Welcome to the final chapter!

I upped the rating to mature for mature scenes. I hope you enjoy,

Chapter 18

M stood and straightened her suit jacket. She had never been so thankful that she had been given time to change before the ill fated trip to her office. She would have hated being in medical clothing demonstrating any weakness face to face with the enemy.

"Well...well. You are here and looking...very well m'lady."

"Franz Oberhauser I presume. I cannot say this is a welcome intrusion. How did you know?"

"My name is Ernst Blofeld, Franz Oberhauser is dead! I have people and access to cameras everywhere. You are very noticeable for a small woman...with your crop of short white hair, even when you try to hide in a garage."

"I see. Who helped you?"

"Your old agent, the late Mr. Silva. He showed us how to get into the systems and this was his game plan to get to you. I encouraged it, as I wanted to hurt Bond and what better way than to kill his mother figure. Silva didn't see it quite that way. His obsession was you and you were a means to an end for me. You managed to kill Silva and I failed to kill you so here we are."

"Yes, here we are. Make it quick, if murder is your endgame. I cannot defend myself and I loath delays."

"Yes, Mallory was a fool to bring you here with no guard, but I would have killed them regardless. What to do...what to do... you seem an intelligent and lovely woman. I think maybe I might like to get to know you better, or what you know...may help me be better."

"I am at a loss as to what to do or say next."

Franz-Ernst took her arm and steered her into the front of the house and towards the front door. Past a very worried looking William Mallory.

"Here now unhand my guest." The elder Mallory protested.

M waved him down. "No Mr. Mallory. I will be perfectly alright. If he didn't kill me the moment they burst in, then I have a use for him and he will not waste that. Please leave Mr. Mallory alone and I will come with you without struggle."

Franz eyebrow lifted in question. "I am not concerned for you struggling my dear lady, but thank you nonetheless. I am happy that you and I can be civilized what with all the murder and mayhem that MI6 causes wherever you send your agents."

M was taken aback and sternly exclaimed. "MI6 is not the only one causing murder as you call it, and these occurrences are often in response to threatening situations."

"I can see that you and I are going to have some interesting conversations on the way to Scotland."

"Scotland?"

"Yes, well...I have to show you off to James before you and I leave Britain. Come now...you were not going to just leave with me and not say goodbye to your young lover, where you?"

"Lover? My word...but you do have an overactive imagination." M said shocked as Oberhauser opened the car door and climbed in after. At least they had left Mr. Mallory alone to telephone his son. Hopefully MI6 could extricate her before this man took her away.

"I think you doth protest too much my dear M. You and Bond are far more than what I initially thought. I understood Silva's obsession, as it matched my own I thought, but then….there was something more."

Franz guided M to a black Mercedes with tinted windows and they climbed in. "Don't worry, it won't take long. I have a helicopter waiting for us."

"Of course you do. How…" M asked incredulously, "could you have managed that I wonder?"

Franz smirked. "Oh I think you can guess. Money and power is what politicians crave. They are obsessed with their own importance. Were as I...like to remain in the shadows for the most part. You have no idea how hard it was to prevent Mr. Silva from coming to you sooner. I failed in that, and he betrayed me with you. He was just supposed to kill you but he was crazed for you in a way I had not anticipated, but that all makes sense to me now. Now I can see what has happened to my little foster brother is the same thing that happened to Mr. Silva...you."

"Me?!"

"Oh please don't play coy my dear. It is you and everything about you, and their need for a mother figure but much more Oedipal in nature. You know, I also lost a mother quite young."

Franz stared into M's eyes as they were driven by two of his armed men to an airfield outside of Cambridge. As they arrived M scanned the area looking for some sign that MI6 had managed to track them but she did not remain hopeful of that. Oberhauser had inside help. Either from within six or very high up in the government.

"They are not here to rescue you if that is what you are wondering?"

"How high up does your influence go Franz? How many? Are there many more to root out in MI6 or MI5 for that matter?"

"Are you always this inquisitive my dear?"

M just looked at him as if he were an ignorant buffoon. She couldn't help it really. It was a moment of her old life echoing back at her and her usual demands for information.

"Yes, it came with the title of M."

"Speaking of which, you are on sabbatical, so may I call you by your real name since you've been ill advised to use mine?"

M scoffed. "Go ahead, you will not live long enough to use it much. They will shoot us from the sky, as I am of no further use to them."

Franz pulled her towards the helicopter as M's hope for a speedy rescue died with the spinning of the blades and roar of the engine.

Eve shot the driver of the SUV as he turned onto the drive. From her position on the roof and her high powered sniper rifle she made a clean kill.

