Dramatis Personae:
Mansfield family
M / Olivia Jenkins-Mansfield 1945-
Nigel Mansfield 1943-2009
Judith Olivia Mansfield- 1973 (Sam)- children-Emily 2000 & Jason 2002
Ryan Nigel Mansfield 1975 (Sarah)- children-Elizabeth 2003
Marshall Mansfield 1941- (Josephine) 1943-2008
David Mansfield 1968-
Isabel Mansfield 1971-
Bond Family
Charmian Bond 1926-1999
James Bond 1935-71
Andrew Bond 1934-1979
Monique Delacroix- Bond 1941-1979
James Andrew Bond 1968-
Kincade 1936- Family friend and caretaker of Skyfall. Married to Anne 1940-2000
Chapter 7
M spends hours in an enclosed place with her children. This has not happened in the last 20 years and there are some uncomfortable silences.
"Alright you two...stop whispering and just bloody well ask me. I am hereby making the interior of this car a freedom of information zone. Rule one: You may ask me anything personal but we are still under the the official secrets act. Rule two: You may not repeat anything to anyone. Do you understand and agree to those terms?"
Two voices state "yes" from the front seat.
"Fine Judi you are the eldest...you go first."
"Did you love dad?"
"Of course I did! What did you think...that the marriage was an elaborate hoax?"
"Well it had crossed my mind mum. Dad was often left alone and he often seemed unhappy."
"Your father was unhappy?"
Judi turns around to look at her mother with such a look of pity...it made M angry for a moment.
Ryan interjects sensing the anger of their mother building. These two have always gotten on each others nerves faster than anyone else could.
"Judi...mum he was a little lonely at times once we left but no I don't agree Jude...he was not unhappy or he would have left. Stop prodding her into a fight...like you normally do."
"Exactly...he had plenty of opportunities and he did have a mistresses on occasion to entertain him."
"MUM!" Two voices ring out as Ryan swerves on the road as he turns to look at his mother.
"Watch the road or my guards will make you pull over Ryan and this little Q&A will be over."
"Dad had a mistresses?"
"Well, as you said...I left him alone and bored. For the most part your father and I always talked about our problems. Lying in bed late at night we would get it all out before we went to sleep."
Judi smirks. "that's what you call it? And did you fool around after the fact...every night?"
Ryan scowls at his sister. "Judi I don't need to hear about our parent's sex life or lack there of."
"Prude...like you never heard them or did it with your girlfriends at the flat with mum and dad were out...hypocrite."
"Well...you were hardly any better Jude."
"I never claimed to be and in retrospect it makes me happy to think that mum and dad had a healthy sex life...it gives me hope…"
M takes control of the conversation again after listening to them bicker. "Your father and I did have a very good sex life when I was home early enough in the evening that is. Right up until his death."
"Ok mum, since we are on the topic of sex here is the next question. Did you sleep with Bond while he was alive?" Judi asks.
"NO...I did not have an affair...I was too bloody busy."
Ryan clears his throat, "Ok, off the topic of SEX, please. Do you order Bond to kill people?"
"Yes."
"Are there others that you have under you that you order to do the same?" Ryan asks.
"Yes."
"Who do you answer to?" Judi asks quickly.
"The PM directly."
Ryan palms his face. "Are you the most powerful woman in the country besides the Queen or even more so?"
"Yes."
"Mum...how are you going to have a relationship with an agent...I mean won't the PM object?" Judi asks.
"Yes, and that is why we must keep this all quiet."
Judi and Ryan suddenly find the road very interesting.
"Out with it? What is wrong?"
Judi fidgets...not wanting to break Bond's confidence about his upcoming proposal.
"Mum...I need to tell you something."
"What?"
Ryan is worried his sister is going to break and give away the plan James has for this week in Scotland. "Yeah...Jude...w..h..a..t ?"
"Sam and I are breaking up."
Ryan almost hits the ditch again…"Seriously!"
"Oh Judi. What happened?"
"Sam...he doesn't want to be married to and unfeeling bitch any longer."
Ryan turns towards his sister who he is not sure is actually telling the truth. "He actually said that to you?"
"Yes...he did. Sam is sleeping with his secretary."
"Harumph...your father did the same...oh no sorry, she was his research assistant." M reaches up to clasp her daughter's hand. "How long Jude?"
"A year and a half...we've been...well mostly I've been trying to salvage anything. He was with her...I had to force him back for appearances sake when you were coming up for a visit."
"That is why he kept his distance from us last night...he was not just helping the children get ready."
