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1. Until You Get to the Sea by tenderly_wicked

   Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   26 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • River Cartwright & Louisa Guy
   • Angst
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Past Child Abuse
   • Age Play
   • Age Regression/De-Aging
   • (in a way)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Whump
   • Hurt River Cartwright

   Summary

   River feels worn out and barely copes with his everyday life. With Louisa’s somewhat unusual help, it gets better … but then it gets even worse. Sometimes things have to be broken down before being built up again.

   (It’s a sequel to Show Me It Hurts, but the main thing you need to know is that River, utterly broke and miserable, got himself entangled in a black op and was used as bait for a sadistic audience on the dark web. As might be expected, it didn’t go well, but he was pulled out of it in one piece, if not entirely unscathed.)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   8,412

   Chapters:

   2/?

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   Kudos:

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