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“Fuck you, I know we aren’t friends. I know that now, and I probably always knew. I mean, you never even liked me.”
“I like you, River,” he tells the other man.
“Just not enough.”
“Just not more. Not more than the chance she offered me. But that’s all down the drain now, so–” James hopes he can leave it at that, though River isn’t budging.
Part 1: He almost dies. Again. Because three time’s the charm. But one thing becomes abundantly clear– James “Spider” Webb knows something he isn’t supposed to. Normally, the prospect of someone wanting to kill Spider would have River cheering them on, but this time it’s different. The issue uncovers a conspiracy MI5 would rather sweep under the rug, because some things never change. Except when they do.
Part 2: After a tumultuous run in with life, fate, and River Cartwright, James Webb finds himself permanently stationed at Slough House. Things are going alright, until two elderly citizens turn up dead, connected by a mysterious thread. On their way to the truth, both men uncover old secrets and grievances. Not just about the dead.
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- Part 2 of You Get What You Need
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04 Feb 2026
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James Webb nearly freezes to death on an MI5 training exercise. River Cartwright saves his life. No one behaves well about it.
Naked body heat sharing, emotional trauma, Shakespeare during dirty talk, and a postcard that comes far too late.
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“Yes, Spider,” Cartwright says, dryly. “It’s all part of an elaborate plan where I join the Secret Service just so I can end up on a training exercise with you in the Brecon Beacons and somehow engineer it so we fall in a river at minus 2 windchill, and have no recourse but to get into a sleeping bag together. You saw right through me, with your Holmes-like skills of deduction. I couldn’t have just, like, asked you out for a drink or something. If I wanted to be naked with you that badly.”Series
- Part 1 of The Bodies Trilogy
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19 Jan 2026
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River and Spider are tasked with the same field assignment, and each writes his own version of the incident. Their conflicting accounts reveal more than the operation ever could: petty rivalries, professional grievances… and the quiet, stubborn ways they notice each other.
As files, memos, transcripts, and unsent drafts accumulate, the tension escalates, bureaucratic formality crumbles, and by the end, even Slough House can’t deny what’s been growing between them.
Strictly operational… or not.
This fic is told trough incident reports, unsent emails, and Lambs last will to live.
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11 Jan 2026
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We're Not Lovers (We're Just Strangers) by countessrivers
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
27 Feb 2025
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“Fuck off,” he’d eventually said, with rolled eyes and a half-hearted glare. And then he’d taken the money.
So yes, that had been the first time Spider had, in a roundabout way, paid him for sex.
But it wasn’t the last, and it only got more explicit.
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08 Jan 2026
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Don't Talk To Strangers by countessrivers
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
17 May 2025
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"This assassin has no obvious ideological motivation. All the targets are different ages, sexes, ethnicities, occupations. They didn’t know each other. There’s no clear connection linking them other than being the types of people someone would believably pay a decent amount of money to get rid of. But the deaths themselves, they don’t have a signature, but there’s a certain...style to them.”
James toys with the corner of the file, only half aware he’s doing so.
“I’ve got a dozen different countries in there and deaths dating back years, and I don’t know exactly how long they’ve been working but they’re not slowing down, and I just think that’s...interesting.”
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06 Jan 2026