I don't own James Bond, just having a little fun while I can.
Well, here is the last chapter, thanks go to Peony for the wonderful and inspirational artwork for this story. The link for it is in chapter fifteen.
Enjoy the last chapter!
Chapter Twenty-One
It had been three days in the end, three wonderful days where James and Q had been able to talk about what had happened and other things. James looked to Einstein and smiled. This was his first visit to the vet and it was almost over. Q was fussing over him a little. The vet quickly explained what he had found.
"Well, he is in very good health, considering he is partially starved. Though you have been doing a good job of bringing his weight up to what it should be," he told James and Q, "we're going to check for a few other things as well, but he should be fine to go home. Just keep him away from other animals for now, and then as soon as the checks come through you should be able to take him out for walks," he finished.
"Thank you," Q smiled as he shook the mans hand.
"Welcome, and it was nice to see you Einstein," he said as he then ruffled the golden fur.
The two of them left the vet and went back home, letting the dog out into the large back garden. Both of them were thankful that it was larger than most gardens in London. The first things was now out of the way, and now it was time to head to MI6. M wanted to talk with them. That was never a good thing, in James' mind, but Q knew ways around the man if need be.
XxXxX
James and Q waited in the outside office as M was informed that they were there. It wasn't long before Eve stepped out and smiled to the two of them.
"He'll see you now," she told them as she held the door for them and then closed it behind them as soon as they had entered.
James and Q went and stood in front of the large oak desk and waited for M to acknowledge them. They both knew that he was trying to instil in them that he was annoyed and displeased with their actions on the mission. But they weren't going to back down from this.
"Well?" he asked the two of them finally.
"Well what sir?" James asked as innocently as he could, which wasn't very much.
"Well what," he snorted, "I told you that we needed him alive and you go and kill him. And don't tell me that it was someone else that did it. I know your work Bond, and You Q, i thought you would do better than this," he then said as he tossed the report that he had received aside.
"For all your protesting," Q began, "I don't see what is wrong in making sure a sick individual and his higher ups are taken care of. I went into the background of them all that would be around them and they were all in on things. Not one of them had anything redeeming about them," he told him, snorting himself at the idea.
"I wanted him alive Q," he told the man, glaring at him.
"And I wanted him dead, and have done for a very long time. I have waited for this moment since your predecessor recruited me. In my contract, which not even you can counteract, allows me to do as I see fit with Seguchi, and I chose what I wanted and did it," he told him, glaring back.
"I didn't give the order for you to do this," he argued back.
"The order was already there," he replied calmly, "And there isn't anything you can do about it. It was an order that I carried out, and that was in place when I joined."
M wasn't happy, but he knew in the end he wouldn't be able to discipline Q or even Bond for their actions. As Q was the senior of the two he took the rap, but since he was already given the go ahead for taking out Seguchi, there wasn't anything he could do. He growled a little as he said, "Very well, at this moment in time you will both have the mandatory week off," he told them and waved them away, "Get out," he added.
Q and James shared a little smirk as they walked out of the office. Q smiled a little as they got in the lift to leave, "We have a little more time to ourselves," he grinned a little more as the lift door closed.
"Will be nice to relax with you," James smiled back.
The two made their way back out, though Q quickly sent a few messages down to Q -Branch to tell them any more work orders that needed to be done while he was away for another week. He still had access to the data that they had retrieved, and that would be copied over soon enough, but he would have a little look at it all when they got home. He knew that James would be working out in the small workout room he had built not long after they had moved in.
James drove them home and opened the door, a joyful dog bound over to them, almost knocking Q off his feet as he walked inside. Q couldn't help but laugh, feeling light and at ease now that he was thinking straight. He looked to James and smiled.
"Thank you for being there with me," he told him.
James smiled back, "Welcome," he told him, "Glad I had you with me on this one," he added, "It was interesting, though I think you do better telling me where I am to go than doing it as well," he chuckled lightly as they made their way into the kitchen to have a late lunch. M had kept them waiting a while outside his office. Everything he had done was to make his displeasure known to them. Though neither of them were going to budge on what they had done.
