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"Employee Appreciation" Torchwood fic Jack/Owen NC17 Wordcount: 3715

Dec 24, 2007 22:12

Title: Employee Appreciation
Fandom: Torchwood
Pairing: Jack/Owen (mention of others)
Rating: NC17
Wordcount: 3715
Notes: Written as Christmas gift!fic for the fantabulous paperclipbitch. What could be more festive than hate!sex for the holidays? From the prompt: But no words ever could sell you, sell you on me after all that I have done ( Read more... )

owen harper, torchwood, nc17, jack/owen

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joanne_c December 26 2007, 08:41:08 UTC

More detail later but I love this! I really love it.

I don't see hate!sex though. Maybe I'm weird.

karaokegal December 26 2007, 20:58:47 UTC

Just curious-don't see the hate!sex in this story or don't see Jack/Owen as a hate!sex pairing?

joanne_c December 29 2007, 17:23:07 UTC

Kind of both but I have a fairly narrow definition of hate!sex (I used to read Mulder/Krycek a lot - they were My First Slash Pairing and hate!sex there set a really high barometer), it has to be a lot more obviously angry than the sex in this story for me to call it hate!sex. And I don't mean non con, it's... I think it's an emotional resonance thing. This to me reads more like fucking than hate!sex and to sort-of quote one of my fictional goddesses, Alyssa Jones from Chasing Amy, "fucking is any sex that isn't purely about love".

Doesn't mean in any way that I didn't love this story or think it fitted them really well though.

karaokegal December 29 2007, 20:36:46 UTC

OK. I guess my definition is a little broader then. I think given the building animosity (although to me always with a sexual tension edge) through the first series culminating in End of Days, and the specifics of Jack's frame of mind in the story, it meets my criteria. I know there's a middle ground between schmoopy/oopy/twoo-wuv and hate!sex with shadings of anger!sex, jealousy!sex, revenge!sex and even apathy!sex, so maybe this was more anger!sex at least on Jack's part, although it wasn't Owen, he was actually angry at, although I did let Owen piss him off, just enough to amp it up.

joanne_c December 30 2007, 03:23:40 UTC

Oh I know, there's a million shades of sex. Rather annoys me that so much is of the gooey sort (even when I write it sometimes).

I think it not being Owen he was angry at skews my perspective on it being hate!sex too - for me there has to be the anger/hate at the other part of the equation. But again, perspectives.

And that makes me want to write sweet, fluffy sex - that in the end on one side, if not both, is completely revenge!sex.

*ponders pairings that may fit*

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