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Ilsa digs her gun out of the bottom drawer of a dresser in a room she hardly ever enters one night, disassembles it and lays it all out on her kitchen countertop. That first night, it takes her a minute and twenty-seven seconds to reassemble it. Over the next two days, she gets the time down to forty seconds. More time passes—twenty-three seconds. More time—fifteen.
She starts to wonder if she can make other things out of the parts; tools, decorations, practical, simple objects that have nothing to do with the original item. But as Ilsa gets more and more familiar with the individual parts, she realizes that there isn’t really anything she can rebuild them into other than a gun.
Maybe it serves as some analogy for her life. Discarded, taken apart. She reassembles the gun in eleven seconds and realizes a gun is all it was ever meant to be.
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He’ll get over it eventually. He comes close, in between one moment and the next, or he at least convinces himself he does. But then he looks back in his notes about the Forum and spots a pair of Chanel flats on someone’s feet in the streets and he’s right back where he started, thinking it might take him longer to get over it than it ever did to build the city he’s currently in.
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The first time Ilsa meets Ethan Hunt, he is unconscious. She knows everything about him—she knows nothing. She knows of Captain Hunt, NASA’s best test pilot, top of his engineering class. She knows him by the younger face she’s seen in old files, his statistics, his records. She doesn’t know the man slumped in the cold metal chair in the ground level of the NASA base, with soft brown hair that tickles the nape of his neck and rough hands. She’s only ever seen his two-dimensional form in uniforms and flight suits, not the living and breathing man in a faded sweatshirt and dusty cargo pants and a thick corduroy jacket.
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Where one story ends, maybe another one begins.
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Ethan finds her, eventually.
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- Part 3 of the oath
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Mission: Impossible The Seraph Protocol by odessa1117
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies)
04 Nov 2025
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When a high-profile diplomat is assassinated at a global peace summit, the world teeters on the brink of war. The killer’s identity shocks the intelligence community, it appears to be Ilsa Faust, a former MI6 agent who vanished months earlier without a trace. Now labeled a traitor and hunted by every major agency, Ilsa is marked for death. But IMF operative Ethan Hunt doesn’t buy the story. Haunted by her disappearance and driven by a loyalty he can’t explain, Ethan defies orders to find her first, before the CIA does.
As the chase deepens, Ethan and his team uncover whispers of a rising threat, something vast, hidden, and terrifying in its implications. Fractures form within the team as secrets unravel and trust wears thin. Ilsa knows more than she’s letting on. And somewhere in the shadows, a dangerous force is watching them all. With time running out and global powers on the verge of collapse, Ethan must decide how much he’s willing to sacrifice to stop a threat he doesn’t yet understand, and to save the one person he’s not sure he ever truly had.
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24 Oct 2025
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piece of my heart by shutupmulder
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
07 Aug 2023
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Ilsa and Ethan go separate ways after Kashmir.
However, fate seems to always bring them back together, even if it may take a year or two...Another Dead Reckoning fix-it fic.
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11 Jul 2025
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Let's See If You Believe in Me (I Really Do Believe in You) by torreyana
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies)
24 Apr 2025
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Tucked away in a cottage safehouse with Luther, Ilsa has nothing to do but hide from the Entity and make Christmas presents. (And think about Ethan, but she's trying not to do that too much.) Luther has turned out to be a Christmas fanatic—or maybe that's just the cabin fever talking. But he insists that nothing is going to stop Santa Claus from dropping by tonight.
Too bad Ilsa doesn't believe in Santa.
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01 Jan 2025
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The Longest Game by LisaGrimm
Fandoms: Mission: Impossible (Movies), Mission: Impossible
07 Aug 2023
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When it comes to his job, Ethan Hunt has always been a sprinter. The urgency of his missions dictated that. But to defeat the Entity he'd have to play the longest game he's ever played. The game that his enemy has been playing long before Ethan was aware that there was a game.
And it will take every ounce of his being, if he wants to win.Bookmarked by serenesummer
26 Nov 2024
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A woman dies in Venice. That’s how the story goes. It’s very important they follow where the story goes. Where it’s supposed to go.
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- Part 1 of The Great Battles
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30 Sep 2024