Master List of Stories - Alphabetical
Here's my Master List of stories for Stargate Atlantis.
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Title: All For One
Characters: Mainly Sheppard, Teyla, and Carson
Word Count: 6,750
Summary: It's the invisible battles beneath the surface that are the hardest to deal with.
Title: Ancient City of Love
Characters: Sheppard and team
Word Count: 6,750
Summary: Not even Sheppard notices how much time he's spending on Atlantis repairs until he's offworld and problems ensue. Written for the comment fic exchange over at sheppard_hc
Title: The Ark - Missing Scene
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 3,000
Summary: Missing scene between when John gets into the shuttle in an attempt to land it, and when he actually lands it. Well, more like crashes it.
Title: Backbone of Gravity
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 4,269
Summary: Sheppard versus Apple. Apple wins (written for the Sheppard H/C "Traps" challenge)
Title: Bad Blood
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 33,530
Summary: “Be careful, young man,” he said, his gaze intense as he stared at John. “I can see you enjoy a good adventure, but these creatures are not to be fooled with.” No major spoilers. Shep whump, and some creepy (possibly disturbing) stuff toward the end...
Title: Battle Scars
Characters: Sheppard, brief appearances by others
Word Count: 21,000
Summary: While searching for a missing team on a war-torn world, Sheppard is kidnapped and put to work, forcing him to stretch his skills in order to survive.
Title: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Characters: Sheppard, Team, and Beckett
Word Count: 43,701
Summary: A visit to a beautiful planet has disastrous consequences for John Sheppard. The team races to find out what's wrong with him, but the answers they seek may be buried deeper than they imagined. Shep whump. Minor spoilers for Common Ground.
Title: Blood Red Sunrise
Characters: Sheppard, Team, and Beckett
Word Count: 66,976
Summary: Being abducted by aliens, stuck with an implant, experimented upon, and then returned to his room in the morning? For John, it was just too classic a story to actually be true - the stuff of alien abduction scifi movies everywhere - until evidence begins to surface that what he thought he was only dreaming about might actually be happening to him, with dangerous consequences. Written for 2009 SGA Big Bang.
Title: Breathing Like a Drowning Man
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, others
Word Count: 5,500
Summary: A brush with danger at home teaches everyone they still have a lot to learn about their new lives on Atlantis.
Title: Brute Science
Characters: Sheppard, plus Ronon and Beckett
Word Count: 33,528
Summary: John finds himself on the wrong side of science, and learns first hand what it means when certain scientific assumptions turn out to be wrong. This is pretty creepy, with some heavy Shep whump.
Title: Burning Man
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 6,600
Summary: Sheppard spends a long night incapacitated, with only his team to look out for him.
Title: Clash of the Morning Stars
Characters: Team, plus Carson
Word Count: 4,600
Summary: When John is captured, the team steps up to save him.
Title: Down But Never Out
Characters: Sheppard, Carson
Word Count: 1,500
Summary: Even on the ground and injured, Sheppard still takes care of his people. Written for the comment fic exchange over at sheppard_hc
Title: Drowning
Characters: Sheppard, McKay
Word Count: 2,034
Summary: Riots, prisons, and head injuries sometimes result in the strangest of conversations. Short one-shot, nothing more.
Title: End of the Line
Characters: Sheppard
Word Count: 16,970
Summary: Sheppard reaches his limits when he's captured by a group after the city of Atlantis. Prequel to Titan5's story, Going Home.
Title: The Field of the Disappeared
Characters: The team
Word Count: 7,569
Summary: It looked like any other field on any of the myriad of planets they had visited. They should have known it wasn’t.
Title: Glitter in the Dark
Characters: John, Ronon, OC, others
Word Count: 1,514
Summary: Lunch is interrupted by a hunt and chase that takes John and Ronon into the lowest levels of Atlantis where things are dark and glittery and don't end well.
Title: Goodbye to Yesterdays
Characters: John/Teyla friendship
Word Count: 8,329
Summary: A tag to Ghost in the Machine. Takes place immediately after the end of the episode.
Title: Hanging By a Thread
Characters: John, Ronon
Word Count: 6,429
Summary: John and Ronon are captured, but they've got more problems than just trying to escape from their latest captors. Shep whump, John/Ronon friendship
Title: Heart of Fire, Heart of Gold
Characters: Team
Word Count: 12,000
Summary: Things go drastically wrong for Sheppard after Atlantis takes in a group of refugees from a Wraith culling.
Title: Heat of the Moment
Characters: Team Sheppard
Word Count: 5,615
Summary:A routine trading mission on a stiflingly hot planet takes a turn for the worse.