The others in the car piled out and Eve shot them one by one. The next vehicle arrived and hid behind the destroyed first vehicle and 6 men climbed out. Like the first group they were armed mercenaries in full tactical attack gear.

Eve shot two quickly and then moved position along the small walkway on the roof of Bond's ancestral home.

"Bond there are 4 still making their way. I've got to change positions." Eve radioed to Bond and Kincade holed up in the house. She could hear Bond fire from the house towards the drive to give Eve time to move.

They were returning fire at Bond and one was shooting at the spot Eve just vacated. The sudden roar of a helicopter came from the distance and a big gun pointed at the house. Eve had to move fast and pulled her rifle towards the cockpit and shot the pilot as they neared.

Eve bolted for the window to let her into the house. "Bond the chopper is going down but it may hit the house!"

Eve made it inside and ran as fast as she could, down the stairs to meet up with Bond and Kincade.

Bond held a bundle of TNT that they had found in the shed. "Kincade...get Eve through the tunnels and we will switch the game up a little."

Bond smiled as the older gentleman that Eve had met the day before looked shocked when they broke into the house.

"You're nay gonna blow her up are ye lad?"

"Yes for our lives I will. I always hated this place. The sound of the helicopter crashing nearby and gunfire followed. There were still men to deal with out there.

Kincade and Eve disappeared behind the fireplace as Bond moved to the kitchen and opened the valve on two old propane canisters placing the dynamite between them. All it would need would be a spark.

Men were crashing through the windows with smoke canisters. Bond ran out of the kitchen and into the tunnel with one last look at his childhood home.

Bond moved quickly as he could through the old tunnel and eventually caught up to Kincade and Eve. "Everyone still armed?"

The nodded yes as they checked their guns and bullet supply. "Good because we have to make it to the kirk and hold up there. Eve is Tanner sending back up?"

"Yes they are still a ways out. They were diverted, Bond."

"Diverted?"

"M...she was taken. She is in a helicopter with Oberhauser heading north." Eve said, as she looked at the messages on her mobile.

"Damn it!"

"Who is this Em?" Kincade asked.

The colour had drained out of Bond's face as they sat at the end of the tunnel and heard the explosion sound from the house.

"Come on lad. Tell me later we need to get out!"

The three of them rolled out of the tunnel as a burst of flames and heat rolled by them. They were out and in the damp evening grass by that point. They looked at the house and an approaching helicopter.

"Eve, can you see inside that helicopter? See if M is inside."

Eve pulled her rifle and scope up. She hit night vision mode and looked towards the distant machine moving closer by the second. Eve could just make out a shock of white hair beside a blond man. "She's there with a blond man...Oberhauser? What do you want me to do?"

"Get to a good position and Kincade and I will go greet our guests." Bond handed a pistol to Kincade. "Put this in your jacket pocket where I or you can reach it. They will want you to drop your shotgun and me my rifle. They will be more concentrated on me than you. Do not give up that pistol if you can help it."

Eve began to find higher ground and some cover. "Eve!" .Bond yelled. "Take the shot the moment you have it." Eve nodded and moved away hoping the dark would help cover her as Bond moved towards the flaming house with Kincade.

Eve found her spot and moved the grass on the mound to hide her location and give her eyes on the front of the house. She set up her sniper rifle and settled in to wait. The ground was damp and cold but she used all the mental tricks she was trained with to ignore her body and concentrate on the shot.

Bond moved towards the now landing helicopter, still holding his rifle but not pointing it at the ground in a threatening way.

Kincade cradled his shotgun in the crook of his arm. His eyes darted nervously towards the grown man that he realized he didn't know, apart from the child he knew so well. "How are we playing this lad?"

"Calmly and watch for any signal I may yell and obey it completely. Stay close enough incase I need that pistol from your jacket. They will not see you as much of a threat."

The gruff old man grumbled…"That would be their mistake."

Bond smirked at Kincade's response. The helicopter wound down as two armed men opened the doors and held them. M came out first. Bond's heart fluttered ridiculously just at the sight of her.

Kincade looked at Bond. "That's your lass?!"

"I would be shot for saying it that way but yes...at least I hadI hoped she would be."

"I can see why, but she'd be better suited to a man like me..."

"That's agest...and don't get any ideas old man. You've seen me shoot."

The sound from the machine finally ebbed enough and Franz climbed out and stood behind M clasping her shoulders and moving her forward towards Bond. Two massive bodyguards exited the helicopter and stood on either side of Franz with guns pointed at Bond and Kincade.

"James...so good to see you managed to survive. I knew you would. Please toss your guns on the ground. And who is this gentleman?"

Bond looked angry and tossed his rifle on the ground and nodded at Kincade to do the same.

