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Fond Memories by The_Passion_of_the_Angst
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
21 Oct 2025
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Summary
He led her to an aisle of thin, colorful books. Children’s books. He tapped one. “Voila. You see? La Barbe bleue. Yes?” He picked it up and handed it to her. She opened it, flipped through a few pages. Inside were disturbing black-and-white Gothic illustrations.
Fairy tales are so fucked up, Isobel thought. She shut the book and tipped her face to him, chewing her bottom lip. “I don’t understand. I’m sorry,” she told him, then corrected herself in a belated attempt at politeness. “Desole.”
Amusement tugged at the corners of his mouth, but Isobel bristled at the pitying look in his eyes. “You, ma louloute, you are inside his castle, eh?”
Isobel fic that nobody fucking asked for. In an act of rebellion against her father, young Isobel Cartwright runs away with her secret older American boyfriend, but discovers he has secrets of his own.