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Italics - Bond/007's response on coms
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Barbara followed Tanner through the various hallways, before leading her into a spacious room that had various glass panels with personnel on either side working on computers. She merely gave them a nod of her head when they called her Ma'am.
They stopped at one of the desks and Tanner handed her an earpiece.
"This will be your communication with both Bond's; it will become active once they have landed in Istanbul."
She gave a nod and placed the device in her ear, she felt ridiculous she couldn't remember the last time she had to wear one of these. She usually let Tanner deal with communication with 007, and then he would pass on the information to her if he wasn't in the country.
She looked towards the entrance and saw Olivia make her way into the room, the various agents, giving her confused looks as they looked back and forth between Olivia and herself.
Olivia paid them no attention and made her way over to them, taking the earpiece Tanner offered to her and placing it in her ear.
"Ma'am, you may want to explain why there are two of you, I think everyone wants to know."
He looked at the various faces staring at them, waiting for an explanation rather than ask encase M bit their head off.
"Yes, I'm well aware of that Tanner. I can feel forty pair of eyes on us."
Olivia turned around to the personnel and cleared her throat, before explaining to them that Q was working on life model decoys. She let out a relieved sigh into herself as no one questioned her answer. Then again, why would they? Q is known for inventing crazy gadgets. The woman next to her was living proof of how crazy his gadgets could be.
"Both Bonds are ten minutes from their drop off point." Tanner interrupted her thoughts and she turned to look at him.
"Very well, inform Ronson and let him know they will be on their way."
She turned to Barbara "Let's hope your Bond is good at following orders, although that is probably unlikely."
"I would me more worried about them clashing over who is better than the orders we give them. You know it will happen. They will try to outsmart each other."
Olivia knew there was a chance of that happening, she just hoped it didn't interfere with them recovering that hard-drive or she will kill them herself.
"How is this going to work?"
"Your channel allows you talk with 007, and mine gives me contact with Bond. When they have established connection, I'll put them on speaker, and we can judge the situation, hopefully our orders won't clash." Even though she seriously doubted the latter,
"M. Can you hear me?"
"Loud and clear, Bond we're sending you Ronson's co-ordinates you are to meet him there."
"Got them. So which M am I speaking to?"
"I think you know fine, well, which M you're speaking to Bond."
"Is it my M?"
She was going to hit him when she next saw him. Barbara looked over at her curiously, and she let out a sigh.
"It's your M."
"I always knew you were mine."
"Yes, well now that's established get yourself to Ronson's location. I'm putting you on speaker."
Olivia looked over to Barbara, who raised an eyebrow at her "His M. Yet you say there is nothing going on between you both."
Olivia didn't answer her, as her attention caught the conversation on the speaker.
"I'll drive."
"No, I think you'll find that I'm the better driver." Bond retaliated with a hint of annoyance.
"Says the one that has wrecked goodness knows how many cars. I think I had better drive, if we want to get there in one piece."
Barbra gave her the 'I told you so look' that just fuelled Olivia's anger even more.
"I don't give a damn who bloody well drives! One of you better get behind that wheel and get to Ronson's location or you are going to be taken off field duty for a year!"
"Yes Ma'am." They both chorused.
Olivia let out a frustrated sigh, one Bond was barely bearable, two would be the death of her.
"Ma'am." Tanner warily approached her.
"Oh God, what now?"
"Ronson has infiltrated Patrice's hide out, we have lost contact with him."
"Does anyone follow orders around here?! Bond you had best get to Ronson's location quickly."
"Right away Ma'am."
"Are you always this temperamental?"
"I think if you had lost a hard-drive with top secret information you would feel temperamental too. It's my job on the line not yours, so keep your comments to yourself!"
Olivia started to pace back and forth waiting for confirmation that they had reached the hideout. She hoped Ronson had managed to apprehend the bastard, or at least recovered the hard-drive, but chances of that were slim.
"He's took the hard-drive and Ronson's been shot."
"Get after him!"
"I'm stabilising Ronson."
"We don't have time."
"I need to stop the bleeding."
