A/N: Finally our work for this year’s @grishaversebigbang is here!!!! This has been waiting in our drafts for literally a year, and we finally get to throw it out for the whole zoyalai fandom to read. When @wafflesandkruge first came up with the 1960s spy au I literally went , that’s when I knew I was already sold. This was one of the best premises I know bc the vibesTM. Now we get to share it with y’all. I hope everyone would appreciate Tiff’s masterpiece of an au. It has all the tropes you could ask for. T-T
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Zoya Nazyalensky was left with no choice but to work for the organization that held her family’s fate in their hands. Even as she rose through the ranks and gained respect, failure was still inevitable. And when she happens to blow one crucial mission because of her poor judgment, the reputation she’d worked so hard to build crumbles to nothing.
Everything gets you in the end.
Nikolai Lantsov prided himself as an expert of “complicated acquisition”, until he was caught by the CIA and offered an ultimatum: work for them or spend his life behind bars. But after failing the last mission that would have finally let him walk free, his contract with them is extended.
The two spies are forced to work together to thwart a threat to world peace. Despite knowing it can only end in tragedy, they find their history pushing them dangerously close to each other again, even letting their bruised hearts hope that there could be something for them after all this.
