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you carve into my marble, now you'll never be apart from it by holy_smokes
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)
31 Aug 2025
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1. Duffy & Hobbs punish River.
2. Hobbs makes good on his promise.
3. River visits the Park, Hobbs makes the most of it.
4. Hobbs visits River at home (again).
5. The beginning of something else.
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22 Mar 2025
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"It's good to see you too" by zaisei
Fandoms: Slough House - Mick Herron, Slow Horses (TV)
23 Oct 2022
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[Alternate Universe]
Many years after the events in the series, many years after Diana Taverner's forced retirement, Jackson Lamb and Catherine Standish pay a visit to The Park.Bookmarked by bebebe
10 Mar 2025
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Sid asks River to be her date to fool her friends into thinking she's moved on from a bad break up. In a surprise to no one who's ever read a romance novel, the only one she's fooling is herself.
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03 Mar 2025
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Her meeting with Taverner isn’t for another forty-seven minutes, but she tells River he needs to leave soon anyway.
“Is it, you know, a sex thing?” he asks when Webb's tugging her dress back down and smoothing out her hair.
She doesn’t do him the disservice of pretending not to know what he’s referring to. She doesn’t do him the courtesy of a direct answer.
“She’s not fucking me, if that’s what you’re asking,” she says primly.
They both know it’s not.
Taverner plays with Webb. River loses.
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02 Mar 2025
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We're Not Lovers (We're Just Strangers) by countessrivers
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
27 Feb 2025
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“Fuck off,” he’d eventually said, with rolled eyes and a half-hearted glare. And then he’d taken the money.
So yes, that had been the first time Spider had, in a roundabout way, paid him for sex.
But it wasn’t the last, and it only got more explicit.
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27 Feb 2025
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James Webb is not on Grindr. Grindr is a dim swamp of an app, populated with and built for ugly people with low standards. Webb wouldn't be caught dead on it.
That's his story, and he'll stick to it come rain, hail, or torture.
It is, of course, a lie.
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- Part 1 of pleaseverse
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26 Feb 2025
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Dutch has an injury in a place that's difficult to reach without some kind of help.
Johnny, already beat up from an altercation that day, wakes screaming from a nightmare.
In both situations, a question is asked. The answer says a lot about both of them - about who they were before and who they're becoming together.
Do you trust me?
(whumptober 2021, day 4: "do you trust me?")
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- Part 4 of Whumptober 2021
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25 Feb 2025
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ummmm very much just me pushing my gay agenda onto a middle-aged spy show, apologies in advance
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22 Feb 2025
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girls when their spy show has bitter exes in it
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22 Feb 2025
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Duffy thinks he's got River's number. Hobbs wishes River would give him his number. It all does a number on River.
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18 Feb 2025
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Something to remember me by by Too_Many_Rooks
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
17 Feb 2025
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‘Rescued’ by Slough House from his Father, River is dragged away from the life he loves, the man he loves, and back into the stagnant hell of his life before he met Frank.
None of them understand. They think he’s some tortured, traumatised, weak little thing. But he’s not. Frank has made him so much better.
And, even when separated - the memento of his love Frank left on his skin keeps him comfort, never letting him forget where he belongs, and who owns him.
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- Part 3 of Harkwright collection
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18 Feb 2025
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There are scars on her body, River could have told Louisa. There’s warmth in her smile. When she takes her clothes off, some of the armor comes off too.
There was so much more to Diana Taverner than what she showed the world, but River would never tell Louisa. He would never tell anyone.
As Diana had said, “People like us are married to the Service.”
[This relationship sounds insane at first, but perhaps the young Diana had more in common with River before she started working for David Cartwright. The unifying principle of this story is that Molly the librarian is right about everyone.]