"No...Sam has never really liked you mum...you have always so distant and never around to help with the children like his parents. I understand why you were like that now, but I too was always more than a little put out by that."
"I know dear...I can say a thousand apologies but it will change nothing in the end. Now I am left to buy their affections with laser guns and gifts."
"Yeah and a little less noisy would be better...not that I care if they use them on Sam...he is likely entertaining her in our house this week just because he can get away with it."
Judi digs some tissues out of her bag as the tears overwhelm her.
"Oh really...I will see about that! How dare he...the bastard...how dare he do that to my little girl." M takes her phone and hits her contact.
"Hello, Tanner. I need you to pull up information on a...Judi...what is her name?...Just hold on Tanner."
"Natalie Roy."
"Did you get that Tanner...yes everything very invasive and I would like some men to pick her up with her boyfriend this weekend for some routine questioning and then released...protocol 5. At Judi's address and keep this quiet….Anything on that other matter I have you looking into? Please send it to my mobile as I am not sure Skyfall will have internet yet….Have Q branch pull up schematics and begin making plans...forward those along also. Thank you Tanner...I don't know how I would survive without you."
Judi has tears in her eyes and Ryan sighs. "I had no idea...sorry sis...I have a friend that does divorces...or if you would rather...we could just tell James he broke your heart...right mum?"
"Ryan! I would never use James...I would use someone who had no idea of the connexion between us."
Judi blows her nose as she starts to laugh at the idea that her mother could make her husband disappear.
"What will happen to them now mum?"
"Just as I said a routine questioning...but it will be uncomfortable for the two of them for the next 48 hours. There is no way their flighty romance will survive it... they usually don't."
"Christ I wish I could be there to see them question him with but it is all too late now. The young blonde is far more attractive than I and she has no children so when he is with her...he can pretend to be young again. That is likely why dad did it also...just trying to relive his youth."
"Your father was always just trying to see if I was paying attention. He was trying to make me do something."
"Did you?" Judi asks.
"Yes...I confronted him, we talked. I asked him if he wanted out of the marriage, no longer loved me and then we made up. So, Ryan how are you and Sarah doing?"
"Fine...I think. Mum maybe you could tell me?"
"I can make a few more calls if you really need to know?"
"No...mum. That is fine but what really happened between you and dad...the mistresses. Was there a massive blow out?"
"The first mistress? The Nannie I chased out of the flat with a glare and she never returned...I caught them post act in our bed."
"REALLY!"
"Yes...do you want the entire details?"
"No...well some of them...not the sex stuff." Ryan says.
"That one involved a lot of shouting. You were just a toddler Ryan and I was so bloody tired. He was apologetic to say the least. I gathered all his favourite things around the flat...books, clothing, items...I took them to the garden and burnt them all. He gathered a bag and went to Marshall's. I had to call in sick the next day and try to get a nannie through an agency as fast a possible. I didn't know if he was ever coming back but he did and asked if he could take you children over to Marshall's for a few days...so I could go back to work and the agency could find a replacement."
"I remember that...dad told me it was to spend time with David and Isabel."
"I thought you might Judi. Your father always had a way of making everything seem fun for you. I wish he could have for me but deep down I knew it was a spur of the moment sexual encounter. He didn't have great feelings of love for her."
"Mum did you ever stray...I mean if Bond is anything to go with the agents are attractive...surly Bond is not the only one that finds you attractive. I know dad always said uncle Marshall was attracted to you."
M sat back in her seat and looked out the window. This was becoming dangerously personal...at the mention of Marshall and straying...she still feels as though she cheated on James but he did the same...just like Nigel cheated on her so she...
"Mum?" Ryan asks confused by her sudden silence.
"Yes?"
"What happened between you and uncle Marshall?" Judi asks after blowing her nose and wiping a tear from her eyes.
"Your uncle and I…It was when Bond was believed to be dead."
Judi looks at her from the front. "Yes...you and he went out a few time...oh my god! NO WAY! Christ mum you can't be serious."
"I do not want to hear this...stop asking her questions Judi!"
"Marshall comforted me in my time of horrible grief. He wanted to date me after you father died. Apparently he has been in love with me since we met...over 40 years ago."
"Is that why he arranged that family reunion...but then a passed out James Bond was in your sitting room."
"Really...why did all this happen?" Ryan asked in exasperation.
"Because life is messy Ryan as a lawyer you should know this. Did you want to hear anymore about your father's affairs are are we going to centre on the relationships I had after I was widowed?"
