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1. Ugh, so tired. I love my sign language class a lot, but I have to get up half an hour early so I can leave work half an hour early to make the class, and it makes for a long, exhausting day. Why isn't it the weekend already? Actually, scratch that, why isn't it next weekend, since I have to work this Saturday.
2. About three hours left on sweet charity. I got outbid on the person I wanted to buy :o( cos I'm broke this month.
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5 secrets Lorne and Zelenka share
1. Down at the base of tower seven, where no-one goes any more, there are three stasis pods. All still switched on, all still working, all occupied, though the people in them are dead. Zelenka found them when he was following an entry in the Ancient database about spare crystals, which turned out to be wrong, and Lorne just seemed like the best person to tell.
No-one else knows about the three pods, and no-one else ever will. Or, they hope no-one else ever will, because the dead occupants of the pods of Sheppard, McKay and Woolsey, and the legends above them say they were activated in 2011.
2 & 3. Corporal Green makes the best chocolate muffins anyone in Atlantis has ever tasted, everyone agrees on that. He makes twenty, once a week, and if you’re not up early enough, you don’t get.
Corporal Green also sleeps with Dr Finch and Corporal Martin. Only two people other than Corporal Green know about this, and neither of them are Dr Finch or Corporal Martin. For Corporal Green, it’s a cheap secret: they’re also the only two people other than Corporal Green who know he actually makes twenty-two muffins, once a week.
4. Dr Shriver didn’t go back to Earth because his mom got sick, like he told everyone else, and Lorne and Zelenka weren’t there when he left to wish him well. Dr Shriver went back to Earth because Lorne caught him typing up a report about how he thought he’d seen Mitchell and Sheppard in a compromising position last time SG-1 visited Atlantis, and Lorne and Zelenka were there to make sure he left without saying anything, insurance in the form of Zelenka’s promise to wreck his career if he ever set foot in the SGC again, or breathed one word about Mitchell or Sheppard.
5. The life-signs detector in the control room isn’t infallible and it isn’t unhackable, whatever Rodney says about it. Zelenka’s always said he had better programming skills; he wishes sometimes that he could wave the evidence of this in Rodney’s face. Of course, that would sort of defeat the point of creating the hack in the first place. He knows one day it’s going to come back and bite him and Lorne, one day when they need Lorne and he isn’t in his quarters like he’s supposed to be, or when they need Zelenka and he’s not to be found. They don’t care. Well, they care, but they’re doing it anyway, one tiny, scratched out bit of normality and safety from everything else that they’ve given up to Atlantis.
5 times Cam confused Vala completely
1. That one time with the priestess on M5T 167. Not that she wasn’t very pretty (she so was. Vala would absolutely have seduced her, except that priestesses were never anything other than trouble, and not the good kind) but Vala’d seen him with John Sheppard. If she had someone who looked at her like that, she wouldn’t be chasing after random priestesses.
2. The time she talked him into taking her out of the mountain, and he said fine but only if they went somewhere they wouldn’t run into anyone and she said okay in the end because she *really* wanted to get out of the mountain. And his car broke down after half an hour on the road, and eventually Vala got bored waiting for him to fix it, poked a few things, and made it go again. If she’d been him, she’d have been *grateful* to be out with someone with such obvious skill at fixing the thing.
3. That one night, six months into their time stuck on the Odyssey, when he knocked on her door and didn’t say anything, even after she invited him in, just sat on the end of her bed and looked down at his hands. Didn’t even interrupt her when she started talking about how good Daniel looked in jeans.
Didn’t stop her when she hugged him and promised that it would be okay, that they’d get home. She wasn’t confused over why he wanted to be comforted – she already knew how it felt to be trapped and think you’d never get out. She just didn’t understand why, of everyone on the ship, he picked her to do it.
4. The time she asked him what S&M stood for, and he went bright red and told her to ask Daniel. Which was patently ridiculous, since Daniel was in Atlantis then, and she could hardly ask General Landry to open an intergalactic wormhole just so she could ask Daniel a question. Sometimes she really worried about Mitchell’s mental acuity.
Of course, the blushing made a little more sense after she got the answer out of Teal’c instead.
