Fic: Five Nights in Cairo - Night One

Hello, just arriving to drop some absolute filth and running away. It's chapter one of five planned, plus a companion fic god help me.

This fic owes a lot of its life to this post from Ysande, in which it's pointed out that Algy's reaction to seeing Erich again in Biggles &co is really quite outsize, and it wouldn't take a terrible leap of the imagination to think there could be a far messier history lurking behind it.

This is significantly less well researched that what I usually write but also: just close your eyes and have fun.

Title: Five Nights in Cairo
Pairing: Algy/Erich, Algy/Major Sterne
Characters: Algy, Erich, Major Sterne
Word count: c.5k for chapter 1
Rating: E
Summary: The only notable moment of the entire affair was when a tall, tanned, good-looking man with dark hair, in the uniform of a Major, had come striding up the stairs, two at a time, like a bolt of sudden lightning through the otherwise muted atmosphere of the offices. Algy followed him with his eyes, taking in the long lean stretch of his legs and the sharp, cold cut of his gaze as he scythed through the scatter of staff officers.

Major Sterne is bored. Algy Lacey is in over his head.