Chapter 10
Q and I watched the Double O agent run through the streets of London, he was surprisingly agile, given his age. He moved through moving cars and passed pedestrians with such ease I could have sworn he was part cheeta. As soon as he made his way into the courthouse, we lost visual and were only left with the sounds coming from his com.
Gunshots.
That's all we heard, was the sound of gunfire.
We could only pray that nothing has become of James, M or Tanner. Q and I exchanged worried looks, as the yells grew louder, and even scarier they became less frequent. The shootout had turned into a hunt of be hunted situation
Finally, we heard the muffled voice of M and Bond. I gave a sigh of relief as I heard her snarky comments; it seemed as though she wasn't hurt.
"They just got in a car," Q mused out loud.
"Where are they going?" I wondered, watching the red dot move across the screen.
At last Bond's voice came from the speaker, "Q, I need help."
"Julie's tracking the car. Where are you going?" Q said reiterating my question to the only man who could answer it.
"I've got M. We're about to disappear."
Q looked flabbergasted, "What?" he questioned.
"I need you to lay a trail of breadcrumbs impossible to follow for anyone except Silva," Bond paused, "Think you can do it?"
Q gave me a worried look as if trying to gage my thoughts on the subject. Not breaking eye contact with me, he moved his head closer to the speaker, "I'm guessing this isn't strictly official."
"Not even remotely."
Q sighed finally taking his beautiful chocolate brown eyes off mine and refocused on the computer, "So much for my promising career in espionage."
I giggled as Bond's voice became muffled again as he began to talk to M.
M.
Tanner!
I realized that we had not heard from Tanner, how could we forget I thought, we don't even know for sure if he is dead or alive!
"I'm going to call Tanner."
Q's eyes widened and he nodded, I called Tanner from my speed dial. I began to pace nervously, I hate it when people take a long time to answer their phones.
"Come on Tanner. Pick up, pick up," I mumbled to myself.
After four rings I started thinking the worst, then finally, "Julie, Bond has M right?" He was breathing loudly and there where police as well as ambulance sirens audible in the distance.
"Oh thank God, yes Bond has M and they are safe. Tanner are you alright?" I urgently asked.
"I'm alright, Julie," he let out a breath, "Only a few casualties. I have some situations to take care of before I can come back to headquarters." There was a short pause as he ordered a police officer to do something, and then in a lower voice he asked, "Where is Bond taking her?"
I glanced at Q again, only to find his brown eyes on my bright blue ones. He had a worried look on his face, probably about what it was exactly I was going to say in reply.
"That's classified for now," I simply said.
I could practically see the smirk forming on Tanner's face through the cellphone, "Now you sound like an MI6 agent. I'll be by the Q-branch soon." He replied, and the line went dead.
Q gave me a thankful smile and I made my way over to him causing his pupils to dilate. I lightly pushed his shoulder, "What, I'm no idiot. I want to keep my job too."
The tall computer genius tapped my shoulder back and continued to work on the breadcrumb algorithm as Bond requested. I took my position behind my Macbook and next to Q, to monitor 007's cat, but I could not tell exactly where he was headed. He was driving towards Scotland, but there did not seem to be any sort of civilization, or even a single building on his route for that matter. I felt my brows furrow in confusion and I heard a light laugh from the raven haired man next to me.
"It's no use."
"But Q," I voiced exasperatedly, "I need to know where he's going! Where is he going?"
"I haven't the faintest idea, but all me can do now is ensure that we do what Bond needs us to do," he said, and reassuringly placed his large hand over my much smaller one.
I sighed in defeat, "You're right, of course."
He gave it a light squeeze and in return I gave him a small smile. As soon as his fingers brushed off mine he was back typing on his laptop and I followed suit. We worked in comfortable silence for a while, and I tried not to keep track of time. The only way I could stay awake was attempting to forget how late in the day it was. Q and I continued working as other Q-branch employees left to make their way home. Most of them were assigned to other double O agents and did not know what was going on in our situation other than Silva's escape. And by situation I mean they had no idea we were doing something against the rules. My thoughts started drifting to the state of my employment and how quickly I would be fired if one of my superiors ever found out about this. Then I remembered that the only two people who could fire me, M and Q, were twisted in this web Bond had created with secrecy. So I could rightly assume that my job was safe at the moment.
Just as I was beginning to wonder about Tanner, he walked through the doors with a beer bottle in his hand.
"Where did you get that?" I marveled at him.
A stupid smirk appeared on his face as soon as the question left my lips, "That's classified Julia."
I gasped at his quick wit and Q snorted. Tanner only winked at my surprised face and faced forward to examine the monitor. Then his once humored face had turned more business-like as he looked back at me, "Where has he taken her and what are you two doing?"
"So far all we can see is he is taking her to the outer regions of Scotland, and Q is creating a breadcrumb trail for Silva to follow."
Tanner nodded in understanding as he took another swig of his beer, "That's a really indistinct breadcrumb trail," he remarked.
"It's a fine line," Q spoke, "Make the breadcrumb too small and he might miss it. Too big and Silva will smell a rat."
"But do you think even Silva will be able to spot that?" Tanner asked.
I gave a nervous sigh before answering, "He's the only one who could."
Tanner turned around to look at us presumably to ask another question, but his eyes went wide, "Sir."
I turned around slowly to see a tall man, who I haven't met, with a sling holding his left arm. His face was hard and his hairline receding. He had gray eyes that looked as though they could see into your mind. Then it dawned on me, this was one of the only other people who could fire me, Gareth Mallory.
Much to my horror, he asked the only question I did not want to answer.
"What are you doing?"
I could feel my blood freeze as Q tired to save our asses, "We...we're just umm...monitoring-"
"Creating a false tracking signal for Silva to follow," the hard man cut Q off.
I finally spoke up, "Well, sir...umm...no that's not...it's not what you-"
"Excellent thinking," he said.
Wait what did he just say. I looked at Q to find him as dumbfounded as I was.
Mallory continued speaking in a calm yet authoritative voice, "Get him isolated. Send him on the A9, it's the direct route. You can monitor his progress more accurately and confirm it with the traffic cameras."
I stood, still shocked at what just happened. He had brilliant points though, how did I not think to do that.
Q stuttered next to me, "B-but what about if the PM finds out?"
I looked at Mallory expectantly, "Then we're all buggered," he said matter of factly.
He stepped forward, and extended his right hand to me, "You're Juliet Parks, Q's new assistant correct?"
"Yes, Mr. Mallory," I answered, giving his hand a single firm shake.
"I've heard lots of good things about you Ms. Parks, I expect just as much."
"Of course, sir."
He stepped back, "Alight then, carry on."
Q smiled and looked at me, giving me a nod he turned back to the monitor. And I watched as Mallory went out the door the way he came. I turned back to Tanner and the screen and let out a huge breath I had been keeping in, "I thought for sure we were going to lose our jobs."
Hello my darlings! Thank you so much for sticking with me you all are beautiful tropical fish! Sorry this chapter is kind of a boring one. But y'all have seen Skyfall, you know what's gonna go down...or do you mwahaha!
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