Bound & Sealed, Acts of Salvation
Torchwood: general series table
Claim: Torchwood: general series
Prompt: 10. Fandom Cliche
Title: Bound & Sealed
Author: Mardahin
Rating: Teen?
Length: long
Brief summary: An alien device has an aphrodisiac effect on Gwen and Owen. This cliche is handled extremely well and while the story has humorous elements, it's not crackfic. Nicely done all around.
"Not funny, mate." Owen glared at Jack, and Gwen could feel his irritation feeding her own. This time, she didn't even try to fight it. Tosh was looking far more disconcerted than Gwen felt was necessary; it wasn't like this kind of thing hadn't happened before. Trying to cut the spectacle off before it got any further, she asked the obvious question.
"How do we fix it?"
Jack shrugged, eyes laughing even as his expression grew more serious. "Time."
"Time?"
"It takes six days for the effects to dissipate. Well, six days give or take. It varies with different biochemistries."
"So we're going to spend six days...?" Gwen made a helpless gesture with her hand, pretending desperately that her cheeks weren't burning with embarrassment. It was one thing for the team to suspect that she was occasionally shagging Owen, although they'd gotten better at keeping it out of work since the second go-round. It was something else entirely for them to know.
Link: Bound & Sealed
Claim: Torchwood: general series
Prompt: 11. Character Study
Title: Acts of Salvation
Author: Selena
Rating: Teen
Length: medium
Brief summary: This story is all about Owen and it really gets into his head.
Later, Owen concluded that Jack must have gone through various likely candidates, doctors with no personal ties, good qualifications but some sort of drawbacks that ensured they wouldn’t just go for better paid jobs in some private clinics, and probably had been following Owen for a while. Still later, he wondered whether he hadn’t met Jack earlier, with Jack using retcon until he had spoken with other candidates and decided Owen was the best he could get. Or, phrased differently: the alternatives had been worse.
He never asked Jack. Jack might just tell him the truth.
Link: Acts of Salvation
Claim: Torchwood: general series
Prompt: 10. Fandom Cliche
Title: Bound & Sealed
Author: Mardahin
Rating: Teen?
Length: long
Brief summary: An alien device has an aphrodisiac effect on Gwen and Owen. This cliche is handled extremely well and while the story has humorous elements, it's not crackfic. Nicely done all around.
"Not funny, mate." Owen glared at Jack, and Gwen could feel his irritation feeding her own. This time, she didn't even try to fight it. Tosh was looking far more disconcerted than Gwen felt was necessary; it wasn't like this kind of thing hadn't happened before. Trying to cut the spectacle off before it got any further, she asked the obvious question.
"How do we fix it?"
Jack shrugged, eyes laughing even as his expression grew more serious. "Time."
"Time?"
"It takes six days for the effects to dissipate. Well, six days give or take. It varies with different biochemistries."
"So we're going to spend six days...?" Gwen made a helpless gesture with her hand, pretending desperately that her cheeks weren't burning with embarrassment. It was one thing for the team to suspect that she was occasionally shagging Owen, although they'd gotten better at keeping it out of work since the second go-round. It was something else entirely for them to know.
Link: Bound & Sealed
Claim: Torchwood: general series
Prompt: 11. Character Study
Title: Acts of Salvation
Author: Selena
Rating: Teen
Length: medium
Brief summary: This story is all about Owen and it really gets into his head.
Later, Owen concluded that Jack must have gone through various likely candidates, doctors with no personal ties, good qualifications but some sort of drawbacks that ensured they wouldn’t just go for better paid jobs in some private clinics, and probably had been following Owen for a while. Still later, he wondered whether he hadn’t met Jack earlier, with Jack using retcon until he had spoken with other candidates and decided Owen was the best he could get. Or, phrased differently: the alternatives had been worse.
He never asked Jack. Jack might just tell him the truth.
Link: Acts of Salvation