Endgame Theory
Language: English
Age Difference Benny Watts Beth Harmon Chess Tournaments Completed D. L. Townes Explicit Sexual Content F/M Fanfiction Jolene (The Queen's Gambit) Luchenko (The Queen's Gambit) Older Man/Younger Woman Past Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism Past Drug Addiction Post-Canon The Queen's Gambit (TV) Vasily Borgov Vasily Borgov/Beth Harmon
Publisher: archiveofourown.org
Published: May 4, 2023
Description:
She thinks he feels the same draw she does. An intellectual fascination, of course, for the only other person who can match them. But a sexual one too. It comes with the territory, she thinks, she’s never been truly attracted to a man who couldn’t match her for brains. She never tries to hide it from him – feels no shame in it at all, in fact. He’s handsome and familiar, with a consistent solidity to him that appeals to her after the slippery, whippet-thinness of Benny. Beth is a person with a bad habit of clinging onto the familiar whether it’s good for her or not. She’s been watching him on screens and in pictures since she stole her very first copy of Chess Review; she knows his face better than most men in her life. And, anyway, this can’t be worse for her than the pills.