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Title: I blinked (and there you were)
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Pairing: Harry/Eggsy
Categories: Time Travel Fix-It Crossover
Length: 11920
Warnings: None

Summary:

The Weeping Angels, Eggsy reads on the stolen Torchwood intel. Aliens that pose as statues, and kill their victims by sending them back in time and feeding off their years not lived in the present. The politest psychopaths in the universe, a note reads, scrawled in what looks like a doctor’s chicken scratch on the edge of the page by someone who clearly had a perverse sense of humour. A one way trip, the report concludes; you get transported by the angels, and it’s the slow road back to the present for you.

Eggsy lays his head back on the wall, takes stock of his situation. He’s lost 30 years - three years more than his entire lifespan up ’til now - in the blink of an eye, and now he’s stuck here, in 1988. Three years before he’s even born. Arthur, the prick, is sure to be heading up the Kingsmen, and Merlin, if he’s even there would be…20, maybe. Fuck, so fucking young.

Shite, even Harry’d only be…

Alive, Eggsy thinks, and finds himself sitting down hard from where his knees can’t hold him. This is 1988, and Harry’s 23, and alive.

Suddenly, being stuck in 1988 doesn’t seem so bad.

Or, the one where love means changing the future.

Review:
This is an author who knows what we want and serves it to us sweeter than sugar. You have the weeping angels used in their proper form for the first time since Blink, we have a suggested version of Lancelot played by Benedict Cumberbatch and an adorable meeting with the Doctor and Rose. If you like your British fandom then this is all the highlights mixed in together.

The fic opens and explains how Eggsy has been been transported into the past by a weeping angel. And even though he is horrified at first, the fact that Harry is alive in the past settles him and gives him a new goal to work towards. But the fic isn't just filler until Eggsy meets Harry. Eggsy getting himself set up in the past is just as interesting as when Eggsy finally does meet the fresh faced 23 year old Harry.

I get the feeling Eggsy sees young Harry as a cute bambi character until he finally realises that the person he fell in love with is still in there. I love how unashamed Eggsy is at using his knowledge from the future to his advantage. He steals Merlin's lines from the movie to use in front of past!Merlin and when Merlin asks him if he can use that line in the future, he agrees! Cheeky Eggsy really is the best Eggsy.

This fic is supposedly incomplete but as of the second chapter it feels pretty complete to me. It should be updated in a couple of days and we will see if it has been made even better.

I blinked (and there you were)

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