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James looked over to Q as they parked up in the MI6 car park. Both of them were returning to work, and both of them had enjoyed their time together. They had been able to take Einstein for his first walk the day before, after getting the all clear from the vets that he was fine. Now their neighbour an elderly lady who loved dogs was watching over him for the day while they were at work. She had been told that they work in computing and that sometimes James had to go away on business trips.
"Well are you ready to go back?" James asked him as he parked up the car.
Q looked out and then back to him, smiling, "Yeah, I'm ready to go back. I have to say we have a lot of information," he grinned a little more as he release the seatbelt.
This was the first time that the two of them had gone into work together. They were beginning to get ready to tell people around them that they were married. Though each of them had their own idea of how they would be showing it to people. For now the rings that had once been on chains around their necks were now on the right fingers. They shared a quick kiss as they then got out of the car and headed to their respective areas.
Q sighed a little as he walked into Q-Branch. R quickly spotted the man and went over to him, "Morning," Q smiled to him, prepared to get back to work.
"Sir," he said with a smile, "I didn't think you were ever going to come back," he chuckled lightly as the two men walked towards Q's office.
"Had to go on a mission with Bond and then mandatory leave afterwards," he gave a put upon sigh, even though he had enjoyed spending time with James, and with Einstein.
"Ah," he nodded his head, "Well nearly all of the work orders that you left have been done. We have come up with a few new things. And the proposals for those are on your desk, and sorry for the mess," he grimaced a little as he followed Q inside.
Q looked to his office and saw the stacks of papers that were now on it, "Some days I do dream of a paperless office," he groaned a little.
"I don't think that will ever happen sir," R laughed and shook his head, "Well I should let you carry on with your work, or rather get started on it," he smirked a little.
"Oh no you don't," Q said as he grabbed the mans lab coat before he could make his escape, "You stay here and you can help with some of it at least," he told him, a little smirk on his face as he watched the one that had been on R's face drop.
R huffed a little but remained and the two of them began to arduous task of going through all the paperwork that was on the desk. Some of it could be given to R to go through, since it wasn't classified and his eyes only.
XxXxX
James walked through the corridors and headed towards the shared office space, wondering what he had waiting for him. He knew he would have another couple of days before he would have to go out on a mission. He walked in and smiled as he saw Alec.
"Hey James, saw you actually took the time off instead of coming back here," Alec joked with him as he stood up from his desk and went over to him.
James grinned as he said, "Well i had something to do and I was enjoying myself. Almost decided not to come back," he joked a little back.
Alec snorted, "I can't see you not doing this until you're forced to retire," he told him as they went over to James' desk.
James looked at it and grinned, there was only a little bit of paperwork on there, "Well, I'm going to do this and then bug Q," he said as he settled down and began his paperwork. Alec watched him for a minute and then grinned as he went and did his own.
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It was almost the end of the day and James wandered down to Q-Branch once again. He and Alec had gone to the shooting range for a while. He walked in and smiled as he saw M and Eve there along with Tanner. They were talking to Q about a mission.
"Like I said, it would be best if we just get him in there and then get him out," Q said as he looked to the three of them.
With a sigh M nodded his head, "all right then we'll do it that way."
"Good," Q grinned as he then turned and began to do just that. He quickly finished with the agent on the other end and he was safely on his way home.
"Well done," M said as he and tanner turned to leave. They spotted Bond and nodded to him as he then walked over to the main console and looked to Q.
"Hey," James said with a little smirk on his face.
Q turned and smiled to him, "Had fun with Alec?" he asked, as said agent then walked into the room as well.
"It was all right, missed being with you," he said to the shocked gasps of those around them.
"I missed you as well," Q smiled a little as James walked a little closer and pulled him into his arms and leaned in for a kiss. Q wrapped his arms around his next and kissed back. Wolf whistles and cat calls aplenty broke out and the two broke apart as the they turned to cries of what was going on and when did they get together. It was at that moment that light shone on their wedding rings, answering a little of the questions. They just smiled to everyone and said, "We'll explain another time, for now, we're having a moment."
And they were right, it was a moment, with even more to come.
Thank you all for reading, and I do hope that you have enjoyed this little story!