elrhiarhodan

Title: The Summer Folly
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Kingsman
Rating: R (for sexual content
Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Charlie Hesketh, Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters
Pairings: Harry Hart/Eggsy Unwin (Hartwin)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~6800
Summary: A non-spy AU, set in Cornwall, circa 1924. Harry Hart is a landed aristocrat and Eggsy, a student at Oxford, and somewhat friends with Harry’s young cousin, Charlie, has been invited to spend the summer at Harry’s estate. Nothing, though, is quite as simple as it seems.

Author's Notes: Written for the 2019 poetry_fiction challenge, for the snippet from O Great Beauties! by Tishani Doshi

Just explain the mystery to me.
Did darkness burn all around?
Or did you see, as I see—a quiet wood
Outside the town, with a banquet
In a field of belladonna?

I don't know why, but this snippet took me in the direction of Kingsman meets Downton Abbey (or Brideshead Revisited, or God Is An Englishman if you prefer), or maybe I just wanted an excuse to put Harry and Eggsy in period formalwear.

Fills the "Moonlight" square on my Fluff Bingo card, the "May/December Romance" on my Trope Bingo card, and the "Historical A/U" on my Gen Prompt Bingo card.

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