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00Q au edit for @ironpe: pre-MI6 relationship
AU where Q and James had a relationship before James was recruited to MI6. After a hasty recruitment, James disappears suddenly, ordered not to contact anyone from his past life, including his lover, the man who would become Q. He's pronounced dead from a botched Naval mission that never happened, and Q goes on to search for him tirelessly for years. Until, one day, they finally meet again, as agent and quartermaster.
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After one particularly close call, James decides enough is enough. If he can die at any moment, he'd rather do it without any more regrets adding to the pile. So when he goes to return his equipment, he ignores R completely, marches into Q's office and stands right there, locking the door behind him.
Q's mouth opens, but James beats him to it. "I'm not leaving."
"007," Q sighs. "Unless the world is actively imploding, I have nothing to say to you. Kindly return your equipment to your designated handler."
"Alright, Q, you don't need to talk. I only need you to listen to me."
Q stands up, arms folded. Though his demeanor seems guarded, James notes the excessive blinking and the clench in his jaw. "I don't want to listen to any of your excuses, 007."
"No excuses, Q. I'm here to apologize." James lets out a rumbling breath. He can practically hear the grief and regret rattling in his bones, he's tired. "I shouldn't have left like I did. I've broken rules before, could've easily snuck away to contact you. Truth is, by the time I could, I had so much blood on my hands, I couldn't risk staining you. Every day since I've hated myself for hurting you. I'm sorry."
The moments stretch out between them silently, until it's suffocating. When Q finally does break the silence, it's with a whisper. "I thought you died. I've committed treason several times over, hacking into government records just to find you. I didn't want to accept you were dead."
Q looks up at him for the first time, eyes wet. "I grieved you, James, and to find out that you've been alive this whole time--"
James moves closer, but Q holds his hand up to keep him at bay.
"-- and not only that, but to find out you've moved on." Q swallows thickly. "I know about Vesper, James. Do you know what it says in your file?"
He does.
"You almost retired for her. So I suppose I never mattered enough for you to give all this up."
James sighs, defeated. "What can I do to earn back your trust?"
"I don't know if you can." Q hugs himself tightly. "And if you could, this is not the way to do it. You can't just barge in here and ask for things to go back the way they were! This isn't something you can fix with an apology!"
"I know that. I'm not trying for a quick fix, Q, I'm in this for the long run. Whatever it takes, however long it takes, I want to earn your forgiveness, please."
The last word softens Q, the fight dissipating from his posture. "I'll think about it. For now, put what's left of your kit on the table and fuck off."
James nods once, taking the small leather case from his suit pocket and placing it on the desk. "Thank you, Q."
With that, he leaves.
Q opens the case to reveal a gun, radio and electronic lock pick, all fully intact. Despite his better judgment, his battered heart skips a beat.
#00Q#007#quartermaster#james bond#00Qedit#happy momf bebby#buzzer beater lmao#au edit tag#snippet lifted almost fully from the one we wrote together#except the shitty ending because once again i ran out of steam
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I love to write them angrily in love with each other
Whether it's Johnlock or 00Q or Eruri or Maylor, I find I write them best when they are each other's biggest adversary along with being the one great love of their lives.
#johnlock#eruri#00Q#maylor#also obsessed with writing them in historical AUs wth#and omegaverse#WHUT
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I made a moodboard for one of this week's @mi6-cafe Moodboard March themes! This is for the theme "refuge," and it's also a moodboard for the 00q "The Last of Us" AU that I'm currently writing! 👀
The quote in the upper right corner is from "The Conditional," a poem by Ada Limón.
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Can you recommend 00Q fanfics that gave you diabetes and made your teeth root.
1. come a lily, come a lilac by pdameron (@slverjohn)
“Most people just pick whatever flower they think is prettiest. It doesn’t require a lot of input from me.”
The man walks up to Q, leaning against the counter between them. “Well then, what can I do to get your input?”
(In which Q runs a flower shop, and his newest regular is almost definitely a spy.)
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i squealed so hard reading this fic. 10/10 would recommend
2. On the Care and Maintenance of Quartermasters by Tokyo_the_Glaive (@tokyotheglaive)
Q gets sick just as Bond’s about to be shipped to Islamabad. Bond just wants Q to get better (and possibly fall for him).
(Or, the one where Bond decides that the perfect moment to woo Q is when he’s home sick.)
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caring!bond owns my heart fkhlahfdslh
3. Third Valentine’s the Charm by Castillon02 (@castillon02)
The first time, Bond was in Rio from 3 to 16 February, and between him and 003 in Kiev, Q didn’t even think about Valentine’s Day until he was browsing the half-priced chocolate at his local Waitrose.
