Mum needs Good Thoughts(TM)

My mother has been diagnosed with icterus. I had to leave her in the hospital - she's frightened out of her mind, the poor thing, and so am I, to be perfectly honest. This morning, in five hour's time, we were supposed to go for a one-day-trip to Vienna, to give the summer a worthy ending.

Well, this was not what we had in mind, I tell you.

This is the second time in my entire life that I'm alone in the flat for the night. It's... eerie, somehow. It doesn't feel right. I can only imagine how my poor Mum feels in her hospital bed. :(

Good thoughts and the odd prayer would be appreciated very much.

Bad Karma, Part 1 of 2

Title: Bad Karma
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Stargate - Atlantis
Rating: Teens, for this part (for language). Later parts will be rated adult and friends-locked.
Genre: Angst, mostly. Some erotica.
Characters: Peter Grodin, Kavanagh, Bates' team in background, unnamed Genii thugs.
Pairings: Grodin/Kavanagh.

Spoilers: Mild ones for "Underground”.
Summary: Be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
Disclaimer: The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the insane story idea.

Author’s note:
Written for abysmal_seraph as an entry to kavtolanon’s 2006 Secret Sancta Kavanagh ficathon. She wanted slash and mild bondage and banter. I hope I have successfully delivered all of them, since she said being tied up in a mission was acceptable. And no, I’m not sure it’s even possible for two tightly bound people to free themselves like that – I just wanted them to have some “fun”. *g*

Beta-read by the ever-helpful planetkiller, the Big Boss of kavtolanon.

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Sometimes Dr. Calvin Thomas Kavanagh seriously asked himself what he might have done in one of his previous lives to pile up so much bad karma as it came crashing down onto his head at every available occasion. This was a question he’d repeatedly asked in the past, but recently, it had become his daily mantra. It was his first thought in the morning – and morning meant the ungodly hours of dawn here – and his last thought before going to bed, usually way too late and for much too short hours of restless sleep.

Of course, there was such thing as simple bad karma… and then, there was Atlantis. The place where incompetent superiors second-guessed everything he did and dismissed his good, solid work as crap. The place where the military was allowed to break the rules without consequences, hysterical harpies got to make important decisions based on their so-called feelings, and where creepy, vampiric aliens wanted to suck the very life out of him through the palm of their hands.

Atlantis gave the expression "bad karma" a whole new meaning. Several whole new meanings, actually.
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Coninued in Part 2

Bad Karma, Part 2 of 2

Title: Bad Karma
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Stargate - Atlantis
Rating: Adult, but not so much that it would need to be friends-locked.
Genre: Angst, mostly. Some erotica.
Characters: Peter Grodin, Kavanagh, Bates' team in background, unnamed Genii thugs.
Pairings: Grodin/Kavanagh.

Spoilers: Mild ones for "Underground”.
Summary: Be careful what you ask for. You might get it.
Disclaimer: The characters and the settings don't belong to me. Just the insane story idea.

Author’s note:
Continued directly from Part 1

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Ten minutes later, the Genii guards were knocked out, unconscious, bound on their hands and feet with the rests of the rope the two scientists had managed to remove from themselves, and even gagged with pieces of rope, so that they wouldn’t be able to alert their peers. Kavanagh took their weapons, handling the mean-looking things with an expertise that impressed and frightened Grodin at the same time. This was the man people considered a jerk and a coward? Right now, Kavanagh seemed competent, level-headed and determined to save their asses, no matter the cost.

At the moment, Grodin actually believed that he would be able to do so. And wondered whether the other man was truly such a jerk as McKay and many others assumed. Whether Dr. Weir hadn’t been unjust to him. After all, when had Kavanagh considered anything else but the safety of Atlantis? Had it been really such a cowardly thing to say that risking the entire expedition for just six people is an irresponsible decision? Or had they all bought into the typically military mindset that wouldn’t hesitate to kill dozens of people just to bring out someone’s dead body from a war zone?

In any case, right in this moment, Kavanagh seemed to know very well what he was doing. The whole luring the Genii guards in a trap and pulling them out of circulation had been done with extreme efficiency and detailed accuracy. Just as the man always worked in his lab. Who’d have thought that the same unnerving pedantry would work so well on off-world missions?
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~The End~

The Ghosts of a Christmas Past

THE GHOSTS OF A CHRISTMAS PAST
by Soledad

Fandom: Stargate - Atlantis
Disclaimer: The characters and the settings are not mine. Obviously. I just borrowed them to give them a bit more action than they usually get.
Rating: General
Archiving: My website and Otherworlds

Series/sequel: Although it nominally belongs to the "Moments of Joy" AU, this story stands alone. For a short while, I considered making it a prologue to "Moments of Joy" but in the end decided against it, as that story has already gone through too many changes for this one to fit in neatly.

Beta read by Rizzy, whom I owe my sincerest thanks.

Nominated for 2007's Isis Awards. It didn't win, but...

