Stuart Thomas

“Easy. Yesterday. Three words: banana cream pie.”

Kaitlyn laughed, “No, I mean … when was the last time you really did something for yourself? And I don’t mean getting dessert. What I mean is, I think you’ve been working too hard. You could use a break. You deserve to do something for yourself.”

Stuart laughed, “Is that the nice way of saying you think I’m burned out?”

She shook her head, “No, that’s my way of saying: you’ve proved yourself and now you deserve this. Take the day off.”

He raised an eyebrow, “I don’t think anywhere here does “days off”. When’s the last time Walters took a vacation?”

Kaitlyn grinned, “Never. And you see how he’s turned out.”

“Okay, okay. Point taken. I’ll take tomorrow off and … do a day trip somewhere or something.”

“Good.”

“But: there’s one condition.”

“Yes?”

Two down, one to go…

Kaitlyn let out a breathy sigh as she watched Bijou wander away from her office. The woman had been exceedingly kind during their introductory interview. Almost too nice, if Kaitlyn was to be honest with herself. One look at her new quartermaster and Bijou had switched from quiet respect to almost manic mothering. She had promised to bring Kaitlyn all sorts of things to help her ‘get settled’ because ‘surely she needed a guiding hand here.’

This was all going to be a lot more difficult than she had anticipated.

Thankfully there was only one more agent of hers to meet today, and then she’d be able to just go home and rant to Malcolm about how terrible first days always were.

Then again, the Agents Gidding and York had invited her out for drinks after work as a sort of welcome-party. Perhaps it would be better to go with them. The girls seemed nice, not to mention rather extraordinary, even by MI-6 standards. A small smile crossed her face as she leaned back and quietly imagined what a real life with real friends and stability would be like. It had been so long…

Slowly Kaitlyn pulled herself from her daydream in order to glance at her watch.

"Hmm… Agent Thomas was supposed to be here five minutes ago." She murmured, pulling out his file to check and see if lateness was a trait she’d have to watch out for.

But Stuart wasn't so blinded by this praise to realize that when 0011 said that "Agent Thomas is long over do for his first solo run", that what he meant was "if you pair me with this bloody idiot again ..." 

But this opportunity, earned or not, was not one he was going to waste.

"Shit! Shit, shit, shit!" 

The red alarm clock stared back at him, the blinking 12:00 mocking him as he bounced out of bed, grabbing his discarded pair of jeans off the floor. 

And there he was, twenty-seven minutes later: sliding Breakfast Club style through the halls, jacket still in hand as he straightened his tie, all the while trying to ignore the stares he was getting from his fellow agents as he passed them in the halls. As though he needed another reason for them to think he was only good for comic relief. 

Not for the first time, he noted how he didn't look like any of the other agents. Bond with his suits, Jackie Giddings dressed in black, and Marcie York in red. And there was Stuart: looking like a hipster math teacher.  

He paused outside of K's office, slipped on his jacket, fixed his hair, and caught his breath. Maybe she'd think he was 

"Hey," Stuart said, waltzing into K's office. "You're the new Quartermaster, right?" He asked, plopping down into the chair across from her desk, propping his feet up on the desk. It was a spur of the moment thing: as though acting like he had more confidence would actually give it to him, but all it did was make him feel like a stupid ass when he accidently knocked over a picture frame and a jar of pens.

Like haha, what if Stuart knows Malcolm? The boy she’s friends with from Liverpool who basically got her into MI-6 by hacking the systems, and then all of a sudden Malcolm calls her like: “…So. Um. There might be someone at MI-6 to watch out for? Apparently my mate Stuart? Yeah, totally an agent there. Ah… That might be a slight problem as I may have mentioned something about all of this to him when we went out for drinks?!”

And Kaitlyn is just sitting there with her face in her hand like: “You bloody idiot… Please tell me you at least put him in a place where I can keep an eye on, or better yet, control him?”

"Of course, I’m not a total wanker. He’s going to be one of your agents now…"

….NOW THIS IS THE STORY ALL ABOUT HOW…. XD

But basically I’m saying that’d be gr8. Kaitlyn needs a little boost to keep her cover anyway. Stuart could be her non-paper-trail qualifier.

Also oh man, I feel like Stuart would feel like important and bad ass that he knows something the rest of the agents don't, hee. (even though he's doing something wrong he justifies this b/c he knows that Kaitlyn would be a top notch quartermaster anyway so where's the harm)

And I think it also would help their relationship that I see Stuart as a fairly open person? Because that’s something Kaitlyn admires in people, especially as she deals so much in shades of grey, trying to juggle the persona she keeps in order to make sure she gets the life she’s dreamed of. And I think Kaitlyn that while might shake her head and laugh at Stuart sometimes, I think she also would want to see him succeed. So she would push him a lot, make sure that he gets on his feet and gets himself together.

Stuart Thomas | FC: Justin Bartha | Reserved for Lizzy

Agent 005 → Current target: Dominique Green

Hates that he is often referred to as the “funnyman” of the 00 Section. Wishes he could ‘prove’ himself to the other agents, and hopes that this, his first mission without a partner, will allow Stuart to show off just how bad-ass of an agent he really is.