Marquesate
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The second work in The Third Survivor.
Seed of Life ended in the galley, on a kiss, with the Tree. Taking Root picks up from there.
The chapters vary in length and can be read as standalone pieces, but they are written to be read in order, and they assume you have read Seed of Life before this. Taking Root is post-canon to that story and rests entirely on it.
New chapters as they are ready.
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- Part 2 of The Third Survivor
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“I see you.”
Something crosses between universes that should never touch. A vessel built for a blood ocean, broken open in deep space. Inside it, barely alive, a man no one was looking for and a tree that should not exist.
Grace and Rocky did not ask for this. But Grace has not seen another human being in years, and the ruined stranger on his medbay table is, impossibly, alive.
Simon has only ever known one law: everything costs something. Kindness is a debt. Care is a trap. He has no idea what to do with a man who keeps giving him things and asking for nothing back, and no framework at all for the one that terrifies him most: being seen, and not made to pay for it.
Slow-burn. Two profoundly isolated people, one alien best friend, and the long work of learning to be safe.
“Agreed.”
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- Part 1 of The Third Survivor
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Old Dog No Tricks by Marquesate, TABrown
Fandoms: Skyfall (2012) - Fandom, James Bond (Craig Movies), Quantum of Solace (2008)
10 Mar 2014
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Five years after the events in Vita Mortis and Canteen Gossip MI6's Quartermaster is kidnapped by persons unknown for reasons unknown.
Bond's worst nightmare has become a reality, and he is determined to get Q back, with or without M's approval. Old Dog No Tricks is the story of this impossible mission by the one-armed, ex-007 as he encounters - for better and for worse - pieces of his past.
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- Part 3 of Nil Desperandum
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Canteen Gossip by Marquesate, TABrown
Fandoms: James Bond (Craig Movies), Skyfall (2012) - Fandom
30 Jan 2014
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Canteen Gossip continues Bond's and Q's story after Vita Mortis. Bond is the "Scary Evaluator", and he thrives in his new role, until the past catches up with him - but Q is never far away, and always a voice in his ear.
You should read Vita Mortis, the first part of the series, to understand the premise of this sequel.
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- Part 2 of Nil Desperandum
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Vita Mortis by Marquesate, TABrown
Fandoms: James Bond (Craig Movies), Skyfall (2012) - Fandom
17 Feb 2013
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MI6’s most notorious agent and their new quartermaster are an unstoppable force and counter-force, bound to collide. Despite promising beginnings, Bond and Q seem destined to crash and burn.
Their long path towards acceptance is dangerous and paved with destruction - until death begets new life.
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- Part 1 of Nil Desperandum
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Nil Desperandum by Marquesate, TABrown
Fandom James Bond (Craig Movies), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012) - Fandom
10 Mar 2014
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