Traceability
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Unspoken Rules by blackidyll for Milaryn
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
24 Jan 2013
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"You can leave the gun and your equipment behind. You can remove all your clothes and scrub down but you won't find it, and I'll still be able to track you."
Bond is restless after M's death. Q takes steps to make sure the agent doesn't go MIA again.
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- Part 1 of Traceability
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Action Reaction by blackidyll
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
02 Feb 2013
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Q doesn't have just one tracker on Bond. He has dozens of factors that he can follow like a breadcrumb trail until he finds the agent himself. What is cyberspace, after all, other than an elaborate network of information spanning the globe from which a fisher can trawl data from?
Q knows without a doubt that he'll find Bond. The critical question is how long it will take, and whether it would be in time to find the man alive.
Bond goes off the radar during an operation. Q uses his considerable skills to track the agent down.
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- Part 2 of Traceability
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Blueprint of an Enigma by blackidyll
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
01 Mar 2013
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"You can come with me and at least let me scan your head for fractures, or I can shoot you somewhere non-lethal and then you'll definitely end up in Medical."
"You don't like guns."
Q blows out a breath. "No. I don't. Problem?"
Bond returns from a mission with visible head injuries. Scanning his skull with Q Branch's equipment gives Q a chance to observe the agent up close, but it also gives Bond opportunities to further confound Q.
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- Part 3 of Traceability
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Observations in Three Steps by blackidyll
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
20 Apr 2013
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Instead of deadly neutral, Bond's voice had been contemplative, and it suddenly clicks in place, what the questions – the baiting – are about. Q's interpretation is slightly off. Bond is on assignment, no doubt about that, but for the purposes of this phone call, Q is the mission.
Q smiles, and goes straight for the kill. "You're testing my limits."
"Ah." And Q can almost hear Bond's answering smile in the slight drawl he infuses into his reply. "Not your limits, no."
Three conversations, three interactions, and the ways relationships deepen with small moments of contact.
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- Part 4 of Traceability
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In This Finite Existence by blackidyll
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
16 Mar 2014
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There’s a part of Q – his disgruntled ego, he strongly suspects – that still wants to retaliate in some form. Years of self-discipline and the driving force of ambition means that Q has built up near imperturbable fronts, but it rankles to be manhandled, and buried far beneath that is the unease that comes from being disabled so easily, from not having any of his technology on hand.
The rest of him is already reassessing the situation. Q is not impervious, not his pride, and not to a Double-O suddenly turned solemn enough to make promises he never cared before to keep.
His fingers curl into themselves and Q blows out a careful breath, feeling bereft without his phone, a tablet, a keyboard. “Don’t tell me where we’re going.”
Bond doesn’t.
The journey matters, but so does the destination. On a cold day in December, Bond takes Q on a trip beyond London and MI6's watchful eyes.
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- Part 5 of Traceability
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Crossing of the Rubicon by blackidyll
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies)
07 Nov 2015
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“That’s vindictive of you,” C says. “Once, you could have been in Jacobs’s position.”
“And having an intelligence agency crash into one's life – that’s exactly what happened to me, isn’t it,” Q says sharply, and then slaps his open palm against his forehead. His damn broken filters again. “My apologies. It’s different coming from this side of the equation now.”
“You’re on edge today, Quartermaster.”
Q pulls off his glasses and pinches at the bridge of his nose, and lets his eyes fall close for a moment. “It’s been a rather long week.”
When Bond falls off the radar yet again, Q has to weigh tracing his last movements with concentrating on his own assignment, dealing with a hacker of some renown. Either way, agents keep plotting, the world keeps spinning and Q Branch needs to continue doing what it does best.
Or does it?
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- Part 6 of Traceability