WHAT WAS THAT, TALK ABOUT OLDER HARRY AND EGGSY TOO?
So naturally Harry is stubborn as fuck. He will fight the affects of aging harder than heās fought anything, refusing to believe himself being anything less than fully capable. But it starts to catch up with him at 70. His knees are giving out, the joints so worn they canāt really function like they used to, (and heās afraid of the surgery and the time off heād need to get acquainted with the top-of-the-line joints that heād have access to) and he tends to limp. Older bones and gunshot wounds will do that. He needs a cane but will refuse to use one, though itās obvious he leans on the umbrella when he has to stand. His hair is fully grey, the stress lines in his face more pronounced, but he stays connected to the times, with the newest gadgets and technology, complete with modern suits, NEVER pulled up to the āgrandpaā style. Heās still Harry.
Eggsy however is absolutely thriving. Heās in his late thirties, early forties, more physically fit than heās ever been. Heās strong, heās fast, heās smart, heās so much more adept at faking the accent and mannerisms to blend in with high society. Youād never know he wasnāt born to one of the wealthiest families in London. Heās far more handsome now too, which is saying something. But Eggsy is Eggsy, still calling Harry ābruvā and slipping into his comfortable accent when theyāre alone, never assuming Harry needs help with anything, (heās far too used to Harryās stubbornness to ask,) though helping him out of kindness in small ways like offering him a hand politely when he needs to get up, or offering to make the morning tea for them both when heās stiff in the mornings. Time only makes Eggsy grow more attached and fond of him, 20 years making Harry a fact in his life, something he needs, something he canāt do without.
Their love would be a comfortable love. One of good morning kisses and nighttime massages, of dates to cafes where they simply sit and sip their drinks, of watching tv together under blankets. They never really defined their relationship - Eggsy would never call Harry his boyfriend, they didnāt really feel the need to extend it as far as marriage (they would count as common-law married anyway at this point) - but everyone knows, even the little younglings that Eggsy helps train. Harry is everything to Eggsy, his father figure, his mentor, his teacher, his best friend, his lover. Eggsy is the world to Harry, the thing that keeps him going, his first thoughts in the morning, his comfort when heās stressed, his rock in his fear. Harry has a picture of the two of them from when Eggsy was still a rookie on his desk, the frame worn from all the times he picks it up and looks at it, especially while Eggsy is away on missions.
But underneath all of it, there is a friction that grows as the years go on. The age gap is really manifesting. Harry is old, wrinkling, not as strong as he once was. Eggsy makes no outward show of being bothered by it, and he isnāt, but deep down, thereās a bit of a strain. Harry is his everything, but he just canāt give him all the things he used to. Eggsy doesnāt need sex to feel absolute love and devotion, but he admits, he misses what they used to be able to do together that they canāt now. He doesnāt want to insult him, but he really is anxious that something will happen to him one day in that regard. And it gets rather tiring to be referred to as your partnerās son day in and day out. He feels more and more like a caretaker, like in some ways he has to monitor Harry (because of that stubbornness), and even though he loves him desperately, thereās a tiny bit of relief when he has to go away on missions for a few days.
Harry too is feeling it. Where Eggsy feels strain, Harry feels guilt. He knows heās robbed Eggsy of a certain life. Heās stuck with the old man, not someone his speed, not someone that can be with him for decades to come. He morbidly thinks of his death, of how inevitably heāll leave Eggsy alone. He absolutely HATES being (what he sees himself as) Eggsyās burden, but he knows without Eggsy in his life, he would be so much worse off. He loves their time together, and heās far too selfish to give it up. Only when Harry is really hit by the reality of being an old man does the age gap actually manifest in any detrimental way.
Harry Hart doesnāt cry often, if ever. But when heās old, he cries when he thinks about it too hard.
