Chapter 30
Friday morning is a lovely one, after the drama of such bad storms earlier.
M and Tanner meet early in the billiard room, slash command centre as Ryan and James go for a run.
Kincade brings Maggie to make lunch and dinner and Judi joins them in the kitchen to assist.
"Mr. Kincade do you think you would like to come on a picnic lunch with the family since you are not going to be here this evening?"
"Aye that would be nice lass."
"What a wonderful idea." Maggie says as she begins moving around the kitchen and pulling things out to make for the picnic.
"I will help you Maggie since I have just sprung this on you suddenly."
"There are still the workers to feed, so I will see to them while you are gone with your young man and the family."
"Yes...it has been so nice of you to take us all on. I know it has been unusual to deal with so many in and out."
"No it is no trouble at all dear. I love to cook for a crowd. What are they creating with all that equipment?"
Kincade looks to Judi. "Well...it is all hush hush department of defence stuff Maggie. You can't go on about it in town now."
"No...I wouldn't do that! You know me better than that. I will keep my eyes open but my mouth shut."
"Good girl...what can I do to help you?"
"Nothing Kincade...go out of this kitchen and help the young ones building and setting up their computers everywhere." Maggie ushers Kincade from the room.
Judi laughs and begins chopping for the salads.
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The six of them escape the noise of the construction crew to have their family picnic.
Bond plays absently with the ring box in his pocket, wondering if this would be a good time...if they could sneak off somewhere.
They place blankets together on a side of a hill and sit while Ryan opens wine and Kincade gets the dishes sorted.
Once all the plates are full of food they eat chatting about the party and Kincade's introduction to his son and grandson later that day.
Tanner looks at M. "I assume that you and James are heading back to London Sunday also. You said you are going back to work. Are you sure you are ready for it after all this M?"
"I have honestly been so busy that any dark thoughts from my abduction are well trampled...for now."
Kincade looks severe. "I don't know the particulars Em but that man...I wish I could have helped James kill him."
"Me too mum and you know how I dislike violence." Ryan says as he wraps an arm around his mother.
"I will be fine. I have had the best support I need and the joy of having this one return to me has been the icing on the cake. If I keep busy the mind only seems to be wandering to pleasant past memories."
"So yes Tanner...the cruel dominatrix of MI6 will be back bright and early Monday morning to kick Mallory's ass out of her chair."
"James! I will be polite and not kick him at all. Mallory has done a good job and has a greater understanding of what our department does now. He can take that back with him to the advisory committee."
"Still M, I personally think you should take more time...another week at least."
"Yes that is because you just want to keep her in bed James." Judi winks.
"Well I have to get it out of the way before someone and a couple of grandkids...come to...visit."
"So mum told you did she? You don't mind the chaos do you James?"
"No...it will be fun...so I am told."
M swats his arm as Ryan burst a gut. Judi silences any further discussion of her coming to London with the skilled diversion of a diplomat.
"Kincade are you nervous about tonight?"
"No lass but tomorrow is a different matter. Never been one for fancy dress and crowds."
"You will do fine and Katrina will stand with you old man. It is about time I get to meet the cousins again. I hope Alistair is nicer now than he was when I was little."
Kincade smiles at James with a twinkle in the eye. "I am sure he is. His mother tells me he has plans on retiring back in Scotland."
"Oh my, that old house is going to fill up fast." M says.
"Yes, lass it is but it will be nice for Callum and Katrina."
After eating Kincade and Ryan take a walk over the hill and Judi and Tanner go the opposite way leaving M with James reclining on the blankets.
M cleans up the mess while James props himself on his elbows while he watches her.
"You know...you could help."
"Sorry...I was just enjoying watching you."
M quirks an eyebrow up as she finishes cleaning. M is wearing jeans and a floral blouse showing enough cleavage to get his heart pumping. The thought of undressing her right here on the blanket suddenly overwhelms him.
James knows the others left them there, in the hopes that he will propose again. He will...as soon as the moment is right...but now there are more pressing matters arising.
James mouth is on hers the second M places the last dirty plate away.
"James!" M pulls away. "What do you think you're doing...now?"
