TDS - Jon/Stephen - PG - Untitled Title: Untitled Author: Emily (lightningrapier) Fandom: The Daily Show/The Colbert Report Pairing: Jon/Stephen Rating: PG Warnings: Manlove. Summary: Memories of kisses. Disclaimer: These people own themselves. TDS & TCR are property of Viacom. This is purely fiction. Notes: To me, this feels unfinished, but what can you do. X-posted here at tds_rps at LJ.
Originally posted at LJ on December 8, 2006. Moved over because SixApart are fucking whores. :D
Jon kissed Stephen.
...Well, not anymore. He used to.
Jon's kisses were deep and sweet and serious, with a hint of a smile or a laugh or a joke waiting beneath it. Jon was always like that, and always had been, as long as Stephen had known him.
Jon was firm in his beliefs, serious about his political views and always knowledgeable about what was going on in America and the larger, more important world outside. At first, Stephen had tried getting informed and involved with politics because Jon would always rant and Stephen couldn't make sense of it. Then Jon started taking more control of the Daily Show, turning it into something more political, more satirical. Then Stephen really had to know who was who in Congress and what Bush was doing and who the administration was.
Jon would call meetings and talk and talk and write and Stephen would watch his lips and always laugh in the right places. Sometimes he understood jokes the others didn't, because they hadn't read the morning paper yet, and he had. The room would stay quiet after Jon's hidden punchline except for Stephen's laugh, and Jon would look at him in relief and amusement. Those were the special jokes, the ones just between then, but they only lasted until everyone else on the team learned to get as involved in politics as Jon. Then there were no more secret jokes.
When Stephen first got the green light to do his own show, Jon knew they'd hardly be saying goodbye. Still, it was almost hard to see Rob replace him on the air (much as he liked Rob). Jon bought him a nice tie and left it in its stylish Faconnable box, putting it on his desk the day before Stephen moved into the old Daily Show, new "Colbert Report" studio. He never left his name on it. Stephen wore it the next day.
They saw each other in meetings, though maybe not as much...
And they didn't kiss anymore.
It was nearly frustrating. The tension was there and always had been.