A/N: Hey y'all this story like my other's, is probably not going to be updated for a few months because the only reason for this sudden burst of updating is so that I can put up the chapter's I wrote over X-Mas. I'm sorry if this means I have to wait until June to post again but when my exams are over, I will definetly be updating all three stories as I have been neglecting you reader's and I apologise; I know so many people on Favs, Alerts, and my lovely reviewer's have been sorely neglected.

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15-03-2007: Changed the flashback after getting the clip I was trying to repeat of Eva Green web- a link can be found on my blog if you follow my homepage link on the authors page.

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Chapter Ten- Broken Promise

"Hey Dad,"

Bond gave a slight nod in acknowledgment to the fifteen year old as he put the keys to his beloved Aston Martin in a small bowl for keys in the living room and came back out to go to his room.

Kaley turned to Aidan, who had been reading some paper's for her course, and got up from her place on the floor where she had been playing Final Fantasy VIII and ran to the open door of James' room where she glimpsed a flash of the 9mm Beretta semi-automatic handgun as her father put it under some clothes in his drawer after hanging up his blazer- The gun held safely in it's leather holster.

Bond turned as he loosened the top button of his shirt to see the fifteen year old with one hand on either side of the door frame at her sides, watching him curiously and with a hint of caution as he noticed the frown on her face.

"Has school finished for Christmas?"

Bond asked casually as he unbuttoned the sleeve cuffs of his shirt, nodding toward the bed as Kaley came over and sat on the cover, crossing her legs underneath her.

"Yeah, we were half day," Kaley answered quietly as she thought about her next question.

"Are we still on… for the weekend, I mean,"

Kaley asked as she pushed a stray of her brown hair behind her ear as James took off his shirt to reveal a well kept, toned form before pulling on a discarded black t-shirt off a chair.

"I'm sorry, Kaley, I have to cancel. Something's come up at work-"

"Something ALWAYS comes up at work,"

Kaley shot back as her tone of voice began to rise as she jumped off the bed.

"You said that nothing would get you to go away this year. You promised."

James came over and thrust her hands down, gripping her arms in an iron hold which caused the teenager to wince.

"You're hurting me!" Kaley groaned as she made a weak attempt to dislodge her father's iron grip.

"Well stop acting like a child and grow up, Kaley, you're fifteen years old, Not Five-"

Bond raised his own tone as he forced Kaley to look at him and was mildly taken aback by the icy glare in her Green-Blue eyes which mirrored his own…

Kaley suddenly lashed out with sudden anger which caused James to release her as Kaley herself, pushed herself away from him forcefully.

"I'm surprised you even know how old I am. You spend most of your time working that I hardly get to see you or know you… what's the point of having a daughter or any kid, if you can't even be bothered to spend some time with 'em."

"Kaley," Bond said in a tone of controlled anger as Kaley left the room and he followed as Aidan moved aside as Bond came out, his expression unreadable.

"Go away to your poxy Job and LEAVE ME ALONE!"

Kaley shouted as she slammed her bedroom door in his face, which infuriated James even more ad he tried to open the door only to find Kaley had locked it on him.

"OPEN THE DOOR NOW!" James ordered as he turned the door handle but to no avail.

"James," Aidan said hesitantly as he leant against the door frame with his hand bawled into a fist. She gripped his arm as he turned to her while one hand still remained on the handle, "James… let me talk to her,"

"Fine," Bond answered gruffly, "I'm going to pack a few things and go to one of the safe houses to get ready for Sunday morning, when I leave,"

Without another word, James turned stiffly and returned to his room, closing the door with a snap.

Aidan turned her gaze back to Kaley's door and knocked gently, "Can I come in?"

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Bond came out of his room a while later, holding a black holdall in his hand with a jacket draped over the top as he lay the bag on the living room floor as he went to pour himself a whisky from a crystal cantar as he heard Kaley's bedroom door open and shut it with a hard snap.

Aidan came storming into the living room to find the older MI6 operative sitting on the leather sofa taking a mouthful of whisky as he allowed it to calm him after his argument with his fifteen year old daughter.

The younger agent came over to him and came to stand in front of the Double '0' Agent and snatched the glass from him. Bond snapped his eyes up and gave Aidan the same icy glare Kaley had given him as the young woman looked at the glass with obvious disgust.

"What, is this your way of drowning your sorrows,"

Bond stood up with an unreadable expression, his anger still not maintained from the shouting match earlier, reaching his full height a few feet above Aidan.

"This has got nothing to do with you, Combs,"

Aidan put the glass down on the table.

"Is has when it when it involves your fifteen year old daughter, who, by the way, cried herself to sleep holding this,"

Aidan thrust a small wrapped up box into Bond's hand at his side,

"She actually thought that this year would be different- she has saved up all of her pocket money so the least you can do it open it- GOODNIGHT!"

Aidan turned around and was about to leave when James grabbed her arm and turned her back to face him; releasing her when he saw the tears on the surface as she stood her ground- standing up to the man she had idolised throughout her MI6 training.

He allowed Aidan to leave before turning the carefully wrapped package in his hand and read the note attached, written in his daughter's careful hand:

"Dear Dad, Merry Christmas. With lot's of Love, Kaley Xx"

Sighing heavily as he sat down in his dark clothing, James carefully opened it's packaging and the black box top to reveal a new Rolex watch and men's bracelet which on the inner side had been engraved with the message, "Best Dad In The World" which was engraved in elegant script.

Bond unintentionally began to feel his throat constrict as he put the silver bracelet and watch back into the box and understood now why the young girl reacted the way she had and that he had been to harsh on the teenager.

Putting the box down on the table, his hand hovering momentarily over the half glass of whisky but deciding against it- Bond got up and carefully walked into the hall and opened the door to his daughter's room, closing it as his eyes adjusted to the moonlit room as the natural light bathed the bed Kaley lay on completely.

Coming over and going around the bed to the side where Kaley faced the windows, he could see that she had indeed been crying as the dried tear stains shone dimly in the light as Bond carefully sat on the edge of the bed with a now much calmer approach as he brushed a strand of hair off her face- his gentle touch caused the girl to unconsciously tense up as he stroked her face and with and unnatural gentleness, wiped the tear marks off her cheeks as he remembered doing something similar when Vesper was still alive.

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Flashback

He had returned to his hotel room to clean himself up after the fight he had in the stair well of Casino Royale in which he had showed Vesper his true colours as a Double '0' Agent by strangling a man to death with his bare hands.

Going to see Vesper, he had found the door of her room ajar and so he gently pushed it open to find a broken wine glass. Hearing the sound of the shower running, he went into the shower to find Vesper in her violet dress, shivering under the water.

As he slowly sat down, he had cautiously put his arm around her as he unbuttoned the top of his shirt.

"It's like there's blood on my hands and it's not coming off," Vesper murmured as she gripped his arm tightly.

"Let me see," James said gently, taking the frightened woman's hand in his and gently licked her fingers as if taking the blood which he had spilt away from her, so that it would be his burden to bear and not hers.

"That's better," Bond murmured gently as he turned to her in the shower.

She nodded against him as she held on hand to her mouth like a frightened child, whose innocent beliefs had just vanished

"Come Here," He lifted his arm over them and turned the tap of the shower to change the water from cold to hot as he replaced his arm around her shoulders and brought her to him to warm her.

End Flashback

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A/N: Well this is where the real bulk of the story is set off with James' Mission and we finally get to read action I hear you cry! Don't give up on this story yet people, we have yet to meet the villain of the story and a shock revelation for one of the characters…