"Making out with you outside on a blanket." His hands quickly work the buttons of her blouse as he trails kisses all over her neck.
"We cannot...they could come back at any moment….well maybe not Judi and Tanner."
"No, Tanner likely has her up against a tree as we speak. You should have worn a skirt like your well planning daughter."
"James!"
"You know she is likely as incorrigible as you and having an inattentive husband...well...she is just making up for lost time. As for Tanner...the poor man is over the moon. I don't think I have ever seen him smile this much."
Bonds hands and lips tease her as he cups her breasts and his fingers move to open her jeans. His lips are pressing against hers searching for entrance.
M is falling for James insistence but she knows she needs to stop him. There is no way M is going to get caught doing what she knows James wants be doing right now. James is an incorrigible exhibitionist at times.
This week full of highs and lows has opened her mind to adventurous escapades that she has not dreamt of for many years. M remember the time she almost gave in at the kirk, from a kiss with the other James Bond.
The kirk and then in Charmian's room and James' room...M pulls away from her James feeling bad for daydreaming about another James while being so pleasantly kissed.
"James! Stop that and stop this." M pulls his hands off her breast and attempts to button up her blouse.
Bond stills her hand in his and peppers her with loving kisses. His hand is now in the front of her jeans as he strokes her over her panties. This is making it difficult for M to stop him...he is so irresistible...but she needs control.
Bond is now humping M as they recline on the hill. How is it that with her, just fooling around drives him to heights of passion he has never felt before?
The pleasure of kissing M escalates so quickly that James cannot stop himself. He wants her right now...right here and it is the only thing he can think about.
Bond is aching hard and leaking in his jeans as he presses against her relishing the feeling and friction. He knows that she will fight him about making love here on the blanket where the family just enjoyed their luncheon.
M is not able to resist the pleasure of his fingers on her sex and his lips on her mouth and neck.
James sucks on her neck at the pulse points...hard enough that she knows he means to mark her...claim her as his own. His mouth moves between her ample breasts and he moves to mouth her nipples through the lace of her bra.
"James! Stop it...we have to stop."
James does not answer but silences her protests with his lips again. M moans into his mouth as their tongues entwined again. His fingers move under her panties to touch her delicate heated flesh.
A louder moan leaves M, as her resolve weakens...this man can unravel her faster than anyone in her past. Desire to climax from his talented fingers becomes overwhelming as he continues to grind against her hip.
Christ, M is so close...sweat breaks out on her brow as her breathing becomes shallow and her body arches to his touch.
Suddenly M hears someone coming and her body freezes.
"James! Someone is coming...stop!"
That tosses cold water on the interlude as M pulls away from him quickly.
"Awe...M...but we have yet to do it at a picnic."
"Well it will have to be a private one not a bloody family one for this! Please calm yourself until next time." James' face lights up in mischief as soon as the words leave her mouth.
"We can pack a picnic for the drive back to London and stop somewhere secluded. Then my dear we will finish what we started to enjoy here."
"We'll see about that James."
M quickly does up her jeans and buttons her blouse.
"Alright then M, there is something we need to discuss." James attempt to readjust himself to a comfortable position getting to his knees beside her as she sits up on the blanket.
M pulls her fingers through her hair to spike it up and attempt to look as though nothing was going on.
It is likely a useless gesture as the flush on her face will be a give away, along with whatever marks James left on her skin. M swears she can still feel the path of his kisses on her skin.
James has a question and she thinks she knows what James wants to discuss.
"Is this about Judi and the kids possibly moving into my flat? I am sorry that I asked her before I spoke to you...it is as if I forgot you were living there...in my defence you have only been alive again for 2 weeks or so."
"No M it's not that...although that did hit hard. I know you are just trying to help your daughter and second son...Tanner."
"Yes, well if they want to try for something real...it will have to be in London not long distance."
"M...I need to ask you.."
Tanner runs out of the woods looking flustered as M's mobile rings.
"Hello...WHAT! She is...Send a team...I want her arrested before the event... She knows exactly where I am and likely knows that there is a connexion between the MacKenzies and Bonds...Fine...keep me apprised of the team's progress...Do we have enough to make it legal...MI5 will have to accompany so you will have to meet with their director...Thank you Mallory."
