Les Arbres
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Le jeune soldat des Arbres by Too_Many_Rooks
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
21 Oct 2024
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There’s a story, to tell David Cartwright, the Old Bastard, facilitator of the future of Les Arbes.
That his daughter, flighty and spiteful and rebellious, had finally taken things too far by running off and having a baby with one of the worst spectres of his career. In buying her freedom, David had bought his seven-year-old grandson too. In exchange for this grand, unasked for act of heroic sacrifice, Cartwright felt entitled to spend his summers with the boy, felt he deserved the chance to love him, and teach him, and mould him in his own image to follow in his footsteps and uphold the family legacy.
But River has a family already. A legacy to live up to, a father lighting his path, sheparding him toward his future.
Because the story is a lie, a cover; and every summer, River Harkness leaves his home at Les Arbes, to become River Cartwright.
A simple double agent. As any good enemy deserved.
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The bite that binds, the gift that gives by Too_Many_Rooks
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
10 Nov 2024
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River Cartwright has lived his life separated into two, neat boxes, and expended much effort to ensuring as little overlap as possible.
There was River Cartwright; human, his grandparents' loving son, who made sensible decisions and was normal and reasonable and (conceivably) employable at the highest levels of Government security.
And then there was, well. The large wolf that he turned into on a monthly basis.
River has survived for decades under the guidance of his grandfathers teaching, keeping him self hidden, keeping himself controlled, protecting his secret at all costs.
But when a stranger, looking and smelling impossibly familiar, comes to his grandfather’s door to try and kill him, River is propelled into new territory in a peculiar French commune, and learns answers to questions he never thought to ask.
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Fond Memories by The_Passion_of_the_Angst
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
20 Oct 2025
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He led her to an aisle of thin, colorful books. Children’s books. He tapped one. “Voila. You see? La Barbe bleue. Yes?” He picked it up and handed it to her. She opened it, flipped through a few pages. Inside were disturbing black-and-white Gothic illustrations.
Fairy tales are so fucked up, Isobel thought. She shut the book and tipped her face to him, chewing her bottom lip. “I don’t understand. I’m sorry,” she told him, then corrected herself in a belated attempt at politeness. “Desole.”
Amusement tugged at the corners of his mouth, but Isobel bristled at the pitying look in his eyes. “You, ma louloute, you are inside his castle, eh?”
Isobel fic that nobody fucking asked for. In an act of rebellion against her father, young Isobel Cartwright runs away with her secret older American boyfriend, but discovers he has secrets of his own.
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Starburster by mortalghost, RemixedRoses
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slow Horses - All Media Types
21 Sep 2025
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When River finds out his father is alive and that he has siblings he had no knowledge of, his entire world is thrown upside down. As he tries to find his brothers and get closure from his mother, as family secrets and relationships gets turned over, River tries to figure out what it is he isn’t being told and who exactly his father is.
James thought it would be normal day, but when he turns up to work to find one of his agents absent and said agents grandfather missing, nothing is as it seems.
Written for the Slow Horses Big Bang and with art by Mortalghost!
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When a mysterious assailant storms into Slough House seeking help River and Lamb start to investigate. Though Lamb might know more than he's letting on.
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What if Lamb was the one that did the extraction in France and knew something was off about Rivers past