Best One-Shot 00Q Fanfics
00Q one-shots under 10k words — a complete read in one sitting. All curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 12 One-Shot 00Q Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length 00Q fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
Wheelhouse
by recrudescence
The one where Bond really, really isn't used to sleeping with people who don't tragically die soon afterward.
Love and Other Hazardous Materials
by luchia
"This is just getting ridiculous," M says when he finds Q trying to put motorized circular saw blades into a briefcase.(Or, Q and James Bond love their jobs so very, very much.)
Fidelity
by marlovingian
In which Bond develops a preference for sleeping on Q's couch rather than in his own bed, and Q is rather more warm-hearted than M when it comes to throwing him out.
So If You Give
by TheCatOnTheMoon
Bond gives Q things because of reasons. Q thinks that Bond completely misses the point.
million dollar question
by skylights
Q doesn’t bend for anything and Q certainly doesn’t break for anyone, especially when it comes to stubborn double-ohs intent on making Q’s life hell, so when Q wakes up on a Saturday morning to 12 new texts from Bond and the incessant ringing of his flat’s doorbell, Q makes sure to bring a gun to an
The World We View
by bankrobbery
"If you were a woman he would want you."He hopes that, if he were a woman, he might have better taste.
Decompression
by Desdemon
“I’m going to make a mess of you,” Bond promises him, removing the glasses carefully from his face and folding them up. “I’m going to fucking take you apart, Q, until you’re sobbing for it.”
Strontium Chloride Red and Other Colours
by BootsnBlossoms
Just what does one bring a double-oh for Christmas dinner at his flat, do you think? — GH Something that explodes in his favorite colour. — MH Lube, condoms, and scotch. Leave the handcuffs, he probably has his own. — SH
come a lily, come a lilac
by pdameron
"Most people just pick whatever flower they think is prettiest. It doesn’t require a lot of input from me.”The man walks up to Q, leaning against the counter between them. “Well then, what can I do to get your input?” (In which Q runs a flower shop, and his newest regular is almost definitely a spy.
A Mountain That Has Been Moved
by bankrobbery
There is something strangely threatening about the realization that he finds James Bond attractive.
Remember Me
by Jen (ConsultingWriters)
Bond has lost his memory. Q has lost his love. "What have I forgotten?” Bond asked; Q watched him, trying to find the James he knew. “Nothing that you won’t work out on your own, if it’s really important,” Q said carefully, before returning every fraction of his attention to the computer in fro
By No Ordinary Means of Communication
by laughtershock
Q can’t help but wonder how, exactly, his life has come to this. (The one where Bond discovers post-it notes, Q discovers how not to talk about feelings, and together, they fight crime make things far more complicated than necessary.)
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Why Read One-Shot 00Q Fics?
One-shot 00Q fanfics — anything under 10,000 words — are the format of choice for sharp emotional payoffs, single-scene character studies, smutty interludes, and tropes that don't need a full arc to land. You finish them in one sitting.
Ideal for a commute, a lunch break, or right before bed when you don't want to start a 200,000-word fic at 11pm.
About This List
This list of 12one-shot 00Q fanfics spans 70,412 total words. Kudos range from 6,949 on the newest entries to 14,624 on the most established. Nearly all (100%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (4 of 12 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Workplace Relationship · Misunderstandings · Fluff.
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