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"So, are you guys dating?" Nile asks during their lunch break. They are at the Indian buffet, and Nicky is telling Nile about a thrift store he and Joe went to that he thinks she would like. It takes a him a minute to parse the question. "Well, you keep mentioning him and smiling," she adds when he doesn't say anything. "And you haven't been seeing anyone for a while, so I just wondered if that was why."
"No, not at all," Nicky says. "We're friends, and he lives nearby, that's all."
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"Please," Nicky whispers again. It is prayer and devotion. Sprawled loose for his love, Nicky is worshipful and worshipped. "Please."
"I know, my heart," Joe replies, just as reverent. "You are doing so well for me."
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Nicky closes the door behind him. He can't help giving her a wider berth than necessary as he walks past the coffee table to the opposing armchair, and if he were less tense he would have hysterics at how he is circling around this truly tiny woman as if she is a physical threat. He sits, posture straight and centered. The therapist sits down as well, and crosses her legs.
"How should we start?" he asks.
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"Did we break him?" Nile finally shouts in Andy's direction.
"Like I said - now you've done it," Andy replies.
"Is Nicky a sloppy drunk?" she asks, incredulous with laughter. "I can't believe this is happening."
"It's the Catholicism," Andy says.
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Shortly after arriving in Naples, Katya receives an invitation to go shopping with her old friend Sophia. They haven't spoken in more than a decade. How much has changed?
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Draw's Advent Calendar by Cendiar
Fandom Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
19 Dec 2019
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“Do you prefer the company of men or women?” Nicoló asks.
Yusuf continues coughing.
“Sexually,” Nicoló clarifies.
“I can’t say I have ever been asked so directly,” Yusuf huffs.
Unrepentantly, Nicoló shrugs.
“Men,” Yusuf mutters.
Or: 4 times Nicky came on to Joe very badly and Joe still hit that, and one time it was the other way around.
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17 Feb 2026
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Together, they strip the corpses of fallen soldiers like scavengers, sending prayers of forgiveness to their respective Gods, and take what they can carry on two horses. Eilat is several weeks of hard riding away, and from there Yusuf is insistent they take a merchant ship to Aden. Nicolo soon loses all feeling in his behind and thighs. Yusuf continues to alight from his horse as if having awoken from a pleasant nap. “It’s all about rhythm,” he tells Nicolo, moving his hips to demonstrate. Nicolo contemplates killing him, for whatever good that will do.
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13 Jan 2026
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Self-Pathology of the Heart by stargrazing for banananutloaf, MilkAndBones
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
27 Nov 2025
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It would be easy, comfortable, to sit down before the settee, stretch his legs towards the heat of the fire, curl an arm around the slim muscle of Tharkay’s calf and his fingers around the fine bones of Tharkay’s ankle, above the ropey line of scars where shackles left their mark in the Blue Mountain. He might lay his head against Tharkay’s knee from that position, as he listens to Granby speaking.
The thought is at least not as craven as the desires that usually hook into Laurence’s gut when he joins Tharkay late in the drawing room; when they are alone.
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13 Dec 2025
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When The Cherries White With Blossoms, Be Ready & Be Brave by chapstickaddict
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics)
26 Jul 2020
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“What are you doing?” he mouthed into Nicky’s thigh.
“Watching you sleep.”
“What else are you doing?”
“Rewriting King Lear,” Nicky said. His voice was plagued with distraction. Joe pulled himself up enough to see the page; Act II ran red with slashed words. His lover’s eyes were the color of the sky just before a tornado touched down.
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09 Nov 2025
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Nicky gasps back into reality, choking on the blood still filling in his throat and rolling over to cough into the ground, saliva sticky and sharp against his tongue. His fingers are already twitching towards his gun, hoping it’s within reach but never really sure, not when it’s taken so long.
Joe will be upset. He always is when it’s like this-- wounds slow to heal and body unmoving for a few too many raw, dragging beats.
Or, Nicky gets hurt, Joe worries, they have sex
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10 Oct 2025