Gin and Bitterness

Fandom: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley Series
Rating: T
Setting: Pre-Canon
Characters: Bill Haydon, Peter Guillam, Ann Smiley, George Smiley
Primary Pairings: Ann Smiley/George Smiley
Secondary Pairings: Peter Guillam/George Smiley, Implied Peter Guillam/Bill Haydon
Word Count: 1000

General Summary: A young Peter Guillam has his first real glimpse of Ann Smiley and receives a warning, which spikes his natural paranoia in regards to both his sexuality and his feelings towards her husband.

Author’s Note: This was written and posted on 8 November 2012, and was tagged "Ann Smiley's incredible ability to judge a man's sexuality at a glance as told by George" because the fact that this is a canonical thing is amazing to me.


Peter was struck first by Ann. Ann Smiley who swept into the room, as another man once described her, “like a Celtic goddess” and silently, effortlessly demanded the attention of all present, just by virtue of her being there. He had heard of her long before he had seen her - whispers in the break rooms of the Circus and in the field, in the periods between work when fieldmen congregated and swapped stories and the latest word on the higher-ups. Ann Smiley, errant wife to Control’s right hand man - a woman who was, in so many ways, everything that her husband was not. Not for nothing, it was whispered in the corners of safehouses, had Roy Bland taken up the habit of courting with any Deb who bore even the slightest resemblance to his old recruiter’s spouse. In other corners, it was whispered that where Bland had been rejected, others had been successful, and the name that he heard repeated time and time again was one that he could only blush to think of in that context.
 

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