Trespassers

[personalmephistopheles]

Fandom: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy / The Smiley Series
Rating: G
Setting: The Fish Pond Tapes (a domestic retirement AU)
Characters: Peter Guillam, George Smiley
Primary Pairings: Peter Guillam/George Smiley (implied)
Word Count: 868

General Summary: Despite himself, Peter is secretly protective of the fish pond George keeps in the back garden.

Author’s Note: I originally posted this piece - the first of a handful belonging to this AU - on 6 September 2011, at the request of someone who was at the time very close to me. We are no longer on speaking terms, but I still like the piece, and am pleased that it was...rehabilitated in a lot of ways by someone else close to me.


George knew Peter would never admit it, but the fish had become akin to his children. In the beginning, he was ambivalent towards the little fish pond that Smiley had insisted on installing in the back garden, even going so far as to say that it seemed silly to have pets that couldn’t be interacted with directly. Patiently, George had simply told him that if he thought the fish were silly, then he didn’t have to deal with them.

That ended any potential for argument.

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