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Several months after the events at Les Arbres, River Cartwright is summoned to Regent's Park at the request of Diana Taverner and handed an op: find out who is killing the Dogs involved in a botched undercover sting at a nightclub and put them down. Worse than being made to clean up her mess (as usual), she informs him that his partner on the op is James Webb, who, to River's knowledge, has been dead for a year. Now forced to work together while River's life feels like it's coming apart, the proximity starts to unearth things they have both worked so hard to bury.
Or: River and James get assigned to an op, and they both learn the hard way just how much people change. And how sometimes certain things never do.
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19 Sep 2026
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I need to know if your heart is racing too by PoemAboutCitylights
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
17 Aug 2026
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“You do realise it would make you one of us, don’t you? And that my shitty little job would also be your shitty little job, then?”
Spider scrunches up his nose, “Don’t be a blockhead, River. We all know you’ll live and rot at Slough House and that sort of ambitionless life just isn’t for me.”
River’s fingertips begin to twitch again but he forces himself to keep his voice down.
“And still you want to work with us.”__
Or: Spider is back from the dead and River has to deal with it
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18 Sep 2026
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The Slow Horses are sent on an op, an international op as well, by the Old Bastard himself David Cartwright. The mission: to retrieve a deep cover asset from rural France before he disappears back off the grid again.
The only problems:
1) the asset isn't an asset, he's a rival operative
2) he's got no clue why MI5 and David Cartwright care about him
3) he keeps on trying to fuck off back to Lavande
4) there's so many people trying to kill himCan the Slow Horses keep their spy alive for long enough for any of them to work out what the hell is going on?
Series
- Part 12 of Candle's Whumptober 2024
- Part 9 of Candle Makes Bad Things Happen
- Part 18 of Candle's August of Whump 2025
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17 Sep 2026
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“𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩, 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥-”
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.
“𝘐𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥’𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘨𝘴,” 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘴 – 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘥𝘺 – 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘰𝘳, “𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶.”
Catherine Standish has been drinking again. Apparently.
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11 Sep 2026
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“Okay, I should tell you, when we thought you were…dead. I, um, I called your mum.”
River flinched involuntarily and gaped at Louisa. “Why would you do that?”
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Now with a second chapter:
Can we not do this now, please?" River Cartwright, S4E6
Louisa intends to have that conversation.Series
- Part 5 of Whumptober Works
- Part 3 of Friendship: A Primer
- Part 4 of Bad Things Happen to River Cartwright Bingo
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11 Sep 2026