5. The day after Sam left for Atlantis, when he came by Vala’s room with a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates and a DVD of Sleepless in Seattle, which he always refused to let them watch on team movie night, no matter how much she begged. “Miss her already?” Vala asked, and Cam frowned and said, “Thought you might.”
It was sweet of him, actually, not that Vala will tell him, and she wasn’t entirely surprised that he’d figured her out. She just didn’t understand why he’d never *said* anything, until it was both of them suffering alone.
Five things Sam *really* likes about being in charge of Atlantis
1. She’s in charge. Of an entire military base. And it’s not like she wants to go all evil dictator or anything (well, only when biology won’t shut up about bringing a two-headed Pegasus sheep back to the city) but she’s a woman in the Air Force, and a woman in the country’s most top secret project. She pretty much jumped at the chance when the SGC came asking, but she did it thinking she was saying goodbye to even the slim chance she had of ever being put in charge.
2. Chuck brings her coffee every morning, and sometimes chocolate cake. Not that the others wouldn’t sometimes bring coffee back at the SGC, but usually only if they felt guilty or wanted something. Chuck just does it, like it’s her due, as commander of the base. She suspects it’d get kind of annoying eventually, but it’s nice for a while.
3. She actually has time to read research papers for fun. Not a lot of time, between strange viruses and members of her command disappearing (though she only hears about that one after she gets back from a diplomatic visit), but some time. She usually can’t resist writing mental letters telling them why they’re wrong, not that she ever sends them. It’s still nice to know that if she doesn’t want to critique them, she doesn’t have to.
4. The support staff come and tell her gossip. She’s not entirely sure *why* they do, but it doesn’t take her long to get used to Amelia leaning in her doorway and muttering about Drs Wilcox and Finch, who got caught shagging by a marine security patrol for the third time, or Chuck handing over a coffee and updating her on the fight between biology and botany for the new lab space. And one day, she knows it’s going to come in really useful.
5. Lieutenant Cadman. It’s a good thing she’s already learned how to keep secrets, because she wants to tell *everyone*, has to bite her tongue not to. Any reasonable person would: Laura’s pretty and bright and funny, and she doesn’t care that Sam’s her CO, her superior, that they’re breaking at least a couple of regs. After ten years of wanting someone she can’t have, Sam could love Laura just for being simple. It’s not the reason she loves her, but it’s part of the reason she’s happy.
4. Feeling moderately accomplaished:femme_fic is done, though probably needs heavy editing; team_sga fic is done and ready to post; sga_genficathon fics and one thelittlebang and I'm done with ficathons for a while, and will instead go write my Vega/Keller alternate season 5 fic. I don't think I'm ready to wrangle with writing a Keller pov Keller/McKay break-up fic in which she's not the bad guy yet - too much potential for unpleasant fandom backlash.
5. Damnit, I know I actually *had* a number 5 this time. What the heck was it? That's annoying.
2. About three hours left on sweet charity. I got outbid on the person I wanted to buy :o( cos I'm broke this month.
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sg1_five_things:5 secrets Lorne and Zelenka share
1. Down at the base of tower seven, where no-one goes any more, there are three stasis pods. All still switched on, all still working, all occupied, though the people in them are dead. Zelenka found them when he was following an entry in the Ancient database about spare crystals, which turned out to be wrong, and Lorne just seemed like the best person to tell.
No-one else knows about the three pods, and no-one else ever will. Or, they hope no-one else ever will, because the dead occupants of the pods of Sheppard, McKay and Woolsey, and the legends above them say they were activated in 2011.
2 & 3. Corporal Green makes the best chocolate muffins anyone in Atlantis has ever tasted, everyone agrees on that. He makes twenty, once a week, and if you’re not up early enough, you don’t get.
Corporal Green also sleeps with Dr Finch and Corporal Martin. Only two people other than Corporal Green know about this, and neither of them are Dr Finch or Corporal Martin. For Corporal Green, it’s a cheap secret: they’re also the only two people other than Corporal Green who know he actually makes twenty-two muffins, once a week.
4. Dr Shriver didn’t go back to Earth because his mom got sick, like he told everyone else, and Lorne and Zelenka weren’t there when he left to wish him well. Dr Shriver went back to Earth because Lorne caught him typing up a report about how he thought he’d seen Mitchell and Sheppard in a compromising position last time SG-1 visited Atlantis, and Lorne and Zelenka were there to make sure he left without saying anything, insurance in the form of Zelenka’s promise to wreck his career if he ever set foot in the SGC again, or breathed one word about Mitchell or Sheppard.