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v-valentines day TT i love fictional v-days so much
#00q#00q fanfiction#00q fic#00q fanfic#00q fic recs#00q fic rec#valentine's day fic#sick!q#sick q#sick fic#fluff#flower shop au#protective james#oblivious q#oblivious!q
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Bond/Q
Characters: Q (James Bond), James Bond
Additional Tags: Remix, One Shot, Missing Scene, Fluff, Slice of Life, Food and Travel, Vacation, Banter, Bickering, Developing Relationship, Idiots in Love, Q Loves Tea (James Bond), James Bond Loves Eggs, OMG I Wrote Fluffy 00Q, MI6 Cafe Riverhouse Remix Challenge 2023, Community: MI6 Cafe | mi6_cafe
Word Count: 1101
Summary:
Sometimes, cravings can’t be helped. This one, though, isn’t particularly hard to satisfy.
Before I forget about advertising it, here’s the remix I wrote for @mi6-cafe‘s 2023 Riverhouse Remix, based on Savour by @anyawen! Not exactly the first idea I had for this remix (”where is Alec???” I can hear you inquire behind your screen), but said first idea fell apart... so I had to improvise something quickly before time was up 😅 Far out of my comfort zone, not gonna lie, but still a pretty good stylistic exercice. Hope you enjoyed—or will enjoy—it, hehe.
Thanks to @samanthahirr for the beta btw (damn Sam, how do you do two remixes AND beta, that’s amazing)
#james bond#007#craig bond#q#quartermaster#00q#no alec!#europe vacation#pain au chocolat#fanfic#fluff#remix#mi6cafechallenge#riverhouse remix 2023
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The vial was smashing against his skin and James half expected to feel something - feel the nanobots crawing across his skin or working their way into his cells - before remembering this was almost dejá vù and he hadn't known the first time someone got him with the bots either.
Then, in a haze of panic, Safin was dead and Q's life was sitting in his hands. Or, more correctly, his skin and cells.
James wasn't stupid enough to miss that Q would risk death for James if it meant the spy got off the island.
Which was why he was headed for the roof.
"its.. eternal. Which is why we have to destroy it. For Christ's sake James, just get off that island."
Q's words ran together, and though his everything hurts on levels James forgot it could he couldn't think past the comfort in hearing Q's voice one last time. Vaguely, his first name registers enough to make him smile. It's been a fair few years since he's heard Q say that in that tone.
He didn't know how they had managed it. He wasn't even sure how Safin could have even started to get Q's DNA but Q's DNA he had had and now James was infected with it and he didn't plan to run away again.
Grabbing at leaver for the ladder to the roof, James was already set in his decision. He wouldn't be the one to let Safin strike a blow at the heart of MI6, but he wasn't going to leave again. Not now he had finally gotten Q to talk to him in person again, not now James had finally gotten to kiss him again, not since Q had cancelled his date for him.
"It's harmless, unless you're near to the target."
And oh boy did Q not know how bad those words were. He was close to the target, very close to the target. Close enough James wanted to kiss the target, to cook the target dinner and pull the target close on bad days.
He chuckled softly, maybe too soft for the earpiece to pick up. "Yeah.. well that's not gonna work."
He wanted to tell Q so many things. He wanted to kiss the man under the winking stars and listen to him ramble about his work. He wanted to banter with him, smile at the jibes and make jokes crude enough to make his branch cringe.
The ladder falling hurt his ears and simultaneously he barely heard it over the thuming drum of his heart in both his throat and head.
He wasn't sure what conclusion Q would draw from it all, but he hoped it wasn't the truth. Let Q think James moved on years ago, let Q think James was nothing more than his friend and let the man grieve with dignity instead of with pain.
(Q would grieve with pain anyway, sobs wracking his body night after night as he grieve the man he lost and all they never could have been. He grieved thinking James loved Madeline, and that his own love had remained unrequited for all those years.)
"Oh god, oh god... it's for Madeleine."
James didn't correct him.
The metal lever was cold in his hand and the climb up the icy metal rungs sounded like the worst thing in the world in that moment, but if he was going to die James wanted to face his death head on, and see the sky one more time.
"It's alright Q."
He began to climb.
"It's all alright."
#00Q#NTTD#NTTD AU#definitely not a fix it#angst#so much angst#Poisoned Love AU#fanfic#james bond#q#lyutsifer safin#writing#cal writes chaos
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If I Risk It All (Could You Break My Fall?)
“This is Buck,” Bobby said when Buck’s tongue refused to unstick from the top of his mouth. “Your new quartermaster.”
Eddie’s eyes— brown with just a glint of green if you caught them in the right light— widened before he scanned Buck with another sweeping assessment.
