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1. Untrust Us by omnishambles

   Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   01 Sep 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • River Cartwright/James "Spider" Webb
   • River Cartwright
   • James "Spider" Webb
   • Original Characters
   • Pre-Canon
   • Training
   • Friends With Benefits
   • i guess?
   • are they even friends? are these even benefits
   • First Time
   • Casual Sex
   • some light D/s content based on my beliefs about River Cartwright.
   • "we were friends once"

   Summary

   It starts raining in thin, steady sheets as River steps down from the train. The email had not been overflowing with information: pack for all weathers, no mobile phones, date and time of departure, board Paddington, change Newport, final stop Ludlow, wait. It had also told him not to be followed.

   River endures assault courses, psychological torment and bad food at MI5 residential training, with only James 'Spider' Webb to cheer him up. He's fucked.

   Written for the Slow Horses Big Bang 2025.

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   English

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