「Triggers and Sparks 」 | Harry Hart x Character OC - Book 2

Chapter 3 : Kentucky. Fried Chicken? No!

Elena and Eggsy follow Merlin as he was the only one who knew the Doomsday protocol "Hey, Elena you ok?" Eggsy asks Elena as she looks tired "In all honesty, no. I'm trying my best to keep it together at this point" She shrugs. The three stop at a winery "The hell?" She looks at Merlin who heads in immediately

"We're from Kingsman. We'd like to buy some wine please and use tasting room three"

The Clerk leads them to the tasting room and Elena takes a look around "Ok, whats next" She asks " Not one of my predecessors have ever been in this situation before, thank God. A-ha, remember this?" Merlin shows Eggsy the medal that was given to him "Yeah how could I forget?" Merlin inserts it into a wall and it opens to reveal a safe "Whatever is in that safe is the answer to all our problems" Merlin puts in the code and opens the safe, he brings out a bottle of whiskey "Is that it?" Elena walks up to Merlin looking at the bottle closer "I suppose it might be upper-class humor" Eggsy adds "I suppose so" Merlin looks at the bottle himself

"I don't get it"

"Me neither"

"No one gets it"

"What the fuck are we supposed to do now?" Eggsy asks "I think we should drink a toast to our fallen comrades" Merlin suggests "Do you mean 'getting completely wasted'?" Elena raises her brow "No" Merlin gives Elena a stern look "You're such a pussy"

"To Roxy"

"Roxy"

"Damn, that's good" Elena sets her cup down after finishing hers "To Arthur" "Arthur" The three simultaneously set their glasses down and Eggsy contemplates "Should we do one for J.B.?"

"I think we should"

"Hell yes"

~~~

After a few minutes the bottle was empty, Elena had put her head down and took off her blazer while Eggsy was leaning back on his chair and Merlin was sobbing "I should have seen it coming, Charlie, the taxi, it's all my fault" Elena perks up after hearing Merlin "No, Merlin, you have done all you could" She says standing up and tripping almost immediately but Eggsy gives her a hand for support "Yeah, without you I would've lost it a long time ago"  Elena takes a seat in between Merlin and Eggsy "I think we should drink to Scotland" Merlin tries to grab the bottle but Elena takes it away and tries to drink the last bit, Eggsy comes in and takes the bottle away one last time "I think, we've probably had enough"

"Come on!"

"I think you're right" Merlin agrees

"Merlin."

"Aye?"

"I think we're going to Kentucky."

"Fried Chicken?" Merlin asks as he cleans his glasses "I love fried chicken." He says again putting his glasses on "Yeah me too" Elena leans on Merlin

"No, proper Kentucky. Look." Eggsy shows the bottle to Elena and Merlin "You know what else I love? Country and western music." Elena falls asleep on Merlin as he sings

"Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong"

He stops half way as he sees what Eggsy meant and he nudges Elena awake

"Elena were going to Kentucky"

"What?"

~~~

“I didn’t even know this place existed” Elena says walking with Merlin and Eggsy as they try to hack into a biometric scanner “Why would they need a biometric scanner for a bunch of barrels of whiskey? Bullshit if you ask me” Eggsy comments. The three enter the building “Hang on, according to this there's a huge underground structure beneath us, and if my calculations are correct” Merlin grabs an axe and approaches a barrel “This is the entrance”

“I’m pretty sure that's just a barrel of whiskey”

Merlin ignores Elena’s comment and hits the barrel making a small hole on the wood and whiskey comes pouring out. Merlin realizes this and immediately blocks the liquid from spilling out “See?”

“Fucking hell, Merlin”

“You know, my mama… She always told me… Us southerners get our good manners from the British. I was thinking, ain't that a pity. Y'all didn't keep nothing for yourselves.”

A man enters the building catching the three oblivious agents, their heads turn to the man and Elena notices he was holding a shotgun “Hello, I’m terribly sorry if we barged in out of nowhere but we had an invitation” Elena rummages through her handbag and brings out the bottle they had “You brought it?” Merlin says in disbelief, she tries to hand the bottle to the man “Please step aside Ma’am”

“We’re from Kingsman tailor shop, you may have heard of us?” Eggsy speaks up

“Oh, the Kingsman.”

“Yeah.”

“Huh. That's where y'all got them fine suits and fancy spectacles y'all got on?”

“Exactly.”

“That's right.” Merlin and Eggsy say at the same time as Elena steps aside getting suspicious of the man

“Y'all look damn sharp. Let me see if I got it right, here. You want me to believe that it's normal for a tailor… to hack through an advanced biometric security system… with nothing but a little bitty old watch on? I can promise you… that dog don't hunt. So why don't you go on and get down on your knees… And tell me who you really work for.” Elena looks at Merlin and Eggsy who share glances and she realizes what they’re gonna do “I’m left with idiots” She whispers as Merlin removes his hand from the hole on the barrel letting it spill on the ground “Goddamnit” She says trying to stop them but the man spits out a substance onto the hole sealing it shut “Ok… That was kinda cool, but kinda unsanitary too” She stops herself 

“That's 1963 Statesman Reserve. You just made it personal.” The man charges at the two and knocks Merlin out first by slamming him into the barrel and goes onto Eggsy, Elena rushes to Merlin checking he was ok and turns to the man seeing him beating the shit out of Eggsy, she runs and jumps onto the man trying to strangle him and he throws her off him, Elena lands with one leg bent and one leg stretched out “We don’t want to fight you” She stands up pulling out her gun “Well, maybe the fact that you tried to strangle me takes that back” The man says aiming his shotgun at her as well, he turns around and bends Eggsy’s arm to hit him with his own anesthesia dart “Who the fuck are you” Eggsy says passing out

Elena throws out a tiny disk onto the floor next to the man and it explodes into a puff of smoke stunning him and she sweeps his legs to make him fall down “You can fight” He comments from the floor “I would love to cooperate but you probably won't even believe me” She says standing up properly “Yeah, probably won’t” He shows that he took Eggsy’s watch and shoots an anesthesia dart at her before she realizes

“Shit”