#EditorBirb

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He tried to hide behind the ginger ale can like this for about three minutes.

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Once Was All There Was by whisper_that_dares, EditorBirb

Chapters: 1/10 Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020), The Old Guard (Comics), Napoleonic Era RPF, Historical RPF Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Characters: Booker | Sebastien le Livre, Michel Ney, Napoléon I de France | Napoléon Bonaparte, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Joachim Murat, Napoleon's Marshals, Nile Freeman, James Copley, Mentioned Canonical Characters, Historical Character(s), Original Characters

Additional Tags: Death, Hypothermia, War, Blood and Violence, Graphic Description of Corpses, War Crimes, executions, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, 19th Century, Napoleonic Wars, Military, Fog of War, Historical Inaccuracy, Secrets, Murder, Suicidal Thoughts, Biological Warfare, Gore, Canonical Character Death, Dubious Morality, origin story of the coat, Derogatory Language, Fate & Destiny, Parenthood, I'm Sorry Victor Hugo

Summary: In December of 1812, near the border of what would one day become Lithuania and Belarus, a soldier of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armeé was hanged for desertion. There's just one small problem: it should have never happened.

What was the chain of events that led to that execution? And what happened after? Did it have something to do with the powerful men who rode with Napoleon, the ones whose decisions determined life or death for Sébastien Le Livre and countless others?

This is a story of The Old Guard from the point of view of one of those men, a story about a forger-turned-infantry sergeant and the bravest of the brave.

The first chapter is just the prologue, there's more in the can, but later on that.

Special thanks to @sindirimba and @gaal-dornick. Much love to you both!

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EditorBirb is refusing to let me write in peace, so I’m at Panera Bread again. I wonder if the employees are sick of seeing me yet.