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This story came from me asking: “What if Alice’s brand of 'crazy' from the Queen’s Gambit series was really her having psychic abilities she wasn’t able to handle? And what if Beth’s fears about going crazy like her mother are because she has the same latent psychic abilities? And then what happens if Beth visits the haunted Overlook Hotel from The Shining?” There was so much potential for psychological horror I had to write it! It very much started out as crack!fic taken seriously but then it took on a life (afterlife?) of its own. So here is Beth being haunted by her own personal ghosts as well as those that reside at the Overlook Hotel.
If you aren't a horror fan, this is mostly psychological horror--lots of creepy atmosphere and ghosts trying to get into Beth's head. There are some disturbing images but not a huge amount of blood or violence. I hope that helps you determine if this exceeds your personal horror tolerance. I rated the story Teen. If it were a movie it would be closer to PG-13 than R I think. It's not scarier than The Shining if that helps.
Edit: This may be scarier than I originally planned--maybe even an R rating. My beta reader recommends not reading it at bedtime.
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“Do you want to talk about it?” asks Benny carefully in the same manner one would approach a deer; as if she would run off any second.
Her averted gaze tells him what he needs to know. For a while, they sit beside each other, unmoving, listening to each other’s breath until Beth´s voice echoes through the room. “You don´t have to do this,” she says and upon seeing his eyebrows drawn together in confusion, she adds: “You don´t need to sit here.” With me.
“I think I do,” replies the older chess player softly, and with the same certainty he explains chess moves. -
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Beth Harmon was the sorest of sore losers, and failure was never an option.
So, when she found Benny residing in Moscow to wish her the best, she knew that the first part of her plan was about as successful as ever.
Or, Benny and Beth meet up, with plans to make good on a promise that Beth had left unattended.
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- Part 1 of 100 Ways To Say 'I Love You'
- Part 2 of The Queen's Gambit Fics
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it's the roots that will bind us here by nimblewordplay
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Jul 2022
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Somewhere in between Russia and Hawkins, they take a few minutes for themselves.
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- Part 1 of this ride we're on
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Split at the Seams (But I'm Doing My Best) by dhpanya10
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis
16 Jun 2022
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Beth Harmon over the years.
The journey of the female chess grandmaster and world champion in friendships, family, self-discovery and self-love. -
now i'm covered in the colors, pulled apart at the seams by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
30 May 2022
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Beth can’t see color. But the chess board and the world that it contains is all black and white, so it doesn’t really bother her.
Ironically, it is at a chess tournament that she starts to see color.
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or the queen's gambit "you can't see colors until you meet your soulmate au" that no one asked for
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I drive down different roads but they all lead back to you by Thornway
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
13 Apr 2022
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"That´s why we never adopted. You never know what you´re bringing into your house."
December 1968:
After the Moscov invitational, Beth is back in Lexington.
An exclusive Christmas event goes terribly wrong for Beth when a past mistake is brought up by the wrong person. -
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Their first interaction after Beth’s victory in Moscow took place not in a gray concrete box masquerading for an apartment in New York, nor in a renovated, cleaned, and recently booze-free household, in Lexington, but over a chessboard in Las Vegas.
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Words by reverie_anne, art by HumiliatedRook.
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Alone, But Not Alone by dialectica_esoterica, HumiliatedRook for brella
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Dec 2021
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Beth Harmon, fake dating Benny Watts, and discovering what’s real and what’s not.
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the path through the mirrored maze by dialectica_esoterica, HumiliatedRook for thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Dec 2021
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“José Capablanca was a prodigy and lived his life handed to him on a silver platter, eschewed books and formal study for food and women and booze. They say the coroner put his ego as the cause of death. Alekhine played obsessively for years and years, became World Champion and then the alcoholic that showed up to every game drunk. His dead body was found hunched over a chess board. At least Beth isn’t like them.”
“Harry?”
“Yeah?”
“Shut up.”
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5 things Beth leaves in Benny's basement and 1 thing he leaves in her house.
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Letters that never saw the light of day. by ObjectivlyOli
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
01 Sep 2021
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Benny writes letters to Beth, sonnets, grievances, loving and lonely all in the same breath.
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Beth's world is widening whilst Benny's seems to shrink, but what's the world to the universe within a letter?
A one off idea involving handwriting that spiraled into something far beyond my control. Least I could do is take you guys along for the ride.
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and you know, we're on each other's team by thisismetrying for HumiliatedRook
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
19 Jul 2021
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And maybe family isn’t forever either, perhaps you can’t put a temporal dimension to it, can’t measure it by a chess clock or even a calendar year. But maybe not being alone isn’t a permanent state either. Perhaps there are people that come into your life when you need it, and are there when you need it.
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or 5 Times Friends Helped Beth 1 Time Beth Helped Her Friend
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We are the kings and the queens you traded your baseball cap for a crown by fazcinatingreads
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV), Australian Rules Football RPF
30 May 2021
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Retired footballer/new father Tim Broomhead, inspired by the Queen's Gambit on netflix, teaches his son Luka how to play the great game of chess.
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- English
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- 536
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- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 2
- Hits:
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now that you know who you are, what are you going to be? by fourteenlines
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
27 May 2021
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After Moscow, Beth deals with her past, her present, and her future.
Benny just deals.
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Beth Harmon and Benny Watts are in love - they're also the only people who don't know about it. Their friends decide to help out.
Much Ado About Nothing AU
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how do you fall in love—harder than a bullet could hit you? by imadetheline
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
06 Apr 2021
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“Please, Benny?” Beth pouts up at him, rubbing her upper arms with numb fingers as she walks by his side down the cold New York street.
He just raises an eyebrow at her, ignoring her request, “Didn’t I tell you to bring a coat?”
Or: Beth is cold, and Benny won't give up his coat. Some important things are said.
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i don't want your body (but i hate to think about you with somebody else) by thisismetrying
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
05 Apr 2021
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And what he’s wanted to do, from the beginning, is to flay her mind, crack her skull open, slip inside her thoughts, seize upon the neurons firing gloriously with moves and combinations not even Borgov would anticipate. See the components of her brilliance and take it for his own. Map every strength and every weakness. He’d wanted to fracture her cranium, snap it open just enough for tiny fissures, to sink his wisdom into hers, reorientate and reprogram her so she could be even better than she already was, all her talent along with discipline and control.
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orBeth and Benny want different things
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- Part 1 of fuck that, get money
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the warmth in your eyes swept me into your arms by imadetheline
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
03 Apr 2021
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Beth doesn't think she's ever missed someone as much as she misses Benny Watts.
Or: the post-Moscow reunion fic that everyone has already written but i love them too much not to join in
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