Ha! Just when you thought this meme was gone for good...

Pick up to 15 OTPs.
Describe them in fewer than about fifteen words.
Have your flist guess the OTP.


1. His grandfather would have called her an Elf; now she's always at his side, protecting him.

Vlad and Teldra, from the Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust.

2. They had a television friendship (with UST), a hardcover romance, and a movie marriage.

Riker and Troi from Star Trek: The Next Generation, guessed by hummingfly67.

3. When they met she had her head in a book and he was chasing painted bees.

Holmes and Russell from Laurie R. King's Mary Russell series.

4. She went on a "shopping trip" to the Capital and brought him back a present.

Cordelia Naismith and Aral Vorkosigan from the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold, guessed by trialia.

5. They traveled through time on a serious mission to locate a frivolous – and ugly – artifact.

Verity Kindle and Ned Henry from Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog

6. When he approached the stand, she look off her glasses and used her old name for him.

Laura Roslin and Lee Adama from Battlestar Galactica, guessed by trialia, dashakay, and bluerosefairy.

7. They've shared life after life together, but they've both been men in only one of them.

Jill and Rhodry (and their other incarnations) from Katharine Kerr's Deverry series.

8. She was a rose in a Bible (with nasty, hooky thorns); their love was forbidden.

Meggie Cleary and Ralph de Bricassart from The Thornbirds, guessed by dashakay and abracax.

9. She wouldn't be a widow long, not with her money, her husband said.

Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man, guessed by abracax and starfishchick.

10. They shared a House even though they've never lived together; he's not really her valet.

Rahm Emanuel and Nancy Pelosi, guessed by bluerosefairy.

11. Their very first time was in (pick one) S1 – S2 – S3 – S4 – S5 – the movie – S6 – S7.

Mulder and Scully from The X-Files, guessed by dashakay and bluerosefairy.

12. He proposed after he came back from the dead; they were married off-screen.

John and Delenn from Babylon 5, guessed by abracax.

13. He was a man with a gun. She was a woman with a ship's engine.

Jayne and Kaylee from Firefly, guessed by trialia and bluerosefairy.

14. It was just so romantic when she couldn't shoot him a second time. (Silly AFI...)

Walter Neff and Phyllis Dietrichson from Double Indemnity.

15. They shared a talent – one of them kept it a secret; the other one was an unwitting sleeper agent.

Susan Ivanova and Talia Winters, Babylon 5.