Words Over Breakfast

Thursday, 20 December 2018 21:36
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Fandom: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy / Smiley Series
Rating: G
Setting: The Fish Pond Tapes (a domestic retirement AU)
Characters: Peter Guillam, George Smiley
Primary Pairings: Implied Peter Guillam/George Smiley
Warnings: Major Character Death
Word Count: 432

General Summary: Peter begins sending George messages burned onto his toast in the morning.

Author’s Note: Wow okay so this is one of the few other major pieces in this AU, and it's the one people get the most heated over in a way. But it was written 23 February 2012, and continues to hurt people despite coming from a light-hearted prompt regarding a toaster that burns messages on bread.


George Smiley was halfway through his breakfast the first time he noticed the messages on his toast. By the time he caught it, all that was left was a single G, half covered by egg.

Glancing up at Peter’s turned back, George carefully scraped the egg from the second slice of toast to expose a single word:

Morning.


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Thursday, 20 December 2018 01:10
personalmephistopheles: Image of Jamie Campbell Bower as Christopher Marlowe in the TNT show 'Will' (Default)

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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