Title: Hot Belly
Characters: Team Sheppard
Word Count: 8,400
Summary:It's a jumper crash story! But mostly it's the team being all teamy together trying to get out of the crashed jumper.
Title: The Hungry and the Dead
Characters: Sheppard, team
Word Count: 36,300
Summary: After a devastating accident, Sheppard's team risks it all to make things right.
Title: In That Sleep of Death
Characters: Team
Word Count: 32,500
Summary: With the Wraith culling in earnest across the galaxy and mysterious mercenaries attacking defenseless villages, Team Sheppard chases after a possible weapon left behind by the Ancients in an abandoned outpost. They return empty-handed, but increasingly strange behavior causes them to question just exactly what they might have discovered after all.
Title: Instinct to Conversion
Characters: Team and Beckett
Word Count: ~2,300
Summary: Just a little scene between Instinct and Conversion
Title: John Sheppard, (not exactly) Cowboy Cop
Characters: John and Rodney
Word Count: 4,100
Summary: John and Rodney pose as farmers to catch a nasty character.
Title: Leave No Man Behind
Characters: Sheppard, plus team, Beckett, and Weir
Word Count: 25,766
Summary: John Sheppard returns to Atlantis alone and struggles with the fact that he left his team behind.
Title: Let it Snow, Let it Snow
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, Dave
Word Count: 5,383
Summary: Written as a comment fic - When Sheppard and Teyla are stranded by a storm, they show up at a very surprised Dave's doorstep.
Title: Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries
Characters: Team
Word Count: 5,491
Summary: With the memory of the events of Doppelganger still hanging over the team's heads, Sheppard runs into trouble when a simple treaty negotiation turns out to be more than he bargained for. Doppelganger tag, kind of.
Title: A Light in the Darkness
Characters: Sheppard
Word Count: 22,000
Summary: Sheppard finds himself in a deep, dark place and has only himself to rely on until he can find the light again.
Title: The Longest Dream
Characters: Weir, Sheppard
Word Count: 1,500
Summary: This is the missing scene from "Before I Sleep" where Weir, Sheppard, and Zelenka escape the flooding city of Atlantis in the time-traveling jumper and crash into the ocean ten thousand years in the past. The episode is fairly vague on exactly what happened - so this is my take on it! The character death warnings are the deaths mentioned in the episode (so, the entire expedition besides Weir...)
Title: Magnificent Desolation
Characters: Sheppard and Ronon, but the whole team is there
Word Count: 9,374
Summary: Sailing through the ground, unattached to gravity or planet - that's John Sheppard's dream - but even this world holds hidden dangers. Set in early season 4.
Title: Man Vs. Wild Vs. Rodney
Characters: McKay and Sheppard
Word Count: 15,000
Summary: Rodney is stuck with an injured Sheppard offworld and must rely on everything he's learned from his team to get them both home alive.
Title: Mugged
Characters: Sheppard and team
Word Count: 3,769
Summary: Sheppard becomes the unfortunate targed of a group of local drunks. My first ever SGA story, and a little shudder-inducing, but I felt compelled to include it on the list.
Title: Nightcrawlers
Characters: Sheppard, Beckett, and Ronon
Word Count: 5,971
Summary: Sick!Sheppard with an evil twist...not much plot and definitely not for the squeamish...
Title: One Hundred Percent John Sheppard
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard, with McKay, Ronon, and Beckett
Word Count: ~7,900
Summary: Episode tag to "Conversion"
Title: Outside the Wall
Date Posted: 22 December 2011
Characters: Sheppard, plus team
Word Count: 15,400
Summary: An encounter with alien technology brings Sheppard’s fight for survival to a whole different level.
Title: Possession
Characters: John, Ronon, Teyla, McKay, Weir, Beckett, Lorne, OCs
Word Count: 121,132
Summary: Sheppard and the rest of his team travel to Sateda to strike up a new alliance in their fight against the Wraith, but not all is what it seems, and Sheppard soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Title: A Puddle Jumper, A Wraith, and a Case of Beer
Characters: John, Ronon, brief appearance by others
Word Count: 4,300
Summary: John and Ronon, a jumper, some beer, some Wraith, trouble...
Title: Reconquista
Characters: Team, plus Carson
Word Count: 39,500
Summary: Not everyone was happy with the deal Woolsey and Atlantis worked out with the Coalition. A small group of them band together, intent on holding a new trial and charging John Sheppard - the visible leader of Atlantis for much of Pegasus - with the deaths of two million people. And some of them will stop at nothing in their quest for justice.