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[Atlantis, shortly after the 2nd Season episode “Trinity”]
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~The End~

Sometimes It Takes A Man

Title: SOMETIMES IT TAKES A MAN
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Genre: PWP
Rating: Adult
Series/sequel: might be integrated into my Atlantis AU “Moments of Joy”, eventually. Or not. We’ll see.
Archiving: my website and Otherworlds.
Disclaimer: don’t own them, no money made. Only Hays’ personal background belongs to me.
Timeframe: Seasons 1, somewhen before “Hot Zone” – for apparent reasons.
Summary: Two engineers. A shower. Friendship. Sex. ‘Nuff said.

Author’s note: I gave Hays Hungarian origins because I wanted one of my people on Atlantis… well, sort of. In my stories, he also used to be a middleweight boxer in his college years. And a little reminder: in my little alternate universe Dr. Weir has the first name Theresa and is still played by the one and only Jessica Steen.

Beta read by Rizzy, whom I owe my heartfelt thanks. All remaining mistakes are mine.
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~The End~

Plan Z, Part 1 of 4

Title: Plan Z
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Stargate-Atlantis
Genre: Action/adventure, Humour
Rating: 14+, for language, even though it's in Czech. *g*
Pairings: Radek/?/? – anything else would be telling. And it’s all implied anyway.
Warnings: none, unless you’re squicked out by the idea of Mpreg or cross-genre threesomes. Only mentioned, nothing shown.
Timeframe: Late Season 1, so that I could add my favourite supporting characters who never made it into Season 2.

Summary: Answering the 2007 Radek ficathon challenge. Written for leaper182.
The prompt was: When Sheppard's team is trapped off-world, they need Radek's help to get back to Atlantis. Slash (either Radek/Rodney or Radek/Carson) is lovely, but not required.

Series/sequel: none. Although the story uses the settings of my Darkroom alternate universe, it’s independent from everything I’ve ever written in this fandom.

Disclaimer: don’t own them, no money made. Only the wacky planet and a bunch of OCs belong to me.

Author’s note: As I not only generally suck at your regular action/adventure stuff but also never imagined Radek with either of the above guys, I was in real trouble when I got my assignment. So I’ve sent a distress call to Memory Alpha, my sci-fi Yahoo Group as well as post it to my LJ. The names of the generous people who’ve helped me to put the actual plot together can be read below.

I also used one of the unanswered challenges over at Wraithbait, where someone named Squid wrote:
Story should include Rodney, John, Carson, and Radek. Slash if you want. Threesome or more if you so chose. Whatever rating, yada...very forgiving structure so far, eh? Well, somewhere within the story should include the following statement from Radek: "You have found some Ancient impregnation device and have decided that I will be your brood-mare for wild-haired fey children with astronomical IQs, god-like ATA-genes, and sexy brogues?"

That gave me the basic idea, and things have spiralleddownward from that moment on. *g*

Thanks to: Lisa aka Firewolfe from Memory Alpha, who suggested the main plot idea, Squid who came up with the impregnation machine and the immortal Radek line, Jenn who gave her support, and Purpleyin who did the gargantuan Beta work and suggested the title. All remaining mistakes are mine – sometimes I’m just too stubborn to listen. My apologies. :))

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PLAN Z, PART 1

Dr. Radek Zelenka never felt the urge to go off-world. The one step through the Stargate – the one that had brought him from the Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to Atlantis – had been enough for him. He wasn’t the adventurous type and preferred to study random pieces of Ancient technology in his own lab.
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Part 2

Plan Z, Part 2 of 4

Title: Plan Z
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Stargate-Atlantis
Genre: Action/adventure, Humour
Rating: General, suitable for all
Pairings: Radek/?/? – anything else would be telling. And it’s all implied anyway.
Warnings: none, unless you’re squicked out by the idea of Mpreg or cross-genre threesomes.
Spoilers: “The Torment of Tantalus” (SG-1, 1.11), “Crystal Skull” (SG-1, 3.21), and “Paradise Lost” (SG-1, 6.15)
Timeframe: Late Season 1, so that I could add my favourite supporting characters who never made it into Season 2.

Summary: Answering the 2007 Radek ficathon challenge. Written for leaper182.
The prompt was: When Sheppard's team is trapped off-world, they need Radek's help to get back to Atlantis. Slash (either Radek/Rodney or Radek/Carson) is lovely, but not required.

Series/sequel: none. Although the story uses the settings of my Darkroom alternate universe, it’s independent from everything I’ve ever written in this fandom.

Disclaimer: don’t own them, no money made. Only the wacky planet and a bunch of OCs belong to me.

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PLAN Z, PART 2

“Whoever these people are, they cannot actually be Furlings,” Dr. Corrigan declared some twenty minutes later. “The Furlings were one of the four great ancient races, aside from the Asgard and the Nox, who’d formed an alliance with the Ancients, thousands of years ago. At least according to the repository in Heliopolis, discovered by SG-1 on PB2-908, in 1997.”

“Well, Mr. Suelze here says that they’re a highly advanced people,” Dr. Weir pointed out. Corrigan shook his head.