5. The life-signs detector in the control room isn’t infallible and it isn’t unhackable, whatever Rodney says about it. Zelenka’s always said he had better programming skills; he wishes sometimes that he could wave the evidence of this in Rodney’s face. Of course, that would sort of defeat the point of creating the hack in the first place. He knows one day it’s going to come back and bite him and Lorne, one day when they need Lorne and he isn’t in his quarters like he’s supposed to be, or when they need Zelenka and he’s not to be found. They don’t care. Well, they care, but they’re doing it anyway, one tiny, scratched out bit of normality and safety from everything else that they’ve given up to Atlantis.
5 times Cam confused Vala completely
1. That one time with the priestess on M5T 167. Not that she wasn’t very pretty (she so was. Vala would absolutely have seduced her, except that priestesses were never anything other than trouble, and not the good kind) but Vala’d seen him with John Sheppard. If she had someone who looked at her like that, she wouldn’t be chasing after random priestesses.
2. The time she talked him into taking her out of the mountain, and he said fine but only if they went somewhere they wouldn’t run into anyone and she said okay in the end because she *really* wanted to get out of the mountain. And his car broke down after half an hour on the road, and eventually Vala got bored waiting for him to fix it, poked a few things, and made it go again. If she’d been him, she’d have been *grateful* to be out with someone with such obvious skill at fixing the thing.
3. That one night, six months into their time stuck on the Odyssey, when he knocked on her door and didn’t say anything, even after she invited him in, just sat on the end of her bed and looked down at his hands. Didn’t even interrupt her when she started talking about how good Daniel looked in jeans.
Didn’t stop her when she hugged him and promised that it would be okay, that they’d get home. She wasn’t confused over why he wanted to be comforted – she already knew how it felt to be trapped and think you’d never get out. She just didn’t understand why, of everyone on the ship, he picked her to do it.
4. The time she asked him what S&M stood for, and he went bright red and told her to ask Daniel. Which was patently ridiculous, since Daniel was in Atlantis then, and she could hardly ask General Landry to open an intergalactic wormhole just so she could ask Daniel a question. Sometimes she really worried about Mitchell’s mental acuity.
Of course, the blushing made a little more sense after she got the answer out of Teal’c instead.
5. The day after Sam left for Atlantis, when he came by Vala’s room with a bottle of wine, a box of chocolates and a DVD of Sleepless in Seattle, which he always refused to let them watch on team movie night, no matter how much she begged. “Miss her already?” Vala asked, and Cam frowned and said, “Thought you might.”
It was sweet of him, actually, not that Vala will tell him, and she wasn’t entirely surprised that he’d figured her out. She just didn’t understand why he’d never *said* anything, until it was both of them suffering alone.
Five things Sam *really* likes about being in charge of Atlantis
1. She’s in charge. Of an entire military base. And it’s not like she wants to go all evil dictator or anything (well, only when biology won’t shut up about bringing a two-headed Pegasus sheep back to the city) but she’s a woman in the Air Force, and a woman in the country’s most top secret project. She pretty much jumped at the chance when the SGC came asking, but she did it thinking she was saying goodbye to even the slim chance she had of ever being put in charge.
2. Chuck brings her coffee every morning, and sometimes chocolate cake. Not that the others wouldn’t sometimes bring coffee back at the SGC, but usually only if they felt guilty or wanted something. Chuck just does it, like it’s her due, as commander of the base. She suspects it’d get kind of annoying eventually, but it’s nice for a while.
3. She actually has time to read research papers for fun. Not a lot of time, between strange viruses and members of her command disappearing (though she only hears about that one after she gets back from a diplomatic visit), but some time. She usually can’t resist writing mental letters telling them why they’re wrong, not that she ever sends them. It’s still nice to know that if she doesn’t want to critique them, she doesn’t have to.
4. The support staff come and tell her gossip. She’s not entirely sure *why* they do, but it doesn’t take her long to get used to Amelia leaning in her doorway and muttering about Drs Wilcox and Finch, who got caught shagging by a marine security patrol for the third time, or Chuck handing over a coffee and updating her on the fight between biology and botany for the new lab space. And one day, she knows it’s going to come in really useful.