“You’re—”
Buck had heard it all before. “Not all of us nerds are the skinny kids that used to get picked on in high school.”
aka 00Q!Buddie AU.
Read on Ao3
Rated: E | Multi Chapter | Chapter 2/12
Banner edit created by @mellaithwen thank you!!
#911fic#evan 'buck' buckley#eddie diaz#buddie#buddie fic#00q!buddie#spy eddie diaz#quartermaster evan buckley#Spy AU#911 fanfic#911 on fox#evan buckley#my fic writing#royal fic writing
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one last line
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Bond/Q
Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond)
Word Count: 1,535
Summary:
There was a real smile on Q’s face now, however small. He touched James’ head, fingers so light James only felt the ghost of their touch. Only he would be kind enough, or easy to bully enough (and weren’t the two one and the same, really?) to look after a feral cat and consider the bloody animal letting himself get pet two weeks later a gift.
In which James has been turned into a cat and takes it upon himself to comfort a forlorn Q, however begrudgingly.
Remember that cat!bond AU I posted about a while back? I cleaned it up and built it out and now it (or at least part 1) is up on AO3 🎉
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"Missing chances of love, who's more unfortunate than me?"
Mr Q's Series of Misfortunes
Pianist!Q inspired by E先生連環不幸事件 by Edan Lui, a very good song with an insane piano solo
#quartermaster#q#james bond#007#Pianist AU#Ben Whishaw#watercolor#art#fan art#Bond fandom#00Q#artists on tumblr
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out of curiosity, has anybody else come to the realization of the simply immaculate number of possibilities that would accompany a jegulus bond au?
#and by that i mean#00Q#like Potter James Potter#and quartermaster rab#i am buzzing rn#so many possibilities#please tell me something like this exists otherwise I may need to write it myself ugh#jegulus#marauders#marauders au#Sirius would obv be a double O#i need to rant at someone please
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h e l l o w o r l d !
#007#q#quartermaster#james bond#00q#my art#sketch#artificalintelligence#ai#ai q#00q ai au#i actually tried at this one :’)#james bond x q
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00Q edit for @ironpe: demon!Q kidnapped
James gets the call at six in the morning, just a couple hours since he dragged himself out of the proverbial fire and back into the frying pan, the frying pan being the hotel room Q had secured for him for his post-mission wind down. Tanner's voice is haggard and grave on the other end of the line but James is not surprised. In fact, he'd been expecting something like this.
It had been years since he'd felt exposed, Q's power had been a reassuring companion in that time, but as he was escaping away on his motorcycle earlier that evening, an unease crawled up his back. He felt unprotected, a figurative shield sliding like water off his back. It was one thing to not have Q in his ear, but to not feel his presence at all was a different kind of vulnerability altogether. It was unnerving.
And so, he had been waiting for this call.
Tanner's voice washes over him as he relays details of Q's abduction, how they did it, who the assailants were and what they want in exchange. James listens idly, cleaning his guns almost on auto-pilot until he catches the only piece of information that matters to him: Q's estimated location. Finally given the scent, James goes on the hunt.
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Q had been to church only once in his long and weary existence. It had been to tempt a priest. Having just been recently deployed to Earth, he was a trainee still. His supervisor had given him a list to accomplish: a tour of the classics, and what could be more stereotypical than convincing a priest that a few coins in his pocket was well-deserved. (After all, he took care of his flock so the flock should take care of his needs.)
What his supervisor failed to mention though was that temptations like those were best served via whispers in the wind at night while Q himself stayed right outside the window, because stepping onto consecrated land was excruciating. No, Q learned that lesson the hard way, and that pain is seared onto his memory forever, second only to Falling.
It's that same pain that's now coursing through his being, rendering him helpless on the floor of the abandoned church this terrorist group has chosen to hole up in. An outside observer would attribute his current state to the admittedly harsh beating he's been taking at the hands of their interrogator. But honestly, the blood and bruises are misleading. Endless punches and low level electrocution are nothing compared to the thrum of heaven in his bones, trying and failing to purify his wretched soul over and over again.
Finding a moment to think seems impossible and yet his mind eventually fights through the haze of pain and crawls its way toward James. He wonders how his little investment is doing. With Q incapacitated like this, his protective wards over James will surely be down. Q had inconveniently left him vulnerable during a crucial part of his mission, not that he had much choice. He hopes the madman hasn't gotten himself prematurely blown up, though it would be hilarious if he did. Maybe they can laugh about it together back in hell.
It's a little funny how much that thought comforts him.
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James finds them in an abandoned church in a small town just outside Paris. Operatives like him are often referred to as ghosts. Terrifying yet unseen, taking enemies out quickly and quietly and then disappearing just as silently. Not this time though. This time, James is a demon. A furious tempest sent to rain down fiery judgment against those who have sinned.
