It had been three days since it had happened. Three days since their failed mission that had cost her mentor his life and left her with an unprecedented amount of guilt.

"Watch your left! Two more on the rooftop!" Percival shouted.

"I see them!" Roxy yelled back scrambling to reload her gun.

Their stakeout in an abandoned apartment building had quickly escalated to a fire fight with the drug ring in the building across the street.

"I'm out of bullets!" Roxy gasped ducking for cover under the windowsill.

"Lancelot, Percival your about to have a lot of company. They've cut the lock to the building and are heading up north stairwell!" Merlin's voice echoed in her ear.

"We're fucked!" Roxy gasped with a sinking feeling in her stomach.

"Merlin, they've got us pinned down and we're out of weapons! Are there any back ways out of here!?" Percival shouted.

"Give me a moment, I'm pulling up a route!"

"There's no time! I can already hear them coming up the stairs!"

"Got it! The east stairwell is clear and leads to the back ally! You both need to get out of there now!" Merlin yelled back!

"Lancelot go! I'll cover you!

"Will, it's suicide!"

"Roxy go now, I'll be right behind you." He promised putting a hand on her shoulder and shoving her so she'd start crawling.

Once she reached the hallway she stood and looked back at her mentor.

"Go!" He repeated and pulled a final hand grenade from her jacket pocket.

Roxy turned and sprinted down the hallway, tears welling up in her eyes as she ran.

"Keep on down the hallway, Lancelot. It'll lead you directly to the stairwell." Merlin directed.

She burst through the door and jumped the first flight of stairs when she heard the explosion. The sheer force of it nearly knocking her to the ground. Without thinking she kept going as fast as she could, down the five more flights of stairs, through the door and down the back ally. She only stopped once she was a good three blocks away from the building and was sure she hadn't been followed.

"Lancelot, the safe house is two more blocks ahead. It'll end be the beige building on the right corner."

"Percival?" She questioned slightly out of breath.

"I'm so sorry Roxy. We'll toast him once your safe."

After that everything else was a blur her walk to the safe house, the toast to her mentor and fallen colleague. Everything.

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Once she was back at the mansion Merlin debriefed her and assured her there wasn't anything she could have done to better the situation and if it hadn't been for Percival's bravery she would have died too. Before leaving her debriefing Merlin tenderly reminded her she would need to propose a candidate by the end of the week. Roxy silently nodded her head before leaving his office.

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After her debriefing she wandered the halls of the mansion for hours just trying to clear her head. But even that failed. Somehow she ended up in the training barracks. Deciding maybe this would be the place to provide some clarity, she laid down on her old bed and curled herself into a ball. She hadn't been there long before she heard the door open.

"Eggsy, I really need to be alone right now." She sighed. As usual he didn't listen and shut the door behind him. He sightly walked over to her, sat on the edge of her bed, and placed a hand on her waist.

"Rox, don't do this. Don't shut me out, I know what you're going through let me help you." He murmured and rubbed small, comforting circles on her back.

"I just don't know how to make sense of it. Or what to tell my father." She sniffed.

"Your father?" Eggsy's brow furrowed with confusion.

"Percival and my father were roomates their freshman year at Oxford. They were best friends from that point on, he was my father's best man, my godfather, my mentor. He knew me my entire life." Roxy chocked out as fresh tears started down her cheeks.

"Ah come on Rox don't cry." He pleaded.

"I'm sorry I just...it's all my fault. I missed something and it cost him his life!" Roxy sobbed.

"No Rox, nothing about this is your fault."

"Then why does it feel like it is?"

"Rox, he died for you because he loved you. You weren't Lancelot to him, you were his goddaughter and he probably thought your father losing a friend would be a lot less painful than losing his youngest daughter. He did me a bit of a favor too, because I don't know what I'd do without my favorite girl."

"You're only saying that to make me feel better." Roxy countered.

"No I'm not!" Eggsy laughed. "Come on Rox let me cheer you up. Come over tonight and we can watch some terrible movie and look over files for our next mission."

"You know just how to cheer me up don't you?" Roxy scoffed.

"Besides I think J.B's missing you too." He winked and flashed a smile at her.

"Alright fine. But on one condition." She grinned up at him.

"What's that?"

"Promise me whoever you chose as his replacement will be worthy of the role."

"I swear on my life Rox. I'll even let you chose my candidate for me." He winked at her.

"You know we aren't allowed to select other members candidates for them."

"There's my girl!" Eggsy laughed and pulled her off the bed. "Now let's get out of here" he smiled, taking her hand and leading her out of the room.

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