I Spy.
Fandom: Eve
Rating: K+/T
Genre: Humor
Pairing: Various.
Summary: The 007!AU that nobody wanted.
AN: Written during my lectures on a Wednesday, so the chapters are quite short, but still, I've tried to tell some kind of story with them. MidnightandDiamonds encouraged me to post this with her kind words XD Pairings will appear throughout. Who knows what will happen? I don't. It'll be a ride. ;)
DISCLAIMER. I own nothing.
1.
Out of everyone, there is no one who can irritate agent double-oh seven quite like her quartermaster.
That's not because her quartermaster - Will, to everyone else - is a bad person. Far from it. Even at his young age, younger than Eve at a lifespan of twenty years and counting, he's good - not just a good person, but good at his job too, one of the best quartermasters that they've had in the last four decades. Well, according to Nick, anyway, who proudly sings his son's praises for all the office to hear. There had been no doubt in anybody's mind that he would be anything different, though; Nick had been quartermaster once, after all, passing down much of his knowledge to his only child, and, although MI6 positions, certainly not head of branch positions, are not hereditary things, it only made sense to everyone involved that Will be appointed his father's successor when Nick stepped down.
That being said, it hasn't stop the little midget from being as infuriating as possible, right from the moment that they had first met, which involved him ambushing her in the National Gallery (on her day off, no less, after a tediously long three-month stint in Australia), in his crumpled shirt and tie, clutching his laptop to his chest with a raised eyebrow and a "Make sure you return my equipment in one piece, double-oh seven".
That's another thing: Will cares about equipment far too much. A problem, especially when it comes to Eve, as her record of bringing back equipment from the field is a mess; she's certain that, a few times in the past two years, Will has been close to blowing a blood vessel when she's trailed back into Q-branch and dropped the two remaining parts of some hi-tech device back onto his desk (although the sight of his eye twitching for nearly ten minutes, as she went through the story of how exactly the item went through its demise, is rather quite amusing; Lily has had to kick her in the shins more than once to prevent her from laughing aloud, and giving Will the push he needs to justify strangling her from the other side of the desk). This doesn't appear to stop Katherine from pairing Will as her handler for missions out in the field, meaning that Eve still has to listen to him complaining about all the equipment she's lost him, even from the other side of the world. So, really, who can blame her if, sometimes, she accidentally-on-purpose switches off her earpiece? Even if it does send MI6 in uproar until she reappears, upon which Will would often yell something about irresponsible double-ohs and how is he supposed to do his job properly if she's determined to make his life as difficult as possible? (On particularly bad days, this is followed up by some kind of wordless screeching noise, and Eve has to gnaw at her lip to stop any laughter from escaping.)
So, yes, in summary, Will and she can get on each other's nerves to no end, better than anyone else. And, honestly, that's how she wants it to stay.