Scarecrow [James Bond, James Bond/Q/Alec Trevelyan]

Scarecrow by petroltogo

In retrospect, maybe hacking the earpiece of the most dangerous weapon MI6 has to offer to help him take down an international crime syndicate you just so happen to be a part of hadn’t been such a great idea after all.

In Q’s defence: the undercover agent pretending to be his bodyguard still hasn’t made a move to kill him, and he’s getting bored.

I have this picture of rogue Q being bored and just going with the flow until something interesting happens. This fic is probably the closest I have found about that picture.

Basically, Q watches after James and at some point, their roads cross. Somewhere there are Q's boss' plans to kill James and keep Q safe. And somehow Alec comes to picture and makes everything more complicated.

But the reason why I liked this, is because there was so much happening at the same time. Some things you knew while reading and some things were big mysteries (some of them stayed as mysteries until the end). Like Q's boss who knew more than Q thought he did. And then the whole Alec and James part, where they didn't know about each other. I'm not even touching the whole Q's siblings thing.

To be honest, in the end, I really wished there was some kind of sequel to this. But this is just so good without any of that, so I'm happy that this has not been destroyed with a shitty sequel.