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    MI6 employed a broad variety of people with an equally broad array of sexual proclivities - no surprise in a place that trained and equipped international spies. Despite this openminded work environment, however, assumptions were made: obviously 007 was a hypersexual womanizer and the mild-mannered Quartermaster was asexual.

    When the reality turns out to be that 007 is ace and Q is actually into submission, life is bound to get more interesting.

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    14 Oct 2025

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    first read this in feb 2016–was keeping up while it updated but i think i got busy with school and never finished. it’s one of the first long fics i remember LOVING, and looking back, this was probably toward the start of my questioning baby ace era 🥹 crazy that it’s almost 10 years ago!

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    (The end is never the end. There's too much blood on too many hands and too many unhappy endings. Six years is a long wait for a grieving mother and a damning curse. It's time for more desperate measures. Perhaps resourcing one of the counselors - as she had watched so many do before - will prove benign. Looks like it's time to save the sole survivor.)

    Dylan wakes up in a blind panic, kicking out and falling backward off of the log bench he's sitting on. Maybe it's a bit dramatic, but in his defense, he was just being pinned down in the kitchen, about to get his throat torn out by a goddamn werewolf. Sue him for startling.

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    04 Oct 2025

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    Sylvain is six years old and in his small body he already contains a multitude of identities. Sylvain is a friend and Sylvain is a brother and Sylvain is a son and Sylvain is a fighter. Sylvain is a grin that catches on the edges and Sylvain is the sound of laughter bouncing against the walls of a room. Sylvain is sunburned freckles and Sylvain is the drop in your gut when you leap into a pond for the first time that summer.

    Sylvain is many things, some more real than others, but there is one thing he is not.

    Sylvain is not a child.

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    There were signs, Tommy knows this now. The hastily tied boots next to a dead man's exposed feet, a too-small uniform that barely kept him warm, especially as it shrunk with cold saltwater, giving him rigid posture and a small but noticeable limp on those last days. The sort of vulpine cunning as he silently directed Tommy to make sure they both looked like soldiers cast off in the first aid ship sunk at the mole, pulling themselves underwater to join the rest of the survivors. Anxious looks that said "if we look the part, we get to go home." Who knows how long he’d been trying to escape this.

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    Even without context, as always Dick is enthralling in his storytelling. “What’s happening?” Tim asks, fascinated to know what’s got Dick so animated this time.

    It’s the smallest of expressions.

    Dick blinks at him, like for a moment, he forgot Tim was there.

    Then he’s twisting in his chair to face him, eyes bright with the promise of a new audience. “Okay, so - remember how I told you about my new manager at the studio? Well get this - he made this new rule that audience members aren’t allowed to wear hats when they come to see the kids’ recitals. It’s part of the ‘audience dress code’, a thing which one hundred percent he just made up himself - ”

    Tim watches Dick attentively. He laughs at all the right points. He even lets out a small gasp when he knows it’s expected.

    And it’s good. It’s a good story, and Dick is so happy to tell it.

     

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    The frustrating thing when he gets like this is that it’s never triggered by anything real.

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