Title: Santa's Booming Workshop
Characters: Sheppard, Lorne
Word Count: 2,273
Summary: Written as a comment fic - disaster strikes in one of the labs and its Sheppard, then Lorne to the rescue.
Title: Shadow Boxing
Characters: John, Carson, brief appearances of others
Word Count: 5,100
Summary: Tag to Season 5's Whispers - what could be worse than fighting genetically mutated zombies? Sheppard and others find out after they return home to Atlantis.
Title: Signs of Life
Characters: McKay and Sheppard
Word Count: 2,700
Summary: John wanders off, looking for some peace and quiet and finding more trouble instead.
Title: South to the Edge of Darkness
Characters: Team, plus Carson
Word Count: 18,125
Summary: After the close call with the Wraith attack on Earth, the team plus Carson head south to Antarctica to reinstall the Ancient chair, but much more is going on in the quiet outpost than any of them suspect.
Title: Summit of Courage
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, McKay, Ronon, Ford...
Word Count: 19,822
Summary: He would have screamed if he’d had the breath to. Instead he froze, his eyes locked with that of the Iratus bug’s. And then the insect leapt. Spoilers up through Season 2's "Runner" and specifically for "38 Minutes."
Title: Survival Means Using Bright Colors
Characters: Lorne, Sheppard, team, others
Word Count: 12,400
Summary: An easy mission babysitting scientists as they explore a new facility turns dangerous when a swarm of Wraith show up, and Lorne must use all his skills to get his people out alive.
Title: Tag to Submersion
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla
Word Count: 4,405
Summary: Tag to Submersion. Sheppard doesn't just walk away from that one.
Title: To Dance With the Clouds Which Follow a Storm
Characters: Sheppard, Ronon
Word Count: 10,844
Summary: AU for after the season 4 finale, The Last Man, so spoilers through the end of season 4. This is based on an art concept from the first episode of season 5.
Title: Valley of Shadows
Characters: Beckett, Sheppard
Word Count: 2,718
Summary: Just a little tag to the episode Thirty-Eight Minutes, from Season 1.
Title: Vengeance
Characters: Sheppard, Ronon
Word Count: 17,455
Summary: When part of Ronon's past suddenly surfaces, Sheppard gets dragged into the middle of it, and it will take all of Ronon's skills to get both of them back to Atlantis alive.
Title: Woman at the Window
Characters: Sheppard
Word Count: 9,500
Summary: John wakes up alone in a desert with no memory of how he got there.
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Title: All For One
Characters: Mainly Sheppard, Teyla, and Carson
Word Count: 6,750
Summary: It's the invisible battles beneath the surface that are the hardest to deal with.
Title: Ancient City of Love
Characters: Sheppard and team
Word Count: 6,750
Summary: Not even Sheppard notices how much time he's spending on Atlantis repairs until he's offworld and problems ensue. Written for the comment fic exchange over at sheppard_hc
Title: The Ark - Missing Scene
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 3,000
Summary: Missing scene between when John gets into the shuttle in an attempt to land it, and when he actually lands it. Well, more like crashes it.
Title: Backbone of Gravity
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 4,269
Summary: Sheppard versus Apple. Apple wins (written for the Sheppard H/C "Traps" challenge)
Title: Bad Blood
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 33,530
Summary: “Be careful, young man,” he said, his gaze intense as he stared at John. “I can see you enjoy a good adventure, but these creatures are not to be fooled with.” No major spoilers. Shep whump, and some creepy (possibly disturbing) stuff toward the end...
Title: Battle Scars
Characters: Sheppard, brief appearances by others
Word Count: 21,000
Summary: While searching for a missing team on a war-torn world, Sheppard is kidnapped and put to work, forcing him to stretch his skills in order to survive.
Title: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Characters: Sheppard, Team, and Beckett
Word Count: 43,701
Summary: A visit to a beautiful planet has disastrous consequences for John Sheppard. The team races to find out what's wrong with him, but the answers they seek may be buried deeper than they imagined. Shep whump. Minor spoilers for Common Ground.
Title: Blood Red Sunrise
Characters: Sheppard, Team, and Beckett
Word Count: 66,976
Summary: Being abducted by aliens, stuck with an implant, experimented upon, and then returned to his room in the morning? For John, it was just too classic a story to actually be true - the stuff of alien abduction scifi movies everywhere - until evidence begins to surface that what he thought he was only dreaming about might actually be happening to him, with dangerous consequences. Written for 2009 SGA Big Bang.
Title: Breathing Like a Drowning Man
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, others
Word Count: 5,500
Summary: A brush with danger at home teaches everyone they still have a lot to learn about their new lives on Atlantis.
