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Several months after the events at Les Arbres, River Cartwright is summoned to Regent's Park at the request of Diana Taverner and handed an op: find out who is killing the Dogs involved in a botched undercover sting at a nightclub and put them down. Worse than being made to clean up her mess (as usual), she informs him that his partner on the op is James Webb, who, to River's knowledge, has been dead for a year. Now forced to work together while River's life feels like it's coming apart, the proximity starts to unearth things they have both worked so hard to bury.
Or: River and James get assigned to an op, and they both learn the hard way just how much people change. And how sometimes certain things never do.
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15 Mar 2026
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River’s brain tripped over itself. “You’re dead.”
Spider spread his hands. “That’s what the coroner said. Though clearly, standards have slipped.”
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Spider is dead and River is the only one who can see him.
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06 Mar 2026
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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