#there's also pining and protective!bond and q and his cat being the cutest duo to ever melt james' heart

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007 fest: 31 days of fic recs

— day 1: let love in by @dhampir72

Bond should know better by now. He’s old enough to know the signs when a no-strings-attached affair becomes something more, and he’s old enough to know better when it’s him that is responsible for it. At the same time, he’s too old to pretend like he doesn’t care, that he doesn’t want this. That’s a young man’s game, after all. So Bond might be breaking his own rules, but for once he doesn’t mind. It’s been just over a month since this thing started, but already Bond feels more at home in Q’s flat than he does in his own. He finds himself looking forward to sleeping in the same bed every night, beside the same person, knowing that he’ll wake up in the same place, with the same arms round him. It’s something that Bond never thought would be in the cards for him. But now he thinks things might be different. Q might be one of the few people in the world who truly understands him, someone he doesn’t have to lie to, someone he can trust in a profession where trust is hard earned and scarce given. Bond isn’t about to get his hopes up too quickly, but he’s not about to shut this down before it starts, either. So he stays when he knows that Q thinks he won’t and there is something about Q’s smile that tells him yes, this is where he’s meant to be.