#spectre!q is the middle child | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

uno-writing · 2 years

Text

Ability/Biology HC

Welcome back to UnO Science with Berri!!!! Keep in mind this is canon adjacent so if things dont line up perfectly thats why :D!!! I inputted a lot of my own personal hc so ig this is more of an AU theory fdsagfasfgas

BTW I’m just going off of what info is in the comic bc thats what I consider as canon :D Personally I dont view Q & A answers as canon since they’re not directly in the comic, but you all are obviously welcome to view it as canon if you’d like :D :D

Also I might do a post with pics and other visuals later on but I didn’t have time to make them today edsafgdsgaf

The Aura Channels, spread through out the entire body. These channels similarly follow the nervous system. This originates in the Aura Gland. This gland is located near the cerebellum and the brain stem. It looks similar to a balloon depending on the mastery.

The gland glows when activated. While it’s not proven why this happens, researchers theorize that its due to an evolutionary advancement to warn away predators (like the poison dart frog’s bright colors). The larger the gland, the brighter it glows. Because of this, high tiers always have a faint glow to them due to their passives, a further warning for others to stay away.

The aura system is developed enough to use by the start of puberty. This gland is already at the maximum size it will ever be at puberty and does not continue to grow along with the brain. The max size is determined at birth through genetics (check out my genetics hc if you haven’t <3). Also known as potential, this is the largest amount of aura that can be produced at one time.

While someone’s exact max cant be predicted easily, doctors are able to speculate what tier a child will be in once they start puberty based on the size of the aura gland. For example, Sera’s gland is massive compared to Evie’s.

Nulls have the aura system but lack the activation gene. “Late Bloomers” have delayed aura system development. For example, John’s aura gland was very small through out middle school and then developed fully when he hit high school where as William’s is still small.

There’s two main types of abilities: physical and mental. These also have their own subgenres.

Physical: Stat Increase, Medical, Constructs, and Quantum

Mental: Mind, Emotional, and Meta

Aura Channels activate in relation to the type of ability. For example, John’s ability starts with only being activated in his head and then spreads based on what abilities he copies. Blyke’s ability was only activated in his hands when he was elite tier, but now that he’s high tier its active in his entire torso.

All children are also born with grey eyes. Once their aura gland activates, the color floods into their eyes. This color is a direct reflection of their aura. Certain people with a meta ability can copy others auras. Like John would have grey eyes, but when he copies abilities his eyes change to that person’s aura.

There’s plenty of different procedures revolving around abilities as well.

Ability amplification is an illegal process in which an ability is amplified by some method. The most common methods involve increasing the size of the aura gland in order to cause more aura production to occur. All methods of ability amplification are dangerous and addictive.

Ability transference is a relatively new practice that involves taking aura from a host and putting it into the patient in order to change abilities. Aura production is stopped and then the new aura is cycled through. The host is needed to be alive due to the constant treatments necessary. This is a painful and highly addictive procedure with terrible withdrawals.

Deamplification is the opposite process. In some way the aura gland shrinks and therefore can’t produce as much aura.

Nullification is a semi-permanent procedure. SPECTRE uses a serum in order to completely shut off the aura system. While this can be reversed, its unstable and requires lots of treatments.

*FROM THIS POINT FORWARDS IS NO LONGER CANON STUFF! THIS IS STUFF RELATING TO THE BERRIVERSE! ITS AN INTERESTING IDEA AND ITS NOT TOO IN DEPTH WITH MY OC STUFF IF YOU DO WANNA READ /NF*

TW!!!!! GORE, UNSAFE MEDICAL PRACTICES, MENTIONS OF LOBOTOMY TYPE PROCEDURE AND PARALYSIS, NON CONSENSUAL MEDICAL PROCEDURES! PROCEED WITH CAUTION MY FRIENDS!!!!!

A more barbaric way is to make an incision at the base of the head and heavily damage or even remove the aura gland. This practice was mainly used in early medicine on criminals and threats to society.

This practice has since been outlawed and has mainly died out due to the inhumane aspect of it and the danger surrounding it. Since the aura gland is located near the brain stem, the risk of paralysis and other side effects are incredibly high. While its outlawed, its still used as a threat towards children and delinquents. It is also still used in some circles as an extreme measure, however its very rare.

If the aura gland is healed from this procedure quick enough then there is a possibility of recovery, however its not guaranteed. In some cases abilities return, but stay stunted through out the person’s life.

#unordinary #unordinary headcanon #very rare big brainnnnnnnn #berriwords

21 notes · View notes

profqlasses · 2 years

Photo

Ben Whishaw as Q 2012 / 2015 / 2021

I remember being in my trailer and just having a moment, and seeing the character’s clothes laid out there and my watch and socks and things, I [was] just like ‘Oh, my God. I’m… I’m Q now.’

