Part of an AU in which Ben Whishaw's Q is actually Ben Whishaw's Ariel from The Tempest, magically bound to 007 by the enchantress M. Enjoyable without having read the others. Five times Eve Moneypenny seriously wonders what is going on with the new Quartermaster, and one time she finds out what it is. Spoilers for Skyfall.

M is a former agent of the British Supernatural Service, who discovered a captive spirit named Ariel - as in, the one from Shakespeare's The Tempest - in a Soviet laboratory decades ago. Having kept him as a private familiar since then, recent developments have made it necessary to charge him with a new duty and a new name: Q.