Eggsy thought he was going to hate living on campus. His
mates had told him stories of the randoms they’d been assigned during their
first years, and the horrors that had followed. Missing food, broken dorms, sex
in the living room. Ovens exploding, couches being ripped into by dogs, and
booze at every corner.Needless to say, Eggsy was apprehensive about starting
university. It didn’t help that his roommate, Charlie, had given off such a
pretentious and posh vibe that Eggsy feared Charlie was one snap away from
having a butler throw him out of their room.But it worked out. Charlie was still an arse, but he was a
charming arse, and did his part around the apartment. He kept his part neat,
always helped with the food and utilities, and didn’t stink up the place with
cigars or weed like the people next door.It also helped that Charlie came with an older brother.
Harry.
Eggsy had no idea what Harry did for a living, I think it
was mentioned that he was a tailor at some point? Maybe a banker? But Harry
could have been a model for all Eggsy knew. The older man dressed in fitted
–sorry, bespoke—suits and carried himself elegantly as he wandered through the
rooms to help Charlie and Eggsy set up their living space.Harry also tended to buy them a lot of stuff. They were a
few weeks into classes and Harry still dropped by from time to time, buying
them groceries or books or general supplies. Even if Charlie was in class,
Harry would take Eggsy out to get school supplies and food. It was… a little
weird. Which he told Roxy, Charlie’s girlfriend, as they ate a café just off of
campus.“I think Charlie’s brother is hitting on me,” Eggsy
reported, biting into his sandwich, mulling over the most recent event in his
head. Harry had offered to pick up some cleaning supplies for Eggsy on his way
to the dorm, and then asked if Eggsy wanted to get lunch afterwards. Eggsy had
declined because of his plans with Roxy, and he could swear that Harry had
accepted the rejection with a sad tone to his voice.“You think so?” Roxy asked, one eyebrow climbing towards her
forehead in disbelief. She had very little interaction with Harry despite
dating his brother, and from what she’d seen, Harry didn’t seem the type to hit
on his brother’s friends.“Probably?” Eggsy amended, uncertain from Roxy’s reaction.
“He’s helping us out with the living costs? And he hangs around our room a lot,
even if it’s just me there, and he likes to buy anything we need. He’ll start
buying Charlie’s stuff, but then when Charlie isn’t there, he’ll buy stuff for
me and then buys me lunch and dinner and other stuff I like, like these
trainers.”“You thank him though, right? And you don’t feel obligated
to pay him back?”“Of course! I make sure to thank him and try to dissuade him
from buying stuff, but he insists!” Eggsy chewed on his bottom lip in
frustration. “I wish he’d stop sometimes, but I don’t have money to buy stuff
all the time.”“Well…do you think
Harry is hot?” Roxy asked.“Yeah?” Eggsy answered immediately, confused by the line of
questioning before his eyes widen and he followed it up with, “I mean, I guess?
I don’t know, probably? Objectively?”“And it’s not creepy or invasive right?” Roxy needled,
breaking out into a smile.“No! He’s a classy guy,” Eggsy argued, “he’s paying for
Charlie to go through uni after their parents kicked him out and he’s doing
well as a tailor or banker or whatever, and he never does anything to make me
uncomfortable-““So, you like him,” Roxy finished for him. Eggsy looked like
a deer in the headlights, blinking at Roxy for moments as he takes in all of
what he just said.“I’m not gay!”
“But you do like
Harry!” Roxy smirked, leaning back in her chair as Eggsy gaped at her,
floundering to find an argument against her statement.“I’m not gay?”
“You might be gay for Harry though,” Roxy smiled, crossing
her arms as Eggsy continued to freak out.“But, I’m not gay…” Eggsy trailed off. He thought back on
all his interactions with Harry. Harry taking him out to eat, treating him to
the new Adidas tracksuits and trainers, waving him off when Eggsy offered to
pay him back. Harry’s smile, Harry’s shoulders in his suits, Harry’s fucking
arse in his suits. The way his trousers fit just a bit too tight around the
crotch-“Fuck.” Eggsy whispered. “Fuck!”