1K notes · View notes

earlgreyinpajamas · 3 years

Note

do you have any favourite 00q longfics? (your blog is an absolute godsend, by the way)

ahhh thank you for your kind words !!! here they are ~~

1. The One Who Made Him Stay by JayPendragon

Twenty-one days after the Double-oh programme is reinstated, James Bond returns to MI6 with his Aston Martin and without Dr Swann. This is only the beginning of Q's problems.

A Spectre Fix-It. COMPLETE.

~~~

this is basically 60k of bamf!q and do we like it? yes.

2. oh mercy, i implore by sleeponrooftops (@sleeponrooftops)

Q wonders, briefly, how James could possibly think this is an appropriate time to profess his undying love—or whatever the hell it is he’s attempting to do; though, frankly, the skeleton suit did make him blink a bit stupidly at his laptop—but then something explodes to his left, and Q heaves a long-suffering sigh and snaps at him for ruining everything good in the world. James laughs and carries on wielding his Walther like it isn’t the 7500th replacement that Q has thrown at him.

~~~

and i cannot stress enough how good this series is. there are two other fics after this and they are both just so good. there is no such thing as a saggy middle for this author.

3. Lay It Down by dhampir72 (@dhampir72)

Bond and Q agreed: their relationship was nothing more than physical. Until it suddenly isn't.

(Or alternatively: The one in which Q gets sick, Bond takes care of him, and the truth comes out.)

2/10/2014: Now available in French courtesy of the wonderful Belle Pimprenelle!

~~~

i will probably never shut up about this fic or this author because honestly their characterisation of bond is just so on point. that scene where he's just freaking out is just *chef's kiss*

Bonus: Very Much Wanted by ShadyQuiet

James and Q have been mated for over a year, they've stopped trying to avoid pregnancy, and now the Quartermaster finds himself expecting... James is overprotective, Q is in over his head, and both are just a little bit over the moon. Of course, they don't train SIS agents in pregnant omega care, or child care for that matter... Or meeting your mate's more than slightly unhinged family. Neither do they train Quartermaster's in juggling pregnancy symptoms with work, protective lovers, and growing your own life form.

~~~

and this one depends on whether or not you like the whole abo thing or just babies in general. personally, i like babies, so i liked the whole idea of 00q trying to figure out how to get and grow one for 300k. i thought it was all terribly endearing, although i also get that some people might be a little squeamish about pregnancy, so this one is just up to personal preference.

#00q fic recs #00q fic rec #00q fanfiction #00q fic #00q #q #pining!q #pining q #pining bond #pining!bond #pining james #pining james bond #pining!james #bamf!q #bamf q

271 notes · View notes

sunaddicted · 3 years

Text

Thoughts on NTTD

I've been mulling on this for a while and sure as hell I don't remember all the details so, this post is going to be a wreck (but so was I when the credits rolled).

I opened the laptop to specifically put this mess under a cut so, click further if you wanna know what I thought of the movie!

So, a very quick premise: I didn't like it.

It's not the worst in my personal scale of the Craig!Bond movies just because you just can't get worse than Quantum of Solace, but honestly I didn't feel like it was actually worth the wait. I'll try to break down why, just keep in mind that these are my considerations - you loved it? Good, I'm always happy when fellow fans enjoyed the content <3

1. Safin wasn't a satisfactory villain. First of all, the physical disfigurement and the exaggerated accent that keep being piled on Bond's villains were frankly tiring to watch, it's high time that the franchise did better (yes, I knew already from all the trailers that this was going to be an issue but I will still complain about it because Barbara needs to listen). Second, his.. thing with Madeline wasn't entirely clear - was he fascinated by her? obsessed with her? in love with her? GROSS in any case, considering that he already was an adult when he met her and she was a child. Third his motives were shaky at best. Like, why he would want SPECTRE erased from existence is clear enough (even if I think they could have expanded a little on the why Franz decided to obliterate his whole fam) but his reason to just unleash Heracles upon the world? Meh. If I had Heracles, you can be sure I would literally use it to hold everyone by the balls. Fourth, the blatant racism he showed towards Nomi didn't sit right with me but I don't feel like I'm qualified to expand on this because I'm not POC.

2. Directly tied to point one - the villain lair was pretty much bland. I don't know if I had too high expectations but when I heard the words garden of poisons, a half deserted pool in the middle of a chemical compound wasn't it. Like... I wanted luscious, violently bright and vivid vegetation. The part of the chemical compund was cool though, especially the radioactive(???) pool.

3. Matera was all around cool(TM). I'm not from Matera so I can't vouch on the veredicity of the tradition of burning secrets, I just know that I didn't find any mentions of it while googling? I don't know my friends. Anyway, the stunts team outdid themselves and they should be proud of the amazing work they did and I hope for them that they get a shower of awards and recognition. Vesper's tomb???? I haven't watched Casino Royale in a while so I don't remember whether she ever even references to being from around Matera. It was so RANDOM. But.. I had feelings about James still missing her and asking for her forgiveness so, I liked the scene. BUT IT WAS RANDOM.

