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Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies)
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationship: James Bond/Q
Characters: Q (Bond - Craig movies), James Bond, Eve Moneypenny, Bill Tanner, M | Gareth Mallory, Riley (OC - Q's second), Q Branch Character(s),00 Agent(s) (James Bond),Franz Oberhauser | Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Madeleine Swann, Q's Cat(s)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Gender Changes, Post-SPECTRE, Slow Build, Developing Relationship, Mission Fic, Alternate Universe, Ensemble Cast
Summary:
Someone is trying to break into her flat through the window in Q’s sitting room, and Q squints at the shadowy figure on her phone screen. There’s something familiar about that figure, the poise and grace with which the person moves, as is the angle at which Q is viewing the scene from – as if Q has witnessed this person doing something similar a dozen times before, over a surveillance camera.
Then the figure lifts her head and glances around the room, her gaze almost but not quite looking into the cameras as if she can guess where they are.
Q is out of her bedroom and down the corridor in a flash, and when she stumbles into her sitting room there Bond is.
"What the hell." It's not a question, but Q figures the way she's phrased it works well enough: What the hell are you doing, and what the hell are you doing here.
Bond flashes her a devil-may-care smile. "It's been awhile, Q."
(Canon fic, with the AU element that Bond and Q have always been ladies. In which a former Double-O agent and the current quartermaster learn to navigate the grey spaces of a relationship previously founded on professional grounds. Set after the events of Spectre; all Craig!Bond canon applies)
Written for the @00qreversebang 2016/2017, to @beili‘s wonderful artwork. Please view their artwork here as well!
This fic is completed and consists of three parts and an epilogue. It is much too long for a one-shot, which is why I've split it into multiple parts. I will be posting the remaining parts over the next two weeks. Enjoy!
