Looking for a place to land

Title: The Affirmation of Self
Fandom: Forever Knight
Pairings: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1800
Author's Note: Written for fkficfest.
Summary: Moving on is an inevitable part of every vampire's life.

The Affirmation of Self

Title: In a Yellow Wood
Fandom: The Mentalist
Pairings: None
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~5000
Warnings: The story features off-screen serious violence to a child along with implied general mistreatment.
Author's Note: Originally written for Yuletide and cross-posted here.
Summary: The CBI is called in to investigate when a young graduate student is murdered.

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Title: In the Shadow of the Invaders
Fandom: Battlestar Galactica
Rating: PG-13
Word count: ~900
Notes: Originally written for twelvecolonies for the unexpected pairings challenge (i.e., the take two characters who never interacted on screen and write a fic about the two of them challenge). Much to my surprise, I tied for second. With myself.

Summary: Romo is interrogated by Cavil on New Caprica.

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Title: In Friendship’s Name
Characters: John, Ronon, Teyla
Rating: PG-13
Word count: ~3100
Notes: Written for satedan_grabass. My thanks to scrollgirl for beta reading.

Summary: John and Ronon provide back-up for Teyla on a rescue mission gone wrong.

John took a sip of the sour beer Ronon had ordered for both of them.

Title: In Desperation, Madness
Author: skieswideopen
Fandom: SGA/SG-1
Pairings: None
Prompt: Carter, Mitchell, Sheppard, "what regulations?"
Summary: Sheppard and Mitchell plot to help their families.
Notes: Originally written for the lostcityfound 2008 Fic Battle for the prompt "what regulations?"


"You're insane!" said Cam

Sheppard smirked at him from across the table, and behind the smirk Cam could just detect the edge of desperation.

"We'll never get away with it," Cam insisted, resistance beginning to fade under the weight of his own desperation.

"Won't know unless we try," drawled Sheppard, still grinning wildly, and after a long moment, Cam nodded.

It had all begun, Cam decided, in the cafeteria. Some people might have traced the genesis back earlier, to the moment when a handful of cells had failed to stop dividing when they should have and thrown everything out of whack, but Cam preferred to trace it back to the moment when he saw John Sheppard in the cafeteria, looking worn and tired and out-of-place, and invited him for a drink.

They'd struck up a casual sort of friendship during the six weeks the Asurans had occupied Atlantis: a few drinks here, a game of basketball there, some bonding over what it meant to have the responsibility for a whole world resting on your shoulders. It was enough that, once they were settled in the bar with drinks in hand, and the handful of people who had stared when they had come in had turned back to their own drinks, he felt comfortable asking Sheppard what he was doing on Earth. Sheppard had taken a long swallow of beer, and for a moment Cam thought he had overstepped the bounds of their friendship. But then Sheppard had set his glass down and looked across the table at Cam and told him, in a deceptively off-hand way, about his three-year-old nephew, who had been recently diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. And Cam had nodded in sympathy and understanding, and told his own story of his cousin--closer to a sister, really--who was suffering from late-stage ovarian cancer, and who was trying to figure out how to say goodbye to her two children. They toasted their families, and turned to discussing the many downsides of being public celebrities.

The issue of the Ilusians didn't come up until three drinks later. By then, they were both well under the influence of Tabby's truly excellent single malt (having decided that beer wasn't sufficient under the circumstances), and the idea of completely disregarding regulations and possibly ending their own careers seemed less...dangerous than it might have under more sober circumstances.

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Title: And My Kingdom Bounded by Stones
Author: skieswideopen
Fandom: SGA
Prompt: Sheppard, "When I ruled the world"
Pairing: None
Summary: John in exile: sometimes there are disadvantages to possessing the ATA gene in the Pegasus Galaxy, and even being king doesn't help.
Notes: Originally written for the lostcityfound 2008 Fic Battle for the prompt "When I ruled the world."

"When I ruled the world..." began John. He stopped as a bout of coughing wracked his body.

"Hush, Dad," said Beth gently, adjusting his pillows. "You need to rest."

"Things were different," insisted John. "When I was in charge...."

"I know, Dad, I know. I'll get you some tea, okay?" She went to the door and rang for a servant. John looked at the two small children who sat beside his bed, looking back at him with identical solemn gazes.

"When I ruled the world,” he said again, “we fought the Wraith; we didn't hide from them. We went between planets and traded with others, and when the Wraith came, we sent up waves of drones until the sky was lit with the explosions of their ships."

"Papa says that’s a foolish risk," said the older girl. "Too many people die when we fight. Now that we’ve destroyed all the Wraith who know where we are, we should stay quiet so that no one else finds out we’re here.”

"Hiding," said John bitterly, "and letting other people fight for us." He began coughing again.

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