solarmorrigan:
Okay, so we’ve had Bond asking Moneypenny for advice on how to get with Q because Moneypenny and Q are best buds, right?
But what about Tanner pestering Q on how the heck he’s supposed to impress Moneypenny? Like, what’s her favorite flower? Or her favorite color, actually. Oh! What about shoes? Does Q know her shoe size? Would that be weird? Only Eve’s got a lot of nice shoes and Tanner fancies he hasn’t got a horrible sense of style, but maybe that would be too weird…
And Q is just pulling his hair out because he likes Tanner, he really does, and he adores Eve and Eve deserves someone nice like Tanner and Q doesn’t want to be discouraging but he’s trying to work. No, Tanner, he and Moneypenny do not talk about things like flowers and shoes, alright? Her favorite ice cream is rocky road, her favorite handgun is a Glock, and Q is fucking busy.
And Tanner kinda droops, but yeah, Q is right, they should be working, he’s just so excited and he really wants to do something nice for Eve, but Q is right. Working. Very important.
And now Q feels bad, so he sighs and tells Tanner to get Moneypenny some fancy pens. People are always stealing her pens and it’s made her rather possessive over them, and she hoards her favorite ones like a dragon in a locked drawer of her desk. You know you’ve gotten her a good one if she throws it in her drawer and you never see it again.
Tanner is delighted with the advice and gets Moneypenny a really nice carved wooden pen and Moneypenny is delighted with it and she shows it off to Q when they next have lunch at her desk (and she then locks it right back up because Q is a horrific pen thief, made all the worse by the fact he barely even uses pens, what is he doing with all the pens he steals, honestly) and Q congratulates himself on advice well-given and congratulates Moneypenny on her upcoming date with Tanner (and tries to find out what Moneypenny’s favorite flower is, because Tanner’s probably gonna keep asking him until he finds out