“No, Ma’am, you misunderstood me. We know who the Furlings are. Were. Whatever. To our best knowledge, there’s at least one of them, a giant being made of light and energy, on P7X-377. It exists in a dimension close to ours and is called Quetzalcoatl. SG-1 made contact with it, back in 2000. You said your employers are ordinary, flesh-and-blood people, right?” he turned to the mediator.

“I wouldn’t call them ordinary,” Diggory Suelze answered with a crooked smile. “But they’re certainly as human and solid as you or me. I’ve heard the name of Quetzalcoatl mentioned among them, though. They say a being with that name – a powerful creature not of their world – visited Furlonia aeons ago and helped them to shape their civilization.”
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Part 3

Plan Z, Part 3 of 4

Title: Plan Z
Author: Soledad

Fandom: Stargate-Atlantis
Genre: Action/adventure, Humour
Rating: General, suitable for all
Pairings: Radek/?/? – anything else would be telling. And it’s all implied anyway.
Warnings: none, unless you’re squicked out by the idea of Mpreg or cross-genre threesomes.
Spoilers: “The Torment of Tantalus” (SG-1, 1.11), “Crystal Skull” (SG-1, 3.21), and “Paradise Lost” (SG-1, 6.15)
Timeframe: Late Season 1, so that I could add my favourite supporting characters who never made it into Season 2.

Summary: Answering the 2007 Radek ficathon challenge. Written for leaper182.
The prompt was: When Sheppard's team is trapped off-world, they need Radek's help to get back to Atlantis. Slash (either Radek/Rodney or Radek/Carson) is lovely, but not required.

Series/sequel: none. Although the story uses the settings of my Darkroom alternate universe, it’s independent from everything I’ve ever written in this fandom.

Disclaimer: don’t own them, no money made. Only the wacky planet and a bunch of OCs belong to me.

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PLAN Z, PART 3

As the mediator had told them, the gut-wrenching trip through the Stargate ended in some enormous cage. It seemed completely empty, save from the Gate itself – and nobody was waiting for them.

“Are we not expected?” Radek turned to the mediator, but to his mild shock, his hand went right through the man’s arm when he tried to get some support, as if it didn’t have any substance at all. “Oh,” he said, understanding what was happening. “Interdimensional displacement has already taken place. Good that I’m brilliant scientist; otherwise I would freak out now.”

The mediator didn’t answer, and Radek vaguely remembered Dr. Corrigan having said something about the one-sidedness of the interdimensional experience. He’d have to read SG-1’s report about P7X-377, should he get the chance. Or talk to Dr. Jackson, in the unlikely case that they ever got back to Earth. It would be interesting to compare their experiences.

He asked himself how long the Furlings would need to realize that he was harmless, and how they could tell to begin with; and whether he’d have to spend hours in this cave, which was not a very inviting place, even in its current, non-substantial state. Bored and annoyed wasn’t even beginning to describe his state of mind, but he knew better than to complain. Making the ones with the power mad was never a good idea.
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Epilogue

Plan Z, Part 4 of 4

Title: Plan Z
Author: Stargate-Atlantis

Fandom: Stargate-Atlantis
Genre: Action/adventure, Humour
Rating: General, suitable for all
Pairings: Radek/?/? – anything else would be telling. And it’s all implied anyway.
Warnings: none, unless you’re squicked out by the idea of Mpreg or cross-genre threesomes.
Spoilers: “The Torment of Tantalus” (SG-1, 1.11), “Crystal Skull” (SG-1, 3.21), and “Paradise Lost” (SG-1, 6.15)
Timeframe: Late Season 1, so that I could add my favourite supporting characters who never made it into Season 2.

Summary: Answering the 2007 Radek ficathon challenge. Written for leaper182.
The prompt was: When Sheppard's team is trapped off-world, they need Radek's help to get back to Atlantis. Slash (either Radek/Rodney or Radek/Carson) is lovely, but not required.

Series/sequel: none. Although the story uses the settings of my Darkroom alternate universe, it’s independent from everything I’ve ever written in this fandom.

Disclaimer: don’t own them, no money made. Only the wacky planet and a bunch of OCs belong to me.

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EPILOGUE

There was a big party in the mess hall of Atlantis that night, celebrating the safe return of the Dream Team, although it was let down a bit by the fact that Dr. Zelenka firmly refused to even look at Dr. McKay, much less speak to him. He also declared his heartfelt wish to swap workplaces with Dr. Kavanagh and dedicate the rest of his life to sewer treatment, where he wouldn't have to see neither cocky pilots, nor head scientists with delusions of godhood, whose backsides he’d have to pull out of the fire after they'd tested said delusions.

His vicious reaction caused a bit of bewilderment, even among the Marines.
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~The End~

Mum update

So, it seemd they've found the reason for the jaundice. Mum apparently had a block in her gall pipe or whatever it's called in English. *looks at ithilwen helplessly*
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Thanks for the support, folks. I think I'd go slowly insane here, all on my lonesome, without you.