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From the Shadows by scorched_wings
Fandoms: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - All Media Types
20 May 2022
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SPOILERS ‘Haydon had betrayed. As a lover, a colleague, a friend; as a patriot…in every capacity, Haydon had overtly pursued one aim and secretly achieved its opposite.’ - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre
Watching from the shadows, Jim Prideaux learns that Bill Haydon is the mole.
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'We are inches apart, sharing breath, and yet the distance between us is enough to make me scream. His breath is warm and just perceptibly shaky.'
The night Emmett and Lucian spend together in the binder's house (pg. 390), from Emmett's perspective.
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'"I’ll meet you there in twenty." It was a promise Mickey hoped he could keep.
Stupid, really, to even offer, with Terry in a mood like this.'We follow Mickey's perspective after Ian turns up shaking on his doorstep in S01E09. While Ian is reeling from his absent mother unexpectedly returning to the South Side, we get an insight into life with Mickey's only too present father. Non-graphic child abuse. Mickey risking his own safety to take care of Ian.
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'It is a relief, too, to relearn Emmett like this, among landscapes truly new to both of them, unlayered by memory.'
Emmett and Lucian make their journey away from Castleford on foot. Lucian grapples with his new memories and two overlapping pasts, and Emmett responds with quiet patience. Set just after the end of the novel.
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'Ian joined him in the shallows, trying not to react to the cold. Mickey’s warm body was so close, but he couldn’t touch him without ritual. He gave his lover a hard shove.'
Ian and Mickey enjoy an evening by the lake together in the summer of season 2, out of the constrictive view of the South Side. Play fighting, non-graphic sex and quiet intimacy. Set after Mickey's release from juvie, but before they are caught by Frank.