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1. Alone Together at the End of the World by vigilantempathy for spilverhare

   Fandoms: Chernobyl (TV 2019)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   13 Jun 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Valery Legasov/Boris Shcherbina
   • Valery Legasov & Boris Shcherbina
   • Valery Legasov
   • Boris Shcherbina
   • Valery Legasov's Cat
   • the miners
   • Andrei Glukhov
   • Vladimir Pikalov
   • Nikolai Tarakanov
   • Closeted Character
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • past loveless marriage
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Suicide
   • Slow Burn
   • Falling in Love at the End of the World
   • Falling In Love
   • Bisexual Male Character
   • Service Top Boris Shcherbina
   • references to death and dying
   • Period-Atypical Lack of Homophobia
   • Setting-Atypical Support for Queer Characters
   • Some of the Straights Are Okay

   Summary

   "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.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   19,570

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

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   Bookmarks:

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