Torchwood (drabble): Gwen's Secret

Title: Gwen's Secret
Author: fajrdrako
Characters: PC Andy, Gwen
Challenge: #22: PC Andy
Rating: PG
Words: 100
Disclaimer: Not mine, no claims, all property of the BBC.
Notes: Spoilers for up to "Out of Time". Cross-posted to my LJ and tw100.

( Gwen's Secret )

Canonical romance...

From fannish5: What are your five favorite canonical romances?

Now, that's kind of broad! Favourite romances ever... hmm. Difficult, because there are so many, in so many different media.

1. Lymond's romance in the Dorothy Dunnett novels. I put it this way to avoid spoilers for those who haven't read the novels. Probably no one cares about that but me.



2. Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan in Shards of Honour and Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold. With a passing nod to her other great romance, Fawn and Dag in The Sharing Knife: Beguilement.



3. Kitty Pryde and Pete Wisdom, in Warren Ellis's run of the comic Excalibur. And a tip of the hat to his Thor and Enchantress, as well.



4. In Torchwood: Jack and Jack. Maybe the best brief romance story ever on televison.



5. Captain Von Trapp and Maria in The Sound of Music.

I thought of saying "Veronica and Logan" from Veronica Mars, but that's been left in limbo.

Sometimes "canon" is a matter of perspective. I like to think Jack and the Doctor is canon. Delusional or perceptive? That's in the eye of the beholder.

Any dream...

I've walked more in the past two days than I have in months. Suddenly we have lovely weather; we went from piles of snow to sunny T-shirt temperatures in only a few days. I've walked to work and back, walked to two banks and back, and did my full programme of weights and yoga. I'm physically exhausted, but in a good way.

So I visited maaseru with maaboroshi this evening and persuaded them to watch Any Dream Will Do with me, parts 2 and 3. Now, keep in mind that none of us are into watching reality shows, ever. But one of us (that would be me) has an unquenchable passion for John Barrowman, who is one of the judges on the show, and a love of musical theatre, and the other two were feeling indulgent. Or at least curious. The show follows the auditioning for Andrew Lloyd Weber's coming production of Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat, whittling down prospective Josephs till there's only one. Lots of eager young British men who want to be stars of the West End. Lots of tears (worse than Torchwood) and actorly angst.

So we all got into it and were arguing the merits of Chris C. vs Ben and whether it was rigged and how talented Seamus was and how personable Keith was and so on. We flinched when the guys screwed up and were impressed when they didn't. And speaking for myself - we started to care about the results.

We thought that John Barrowman got and gave the best hugs. I wanted to put a sign on him saying hug magnet. Total agreement that he looks good in glasses.

So now I've been told to bring the next episode with me to watch after dinner on Sunday.

I guess they didn't hate it.