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out_thereSince I've been meaning to post a few recs for a while...
Kingsman
morning star (2933 words) by foolish_mortal
Chapters: 1/4
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Merlin (Kingsman), Roxy Morton | Lancelot
Additional Tags: Demons, Mythology - Freeform
Summary:
Short and sumptuous and very satisfying. I like supernatural AUs and a good semi-religious story, and this was a much sweeter happy ending than I was expecting. Harry feels so... appropriate for Harry, evil, yes, but sophisticated and charming and helpful in his way.
A finger in every pie, to use a wonderfully English expression—ah, lovely Europe, generally agreed to have carried out many of Harry's good works in the Age of Imperialism – and sometimes, if Harry is very patient, he finds a plum.
This particularly ripe plum surfaces nearly two decades later at a police station – an older, handsomely defiant Eggsy Unwin, trapped inside an interrogation room with an aura so deliciously despairing that Harry’s mouth fairly waters. This is a young man Harry could be proud to possess, a boy who has always turned his back on the world so that he could never watch it leave him, his unfulfilled body yearning for promises, and oh, how Harry wants to pluck him.
Harry assumes his favourite shape as he glides unnoticed into the station, pristine suit, umbrella, a man of the world and everything underneath it. “I can make this go away,” he tells Eggsy, and the charges are reversed with a snap of his fingers. Eggsy follows him out, slack-jawed and unprotesting, all too easy.
"Let me take care of them," Harry offers at the Black Prince and puts on a show thrashing all of Dean’s men, fulfilling Eggsy’s secret, long-held desire to do the same, and Harry is nothing if not his willing instrument. Eggsy is starry-eyed as Harry returns to finish off the Guinness, and Harry allows himself to preen. Promises, promises, he reminds himself.
Bang to Rights (17291 words) by concernedlily
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Roxy Morton | Lancelot
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Police, Power Dynamics
Summary:
This reminded me of Rivers of London in the best of ways -- the way Eggsy talks about being a copper feels authentic and true, aware of the flaws in the system while still clearly being proud of being a cop. It felt like a glimpse into a world that I don't know very well but could understand through context.
I liked the flow of the story and how it built, how a lot of it happened because Eggsy was too tenacious to let the coincidence slide. I also liked how competent Harry felt, how differently he presented himself through the first few encounters and how well Eggsy observed enough little details to realise there was more going on.
Plus, it was hot. Very, very hot.
"Oh, I'd hardly say I was involved, Officer," Hart says brightly. "Just walking past, saw the fuss, popped over to see if I could be of any help. As one does."
He's lying. Eggsy doesn't know what about, or why, but he's seen and been top lying talent in his life, and this is some quality, quality material.
He looks at Hart. Hart looks at him. Hart's expression says, very clearly, yeah, and what you going to do about it?
He bites back the smile that wants to come: not appropriate. He's maybe not very successful because Hart smirks at him. It's one of those weird little moments of perfect understanding with a practical stranger.
MCU
Fidelity (34178 words) by amireal
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury
Additional Tags: Romance, Angst, Pining, Marriage, Long-Distance Relationship, Long-Distance Friendship, Clint Barton Needs a Hug, fear of success, Phil Coulson gives good hugs
Summary:
Long distance relationships are not easy, but this felt right. Adult. Responsible and caring and just... it worked for me. It's a nice slow build, but it also features clear communication and discussion, and left me fondly nostalgic. (And wishing my own brush with long-distance relationships had gone like this.)
Sherlock
(Strangely enough, the Share button isn't appearing on this, so it's old-fashioned coding -- phooey.)
Cooperative Principle - John/Sherlock, 56K.
Summary: As the newest instructor at St. Bart's, John has been explicitly warned to never do Sherlock Holmes any favours. Too bad the sex is so good.
Hot and a really fun example of how building a relationship with Sherlock would probably go annoyance => sex => bewilderment => sex => annoyance => more sex => death defying adventures => annoyance => more sex => maybe possibly talking about emotions. The sex would make up for it, but it totally wouldn't be an easy journey.
Luckily, John Watson really doesn't shy back from that sort of challenge.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
the sceptre and the isle - Illya/Napoleon, post-movie, 25K, a fair amount darker than the movie, honestly.
Summary:
Waverly says: “It’s the governments.”
