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    Bond and Q agreed: their relationship was nothing more than physical. Until it suddenly isn't.

    (Or alternatively: The one in which Q gets sick, Bond takes care of him, and the truth comes out.)

    2/10/2014: Now available in French courtesy of the wonderful Belle Pimprenelle!

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Bond has lost his memory. Q has lost his love.

    "What have I forgotten?” Bond asked; Q watched him, trying to find the James he knew.

    “Nothing that you won’t work out on your own, if it’s really important,” Q said carefully, before returning every fraction of his attention to the computer in front of him.

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    29 May 2026

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    (Post Spectre)

    A despondent James returns to England alone and finds MI6 in a dire situation, with the Quartermaster at the centre of it.

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    "Remember when I nearly lost my job in my first week because you asked me to make you disappear?” James struggled to hear him through the sounds of the crowd and the muffling of the scarf.

    He tilted the corner of his mouth up, “How could I forget?”

    Q continued, refusing to face James, “And how I lied to M about the smart blood-” James hummed, keeping his eyes forward- “and how I travelled by plane to personally warn you away from chasing Spectre, only for you to ask me for ‘a final favour’, which nearly got me kidnapped in a ski lift?” James did remember. He remembered hearing from Moneypenny how Q nearly got shot, too. She hadn’t been very happy about that.

    “Are you finally cashing in?” he asked, the ball dropping. The theatrics were entirely unnecessary, though.

    Q dipped into an alley, and James followed behind him, boxing Q away from the crowd.

    “Can I trust you?” Q asked, instead of answering the question. “Can I trust you, like when you asked me to trust you, and I did, undoubtedly?”

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    28 Apr 2026

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    Q considers himself excessively lucky that he's never had to be in close quarters with James Bond for an extended period of time. But everyone's luck runs out eventually.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    “Is that all you’re going to say?” Bond asks. Q purses his lips, as if in thought.
    “They warned me about you,” he says. “What you might do.
    “Murder?” Bond asks.
    “Seduction.”
    “Ah.” Bond leans against the desk, supporting himself with one hand, in a manner that usually lets people know what his intentions are. Q looks him up and down and raises his brows.
    “Exhibit A,” Q says, and looks pointedly at Bond’s hips.
    “You can’t say it isn’t working,” Bond says.
    “No. I can’t.”

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    Love, in all of it's previous forms, has always screwed Bond over. So when he first kisses Q it's to get away from it, not to fall into it. Bond is, however, not known for his great emotional foresight.

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    04 Feb 2026