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Okay, so of course they release the fandom_stocking five minutes after I make the post about the SGA Santa. (Or near enough!)

TITLE: Shadow Of The Morrigan
SUMMARY: Contact between a person and another person's dæmon is...intimate. It's like touching someone else's soul. There are reputedly people who've been lovers for years who've never touched the other person's dæmon, although Steve doesn't see how that's possible – if you're intimate with someone, then surely—but he's distracting himself.
CATEGORY: Steve/Maria, dæmon!AU, attraction, UST, drama

TITLE: Architecture Of Trust
SUMMARY: It starts when Steve finds Maria punching the living daylights out of a bag after a mission goes pear-shaped. It ends with them naked and sweaty, panting like there's not enough air in the room.
CATEGORY: Steve/Maria, D/s, relationship, character study through sex, angst, love

TITLE: Fine Distinctions Of SHIELD
SUMMARY: They're not normal; they're SHIELD. A friendship spanning ten years, of growth and outgrowing, of unexpected twists and turns and dark horses, and of industrial building parts.
CATEGORY: Clint&Maria, friendship, slice of life.

TITLE: Even Assassins Trip Sometimes
SUMMARY: Pepper offers Natasha an apartment and a job.
CATEGORY: Pepper&Natasha, friendship, post-movie, humour (light)

FANDOM: Avengers
TITLE: Known By Its Flight
SUMMARY: SHIELD does not make weapons of its women – or, as Barton has observed with greater accuracy, SHIELD does not make weapons like Natasha out of their women. That doesn't mean a woman can't choose to make a weapon of herself.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: Action/Adventure, Drama, Trust, Spies, SHIELD, Agents, Women Being Awesome.
CHARACTERS: Natasha, Maria Hill, Clint Barton, Phil Coulson, OMC.
WORD COUNT: 2,400
DISCLAIMER: Characters are the property of Marvel Comics and no infringement is intended. These stories are for entertainment only and no money is being made from them.
NOTES: For emmypenny in the avengersfest 2012. Basically Natasha as spy and Maria as handler, with a cameo from Clint and a flashback from Phil. And Agent Alan Thorpe turns up again. The original plotbunny was "Pepper gets kidnapped and kicks metaphorical arse with three inch heels and the assistance of Natasha, Maria, and Sif", but the logistics of the story proved more than my scrambled brain could handle at the time. Maybe in time for halfamoon?

AO3 | LJ

FANDOM: Avengers
TITLE: The Little Things
SUMMARY: Nothing can replace what Steve's lost.
CATEGORY: Character Study, Angst, Drabble-related, Steve Rogers, Maria Hill.
RATING: G
WARNINGS: None
NOTES: A quiet morning at work and a mental gearswitch for a bit. I'd still like to read someone else's Steve/Maria fic, though. For the avengers100 challenge #20 - win/lose. It's actually 4 drabbles that link together to make a full story, and I'm not sure if that's allowed, but here's hoping.

"They told me we won the war; but they never told me what we lost."

( The Little Things )

TITLE: Identity
SUMMARY: Who she was, and is, and will be.
RATING: PG-13
CATEGORY: Teyla, Todd, character study, Wraith, gen, what is the measure of a human?
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, etc., etc., etc.
NOTES: For sga_saturday's prompt 'memory'. This was going to be longer. Then it was going to be shorter. Then I ran out of time... Uh, and it got more complicated than I expected.

She rides on the back of a cart in the last lazy days of summer and the joybirds ring out their calls, each to each in the glittering leaf canopy above.

TITLE: The Sundered
SUMMARY: Driftwood was once a part of a greater whole, with a purpose and a meaning.
RATING: PG
CATEGORY: Angst, post-EATG.
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, etc.
NOTES: For the sga_saturday prompt for week 14 - driftwood. Thanks to the people who threw the ideas out for me to try, and thanks to ileliberte whose musings sparked the ideas behind the story. Very short and angsty.

Teyla stands in a city full of people who hurry past without knowing anything of her origins or her skills.

TITLE: Untold Things
SUMMARY: Kate's not proud of everything she's done.
RATING: PG-13
CHARACTERS: Kate, Henry, Will, Big Guy
CATEGORY: character study
WORD COUNT: ~3,500
WARNINGS: (warnings) Scenarios containing schoolyard bullying, self-termination.
DISCLAIMER: Kate Freelander and co aren't mine, this is just some fun, and I make no money from writing these characters.
NOTES: Right, so this was my idea for the sfaflashfic challenge 'Secrets'. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to finish it before the deadline, so it's just going to halfamoon's Celebration Of Female Characters. It's rather dark in parts; she's not exactly a tame lion. (Yes, I think I am going to use that phrase for Kate. Helen, on the other hand, would be the opposite: a creature that was supposed to be tamed to the hand and went slightly feral instead... The Cat That Walks Alone, perhaps?)

( Untold Things )

FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
TITLE: Outside The Box, Into The Lake
SUMMARY: A too-hot day during a celebration of summer requires a little...ingenious thinking
RATING: G
CATEGORY: team, friendship
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money.
NOTES: Written to stuff marag's fandom_stocking

( Outside The Box, Into The Lake )

TITLE: A Kingdom, Broken - Part Two
SUMMARY: Their goal was always to defeat the Wraith - or, at least, to find a way by which Pegasus could live without the shadow of the Wraith over them. But there could be no great success without an equally great price.
CATEGORY: action-adventure, drama
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Much of it occurs after Enemy At The Gates, but no major spoilers.
NOTES: You know, once - just once - I would like to write a simple romance. Boy meets girl, boy and girl get it on like bunnies, happy ending. Obviously, this is not that story.

Still for the We'll Always Have Pegasus challenge at lostcityfound. And, um, yeah, the story is still going. I'm sorry about the month's delay between Part 1 and Part 2 - it's...well, it's been a rough time writing and I've let myself get distracted. I promise to provide a 'finish' at the end of Part 3, such that it isn't absolutely necessary for me to write the Bloody Epic that my muse thinks would be lots of fun to write.

It may be several weeks before I finish Part 3, I'm afraid, primarily due to my attempt to write something for Valentine's Day. (It's still an attempt right now, we'll see if it becomes an actuality before next Saturday, although I'm kinda doubting it.)

In the meantime...

A Kingdom, Broken - Part I

( A Kingdom, Broken - Part II )

TITLE: All The King's Men
SUMMARY: Sanity is a fine line between the scars of the past and the belief in a hopeful future. But after a long captivity, John may no longer be capable of the balancing act.
CATEGORY: gen, hurt/comfort, team
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Not mine, making no money, please don't sue.
WARNINGS: a lot of Very Bad Things are implied, but none are described in detail
NOTES: Written for kristen999 in the sheppard_hc Secret Santa 2008. ~11,000 words and a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get the damn thing out! Definitely a fascinating prompt to write for, but not an easy one by a long shot.

So much thanks to my alphas and betas: live_brave, mahoni, and aurora_novarum, who were helpful and encouraging and brilliant. I could never have finished this without you!

( All The King's Men )

TITLE: Anchored By The Hands Of Earth
SUMMARY: The clangour in his ears is the sound of silence, overlaid by the drumming of his heartbeat.
CATEGORY: hurt/comfort, challenge
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: Stargate belongs to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., no infringements of any rights is intended.
NOTES: For Round #3 of sgahcchallenges - Choose from two to all characters from the list and write a story in which there is no dialogue at all. There must be social interaction, but you can’t write any dialog. No other characters allowed, but can be mentioned.

Anchored By The Hands Of Earth