For Every Float, There Must Be A Drowning by dress without sleeves

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Fandom Category: Anastasia
Pairing: Anastasia "Anya" Nikolaevna Romanova/Dimitri
Fic Title: For Every Float, There Must Be A Drowning
Author: dress without sleeves
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4153515/1/for_every_float_there_must_be_a_drowning
Rating/Warning(s): PG
Genre: Romance
WIP?: No.
Special Rec: 2 of 21

Why This Must Be Read: This story has a fantastic Dimitri voice and a wonderful pace; it's snapshots of Dimitri and his growing affections for Anya and despite relating closely to the movie it never feels repetitive.

Excerpt:

He does not tell Vlad that he was the boy that helped them escape and he does not tell her that there was a boy. Because- he tells them he forgot- he almost wanted her to fail. To never realize who (what) she was, because duchesses do not marry kitchen boys, but orphans . . . orphans are fair game.