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First set of answers for the Five Things meme (still open!), for bluerosefairy.

Five Women Don Draper Hasn't Slept With . . . Yet.

1. Joan Holloway. There was a time just after she came on when he might have done more than consider it, if he'd had the chance, but by the time things had ended with the woman he'd been seeing back then, she'd stopped leaning up against his desk quite so pointedly, and a week after that he caught her straightening her hair on the way out of Roger's office. If he'd been feeling generous, he would have tipped off the junior execs with regard to who exactly was sleeping with her, but it's too much damn fun watching them hang themselves.
2. Francine Hansen. There was an incident in the kitchen during the Hansens' Christmas party three years ago after Betty went home with a migraine, generally agreed to have been the eggnog talking. Judging from the lack of awkwardness between her and Betty on New Year's, he thinks he might be the only one who remembered it.
3. Peggy Olsen. No. Just... no. She's brighter than she looks, but if he wanted a woman who's afraid of her own shadow, he'd go home and talk to the one he's married to; five years from now she'll have either run back to Brooklyn or turned into something interesting, but either way he'd lay money on it that she won't be here.
4. Eleanor Ames. She called him back the first time to find out how Roger was doing; after the second time, he put the switchboard girls on notice never to put her through to him again. He's long since stopped trying to figure out what goes on in women's heads, but that one's going to be puzzling him forever.
5. Helen Bishop. He'd be lying if he said she hadn't made an impression -- enough of one that he knows better than to ask Betty why she hasn't been around lately -- but the family was an absolute deal-breaker. He likes divorced women, they've been around a little, they know better than to expect much from him, but children talk, and he will not have his kids wondering why he's been over at Glen's mommy's house every night this week.

Five People You Couldn't Pay Saul Tigh to Have a Drink With, and One He'd Actually Consider which is going to have to come later because my Saulvoice tonight is not so much.

1. Lee Adama. You get two shots in an Adama without him going weepy on you, it must've been a good day, and they only drink on bad ones. At least his father's got the damn sense to do it in private.
2. Sharon Agathon. Not that she's not a good kid -- proven that enough times for anyone even before she helped save all their ass on New Caprica, and if Bill Adama's happy with her he's not about to argue. He'd just prefer not to look at her any more than he has to.
3. Karl Agathon. Hell, he can barely look at him and keep his mouth shut sober, and he's never wanted his ass kicked quite that badly.
4. Tory Foster. And he wishes she'd find another frakking bar -- she's got that look about her like she'll break as soon as look at you, and he'd rather not be on the same ship when it happens. He's seen enough of her back on New Caprica to know just where her loyalties are, and how unlike her it'd be to go to the wall before naming names.
5. Gaius Baltar. Like you need an explanation.