James Bond chapter 2
Bond and Swann arrived in London. After a delightful breakfast at the Ledbury, they made their way to Vauxhaul, Southwestern Central London where MI6 Headquarters was located. After showing identification, Bond made his way into the building while Swann waited patiently in the car tending to her laptop.
Bond took an elevator to the floor where M's office was located. MoneyPenny was present on the way up.
"Good morning, 007. Was the weather alright?" she asked with a look of great concern. Bond did not answer. Instead, he put on a casual carefree look of complete and utter insouciance, as he adjusted his exorbitant tie, briefly glanced at his Rolex watch, and whistled a familiar tune anyone could relate to.
"Are you alright?" asked Moneypenny, her eyes traveling aspy to Bond's apparent calm and cool apathy. The elevator finally arrived at its destination. As the door opened, Bond turned to Moneypenny, pulling a rose out of his suit pocket and presenting it to her. Moneypenny lifted the rose up to her nose and sniffed it, then giggled.
"You're as charming as ever James, and your dedicated work ethic is very commendable" said Moneypenny as she seated herself at the desk of her reception room.
"My line of duty isn't all it's cracked up to be. I assume you've heard the recent news" said Bond.
"Yes, but knowing you're still alive and well is a comforting thought. M wants to see you. We shant waste too much time. Good luck, 007" said Moneypenny, gazing into Bond's eyes.
"Thank you. Oh, forgot to mention, I did bring you another little present for your troubles. I hear your last one had a little accident in the London rain," said Bond, placing a little black cell-phone on the reception desk.
"Well James, someone's certainly in a good mood today" said Moneypenny.
"Oh really? Where is that person? I wish we knew. Pity!" said Bond, adjusting his cufflinks and knocking on M's door four times. Gareth Malory had resigned due to a little incident with Q and the Chief of Staff, and a new man had taken his place as M. Colonel Greensbury, who also fought against the IRA.
He was one of Malory's closest wartime associates. He was much older than Malory and had noticeably gray hairs in back. He was a peaceful and wise old chap, but Q suspected he was senile.
"Morning 007. On a light note-did you know my cat chewed up your resignation inquiry?" asked M.
"No, I didn't. But your cat must have very good taste in handwriting" replied Bond.
"Come in, 007 plenty of things to go through" said M.
"Oh I'm sure. SPECTRE still mucking about, unbelievable," replied Bond.
"I'm afraid it's much worse than that, Commander," said M, taking a sip of coffee. He continued speaking "As it turns out, Spectre is merely an acronym for 'Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence Terrorism Revenge and Extortion,' I had this confirmed to me personally through intelligence diggings. Q and I have been working diligently on new ways to protect ourselves from cyber attacks, because if our technology goes out, so do we. We've received word that there are now many attempts to sabotage our communications, in an effort to prevent us from finding out what SPECTRE is up to.
Fortunately this hasn't pushed us back very much as we've already figured out some of their main initatives. The SPECTRE group has attempted to pay off many bodies, people, and organizations in exchange for silence regarding their crimes, including the worldwide meth chain run by Carlos Ramirez. Also, a suspicious rogue organization run by Mr. Pomerov in the mountains of Russia claims it decommissions nuclear reactors, and cleans them up supposedly to help the world.
I suspect either they themselves or moles within are doing so with ulterior motives, collecting the parts to sell them to terrorists, and that they are part of SPECTRE.
Recently, an attempt was made on the life of our prime minister in an effort to make it seem like another foreign power was responsible. Oh, you should read this," said M, giving Bond a packet of top-secret notes in a folder labeled OHMSS. Bond began reading the documents intensely.
"Good god, an attempt to assasinate the Head of Greece?" said Bond in a dramatic tone.
"Yes, Greece, on of our strongest allies. Your flight to Athens has been booked, and you will be departing there shortly. You are to meet with Felix Leiter, he'll be outside Casino Corfu and he will give you any further help you need tracking down that man," instructed M. "Are we clear?"
"Crystal sir," replied Bond with an earnest look in his eyes. Bond headed towards the door, but M kept hounding him.
"007, there's a spot of tea and a fudge brownie on my desk, you won't be needing it I take it?" asked M.
"No, afraid not" said Bond.
"Bond! Bond!" shouted M.
"I love you too," said Bond gently closing the door. "Contrary to popular belief, I am not a fan of tea," he added.
"But Bond, I wanted you to see this rather peculiar headline about your misadventure in India! You wouldn't believe what it says about you!" shouted M.
It was too late, however.
Bond left M's room, greeting Moneypenny again, this time much more casually. He took the elevator to the bottom level and went outside to check on Swann, hoping and praying she wasn't dead. And thankfully, she was alive and well. He was however quite surprised to see her and Q exchanging laptop stickers in the Aston Martin DB5. Q dubiously rolled down the window when he caught sight of Bond.
"What is it 007?" asked Q.
"Well, was she?" asked Bond.
"Excuse me, what are you asking? Or implying?" asked Q, nervous.
"I'm asking about Dr. Swann," replied Bond in a firm tone. "Was she accepted?" he asked, giving Q a harsh look as though he were interrogating a terrorist.
"Oh, yes. Yes, she was accepted into MI6. We ran a background check on her. Knows many languages fluently, good social and cognitive skills, relatively useful degree, she shapes up nicely" said Q.
"I'll see to it that she does!" said Bond.
"What?" asked Q.
"I said, I'll see to it that she does. Sorry Q, stressful day. I'm sure you've heard the news" said Bond.
"Yes," replied Q, munching on a cookie.
"So you know what this means right?" asked Bond.
"Of course. Right, well, let's get started going over the gadgetry shall we?" said Q.
Q took Bond and Swann to his lab. See what happens next in Chapter 3!
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