He didn’t actually expect them to take him up on it. Then, he immediately regretted inviting the people who wanted to keep Teyla in a cage into her home. She took it in stride, of course. The morning of their scheduled visit, when he tried to give her his sidearm - just in case - she raised the corner of her shirt and revealed a zat gun tucked into ( Read more... )

The drive was long and boring. Sheppard tried to spend it asleep in the backseat, but every time he nodded off Teyla would thread her hand through his arms and find his neck, searching for a pulse. He finally tried to swat her away, and she just dug her nails into his skin.

“Ouch!” He sat up, rubbing the stinging lines on his throat. “Teyla, if ( Read more... )

He never got to say goodbye. Not to Atlantis, not to anyone on it.

The doctors on Daedalus did exactly what Keller had warned, and the next time Sheppard woke up his mouth was dry and empty while the ventilator puffed directly into his neck. The chief medical officer was a guy, Dr. David O’Donovan, who wasn’t nearly as pretty as Keller. He ( Read more... )

Title: One Forgotten Day

Author: Vain_Glorious

Rating: PG-13, mild violence, gen

Characters: Pre-SGA Ronon Dex, Daniel Jackson

Summary: An intergalactic Ancient whoopsie lands a Runner in the Milky Way, where he meets a certain archaeologist.

Author’s note: Set in Season 8 of SG-1, pre-Atlantis. Weird, I know.
Feedback is delicious.

The ruins ( Read more... )

( 5 hopes )

( 5 Hands Held )

 ( 5 Pissed Off Ways )

1) The one from when Daniel bit him. He can’t even joke about it, and believe him, he’s tried. Daniel…biting him…the options should be endless. And yet, nothing he’s tried is even remotely funny.

Sadly, he knows he’s never going to forget it, either. Even if it slips his mind, once glance down to the back of his left hand immediately re-supplies the ( Read more... )

Word Count: 1,074

1. He never kicked Daniel off the team for being insubordinate, disobedient, trying to strand himself permanently off-world, not coming when Jack called, and all the other dangerous situations Daniel wandered into in defiance of a direct order. The regs about civilians, what few were actually written, certainly permitted if not ( Read more... )

Word Count : 863

1) There are a lot of things Jack envies about Teal’c. It’d be nice to be taller, to be stronger, to be faster. Maybe not full blown Jaffa skills, but a guy can dream about being just a little bit better, right? Also, he’s not sure, but Jack thinks Teal’c might live forever. And that might be nice, too, as long as the Jaffa health ( Read more... )