4. The secret baby plotline. No. Just no, sorry.

5. At least Q had a boyfriend and Sphynx cats, I was happy about that.

6. THE HUGE PLOTHOLE THAT WAS HERACLES SUPPOSED ETERNITY. In one scene you have Q telling Bond that Heracles would stay with him forever and then in the following scene you have Q injecting Smart Blood in James' body again because the nanobots have degraded on something; now, if Heracles and Smart Blood are based on the same technology (the nanobots), why is one eternal and the other isn't??? Did James really die for a plothole??? Did Q really not think about lying to James in order to get him off of that island so that he would at least have a chance at cracking the mystery???

7. The plothole isn't the only reason I'm pissed about James' death btw. If there is one(1) good thing that Spectre did, it was establishing the fact that James doesn't live in a solitary bubble: he has actual bonds of friendship with the MI6 squad and even No Time to Die went to the lenght of making sure we knew how important Felix was to him - so, I don't accept that James would basically kill himself just because he couldn't touch Madeline and Mathilde anymore. Like... come onnnnn.

8. On the matter of Felix - bringing him back just to kill him like that? You did us dirty Barbara.

9. Paloma was adorable, she definitely deserved a lot more screentime than she got.

10. Nomi deserved more space. I know that it was Daniel Craig's swan song but yeah, Lashana and Nomi deserved a bit more than what they got imo.

I don't think I have more "organized" points to make. Overall, I think I would have probably been a lot less disappointed if they didn't keep delaying the movie; with every delay my expectations and hopes for it to be good just kept growing and growing so, I really set myself up for heartbreak (it's the first movie I watched in the theatre since the pandemic, I was really hoping for it to blow me away).

I already wrote a fix-it fic of course (x) but the fact is, in my future fannish works you can expect me to take a couple of elements from the movie and then act as if it never was screened lmao.

Skyfall definitely remains my personal favourite of the Craig!Bond saga, followed by Casino Royale, Spectre, No Time to Die and Quantum of Solace.

#bond25spoilers #no time to die #007 #tldr: i didn't like it

8 notes · View notes

crewman-penelope · 2 years

Text

Part 4 - The Oceanaut - AO3

Part 1 - The breath of chaos

Part 2 - The Green-eyed Monster

Part 3 - Old Debts

Fandom: James Bond / Rami Malek

Chapters: 9/20

Characters : James Bond, M, Q, Nomi, Eve Moneypenny, OFC Tatjana Safin, Lyutsifer Safin, OMC Luc Dupont, OFC Marie Dupont, OMC Matvei & Maksemilian Safin

Relationship : James Bond / Eve Moneypenny, Safin/OFC Character Tatjana

Warning : Lemon🍋, manipulation, death/violence💀, smutish🍑 , Dom!Safin🖤, NON CON⚠️!!

Rating : MA

Gene: Crime / Romance

Summary: James Bond retirement on the Bahamas is calm and peaceful. SPECTRE is defeated, Lyutsifer Safin dead and Bond's substitute family - Tatjana, the twins and Marie - with him. But the circumstances oft the surprised suicide of the chairman from the BREEF ( Bahama Reef Environmental Educational Foundation) brings the former agent back to work.

9. Sleeping habits

Tatjana woke up by soft movements on the matress.

She frownd and grunted as a small figure pushed her aside to settle in the open space. A low giggle and more pushing, She heard her husband mumble annoyed and it went still again.

She rested with close eyes, waiting that slumber catches her again.

The day behind her was long and exciting, from the exploration of the underwater living space with all the rooms and corridors, to the joined and happy dinner with Luc, Marie, the boys and Lyutsifer, to the stressful attempt to get the boys to bed in their new rooms.

Safin had let build a wonderful room for his sons, with nautic bunks in the wall with blue night lights. The walls decked with warm, wooden planks, the ground soft playground tiles - easy to clean and slightly bouncing like rubber - a big glass wall for the boys to look on a reef, as also a climbing frame in the middle of the room.

A shelf, filled with illustrated book, from biology subject, adventures to fairy tale, finished the room. Tatjana would had loved to had such a room as a child herself.

But the boys were nervous, especially Maksimilian was unsure if papa would still be there at the next morning. Safin had spoken to him with his sweet tongue of persuasion to calm him.

"We are in the next room. Yes, we let the door open. Of course you can switch your night light on. No, you don't need another glass of water. Yes, I will be here. In fact, I will wake you up for breakfast. Yes, we can have breakfast together. With Luc. And Marie. And Mama too… "

Matvei was asleep in minutes, listening to Safin's low voice. Maksimilian clinched at his papa's hand with wide open eyes, until Safin started to tell him a story. "Starushke bylo odinoko .."