Title: Brute Science
Characters: Sheppard, plus Ronon and Beckett
Word Count: 33,528
Summary: John finds himself on the wrong side of science, and learns first hand what it means when certain scientific assumptions turn out to be wrong. This is pretty creepy, with some heavy Shep whump.
Title: Burning Man
Characters: Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 6,600
Summary: Sheppard spends a long night incapacitated, with only his team to look out for him.
Title: Clash of the Morning Stars
Characters: Team, plus Carson
Word Count: 4,600
Summary: When John is captured, the team steps up to save him.
Title: Down But Never Out
Characters: Sheppard, Carson
Word Count: 1,500
Summary: Even on the ground and injured, Sheppard still takes care of his people. Written for the comment fic exchange over at sheppard_hc
Title: Drowning
Characters: Sheppard, McKay
Word Count: 2,034
Summary: Riots, prisons, and head injuries sometimes result in the strangest of conversations. Short one-shot, nothing more.
Title: End of the Line
Characters: Sheppard
Word Count: 16,970
Summary: Sheppard reaches his limits when he's captured by a group after the city of Atlantis. Prequel to Titan5's story, Going Home.
Title: The Field of the Disappeared
Characters: The team
Word Count: 7,569
Summary: It looked like any other field on any of the myriad of planets they had visited. They should have known it wasn’t.
Title: Glitter in the Dark
Characters: John, Ronon, OC, others
Word Count: 1,514
Summary: Lunch is interrupted by a hunt and chase that takes John and Ronon into the lowest levels of Atlantis where things are dark and glittery and don't end well.
Title: Goodbye to Yesterdays
Characters: John/Teyla friendship
Word Count: 8,329
Summary: A tag to Ghost in the Machine. Takes place immediately after the end of the episode.
Title: Hanging By a Thread
Characters: John, Ronon
Word Count: 6,429
Summary: John and Ronon are captured, but they've got more problems than just trying to escape from their latest captors. Shep whump, John/Ronon friendship
Title: Heart of Fire, Heart of Gold
Characters: Team
Word Count: 12,000
Summary: Things go drastically wrong for Sheppard after Atlantis takes in a group of refugees from a Wraith culling.
Title: Heat of the Moment
Characters: Team Sheppard
Word Count: 5,615
Summary:A routine trading mission on a stiflingly hot planet takes a turn for the worse.
Title: Hot Belly
Characters: Team Sheppard
Word Count: 8,400
Summary:It's a jumper crash story! But mostly it's the team being all teamy together trying to get out of the crashed jumper.
Title: The Hungry and the Dead
Characters: Sheppard, team
Word Count: 36,300
Summary: After a devastating accident, Sheppard's team risks it all to make things right.
Title: In That Sleep of Death
Characters: Team
Word Count: 32,500
Summary: With the Wraith culling in earnest across the galaxy and mysterious mercenaries attacking defenseless villages, Team Sheppard chases after a possible weapon left behind by the Ancients in an abandoned outpost. They return empty-handed, but increasingly strange behavior causes them to question just exactly what they might have discovered after all.
Title: Instinct to Conversion
Characters: Team and Beckett
Word Count: ~2,300
Summary: Just a little scene between Instinct and Conversion
Title: John Sheppard, (not exactly) Cowboy Cop
Characters: John and Rodney
Word Count: 4,100
Summary: John and Rodney pose as farmers to catch a nasty character.
Title: Leave No Man Behind
Characters: Sheppard, plus team, Beckett, and Weir
Word Count: 25,766
Summary: John Sheppard returns to Atlantis alone and struggles with the fact that he left his team behind.
Title: Let it Snow, Let it Snow
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, Dave
Word Count: 5,383
Summary: Written as a comment fic - When Sheppard and Teyla are stranded by a storm, they show up at a very surprised Dave's doorstep.
Title: Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries
Characters: Team
Word Count: 5,491
Summary: With the memory of the events of Doppelganger still hanging over the team's heads, Sheppard runs into trouble when a simple treaty negotiation turns out to be more than he bargained for. Doppelganger tag, kind of.
Title: A Light in the Darkness
Characters: Sheppard
Word Count: 22,000
Summary: Sheppard finds himself in a deep, dark place and has only himself to rely on until he can find the light again.
Title: The Longest Dream
Characters: Weir, Sheppard
Word Count: 1,500
Summary: This is the missing scene from "Before I Sleep" where Weir, Sheppard, and Zelenka escape the flooding city of Atlantis in the time-traveling jumper and crash into the ocean ten thousand years in the past. The episode is fairly vague on exactly what happened - so this is my take on it! The character death warnings are the deaths mentioned in the episode (so, the entire expedition besides Weir...)
