Skyfall reimagined if Q was allowed to give Silva a run for his money. Everything is the same right up until Q gains access to Silva's system. Then all hell breaks loose and Bond finds out that Q can do more than just hold his own. May eventually be part of a series but currently capable of standing alone.
There’s a first for everything.
007 is a cold-blooded killer, except when he isn’t.
Your black eyes close and you burn alive
“I kill people for the living,” Bond felt the need to remind him.
“In a slightly less literal meaning than I do, but it may be a shared trait,” Q answered.
Ash & Rust (sequel to Smoke & Chains)
Six months later, Bond and Q are still figuring out whatever this is they have between them.
Then Q's past comes into play.
Annoyance, Insults, Strenuous Chases, And Other Things That Begin With Q (genderswap AU)
“If this is how you normally dress, Q,” he says, finally approaching, “then I can see why you won’t fly: you know that customs won’t let you in the country with any of your clothes. I had no idea that the chic, art loving girl in the Louis Vuitton skirt was actually a boy.”
Q spares him a split second of a mildly annoyed look, hands never pausing, before her eyes are back on the screen in front of her. “007, if there were ever a more inappropriate time to be teasing me about having the audacity to wear pants, then I honestly cannot think of it.”
Cartography (also features 00Silva)
Q kills 007 on a Wednesday.
(Or: Five lives he could have led, and one that he did.)
We Can Eat Each Other (vampire AU)
He hefts Bond’s corpse into his arms and carries the body to the shallow grave he’d dug out in desperation. The helicopter is a twisted wreck and even with the dour cloud cover of the moors, he can’t risk daylight. Not now, not when he’s so close.