Waverly says: “They’re pulling funding.”
Waverly says: “I thought you could use some company,” and Napoleon doesn’t do anything dramatic — doesn’t keep pouring until wine is slopping over his hand and into the sink, doesn’t drop the glass — doesn’t do anything but twist the bottle to catch the drips, and set it down on the counter, and turn around, and for all that it’s been a decade, and feels like so much more, it doesn’t matter. Illya might stand a little more at ease now, a little less guarded in his weariness and dressed accordingly, double-breasted grey wool that would not have looked out of place on Waverly five years ago, and now hangs on Illya like a passing fancy, but standing there, in Napoleon’s kitchen, it doesn’t matter if they’re in London in 1973 or West Berlin a decade earlier: Illya knocks Napoleon right out, though he doesn’t move a muscle.
This is lush and lyrical and completely told from Napoleon's point of view. I loved the style of it -- so vivid, so strongly flavoured by Napoleon's personality. I loved these long, complicated, meandering run-on sentences and how deeply anchored the story was to Napoleon's emotions.
I loved Gaby's no-nonsense attitude and her happy life in Rome. And how very capable Waverley felt, not sympathetic or warm, but reliable and one of the good guys.
Illya always remains a little alien and unknowable to Napoleon, and yet, over and over in this story, Napoleon shows how well he knows Illya in so many specific moments. Just not the big question of how Illya really feels about him.
I also love the pacing of this story. It alternates between what's happening and what happened in the past, and it's not just flicking for narrative interest, it actually pulls together well towards the end.
I will say that it's a little darker than I usually like my fic, but I was involved and loving the angst and actually cared enough to worry that there wouldn't be a happy ending. (There is. You know me. I'm unlikely to recommend something that doesn't have a happy ending without warning for it.) It's not the tone of the movie, but it's so worth reading.
Kingsman
morning star (2933 words) by foolish_mortal
Chapters: 1/4
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Merlin (Kingsman), Roxy Morton | Lancelot
Additional Tags: Demons, Mythology - Freeform
Summary:
Lee Unwin already made a devil's bargain to keep his family safe, so it’s only a matter of time before his son does the same. The apple never falls far from the tree, after all, and Harry knows all about apples. Satan!Harry AU.
Short and sumptuous and very satisfying. I like supernatural AUs and a good semi-religious story, and this was a much sweeter happy ending than I was expecting. Harry feels so... appropriate for Harry, evil, yes, but sophisticated and charming and helpful in his way.
A finger in every pie, to use a wonderfully English expression—ah, lovely Europe, generally agreed to have carried out many of Harry's good works in the Age of Imperialism – and sometimes, if Harry is very patient, he finds a plum.
This particularly ripe plum surfaces nearly two decades later at a police station – an older, handsomely defiant Eggsy Unwin, trapped inside an interrogation room with an aura so deliciously despairing that Harry’s mouth fairly waters. This is a young man Harry could be proud to possess, a boy who has always turned his back on the world so that he could never watch it leave him, his unfulfilled body yearning for promises, and oh, how Harry wants to pluck him.
Harry assumes his favourite shape as he glides unnoticed into the station, pristine suit, umbrella, a man of the world and everything underneath it. “I can make this go away,” he tells Eggsy, and the charges are reversed with a snap of his fingers. Eggsy follows him out, slack-jawed and unprotesting, all too easy.
"Let me take care of them," Harry offers at the Black Prince and puts on a show thrashing all of Dean’s men, fulfilling Eggsy’s secret, long-held desire to do the same, and Harry is nothing if not his willing instrument. Eggsy is starry-eyed as Harry returns to finish off the Guinness, and Harry allows himself to preen. Promises, promises, he reminds himself.
Bang to Rights (17291 words) by concernedlily
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Roxy Morton | Lancelot
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Police, Power Dynamics
Summary:
Constable Unwin never met a tailor before, but he knows this bloke who keeps turning up at his crime scenes ain't one.
This reminded me of Rivers of London in the best of ways -- the way Eggsy talks about being a copper feels authentic and true, aware of the flaws in the system while still clearly being proud of being a cop. It felt like a glimpse into a world that I don't know very well but could understand through context.