Roxy cackled, watching Eggsy put all the pieces together.
“We could both be dating a Hart!”“Shut up Rox!” Eggsy whispered, “I’m having a crisis here!”
“What crisis?” Roxy asked, rolling her eyes, “You like
Harry. It’s not a big deal. Just tell him the next time he takes you out on a
date.”“He hasn’t been taking me on dates!” Eggsy squawked, dodging
his head when other people in the café looked in their direction. Roxy gave him
a look, a stop-bullshitting-me look, and he sulked. “Okay, maybe they’ve been
dates. But I didn’t know!”“And now you do,” Roxy decided wisely. “Now go bone Harry
Hart.”“You are the worse.”
“Harry!” Eggsy exclaimed, walking into his room. Charlie
wasn’t around, as per usual, probably out to go find Roxy after class, and
Harry sat primly on his brother’s bed.“Ah, Eggsy.” Harry turned to him with a shy smile on his
face. “You’re back from lunch with Roxanne?”“Ah, yeah,” Eggsy stuttered, dropping his bag off at the
corner of his bed. “You waiting on Charlie?”“Yes, I was to take him to get new books. Apparently
Roxanne’s poodle chewed through a few of them.”“Right, she told me about that,” Eggsy nodded, sitting
across from Harry on his own bed.“Afterwards, would you like to join me for dinner?” Harry
continued quickly, “uh, me and Charlie of course.”“That’d be great,” Eggsy agreed, “I-uh, I’d be cool with
dinner with just you too. Also.”Harry looked up, surprised, with a blush rising on his face.
“I would like that.”“Yeah, me too.”
Charlie was properly disturbed to come back from his class
to see his roommate and brother snogging on his bed.Roxy, on the other hand, was appropriately delighted.
Giveaway Fic for @charlotte-frey
Tag: fic
Life and Death by
now this is perfect halloween content
The Best ATM Withdrawal Defense
I’m here for women with powerful dogs!
My land lady is a 90lb 88 year old woman with 5 full grown Rottweiler boys. They sit around her when she gardens and watch her like the secret service. If you show up to pay rent they all stand up and stand between you and her.
It’s intimidating to have 5 pony size boys all staring at you until she stands up realizes it’a you and walks to you.
My favorite part is she wades through them like swamp water saying in her cute old voice ‘move’ ‘move please’ and each one she nudges to move wags his whole body at her touch and stumbles out of the way like he’s been knocked over by a truck. It gives me life paying my rent.
that sounds utterly adorable.
the bodyguard hartwin au:
Michelle walks up to an arm chair, taking the cap off of the head of the boy sitting in it. “Harry Hart’s here.”
“Who?” comes the voice from the chair.
Michelle sighs. “Harry Hart. Your bodyguard.” she says slowly.
The boy in the chair hums. “l think Roxy should be my bodyguard.” he says, a hint of amusement in his voice. The people around him bark out a laugh.
Michelle rolls her eyes and slaps her son with the cap she just took off his head. “Get off your arse and come meet him.” she demands.
Eggsy lets out a groan as he pushed himself up from his chair. “Fine, fine. l’m up.” he murmurs as he turns around. He seems to stop for moment as he catches sight of the new person in the room, tipping his head to the side as a little smile starts forming on his lips.
Michelle takes a step in between the two of them, nodding her head towards Harry. “Harry Hart…” she starts introducing them. “Eggsy Unwin.”
Eggsy steps up to him with a murmured ‘hello’ and offers his hand for a handshake. Harry says a polite ‘hi’ as he takes it, allowing the boy to give him an once over.
“You don’t look like a bodyguard, bruv.” the boy says, clearly not taking the whole idea serious at all.
Harry’s a bit taken aback and he raises his eyebrows at the boy. “What did you expect?” he asks slowly.
Eggsy’s little sly smile seems to be back on his face. “Mm. Maybe a though bloke?”
Harry blinks. “This is my disguise.”
Michelle tries not to sigh again and instead nods towards a girl as she walks over to them. “This is Roxy, Eggsy’s best friend and personal secretary.”
