Meme a day 2008-Day 45-The Kissing Meme

[karaokegal]

Ganked from jenab

Since it is Valentine's day and I'm done with the dialogues.

Comment with two characters I'm familiar with, and I'll tell you how they kissed (the first time).

ETA-THIS MEME IS NOW OFFICIALLY CLOSED OUT

Comments

[karaokegal]

Martha hadn’t known exactly what she was walking into when she entered the Hub, although she should have known that nothing was ever simple with Captain Jack around, certainly not relationships.

Ianto had been easy enough to mollify by making it clear she wasn’t a threat where Jack was concerned and Owen was too good a doctor and too good a man, in spite of himself, to resent a fellow professional who was there to help them do their job as long as she had no desire to usurp his position as Torchwood’s medic.

Gwen seemed the sanest of all, the one who could actually talk sense into Jack, when necessary, and had managed thus far to resist the legendary Harkness charm. Martha had to smile at the sight of Gwen’s trainers. No wonder Jack liked her. She wondered which way that was going to go, but things got too busy and then too dangerous and then too tragic for her to spend much time worrying about it.

Owen was dead. Okay, not really dead, thanks to that thing that Jack had brought in to resurrect him, but still kind of dead, and

[karaokegal]

Thanks. Glad you liked. It was a tricky one to get a hook for. And now one to Kutner/Ianto. (Why does everyone want to see Kutner kiss people?)

[karaokegal]

http://karaokegal.livejournal.com/211847.html

[donutsweeper]

oh that's PAINFUL. Oh poor Tosh. Poor Martha too, who'd have wanted to get pushed into all the TW craziness

[karaokegal]

I hadn't re-read it for a while and DAMN that is painful. Timing-wise I assume I wrote it before seeing Exit Wounds, but I'm not 100% sure.

Anyway, I'll write a scene for you, which will hopefully be a little happier.

[donutsweeper]

*bounces*

[rose_cat]

Martha had to smile at the sight of Gwen’s trainers.

And I had to smile at this line :) Now I want a scene between Ten and Gwen where they notice each other's shoes...and it just occurred to me that I'm writing Ten at Torchwood, so I can write my own! Thanks for the scene-bunny! *stops to make a note*

"...I’m worse because now he’s got more in common with Jack than he does with me."

Ouch. I'd never thought about that in terms of how it might have affected Tosh.

"There’s worse things than loving a dead man. At least he knows you’re alive.”

Oh, double ouch. This is a bit of a KEL in itself ;)

Martha touching her lips thoughtfully after the kiss reminds me of the similar scene, only with Jack and Gwen, in -- I think it was "Day One." Were you thinking of that as well?

[karaokegal]

Thanks so much for the comment. I really dashed this snippet off when I was doing the meme, but it seems even more relevant now. I don't think I was really thinking about Jack touching his lips, but you never know what's hanging out in the subconscious when you're writing.

It is seriously ouchy, isn't it?