"I like your hair." "Yeah, sure you do." A fiery genius and an arrogant master sure make an unlikely duo but what happens when they can no longer deny the sexual tension? Or the feelings that ensue...? The endgame we all deserve. Warning: This is going to be steamy.

L'Étranger (fr): the outsider; the foreigner. What do you do after you've done everything? Beth has to think of something. Beth's journey from Moscow to the World Championship, and all the people who, one way or another, come along with her.

Post épisode 4. Alors que les médecins emportent le corps d'Alma, Beth sombre dans ses démons (WARNING: T pour propos parfois vulgaires et trauma psychologique)

The affair doesn't start when she beats him for the first time in Moscow. It starts several years later, after the two of them have swapped the title of world champion back and forth between them several times. After his wife grows weary of travelling with him, tired of endless flights and hotel rooms. When his son is 15 years old and in boarding school. That is when it starts.

Sa mère était morte. Sa, seconde, mère, celle qui l'avait adoptée, sauvée, aimée, soutenue, sa seconde mère était morte. Beth pouvait se sentir sombrer dans une spirale d'une violence indescriptible, lorsqu'un coup résonna sur la porte de sa chambre (post-épisode 4, Middle game)

Follow up fic to Check and Mate. Beth and Benny in the first year after Moscow. (B2 figuring out How to Relationship.)

Benny had been nearly unable to take his eyes off Beth all night. That night in Benny's apartment, episode 6.

Beth estaba acostumbrada a las preguntas intrusivas provenientes de reporteros.

Benny decides to break his rules when Beth beats him at speed chess - a possible version of Benny's thoughts in ep 6.

Après sa victoire au championnat du monde de Moscou, Beth rentre aux Etats-Unis, et hésite à retrouver Benny.

Alors il n'y en a pas non plus, c'est une série de 15 drabbles sur la série. La longueur va de 100 à 350 mots. tout personnage, pas de spoiler.

Three years after her famous match with Borgov, Beth Harmon shocks the chess world by taking a break to start college. Enter Harry Beltik, who is surprisingly good at physics and kind enough to let Beth stay in his apartment. When Beth decides that Harry needs a chess tutor, it's a perfect match. But anything more than friendship is completely off the table– for now.

1970 World Chess Championship in London, a historically unique match. If you lose the match, you lose a lot more than expected. (Rated M for indecency)

Now the silence could be broken Suddenly Beth wasn't so sure she wanted to see her future And now there was nothing he could do but wait Beth Harmon is not going to die. Not yet. They were never going to let each other go Benny thinks about Beth only to get advice from an old friend of hers...

Beth reflects on the path she's taken to get where she is; the good, the bad and the ugly.

After the speed chess night, Beth draws a line in her head. A line marked by the doorframe of Benny's room. A line she cannot cross. Until Benny has to leave the apartment. A little stop-gap fic for what happened between the 'Do you still like my hair' and Paris. Beth and Benny.

She is his check and he is her mate

"Je veux faire quelque chose qui aura rendu le monde différent. Je marquerai d'une façon positive mon passage dans ce monde". Il avait échoué. Il avait neuf ans quand il avait promis cela, et avait échoué depuis. Il ne serait que le gardien d'un orphelinat, parfois apprécié, souvent invisible. Cette fillette qui louchait sur son échiquier n'y changerait rien. Si ?

Vasily Borgov was a monolith, but his composure was different in Moscow than Paris or Mexico City. It mostly flew under the radar, but Beth Harmon notices. She always notices.

Après sa victoire en U.R.S.S. et son retour chez elle, Beth envisage son avenir à travers les relations qu'elle a nouées ces dernières années, et notamment avec Benny qu'elle aimerait remercier pour son aide… Mais à émotions troubles, stratégie compliquée ! (fic en 5 chapitres)

"'You're a champion,' he tells her, blunt and correct as ever. 'You need company.'" Or, Beth comes home from Russia to find a familiar face waiting on her doorstep. She may or may not have feelings about it. (Oneshot)

An innocent question sets off an argument. Filling in the blank between Benny's question and their waking up together. Because Netflix owes us that scene (and kiss). Canon-compliant.

With the absence of the warm pair of arms that had once encircle her bare waist, the heat and weight of a chest pressed to her back, and the soft kisses that peppered her neck which had also filled her ears with breathless moans during the wee hours of twilight, Beth clutched the king close to her chest and succumbed to yet another fitful slumber.

With her victory against Borgov behind her, Beth must win one more game. But games of the heart are far harder to win than games of chess. Beth and Benny.

Beth and Harry are alone, at her house, after a celebration of her return from Russia. She wants to apologize for her past behavior and he wants to be sure that if there is something new that it is real. The world needs more Beth/Harry!