ato-the-bean:mi6-cafe:It’s WIP Wednesday! Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then ta
ato-the-bean:mi6-cafe:It’s WIP Wednesday! Post a line or three from a current WIP, and then tag it with #mi6cafeWIPWednesday so the Cafe can find and reblog it!OR you can reblog this post with your WIP excerpt!All ships, fandoms, and WIPs are welcome. Something new for @mi6-cafe’s “He Died… Or Did He? December Challenge” I fully plan to write a Threshold-esque fix-it for NNTD, but since that will take a year, in the meantime maybe I’ll do something short and sweet and (dare I say) holidayish. Who knows… I’m pretty much pantsing this. Have a bit of the prologue…It’s one week after James Bond’s death that Q receives a certified letter from a barrister informing him that he’s the sole inheritor of Bond’s estate. He first thinks it’s a cruel joke, but no one is in much of a joking mood, what with the fiery aftermath of the mission — both literal and political. And the loss of their… friend, Q supposes, though that word seems both too large and too small to describe James Bond. He meets with the executor of the estate and tries to argue that it should go to James’ daughter, but the paperwork is clear, and of course, Bond hadn’t known he had a daughter when it was written. Q schedules a meeting with Madeleine and offers her the funds, but she politely refuses and asks for a car and new IDs instead. She is rather leery of MI6 after everything and plans to leave London, though Q is relieved that her distrust does not extend to him personally. Q fulfills her requests; it seems the least he can do. He uses Bond’s estate to set up funds for Mathilde’s education and future.It’s three weeks after James Bond’s death that Q receives a new line item in his budget to study the interactions of the Smart Blood and Heracles nanobots. If James were alive, Q could just draw his blood to measure the interactions, but that’s not possible. Fortunately, he’d drawn blood from both Madeleine and Mathilde before they’d driven off into the sunset, to add to the library of Heracles samples he’s building. And he has every generation of Smart Blood they’ve ever developed… He quickly decides that the parameters of the work under this line item should be expanded a bit. Mallory is too busy with the inquiry to notice, anyway. -- source link
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