Balancing the House [Family Challenge] by Chandri MacLeod

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Title: Balancing the House
Author: Chandri MacLeod
Rating: Pretty much gen
Characters: Jeannie McKay, Rodney McKay
Spoilers: Nope (pre-series)
Word Count: 3,454
Notes: So obviously I fail at flashfic length. (Which should come as no surprise to some of you. *wry*) Originally my plans for this challenge involved a brief (brief!) tour of Rodney's childhood, and then I woke up one day and it was twelve. Thousand. Words (And still not quite done, or I would have posted it anyway.). Set in the same general universe as Catalysis, but you don't need to have read that to get this. (Coherency owed to mik100 and calantha42, fastest betas in the west.)

( She thinks that what killed her father wasn't disease, but bitterness. She supposes that's a sickness, too. )

Nine Springs, by Sophonisba [family challenge]

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-title- Nine Springs
-author- Sophonisba (saphanibaal)
-warnings/ratings- Gen. Crossover with Shimpi no Sekai El-Hazard and most of Aoyama Gosho's works. Takes place in my pet asymptotic-to-canon AU.
-spoilers- Through third season, to be safe. Spoilers for... well, for somewhere in SG-1, but as it's something I learned through osmosis, I'm not sure where to judge it. Also, in case anyone cares, for the seventh OVA of El-Hazard, and for the first volumes of Meitantei Conan and Magic Kaito respectively. There are minor references to my Zophonisbeion stories "Miko and the Bears" and "The Sun Shines Bright On Every Stone."
-characters- Miko, OCs, two characters from El-Hazard, six from Meitantei Conan, two-and-a-half from Magic Kaito, and walk-on appearances from Rodney, Jinto, Wex, Sheppard, Teyla, and Terumi from "Watashi ni Uso o Tsuite."
-disclaimer- SGA, of course, is not mine. Nor is El-Hazard. If I were Aoyama, my pet MK threesome would be canon and at least somebody would have read Beatrice Gormley... i.e., not hardly. The idea of involving the Hope Diamond is from Ellen Brand (marsdejahthoris), who went on to do something utterly unique with it; "The world is large enough..." is from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and "As they have ever done" from J. R. R. Tolkien.
-word count- 6583
-summary- Miko, and background, and spackle.

( Kusanagi Miko has always known how to keep her own counsel. She comes by it honestly. )