I was tagged by @telltaleclerk to share the last line I wrote. I feel like I haven't written in forever but the last sentence was probably from my recent Spartacus wip:
Auctus laughs sharply then stretches beneath him, reaching for the vial they always keep close.
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Guys, I'll just say, wait until you see what gift I got from @guggi04 when it appears on ao3, y'all pants will fall off :D Loved it!! Reading it at 1am on xmas night was perfect time for it too ✨️✨️🎄
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Just Becoming Myself Again
Foolish Distraction Indeed
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Cuddles are Acceptable
Afterlife Cocktail Party
When We Were Young
I Didn't Mean to Flinch
We Make an Infinity Mirror
Two Sides of the Same Locket
Billy with his service dog
Rice Krispie Eddie
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STRBB - ABC
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Sequel to Wear Your Own Coat
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Joe traps Booker in an elevation adjustable bed by pressing both buttons on the remote and sandwiching a panicking Booker in between the mattress.
Nile and Nicky fill their cart with every. single. thing. they see and have plans of assembling ALL the furniture at home. They manage half a nightstand when they get back home before giving up.
Andy is in it for the meatballs and cinnamon buns! The rest of the guard goes looking for her. Joe runs all the way through IKEA three times (that’s almost a Marathon!) when they finally find her ordering three servings of ice cream.
Quynh waits in the car outside.
At the end of the day, they forget Booker who’s still trapped in the bed.
Dear God and all the saints, I laughed so hard at this.
Friend, this? This is pure joy. Thank you so much for bringing this to my inbox because I physically felt my spirits lift. Who needs yoga to undo the stress in my shoulders when I can think about Booker being accidentally left inside a bed in an IKEA. How does no one even notice, he’s so big??
That’s inside-joke content for the next decade. “Hey Nile, how’s it going?” “Physically I’m here but spiritually I’m trapped inside a bed in an IKEA.” “Oh, worm?” “Hey, congrats on using that correctly, you’re just a couple years off relevancy now!” “Shut up, I’m gonna make it so you’re physically inside that IKEA bed.”
Also, Nile and Nicky in this are a Whole Mood. I, too, have optimistic aspirations about my furniture assembling skills that in no way correlate with reality.
This is great. Absolutely, 100% fantastic. I have tears in my eyes from laughing. Certified Silly Old Guard AU. Thank you, friend.
Yay I’ve been looking forward to sending you a fic prompt! 😃
I just got this 🌶🍋 thought a couple of days back. Booker and Nile being besties, but recently she’s getting irritated that she’s never able to spend any time with him because he sleeps all day. (Of course thanks to Joe and Nicky because they keep him up all night) 😉
A/N: Hello friend, long time no see! Thanks for the prompt. I hope you’re doing ok. There’s a lack of spicy lemons here - haven’t been much up to writing spicy lemons lately - but I hope this suffices nonetheless x
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Nile can barely stop the frisson of annoyance and frustration that prickles under her skin. In the bright morning light that halos Joe’s dark curls and crowns Nicky in gold, she can see the bare leg that hangs out from under the covers. Even without her gaze to follow that trail of form and skin, Nile knows that Booker is sleeping the sleep of the dead.
Joe smiles, rueful and full of boyish innocence that she doesn’t buy. Nicky deftly shrugs around pulling on a fresh T-shirt while puttering around the room, picking up their discarded clothes on the floor. Nile narrows her eyes suspiciously at them. She’s so sure they’re doing this on purpose!
Every single time she has planned an outing with just herself and Booker, it’s always derailed by Joe pulling Booker in to pose for him or Nicky needing the man to head on a treasure hunt for this one specific ingredient for a meal he last made in the 50s or some shit. Or even, ridiculously happening a few times, distracting Booker with enough sex to tire an immortal.
Nile knows that they needed time to come back together as a unit. Lord knows she doesn’t even know how they even began or ended and how they even made sense of it all - from all the sounds they made in the houses with the thinnest of walls, not even her sound-cancelling headphones could block them out - but she doesn’t want or need to know.
All Nile does want, is time with Booker. To properly get to know him, to understand him better than the scant few days she had with him before the exile. And that was hard to do when Joe and Nicky are so intensely possessive about his time with others.
Some of that disappointment must have shown on her face because any faux guilelessness on Joe’s face slips away to twitching guilt in the corner of his lips.
“Would you like to come in?” Nicky asks, coming closer to them. “Come on,” He continues, taking her hand and pulling her in gently. Sitting down next to Booker, he kisses his sleeping head and tugs her to their side.
“We haven’t been playing fair, have we?” He says softly as Joe takes the other side of Booker on the bed. His long fingers card through Booker’s messy nest of blonde hair and they watch as he stirs a little before settling back down.
“We spent entire lifetimes with each other before we met him. It’s easy to forget that with Booker, it is different.”
Joe reaches out for her hand and she gives it, holding on tightly as they rest it over Booker’s hip. “We’re sorry, little sister. We knew you wanted time with him, but we just got...”
“Jealous,” Nicky finishes, sighing softly. “For all that we are patient and kind, there’s this part of us that can’t seem to be rational when it comes to him. We assumed too much the first time around and we don’t want to repeat that same mistake again.”
Nile inhales deep, watching the way Booker shifts at their voices.
“I can understand that,” She starts. “But you have to understand that I want to know him too. He’s the only one I barely know anything about. And I want to know him as well as I know you two. I can’t do that if you keep ruining any plans I make for just a moment of his time.”
“Why do you guys like to talk about me like I’m not even here?”
Nile catches the mischief in Nicky’s eyes when he pulls away to allow Booker to sit up slowly with a groan. “Good morning, darling,” Joe says, reaching out to him to tug him into a kiss before Nicky leans in for his own.
“Oh, no, none for me thanks,” Nile says with a huff, smiling as she settles a hand around Booker’s ankle. Blue eyes twinkle in half-sleep and amusement as they regard her.
“Funny,” Booker laughs, leaning back into Nicky’s arms. Turning his face to Joe, he tilts his head. “Were you ever going to let me hang out with her alone?”
“Eventually,” Joe concedes.
Booker considers him, then hums thoughtfully, pushing out from between them, he climbs out of bed and begins to dress. “Where are you going?” Nile asks.
He waits until he has zipped his jeans up to buss her on the chin. “We are going out to do whatever you had planned for the two of us. They are not coming.” He winks. “Go get the car running. I’ll be down in a bit.”
Nile brightens up, barely containing the laugh of glee that escapes her as she bolts out of the room just as Booker switches to French and begins what sounds like a gentle scold.