It’s been a long time since I’ve drummed up anything resembling a plot for a story. And I’m usually spurred into action when I develop crushes on people from TV.
My latest crushes are Jamie Bamber from Battlestar Galactica and Sean Maher from Firefly. They’re both very pretty — Maher more my type than Bamber, though Bamber has more muskels (ne, muscles) — but some slashy fantasies of the two of them together? Yum!
Of course, I’m not content with just the slash potential — I actually want to frame the hook-up in, you know, a story.
So here goes.
An American (Maher) heads to London for a student exchange where he meets an Englishman (Bamber), and they spend the short time they have together as an item. They promise to keep in touch, but a few technological glitches makes them both believe their romance was fleeting.
Of course, neither can forget the other.
Time passes, they both graduate from university, and they both head into their careers.
The Englishman moves to Los Angeles, where the American lives, and we follow both their lives over a period of time. They get their hearts broken and drama and la di dah, la di dah. The twist, of course, is that they’re always on the verge of crossing paths, but something always interferes.
Finally the Englishman decides he’s had enough of America and wants to return to England. He goes back to England for a visit, then returns to America to start preparing the move. At the airport, the American is seeing off a friend, who’s heading to New York. (I want this friend to be Phyllis, the same Phyllis from Gary Huang’s world. And maybe Crash makes a cameo, taking his band on tour.)
They bump into each other.
Once reunited, they fall for each other all over again. Part of the difficulty in their respective love lives is the fact each is the litmus for the other, and no other man has met that standard. Now together, they live happily from the end of the story.
It starts off as a rip-off of As Time Goes By, the British comedy, but then it turns rom-com. I like the idea, but I’m not sure I could pull it off myself — my writing style is too dark for a storyline this light-hearted.
But it does give me a chance to throw Jamie Bamber and Sean Maher together in my mind.