Tatjana had left and went to bed with a book to wait for Safin. She woke up three hours later as the book felt with a loud bouncing noise to the ground. Bewildered she rubbed her face and looked left to Safin's side, what was empty.

Getting out of bed she tiptoed to the children's room. Maksimilians blue night light was still on and illuminated the view of him, sleeping soundly, Safin laying at his side with uncomfortable folded legs, but snoring softly.

Tatjana hesitated first to wake her husband. But the bunk bed was so small, Safin so grouched in it, she was sure he would get spine pain im the morning.

Softly touching him at the shoulder Safin's eyes shut open at once.

He didn't moved first, but looked around until a knowing glance appeared in his eyes.

He nodded lightly and got up and out of the bunk in slow motion, not to wake Maksimilian.

Eventually back in their own bed he stretched with a groan.

"I know.", Tatjana spoke apologizing. "I should not had let the boys slept in my bed. But they were the closes thing to their father and it soothed me.", Tatjana whispered.

Safin looked at her with his serious face and reached for her. Pulling her close he held her and kissed her hair.

"I'm truly sorry I had you get through this. But is it over now. The boys need more time, that is all. I don't mind."

Tatjana sighed in agreement and closed her eyes. Catched in his scent and listening to his heartbeat she felt quickly asleep, with the assumption to get finally some rest.

Until the sneakily invasion in the early morning that was.

Now, laying at the very end of the matress, the bed frame pressed at her buttock, she looked up to relish in the view the faint light of the corridor showed her. Matvei, im his full length stretched diagonally upon the bed, Maksimilian, nestled at his father's bare chest and Safin himself, still deep asleep, drowling on his cushion.

'This is my family.', Tatjana smiled and closed her eyes again. The snoring sound of her three men in her ear, slumber catched her eventually.

#The Oceanaut #The Oceanaut 9 #lyutsifer safin #lyutsifer safin x original character #james bond fanfiction #James bond #Matvei Safin #Maksemilian Safin #Marie Dupont #Luc Dupont #Crime #Romance #Espionage #Smut #Lemon

1 note · View note

a-forger-and-a-point-man · 4 years

Text

headcanons: the parents of 00qad

-q is the only one that comes from a traditional, intact family unit. his mother susan and his father jeremy raised him in a healthy middle class home, and they are all very close to this day.

-danny grew up poor and his parents were never around. they hardly ever expressed their love for him. at one point, they succumbed to threats from spectre and tried to sabotage danny’s plans to take alex’s research public.

-it turns out that danny’s parents stole him from a hospital, because they could get away with more as a couple if they had a child in their home. danny is q’s long lost twin. until he and alex meet james and q, susan doesn’t even realize her other baby is still alive. now danny is finally in a loving relationship and in a loving family.

-alex no longer speaks to his adoptive mother frances, but she sends him a christmas card and a birthday card every year. his real mother, however, lives about an hour and a half away, and while they aren’t particularly close - and she has a lot of trauma to deal with on her own - he tries to see her a couple of times a month and take her out to a nice meal.

-james’ only family is kincade. kincade hosts 00qad at skyfall every august, when the boys take their cats and go up to scotland for their annual summer holiday. kincade treats them all like his boys, and particularly enjoys hanging out with danny, who is so sweet and tender and helpful around the house.

***special thanks to the crew on the 00qad fandom discord server for helping flesh out so many of these ideas: @lapsang-and-earlgrey, @blood-suits-and-tears, @nothingtosay

#00qad #00q #007 fest #mi6cafe #teambondvillains #headcanons #myworks2020 #parents #007fest

29 notes · View notes

xxxenoxxx · 3 years

Text

ghost (n.)

Old English gast "breath; good or bad spirit, angel, demon; person, man, human being," in Biblical use "soul, spirit, life," from Proto-West Germanic *gaistaz (source also of Old Saxon gest, Old Frisian jest, Middle Dutch gheest, Dutch geest, German Geist "spirit, ghost"). This is conjectured to be from a PIE root *gheis-, used in forming words involving the notions of excitement, amazement, or fear (source also of Sanskrit hedah "wrath;" Avestan zaesha- "horrible, frightful;" Gothic usgaisjan, Old English gæstan "to frighten").

Ghost is the English representative of the usual West Germanic word for "supernatural being." In Christian writing in Old English it is used to render Latin spiritus (see spirit (n.)), a sense preserved in Holy Ghost. Sense of "disembodied spirit of a dead person," especially imagined as wandering among the living or haunting them, is attested from late 14c. and returns the word toward its likely prehistoric sense.

