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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jackson Lamb/Catherine Standish Characters: Jackson Lamb (Slow Horses), Catherine Standish Additional Tags: its hotter than hell, Sexual Tension, ice ice baby, jackson lamb is down bad, lambdish - Freeform, no beta we die like [redacted] Summary:

“Standish! It’s too fucking hot in here, do something about it.” Lamb bellowed from his desk.

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Young Jackson Lamb and Catherine Standish 🐌🐎

Amanda Root + Ciarán Hinds in PERSUASION (1995), dir. Roger Michell

“I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father’s house this evening or never.”

– Jane Austen, Persuasion (1818).

oh just trying to get the muscles working again

Post End S4

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The shouting from Lamb’s office rattled what was left of the windows from his floor down to Ho’s. Moira stopped what she was doing to look upwards, waiting for the floor to collapse. 

Catherine, four months absent, but twenty years in the black of Jackson Lamb’s moods simply carried on. 

Footsteps on the stairs, lighter than Lamb but heavy with intent. 

Coe’s hood was up, earphones dangling. He wouldn’t make eye contact with her, simply stood there until Catherine registered his presence.

“Sorry.” He said “For shooting him in front of you.”

Catherine considered for a moment. Her mouth tightened to a hard line, a single nod in Coe’s direction. There was nothing to be said that could undo his actions, that would wipe the memory of it away. She had no forgiveness for him. There were other things that needed her attention.

“I need to get the bucket.”

“Oh - yes - it’s over there.” Catherine pulled the bucket from the under the sink, handed it over. 

“J.K. - I was there too?” Moira said. 

Coe paused at the door.

“He didn’t mention you.” 

Young Jackson Lamb and Catherine Standish 🐌🐎

I'm sick of seeing that lie peddled by clickbait news sites and popular accounts trying to ridicule her with "Oh you didn't expect coffee to be hot?".

What actually happened should radicalise you.

In 1994, Stella Liebeck, who was 79 years old, spilled coffee on her lap while in the passengers seat of the car. The coffee was dangerously hot and caused third-degree burns over 16% of her body including her inner thighs and genitals.

*Warning - Very graphic images of the burns*

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Stella originally tried to settle with McDonald's for the cost of her medical care - $20,000. They only offered her $800.

Throughout the case it was discovered that McDonald's were selling coffee between 30-40 degrees higher than other places. That change in temperature causes third-degree burns much faster, if it had been from somewhere else she would have had roughly 20 seconds to wipe away the coffee and avoid third-degree burns.

"They were in the back of a taxi, Lamb taking up seventy percent of the available space, and Catherine wishing the day over."

© Mick Herron, Joe Country

Young Jackson Lamb and Catherine Standish 🐌🐎

Young Jackson Lamb and Catherine Standish 🐌🐎