He moves from room to room, searching, killing, no words, no hesitation. No need to interrogate anyone, he'll find Q when they're all dead. It doesn't take long, not with a vengeful double-oh on mission.
James opens the last door, down to the small catacombs, shoots the last two men and finally sets eyes on Q, sitting limp and lifeless in a corner.
"Q!"
He crouches down next to him, one hand coming up to check for a pulse on instinct. There isn't one. Q didn't need one, but James knows he likes to keep up appearances.
When he carries Q out of the church, there's a lump in James' throat as he looks down at the frail, bloody creature in his arms. Q may have damned him all those years ago, but they've also spent those years together, building a strange kind of trust amidst all the danger and death and bickering. He always wondered why Q didn't just let him die the moment he signed his contract, but also protected him, shared his power with him, and allowed him to do good. Now, he fears he may never get the chance to ask.
Numb, he trudges past the all the blood and the bodies, as he makes his way into the surrounding forest where he'd stashed his car. He walks past the fence, each step crushing overgrown grass underfoot getting heavier and heavier until James concedes and kneels down on the ground.
"Am I supposed to pray?" He bites out a bitter laugh, looking heavenward. "Is that what you want?!"
"No, you dolt," comes the hoarse whisper. "Just get me away from this place and I'll recover."
James gasps in relief, eyes watery as he holds Q tighter against his chest. "You prick, I thought you'd died."
"Oh, James," Q wheezes out. "I never knew you cared."
"You know what? Neither did I."
#00Q#007#quartermaster#james bond#00Qedit#happy momf bebby#au edit tag#im so sorry for the rushed ending i ran out of both time and braincells#i hope you still like it#technically this same edit can just be regular old kidnapped Q#but i know you like the demon au we made together#demon Q
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James' lovers leave him with scars and not only the emotional ones. He learns it pretty early, when he and Alec start having sex and then he stabs James in the leg and leaves a two inches long white line that doesn't ache after the first month of painkillers. Alec is the first of a long line of memorable little scars he sometimes forgot his body it's home to. Vesper goes away with a neat little thing around his thumb, Camille leaves him with a decoration around his ankle, Silva isn't his lover but leaves something behind too, imprinted in his left pectoral it's a vague form that, in bad days, seems like an S and in good ones it's just a shadow. His step-brother leaves him stuck in bed for two months, a white and pink spot on his right temple, constant headache and the ability of loosing time when least convienet. James almost looses his job because of Franz but he retires, runs away, before M can demande a psychological evaluation plus a physical one just to be sure. What Madeline leaves behind is a sunburn, at the beginning, because they forgot sunscreen, heartache not even three days later and another scar around his left knee. When he's on a plane for Jamaica he asks himself why they can't all leave his fucking knee in peace.
James learn fast how lovers leaves him with scars before, or after, trying to kill him. He learns to forget about it and can't recognise the white lines on his body most of the time. He has do many of them everywhere that how could someone pretend to know even the smallest ones?
Q doesn't leave, nor tries to kill him. A year pass and then another and, before he realises their fifth anniversary comes around and James xab't almost believed it. Q doesn't leave scars on him and he kisses his body with the same reverence and attention he puts in his work. He doesn't ask about the whys and the whats or the hows and helds him against his chest when is James the one who wants to talk.
Q doesn't leave scars behind or really never leaves him but his cats try, and sometimes succeed, to drain as much blood out of him as they can. Q kisses that stretches with the same adoration but only laughing a little when it happens.
#james bond#previous lovers#pre-movies#casino royale#quantum of solace#skyfall#SPECTRE#no time to die#au#tw: scars#Q#00Q#q's cats are the worst#they love james a little to much lol#not tagging all the relationships sorreh#alec follows the destiny of his character in bosnan(??) verse#sorry alec#bisexual james bond#in some ways q is a new aspect of love painful but for all kind of different reasons and no one of them physically hurt him#otp: a big bloody ship
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In the last hour I have somehow ended up with an entire moodboard of apocalyptic poetry, so it looks like we're actually doing the thing*, folks. 😬
*the thing
#00q#tlou#my fic#the last of us AU#maybe I'll share some of the poems I have bookmarked as inspo at some point#if anyone would like that
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00q fic recs: soulmate au pt 3
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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one of my fav fics of all time
#00q fanfic#00q fanfiction#00q angst#00q fic#00Q#00q fic recs#00Q fic rec#pining!James#pining james#pining james bond#pining!bond#pining bond#q's name#soulmates#soulmates au#soulmate au
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okay i posted the first chapter of my 00q star trek au ehehehehe
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