Summary:
<blockquote>Your unfaithful husband has defected back to the USSR, and been returned to you in poor health, both physically and mentally, having apparently been tortured due to a clerical error. You don’t char-havechar- to pick up the pieces, but you are curious to see whether among the unwelcome emotions you are experiencing there hides the one you used to label ‘love’.</blockquote>
➤ fic about the musical Chess!
➤ Anatoly/Svetlana navigating their relationship in the aftermath, in all its complexities
➤ navigating the feelings and the realities of their lives and what they are and aren't capable of being for each other, but being connected on some level despite it all!
➤ second person pov
➤ 6k words in length
