the icarus to your certainty

[kaydeefalls]

I've been traveling for three full weeks (family plus work retreat) and I am SO glad to be home in my own space again, you don't even know. This sure has been A Year so far. Also posted a new fic in the midst of the madness, which I completely forgot to post here, so.


your love is sunlight (13292 words) by kaydeefalls
Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Joe | Yusuf Al-Kaysani/Nicky | Nicolò di Genova
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Romance, Sexual Content, Extremely Resolved Sexual Tension, Summer Romance, Pining, pining while actively having all the sex, i don't even know what to do with this one, featuring cameos from the usual suspects, Bartender!Nicky, academic!Joe, nicky vs the mortifying ordeal of being known
Summary:

The worst part is that Nicky knows he's too old for this shit. A summer romance—that all-consuming passion crashing over you like a tidal wave and lasting about as long—is one thing for a teenager. But he's much closer to thirty than twenty at this point. He should damn well know better.

Yet here he is, flat on his back in the late morning sunlight, his shoulders splayed halfway off the side of the bed, sheets rumpled beneath him and Joe's beard rough against the skin of his inner thighs, and it's the closest to God that Nicky has ever felt.

(Modern!AU. Nicky's a bartender in Cinque Terre, Joe's a tourist just passing through, they fall in love. Because of course they do.)