#pining!james

1. Where to Start by samanthahirr (@samanthahirr)

Bond hasn’t visited Q Branch in two weeks…not since Q drove him off with that reckless kiss.

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ack the ending!!!!

2. my house of stone, your ivy grows by cicer 

As far as colleagues go, James Bond is irritating, fascinating, and puzzling. Q likes him quite a lot...but only as a colleague.

Only as a colleague, of course. Because the thing is, Q's already got a fiancé.

(In which Q is in a committed relationship with a lovely man, but regrettably, James Bond exists.)

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the angst!! i scream

3. phantom by AtoTheBean 

"Q, do you believe in ghosts?” “Ghosts? No of course not,” he dismisses. “Do you?” Bond just shrugs, turning onto Q’s street. “I never did, but I’ve killed a lot of people.”

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"Jesus Christ! Just hop off my dick for once! You're not entitled to know everything I'm feeling!" Lily, furious at this point and embarrassed at her outburst, hit the chair to emphasise her point. While James wasn't allowed to pick at her emotions the way he did, she knew her tantrum was more in reaction to her unreturned feelings for him. She was frustrated that he had charmed her into falling for him and then proceeded not to care. While it was unfair to blame him for her emotions, she needed an outlet, and accusing him was the next best thing.

James just looked at her, angrily breathing heavily through his nose. He was clenching his jaw, a trait that Lily found so damn attractive, making her even more upset. Sexual frustration was the last thing she needed.

"Right, well, if you're just going to yell at me, then I think I should leave. We're tired. Goodnight, Potter," Lily stated, knowing that this conversation wasn't going to go anywhere. She put her hand on the door handle to open it to leave.

"Wait, Lils," James said, suddenly not upset anymore. He lurched across her and pulled the door shut, hand over hers on the handle. Lily looked at his hand on top of hers and then looked up at him, calmer under his touch. He was rubbing his thumb over her hand. The hostility was suddenly forgotten.

1. whistle and i'll be there by cicer

Two years after the events of SPECTRE, James Bond is living peacefully in Jamaica. He's adjusted to civilian life, sorted out a few of his personal demons, and spent a lot of time pretending he doesn't have any particular regrets.

But a sudden accident forces him to realize that he still has some unfinished business with a certain person back in London. Maybe it's time to get that sorted out.

(In which Bond is repeatedly subjected to the horrific, torturous, mortifying ordeal of being known...but does, in fact, end up with the rewards of being loved.)

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fhsakhf the mundanity of the accident but the enormity of its result for bond1!11!!1!

2.  as permanent as stone cathedrals by pdameron (@slverjohn)      

Q has been in love for two years, six months, and twelve days when James Bond walks away, leaving him with a bleeding head and a broken heart on a dark and noisy London bridge.

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i screamed when bond thought he was too late

3. questions & quarrels by Mlle_Heloise              

When Madeleine returns with Bond to the Pevsner Hotel to find room 12 empty, she starts to see a different side of him. She isn’t sure at first what she has walked into, but after a series of questions and quarrels, Madeleine starts to see everything for what it is.

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In The Night Away We'd Fly by blackidyll (@blackidyll)

"People are starting to talk," Bond says, "about the young man who prefers the company of the dead in a deserted cemetery than the living, breathing villagers in the tea rooms that Millet prides itself on."

"I thought a gothic mystique fits in quite well with the image of a writer," Q replies. "Or did you have something else in mind when you professed me a poet?"

"I always associate you and your laptop with your office or lab, so – cluttered desk space, dim room lightning with only a single lamp on to illuminate your work, and a mug of tea for company. This—" Bond tilts his head to indicate the cemetery around them "—is a world apart from that environment."

"Is it?" Q smiles. "I find the solitude quite similar."

(When MI6 sends Q to the countryside for his own protection against Spectre's retaliation, it is not so much a short-term undercover assignment as it is a glimpse of an alternate life that Q could have had – just with the additional presence of one meddlesome Double-O agent).

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fake relationship for official business is probably one of my fav tropes for them

2. Homemaking by SylvanWitch

Undercover as Bond's lover to root out a mole in MI-6, Q discovers that there is more to James Bond than sex and violence. Unfortunately, Q ends up with far more experience of the one than the other as they find themselves out in the cold, unable to trust anyone from the home office, and relying only on each other to uncover the identity of their deadly opponent.

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character development AND betrayal!!!

3. Forget The Plan (Apparently) by SolarMorrigan (@solarmorrigan)

Bond and Q go undercover as a couple in order to get some information. Some creative problem solving takes place

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1. Heartlines by potentiality_26                

 Oh, to have been matched with an accountant somewhere, Q would absently think as Bond crushed an extremely expensive communications device under his heel and took a woman with this or that piece of information to bed.

 “If she stabs him,” Q would observe through gritted teeth.  “It’ll serve him right.”

Q and Bond are soulmates.  Between Q's family and Bond's... everything, it isn't as simple as it sounds.

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this fic slaps so hard and its exploration of family dynamics is chef’s kiss

2. Quanker Anustickle Iggywumpus III by reallyneedsalife           

James suspects that Q is his soulmate. All he needs is Q's name. He goes about it, however, in a rather roundabout fashion.

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dajhfak bond wtf

3. Evelyn by Tokyo_the_Glaive (@tokyotheglaive)

Evelyn.

That’s the name that appeared on Bond’s skin when he was about twelve and a half.  He hadn’t expected to get one at all—the name of one’s soulmate rarely appears so late—but for days after the letters emerge from under his skin, he stared at them as best as he could.

The name wasn’t hard to see.  It was written on his chest, just down from his left shoulder.  He would trace the letters as a child and wonder.

“Evelyn,” Kincade said.  “I’m sure she’s a very pretty lady, eh?”

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1. Heartkiller by Celyan               

 There were days — rare as they were — when Q was busy but not dreadfully so, when he was able to include a prototype in need of field testing into an agent’s kit and expect to have it returned in good condition after the mission ended, and when he didn’t need to despair over what went on the comms and how to explain those conversations to M, or even worse, Eve.

 This was not such a day.

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you gotta love the tried and true method of asking out via mission souvenirs

2. Sugar by withered (@everything-withered)

Contrary to popular rumour, it doesn't start with the kitschey souvenirs snatched from various locales around the world.

It starts because Q rolls his eyes, and drawls, "Am I to your satisfaction then, Mr Bond?"

And that's it. That's how it starts.

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sfhjaskjfh accidental sugar daddying

3. That's Not Tea! by SammyWrites               

Prompt from @christinefromsherwood on tumblr: 00Q, both smitten, Bond brings Q an especially mixed blend of herbal tea as a souvenir from a mission, Q loves the present! it smells divine! he could kiss this beautiful thoughtful agent! only problem: once brewed, that stuff is VILE! and Bond keeps fishing for compliments, asking him if he likes it!

This was such fun to write!

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This one:

Title: Summer of ‘81 Author: snapslikethis Rating: M Genre(s): Romance Chapters: 1 [Abandoned] Word Count: 4,409 Summary: After her mother’s passing, Lily returns to childhood hometown and, for lack of anything better to do, opens a tattoo shop. James and his mates, working for the Order, are glad to find a small, nondescript town where they can lay low. When he passes by her shop, however, an old memory resurfaces, and they both realize this might not be as simple as they’d intended. Tattoo shop au.