“Cap’n, what’s this?” Kaylee held up a book that had fallen out of Mal’s bag.

“Oh, it’s a, uh, photo book of my family from Earth-that-Was.” Mal’s face turned a slight pink.  “My ma gave it to me when I first left Shadow… was my favorite book when I was a kid.”

“Ohhhh! Shiny!! Can I look?”  Kaylee had already sat down and opened to the first ( Read more... )

“We’re vacationing in New York City. Now I understand wanting to get your newly found cousin a souvenir since we’re going there next and all, but from FAO Schwarz? What are you hoping to find here?” Buffy asked, starting to get a bit impatient with her friend.

He stopped digging through the piles of stuffed animals and with a triumphant “AH ( Read more... )

He’s gone so long without any feeling of warmth; he’s just about forgotten what it feels like. Anita has made many comments on the coldness of his eyes, and he knows there are very few that live in a glacial state like him, but warmth leads to being burned.

In his world burning equals death.

And then he met her; with her hair the color of ( Read more... )

Title: Date
Author: kumagorou1983
Fandom: SG1
Pairing: Willow / Teal'c
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Not mine
Challenge: 72 Forgotten and Remembered
Word Count: 100

“Teal’c, she could level the mountain,” came Sam’s flabbergasted response.

“Indeed.”

“If the Goa’uld found out about her the entire planet could be at risk,” said O’Neil, ever the pragmatist.

“Indeed.”

“ ( Read more... )

Every now and then the light on someone’s blond hair would make him pause and chase after an elusive memory.   He could never quite place what that memory was.  It bothered him once, but now he just lets the feeling of that forgotten someone wash over him.

He was, of course, running late to the morning briefing. Something about meeting with ( Read more... )

“Teal’c, what is this?”  The soft glow of candle light and the linen on the table leaves Willow with a feeling of dread.

She takes the flowers and red box from him as he leads her to the couch. “I was told by O’Neill that this was a very important Tau’ri tradition. He informed me that I must have candles as well as cut flowers but would not ( Read more... )

The pain was intense.  She could hear Sheppard and Ronan shouting their denial and struggling against their captors somewhere behind her.

Dawn wanted to live.  At least that’s what she has told herself ever since Glory.  And she has always (mostly) believed it, too.

But as the Wraith continued its feeding, she only put up a token resistance ( Read more... )

The truth of the matter is that his car did break down on his road trip.

The lie is that his uncle’s car made it a bit farther than where he had said it did.

The truth is he served drinks to pay the mechanic’s bills.

The lie is when he said that was all he did.

The truth is the Master of St. Louis saved him from the crazy he/she Oba ( Read more... )