"Nice to meet you, Mr. Hart.” the girl says with a small smile and Michelle begins introducing a couple other people who either nod or smile at him from different corners of the room.
Harry looks back to Eggsy just to find the boy already looking at him. “Can we get you a drink?” he asks, clearly trying to sound pleasant.
Harry presses his lips together, considering if he is technically on the clock or not, and then nods. “An orange juice.”
Eggsy gives Harry a once over and smirks again. “Straight?”
A bouquet of daisies
For @zombiisheep as a continuation to this ficlet because of what they said
Give me all the soft, super self-conscious Harry. The Harry who is bad at dating because he hasn’t done it much and the Harry who has no confidence outside the field. Sure he can seduce anyone on a honey pot, but place him in a real date and he doesn’t know why someone would date him.
And then give me Eggsy making it his mission to show Harry all the reasons why he’s so amazing.
A bouquet of daisies
Eggsy sighs with contentment as he gets off of the plane and sees Harry waiting for him on the tarmac. His last mission didn’t go so bad, but one of the goon did get a lucky hit and his black eye means he’ll be confined to HQ for a bit if he doesn’t want to worry his mum.
Not that he thinks she doesn’t suspect he’s more than a simple tailor, but he sees no point in rubbing it in her face.
But if he can’t go home, getting to hug Harry first thing is a more than adequate substitute and he would feel bad to lean all his weight on him, but Harry just wraps a possessive arm around his waist and draws him a bit closer.
He spends a long time with his face just smashed against Harry’s collarbone, letting the smell of his cologne calm him that tiny bit more from the stress of his mission. It takes a moment before he realises that there is another scent around them, this one light and floral, before he notices that Harry is keeping his other arm at an awkward angle so they don’t crush the bouquet he’s holding.
“What’s this?”
“Ah,” Harry seems slightly embarrassed for some reason, but after a couple of months of dating, he knows better than to try and dismiss it. “It’s daisies. It’s for you.” He aborts a movement, probably because he wanted to offer him the bouquet but realised it would be impossible in their current position. “You mentioned you missed Daisy and were rather bummed you couldn’t see her straight away. I understand that the flowers are a rather poor substitute to actually being with your sister, but I- This was a stupid idea sorry. I’m ridiculous and-”
Before Harry can fall deeper into self-doubt and try to flee, Eggsy cups his cheeks with his hands and drags him down just enough so he can press their lips together without having to get on his tiptoe.
“You’re ridiculous if you think this is anything but the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me. Seriously Harry, I know you don’t believe it, but you’re probably the most romantic guy I’ve ever dated.”
“I am?”
Eggsy rolls his eyes before giving him another kiss but still answers him truthfully. “Yeah, you are.”
It could get tiring having to reassure Harry all the time that he’s not fucking everything up between them, but the thing is, it’s not all the time. And if he sometimes gets into fits of anxiety, he always believes whatever Eggsy tells him because Eggsy never tries to be anything but honest. If he’s displeased about something, he’ll say and Harry has come to trust him.
And to be honest, Eggsy gets a little thrill in knowing that Harry Hart who could seduce the panties off of anyone’s granny (or gramps probably), gets all nervous about the simple fact of dating him. That even if he should know that Eggsy is completely gone on him, he still doesn’t take him for granted and worries about losing him to some imagined slight.
He gets a thrill whenever Harry realises he’s done good and offers him one of his brilliant smile, eye crinkled with profound affection, delighted at being the cause of his lover’s happiness.
Eggsy got no choice but to have a taste of that smile.
write a story about how you became the world’s most powerfull person… by accident.
- You learn about the butterfly effect in school. The concept is interesting, but not so interesting that you don’t fall asleep partway through the movie. You hear something distantly about a butterfly beating its wings and hurricanes. You think it will never apply to you.
- You know now (not then) that power comes through and from favors.
- If you had known that then you would probably not have done so many.
(This is where it starts.)
One.
