I have a thing for a dynamic where Character A and Character B are both very heavily... invested in Character C, and the narrative is set up for that to make them opponents, but instead they team up! Because Character C is more important than who wins! It's so great.

Thomas Nightingale and Beverley Brook are that in Rivers of London canon. It's not just that they both care deeply about Peter of course - they're set up as if they ought to be opponents in a bunch of ways, from the part where Beverley is a young Black woman from an immigrant community and Thomas is a middle-aged, upper-class White man who oozes establishment power from every pore; to the part where Beverley is a Goddess who is a representative of a major power bloc that is long-time and for good reason opposed to a different power bloc of which Thomas is not only the representative but also, at this point, the entire power. And yet? They team up? They go behind Peter's back even to work together, not just to protect Peter but also to shore up the fragile peace between their two communities. And they respect each other so obviously! Not just in the "I know that if you were truly motivated you could destroy me" way (but also that) but they respect each other as people who do good work and are worth working with!

And canon is all in close Peter POV and Peter is sometimes *astonishingly* oblivious so you have to piece this together from background scraps, but that doesn't make me like it any less.

Anyway, of course their is not nearly enough fic that explores the Thomas & Beverley dynamic, but what there is, is very good! Here are recs.

• conspiracy of silence (2831 words) by Sixthlight
  Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Beverley Brook/Peter Grant, Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale, Beverley Brook & Thomas Nightingale
  Additional Tags: Polyamory, First Kiss, Post-The Hanging Tree, Spoilers for The Hanging Tree, not plot-adjacent ones though
  
  People talk about feelings! For each other! Nobody dies of it.


• now it's all coming through (7690 words) by mardia
  Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Beverley Brook & Thomas Nightingale, Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale (implied), Beverley Brook/Peter Grant
  
  One part of the Bev & Thomas dynamic is that they are both effectively immortal, in canon. Peter isn't. So they have to deal with knowing that they will have their mourning for him in common a lot longer than they will have him, alive with them.


• Watching For The Longboats (3093 words) by aseaofhoney
  Chapters: 2/5
  Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
  Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Beverley Brook & Thomas Nightingale, Beverley Brook/Peter Grant, Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale, Beverley Brook/Peter Grant/Thomas Nightingale
  Additional Tags: Character Study, Accidental Bonding, Friendship, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Established Relationship, Possibly Unrequited Love, Drunken Confessions, (but to the crush's girlfriend), Panic Attacks, Entomology, Pining, Polyamory Negotiations, Book 7: Lies Sleeping, POV Beverley, Beverley and Nightingale support eachother while Peter's missing, find out they have a few things in common, (such as being in love with Peter), Emotional Roller Coaster
  
  Thomas & Beverley, while Peter is missing and maybe not going to be found, leaning on each other.

I.... finished... a fanfic? *faints*

Also Hi! I am back from Rhode Island, during which I did some things, and also finally watched the GO series, and read A Lot of fanfic, and I have been home exactly a week and am almost recovered, and there's a bunch of stuff I want to say about GO but it all goes ineffable when I sit down and try to write a post. But I also have posted a fanfic!

It is a Rivers of London crossover featuring Peter Grant being in over his head, because apparently that's what I do now (since that's also my intoabar prompt. Which I haven't started yet.)

A Nightingale Sang in Russell Square (6820 words) by melannen
Fandom: Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch, Good Omens (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Peter Grant (Rivers of London), Thomas Nightingale
Additional Tags: Crossover, POV Outsider, Apocalypse, Cars, Stealth Crossover
Summary:

'Starling, on the last day thou art well advized to remayne within thy Manor, but thou dost not abide, and goest instead to gayze uppon thy Steading, and upon the Fell’s.'
(The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch: Prophecy 1456)

It really ought to have a part two because the Nightingale hasn't actually sung yet, and we need to find out what's up with that club from the 1920s and if there really was a cherub in the bookshop. But it's nearly 7000 words of what was originally just supposed to be the short setup and I have four other things I want to get done enough to post soon, so we're calling it finished for now. :P