Title: The Fire's Out But Still It Burns
Fandom: Kingsman: The Secret Service
Pairing: Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin/Harry Hart
Categories/Genres: Fix it, Angst
Length: 2115
Warnings:

Author/Artist on AO3: Vacilando

Summary:
His mum said to call the number if he's in trouble.
So he did.
Or: Eggsy keeps calling a dead man to come and get him out of trouble.

Review:
Scouring through many, many fics that are becoming increasingly out of character, this one got me right in the chest. It's pretty short, but it's fragile and beautiful in an extremely broken way. Stuck between fics where Eggsy either has to cope with Harry being alive after all or being dead and having to move on without him, this Eggsy does neither. He doesn't break down or ask for extra missions. He's a little reckless with his life but when faced with the reality that no ones there to help him, his innate reaction is to do the opposite of surrender. He knows he has to carry on and isn't over-emotional about it except through one little habit where he calls, reaches out whenever he's at his most vulnerable. And it's through that habit that you see how clearly Harry's loss is like having a piece of glass through his chest, grating on him whenever he breathes.

The Fire's Out But Still It Burns