Most Indo-European words for "soul, spirit" also double with reference to supernatural spirits. Many have a base sense of "appearance" (such as Greek phantasma; French spectre; Polish widmo, from Old Church Slavonic videti "to see;" Old English scin, Old High German giskin, originally "appearance, apparition," related to Old English scinan, Old High German skinan "to shine"). Other concepts are in French revenant, literally "returning" (from the other world), Old Norse aptr-ganga, literally "back-comer." Breton bugelnoz is literally "night-child." Latin manes probably is a euphemism.

via https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=ghost

1 note · View note

msilet · 6 years

Text

Co-op Mission (1/2)

Ship: Merlahad (Harry Hart/Merlin), side ship 00Q (James Bond/Q, hinted at / pre-relationship)

Summary: James Bond is sent over to Kingsman to assist Harry Hart on a mission. James is impressed (and jealous) of all the tech Harry has. Harry is not happy about how much attention James is paying Merlin.

( Inspiration came from KM: TSS and KM: TGC where Merlin armed Harry (even amnesiac Harry) to the teeth and even gave him his jacket in the deleted scene and Harry basically got what he wanted while James Bond in was sassed by Q and got (almost) no toys in Skyfall and Spectre. )

AO3 link in case you want to read there: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14502606/chapters/33503520

Story under the cut:

It's almost noon when Harry arrives at HQ, late as usual, and sees the message. It isn't really his fault, this time, just like most of the other times, he thinks, but Merlin always nags him about being punctual. Joke's on him; Harry is Arthur now, what is he going to do, fire Harry? Arthur outranks Merlin, fortunately.

"Come see me, I have a mission for you," the message says. Short and concise, which is just how Merlin communicates. It's not often that Harry has a mission anymore, being the head of Kingsman. Also, him lacking an eye and thus having a skewed depth perception isn't very convenient for field works. They have figured out a way to work around that, which is to pair him with another agent and have them covering him when needed. He hates it, of course, but Merlin threatened to take him completely off the field and that shut him up quickly.

Harry runs through the currently active missions by Kingsman quickly in his head and realises that every single available agent is out somewhere. Lancelot and Percival are off to the Middle East doing reconnaissance, Galahad and Tequila are in South America trying to stop a weapon smuggling ring. The fact that Merlin wants to give him a mission puzzles him. Who's the partner? Definitely not Merlin. After the shit that happened at Poppyland, Harry would personally chain Merlin to his desk and weld it down to the floor if Merlin even thinks of going out there again.

He arrives at Merlin's office and knocks on the door. He used to just barge in, but once he almost got hit in the face by Merlin's prototype prosthetic leg flying off the work table straight toward him. From then on, he always knocks on the door to confirm that it's safe to enter.

"Come in," Merlin calls out from the other side of the door. Having the permission, Harry slowly pushes the door open, just in case.

"Good morning, what do you have for me?" he greets. Merlin doesn't look up from his screen, fingers still dance across the keyboards as he tells Harry to come over.

"Remember our talk with MI6 last week?" Merlin finally stops typing and turn his chair to look at Harry, who's leaning on his table. "We have ourselves an agreement and a mission."

"Really? Why was I not informed?" Harry frowns.

"They called this morning. You would have been part of the meeting, if only you were here," Merlin reprimands.

While Harry has the good sense to say he's sorry and hopes that he didn't miss something important, he has full faith in Merlin. Between the two of them, Merlin has always been the brain of the operation. Besides, to be entirely honest, he feels secretly relieved that he didn't have to sit through another gruelling meeting with M, the head of MI6. Harry can't explain why but he always feels uneasy when dealing with the man.

"What did they say?" he asks.

"They have a free agent they can send to us, he needs to get some field work in after recovering from an injury. We are to receive him today, brief you both and then off you go tomorrow."

Harry shrugs. "A bit of a rush but no matter. Who are they sending over?"

"007."

"The 007?" Harry is surprised. Not only did MI6 agree to their request for cooperation, but they are also sending over their best agent. This mission must be more crucial than he thought.

"The 007," Merlin confirms. "What do you know about him? They didn't give me much other than his codename."

"Of course. Many mistakes me for him. As if." Harry says, slightly annoyed; Merlin looks amused.

As 007 would be arriving at the tailor shop in an hour, they decided that it's time for them to get on the underground bullet train so that they can be there as the other agent arrives.

They have been drinking their tea at the front of the shop when they spot a very well-dressed brunet carrying a suitcase. He enters, "I'm here to pick up order 6144 for the Riverside residence."

Harry stands up first and goes to the man, "Your order of seven suits are ready and waiting for you in the back room."

Merlin, who has been sitting with his back against the front door and has his view blocked by Harry, stands up and turns around to see the famed Double-Oh-Seven. He squints, thinking that the man looks familiar, then suddenly, he gasps, "James, is that you?"

007 comes closer to look at Merlin better while Harry turns around just in time to witness the scene unfolding in front of him. As the MI6 agent apparently also recognises Merlin, he walks quickly to Merlin and pulls him into a hug. "Eachann!"

"James, you have changed so much!" Merlin squeezes 007 before he releases him and holds his face in both his hands, turning it slightly left and then right. "Fucking Double-Oh-Seven, eh?"

