#while Eve and Skyfall!Bond had to do a lot more stiff-upper-lipping

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“Lara Croft,” Camille said. Her thigh touched Eve’s; the squishy leather sofa in Eve’s flat could be a bit slippery. 

In any case, Lara Croft was a definite yes; Eve took a sip of her Moscow mule.

Camille smirked. “You know she’s a looting little gringa, right?”

Eve raised her hands in supplication. “Those arms, though,” she said.

“And those acrobatics,” Camille added.

“And that nice pair of...” Eve said, and made a gesture in front of her chest.

“Gadgets?” Camille sugggested slyly.

They both snorted into their copper mugs.

It was Eve's turn. "Wonder Woman," she suggested. "Hard not to have a crush on her."

Camille took a long gulp that showed off the pretty length of her neck. "The cheesy TV show and the movie version," she agreed. Then she grinned. "Camille Montes," she said.

Without breaking eye contact, Eve raised her mug to her lips and drank. “Need some proof?” she asked, licking the lime off her lips. 

“I could stand to be convinced,” Camille said, waggling her eyebrows, and this time Eve couldn’t blame the sofa when Camille leaned in closer. She climbed into Eve’s lap, resting her hands on Eve’s shoulders, and touched their foreheads together. 

For a moment, they breathed each other’s air, looked into each other’s dark eyes. Then Eve closed the gap.  

Camille’s lips, chilled from her drink, warmed quickly. Camille nipped playfully, licked forward and then pulled away to tease. She kept Eve’s attention seemingly effortlessly. 

At one point, their noses bonked together in an unsexy way that left them both laughing. 

That was okay. The Tomb Raider and Wonder Woman were great and all, but Eve would take Camille, flawed and beautiful, funny and human, over any kind of ‘strong female character.’ 

#007 fest #team00 #castillon writes #camille montes #eve moneypenny #get ready for some CAMIPENNY! #meanwhile Camille is thinking that Eve---physically strong and a capable agent and now doing important secretary work--- #is her own kind of Wonder Woman #I just have lots of feelings about how these two reflect each other with their similarities and differences #listen I know the usual route is for them to complain about Bond but lbr they have better things to talk about #like sexy ladies #also I was looking up female superheroes of color who might have been around in the 80s/90s when they were growing up #not in comics but in mainstream pop culture #and the lack was incredibly depressing :( #and about how Moneypenny had to have it all---field agent and dressed to kill agent and internal people-mover #but she had her own arc about getting over her guilt from shooting Bond and coming into power at Six #and Camille had her own revenge arc but she also functioned more transparently as a foil for Bond who was on his own quest for vengeance #it also seemed like camille was allowed to be more vulnerable (like Bond was too---spiky hedgehog of vengeance mode) #while Eve and Skyfall!Bond had to do a lot more stiff-upper-lipping #and in what ways was age/race/etc a factor in all that #and the way camille and eve are allowed to be human in ways that lara croft and wonder woman aren't in some ways #but is that just bc they're the side characters in Bond's own superhero story? #I dunno my brain is just spinning its wheels at this point