I liked the flow of the story and how it built, how a lot of it happened because Eggsy was too tenacious to let the coincidence slide. I also liked how competent Harry felt, how differently he presented himself through the first few encounters and how well Eggsy observed enough little details to realise there was more going on.
Plus, it was hot. Very, very hot.
"Oh, I'd hardly say I was involved, Officer," Hart says brightly. "Just walking past, saw the fuss, popped over to see if I could be of any help. As one does."
He's lying. Eggsy doesn't know what about, or why, but he's seen and been top lying talent in his life, and this is some quality, quality material.
He looks at Hart. Hart looks at him. Hart's expression says, very clearly, yeah, and what you going to do about it?
He bites back the smile that wants to come: not appropriate. He's maybe not very successful because Hart smirks at him. It's one of those weird little moments of perfect understanding with a practical stranger.
MCU
Fidelity (34178 words) by amireal
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, Nick Fury
Additional Tags: Romance, Angst, Pining, Marriage, Long-Distance Relationship, Long-Distance Friendship, Clint Barton Needs a Hug, fear of success, Phil Coulson gives good hugs
Summary:
Fidelity to a cause is easy as long as you believe most of what they're doing is right. Fidelity to yourself is a lot harder, because it's easy just to see your life as a series of failures rather than a series of successful recoveries from failures. Learning something from each of them.
Clint Barton has had very few precious things to feel that strongly about, but everyone has to grow sometimes. Like most of his life though, it's not exactly a straight line or an easy recovery.
Long distance relationships are not easy, but this felt right. Adult. Responsible and caring and just... it worked for me. It's a nice slow build, but it also features clear communication and discussion, and left me fondly nostalgic. (And wishing my own brush with long-distance relationships had gone like this.)
Sherlock
(Strangely enough, the Share button isn't appearing on this, so it's old-fashioned coding -- phooey.)
Cooperative Principle - John/Sherlock, 56K.
Summary: As the newest instructor at St. Bart's, John has been explicitly warned to never do Sherlock Holmes any favours. Too bad the sex is so good.
Hot and a really fun example of how building a relationship with Sherlock would probably go annoyance => sex => bewilderment => sex => annoyance => more sex => death defying adventures => annoyance => more sex => maybe possibly talking about emotions. The sex would make up for it, but it totally wouldn't be an easy journey.
Luckily, John Watson really doesn't shy back from that sort of challenge.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
the sceptre and the isle - Illya/Napoleon, post-movie, 25K, a fair amount darker than the movie, honestly.
Summary:
Waverly says: “It’s the governments.”
Waverly says: “They’re pulling funding.”
Waverly says: “I thought you could use some company,” and Napoleon doesn’t do anything dramatic — doesn’t keep pouring until wine is slopping over his hand and into the sink, doesn’t drop the glass — doesn’t do anything but twist the bottle to catch the drips, and set it down on the counter, and turn around, and for all that it’s been a decade, and feels like so much more, it doesn’t matter. Illya might stand a little more at ease now, a little less guarded in his weariness and dressed accordingly, double-breasted grey wool that would not have looked out of place on Waverly five years ago, and now hangs on Illya like a passing fancy, but standing there, in Napoleon’s kitchen, it doesn’t matter if they’re in London in 1973 or West Berlin a decade earlier: Illya knocks Napoleon right out, though he doesn’t move a muscle.
This is lush and lyrical and completely told from Napoleon's point of view. I loved the style of it -- so vivid, so strongly flavoured by Napoleon's personality. I loved these long, complicated, meandering run-on sentences and how deeply anchored the story was to Napoleon's emotions.
I loved Gaby's no-nonsense attitude and her happy life in Rome. And how very capable Waverley felt, not sympathetic or warm, but reliable and one of the good guys.
Illya always remains a little alien and unknowable to Napoleon, and yet, over and over in this story, Napoleon shows how well he knows Illya in so many specific moments. Just not the big question of how Illya really feels about him.
I also love the pacing of this story. It alternates between what's happening and what happened in the past, and it's not just flicking for narrative interest, it actually pulls together well towards the end.
I will say that it's a little darker than I usually like my fic, but I was involved and loving the angst and actually cared enough to worry that there wouldn't be a happy ending. (There is. You know me. I'm unlikely to recommend something that doesn't have a happy ending without warning for it.) It's not the tone of the movie, but it's so worth reading.