"You said he had mistresses...the nannie was she considered a mistress or just a fling?" Ryan asks.
"A fling really...the research assistant 5 years later was a mistress. That went on for 6 months in a particularly difficult time for me at work."
"What was going on...what happened?" Judi asks full of interest.
"I was advancing through the ranks and they were sending me out into the field to trouble shoot in Eastern Europe...South America and then Hong Kong. I was being groomed to be a section head so I had to go on these extended trips. You must remember some of it. I would be gone for weeks and then home for a month and then gone again."
Judi shifts in her seat to see both her brother and mother. "We remember...we again spent a lot of time with David and Isabel again. Joe said she didn't mind looking after us because being a mother and good auntie was more important for her than any other job."
"I imagine she did Joe and I never did get along...but your uncle told me it was purely jealousy that made her mean to me...that and his crush on me."
"Dad did make comments about Marshall every once in a while...after we had been at the cousin's." Judi adds.
"Really? What would your father say?"
Judi continues, "he said that Marshall could never stop from staring at you."
M laughs, "yes he admitted to me that he fell for me the moment he saw me naked on the sofa at your grandparents."
Ryan's eyes go wide in the mirror. "What!"
"Your father and I went there a weekend when in university. No one was home when we arrived and your father and I…"
"Enough mum...too much information...you and uncle Marshall...my god...I can't..." Ryan blurts out.
Judi starts to laugh hysterically. "Mum...you shatter all preconceived notions I had of you."
"I was young once too remember. Your father and I were in our early twenties and things got out of hand on the sofa...your uncle came home early and we did not even know he saw us...he made enough noise to warn us that your grandparents were coming down the lane. Marshall told me and James months ago just to embarrass me in front of James."
"This was before James left...before we met him?" Ryan asks.
"Yes."
Ryan nods in the rear view mirror. "Did you have to kill any of his mistresses really and how often did he cheat?"
Ryan grips the steering wheel of the car as he occasionally glances back in the rear view mirror to meet his mother's matching blue eyes. Christ she looks exhausted talking about all this to them.
"Your father had that fleeting 6 month thing with a grad student...I was very busy but I did know...I just was at a lost at what to do. I ignored it for the 6 months and then we were having dinner out one night and I said to him; Nigel your affair has been going on 6 months now so it is time to decide if you want her more than me and leave if you must."
Judi's eyes go very wide. "You called him on it in a public place? I guess he broke it off then scared of what you would do...now that he realized you knew."
"Yes he did. I actually went with him to her flat that night and the look on her face was beyond shock. Your father handled it very diplomatically and he did ask me to come. It was not me forcing him to take me. He was proving the point I suspected all along. He just wanted me to notice and I proved that I had noticed and I would only put up with it so long."
"So he never saw her again from that evening?" Ryan asks.
"No, and Nigel told me and her...Nancy...at her flat that he never loved her. Nancy screamed and cried...called me every name in the book as she pretended to love him more than any other. We exited her flat and stood by the car for a few moments."
"Oh mum...that is so sad. What did you say?" Judi asks.
"I remained very calm because that is far more unnerving than flying off the handle and I said this to him...I was standing in that flat waiting for you after a months separation and you came back like you promised. I was there just like you knew I would be. You proposed and agreed to my career aspirations in that moment. Your father nodded in agreement kissed me and we drove home.
"That is how he proposed...after being gone a month? Ryan asks somewhat confused.
"I will get to that later Ryan. I will finish with your father's indiscretions first. When we were living in Hong Kong he took up with a woman who was the wife of a university friend of his...Evelyn Forbes was her name and she was by far the most dangerous of his mistresses."
"Why do you say that mum?" Judi asks.
"Not dangerous in the sense of my profession. Evelyn was no spy or agent sent to disrupt my life, believe me I looked into it."
"How was she dangerous then? Wouldn't it be just like Nancy?" Ryan asks.
"No, because we were older. You two were in university and beginning your own lives without us...he was the bored husband of a section head that had to play a part in political social gatherings and so was she. It lasted a little over a month and it came the closest to the end."
"Why?" Both Judi and Ryan ask.
"Because Evelyn wanted him badly and she was willing to do anything to get him. She and her husband Maxwell were already divorcing and she was trying to get your father to leave me and move into her flat in London when we returned. She convinced your father that I did not know and if I did...that I did not care about him anymore. It was obvious to anyone with eyes that my career was far more important than my family."
Judi looks at her mother in confusion. "Did she know what you did?"
"No."
"What was your cover story?" Ryan asks.
