Phew, I've got close to 9000 words, thanks to all those who have favourited but still no reviews, I have no idea why but oh well, no matter. In this chapter Bond gets a car and Ash starts her training.

For the first time they got to do whatever they wanted in London without being jet lagged, on the first day they walked around the city and saw some of the sights, Ash arranged for her Lamborghini to get shipped over to England and Bond brought a bed for his spare bedroom so Ash did not have to sleep on the couch like she had been. On the second day Bond had to go into MI6 to pick up some gadgets Q had designed for him as he had of course wrecked the old ones, Ash waited at the window for him to come back. As much as she hated to admit she had grown quite attached to him, he made her laugh and for the first time since her parents had died she felt safe.

Bond came back about three hours later looking very pleased with himself and driving a Aston Martin one-77, he got out and gave her the 'loser' hand sign, Ash laughed, she had to admit she was a little bit jealous.

"M's given me clearance to start your training, do you want to start today?" he called up to the window

"Ok then" Ash called back trying to seem uninterested and failing miserably, she was really excited "I'll be down in a second, just let me get changed"

Eventually she came out and got in the passenger seat next to him, Bond couldn't help noticing how good she looked in a tight fitting top and casual jeans with no make-up on and her hair hanging loose. She noticed him stairing at her

"Well?" She asked expectantly

"Do you know how beautiful you look" he said quietly

"I have a pretty good idea"

He frowned "Generally when someone pays you a complement you repay them with one or say thank you"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you but I know how unbelievably good I look" she paused "but you don't look to bad yourself. Happy now?" She asked and leaning over she gave him a quick peck on the lips

"Very much so" Bond said pleased with himself and pulled out of the drive and onto the road.

The guards let them through to MI6 without complaint as they were quite used to Ash walking in and out by now and Bond lead her to a completely different section of the building, it was the training area. Only one other person was there but he wasn't paying any attention to them so they both ignored him. Bond handed her a empty handgun.

"Load it and fire one shot at that dummy" he instructed, pointing to the farthest one.

Once it was loaded Ash walked up to the firing line and and shot the dummy about half a foot above its heart.

"Not bad" Bond said "but you need to compensate for the recoil so aim slightly lower"

He put his arms around her so his chest was pressed close against her back, closer than it needed to be and guided her hands so she was aiming in the right place.

"Try now" he said whispering in her ear and Ash hit just a few centimetres off the centre of the dummy's heart.

She did another two rounds on her own and hit the target almost every time.

"Very good" he praised "you don't need any more training on that at all"

"I don't know what I'd do without you" she teased and quickly gave him another kiss

Bond stood there in shock for a moment "that was a bit quick don't you think?" He tried

"No it wasn't, it was perfectly fine" she chastised playfully

"Cruel woman, you tease me" he muttered "oh well on the physical combat I suppose" he said dejectedly while walking to what looked very much like a boxing ring and ducked under the ropes

"Come on then" he called holding his arms out wide "give me the best shot you've got"

Ash warily entered the ring and stood opposite Bond looking him up and down, suddenly before Bond could react she threw a punch at his face and gave him a bloody lip, Bond stumbled back but quickly recovered and hit her stomach, while she was momentarily breathless he got her in a choke hold and absorbed the hits thrown by Ash using her elbows until she stoped trying to get out.

"Quite good" he said rubbing his side that had taken the full force of Ash's elbow attack "but after you hit me you let your guard down and then I overpowered you. Rely on speed and surprise, you are strong but not as strong as grown man."

Putting up his guard he invited Ash to try again. She went to punch his face but he deflected the blow so she when for his stomach instead, while he was winded she swept his legs from under him. He landed on his back and rolled over before Ash could plant a foot on his neck effectively winning, scrambling up he got behind her and put her in a head lock. She immediately stopped struggling and Bond released her

"Much better" he complimented "but practice makes perfect".

That did this about ten more times Bond giving her advise each time until Ash collapsed, exhausted not managing to win once. They were both sweating and tired so they called it a day and went up to the cafeteria to have lunch.

"So do you think I'll pass?" Ash asked as they were sitting down eating their food

Bond nodded vigorously, his mouth full of sandwich "defiantly" he mumbled.

From there on they ate in silence. Gradually Ash began to pick out whispers about both of them among most of the crowd, she could tell Bond was hearing them too. She knew that something was defiantly up when a young man approached and congratulated her, she didn't ask why. Five minutes later a very apologetic looking Q came up to them and sat next to Ash.

"What the hell is going on?" Bond asked him

"Well it's hard to explain" Q started nervously "one of my men was monitoring the CCTV while you two were training and, well, he emailed the footage to everyone because he was so impressed" he finished apologetically

Ash took that as a compliment "I was that good?" she asked

"That's not the point" Bond fumed "now everyone knows that a seemingly inexperienced young girl who isn't even a agent almost beat one of the best 00's, more than once I may add. You better be glad you are important to MI6 otherwise you'd be lying dead in a ditch"

"Sorry" Q said "maybe if you stopped wrecking all the equipment I give to you then I may have been able to do more, bare in mind about that car I've just given you, otherwise something else may just slip out"

Immediately the kiss came into his mind "fine, I'll try my best" he muttered immediately backing down.

He didn't know why he was so worried about other people knowing something was going on with him and Ash, they all knew he was a womanizer, was it because he really loved Ash? He asked himself. No, after Vesper he swore never to really love a woman again. Getting up he dumped his leftover food in the bin and Ash followed him out no idea what was going through his head. She just thought he deserved to get taken down a notch or two.

Just a quick question, do you want Ash and Bond to be:

A couple

Not serious but still flirty and playful or

Purely buisness

I can't make up my mind but I'm thinking the second one, even if you are a guest I would still love your input. Anyway keep reading!