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02 Feb 2025
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how dark the night, how cold the wind can blow by Anonymous
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
02 Feb 2025
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'Instinct told him he should be reaching for the gun before Frank could, but the mix of shame, exhaustion, soreness, sensitivity and sogginess made movement seem quite impossible. Frank was on his feet first, River barely gathering himself enough to pull up his trousers and sit before Frank had a gun trained on his head.
River looked up at him, unable to look away. He didn’t know what he expected to find in Frank’s eyes but hesitation, reluctance, wasn’t quite it.'
Or, River and Frank's tussle in the Pembrokeshire snow takes a strange turn, and everything changes.
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- Part 2 of Harkwright collection
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02 Feb 2025
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On sustained desk duty after a knee injury in the field, River's body changes in ways that don't go unnoticed by Jackson.
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31 Jan 2025
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Don't Die by The_Passion_of_the_Angst
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
13 May 2025
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“Conscious for a few minutes? What's he want, a medal? Just celebrate the bare minimum now, do we? Most of us spend entire days conscious. Even Standish has worked her way up to it.”
You could perhaps say Louisa’s elation was diminished. Ignoring the crack at Catherine, she replied in a clipped voice, “Right, well, most of us haven’t been in a coma for the past six days, Lamb.”
He wagged his finger at her, “Ah-ah-ah, Standish has assured me that it’s not a real coma, it’s drug-induced.” At this, he nodded to Shirley. “You’d probably know all about that.”
She rolled her eyes. “More of a stimulants person.”
“The point is, no one’s interested in hearing updates about Cartwright’s fraud coma.” Louisa looked at the ceiling for strength, but the moldy watermark overhead didn’t inspire much.
Surprisingly, it was Lech who spoke up. “If you don’t care, then why do you open every meeting by asking Louisa if Cartwright’s dead yet?”
In the days/weeks/months that follow his poisoning, River wakes from his coma and starts down the long road to recovery.
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- Part 4 of Recovery
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26 Jan 2025
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Don't Talk To Strangers by countessrivers
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
03 Mar 2026
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"This assassin has no obvious ideological motivation. All the targets are different ages, sexes, ethnicities, occupations. They didn’t know each other. There’s no clear connection linking them other than being the types of people someone would believably pay a decent amount of money to get rid of. But the deaths themselves, they don’t have a signature, but there’s a certain...style to them.”
James toys with the corner of the file, only half aware he’s doing so.
“I’ve got a dozen different countries in there and deaths dating back years, and I don’t know exactly how long they’ve been working but they’re not slowing down, and I just think that’s...interesting.”
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23 Jan 2025
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River closed their distance again, breathing into Webb’s face. “I’m not you.”
White teeth met him. “No, but you are not that different.”
“Fuck me,” said Shirley Dander, having opened the door not a second too early. “Is this, like, an HR violation?”
“Not sure.” Louisa appeared behind her. “Who is violating what?”
“I think we are, actually,” Shirley said. “Cartwright, I need to talk you into something.”
“Right.” River, happy to leave the situation, followed her outside.
When suddenly there's a shot at redemption for Louisa Guy, she’ll begrudgingly accept, if only to distract herself from her ongoing grief. Also grieving? River Cartwright. Shaken by revelations about his family, he is approached by Second Desk with a dubious deal concerning an old “friend”. But if you ask Shirley Dander, nobody’s worse off than her, especially after the loss of her only friend. Last but not least, a newly resurrected James Webb has gained a second (or third?) lease on life leading him to cross paths with the Slow Horses in ways that might alter their lives, for better or for worse. Four people, four ways to grief, only one way the story can end.
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11 Jan 2025
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“Jesus, you’re incorrigible.”
“Takes one to know one, River.”
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08 Jan 2025
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06 Jan 2025
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What People Call 'Friendships' by thefaceinthecornerofmyhotelroominrome
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
12 Nov 2024
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Spider hates River. Really hates him. Doesn't like him--never has, never will.
Definitely doesn't have a crush on him or anything.
Pre-canon, training era fic.
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06 Jan 2025