#because q called bond /james/ and i can't accept he did it just because he realised 007 was going to die so i gave them a do over after

[pollyna]

Headcanon/fix-it of sort: contains spoiler of No Time To Die.

And then death will come by water. James doesn't know, doesn't remember who wrote this words, or if he just made them up, but nothing could be more true. Water took away Vesper, water drowned him away and saved him after Istanbul eben when he's not sure who came back after he woke up, water drowned slowly all the tears he wasn't crying during M's funeral and water took away his chance to save Felix. Not long after he will learn that water, freezing water, will forever link Madeleine and Safin. Water is where Safin shoots him so many times he doesn't know how he still finds the strength to get up and to finish the mission. Q voice is a balm for his soul even when staing awake is a constant struggle.

And then death will come by water he whispers while M is talking in his ears and Moneypenny is doing the same and then Madeliene is there too, telling him he can come back now, that everything is going to be okay, that they're safe. But all James wants to do is sit down and watch the immensity of the ocean before it's going to take him away too and he hopes, he really does, that his soul will find Vesper and Felix's because water took away one people too many from him and it can pay him back talking him to them now.

Water isn't how death comes to him in the end, at least for now. Death doesn't come to him at all. He wakes up and everything is white and shiny, nothing hurts and someone is holding his hand. Death isn't going to come by water James, not until I have something to say about it that someone whispers in his ear and sleep comes to him sounding like a blessing and a promise of a future the water isn't going to touch, until they're going to be together.