Book of Nile

Book of Nile is the het ship between Booker and Nile Freeman from the The Old Guard fandom.

Canon
Nile and Booker meet each other when Nile joins the group of immortals that have been fighting for human rights for centuries, where Booker was a part of. Booker is reluctant at first to go look for Nile when they all get aware of her existence via their shared dreams. He insists that the team needs to focus on protecting themselves before getting anyone new to the team. But he hears Nicky out when he mentions just how alone and scared Nile must be feeling. However, he still accepts, a bit frustrated.

Once Nile arrives at the safehouse, she and Booker exchange a few glances at the table. She is a little bit confused and shocked to see all these immortals who have lived for centuries, so she starts asking some questions about them. Nicky tells her that Booker was the last immortal they found before her, in 1812. Nile stares at Booker in disbelief, as she says "no way." So Booker replies that he died fighting with Napoleon.

When Joe and Nicky get captured by Merrick and his corporation, Andy and Booker, alongside Nile, go to an abandoned mine to protect themselves. Andy starts realizing that she can't heal, so she goes outside to take some air, leaving both Booker and Nile alone. Nile slowly approaches her hand near the fire out of curiosity, only to discover that it hurts to get burned, just like it would if she wasn't an immortal. So Booker tells her "just because we keep living, doesn't mean we stop hurting." As Nile watches her wounds heal, she asks "why us?," to which Booker replies "that way madness lies." Nile says she thought he was the smartest of the group, to which Booker just snorts. Booker then tells her that he does wonder why her and why now. Then the two of them open up about their families, and Booker tells Nile all about his sons and his past, and all the pain he had to endure seeing the ones he loved dying as he still remained alive.

When Booker and Andy get captured and sent to Merrick's lab and Nile goes to rescue them, Booker is so filled with guilt over selling his family because he thought Merrick could help him and Andy finish their lives, that he tells Nile to leave him there. However, Nile firmly tells him "no man left behind."

Once they get out of Merrick's building, Booker helps a heavily injured Nile get into the car. And then at the pub, when they have to decide what Booker will do after what he did with Merrick, Nile is the first to approach him as the rest of the family is still deciding what to do with him. There, she opens up with him about her family and how Copley will "erase" her from the world, making it seem like she died. She gets emotional at the mere thought of her family mourning her and that's when Booker softly tells her she is a good person and that she will be great for the team. Later, when Andy goes to talk to him about what they decided (he'll spend 100 years without seeing them), she tells him that Nile was willing to let him go with just an apology, to which Booker laughs and tells Andy to give her some time.

Fanon
While Book of Nile does not enjoy immense popularity within the fanbase, it does have its own share of fans, who love the ship so much that they even came up with the sweet ship name, which is a combination of the two characters' names. This ship is often overshadowed by the most popular ship within the fandom, Immortal Husbands, and the other second most popular one, Immortal Wives.

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