"I worked for the Embassy directly reporting to the foreign office."
"Did you confront dad and how did you know what they talked about?" Judi asks.
M smirks at her daughter. "I was the head of a ring of spies remember."
"Right...I forgot. So you listened in on their conversations and then confronted him."
"No. I pretended I didn't know and I just continued on as if I didn't, but I told him to end it the second we moved back to London and I became M. I did not want to lose him...it was not an option for me. Your father and I knew we were together forever after a month long separation in 1970...before our engagement."
"So what happened in 1970 mum?" Judi asked.
"Your father and I took a break...for a month when he went off with his ex-girlfriend Amy and others, including Marshall and your aunt Joe, to France for two weeks. We agreed to the break...no repercussions and he said he would return to my door in one month and if I was still there and accepted him back...then it was meant to be."
"OK...Enough about affairs, this is one of the last thing I want to know...what happened after the explosion in your office...Tanner called eventually to say you were fine, but where were you?" Judi asks her and Ryan nods in agreement.
M looks down at her hands in her lap.
"Mum...you said we could ask anything." Ryan adds.
"I thought it would all be about James or your dad. I never thought I would have such inquisitive and astute children. I could offer you both jobs."
"Stop stalling we only have this drive and it won't last forever." Judi says.
"A man from my past...Raoul Silva."
"Yes." They both say in unison from the front seats.
"I traded him for 6 other agents when I was head of station H, Hong Kong. He hacked the Chinese without instruction by me...and he got caught. I thought he was dead but he wasn't."
"He blew up the building in revenge?"
M turns to stare out at the countryside and just above a whisper says, "yes."
"So why didn't you call?"
"I couldn't."
"Marshall called us to say you were in trouble...that the explosion was a cover to get to you, so we were in a panic. There must have been some time in the three days before Tanner remembered to call that you could have and James had come home from the dead by then...where was he during those 3 months?"
"I ordered an agent to take the shot...she hit James he fell 100 feet into a torrential river and we never found a body...fishermen found him and he spent three weeks in hospital and was so angry with me for ordering him shot, that he found solace in the bottom of a bottle of booze and pills...not to mention the arms of a much younger woman."
"Shit mum! I will kill him!" Ryan looks pissed off as he tries to continue concentrating on the road.
Judi slaps her brother's arm. "Ryan...don't be absurd...he would kill you and they obviously made up."
"Silva...what did he do...you caught him or James did?"
"James killed him."
Ryan asks. "So, why didn't you call?"
"I couldn't."
"Not good enough mum...where were you?" Judi adds.
"Silva kidnapped me off the Vauxhall bridge during the explosion, for revenge. I was on an Island in the Mediterranean."
"Why...how is that revenge?"
"I think we need to stop for something to eat." M wants to stop the questions...they are veering off the topics she thought her children would be interested in.
Judi turns and frowns at her. "You are trying to escape the questions now...for the first time in our lives you are telling us the truth...what happened that you are trying to avoid us now?"
"He married me...he was obsessed and in love with me...or so his broken mind thought. He kept me there until Bond saved me."
Olivia's voice had lowered to almost a whisper...not really wanting to voice what happened to her children.
"Mum...what did he do?" Judi grasped her mother's hand and looked into her matching blue eyes.
"Silva...assaulted me until MI6 could find and rescue me."
Ryan swerved and pulled off the road suddenly into a motorway service area. He drove to a parking area and quickly parked, opened the door and got out walking away from the car running his hands through his hair in an emotional break from what his mother just told him.
Just when he thought the strange reality of his mother's life was rationalized in the context of his memories of his youth...memories of his father...his uncle's presence and conversations with and about his mother come into clearer focus and reality is shattered again in the most foul and ghastly way imaginable.
Judi gets out and joins him as they move off to a grassed area. M can see her son through his hands up in the air and pace in front of his sister. Judi is hugging her own sides and crying.
"Jesus Jude...what the hell is going on? I know we always said we would love to have the truth from her one day but this! FUCK I NEVER WANTED TO KNOW ANY OF THIS!"
"I know...don't yell at me...talking to her is a bloody catch-22 every time you think you understand her better...SLAM!"
Judi touches her distraught brother's arm.
"We need to calm down...breathe...we need to make sure she is alright...that she is seeking help...healing. No wonder Bond was so paranoid and barely lets her out of his sight."
Ryan is still fuming in anger for what happened to his mother.
