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(girl just know that if you go) ain't no replacing you by starryeyedknight
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)
09 Mar 2026
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“…make this clear.” Taverner’s voice comes, not wholly inaccurately, as if she’s pushing it through gritted teeth. “Slough House needs just one grown up to make sure all that endless paperwork ends up in the right file, and that rather necessitates you keeping a new office administrator for over a week.”
“Well, that’s not my fault, Diana. You’re sending me lightweights. Service life is difficult at the best of times: danger, isolation, a slow and ugly descent into alcoholism. If these poor kids can’t deal with the hardship that being a member of MI5 requires, I can’t be held responsible.”
“You threw a beer bottle at Simmonds’ head.”
Normal people, when their long-term employee and nemesis (and possible crush?) unexpectedly resigns, would make the effort to move on. Jackson Lamb is not normal people.
In which watching Lamb wage war on a series of new office managers becomes a spectator sport, and one in which no filing is going to get done any time soon.