burn the ships

one last look.

one last look at that damnable inlet.

but, even as he studied his horizons, she was there, ever watchful as she always was. this time, she appeared in the canyon breeze that caused the remnants of ice off of the banks to dance in the water. some would argue that it was the sheer size and force of the submarine and it's accompanying fleet that was causing enough disturbance to make this happen, but Marko knew better - Natalia was here. she was everywhere.

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cw : The Hunt for Red October book AND movie spoilers, faithfulness to canon with some minor deviation from both sources, mentions of death, mentions of miscarriage, angst with a happy ending, there's a lot of sad themes throughout this because it's a story about grief and a story about love, conservative values, religious themes, mention of injury and sickness and surgery, very very long fic (it's like close to 8,200 words), dorogoy is "sweetheart", tsvetok is "flower", and moy syn is "my son" in Russian (so probably inaccurate use of Russian nicknames but I don't care because this is fan fiction)

pairing : marko ramius x natalia ramius (fem!oc, with character background for both of them pulled from the book and the movie)

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