"Yeah a lot of good that did her Jude. Where the hell was he for months? Fucking everything that moves on a beach in Turkey while our mum was crumbling...you talked to her then...we both did...we were to go clean out his flat with her...she lost a lot of weight...Marshall had to make sure...Fuck...Marshall I don't want to think about how our dear uncle fits into all this!"
"I know...I guess he was always very flirtatious with her now that I look back on it."
"I don't like all this looking back Jude...it makes me feel like a complete idiot for not seeing what was right before us all the time."
"I know but we were children...we should go back to the car...she likely thinks we...I don't know...I will never claim to know what my mother thinks ever...she is not who I thought she was...but she is also a hell of a lot stronger than I thought she was also."
"Her men are with her now...I guess we were idiots for bolting like that Jude...we left her alone and she should never be alone."
Ryan runs his hand though his curls again looking lost and frustrated.
"Christ do you realize that our mother holds enough information in her head to topple governments! Fucking hell Jude! We wondered why she cared so little for us and were pissed because she was never bloody well home!"
"Yes...but she wasn't alone, and that monster got her anyway...through Tanner...and guards. I wonder if it would have happened if Bond was not missing...I really need to hear why he did not race home to her. Because the grief she felt in his death...that is horrible to do to a person just because you are upset with them."
"I am considering taking back my acceptance for her hand in marriage."
"Me too Ryan, me too."
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M leans back in the seat and closes her eyes to collect herself when a black car pulls up behind her and two agents get out...one knocks on the window.
"Ma'am...is everything alright ma'am?"
"Yes. Fine...they just needed a moment."
They open the door for her and stand aside as she walks over to her children. Judi wraps her in a big hug. Ryan does the same and the three of them stay like that for a few moments.
"Are you two alright?"
"Damn it mum...are you? A maniac blows a building...kidnaps and rapes you? Damn it! No wonder Bond is always so paranoid about you." Ryan says.
"Speaking of Bond mother...why did James do it? Why torture you and stay away?"
M can tell by the faces of her children that they are in pain and very angry with James.
"Don't be that way about James. He saved me...I had no idea he had returned to London but the explosion was on the television and he thought I had died. James Bond destroyed the man who tried to destroy me...always remember that and that you, my family... are very important to me. Even if I have had to keep a distance to protect you and your families. If you want to withdraw from me and James...we will understand."
Judi frowns. "I thought the cone of truth was only in the car mum? No...we don't want to run away now...I for one have spent too many years mad at what you wouldn't tell me. For your multiple levels of secrets, but now...you are trying and that is honestly all that I have ever wanted from you mum."
Ryan and Judi guide their mother back to the car. Two men in black open the doors for them after checking the car first.
"Ryan what about you my dear boy?"
"Mum...I don't know...I am so angry at all of this...what you had to go through what...that animal did that to you...my mother...no son ever wants to hear that...ever."
"I know dear...I understand and I do know how hard hearing about your uncle and I...anything to do with my...relationships. I could tell that it made you uncomfortable."
"That's an understatement." Judi laughs, "daughters always take it easier...we understand."
"Don't make fun of your brother Judi. Do you know how hard it was for your father to even admit his little girl had had sex by her 17th birthday?"
"MUM...how did...oh christ nothing has ever gotten past you?"
"No...not much. Do you want to know anything else about our family...your father and I?"
"How did you manage a relationship at all?"
"Your father was a unique man in that eventually it didn't bother him that I made more money and was far more aggressive but it took time and understanding. Initially we fought about my work...what I wanted to do with my career. Your father had asked me to marry him...we both wanted to marry but he also wanted me to consider not working once married because he was beginning to feel threatened by my position and the work I was doing was offsetting...there were men that occasionally had to escort me home or to meeting depending on the material...paperwork I was taking with me. This drove your father to distraction...he thought I was going to have an affair."
Judi turn and frowns at her mum. "Just because you were working in a male dominated field doesn't mean you were going to sleep with them all. How much did he know about what you did?"
"He knew, but he also knew not to ask too many questions, after a while but I did bring him into the office and made him sign the official secrets act once we married. It all worked out in the end...I was there in my flat and he showed up with a ring and flowers. The rest is history."
"What did you do while he was gone for that month?"
"Actually, I went to Scotland with an agent who needed a plus one to a family friend's wedding. It was purely a friend situation and it did inspire me to keep striving towards being who I am today...M."
"About Bond mum...Jude and I are pissed he left you like that...that you had to endure so much grief that you found comfort in uncle Marshall."