"And you're Merlin! I can't believe this. Three days ago I didn't even know this organisation existed, now I see you heading it. And you no longer have hair!" James smiles widely, his eyes twinkle.

Before Merlin can reply, Harry clears his throat loudly. "Excuse me, can anyone tell me what's going on here?"

Merlin turns to Harry and smiles apologetically. "I'm sorry, this is James. James and I were friends since we were children. We met again when we both went to college in Edinburgh, shared a flat and learned judo together. When he joined the Royal Naval College, we lost contact. James, this is Harry Hart, also known as Arthur. He's actually the head of Kingsman, not me."

007 extends his hands out to Harry. "Pleasure to meet you. The name's Bond. James Bond." Harry walks over to shake his hand and notices just how blue his eyes are. Nice assets, he thinks. "Harry Hart."

"Nice to meet you, Mr Hart."

"Harry, please. Mr Hart was my father."

"Harry, then. Call me James."

Satisfied with how the two men behave, Merlin waves both of them toward the changing room. "We shoudn’t stand around all day, let’s get going."

For an agent of MI6, Britain's fabled organisation, James Bond is easily impressed. As far as Harry can see, Bond has been as amazed to see Kingsman's tech as Eggsy on his first day. He keeps asking Merlin about this and that and Merlin is so pleased to explain things to Bond. Even though Harry walks beside them at all time, he feels like the odd one out, forgotten. Rationally, he can't blame Merlin for being happy to have someone caring about his tech. Kingsman staffs and agents are all used to Merlin turning tech into miracles with his "magic", they no longer ask questions or feel amazed. At this point, if Merlin claims he is able to turn lead into gold, they would all believe him without a second thought. Secretly, however, Harry is a little miffed. He has heard about 007's charm before but it sure is annoying to witness up close.

They lead Bond to Merlin's office where the computers are, instead of the standard meeting room. When there, Bond opens his suitcase, takes out a folder of everything MI6 has on the terrorist organisation and hands it to Merlin. Apparently, they are planning an attack on a scale never seen before right in the heart of London, aiming for a high number of casualties. A few locations are marked as a possibility, and the intel needs to be cross-referenced with what Kingsman has and what Eggsy has been able to gather lately. Merlin sets the computer to scan all the documents and then compose a full file automatically.

He turns to the two agents behind him. "Right, my computers will need an hour or two to process all the data as well as cross-checking with our internal database and what they can find online. In the meantime, James, can you show me your equipment? I need to know the status of people I'm sending out on the field."

Bond nods, pulling out his Walther PPK and lays it on the table. Then he takes off the watch and put it next to the gun."

"This is to shoot people, this," he points at the watch, "can be set to explode. I have a tracker implanted."

"That's it?" Merlin asks, incredulously.

"That's all I need." Bond shrugged, trying to act nonchalant but Harry, being a field agent for decades, knows that he just appears like he doesn't care.

"Did you manage to piss off someone higher up at Six?" Harry jokes.

Bond sighs, "They said the world of espionage has changed. Battles are fought and won with computers and codes now. I'm just the muscle who does the dirty work."

"Who says that?" Harry, a field agent himself, feels hot under the collar just hearing those words.

"Many people, friends, foes. Q." Bond says.

"Q?"

"His quartermaster," Merlin interjects. "While I agree that technology is making big steps forward in espionage, we still dearly need the human touch. Come with me," he turns around and gestures for Bond to follow. Bond picks up his gears and put them back on before walking bristly up to Merlin's side. Harry tags along anyway, because who's going to stop him?

When they are there, Merlin unlocks the door by scanning his fingerprint and retina. The moment the lights inside the room are turned on, Bond looks like a child on Christmas being told that he can eat all the sweets. Merlin appears so damn proud of himself, spreading his arms out in the middle of the room and grins, "Welcome to the Kingsman arsenal."

Bond almost runs Merlin over to get into the room. He looks around, "This is amazing!" he exclaims.

"Let me show you some of the toys we have here," Merlin says, still having that grin. He picks up a lighter and throws it at Bond, who catches it easily. "Don't open it, that's a hand grenade. It blows up ten seconds after activation, giving you just enough time to get away." Merlin walks a few more steps to another shelf and says to Bond, who follows closely after him like a puppy. "Bulletproof suits, made to measure, excelled in both form and function, made by the greatest tailors Savile Row has to offer."

Bond touches the fabric reverently, "MI6 needs to buy from you. I wouldn't have been almost killed on top of a moving train wearing this."

"At the moment, we only have Kingsman uniformed style and colour,s but given a formal request, we can reconsider." Then, Merlin gestures to the shoes nearby, "Oxfords, with retractable titanium blades coated in poison at the front, activated by clicking your heels together. Pick a pair. And here are Bremont watches, they can shoot darts to either knock someone unconscious or erase their memories of recent events. Can be programmed to hack pass certain security systems, too."

