The Smith Protocol: Episode 008
Attention, Gently Given F!Randivor
Episode 008 Attention, Gently Given on AO3
Back home after a long night, Jeanne sheds the last traces of the mission while Jane quietly rewrites the rules of safety around them. What follows is not a confrontation, but a negotiation—between light and armor, exposure and protection, need and trust.
In the softened hours of afternoon, over glowing glass, shared food, and the arrival of an unexpected package, they encounter a different kind of attention—thoughtful, observant, and offered without demand. It lingers not as a question of threat, but of recognition.
About The Smith Protocol: Desire in Shadowed Motion
Eivor is a wetworks operative shaped by necessity and precision, lethal where the world has demanded it of her. Randvi is her counterbalance: an unparalleled architect of overwatch, seeing everything, missing nothing. Together, they are one of the Agency’s most effective pairings, two halves of a machine that never hesitates and rarely fails.
Their marriage, however, is a construct. A cover. A protocol.
On mission, they move with instinctive cohesion, bodies and minds aligned in shadowed motion. At home, the rules are less clear. Intimacy is not something the Agency trains. Trust is not written into briefings. And love, real love, is a variable no handler can control.
As assignments blur into shared lives and calculated distance gives way to something warmer, both women are forced to confront a question no operation can answer: how do you build a life when you’ve only ever been taught how to survive?
The Smith Protocol is a slow-burn exploration of desire, consent, and connection under pressure, where safety is negotiated in quiet moments, affection is expressed through attention, and love becomes the most subversive act of all.
Because the hardest thing for a spy to learn is not how to kill.