiths, they've always managed to be very respectful of each other's spiritual practices. Yet when Nicky asks to give up sex for Advent, it tests the very last threads of Joe's resolve . . . but luckily Nicky has some ideas to help them get back into the swing of things for the Christmas season, once Joe comes home from his business trip.
Twelve days of every fantasy his husband has ever said he liked and wanted!!
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Piece of Heaven by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock) for Amekakushi
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
20 Dec 2020
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One day, seminarian Nicky, meets local post grad student, Joe.
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Nicolo could do this. He had spent hours on his knees praying on cold, hard, stone floors. He could handle the asceticism and denial of pleasures. He could come without even touching himself so he could lie to the monks and deny he “sought” his own pleasure.
But could he endure the attention of Yusuf’s tongue on his nipples?
And who would win the bet . . . -
The Purpose of Art by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
24 Oct 2020
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A fluffy rom com multif fic disguised as a restorative art justice piece, featuring the prestigious Bythewood University, the corrupt Merrick Museum of Art, and the black market Copley Foundation Auction House.
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After things are a little safer, Nicky decides to take Joe on a road trip in order to help process some things. A little angst and a lot of fluff and romance - and some memories over the last couple of centuries in each chapter! - culminating in a surprise destination :)
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The Little Church by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 Aug 2020
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On their one year anniversary, Yusuf and Nicolo do some reflecting on their journey so far and how deeply ingrained their faith is tied to their identity - and how that’s a beautiful thing.
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They emerged once more, and beheld the stars by Isabelle Hemlock (isabelle_hemlock)
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
06 Aug 2020
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Winding back the clock - to when they were just Yusuf and Nicolo - and how they became the Big and Little Spoon . . . and then more ;)