The Repair Shop AU
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He’s two weeks into his search when he sees the advertisement, small and unassuming, tucked away in the back of the local newspaper. “Andromache Restoration seeks furniture restoration specialist,” it says, and provides a mailing address to which applicants can send a portfolio. Nicky pauses, coffee cup halfway to his mouth, more than a little stunned by the opportunity. He knows of Andromache Restoration—knows the artists there from the work they’ve done across London, the paintings cleaned and repaired, the ceramics restored from broken pieces, the metalwork reforged.
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- Part 1 of The Repair Shop AU
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Nicky sets the clock on his bench, and murmurs soft explanations to it about the repairs. It’s a never-ending wonder to him to consider the love stored in wood and plaster, oil paint and clay, lodged in the curlicues of fine metalwork and the too-deep residue of furniture polish. He gently removes the shards of broken glass from the frame, unscrews the clock face and walks it over to Nile’s bench, and spends a time simply touching each wonderful detail of the casing as if to reassure the wood of his good intentions.
“I’m almost jealous,” Joe says softly, and Nicky looks up to see him standing on the other side of the bench, the shoulders of his jacket splattered with raindrops. He’s smiling fondly, hands stuffed in the pockets of his jeans.
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- Part 2 of The Repair Shop AU
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It’s an ordinary night in April when Nicky wakes up out of a deep sleep, gripped by the sudden realization that when Joe had him over for dinner the previous November, it was a date. Joe—visiting his family in Amsterdam for the week—is mercifully not sleeping beside him to be woken by this realization, and Nicky swings his legs out of bed to sit on the edge of the mattress and think as hard as he’s ever thought in his life.
A date.
It was so clearly a date.
Joe was wooing him and Nicky hadn’t a clue.
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- Part 3 of The Repair Shop AU
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The Unreconcilable Calculus of This by sheafrotherdon
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
10 Mar 2024
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A humidor, a jigsaw puzzle, and a chair. A new home, an old colleague, and love.
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- Part 4 of The Repair Shop AU