"Kincade...gameskeeper and this is my foster brother Franz Oberhauser."

"Aye, the one that Charamon sent you to, in order to straighten you out in Switzerland. Bad seed from the Swiss side of your family."

"Oh his father was amazing and taught me a great deal. All Franz taught me was what jealousy was."

"Tisk tisk...I will continue that lesson as I take this lovely lady with me to my evil underground lair. I was just going to bring her here and shoot her in front of you...to watch the pain in your eyes as she bleeds out in your arms...but I've rather grown fond of her forthright attitude. Just think of the knowledge she has about international espionage!"

"Enough of this posturing. Bond it's good to see you're still alive...and destroying things." M said as she looked back at the burning house. She was trying to discern if Eve was around and hopefully not dead. She looked at Bond for a signal as to how to play this to get away from her captor.

Franz men moved forward and pat Bond down taking his pistol from his holster and a knife from his leg sheath. They did not attend to Kincade who voluntarily pulled a knife from his jacket and tossed it on the ground as well.

The armed men came and collected the weapons and tossed them towards the burning house.

"So here we are Franz. A reunion between foster brothers. What now?"

"I wanted to let you know how far all this went and that you have been my target for a long time. Yes I am wealthy beyond that of kings, but I do want to disrupt more and more to control more and more. Governments will pay me to spy on them just under the guise of keeping them safe. A well placed bomb, as a supposed terrorist attack and more and more freedom is lost."

"You controlled Quantum and tried to have M killed by her own bodyguard?"

"No...unfortunately I had a falling out with a colleague over that and then Silva...he knew and then wanted to get to M to kill her, but instead tried to spirit her out of my way. But that was taken care of by you. Mr. White is in hiding but should be dead soon. I am the head of the octopus and have tentacles in many directions."

"So what? What do you want now Franz? To kill me? You are standing right in front of me with armed men who could have shot me the moment you landed."

"I don't care if you're dead James. I just want you to feel the pain of jealousy and loss. I want you to suffer in knowing that I killed your first great love...yes Vesper...that was me all along. Now you will lose your beloved M. She will spend the rest of her life with me, safe and hopefully happy...eventually."

"I will do no such thing!" M said angrily.

Kincade chuckled. "The lass says no Oberhauser. I would say she's likely a fair bit Scottish from her attitude." Kincade winked at M. He still couldn't believe that the lad fancied a woman who must be the same age as his mother would have been. He could see why he was attracted to her but was it just mother issues?

"We really just came to say goodbye and to see if you survived the men I sent here to try to kill you. They trained you well dear brother. We will be leaving you now."

Franz moved to the side of M feeling self confident, he grabbed her arm and froze as the shot rang out. One of his men dropped and then Bond grabbed for Kincades coat.

Franz pulled M up against his body as the pilot started the helicopter again. M struggled against him knowing that if she got into the helicopter all would be lost.

Bond pushed Kincade to the ground and fired his gun at the other guard. Franz turned to the side to see his man go down as another shot rang out from a distance.

Franz twirled as he fell to the ground clutching his left eye. M fell with him as he pulled her down. Bond moved to the helicopter and made the pilot shut her down and get out. In the distance they could hear more helicopters.

Eve ran up to them. "MI6...M are you injured?" Bond pulled M from the ground and wrapped her in his arms. All the while keeping his eye on Franz with his gun raised to finish the job.

M placed her hand on his arm to lower it. "No James...you've won. Don't kill him. He has too much information to kill him."

Bond looked down into M's eyes and then lowered his lips to hers. Surprisingly, M returned his kiss and his heart soared.

Kincade grumbled as Eve helped him from the ground. Eve was all smiles and laughing as she moved towards Franz and the helicopters landed in the field with agents rushing towards them.

Eve and Kincade attempted to give the lovers some privacy as they had not yet come up for air.

The sailboat swayed with the waves as they rocked in each other's arms. Bond smiled as he panted after the exertion of making love to M.

M absently traced images on his chest as they reclaimed their breath. Who would have thought this was even a possibility years ago when they worked together and clashed on multiple occasions.

"What are you thinking about M." She swatted his chest jokingly. "Och sorry...Olivia...my love. What are you thinking about?"

"How strange that this is, and yet it feels so right."

"I don't think it's all that strange. Other men have had things for older women and enjoyed their lives."

"I know that but us? Come on...you hated me at first." Olivia laughed.

"No...I never did. I wanted you to think that, but would I break into the flat of a woman I hated? Perhaps I was just trying to give a report before you could dress me down at work."

M gave him another playful slap while he continued.