Tanner reaches the blankets with concerned look on his face. "M we should get back to the command centre."
"What's happened?" Bond gathers the blanket after he helps M to her feet.
"Clare Dower is what has happened. RYAN!" M yells in the direction Kincade and Ryan walked.
Judi walks up. "I will text him. Are we expecting another attack mum?" Judi asks nervously.
"No...I doubt it. However, she needs to be arrested and hopefully before the party as to avoid a scene."
M glances up and down her daughter seeing a leaf sticking out of her hair. Judi and Tanner were rolling around somewhere having fun.
James can't believe this is happening...again...this is his life lately. He can not catch a break with asking her to marry him again...properly.
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Maggie is waiting for Kincade to drive her home after finishing making dinner for the crew and leaving it to keep warm for them.
As they return she watches them exit the car from the window. All week Maggie has been noticing that things are strange between master Bond and Judi.
The other morning Emma and James came down together from upstairs. Maggie is beginning to think that she has been a fool for assuming that the woman and her family that Bond brought to Skyfall...is actually Emma and her children. They do work together for the government and there are things going on here that are not normal.
Maggie noticed the holes in the walls and the way the front door seemed smashed in. Something is definitely strange here.
As they leave the car and head to the house she notices how James dotes on Emma and Judi links arms with his friend Mr. Tanner. Judi looks up at Mr. Tanner like he is the light of her life. The same way Mr. Bond has been looking at her mother.
Well...isn't that a remarkable turn of events. Maggie wonders if Callum knows...she understands that he is sweet on Em just like Kincade was before Katrina returned to his life.
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M spends the rest of the day in command making arrangements to take Dower at the airport or train station on her arrival. However, MI5 is being difficult in assisting and is delaying the departure of the team. So the rest of the day is spent frustratingly trying to get the two agencies to work together properly.
Mallory is having a difficult time with Blake the head of MI5.
Q found a connexion between Alistair MacKenzie and Clare Dower and that is how she is on the guest list for the party.
Bond has the authorization to take her and hold her if it comes to that, but M does not want a scene at the party. In her position as special guest of Callum she will be a focal point as he is using M as a girlfriend like figure for this party.
Bond is not happy with the situation but M already agreed to it.
Ryan and Bond see to the placement of two new gun cabinets, one in the billiard room as well as one in the bunkhouse for the others. Bond informs the other team members that there may be a minor threat, but not to worry a team is on the way to deal with it.
"Will that team be here in time James?" Ryan asks when they leave the bunkhouse.
"I don't know Ryan. Your mother is dealing with the bureaucracy this time and there is limited physical threat to your mother. The treat is that Dower can use her bloody big mouth to destroy M, by telling the entire party who she is and what is actually going at Skyfall."
"That would be a huge security risk for the area...Kincade and the townspeople."
"Yes and the MacKenzies will feel the brunt of disapproval also. If the town feels they knew but were not forthcoming with the information."
"That will not go over well. Not to mention the threat Dower's connexions to this shadowy organization of her uncles."
"Exactly why I want to silence the bitch forever. However, your mother will need to speak with her first. From my initial assessment on Skye, Dower did not know much but she does know who your mother is and suspects that we are in a relationship. She also has her sights set on M's job, thus putting her in a position of power for Quantum to use."
"So not only can she blab that MI6 has a not so secret base in Scotland but that mum, M has taken an agent for a lover. That could end her career, giving her the opportunity to slide into position at MI6."
James shoots a look at him that Ryan reads as...Yes...I know and this is why she is so hesitant to marry him.
"Sorry James. I know this is a sensitive subject for you but it is true. My mother is defined by her job...it has dominated her life like no husband, lover or children could. They took her straight out of university...if what they told me when I was young was actually true."
"I am sure she remained as close to the truth as she could. That is something that they teach us for our relationships outside the job."
"Did you ever have one of those?"
"Not really...not until now and she is far more deep into the game than I have ever been. I just exist as a tool on the edge of the game. I am her pawn."
