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“I don’t do serious,” Bond tells him, leaning up on one elbow in bed. Q is pleasantly drowsy, trying to figure out how to politely kick a trained assassin out of his flat so he can get some real sleep. This wakes him up; he cuts his eyes over to Bond. He’s not joking. Q wants to sigh but that’ll just ruffle Bond’s feathers and he’ll be here even longer.
“I’m aware,” Q settles on. “This must be against regulation anyway, isn’t it?”
His quick, emotionless acquiescence seems to take Bond by surprise. Q imagines he’s built this all up in his head, Q pining for him and him nobly telling Q that the most they can ever be is an occasional fuck, etcetera, etcetera.
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Bond doesn't do love. Q is absolutely fine with that. -
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Bond runs his hand over the lock of the gun case. “It’s the best thing they’ve done in decades, making you Quartermaster of this place.”
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A re-imagining of SPECTRE in which Q comes up against the perils of Smart Blood and workplace politics.
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03 Jul 2022
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“Q watches, in the darkness and the dawn, as Bond leaves them behind.
Perhaps he ought to be more angry about it, but he remembers the way it had felt to hold a gun. To see metal tear through a human body. To hear the repugnant sound of a life ending, the unnaturally heavy slump of a human body as it hit the floor. The bullet had taken a part of Q with it. After all that, he cannot blame Bond for walking away with the parts of himself that remain.
He is more annoyed about the car, because surely it is obvious what it was, really. Moneypenny had once teased him about it.
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Well, Q supposes not all love letters are meaningful because they are reciprocated. Some are just beautiful in and of themselves, for the purity of their feeling and the elegant craft of their prose.”
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time won't go slowly by afterplaidshirtdays
Fandoms: Little Women (2019), Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott
09 Jul 2020
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When her seat always used to be next to his, it’s an awful sensation to be told it isn’t anymore.
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The Impossible Cost of Happiness by Syvaysae
Fandoms: Little Women Series - Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (2019)
29 Sep 2020
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"I’m sick of being told that love is all a woman is fit for. But... I am so lonely."
Jo struggles to reconcile two halves of herself.
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Q examined the half-smoked cigarettes littering the ground beneath him, his eyes tracing the orange paper wrapped around perfectly round filters. Bond’s custom cigarettes had small wrinkles at the ends, giving them the expensive feel of a unique creation. He missed them, but corner store tobacco would just have to do.
“I thought I’d find you here.”
Q dragged his gaze up to look at the face of the man speaking to him. He couldn't stop his hands from shaking, but it was a cold evening.
“You started smoking again?”
“I don’t know, James. What do you think?”
“I think you have bad taste in cigarettes."
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03 Feb 2026
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I like how, by the end of this, they win and they make it out and it’s by all metrics a “happy ending,” and yet there’s still something sad about it. Bond never fully thaws, and I’m not sure Q knows how to be happy. Interesting take on these characters, I think.