"Did you make them?" Bond asks, and when he sees Merlin nods, he praises, "I always knew you were great, just not how great. MI6 should have snapped you up."

Harry coughs loudly, "Excuse me?"

Merlin, knowingly, cut in, "I'm flattered, but my heart belongs to Kingsman."

Bond winks at him, "If you change your mind, we're the first in line." Merlin laughs out loud at the cheesy song lyrics and Harry secretly fumes.

Merlin doesn't see that, because he already turned and is walking excitedly to the farthest wall of the room "I haven't even shown you the most interesting things yet, James, come over here!" and again, Bond follows him. Merlin stops in front of a wall and has an almost evil grin on his face. "Here come the weapons!" he says as he scans his whole hand on the glass. The two panels slide open to show a wide range of weapons from handguns, rifles to swords of all sorts and... umbrellas.

"What are those?" Bond points at them.

"Rainmakers-"

"Those are off limit," Harry interrupts Merlin. Merlin turned his head to look at Harry, wanting to object, but when he sees Harry grimacing, he decides to let Harry have his way.

"What do they do?" Bond doesn't let it go. He'd be a shit agent if he doesn't investigate things through.

"The fabric is bulletproof and acts as a shield, the inside surface is also a screen, showing you the enemy on the other side and their statistics. The tube is a double barrel gun that can fire shotgun shells or stun bullets. The handle is where you can switch between the two options. There are others functions as well-"

"Are you kidding me?" Bond asks, incredulous.

"Not at all, when you are on the field with Harry, you will see the Rainmaker in action. It's his signature weapon."

Bond turns to look at Harry for a few seconds, then shakes his head, "You lucky bastard."

Harry glares, but Bond has already turned his attention back to an oblivious Merlin, who tells him to pick a few things he likes. Bond ends up with a new pair of shoes, a new watch and a semi-automatic rifle plus the "lighter" that Merlin threw him before.

"No handgun? No suits?" Merlin asks. Looking at the stuff Bond lays out on the table.

"Not wearing your uniform, Eachann. Both M and Q would have my hide. As for handguns, I prefer my Walther PPK," Bond smiles, patting at his side where the gun is being kept, "it's coded to my palm print. My very own personal statement." He turns his head just enough for Harry to see him winking, "Harry's not the only one with a signature weapon."

"Interesting," Merlin muses, "Only you can use the gun?"

"Yes. It's the first thing Q gave me when he started being my Quartermaster. I lost the original in the belly of a Komodo dragon, though. The current one is a replacement," he smiles fondly, "He was very upset." Bond takes off his own watch, grinning, "I should return this to him in one piece. He detests me enough as is."

Merlin takes the watch and put it on a small tray, handing it to Bond, along with a bigger tray for the new toys. "I expect my stuff back after the mission too, James. Don't you dare ruining them."

"Yes sir, I'll try my best!" He salutes mockingly.

Merlin simply nods, unimpressed, and checks his watch. "I think we can slowly make our way back to my office. The computer should start returning results soon."

They arrive at Merlin's office with time to spare so they settle down and Merlin makes each of them tea. The program Merlin wrote for Kingsman promptly notifies them that the whole folder has been uploaded to the database and cross-referenced to all available sources, including the most hidden parts of the Dark Web. It also gives them the locations that have the highest probability of being a target for the attack based on the gathered information.

"So, the highest probable location that the terrorists will want to attack is around Piccadilly Circus, where it is extremely crowded during rush hour and close enough to both Number 10, Downing Street and the main tourist attractions to get attention."

"The gal of those terrorists, thinking they'd pull it off in on the most secure parts of London," Bond snorts.

"What those bastards don't know is that they are within walking distance from our Kingsman Tailor Shop," Harry chuckles, "This one is in the bag." Bond nods arrogantly while Merlin rolls his eyes over the two overly confident agents. Harry continues, "We need to find out where they group up before the attack and stop them. Merlin, any information on that?"

"My software has pulled CCTV footage as well as images from satellites monitoring the area. Two places are ranked above the rest. You will have to check each. One is a garage and the other is a warehouse for the shops nearby. At least one of the terrorists might have been planted as employees to get access to those places. We will find out where exactly tomorrow, there is intel about a trial run."

"Pull up employee files of all the stores nearby and do background check, please," Harry requests.

"Way ahead of you."

After that, they discuss possible infiltration methods and which route they will need to take to each location. Merlin will be monitoring both of them and they will change route accordingly. After going through the plan of action twice, they decide that it's enough. Merlin suggests that Harry should go back to his unfinished works and then go home early today so that he can actually show up tomorrow. Harry is sure he saw Bond's eyebrows shot up in amusement when he heard Merlin alluding to Harry's tardiness. Before he can even think of throwing a snarky remark, Merlin already tells Bond to follow him to his temporary quarter and leaves Harry there, clearly dismissed.

