Disclaimer: Repeat after me: these are only fictional characters, they do not belong to us, they are fun to play with and we promise to return them, intact, when we're done.

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Fingers, wrists, forearms

Muscular, shirt cuffs eased up,

Long, lean, inspiring.

His lips pressed to hers

Breathless, we watched, enraptured.

Fanfic frenzy starts.

Didn’t marry Roy,

Didn’t call Jim, doesn’t know

What the hell she wants.

He took the transfer

He waited for her to call

She dropped the ball. Oops.

She answered the phone

He joked, they laughed, she choked, “Bye” -

Did anything change?