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Best 00Q Slow Burn Fanfics

The best slow burn 00Q (James Bond/Q) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance.

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Top 00Q Slow Burn Fic Recs

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1

Sigh No More

Slow Burn

by dhampir72

Bond wants nothing more than for someone, just once, to be waiting for him at the airport when he returns home.

10,664 kudos 20,231 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
2

Bittersweet

Slow Burn

by dr_girlfriend

The first time Bond flirted with Q, it was purely out of self-defense.The second time Bond flirted with Q was largely manipulation.The third time Bond flirted with Q, he just wanted to feel something.The fourth time Bond flirted with Q was out of sheer boredom.Somehow, flirting with Q became somethi

7,346 kudos 14,229 words 10/10 chapters Explicit
3

Wheelhouse

by recrudescence

The one where Bond really, really isn't used to sleeping with people who don't tragically die soon afterward.

14,624 kudos 6,003 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
4

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.)

13,951 kudos 3,590 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences
5

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.

11,359 kudos 9,860 words 3/3 chapters Explicit
6

Quriosity

by dr_girlfriend

COMPLETE! Bond finds himself increasingly curious about his enigmatic Quartermaster.Excerpt:"Your prior hotel is no longer secure, I will direct you to a new location. Your luggage has already been transferred. A field agent and medic from the Diréction Générale de la Sécurité d'État will be waitin

11,295 kudos 79,986 words 33/33 chapters Explicit
7

So If You Give

by TheCatOnTheMoon

Bond gives Q things because of reasons. Q thinks that Bond completely misses the point.

10,965 kudos 6,188 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
8

The Courtship of Mr. Bond

by marlovingian

In which Bond is a retired naval commander with too much house, Q is a mechanical engineer with too many sisters, and they have lengthy conversations about decorum, bonnet-ribbons and philosophy in Regency England.~“I just thought you might go pay a visit," his mother suggested.“Me?” Q asked, aghast

10,450 kudos 29,669 words 9/9 chapters Explicit
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Blue-Eyed Monster

by Only_1_Truth

Yes, this version of 007 was a terrifyingly smart agent, and M wondered long and often whether it had been a good idea to promote him to the position. Usually, the title was the dangerous part - being 007 meant deadliness - but this time, M feared that a certain man with ice-blue eyes and scruffy b

9,764 kudos 118,362 words 23/23 chapters Mature
10

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

9,743 kudos 5,592 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated
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Denominations

by WriteThroughTheNight

"Q confirms that he's an Empath three months before his first day of primary school, and the deciding of Denominations that comes with it."ORQ is smarter than anyone gives him credit for, and an Empath to boot.

8,607 kudos 29,689 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
12

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.

8,493 kudos 2,712 words 1/1 chapters Mature
13

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

by feelslikefire

What followed was the most bizarre courtship Q had ever—well, heard of, certainly. He didn’t have much to compare it to, but Moneypenny confirmed that normal people didn’t flirt like this. Not that he was normal. Not that any of them were.Or: Q has a past, a cat, and a dangerous new boyfriend. Two o

8,294 kudos 66,236 words 9/9 chapters Explicit
14

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.”

7,751 kudos 3,810 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
15

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

7,568 kudos 5,497 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
16

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.

7,493 kudos 8,412 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
17

Nodus Tollens

by Only_1_Truth

Nodus Tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymoreQ's life at the technical help department of MI6 was decently quiet and paid reasonably well - it even gave him vacation time, although he rarely used it. So when Q was finally coaxed to leave work for a bit

7,368 kudos 88,045 words 17/17 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
18

A Mountain That Has Been Moved

by bankrobbery

There is something strangely threatening about the realization that he finds James Bond attractive.

7,352 kudos 5,179 words 1/1 chapters Mature
19

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

7,103 kudos 5,667 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
20

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.)

6,949 kudos 7,902 words 1/1 chapters Explicit

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Why Slow Burn 00Q Fanfiction Works So Well

James Bond/Q — Skyfall introduced a young quartermaster who met 007 in front of a painting and out-snarked him on sight. Ben Whishaw's Q handing Bond gadgets and exasperation through three films built one of movie fandom's biggest slash ships out of perhaps twenty minutes of screen time.

Slow Burn — A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.

The blunt instrument and the man on the other end of the earpiece — competence, dry wit, and a hacker who always brings him home. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance. That's why slow burn 00Q fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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