[Trying to work through it and failing, maybe. It seems like they should both have good reason to reach out to their targets as shoulders to cry on, so to speak.
This is the part of the job that Eggsy still needs a lot of practice in -- it's not something they'd covered much in their initial testing, and while he'd pulled off being Chester King for a short while, his cover had also been blown almost immediately. (Fucking Charlie.)
Still, at least he's doing this with Roxy. Granted, most of the other Kingsman agents are men two or three times his age, so that wouldn't have worked particularly well. Merlin had seemed rather pleased that he had two young, attractive agents to send off and pretend to be married whenever the occasion required it.
When Roxy reaches out for him, though, and starts going on about some other study she read, Eggsy meets her eyes, taken aback by how directly she says that she loves him. She means as a friend, of course, and there's never been any doubt that there's love between them, but it's one thing to know it and another to hear it.]
Of course. [Like he would take something like that personally. He knows where they stand.] And I -- I mean, it's mutual. We're just doing what we've got to so that we get the job done, yeah? [He flips his hand over and grasps Roxy's, giving it a quick squeeze.]
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This is the part of the job that Eggsy still needs a lot of practice in -- it's not something they'd covered much in their initial testing, and while he'd pulled off being Chester King for a short while, his cover had also been blown almost immediately. (Fucking Charlie.)
Still, at least he's doing this with Roxy. Granted, most of the other Kingsman agents are men two or three times his age, so that wouldn't have worked particularly well. Merlin had seemed rather pleased that he had two young, attractive agents to send off and pretend to be married whenever the occasion required it.
When Roxy reaches out for him, though, and starts going on about some other study she read, Eggsy meets her eyes, taken aback by how directly she says that she loves him. She means as a friend, of course, and there's never been any doubt that there's love between them, but it's one thing to know it and another to hear it.]
Of course. [Like he would take something like that personally. He knows where they stand.] And I -- I mean, it's mutual. We're just doing what we've got to so that we get the job done, yeah? [He flips his hand over and grasps Roxy's, giving it a quick squeeze.]