#ballet!!

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: James Bond/Q, R/Agent Bobby Carter

Characters: Q, James Bond, Ameera Hasan, M | Olivia Mansfield, M | Gareth Mallory

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Ballet, Ballet, Q is sneaky, dancing in the dark, Bond is dramatic, and lives for the aesthetic, Prompt Fill, 007 Fest, 007 Fest 2020, composition, choreography, Team Q Branch

Summary:

Q is leaving the theatre late at night when he hears the music in the pitch black and thinks it's a ghost. When he turns around to watch, however, there's a life presoin onstage in the darkness, with just the occasional glimpse of red ballet shoes.

Well obviously. I mean. I live for these moments. You know me!

Now, there are a lot of directions we can go in here:

Canonverse: Parker didn’t just teach herself to be a thief remember. There’s Archie. And Archie is creating the perfect thief, remember. So he signs her up for ballet and gymnastics because they complement each other. Presumably with less-than-legitimate teachers because a girl like Parker would stick out even among the little devils in dance classes. But here’s the truth about the Russian school of dance in the past decade - it was the kind of thing people jumped out of windows to escape. There were, quite literally, ballet defectors. There’s a reason that the best ballet companies in the country, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre were both started by Russians. They wanted out of the soviet union. And let’s be honest. Some of the people who got out of the soviet union ended up doing. Let’s say ‘unsavory’ things. Well, Archie finds Parker one who had the training but ended up in their sort of work, and two years later, with that and the gymnastics training Parker can make it through any laser grid Archie can devise. And, well. Ballet is good training, and so one day Hardison comes home to find her in a leotard and tights and POINTE SHOES WHAT EVEN PARKER HOW DID WE NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS??? WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THIS FOR A JOB I DON’T GET IT??? but actually she’s just doing it b/c it’s good to stay in shape. 

Ballet company AU: Eliot doesn’t get up on stage these days okay. But he *was* a child prodigy and he’s an incredible choreographer. Like. He was good before he spent a few years working with Nate Ford (yes that Nate Ford, the one whose son was so promising before he got sick, whose messy divorce left his wife with his old dance company while he tried to pick up the pieces and mostly just drank a lot until a new team came together.) and after. Well. Let’s just say that he didn’t waste those years and when Nate retired with the famous Sophie Devereaux who took forever to ‘make it’ because she kept trying to do her own choreography and she’s the most expressive dancer you’ve ever seen except when she’s doing her own work (look they can’t all do choreo ok) he takes the company in fascinating directions that involve productions that include martial artists (don’t fight me, my company did them too, it happens) and for that, for the fusion dance he sometimes does get up on the stage (and then there was the one time an audience member who was mad about not making the company tried to get up on the stage and hurt parker and hardison during a pas de trois and eliot like. hit him??? and he went down? and no one asks questions so you shouldn’t either). And then there’s hardison, who is super excited about shows that use tech in cool ways, but who is also classically trained in ballet, and he and parker are a golden pair. People come from all over the world to see them perform together. You should see them dance Romeo and Juliet. It’s just. Well. WELL. Especially with Eliot’s choreography of the fight dances which everyone all over the world agrees is groundbreaking.