elrhiarhodan

Title: See Me Once, See the Way I Feel
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Kingsman (Movies)
Rating: PG-13
Characters Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Merlin (Kingsman), Jamal (Kingsman), Ryan (Kingsman), Victoria Winslow (RED/RED 2), Ivan Simanov (RED 2), Rottweiler (Kingsman), Michelle Unwin, Daisy (Kingsman), Chester King, Original Characters, Percival (Kingsman), James | Lancelot (Kingsman), Charlie Hesketh
Pairings: Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary “Eggsy” Unwin
Word Count: ~35,905
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Expressions of Anti-Semitism
Summary: Harry Hart, Director of Acquisitions for the Lepidopteral Catalog at the London Natural History Museum, is on his way home one Sunday afternoon, and encounters a lovely young man selling a rare collection of butterfly books in an antique fair. Of course he has to stop and take a look, and it doesn't take a scientist to see that this young man is as rare and special as the books he's selling.

Eggsy's a young man working hard to support his mum and baby sister, but the three jobs he's working at barely help make ends meet. A lucky encounter with a posh gent who just happens to want to buy an old set of books he's got might just give him a way out of a live of endless poverty.

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Author’s Notes: Written for binary_sunset for the 2019 Age Gap Exchange. They had asked for gentle lepidopterist Harry in an academic setting - this is close to that and I hope you like it. I'm also a trifle embarrassed at the length of the story - 36k in one go is a lot of words, but every time I tried to make it shorter, I only ended up writing more.

I didn't tag this as a crossover, but Victoria and Ivan are characters from RED/RED 2, and my head canon is that whether the story is canon-adjacent or AU, Victoria is the only woman Harry's had sex with (and if canon-adjacent, other than on a honeypot or within mission parameters).

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