#waterverse

When James Bond and Q (Rembrandt “Remy” Holmes) married in my WaterVerse series, they decided rather quickly that they wanted to have children.  With the assistance of one of Q’s minions who offered to be their surrogate, little Miranda Ceit (Mir) was the first to come along.  She has her Da’s blonde hair and icy blue eyes, but was blissfully spared his ears.  Five years later saw the arrival of twins Andrew Oliver and William Aleksandr who are the spitting image of Q.  The Holmes’ genes breed true, for better or for worse. And though James and Q have nearly forty years combined experience taking out some of the worst criminals and terrorists the world had never known -- Blofeld and Silva and Carver and White and Le Chiffre and even that pompous git, Auric Goldfinger -- 007 (retired) and the Quartermaster of His Majesty’s Secret Service frequently find themselves out manned and out gunned by three littles under the age of eight. One of the greatest changes in their lives, however are the things that pop out of their mouths in response to the things that wee Mir, Drew, and Will do on a regular basis.  Q once thought, “002 do be sure not to drop the exploding banana peeler into the tank of weaponised piranha.  It’s essential to your mission, and I will make you go after it,” was the strangest thing he’d ever have to say. That was before he and James became parents.

Okay this is the family tree. Kamil is the character whose pov i'd use if i actually wrote all of it down lmao.

The grey names are dead people in the present. Hugo is not quite fully dead but he isn't alive either. Kamil is undead but more on the alive side since he was resurrected quickly.

The story centres around a theater founded by Zain and Hamza.

Hamza has powers of healing, resurrection, and hyrokinesis from the lake they live near. He passes this ability on to his nephew Hugo, then Zain forces him to use it to resurrect Angelica during plays. The trauma inflicted on the whole family from this is what the story is supposed to be about.

basically i saw this tiktok with this advice (wish I could find it but it was DAYS ago) and was like Grace does that to Norma, and does it often unless her own back is being Shit, and then thought what if she made a tiktok about it. OR WHAT IF she learned that someone in an online seminar or meeting was gonna be a parent and went into “I AM A MOM OR NEARLY MY WIFE IS ALSO PREGNANT LET ME TELL YOU-- THIS IS IMPORTANT HOLD ON, HONEYDEW CAN I BORROW YOU” Not everyon might enjoy that, everyone carries differently and this might be uncomfortable to other people idk, but Norma’s back is under some Strain bc twins.  Anyway. -gestures-

very ran out of steam towards the end xD

Four uncles, four different skill sets.

Sherlock Holmes:  Though he has grown a tad more circumspect with age, marriage, and his own parenting, Sherlock is still Sherlock.  He has limited patience for fools and is bound and determined that his niece and nephews are anything but.  He stimulates the children’s intellect and toughens their skins for if they can withstand an hour in his company, they can face just about anything that comes their way.   There is no one better, however, to help them see what others just can’t see and make connections and deductions that, at least for Mir, will save her life on more than one occasion when she is older.   

John Watson:   Wise with endless patience -- he’s married to Sherlock, after all -- he often appears as cuddly as his jumpers, but he loves and protects his family with a fierceness that rivals that of his Double-O brother-in-law.  The children adore their Uncle John and his dad jokes that are even worse than their Da’s, but it’s his ‘what is this fuckery’ attitude that allows the kids to see that sometimes, you just have no more fucks to give, and that’s okay.

Greyson Holmes:  Though only six years older than James Bond, Grey is Q’s uncle, but he sort of doubled up on the uncle duties when he married Alec Trevelyan.  Calm and steadfast, Grey, like their parents, shows the kids what it means to live in service to a cause greater than yourself.   His razor-sharp wit and sense of humour take no prisoners, however, and the kids love it when their Uncle Alec accidentally walks into a trap set by their Uncle Grey.

Alec Trevelyan:  Third father more than uncle, Mir, Drew, and Will are the children Alec never had, a notion that James and Remy have supported and encouraged from the moment James placed Mir in Alec’s arms less than an hour after she was born.  He would die for any one of them if it kept them safe.  Their presence in his life has added a layer of seriousness and responsibility to the slightly unhinged 00 persona he had cultivated for so many years out of necessity.  He is, nevertheless, the fun uncle.  The bat-shite crazy one that the kids would do anything for, and have, on more than one occasion.  Much to their parents’ dismay.

Because James and Remy know the boys didn’t get this idea from either of them!

These head canon bits for my WaterVerse series were inspired by @ato-the-bean and her prompt fill for “Things Parents Never Think They’ll Say.” Seeing as how I am a parent to fur babies, only, I hope these did your prompt justice, @ato-the-bean.

Younger than his brother by three minutes, William Aleksandr Bond, is by far the most empathetic of James and Remy’s three children.  This doesn’t mean he’s a pushover by any means.  He can’t be.  Snark and sass and fortitude are practically encoded in his DNA.  And Lord knows he gets into just as much mischief, if not more so, as the other two, but Will is quite different from his siblings.  Not five minutes after he was born, Will opened his eyes and looked at his papa who held him in his arms.  And what Remy saw in those green depths awes him to this day, for it was an ageless soul that looked back at him that night.  That looks back at him still, in those quiet moments before sleep.

Will’s empathy caused some dietary concerns when he was younger, and at one point James and Remy thought he might become a vegetarian to which Will snorted.  “And give up steak?  Umm … no.”

That wasn’t always the case …

A new story in my WaterVerse Series Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q, James Bond & Alec Trevelyan, Q & Alec Trevelyan, Alec Trevelyan/Greyson Holmes Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Alec Trevelyan, Greyson Holmes, Miranda Bond, Andrew (Drew) Bond, William (Will) Bond Additional Tags: Q (James Bond) is a Holmes, Parenting Woes, alone time, uncle Alec, Trips to the zoo, Sex, More Sex, 007 Fest, Prompt Fill Series: Part 11 of What the Water Can Carry Summary:

James and Q make the most of a rare day alone when the kids go to the Zoo with their uncles.

James and Q are all about allowing their children the opportunity to explore their interests:  academic, artistic, and athletic.  Whilst all three children are soddingly scary smart (their Uncle Alec’s term for it), Mir and Drew excel at athletics whereas Will is the true artist in the family.  Mir likes to joke that Drew, Will’s twin, couldn’t draw his way out of a wet paper bag with a machete and a guide.  Though James and Remy are wholly supportive when Will chooses to focus on his photography, no one breathes a heavier sigh of relief than Gingerbread, the cat.