Margo opened the file and closed her eyes for a moment, taking a deep breath before flipping up through the pages as she had earlier that day. The post-it. She had almost convinced herself it had been a dream, a sudden madness, but there it was just as she remembered it and her heart once again skipped a beat. Sergei’s handwritten equation called to her comfortingly like an old friend.
Careful not to bend or curl it too much, she lifted it from the page and held the equation between her fingers, feeling the grooves of the figures made by the pressure of his hand through the pen. She recalled the gentle yet urgent pressure of those same hands on her face, her neck, her body, and a heated flush climbed out of her memory and up over her chest and neck. Shocked by the intensity of the feeling ten years on and after everything that had passed between, she started, her back straightening as she willed herself back into the moment and to the task at hand.
Replacing the post-it on the page, Margo set about solving for Sergei’s message.
It wasn’t long before she had a time and a location… This is a secret place for you?
Frank’s was adjacent to 11:59, she’d had many a hurried meal there before or after a set over her years with the house band. At least until the club closed up well over a decade prior in the years following the Apollo-Soyuz broadcast. Soyuz-Apollo…
Did he truly want to unearth their meager past? Surely he must have moved on by now?
She had forgiven him years ago. Mourned what might have been. God knew he must have done the same, believing along with everyone that she had died with her colleagues. Wildly she wondered if he had shared a memorial borscht with his family in their honor, in hers? She’d eaten a lot of borscht that first fall in Moscow, learning the true meaning of cold before winter had even officially started. Her nightly memorials did little to warm the chill of grief. She shifted in her chair and swallowed down the old guilt that rose like bile in her throat at thoughts of the bombing.
She had to get up, had to move, shift her weight, her perspective.
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no DNIs we just post content specifically catered to ourselves that will coincidentally alienate anyone with whom we would not want to interact
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FOR ALL MANKIND NATION WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Happy Birthday friend! I hope it’s been a splendid day!
Thank you so much! It has been very lovely indeed, and made even better by hearing from so many friends!
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“let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.
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Happy birthday! Hope you have a blast (pun intended!) 🧁🔥🥳
Thank you!!
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Happy Birthday! 🎂 I hope you're having a brilliant day!
Thank you so much!
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FOR ALL MANKIND (2019– )
⤷ 2.10 "The Grey"
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Happy birthday, friend! I hope the day is an excellent one! 🥰💐
Thank you so much!!
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THANK YOUUUUU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @gabolange
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So I went ahead and kept writing in the Brazilverse. This first chapter goes out to @h4t08 who requested an anniversary celebration.
12:01 additional scenes and one-shots by sparkle_platypus
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: For All Mankind (TV 2019)
Rating: General
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Margo Madison/Sergei Nikulov, Margo Madison & Aleida Rosales, Sergei Nikulov & Aleida Rosales
Characters: Margo Madison, Sergei Nikulov, Aleida Rosales, original character
Additional Tags: missing and additional scenes, the brazilverse, lightness, softness, our space nerds still coping with everything - but together, continuing to let them have nice things
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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements
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