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1. Working for the Knife by Ashildrs, hotfrogboy

   Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/F
   • Work in Progress

   04 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Shirley Dander/Original Female Character(s) (past)
   • River Cartwright & Shirley Dander
   • River Cartwright & Louisa Guy
   • Emma Flyte & Louisa Guy
   • Shirley Dander
   • River Cartwright
   • Louisa Guy
   • Emma Flyte
   • Patrice Harkness
   • Frank Harkness
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Jackson Lamb (Slow Horses)
   • Catherine Standish
   • J. K. Coe
   • Roddy Ho
   • Diana Taverner
   • Claude Whelan
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Shirley Dander's Father
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Whump
   • Friendship
   • Running from the government as a bonding experience
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Kidnapping
   • Coercion
   • Investigations
   • Guilt
   • the author's barely disguised aromantic agenda
   • Lesbian Shirley Dander
   • really this is just a character study that somehow developed a plot and ran away from me
   • Frank Harkness is His Own Warning
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • as the author thinks of them
   • because he's rusty at ao3 and can't remember everything that happens in his own fic

   Summary

   "Wow, there’s a really big gender discrepancy here,” Shirley squinted at the website, disapproving, “Maybe they should start running diversity schemes to get women into international crime.”
   River blinked at her, “That’s your takeaway from ending up on Interpol’s most wanted list? Really?”
   She shrugged, "Someone's got to advocate for women in crime. It sure as hell isn't going to be your piece of shit father."

   My River and Shirley friendship thesis which got out of hand; in which Patrice survives, frames River and Shirley for mass murder, and the slow horses have to untangle the web Frank Harkness has left behind.

   Written for the Slow Horses Big Bang 2025

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   22,158

   Chapters:

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