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Alone Together at the End of the World by vigilantempathy for spilverhare
Fandoms: Chernobyl (TV 2019)
13 Jun 2025
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"For a moment, it’s just the two of them, alone together. The world outside is forgotten.
For a moment, they’re happy."
Or, the slowest of slow burns, as Boris Shcherbina and Valery Legasov work together to save lives after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and fall in love for the first time in the process.
Canon-compliant, but with missing scenes and post-canon that allow Boris and Valery to fall in love and make their respective peace with their lives and deaths.
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This is gorgeous.
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Often, at night, when Valery lies awake in his hotel room bed, he thinks about Boris.
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“You’ll have to forgive an old soldier his habits. But this is how it goes on the front, Valera.” He moved his hand in a sweeping gesture between the two of them. “We look after each other. So that the work can keep getting done.”
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read this and immediately felt like Aristotle or Socrates indulging in a very powerful novel
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They became dead men walking the second that damned helicopter touched spoiled land.
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Crying wtf
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Bacho lit a cigarette. He watched as the boy—Pavel—struggled to load ammunition into his rifle, with long, elegant fingers that surely couldn’t have ever known real work.
The boy was beautiful, with pale skin and eyes like the sea. Of course it wouldn’t last. Nothing beautiful could last in this barren fucking wasteland. Everything here was shit and mud and rot, and the rot would contaminate everything it touched.
Still, Bacho watched.
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Valery has fallen in love quickly and foolishly with men like Boris before, so the act hardly registers. He is already there, drowning his folly in liquor, and he has no expectations or even shame. Shame at something so small seems meaningless in the face of Chernobyl. What is idle, fruitless desire for an untouchable man when plumes of ionized smoke still pour from gutted rubble to blacken the sky?
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Pavel assumed that it was normal, that it happened in every other tent. Really, there was nothing strange about it: sometimes you just had to jerk off, and well, they were among men after all, and after taking a shit next to someone all notions of privacy simply went out the window.
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A helpful concierge directs Boris and Valery to a bar in Vienna...
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A journey, and all that means.
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Takes place in the AU Take me home by Hotaru_Tomoe
After an emotional night, there is a tender morning.
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Valoris holding hands and smiling
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Boris loses his temper with Valery and roughs him up.
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Valera soon discovers that this entire business of being dead is a dreadful slog.
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Valery is hurt...but it could have been much worse.
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Because I just love these tropes, and these two deserve a bit of sweetness.
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That was written for me actually. Exactly everything I ever wanted for them
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The storm knocks out the KGBs bugs, and Valery takes the opportunity to relieve some stress.
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Sign of the times by cocomoraine
Fandoms: Chernobyl (TV 2019), 君の名は。| Kimi no Na wa. | Your Name.
18 Aug 2019
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Whatever they had, whatever they could’ve been, it will always bring them back to one place.
Chernobyl.
And to each other.
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Valery is given a new oppertunity for happiness after death, and yet his memories and choices haunt him even in his new peace. Finding no friends and family in the afterlife, Valery is relieved when a familiar face arrives and a slow dance of strange feelings grows between them which terrifies Valery and brings unsuspecting happiness. But will this dance last or will scared and wild feelings burn away the love that is building?
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Valery watches the birds in the tree as they hop from branch to branch in the early evening light and then dance away from one another only to come back in the end, every time.
At the end of summer, Boris finds Valery for the last time.