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And Everything is Lavender by Justclaude
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
28 Sep 2025
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River has only just began leaving the house again after the tragic death of his dearest wife Sid, and already Lord Cartwright has his sights set on a better match in matrimony - Miss Emily Webb, daughter to the new money Lord who has moved into the neighbourhood.
Instantly River knows that she will never be the one for him, even his closest friend, Miss Louisa Guy can see they are not a match made in heaven...but her fiancé, James Webb? Well there's just something about him...
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kaleidoscope by curioushabitforarivergod
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
28 Sep 2025
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When a secret operation by the Soviets comes to light, MI-5 are forced to create their own secret counter-terrorist team. This includes the assigned DC James Webb.
River finds himself falling for James, despite the numerous reasons not to — most pressingly, the fact that it's the 1970s and homosexuality will probably get him fired. Meanwhile, Louisa's hiding something about her past that's essential to the mission at hand.
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What if...? Part One by Edie_Sunshine
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
27 Sep 2025
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What if... River Cartwright was at the Glasshouse with Spider Webb and Louisa Guy during Season 2, instead of Marcus Longridge?
When Min Harper is killed in a hit and run accident, Jackson Lamb sends River along as his replacement.
James 'Spider' Webb is unimpressed: he's still dealing with the fall out from the last time they met, and frankly, he's got more important things to think about, like getting himself back into Diana Taverner's good books after that whole Hassan Ahmed embarrassment.
For River, the assignment is a chance to once more prove himself a capable agent, get back into Regent's Park, where he belongs.
Of course, this being Slough House, nothing ever goes according to plan...
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- Part 1 of What if...?
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I need to know if your heart is racing too by PoemAboutCitylights
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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“You do realise it would make you one of us, don’t you? And that my shitty little job would also be your shitty little job, then?”
Spider scrunches up his nose, “Don’t be a blockhead, River. We all know you’ll live and rot at Slough House and that sort of ambitionless life just isn’t for me.”
River’s fingertips begin to twitch again but he forces himself to keep his voice down.
“And still you want to work with us.”__
Or: Spider is back from the dead and River has to deal with it
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A joke about why Jackson wears a frog patterned tie in season 5 gradually developed into the longest one shot I've ever written (which is why I divided it into chapters)... full of smut, sadness and angst from Jackson Lamb and Catherine Standish's early days, to Jackson arguing with David Cartwright, to current day...
(also pls can I just say I wrote this before watching S5 so I promise I didn't get the inspiration for the last chapter from the first episode - it's just a complete coincidence that they're similar 🤣)
Jackson and Catherine have had a question on the tip of their tongues ever since their days at The Park: Are you DTF?
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Yesterday's in Flames by ooolivia (tutaloo)
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
25 Sep 2025
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"Her hair was red. It wasn’t natural, but it was earned - the hard way."
A bored spy on sabbatical swipes right on River Cartwright, walks into Slough House, and stumbles on an old sin named Jackson Lamb
This isn’t a date. It’s a rematch.
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Ponte dei Sighs by FabulousDarling
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
25 Sep 2025
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Catherine Standish never asked to be sent into the field — and certainly not partnered with Jackson Lamb. But a dead agent drags them to Venice: a city of canals, masks, and secrets better left underwater.
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In which Sasha absolutely, definitely, seriously, does not have a crush on River Cartwright.
[Season 3 – ?]
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Enemies with Benefits by cartwrighter
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
22 Sep 2025
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River is a Slow Horse, you are Taverner's favourite agent at the Park.
He loves you, you hate him.
You two are chosen for a delicate undercover mission... where you have to play a married couple. -
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The cat distribution system reaches Slough House. Catherine and Jackson end up with a cat, and River gets a new enemy.
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Sent to tail a minor gangster at a Mayfair casino, River is quickly distracted by the man’s mysterious girlfriend. Convinced she’s undercover, he breaks orders to pursue her. Each time he finds her, she’s someone new - different accent, different story, but always one step ahead. What begins as routine surveillance spirals into obsession. But is River chasing a spy… or falling for a lie?
My contribution for the Slow Horses Big Bang, with artwork by the wonderful @louisaguy
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"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
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James: the son of the regent Queen Diana, reluctantly a Jester (long story), and NOT called Spider.
Prince River: grandson and heir of the ailing king, sent away (exiled) to the Ogre-Knight Sir Lamb for 'training'.
Unbeknownst to Spider, River's exile is over, and he's coming back for the thing Spider wants most... or thought he did.
Art by @LouisaGuy
Written for the Slow Horses Big Bang
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You're the last addition to the Slow Horses and you share the office with River Cartwright, who soon starts to fall for you.
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The Quest of River Cartwright: In Pursuit of Nobility by Justclaude
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
11 Sep 2025
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The Cartwright name is in shambles. Once a revered member of the Royal Court, River Cartwright is now nothing more than a mere bounty hunter.
That is until he gets a letter from the surly King Jackson Lamb, calling him to face the Court of Aldersgate where he is tasked with retrieving the Kings Ward, Lady Louisa Guy from the evil clutches of their nemesis, Queen Diana of Taverndom.
It seems a simple task - until the King drops the ultimate bombshell. He is to be accompanied by none other than Chief of the King's Guard, the prick that he is, Sir James Webb, and these two have history...
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s én utállak, mert egyedül vagy, / és egyedül vagyok, mert utállak by idhrengondis
Fandoms: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron
10 Sep 2025
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River észre se vette, hogy tovább hátrált, de most combjainak hátulja nekiütközött az asztalának. Valami pumpált benne, amitől furán reszketett a gyomra és bátorrá tette, vagy inkább vakmerővé.
– Maga kiállhatatlan.
– De azért néhány napja igencsak lelkesedtél irántam.
Melyben nyílik a sarkon egy új büfé, Shirley és Louisa gyújtogatásról álmodozik, egy macska kísérteni kezdi a sztorit, Lamb és River pedig újra és újra kettesben találják magukat a Slough-házban. River biztos benne, hogy utóbbinak semmi jelentősége. Kábé 97%-ig biztos benne.
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Frank’s back. He wants River to reconsider his pitch and won’t take no for an answer.
Frank also thinks violence solves everything.
When Slough House receives a mysterious package, the slow horses are taunted into a new game with no rules. A game they still have to learn or lose River forever.
And Louisa refuses to lose again.
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River cuts through everything.
"He’s not broken." David’s voice is distant.
Lamb finishes his drink. "No," he says. "He’s worse. He’s clean." -
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As advancing dementia takes the last of the man David Cartwright used to be, more consequences of his machinations decades ago show up to make trouble in the present. Major cyberattacks in the here and now conspire with loose ends from an op in Berlin before the Wall fell that saw Jackson Lamb and Diana Taverner’s younger selves cross paths.
The Park’s leaking like a sieve, so Taverner is obliged to take refuge at Slough House and rely on Lamb and his Slow Horses for her survival. Standish might be back in her old job and trying to look after them all, but what the others don’t know is that the twisted codependency has escalated and Lamb’s distracted by the shifts in their relationship right when he needs to be at the top of his game.
They’ll get through it — probably — but not unscathed and it’s anyone’s guess whether Dander or Coe will end up killing someone along the way.
Artwork by the brilliant tenderlywicked.
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Everyone thinks that they know all there is to MI5's biggest disappointment, River Cartwright. And that's just how he wants it.
But when River's sanity starts to unspool and figures from his past randomly pop up in London, everything that he had painstakingly built begins to fall apart.Series
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