This is the 48th installment of a 100-day challenge to write a new vignette every morning.
Disclaimer: I don’t watch a lot of Bond movies, so I didn’t know that Roger Moore was an actor who played Bond! I know, I know. I live under a rock. But truly, I just thought The Story Shack was giving me a random character. By the time I realized, I’d finished the post, and I decided to just leave it be. My apologies to the real Roger Moore—and James Bond aficionados. Let’s just say this is an unrelated character who happens to have the same name!
He is no James Bond; his name is Roger Moore—and he’s a fool. Twice, he’s blown his cover. Twice, he’s gotten captured. Twice, he’s eaten my damn turkey-and-cheese sandwich out of the fridge.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt the first time; maybe he’d brought the same kind of sandwich, and maybe we’d both used nondescript plastic bags. Shit happens. When it happened a second time—even with my name scrawled across the bag in big letters—I knew.
I’ve seen this before. He’s a field agent, so he thinks he’s above me. 006 and 008 were the same way, and even 007 sometimes needs a reminder of how things work around here.
Roger is stuck doing office work for the next three weeks, and he doesn’t know why, but one by one, each of the other agents looks at me. They know.
Miles Away 