The Comfy Chair

More evidence of the disconnect, there--I'm not reading 'secretly in love with each other' into this story, and possibly you think I (and maybe Trob) am/are because we're OTP forevah, twu wuv types? I can't speak for Trob, but, as for myself, no--I'm no OTP girl, and I read and write and enjoy these two with other people. That may be why you're bogging down in your understanding of what we're talking about; you misunderstand our POVs. And I'm thinking that maybe your love of the idea that it's ONLY shared experience that can be motivating is interfering with seeing what we're trying to say--not that they're secretly in love, but that, for people to decide to have sex, there needs to be something beyond "hey, you're in an attractive female body, now, and I'm straight and we share this weird experience--let's fuck!" I mean, that might make an interesting PWP, but that's not what this is. For it to make any sense in a logical, "these are guys, and these are these particular guys" way, there needs to be more going on. You're seeing this as a two strangers who meet in a bar and have no connection but decide to hook up for the sake of the sex, and maybe because they're both travellers in a strange city, something else that connects them that the others in the bar don't share, and I'm saying, no, this isn't a bar and these aren't strangers and there are repercussions to what they're doing, consequences and mornings after and for these to to take this step, there needs to be something else motivating them--otherwise it doesn't make sense. The ideas you're proposing--only common experience, could be any two guys on the mission--make a decent PWP, but not a story as good as this one. The logic needs to be there, it needs to follow in terms of human behavior, and I don't see your view having that logic behind it, though it does make for cool story deconstruction. *g*