"I alway came straight to you and I was the only agent to invade your privacy...really this is all your fault for not realizing sooner. The signs were all there and you really should have fired me right away. All of this is your fault."

M propped up on her elbows above him. "My fault! Are you saying that I seduced you? I didn't even know how...until your lessons of seduction!"

"I find that incredibly hard to believe M...Olivia. You could seduce me with a glare and a sardonic remark."

"Is that all it took?" Olivia laughed.

"Yes and it was the most difficult thing that I have ever had to do for work...teaching you to seduce other men. All throughout this mission my thought was to whisk you away from everyone, and on the submarine I would have kept you all to myself for days had you not been injured."

"You didn't waste any time after Skyfall my love."

"Not a chance! You would have fallen victim to Kincade's rustic charms, or god forbid, someone else's. So long as you were healed that was all that mattered to me."

"Yes I could have gone off with someone else, because I never dreamed you were serious. My injury was just a flesh wound but it was healed enough."

"What changed your mind?"

"You actually followed an order and made sure Judith was safe rather than following me."

"That's what I thought. Not saving you then was my biggest regret. I knew if she was not safe, you would kill me."

The two lovers laid in each other's arms in the middle of the day. They were off the Italian coast on their well deserved vacation.

Bond was reflecting on the day they brought Franz down, his eye shot out by Eve and him in Belmarsh prison for the rest of his days.

Franz had a luxurious private set up for the weekly meetings with MI6. Agents gradually drew out information from him in order to mop up the remnants of the organizations he was involved in, Quantum and Spectre.

Bond debriefed with M and Eve after flying back to London. They documented all the events from their point of view concerning Franz Oberhauser. There were no omissions from the events of this mission, at Olivia's insistence. They even started out with describing Bond teaching M how to seduce men on a mission like an agent.

Mallory had officially been made the new M and Tanner was staying on as his right hand. There was definitely something going on between Mallory and M's daughter Judith, that at this point were just hush hush. Olivia was not bothered by it in the least so Bond was not concerned either.

Bond remembered that first night of just holding the exhausted and still recovering M in his arms at a hotel in London.

"Olivia...will you marry me?"

Olivia sat up shocked. "Marriage! Why on earth would I bother with that again! "

Bond looked a little down but then smiled. "Alright with me. Living in sin it is!"

M giggled as Bond kissed her passionately. They kissed like they had something to lose, as time was their biggest enemy and Bond had no desire to take anything slow with this luminous woman who used to be his boss.

Bond's desire for her would not wane with her age and his job as 007 was now over.

They were free to live as they liked and had the resources to do it. Bond was listed as the former M's official bodyguard and still on the payroll after all.

Skyfall was being rebuilt under Kincade's watchful eye. Bond had to do it or Olivia would kill him. It was essential to reward Kincade by giving him something to keep him occupied.

Eve was to be the new 007. She would excel at it and Bond wished her well in her new role. The number was lucky after all.

Back in the cabin of their sailboat M watched as James had that far away look in his eyes. She often worried that his mind would switch gears and suddenly he would be gone like this was all a fantasy of her own making.

"What are you thinking about 007?"

"I am looking forward to this new life with you M."

"M...I am not M. How many times do we have to have this conversation?"

"I hope a million. I like it. It is sexy calling you M."

M laughed. "Fine if it's a turn on for you."

Bond sprung up over her on the bed and began tickling and kissing her face...and descending lower to her breasts as M's giggles turned quickly to moans.

"You are insatiable." M said as Bond continued lavishing attention on her breasts.

"You have always inspired me to be my best M." Bond descended further down her belly planting kisses as he made his way between her legs and smiled at her as he drew his tongue to her sex.

M sighed and closed her eyes allowing the feeling to roll over her as Bond gave her such pleasure.

That Bond's lessons in seduction would lead to this. It was not what Olivia had ever expected but here she was writhing under his ministrations. Her heart pounding in her chest as her back arched and the waves of pleasure rolled over her. She cried out in completion and in this moment, she couldn't feel more content and loved all at once.

Bond crawled back up over the love of his life, kissing every inch of her and wondering how he had managed to convince her that this was real. The two of them are together and would be from this point on.

In the end it was more than Bond had ever hoped for. He had been pessimistically expecting a painful and sudden death on the job. Things had changed for the better that was for certain.

Bond smiled at his love and slowly pressed into her to began making love to her again in the cabin of their boat.

Tomorrow they would sail somewhere...there was no timetable and no schedule to keep. The world was theirs to explore. Even if that was taking the back seat to the physical exploration they were working on in this discovery phase of their relationship.

Undoubtedly there would be challenges, emotionally and physically in the future, but they would cross that bridge when they came to it.

The end