Two's company, eleven's definitely a crowd [Biffy and Eggsy]

[justdandy]

[He'd done his best to put this off for as long as possible, but he knew he could only go so long. Werewolves were a pack, they were bonded closer than family, and what that meant in more realistic terms was that werewolves were insufferable busybodies who didn't let you have a moment's peace, and were worse than over-strict parents when it came to meeting new boyfriends or girlfriends.

Biffy had managed to hold them off for a while protesting that he hadn't even been on a proper date with Eggsy, but now that they'd got several of them out of the way, there wasn't much he could do to hold the pack off any longer - especially not when he'd done the same thing to a lot of them whenever they'd met somebody.

So he'd invited Eggsy to come over and hoped to god they wouldn't all scare him off. The excitement in the house was practically palpable, this was big news. Somebody, and he's pretty sure it was his beta, even managed to pull some strings and get the pack members who were stationed abroad back on leave, so there wasn't a single pack member missing for this. It was a very long time since Biffy had ever been this serious about anyone, and the pack were treating this with all the gravity it deserved. Food had been arranged, the house was spotlessly clean, and all 9 werewolves were sitting in the large living room looking as casual as possible given that they were all as excitable as the big, overgrown puppies they were.

Biffy walked into the living room after getting ready and looked over them.]

Right... [he searched for something to pick at, but they'd all outdone themselves, every last one of them was clean, neat and well-dressed] Please don't mess this up for me. Thank you.

[The doorbell rang and Biffy suddenly tensed. One of the younger pack members sprung up to answer it but Biffy shot him a stern look and he quickly sat down again. Taking a deep breath, Biffy headed to the door and opened it]

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[justdandy]

[Feeling oddly nervous, Biffy stepped into the room and closed the door behind them, he nodded slightly but didn't say anything, waiting for Eggsy to take in the room.

The room is impeccably decorated just like the rest of the house (interior decorating is one of Biffy's passions after all), but while the rest of the house is more modern and neutral, Biffy's room is straight out of the 1800s, with a four-poster bed and vintage dresser - every piece of furniture is part of a matched set, and the colours and design of everything in the room complements each other perfectly. It looks like a showroom at a furniture store, just a hundred years in the past.

There's two doors opposite the one they entered, one leading to an en-suite bathroom and one leading to a walk-in wardrobe. The key feature, however, is the walls. There's a timeline of photographs weaving its way from one side of the room to the other, almost entirely of his pack, but there's a few other people featured as well. They start as old, faded pictures from the victorian era, well cared for and lovingly framed, ranging up to more modern photographs]

[mannersmaketh]

[Eggsy takes it all in. The style and decorations, the colors and the big bed and dresser. It's probably the nicest room he's ever been invited into, and he's been at Kingsman long enough to know a bit of the finer life than he'd ever before.

He shuffles around from area to area, pokes his head into a bathroom which gets a wide-eyed wow, and then stops in front of the wall.]

These all your family, Biffy?

[Friends, families, all that, because it was a lot of picture frames and Eggsy couldn't imagine knowing that many people that he'd care enough about to put on his walls.]

[justdandy]

Sort of... [Biffy crossed the room towards the photos, motioning at the very first one on the wall. It's clearly the oldest, and depicts a stiffly formal victorian couple with a small boy sat primly between them] This is my mother and father, it's the only picture I have of them, it was a lot more difficult and expensive to get pictures in those days of course. The rest of them... mostly pack, older members who are no longer with us and newer ones, you may recognise a few of them from downstairs. [He goes through the line, indicating certain pictures along the way] This is our old alpha, Lord Maccon, and his wife, Alexia, it's a photo from their wedding day. I did her hair. This one is their daughter Prudence and some of her friends. This one is actually a painting of Lord Akeldama, he's... [he hesitated, colouring slightly] a very old vampire. I worked for him, before I was bitten...

[mannersmaketh]

[He pays special attention to the one of Biffy's mother and father. Eggsy still finds their age difference a bit of something he has to adjust to. Not because he minds it but because he knows that Biffy is from another time altogether, and that he has experienced things Eggsy could never imagine. He just wants to be able to offer the man something new.]

S'nice you got 'em up here an' all.

[Eggsy leans in to see the old alpha better, brow furrowed.]

He's, um, not 'round anymore, yeah?

[He just happens to glance over at Biffy when he mentions Lord Akeldama, and he arches a brow.]

What's that look for? Who's he?

[justdandy]

[Biffy nodded at the question about Lord Maccon, pleased to be able to share this part of his life with Eggsy - he knew there was a lot of his life that Eggsy had missed out on, so he wants to be able to share as much of it as possible with the younger man before they start making memories of their own. There's plenty of wall space that he hopes will contain pictures of Eggsy in the future.]

He's not, there's... it's a little complicated and there's a lot that I can't say, but essentially there's a way for us to ... choose mortality so to speak, Lord Maccon had lived a long life, he wanted to grow old with Alexia, so when the time was right he left the pack to go and live out the rest of his life with her.

[When Eggsy notices the hesitation regarding Akeldama, Biffy blushes deeper. This was one thing he didn't really want to talk about, it had all been left so unfinished. It was something he'd made his peace with a long time ago, but that didn't mean it was any less awkward to talk about.]

Lord Akeldama is the man who taught me almost everything I know about information gathering, he... he is a very big part of the person I am today.

[mannersmaketh]

Yeah, no, I get that. You ain't gotta tell me everythin' and I'll understand that you can't.

[Eggsy needed the same from Biffy on occasion. Even though he knew what Eggsy did for a living, and was involved in that sometimes, they couldn't always share.]

Sounds like he was important.

[He turns to Biffy, rubbing his thumb across his cheek, over the blush. Eggsy wants to know more, he can't help it, but he's never been pushy.]

Good thing you knew 'im, else you wouldn't be the Biffy I know and care about, yeah?

[justdandy]

..he was... [there was a lot more to it than that, but it was a long story and he had no idea if Eggsy would even want to hear it, even after all this time it was hard to hide how he'd felt about the vampire and it was...maybe a conversation for another time.]

Well that's true [he smiles, leaning into the touch and wrapping his arms around Eggsy's waist] I'm not sure you'd have been quite so taken with the shy little Spanish boy I used to be.

[mannersmaketh]

[Eggsy would listen to anything Biffy wanted to tell him. He knew that the man's history was a part of him, and Eggsy would adjust to everything that came up.]

Ah, I don't believe that.

[He slips his arms around Biffy's shoulders, shifting his feet until he's pressed against the other man.]

See cause you're pretty great, and I can't imagine a you that I wouldn't like.

[justdandy]

Charmer [Biffy teases, leaning in to kiss him] I bet you wouldn't have even looked twice at me. Someone like you... I'd have had no chance.

[mannersmaketh]

I'm glad you think I'm good lookin', love, but..

[He kisses Biffy back, running his fingers through the hair at the nape of his neck.]

Would've been able to see ya, even then.

[justdandy]

[Biffy arches into the touch, letting out a soft sigh of contentment. It's a sweet sentiment, and he's glad that Eggsy takes the time to express it.]

I'm glad though, that you weren't around then... it's good to have you now, I couldn't bear to have been through losing you. [He knows, of course, that's it there, on the horizon, it's not like his immortality has exactly gone away, but he doesn't want to think about that right now]