Twelve days of WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES?? – Chapter 1 – AtoTheBean – James Bond (Craig movies) [Archive of Our Own]

ato-the-bean:

Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: James Bond (Craig movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Bond/Q
Characters: James Bond, Q (James Bond), Eve Moneypenny
Additional Tags: MI6 Cafe, 31 days of Bond, but really 12 days of Bond
Summary:

MI6 Cafe’s challenge for December is ‘12 Days of Bond’. This is my submission, planned to be a set of 12(ish) drabble(+) chapters filling the prompts and telling a Secret-Santa story, because I haven’t written one of those yet.

Twelve days of WHY DO WE DO THIS TO OURSELVES?? – Chapter 1 – AtoTheBean – James Bond (Craig movies) [Archive of Our Own]

Childhood Friends AU Part 3

opalescentgold:

Part 1. Part 2. 

James isn’t Q. He isn’t cautious or methodical, capable of weighing up a dozen alternatives and evaluating each by their numerical value. No, James is reckless and lives for the rush of adrenaline and the roar of his heartbeat. 

For all that he’s a spy, a solider, James has always been all or nothing. He’s uninterested in half-hearted ventures, in anything so mundane as trying. What he wants, he pursues. He’s more open with his heart than Q ever was. 

(In this universe, after all, James hasn’t yet met Vesper.) 

It’s always been this way. Only, usually, Q is the one who comes up with the plan that James then fuels with his actions. But Q is oblivious, unknowing, and James is in love for all of two days before he can’t handle it. 

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