Fake fic for a fake Bond movie

I wrote something. Which is … sort of fanfic, but really original fic in a pre-existing verse? This requires some explanation. serpentsign and I have been plotting a fake Bond movie on tumblr – I mean it's long been obvious that Mark Strong needs to play a Bond villain, and then this beautiful photoset kicked off all kinds of discussions about our fake Bond movie (which we should totally get to write because it would be awesome). Anyway, we decided that Mark should play rich disillusioned ex-politician-turned-idealistic-but-somewhat-insane-terrorist Marius Thorne who really thinks the world would be better off if he had half the politicians killed and replaced with people of his own choosing so he can run the show, and Richard Armitage should play his right-hand man, ex-Special Forces soldier Adam Hayes who was left to rot in a prison in the middle of nowhere by his handlers when a mission turned bad, from where he was saved by Marius, and then he ended up being his most loyal supporter (and his personal hitman).

Plot-wise, Bond is supposed to find out who the hell is killing off influential political figures. Adam convinces Bond that he has some useful intel on Thorne and that he wants to redeem himself after becoming a gun for hire when he got out of prison. Of course he's working for Thorne all along. Cue betrayal, explosions, gun fights, and general Bond movie badassery.

Anyway, I developed so many feels for these two bitter assholes that I decided to write fic about them. Which is what this is. Fake fanfic, so to speak, set during the fake movie. Look, I even made a photoset, with photoshop, like I know what I'm doing. Don't worry, my writing isn't quite as shitty as my non-existent photoshop skills. This isn't beta-read or even particularly well thought out, though, so sorry for any hilarious typos (please do tell me about them).



( Everybody loves a good redemption story. )