when you're against the odds and on your feet
Book 2 of Marriageverse
Language: English
Arthur Levertov Benny Watts Beth Harmon Beth Harmon/Benny Watts Chess Established Relationship F/M Fanworks Harry Beltik Hilton Wexler Jolene DeWitt Married Couple Married Life Matt (The Queen's Gambit) Mike (The Queen's Gambit) No Archive Warnings Apply Not Rated The Queen's Gambit (TV) rating to come later too when i work out what the rating will be tbh more tags to come when i work out what needs tagging
Publisher: Archive of Our Own
Published: Jun 23, 2021
Description:
1975.
“Beth’s okay,” Benny says. The statement is almost too simple for the liminal space they occupy at the moment, themselves and not themselves, spending afternoons stripping away the people they are in favour of just becoming two minds, two minds and a board and a world’s wealth of chess knowledge as they strive to push Beth to her sweetest sharpest limits. It’s exhilarating and exhausting and enthralling; some days it’s awful and brutal and gruelling, and other days it’s like watching a universe being born behind Beth’s eyes, both of them half-hysterical and marvelling.