"Don't take this out on Bond...Silva was to blame and my actions all those years ago in Hong Kong. My rape had nothing to do with James and he could not have prevented it had he been in London. It was a too well organized a plan and I was just thankful that the men that took me only used stun guns on Tanner and my driver. It could have been far worse."
"We will take your word for it mum but we will have some words with James eventually."
"He already hates himself enough for not getting to the Island 18 hours earlier to save me from Silva. This is my burden to bear and I will...leave James Bond out of it. The past is just that...the past. There is no good that can come from digging it up again. I learned that the hard way."
Both her children nod at her in understanding...still stinging bitterly but trying to let the anger subside. Ryan puts on the radio to allow music to lull and distract them from their turbulent thoughts.
An hour later Judi points to the side of the road. "Look...we turn here...we are almost to Skyfall."
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The room Olivia is in is lovely and once must have belonged to a woman by the decor. There is a knock on the door.
Olivia tightens her dressing gown and opens it knowing that it will be James...here is where he will turn on the charm...try to get her to sleep with him.
Olivia opens the door...surprised to see Andrew Bond.
"Excuse me for the disturbance dolly...someone insisted to say goodnight to his little dolly."
Andrew steps to the side to show little James holding a blanket and in his pyjamas. James stretches his arms up to her...he is so cute. Olivia gets down on her knees and hugs the little boy.
"Oh Jamie...you are such a cutie."
The door down the hall opens to reveal another Bond in his dressing gown.
"Andrew...can you please explain why you and your son...will not stop embracing the little doll I picked and convinced to come up here for a wedding?"
"What can I say brother...Jamie can't get enough of her...he thinks you brought him a big little doll for a gift. So unless you thought to bring another...more interesting toy for him to love..."
"I promise to go out and buy him the biggest toy I can find tomorrow and I will never again forget to bring one when I come visit."
"Oh you are such a sweet boy James...goodnight and I will see you tomorrow."
Little James kisses her cheek and she kisses him back.
Olivia stands up and smiles as Andrew takes his son's hand and guides him back down the hall to the nursery.
James looks into her eyes. "I swear he does that just to annoy me...but he does have incredibly good taste." Bond moves past her into the room.
Olivia is surprised by the move and just to send the correct signal leaves the door wide open and moves to join him.
"He is a sweet child...I have always been on the fence about children but Nigel wants them and that little one is making me consider the possibility."
"You are seriously not at all charmed by anything I do or say are you dolly."
Olivia giggles, "no and the nickname doesn't help you any either."
"Shall I begin just calling you M then...since it is your current desired career path….children and all."
"I will be very old by the time I get to be M...I have some chauvinists to push off a cliff first. I have great hope for the future and the next generation of men and women being much less into clearly defined gender roles."
"This was our sister's room."
"Where is she now?"
"Peet Bottom, near Canterbury. She rarely ever comes home, although I heard whispers that she may actually show up to go to the wedding with us. I overheard Andrew on the phone with her...Charmian arrives sometime tomorrow. She is older than Andrew and I."
"My room is right next door if you get frightened or need a comforter to cuddle up with to stay warm."
"It's summer and I am positive that I will be warm enough, but thank you James. If she arrives I will give up the room."
"Charmian will not mind that you have used her room and we will make other arrangements for tomorrow night." James winks at her leaving no illusion where she will be sleeping.
"I will say goodnight...unless you want to come see what my room looks like dolly?"
"Are you really going to call me that the entire time I am here?"
"Well you are. You are cute small and very proportionate...anatomically correct from what I can see. I would have to undress you to really tell."
"You won't take my word for it?"
"I like to only believe what my eyes tell me as truth...are you positive?"
"Yes James. I said I would come as a friend and as your very beautiful and astute sister-in-law pointed out. I too think you need a woman that says no to you. You need that in your life more than another woman you will barely remember later after a long string of seductions. Seduction that will do nothing to numb the loss from 5 years ago."
"You notice a great deal dolly. I think you could be an agent. Should you ever decide that a desk is not your future but then you may not make it to become M. It is too dangerous, an agents life, and I don't wish for you to take that risk. And yes I say this because death does seem to follow me a little too closely as a 00."
James clasps her shoulders and leans down suddenly to kiss her. Olivia does not pull away but still looks shocked as he pulls away and smiles down at her.
James leaves and Olivia gets into bed thinking on what he said about her future. Bond is surprising her but then he is extremely adept at finding various seduction techniques for every woman he meets. It is his super power just as analysis and observation are hers.
Olivia dreams of a large office and desk...looking out over London.
To be continued…