Ooh, how about 00Q victorian gothic AU?

beaubete:

Ooooh, this is fab!

1. Bond is a DI with the Met.  He’s been with the police for a while–distantly remembers the Ripper case from his early days as a lackey–but due to his dependence on alcohol and opium, not to mention his habit of charming influential men’s wives, he’s been posted out in Bow, where many of his superiors hope he’ll disappear some night.
2. Q is a Tesla-like figure, a mad scientist whose awkwardness with people has led to him locking himself inside his building.  Fortunately, he’s wealthy enough that he can do this; unfortunately, out here in the slums, it only makes his neighbours trust him less.  No one really knows anything about him, except that he can only be seen at night.
3. Q and Bond meet when Bond is investigating a pair of grave robbers who name Q as a customer.  Bond investigates this shy creature and slowly becomes enamoured of him.  He never sees any sign that Q has ever had anything to do with the corpses that are missing, and when a connection is revealed between Q’s accusers and a landlord who wants to buy Q’s house, Bond closes the case because it’s ridiculous.
4. Q is totally experimenting on corpses in the house’s back rooms.
5. Q brings Bond back from the dead after he’s attacked by a thug and left to die in an East End gutter.  Bond is more ambivalent on the subject than he thought he might be.