situationship ghost 🤝 dad’s best friend price 🤝 ex boyfriend soap 🤝 best friend gaz 🤝 sabotaging any possible date / relationship of yours so they can comfort you and ultimately make you believe that other guys are absolute cunts and that you simply don’t need anyone else but them <3
The Old Guard AU where the poly!141 are a group of immortals who seemingly cannot die so they travel around for centuries fighting battles, wars, and injustice.
John Price, the eldest of them all, the first known immortal. He cannot entirely remember how old he is or anything of his mortal life. There are memories that he carries of fighting against the Romans in what he believes is present day England. Eventually though everything began to bleed together and he almost gave up hope entirely until one fateful event.
The Battle of Culloden. It is where he meets Simon Riley and Johnny MacTavish.
Simon is a lieutenant for the King, a British red coat, different from the rest if only by the black bandana with the white paint of a skull covering his face. A man who Price encounters before his death. Something about him pulling the immortal to find him upon the battlefield. That is, of course by fate, where Price first meets Johnny MacTavish as well. A proud Scott fighting for independence. Face marked by warpaint, dirt, and blood as he kills Simon with a battle cry upon his lips. And in a moment that Price cannot comprehend being reality in its entirety or flashes of the new immortals being bound to him he witnesses this: Johnny kills Simon. Simon rises and kills Johnny. Over and over the two fight, killing each other and healing, until finally they pause. As if realizing that neither is truly dying they hold each other, both looking up to Price just standing over them. A calm silhouette against the backdrop of brutal battle.
Something telling them that he knows.
Of course, none of them understand that they are bound together until later that night when they dream of the other. Price. Simon. Johnny. Living and dying. Plagued by their personal inflictions and differences. Causing Price to have to hunt the two down. Explaining that they have to all be together. They have a job to do. A greater purpose that goes beyond Johnny not wanting to work with Brits and Simon not wanting to work with anyone. (Not that John would ever admit that in truth...he just didn't want to be alone anymore.)
And by the time they dream of a fourth, the consequences of Culloden is gone from them against the sounds of a world at war.
World War II is where they find Kyle "Gaz" Garrick. Dying from a gunshot wound after freeing a camp of POWs from the Germans. Price, Simon, and Johnny race across no mans land and trenches. Across borderlines and battlegrounds to find him. It takes nearly ten days across foot before they come across Gaz collapsed upon his knees drenched in blood. Surrounded by dead German soldiers. A sob shaking him as Price settles a hand across his shoulder. The three immortals explaining that everything would be alright. That Gaz wasn't alone anymore. He'd never be alone again.
And when that war ended well the wars never end. However, the 141 as Price names them certainly didn't expect to gain another member, but one night upon a cargo train within the middle of the desert, they suddenly gain you.
Your death awakens them from sleep far worse than if the train itself had crashed.
Price watches you die, sees the wound that kills you, the pain and fear flashing across your eyes. Johnny catches a glimpse of your name tag and the features of your face; his hands hazardously sketching you upon a notepad he had stuffed away. Gaz quickly tries describing your environment and clothing. Simon looks upon them all with darkened eyes, his hand grasping his throat, as he announces that he felt you die. A statement that has Price standing as he suddenly realizes where you must be and what had led you to your death.
No more words were needed for them to all agree to find you no matter what.
how do you think things started. Did Bridgens or Peglar make the first move? Was it before or after John began tutoring him?
Brought up in the book, actually! He taught Peglar how to read while they were on their Beagle voyage and when they came home, he sought Bridgens out again for more lessons. At some point after finding him again, Peglar made the first move on him.
From chapter 28, the first of a handful of Peglar POV chapters. Despite the book being... the way it is, I do like how it does these two. If you were to read any part of it, read chapters 28 and 50. My suggestion to you heehee
Less than 2 months ago, I didn’t even know that there was a Sherlock show, and now I spend all of my free time thinking about them and reading fanfic. This fandom is crazy and I’m proud to call it mine
Feeling pure despair because I’ll never be able to put down a pantone colour card in front of each Beatle and ask them to name it, and then do this for 100 other colours, and then compare all the results.
Random question...how can Sherlock be so messy when he is such a detail person who wants everything in order to understand the patterns and clues? Or is it just the living room that is messy? And the kitchen... Is everything else tidy?
I always wonder whether his mind palace is the same…
george being so thoughtful and bought in to the live recording project, trying to work out the kinks in his new song “all things must pass” with his bandmates. meanwhile, paul interrupts recording to order a “pale ale”, smoke a cigar, absolutely zoned out, no thoughts, nodding absentmindedly to whatever george says.