Title: A Game of Chess
Author: Remy Alvera
Pairing: Lizzington!
Rating: T
Warnings: None really, unless you take to offense how some hold no value for human life.
Disclaimer: I do not own The Blacklist.
Summery:In which Red thinks of his life like a game of chess, and all of the pieces involved. Oneshot Lizzington!
"I'm a chess piece. A pawn," she said. "I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game."
Chess. Yes, the perfect way to describe life would be to compare it to a game of chess. For someone like him, a criminal with no flags or ties to hold him down, life was very similar to chess. He had his Pawns, like Cooper and Malik and Ressler, and then he had his Rook, Dembe, his Bishop, Luli, and his Knight, Grey.
All that was left was her. She was anything but a Pawn. If one were to look at it from the standpoint of chess itself, they would assume she was the Queen, but they would be wrong, because even the Queen can be sacrificed, and if it were his game, he would never sacrifice her.
That left him with one reasonable answer. This was his game, he choose the pieces.
Elizabeth Keen was the King, and that made him the Queen. No matter how demeaning the title was, it was true nonetheless. Raymond Reddington could move however he wished upon his bored, the power to win the match or tie it into a stalemate rested with him alone, because he held the most power, but in the end he could afford to be sacrificed for the King, for his King. For Lizzie.
He would sacrifice them all for her, and perhaps that was the point. No matter what happened, in his eyes, no matter what piece they were, they were all just pawns compared to her. He would kill to keep her safe, and that was it. She was the King, and for the game to be won, the King had to live, even if it meant living without the Queen.
A/N: I recently marthoned The Blacklist, watching all of the episodes in a day and a half, and that left me with this. As I sat in front of my Chess Board, playing myself out of sheer boredom, I was caught up thinking of Blacklist, and ended up comparing it to Chess. It is terribly short, but I'm rather proud.
NO, the quote at the very start in not from the show, I just felt it tied in.
R&R