5. Lieutenant Cadman. It’s a good thing she’s already learned how to keep secrets, because she wants to tell *everyone*, has to bite her tongue not to. Any reasonable person would: Laura’s pretty and bright and funny, and she doesn’t care that Sam’s her CO, her superior, that they’re breaking at least a couple of regs. After ten years of wanting someone she can’t have, Sam could love Laura just for being simple. It’s not the reason she loves her, but it’s part of the reason she’s happy.
4. Feeling moderately accomplaished:
femme_fic is done, though probably needs heavy editing; team_sga fic is done and ready to post; sga_genficathon fics and one thelittlebang and I'm done with ficathons for a while, and will instead go write my Vega/Keller alternate season 5 fic. I don't think I'm ready to wrangle with writing a Keller pov Keller/McKay break-up fic in which she's not the bad guy yet - too much potential for unpleasant fandom backlash.5. Damnit, I know I actually *had* a number 5 this time. What the heck was it? That's annoying.
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OMFG I didn't know there was anyone else interested in that dynamic! It's on my List of Doom, but if you write it instead I'll be off the hook yay!!
*ahem* sorry, got a little overexcited there.
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So what you're saying is I could have kept quiet and you would have written it? Damn.
The first episode of season 5, I wrote in my review that I could totally see the two of them (Keller was seriously impressed with the shooting down of a dart) and then Malozzi said that Vega was gay and interested and then I just couldn't resist.
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Yeah, Keller seemed quite impressed with her. And TBH neither Jennifer/Rodney nor Jennifer/Ronon worked all that well for me. Keller being bi or gay just... fits, for me. It was the key that made me think about who she is, and why she's in Atlantis.
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Yeah. She just seems like the classic 'too busy with school for a personal life...oh, okay, huh, girls' character. And how cool would it have been to have her turn them both down *for* a girl? Or, better yet, because she decided she wasn't that interested in either, but that would never happen on tv, where women *have* to be with someone if someone shows interest in them.
My bitter tv issues, let me show them to you :o)
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Yes! This! Though I suspect this would require the men writing SGA to grasp that not all women consider being hit on to be the highest compliment a man can pay them - unlikely, since they turned her into someone whose sole purpose was to fall for Rodney and think he was wonderful.
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Yeah. I can really see her deciding not to persue anything with either of them because they're Sheppard's friends and team-mates and it's hard enough to work with him as her older, male, military more-or-less boss as it is, without the risk of being seen as just Rodney/Ronon's girlfriend. Or at least keeping the PDAs to a major minimum.
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Oh wow, I can see why they'd want to keep that a secret. I hope that's not their fate in all realities.
Dr Shriver didn’t go back to Earth because his mom got sick, like he told everyone else, and Lorne and Zelenka weren’t there when he left to wish him well. Dr Shriver went back to Earth because Lorne caught him typing up a report about how he thought he’d seen Mitchell and Sheppard in a compromising position last time SG-1 visited Atlantis
I really wouldn't want to get on Lorne and Zelenka's bad side. John and Cam are lucky to have them looking out for them.
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I'm sure there's a 'nice' explanation for it, but time travel makes my head hurt, so I don't know what it is!
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I know! Why can't we just skip the rest of the week?
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I was trying to bid on *you* and your price kept getting higher and higher and HIGHER. Duuude :D
Yeah - watch me looking at it and going eep! I would have loved to write for you though :o)
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I can't get enough of your John/Cam fics!
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Hopefully the person you bid on will be asked to write something you'll like!
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I should try my hand at them sometime :)
You so should! They're my favourite procrastination exercise when I'm hating whatever I'm currently working on.
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just the idea of Teal'c calmly explaining S&M is priceless
I think it's the way he'd be so *serious* about it, and yet somehow it'd still seem like he was amused. And speaking from vast personal experience, of course :o)
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I love all the time Vala got confused by Cam, I adored the Cam/Laura at the end and the little hints of John/Cam, and I LOVE all the things that Lorne and Zelenka know! *g*
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Which you'd think I'd remember, being a mod over there! But anyone can reply to the prompts there, or leave a prompt...
I've already started a few
Cool :o)
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