Title: Magnificent Desolation
Characters: Sheppard and Ronon, but the whole team is there
Word Count: 9,374
Summary: Sailing through the ground, unattached to gravity or planet - that's John Sheppard's dream - but even this world holds hidden dangers. Set in early season 4.
Title: Man Vs. Wild Vs. Rodney
Characters: McKay and Sheppard
Word Count: 15,000
Summary: Rodney is stuck with an injured Sheppard offworld and must rely on everything he's learned from his team to get them both home alive.
Title: Mugged
Characters: Sheppard and team
Word Count: 3,769
Summary: Sheppard becomes the unfortunate targed of a group of local drunks. My first ever SGA story, and a little shudder-inducing, but I felt compelled to include it on the list.
Title: Nightcrawlers
Characters: Sheppard, Beckett, and Ronon
Word Count: 5,971
Summary: Sick!Sheppard with an evil twist...not much plot and definitely not for the squeamish...
Title: One Hundred Percent John Sheppard
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard, with McKay, Ronon, and Beckett
Word Count: ~7,900
Summary: Episode tag to "Conversion"
Title: Outside the Wall
Date Posted: 22 December 2011
Characters: Sheppard, plus team
Word Count: 15,400
Summary: An encounter with alien technology brings Sheppard’s fight for survival to a whole different level.
Title: Possession
Characters: John, Ronon, Teyla, McKay, Weir, Beckett, Lorne, OCs
Word Count: 121,132
Summary: Sheppard and the rest of his team travel to Sateda to strike up a new alliance in their fight against the Wraith, but not all is what it seems, and Sheppard soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Title: A Puddle Jumper, A Wraith, and a Case of Beer
Characters: John, Ronon, brief appearance by others
Word Count: 4,300
Summary: John and Ronon, a jumper, some beer, some Wraith, trouble...
Title: Reconquista
Characters: Team, plus Carson
Word Count: 39,500
Summary: Not everyone was happy with the deal Woolsey and Atlantis worked out with the Coalition. A small group of them band together, intent on holding a new trial and charging John Sheppard - the visible leader of Atlantis for much of Pegasus - with the deaths of two million people. And some of them will stop at nothing in their quest for justice.
Title: Santa's Booming Workshop
Characters: Sheppard, Lorne
Word Count: 2,273
Summary: Written as a comment fic - disaster strikes in one of the labs and its Sheppard, then Lorne to the rescue.
Title: Shadow Boxing
Characters: John, Carson, brief appearances of others
Word Count: 5,100
Summary: Tag to Season 5's Whispers - what could be worse than fighting genetically mutated zombies? Sheppard and others find out after they return home to Atlantis.
Title: Signs of Life
Characters: McKay and Sheppard
Word Count: 2,700
Summary: John wanders off, looking for some peace and quiet and finding more trouble instead.
Title: South to the Edge of Darkness
Characters: Team, plus Carson
Word Count: 18,125
Summary: After the close call with the Wraith attack on Earth, the team plus Carson head south to Antarctica to reinstall the Ancient chair, but much more is going on in the quiet outpost than any of them suspect.
Title: Summit of Courage
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla, McKay, Ronon, Ford...
Word Count: 19,822
Summary: He would have screamed if he’d had the breath to. Instead he froze, his eyes locked with that of the Iratus bug’s. And then the insect leapt. Spoilers up through Season 2's "Runner" and specifically for "38 Minutes."
Title: Survival Means Using Bright Colors
Characters: Lorne, Sheppard, team, others
Word Count: 12,400
Summary: An easy mission babysitting scientists as they explore a new facility turns dangerous when a swarm of Wraith show up, and Lorne must use all his skills to get his people out alive.
Title: Tag to Submersion
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla
Word Count: 4,405
Summary: Tag to Submersion. Sheppard doesn't just walk away from that one.
Title: To Dance With the Clouds Which Follow a Storm
Characters: Sheppard, Ronon
Word Count: 10,844
Summary: AU for after the season 4 finale, The Last Man, so spoilers through the end of season 4. This is based on an art concept from the first episode of season 5.
Title: Valley of Shadows
Characters: Beckett, Sheppard
Word Count: 2,718
Summary: Just a little tag to the episode Thirty-Eight Minutes, from Season 1.
Title: Vengeance
Characters: Sheppard, Ronon
Word Count: 17,455
Summary: When part of Ronon's past suddenly surfaces, Sheppard gets dragged into the middle of it, and it will take all of Ronon's skills to get both of them back to Atlantis alive.
Title: Woman at the Window
Characters: Sheppard
Word Count: 9,500
Summary: John wakes up alone in a desert with no memory of how he got there.