A few hours later, Harry knocks on the door of Merlin's office again.

"Come in," Merlin answers as he continues to stare at multiple monitors in front of him.

"I'm heading out. Are you going home any time soon?" Harry asks.

"I'm staying here tonight. Have to look through the database again to see if the computer missed anything. Then I will have to brief Eggsy's team at 1 AM and Roxy's team at 5 AM."

Harry sits down sullenly on the side of Merlin's desk, his arms crossed in front of him. Merlin decides to ignore him for a while, knowing full well that Harry can't take not having his voice heard for long. Harry looks increasingly pissed off as the minutes tick by. Finally, Merlin sighs, looks up and asks, "What is it, Harry?"

"You don't need to be here to brief the teams."

"I should. No matter how strong my private firewalls are, they are not miles ahead of military-grade like what we have here. With the sensitive info that both teams are gathering, I'd prefer if no one can sniff out any data."

"You just want to stay here because Bond is here," Harry blurts out.

Merlin is utterly confused by Harry's statement that it momentarily robs him of any words. He just sits there, squinting his eyes at Harry. "What the fuck are you on about?"

"Don't pretend you didn't notice him following you around like a puppy and looking like you hung the moon," Harry huffs.

Merlin goes from starring at Harry to dropping his head onto his hand, facepalming. He takes off his glasses, rubs his eyes and then puts it back on. "I am too busy for this."

"But-"

"Harry, we are married. I'm your fucking husband!"

"But," Harry bites out as if the words he wants to speak offend him personally, "he is extremely handsome and fit, and you two lived together, and-"

Merlin looks at Harry as if he's daft, "First of all, I'm not sure if James likes men. When we lived together, he disturbed my sleep almost every single night with a new girl he brought back, to the point that I threatened to poison his food. Second, if he did, you would more likely be a target than I am, we were like brothers, it would be so," he scrunches up his face, "gross."

Merlin moves up from his seat to sits next to where Harry is and put an arm around Harry's waist, pulling Harry closer to him. When he speaks again, he makes sure to keep his voice soft, "Last, but not least, I am not leaving you for any beefcake out there making eyes at me. I love you."

"You were so nice to him, I hardly ever saw you being like that with anyone," Harry, still pouting, "and he was hanging onto your every word too."

Merlin chuckles, "I wanted to show off a little, alright? Not just because of the quasi-sibling rivalry, I also wanted to show an MI6 agent how great Kingsman is. As for James, he probably was having you on, seeing how prickly you were. From where I was standing, it looked more like he was flirting with you, anyway."

Harry, now deflated, starts blushing and looking down at his shoes. "I'm sorry."

Merlin lifts his hand that has been at Harry's waist up to wrap around his shoulders and pulled him in for a kiss on the temple. "I'm sorry for ignoring you, too. I was too busy the last few days and then got a little over-excited seeing James."

"It's not your fault," Harry denies, "It's my damn insecurities. I saw a young, attractive and agent and I suddenly became irrational. I kept thinking that you had no reason to keep me over him."

Merlin tries really hard to contain his laughter but Harry can feel him shaking, he asks, irritated, "What?"

Merlin actually lets himself guffaw, "By that logic, Harry, I would have dumped you for every single agent joining Kingsman after you, Eggsy included," he says with tears in his eyes.

Harry's expression is a mix of horrified and offended, "Please never say that again," he whines.

Merlin, still smiling, just hugs Harry closer with the arm on his shoulder and tilts Harry's head up with his free hand. "You vain drama queen! Have you looked into the mirror lately? You are still one gorgeous man. Sometimes I have to stop doing whatever I am doing just to look at you," he pauses, touching the blackened side of Harry's glasses, knowing exactly what tends to bother Harry, "including the eye, it reminds me of how I almost lost you and had you back. And," he kisses Harry's forehead, "even if you become the worst-looking man on earth tomorrow, I'd still love you like I always have."

"I love you so much," Harry says with a contented sigh.

"I know, although it's nice to be reminded sometimes," Merlin grins, "I love you too." He places a quick kiss on Harry's lips, "But you want to go home and rest, love, I need you at your best tomorrow to show James what we are all about. And be here on time."

"Yes, Quartermaster," Harry rolls his eye, "Your wish is my command." He hops off the table, kisses Merlin and saunters off.

Fin.

Note: Eachann means “horse” because Mark Strong’s nickname in Chinese is “Strong Horse” and he likes it lol.

If you like this, consider dropping me a review and/or kudo on AO3 too :)

#kingsman #merlahad #00q #kingsman fanfic #merlahad fanfic #harry hart #merlin (kingsman)#james bond #when Harry meets James #James and Merlin are friends #James is jealous of how Harry is spoiled rotten #Harry is just jealous #spies acting like children

13 notes · View notes