There is a strange creature crossing the road behind the lecture hall. You stop on your bike and frown at it. It looks a little like a turtle, but it’s limbs are longer than any turtle you’ve ever seen. It’s stretched out on the hot asphalt, long, pale limbs clawing forward towards the small stream that runs on the other side.
You hop off your bike and gently pick the creature up, hands under the belly of the shell like you learned from the internet.
Imagine your surprise when the shell slides off the creature instead, dropping a tiny woman onto the asphalt.
“Water,” she croaks, tiny eyes screwed shut. Her eyelids are the size of yours which means they’re huge on her. “Please.”
(You will not know until later what exactly please means to the fae.)
You feel yourself move through your shock. You pick her up and take her to the water’s edge. She slips under the surface, pale skin flashing like the scales of a fish, and she’s gone.
You’d wonder if your roommate slipped you something this morning if she wasn’t back a moment later, pushing a small rock into your hands.
“A boon,” she says. Her eyes are large and black, suited for her underwater world. “For a favor.” She smiles, showing teeth jagged and sharp like a piranha.
When you blink, she’s gone.
You stare at the rock in your left hand. It’s smooth and worn from years in water, an interesting swirl of granite and quartz. “I wish I knew,” you tell it.
The rock ices over so fast that you don’t have time to drop it. The frost swirls across your skin, burning you where it touches, and you watch in horror as your skin turns a mottled black and blue.
You fall to your knees from the pain and choke on a scream as the stone sinks into you, touching your bones and sending more ice through your marrow. It climbs up your arm and touches your eye, changing you vision so now that you’re see double, a strange, blue world juxtaposed next to the one you know and love.
Ocd Harry, Eggsy just finds out.
Harry had been told, on occasion, by medical professionals no less, that he had developed an obsessive-compulsive disorder. It wasn’t terribly severe, they’d say, but it was something to keep note of. He always replied that no, he was merely a trained, bordering on paranoid, spy that felt an uncharacteristically strong need to check and/or clean his weapons multiple times a day and who liked to keep everything in his home as clean and neat as possible thank you very fucking much.
Besides, even if he accepted their silly diagnostics and he was indeed OCD, then it was of no consequence since he had always lived alone and what he did or didn’t do multiple times in his house (i.e. assemble and disassemble the multiple weapons he owned) it was no one’s business but his own.
It did not affect his performance in the field and being able to assemble any type of long distance and short distance weapon in less than one and a half minutes each was, in his profession, a blessing.
He didn’t need to look any deeper into it. He refused to seek help for it. He didn’t need it. He was fine. It was a quirk in his personality and that was the end of that.
Of course, what he had never expected was to one day be living again with another actual living breathing human being. Especially not one as wonderful and bright and fucking messy as Eggsy. He was the very definition of a human bomb. He left a mess everywhere he went, from reports left haphazardly on the dining room table next to cups of coffee to actual items of clothing left discarded on different rooms of the house, particularly on their bedroom floor.
And it was okay.
Well, no, correction, it was a mental hell for Harry, but it was Eggsy doing this, and he loved Eggsy and he wouldn’t – couldn’t – lose him. But he also knew he couldn’t exactly lose his sanity either. It would do neither of them any good.
He had tried at first to just pick up after Eggsy and, for months, it had actually worked, but the more that time passed, the harder it was for Harry to keep his grated temper in check. There was only so much of it he could take. So of course, his next step had been ramping up relaxation techniques, because if there was one thing he had become good at over the years, it was working under pressure.
Hence how he had ended up sitting by his dining room table, slick black weapons laid out in pieces on the table as he assembled them and disassembled them repeatedly one after the other, counting the number of armaments every pass.
“Harry?” Eggsy asked sleepily as he walked into the room, freezing when he finally took in the scene.
This wasn’t the first time he caught Harry cleaning and assembling his weapons. This was, however, the first time he caught him doing it at three in the goddamn morning with an almost maniacal glint on his eye.
Harry froze in place, turning slowly once it became clear Eggsy wasn’t going anywhere. “You should be sleeping, darling,” he said gently, a placating smile on his lips.
