Skyfall : Bond x Q : Story 09 & 10
TITLE: Just a Passenger
AUTHOR: pony_express
FANDOM: Skyfall
PAIRING: James x Q
GENRE: pre-slash
PROMPT: Story 9
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 266
SUMMARY: James has let Q take the wheel.
WARNINGS: None
DISCLAIMER Characters disclaimed.
Q had decided you should move in with him. Just a temporary measure. Your house had been sold after your “death” and you were officially homeless.
Q had decided you should kiss. It just sort of happened. It was sweet. He asked if he could kiss you, and you couldn’t say no.
Q had decided you should go out on your first date. And then most of the other dates you went on thereafter.
Basically Q has so far made every decision about your relationship. And you are surprisingly, cool with that. You don’t made going along for the ride as it were. Letting Q make all the decision took the heat off you. He enjoyed being the boss, you could tell. And although you wouldn’t admit it, you let him set the pace because you were far too taken with him.
You felt like you should be making a least some decisions about your relationship, so you decided to try and surprise your lover. You should have known that nothing surprises you. All those Q-tech gadgets had started somewhere. Q’s house was full of them, prototypes and final drafts. Nothing was a surprise for Q.
Well, what surprised Q was that you let him take the lead. You, to him, were a master of all you survey. And you were a boss. Anyone looking at the two of you would amuse you were the dominant one in the relationship. But it was Q. He was good at decision making, you had decided. And that was the only decision you were ever making about your relationship.
TITLE: Measure Up
AUTHOR: pony_express
FANDOM: Skyfall
PAIRING: James x Q
GENRE: pre-slash
PROMPT: Story 10
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 266
SUMMARY: James questions why Q is loyal to him.
WARNINGS: None
DISCLAIMER Characters disclaimed.
You rarely question Q’s loyalty to you, but he must questions yours to him all the time. At least most times you go out of a mission, for Q is always there with you. He is not only an extra pair of eye for you but also in your ear. Wherever you go. Whatever you do.
Whatever you do. . . And that’s what hurts you the most. Q tells you that he understands it’s your job, and the girls and the flirting are just a small part of that. He can handle it, because you always come back to him. . . Albeit without the damn equipment.
When he said that you felt like he was just saying it to calm your mind. To shut you up in a way. You felt the need to ask again, but Q would only laugh away your worries. You wanted to, needed to, talk about it. It got to you.
You start shutting off your mics and other on person recording devices, but that only upsets Q more. He worries that you’ve been knocked out or something. He always come back shouting in your hear. You try to tell him that you didn’t want him listening to that, but he’d always cite regulations.
You couldn’t win. You could only take Q’s word for it, and although he give you no reason to doubt him, you could just never be sure. Q wasn’t a jealous person, but there is only so much one person could take.
Loyalty is though, you realise, is not just measured by who crawls into your bed at night.
AUTHOR: pony_express
FANDOM: Skyfall
PAIRING: James x Q
GENRE: pre-slash
PROMPT: Story 9
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 266
SUMMARY: James has let Q take the wheel.
WARNINGS: None
DISCLAIMER Characters disclaimed.
Q had decided you should move in with him. Just a temporary measure. Your house had been sold after your “death” and you were officially homeless.
Q had decided you should kiss. It just sort of happened. It was sweet. He asked if he could kiss you, and you couldn’t say no.
Q had decided you should go out on your first date. And then most of the other dates you went on thereafter.
Basically Q has so far made every decision about your relationship. And you are surprisingly, cool with that. You don’t made going along for the ride as it were. Letting Q make all the decision took the heat off you. He enjoyed being the boss, you could tell. And although you wouldn’t admit it, you let him set the pace because you were far too taken with him.
You felt like you should be making a least some decisions about your relationship, so you decided to try and surprise your lover. You should have known that nothing surprises you. All those Q-tech gadgets had started somewhere. Q’s house was full of them, prototypes and final drafts. Nothing was a surprise for Q.
Well, what surprised Q was that you let him take the lead. You, to him, were a master of all you survey. And you were a boss. Anyone looking at the two of you would amuse you were the dominant one in the relationship. But it was Q. He was good at decision making, you had decided. And that was the only decision you were ever making about your relationship.
TITLE: Measure Up
AUTHOR: pony_express
FANDOM: Skyfall
PAIRING: James x Q
GENRE: pre-slash
PROMPT: Story 10
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 266
SUMMARY: James questions why Q is loyal to him.
WARNINGS: None
DISCLAIMER Characters disclaimed.
You rarely question Q’s loyalty to you, but he must questions yours to him all the time. At least most times you go out of a mission, for Q is always there with you. He is not only an extra pair of eye for you but also in your ear. Wherever you go. Whatever you do.
Whatever you do. . . And that’s what hurts you the most. Q tells you that he understands it’s your job, and the girls and the flirting are just a small part of that. He can handle it, because you always come back to him. . . Albeit without the damn equipment.
When he said that you felt like he was just saying it to calm your mind. To shut you up in a way. You felt the need to ask again, but Q would only laugh away your worries. You wanted to, needed to, talk about it. It got to you.
You start shutting off your mics and other on person recording devices, but that only upsets Q more. He worries that you’ve been knocked out or something. He always come back shouting in your hear. You try to tell him that you didn’t want him listening to that, but he’d always cite regulations.
You couldn’t win. You could only take Q’s word for it, and although he give you no reason to doubt him, you could just never be sure. Q wasn’t a jealous person, but there is only so much one person could take.
Loyalty is though, you realise, is not just measured by who crawls into your bed at night.