"Leave him and go after Patrice!"
Olivia gave a silent curse if Ronson had just bloody waited.
"The medical evacuation team are on there way." Tanner informed them over his own headset.
"They will never get here in time."
"You have your orders now go!" Olivia told him.
It was this very reason why she hated her job sometimes. She had the life of every agent in her hand, and she could easily take that life away if it meant the mission would be a success.
"We have sight of him. He's in a black Audi." 007 informed them over the speaker.
"I thought you said you were the better driver. Would you put your bloody foot down!?"
"Do you still have sight of him?" Barbara asked hoping they did, she looked over to Olivia and noticed the conflicting emotions over her face.
"Affirmative, shit he's spotted us."
"What's happening?"
"Currently being shot at Ma'am."
Tanner looked at the computer and followed their two separate signals.
"Which way am I going; I've lost sight of them?"
"Just keep going, I can direct you from here." Tanner informed him.
"You know what's at stake. We can't afford to lose that list." Barbara and Olivia both said at the same time.
They turned to look at each other a look of disbelief on both their faces, causing Tanner to roll his eyes.
"Where are they now?"
Tanner looked at his screen and noticed they were on the roof of the Grand Bazzar, 'great more damages.' He could hit his head repeatedly off the desk; he didn't want to see the report.
"They're on the roof of the Grand Bazzar. If you take a left, there is a bridge you can cut him off there."
"And you say I pull stupid stunts."
"What's happened? Report."
"They're on a train." He told them exasperated.
"What do you mean they're on a train?"
"Exactly that, they're on top of a moving train."
"Well, go after them!"
"This is why I work alone." He mumbled, but Olivia and Barbara still heard him.
"Do you think they'll get it back?" Barbara asked her counterpart, she was starting to become agitated herself.
"For once, I'm not too sure. We can only hope."
"I'm losing him; he's going out of range. We've lost tracking; we're sitting with a blind eye."
Tanner informed them typing frantically on the computer trying to get the signal back.
"What the hell is going on? I'm still with them."
"Tanner get me CCTV, satellite, anything." Olivia turned to him, the same time there was a crashing sound through the speakers.
"What was that?"
There was a sigh followed by his bored voice "Four VW Beatles. 'shit he's uncoupling the train car."
There was a grunt in her earpiece and she turned to look at the woman next to her, who raised an eyebrow.
"Are you alright?" She asked through her own earpiece.
"Just changing carriages Ma'am."
Olivia looked to the other personnel as they worked frantically trying to get a clean visual. This wasn't going the way she had hoped and let out a sigh.
"Looks like there isn't much more road. I can't go any further."
Olivia moved to stand behind one of the desks, her hands resting on top as she leaned over and stared at the speaker. Barbara knew it herself that they were running out of time, the chances of retrieving that hard drive was becoming slimmer with each passing moment.
"I may have a shot, it's not clean."
Olivia could feel the palms of her hands sweating, it was now or never had they only had one try at this. She looked from Barbara and Tanner noticing the tension and apprehension on their faces.
Tanner looked to his M and knew she was caught between a rock and a hard place.
"Can you get into a better position?" He asked, knowing there was likely no chance of that.
"Negative. There is a tunnel ahead we're running out of time."
The tension in the room was thick, almost suffocating. The three of them looking to each other trying to figure out what to do.
"Take the shot. I said take the shot."
The two of them looked to her, as if she had grown a second head, but her face was set hard in determination.
"Did I mention I didn't have a clean shot?" He told them sarcastically.
"I've given you an order. Take the bloody shot."
They waited with baited breath for the outcome. After a few moments, his voice travelled through the speakers.
"Agent down."
Olivia and Barbara stood there hardly believing what had just happened. Not only had they lost the hard-drive they had lost an agent. The words echoed around her mind, how an earth could he have missed? He was the best the agency had, although now she seriously doubted that. Looking towards the woman in front of her, she saw the underlying anger and hatred aimed directly at her. She knew the other woman would not be forgiving her anytime soon, and why would she? She had just given an order that resulted in the death of Olivia's Bond.