BEYOND ALL REACH 2/2
anonymous
April 21 2009, 21:04:25 UTC
The next time Raivis saw her, it wasn’t on screen. He was young, still, but war-worn, picking up after Ivan’s destruction. Still independent and believing the lie of Russia’s promise, he explored the fields of Moscow where the mass murders took place. What the boss called “purges”, destruction of those who were against everything that Russia should stand for, was merely a way of eliminating the enemy, and Raivis was there to take those that were his back to their home, to lift their bodies and name them as best he could. He knew far less than anyone, but it was his duty as the country.
When he walked down the lines of bodies, his eyes glanced over the figures with the title “Latvian”, though he could barely even begin to know who they were. It was when his eyes dragged themselves over a female that he finally showed a speck of emotion, his war-worn eyes widening, filling with tears.
He moved to her side, kneeling beside her as he had done thirty-seven years previous when she had been a teenager. He remembered once, in a book somewhere, that there had been a love, one so deep that it had broken through time. This was not what Raivis would call a time love. He’d never been close to her, never held her hand - until now, her lifeless fingers wrapped around his. Around him, soldiers watched with trepidation as the young nation gazed down at the once beautiful old woman with longing in his eyes, an expression of desire and need. Not lustful need, but loving, desperate - the need to have had saved her.
When Raivis stood and gave the taggers the name Marija Leiko no one questioned how he knew her or why he was so desperate to hold her hand, to be the one to carry her body and dig her grave.
The look of a man who has lost an unknown love needs no explaination.
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Marija Leiko was a Latvian silent movie actress in Europe since the 1910s, especially popular in Latvia, Germany and Russia. She was arrested and shot to death during Stalin's purges in Moscow in 1937.
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anonymous
April 22 2009, 00:51:09 UTC
Ignore the irony of the title. XD
Wow... I'm surprised that someone would do Latvia. It was really saddening too. The fact that she was a silent movie actress made sense in their relationship somehow. I'm not sure how to explain it but it does.
When he walked down the lines of bodies, his eyes glanced over the figures with the title “Latvian”, though he could barely even begin to know who they were. It was when his eyes dragged themselves over a female that he finally showed a speck of emotion, his war-worn eyes widening, filling with tears.
He moved to her side, kneeling beside her as he had done thirty-seven years previous when she had been a teenager. He remembered once, in a book somewhere, that there had been a love, one so deep that it had broken through time. This was not what Raivis would call a time love. He’d never been close to her, never held her hand - until now, her lifeless fingers wrapped around his. Around him, soldiers watched with trepidation as the young nation gazed down at the once beautiful old woman with longing in his eyes, an expression of desire and need. Not lustful need, but loving, desperate - the need to have had saved her.
When Raivis stood and gave the taggers the name Marija Leiko no one questioned how he knew her or why he was so desperate to hold her hand, to be the one to carry her body and dig her grave.
The look of a man who has lost an unknown love needs no explaination.
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Marija Leiko was a Latvian silent movie actress in Europe since the 1910s, especially popular in Latvia, Germany and Russia. She was arrested and shot to death during Stalin's purges in Moscow in 1937.
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Wow... I'm surprised that someone would do Latvia. It was really saddening too. The fact that she was a silent movie actress made sense in their relationship somehow. I'm not sure how to explain it but it does.
Thanks so much for filling this! ♥♥♥
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This was so cute, yet so sad at the same time.
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This was just beautiful.
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