Q & A
A Skyfall Fanfiction Adventure
Chapter 5
Q sensed a change around the office. His operatives chatted amongst themselves as they worked; they nodded their heads when he passed. He supposed that they had sensed the truce, however shaky, between their boss and their representative.
A was their representative, no doubt about it. When he had first ascended to his post, he thought that his people resented him because of his age. Then why, he thought, did they accept A? She was younger than him—the youngest in the branch, in fact.
For days afterward he had mentally replayed the moment that A snapped at him. He wasn't shaken so much by his accidental assassination attempt as he was by the force of her anger and the correctness of her assessment of him.
That's what it was, he realized. His people saw him as a jumped-up, snot-nosed techie and his secretary as the office darling. They couldn't surmount the brick wall of his arrogance; they couldn't help but support A because of her attentiveness and efficiency.
He sighed.
Just at that moment, A approached his desk, a silver laptop in her slender arms. "This is Silva's," she said. "I took the liberty of reviewing it and it's too complicated for me to decrypt."
Ah, Silva. The rogue agent. "Let me see it," Q said. He didn't like that A had looked at it first—but she was allowed to do so, of course.
He projected and enlarged the contents of the laptop for easier analysis and got to work. His mind ran through the codes as fingers ran across the keys, and adrenaline surged through him like lightning through a rod. This is why he had been promoted. This is what he was supposed to do.
But wait—
An alarm sounded. At first, Q thought it was in his mind, but when the rest of his operatives stirred he realized that it was real.
He had fallen into a trap. With a flick of his fingers, he had allowed Silva's program to access the MI6 system and free him from the high-security ward.
This wasn't happening.
This wasn't happening!
He turned at once to A, standing a few feet away at her desk. "Track him."
She nodded. "Of course, sir."
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