Chance meeting

Print out the three lists below: profession, trait and meeting. Cut them up and put them in three separate piles. Draw two each from the first two pairing a trait with a profession. (The more contrasting the better.) Feel free to use a profession as a trait. (It could be a hobby.) Then draw a slip from the third pile. That's how they meet. Write what ensues.

Bounty hunter
Healer
Spy
Bodyguard
Gladiator
Linguist
Professor
Lawyer
Private Investigator
Astrologist
Actor
Book dealer
University student
Reporter
Diplomat
Tour guide
Jeweler
Anthropologist

Bird enthusiast
Night person
Scarred
Tattooed
Cultured
Racially mixed
Extremely long hair
Cat lover
Book lover
Martial artist
Talkative
Spiritual
Cooking enthusiast
Musical
Large family
Dresses uniquely
Passionate about a particular food
Gardener
Klutz

Next to each other while traveling
Chance meeting
Neighbors
Introduced by family
Enemies
One hires or works, or has to visit the other
Meet at wedding
Held hostage together
Childhood friends who meet again after years
One saves the other from something
Both want to buy the last of the same thing
Meet at a bar or club
Take a class together
Blind date

Adapted from Charlotte Dillon's Writing Prompts.