How about a would include for my baby boy Merlin pining for a new Kingman agent? Maybe it is her first mission. How does he handle making sure the girl he's crushing on doesn't get hurt? By obviously let your creative juices flow, darling! 💚
omg i love this thank you cutie!
in the beginning of things, merlin is SO careful not to pull favorites bc it’s very important to him to stay impartial?
like he always has recruits that he’s rooting for but since attraction winds up in the mix he’s a little harder on himself about it, so he kind of beats himself up about it
this is not to say that he’s not professionally amazed by her, because he absolutely is. it’s one of the reasons he’s interested in her!
but he’s worried that courting her would involve abuse of power? because even though he’s objectively lower ranked than agents, he like??? trained them and is their main point of contact for so much
so if he pursued her, he’d be worried that she felt pressured to reciprocate. so he’d probably take a while to get past that
in fact, she would probably have to make the first move (but let’s be honest he’d love that bc no one gives him the time of day)
but leading up to this, he’d defintely just sort of proudly watch her pass the tests and have to stifle little smiles when she kicks some posh prick’s ass
they probably start developing a friendship during the training process? it’s definitely gotta be subtle but i think he’s just sort of encouraging and stuff. like they just get along, you know?
they have a lil natural back and forth. like she’ll succeed at a task and he’ll just ‘well done, ____’ and she just smiles and ‘i aim to please’ but its nice its not overtly flirty like they just get on at first
and then gradually, unbeknownst to the other they both start to develop feelings probably once she’s been knighted and all
and on her first mission she’s not really nervous but he’s sittng there walking her through the tech and at some point she just ‘we’ve come a long way, haven’t we?’
and he just gets this small lil smile and ‘i suppose we have’
and shes like getting ready to leave and he’s kind of walking her out to like her car or private jet or whatever lmao and he’s like ‘and i’ll be in yer ear the whole time’
and she sort of brushes him off a little like ‘i can handle myself’ etc but like she also genuinely thanks him for looking out for her
and he just ‘i know i’m bein’ a little protective, but i want ye to know that we wouldn’t put you out there if we thought you weren’t ready.’
and so she goes on the mission and its all fine and they’re like even trading some witty remarks as u do when there is a hot scottish man talking to u on bluetooth
but then something goes Fucking Wrong like something very not anticipated and merlin is having to deliver like very tense instructions like? i don’t even necessarily see it as a high action moment, it’s more like some intensely close call where her cover gets blown?
which then probably ends with a fight tbh and at that point like merlin is sort of stiffly listening to it all go down? but he doesn’t say anything for fear of distracting her
and like he knows she’ll be fine she can hold her own they chose her for a reason but he also doesn’t know that, so he just sort of waits until the sounds die out and she just is like breathing so heavily and then; ‘...merlin?’
and he snaps right to attention (no time for emotion, amirite ladies?) and is sort of intense and almost business-y? just like ‘i’m extracting you immediately–– are you injured, can you make it to the rendez-vous point?’
and when she finally gets back they probably take her to the med bay or whatever its called and maybe shes got some minor injuries or something a little more serious but it’s not enough that she’s passed out or anything
and merlin kind of ambles in and sits beside her bed and just ‘agent gawain. i’m glad yer all right’ (i use gawain as the codename bc... it sounds so good w/ the scottish accent like fuck me uppppp)
and she just sort of looks at him and yanks him down by the tie or collar or what have you (i like to think his lil shirt-tie-sweater combo is a regular thing, so lets say tie) and plants one on him
and lbr kingsman has.... so little staff so no one sees like the fucking med staff probably went home why do we never see any staff???? vaughn explain
and they pull away and he sort of blinks once or twice and just ‘i wasn’t expecting tha’....’
‘but it was a wonderful surprise’ and he’s just grinning because FINALLY
