A Life Worth Fighting For

By Audrey Lynne

No one knew exactly how many other worlds were accessible through the Ring of the Ancestors, but there were a lot of them.  As many as there were stars in the sky, some said, though Ronon Dex privately doubted all of them were habitable.  Most of the settled worlds, however, had some folk story among ( Read more... )

Found in Translation

By Audrey Lynne

There were a number of amusing and often-bizarre rumors about the linguistics department floating around Atlantis.  What most people failed to realize was that it was the linguists themselves who started those rumors.  It didn't help their strange reputation any that the primary linguistics lab had a sign ( Read more... )

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

By Audrey Lynne

This, Elizabeth Weir decided, was without a doubt, the worst idea she'd ever had.

No, she amended a second later, washing her clothes in the sink would have been the worst idea she'd ever had.  However, sitting in a twenty-four hour laundromat in a less than delightful neighborhood on the Lower East ( Read more... )

Author's note: With the exception of the intro story, "The Bar," I've tried to go with a theme of song-titles for all the tales in this series.  This one is no exception.  I swear it's a real song--ah, memories, playing it on a jukebox at McDonald's repeatedly, giggling at it with friends....  I was thirteen, okay?!  (Lyrics can be found here: http ( Read more... )

Rodney and his team had a standing breakfast date unless life intervened, and Rodney knew they would be looking for him if he didn't show.  Thus, he found himself sitting in the mess an hour an a half later, being scrutinized by three worried friends.  Well, Teyla and John were scrutinizing him, at least.  Ronon appeared moderately interested, ( Read more... )

The Ghost of You and Me

By Audrey Lynne

So what's it going to take for you to realize

It all could go away in one blink of an eye
It happens all the time....

"If I Were You," Hoobastank

Despite his position as lord and ruler of the science department--okay, so maybe only he called himself that--Rodney McKay did actually care ( Read more... )

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If "not dying messily" was going to have to be the ultimate outcome, Andrei supposed that was better than the alternative.  Voinovich had showed, yes, but he apparently had his own intelligence network and his daily "meetings" had been a trap for his two victims.  He'd been waiting for them the moment they arrived ( Read more... )

Title: Concrete Angel
Author: Audrey Lynne
Pairings: None
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Discussion of child abuse.
Characters: Elizabeth, Carson near the end
Spoilers: None, though the end of the fic is set at the beginning of Season 2 when the senior staff was on Earth.

Summary: The worst scars aren't always physical.

Notes: Bear with me, the story starts out ( Read more... )

Title: The Best-Laid Schemes of Mice and Men
Author: Audrey Lynne
Pairing: None (gen)
Rating: PG
Summary: Elizabeth takes Carson's gene therapy. Things don't go as expected.
Spoilers: Through "Poisoning the Well"

Author's notes: This story is spawned by some of my own fascination with genetics, a bit of meta speculation on the ATA gene, and my ( Read more... )