"I would argue that you are far more than that to her now Bond. Perhaps the other 00's are pawns but you are far more to her than that...definitely her knight. I doubt she will be able to even bare sendding you away now."
James smiles at him and winks. "I told her the same in bed this morning...we…"
"NO...that is enough...don't want to hear any more! By god I hope to survive this week of my mother and sister and their new romances."
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Kincade drives Maggie back to town before heading to get ready for dinner with the boy and grandson. He is a tad nervous but Maggie breaks into his musings with some rather pointed questions.
"So did you stop chasing after Emma once you realized it was the young master who holds her heart?"
"What?"
"You know...that is why you stopped drooling over Emma and are now headed back into the arms of Katrina. That MacKenzie woman has been nothing but bad news for you your entire life Kincade. Do you trust her not to stomp all over you again?"
"Listen lass...I know you were Annie's friend but she is gone and Katrina and I have a history."
"Yes and it always made poor Annie jealous to know that you loved Katrina so."
"Be that as it may...I am with Katrina now and I will be with the family tonight. As for the other...you would be wise to keep what you see at Skyfall to yourself. Don't go meddling with things."
"What of Callum and his desire for the woman? I admit she is a lovely woman but the two of you old men do not hold a candle to James Bond...as handsome as his father and uncle he is."
"Aye and Callum has been told she is spoken for."
"But does he know who holds the woman's heart?"
"I do not know what Em told Callum. They are friends if nothing more and Callum accepts that even if he keeps trying to change her mind."
"I suppose in this day and age it was wrong of all of us to assume master James loved the younger woman...she is a nice lass too, but he never watched her as he does her mother."
"Aye...it is plain to see if you were looking close enough, past the prejudices of age."
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After being so worked up at the picnic earlier in the day Bond is ardent as he pushes M up against the wall in a passionate kiss.
Escalation and sex are the only things on his mind once they reach their room but M has other worries.
"James...dear...I am sorry but I am truly exhausted...could we just fall into bed and sleep?"
James frowns at her and breathes a sigh. "Alright M...come let's snuggle and get some sleep."
The two of them get ready for bed as Bond steals a few more kisses. M looks done in and he stops pestering her after the trial and tribulations of the past few days she needs a rest.
Hours later...
M begins to thrash...there is someone coming for her through the fog...it is Mr. White...but it shifts and become Silva. He walks up to her and smiles like he did and purrs into her ear...he lifts her and tosses her onto a bed and practically smothers her with his giant body.
Kissing and licking her...ordering M to read to him after he takes her. It all floods back to her in a massive deluge of images and feelings...the smell of him in her nostrils. The way he kissed her...his fingers and tongue on her...the bites he gave her...his foreplay and the bloody hopelessness of being trapped on that Island for him to use.
M tosses and fights him...his arm around her middle...no...not again..."NO!"
M sits up in thrashing and struggling against James' arms as he wakes to hear her scream.
"M it is James...you are safe at Skyfall. Silva cannot get you...I killed him for you."
"James...James...White...Silva...oh god."
James settles her down caressing her face and gently touching her as her heartbeat returns to normal.
"So much for no residual nightmares eh?"
"M...It is normal. I have some still...it is part of the trauma. You are very tired and there is the stress of dealing with Clare Dower tomorrow and the party."
"Yes...I do...and I need sleep to do it. I am sorry for waking you James."
"Never apologize for that. I may end up doing it to you once in a while also."
James holds her tight to will away the nightmares that haunt his love, likely for the rest of her life. Bond shares some of hers...that monster holding her naked in his bed, as tightly as Bond is now. Silva was holing M to make sure she could not escape him.
M could not have escaped him anyway not without MI6. If only James had been faster...earlier...he could have prevented it all.
If only James had returned after Turkey, rather than spending all his time pouting on a beach and drinking M out of his system for having him shot.
James should have returned to London...to M. Then M would not have taken Marshall as a lover to replace him. Silva would never have taken her from him.
James would have scooted her away to Skyfall to hide her from Silva rather than bring her here after to recover from that monster's assault.
James is so glad to have M in his life but the disasters caused by Silva will leave scars on them both.
To be continued...