Stargate Atlantis Flashfiction

Title: Four People Who Got the Job (and One Who Didn’t) OR  Below the Stairs, Before the Mast
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, McKay, Jack O’Neill, OC, references to Elizabeth Weir, Ronon
Rating: PG-15
Words: Too Many

Notes: set after Sunday with a slight, barely-there spoiler for that episode. I made up a lot of the military stuff, but not the epigraph: that's by WH Auden, because even intergalactic space-age colonies need worker ants. Can be read whole or in sections.

Title: Signs and Symptoms: the Common Cold
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Rodney (slight Ronon, Zelenka)
Rating: PG
A/N: this is set against the backdrop of the signs ‘verse, although hopefully it will make sense without having read that since it doesn’t actually have much to do with Sheppard.  For the "f**king freezing" challenge at sga_flashfic

Summary: {Signs & Signifiers}
"Homesickness.  What are you thinking it meant?" Zelenka asks, because he and Ronon always commiserate about the randomness of English words.

Ronon shrugs.  “I thought it meant…like the time Sheppard got stuck on the ice planet and the heating system went crazy.”
                                                                                             

Title: Signs Taken for Wonders
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, mostly
Rating: PG
Length: too long for flashfic, that's for sure
Notes: epigraph from 1.18, “The Gift”.  I actually wrote this as once piece, but the segments are not sequential, so ranks, characters, and verb tenses change.  Stretching the topic just a little bit, because the coolest thing about alien geography is that it can imprint on your DNA!

Summary: Atlantis dims all her beautiful lights when he leaves.

 ETA: the Rodney outtake--posted over at my journal b/c I'm too lazy to reformat and I'm now ridiculously over the word limit.

Title: Guns and Butter
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard/McKay
Rating: R (implied, not explicit)
Length: just over 2200 words
Notes: This was supposed to be the time I actually made the word-limit, but has now reached crack-tastic dimensions for the plot.  No epigraph, but I'm interviewing so comment with candidates;)
Disclaimer: don't own, don't profit, only the words are mine.

Summary: a small post-it note is added offering a date with Major John Sheppard.  In tiny print at the bottom, it reads: if he’s good enough for alien princesses, he’s good enough for you.

Title: First Aid
Author: 2ndary_author
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Characters: Sheppard, McKay (Sheppard/McKay?)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 2140-ish words
Notes: Not really a missing scene, but takes place during the events of  "The Rising, Part 1" at the SGC base in Antarctica; epigraph by Christiaan Barnard
Disclaimer: don't own, don't profit, only the words are mine.  Just something quick before the deadline…

Summary: They were a multi-national, intergalactic military/civilian enterprise on an ice field at the bottom of the world.  And they had a piano.