Eggsy frowned, looking more and more worried by the second. “I could say the same.” He pointed out. “Harry, babe, are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” Harry bristled, meeting Eggsy’s gaze with a cold one of his own. “There’s nothing wrong with me, Eggsy.”
Eggsy stilled, every alarm in his body going off. “I never said there was. I just asked if you were okay since you’ve been out of bed for almost two hours now, and you’ve apparently been down here the entire time.” Eggsy sighed, inching closer to brush a hand against Harry’s cheek. “Please Harry… I’m not judgin’, swear down, I just want to make sure you’re okay.” He kissed his boyfriend’s creased brow. “Let me help you.”
Harry sighed, relaxing inch by inch, until he finally slumped forward, letting Eggsy take some of his weight. “I… There’s… well I… There’s something you should know about me, Eggsy,” Harry said eventually, swallowing hard. “I’m… well I suppose the correct term is OCD, but-” He shook his head. “It’s not a big problem, it’s just-”
“Babe, I’m not judging,” Eggsy repeated again, finally sitting on Harry’s lap. “So you’re OCD, that means, what for you exactly?”
“I like things to be… very clean and in order,” he said with a grimace, knowing how absurd he probably sounded. “And I… well I find it cathartic to- necessary really – to do this,” he said as he pointed towards his weapons. “Especially when I’m, ah, a little miffed.”
Eggsy’s eyes suddenly lit up with understanding. “Oh my god, this is because of the mismatched clothing I put in our wardrobe today, innit?” He said, a hint of horror at his own actions tinging his voice.
Harry grimaced. “Perhaps,” he said in a soft voice, burying his head in the crook of Eggsy’s neck. “I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be,” Eggsy whispered, kissing him soundly. “I mean I don’t know how this works yet, but we’ll figure it out, yeah? Me and you, we always do.”
See I’ve seen like 600 variations of this meme and I gotta tell you a Story.
The year is 2012. It’s Christmas. It’s the first year my sister and I are both home from college, and we’re feeling kind of nostalgic, so we take out the old family photo albums to remember everyone from times past. We’re all on the couch or the floor with hot chocolate and the Dog is curled up under the tree. It’s all very Norman Rockwell.
We’re going through my Mom’s side of the family, laughing at the pictures of Grandma putting wrapping paper on the dog, and grandpa pulling faces at the camera, when we find an old brown envelope.
“The fuck? says my sister, because she’s been in to Great-Aunt Liz’s Rumballs, and I open the envelope. Inside are four tickets to the titanic, unused, and Mom tells us the story of how her ancestors ALMOST came over on the Titanic, but Great-Aunt Liz got the measles and forced everyone into quarantine, thus saving their lives.
The OTHER thing in the envelope are seven Photographs, dated 1890. They are of my Great-Great Grandmother.
They are nudes.
They are NOT tasteful nudes.
Like, these are Violating-Terms-Of-Service-On-Most-Platforms- OBSCENE.
GGG had these taken waaaaay back in ye olden days, in order to convince her wayward husband to move back to England after he ditched her to party it up in Chicago.
I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW FUCKING HARD WE LAUGHED. Like, I think I passed out I was laughing so hard.
So yes, people have ALWAYS been like this, and your nudes will make for a hilarious family Christmas someday.
loved this story
“Why would you still buy burgers?”
Daaaaaanke ♥
“Why
would you still buy burgers?”, Eggsy asks with a hint of disgust clinging
to his voice, his pretty face scrunched up as he watches Harry bite into his
burger.
It’s three in the morning, they have just come home from Sri Lanka, and since
McDonald’s was the only restaurant they could find to get anything to eat, here
they are, eating a very late dinner from paper wrappers.
“What do you mean?”, Harry asks once he has swallowed, takes a sip of Sprite.
“Y’know, after Agent Whiskey – I couldn’t eat anythin’ like that anymore
without thinking of eating a person.”
Harry lets a moment pass, sets down his cup, then smiles at Eggsy as innocently
as he possibly can. “Considering how you begged me not to stop yesterday night,
I really didn’t think you’d have anything against me eating a person…out.”Leave me the first sentence of a fic, and I’ll write you the next five!