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Results of the Prompt Me Meme
Here are the responses to Friday's fic meme-- bet y'all thought I'd forgotten! Herein, you will find descriptions of seven stories I have never written, prompted by the titles I was supplied with. Let me know what you think! *grin*
1. "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spk1121 (xover B:tVS with SG-1 and/or Firefly)
Buffy loses Ben's cell number and is unable to reach him during the events of "Spiral" (5.18); as a result, the Scoobies tend to the wounded Giles themselves, and the Key's expiration date passes without Glory finding out where Dawn is. Buffy does not die, Tara sadly remains insane-- and Glory takes over Ben's body completely. Barred from ever going home, she begins to search for some other means to regain some fraction of her former power, and stumbles across one of the Trust, the network of rogue NID agents who were taken over by the Goa'uld during Season 8/9 Stargate SG-1.
The Goa'uld manages to take Glory during one of her periods of insanity; the Goa'uld's personality is overwritten by Glory's in the process, but it also stabilizes her mind, leaving her sane for the first time and with all the memories of the symbiote, its former host, and her own erstwhile host at her fingertips. If she could but get off the planet and begin assembling her own armies, she would be a foe to equal Anubis-- but first she would have to get there. (As she is still quite vain, she hums one of the host's favorite hymns as she travels, altering its words to reflect her own magnificence). Fortunately, she underestimates the resolve of the SGC much as she underestimated the resolve of the Scoobies, and in her brute-force attempt to reach the Gate she runs across SG-1. Her imminent reign of terror is nipped in the bud by Teal'c, wielding a variety of weaponry, after an epic struggle that leaves the SGC severely damaged and several of its staff injured or dead.
2. "Item, One Pair of Ruby Slippers" forizhilzha (xover CSI with SG-1)
One of the SGC's Marines cuts loose in Vegas on leave and ends up dead. It seems like a garden-variety murder until anomalies in the victim's bloodstream-- some unidentifiable drug, perhaps?-- and an innocuous-looking souvenir in the victim's luggage that happens to be made of materials that don't actually exist on Earth create much confusion for the CSI team. And that's before they analyze the secondary-source blood drops apparently caused by wounds inflicted on the attacker by the victim as she tried to defend herself, and discover a protein that throws up all kinds of red flags. (Left by a Goa'uld infected Trust member, natch, who suspected the Marine in question knew too much about-- whatever).
As a result, the NID descends on the lab and confiscates everything, including the body. The CSIs smell cover-up, but can do nothing about it. All the lab is left with is the red high-heeled shoes the victim had been wearing when she died, which were overlooked for some reason in the evidence clean-up. Gil makes some pithy Oz-related comment whilst staring meditatively at the slippers as the episode ends. (Perhaps to pick up in a sequel later, wherein Gil actually discovers the answers to some of the unresolved questions left by the story?)
3. "Two Coffees and an Apocalypse" forremey
Xander stops by Rome on his way back to Africa from London (where he'd dropped off some of the new Slayers he'd uncovered) and goes to a café with Buffy, where they hash over the events of the last several months and make more progress toward reparing their frayed friendship. It's not a café Buffy usually frequents-- Xander chose it-- and so she is caught completely off guard when she spots the Immortal nearby, apparently up to something in company with someone suspicious, say, Ilona Costa Bianchi.
Xander decides to stay in town longer, worried for the Buffster, as she goes into denial-overdrive about yet another boyfriend, investigates what could possibly be going on with the intent to prove the Immortal's innocence, and instead discovers some kind of apocalyptic plot which is going down, like, immediately. She must rush to stop the plot with only Xander, Dawn and Andrew to back her up, a more un-powered support crew than any she's had since high school. Of course, they succeed-- by the skin of their teeth. Buffy ends up surprised by how un-devastated she really is by the Immortal's defection, and there is more bonding with Xander, though not romantic (unless I were prodded in that direction for a sequel).
4. "And Then There Was Pudding" forempressvesica
The SG-1 team, in pursuit of some Ba'al or other on-planet Goa'uld anytime in seasons 8-10, takes a hotel room for the night in close proximity to a quickie marriage chapel. Teal'c, not used to how alcohol affects him now that he doesn't have a symbiote, gets plastered, wed (to Faith, if it's a crossover, which I'm inclined toward), and there is much consternation the next morning as he must detangle himself from his new bride, get the marriage annulled without raising her suspicions about anything, and get on with the mission. Only, the new bride is also in town on some other agenda with her own group of people, and both groups stumble suspiciously-- though never quite connecting 2 plus 2 and getting 4-- over each other constantly for the rest of the day(s) they're all in town.
None of this takes place in the story, however; the actual story takes the form of General O'Neill questioning the team upon their return, trying to prise the details of the train-wreck out of them. It's all revealed in dribs and drabs in rather humorous style, and at one point, very near the end of the fic, Teal'c responds to some disbelieving question/statement of Jack's with, "And then there was pudding, O'Neill." Which is just TMI for poor Jack. =)
5. "With Two, You Get Jaffa" forlarakailyn
Camulus shows up again unexpectedly, asking to parley with Earth again, but this time he's got an unfamiliarly-named young female Goa'uld in tow. Who turns out to be a new Queen, just about ready to spawn-- who doesn't want her symbiotes ending up serving Ba'al or being mown down by the Ori. She promises to pull an Egeria with them-- give them good memories/morals/whatever instead of the standard evil instapak-- in effect becoming a new Tok'ra Queen, which that dying race desparately needs, in return for some concessions. Which of course include her personal survival, and Camulus', among other things.
The SGC is extremely leery, but the idea of fitting loyal Jaffa who are about to lose their symbiotes with Tok'ra symbiotes instead of adding them to the ranks of those subsisting on Tretonin is very appealing. Many delegates from the Jaffa nation descend upon the SGC when word leaks out, and the whole mess turns into a three-ring circus. Ends on a cautiously hopeful note (because I thought the show wasted its opportunities with Camulus, damn it).
6. "Falling For the First Time" forbeatrice_otter
The story of Sam Carter and her first doomed engagement. Jonas Hansen was a very minor character in one ep of early SG-1, but that relationship has to have had a major impact on Sam's character and contributed all her dating disasters since. So what attracted her to him in the first place, really? And how'd it all fall apart? Much foreshadowing included for all the men she meets over the course of SG-1... possibly with a bit of Sam/Daniel hinting at the end, if you squint.
7. "Thoughts and Potatoes" foremony2 (B:tVS xover of some kind)
Post-Chosen, some of the new Slayers get integrated into the Stargate program. SG-1 shepherds one such group on a training mission; a few, who were city girls before their calling, gripe about the conditions, from latrine-digging to the taste of the MREs. One of the other girls, a fan of LOTR, quotes Sam from TTT: "What we need is a few good taters," meaning to turn the conversation in a humorous direction. Daniel, ever the anthropologist, picks up on that, and the conversation morphs from a discussion of likes/dislikes in movies and literature to more serious subjects, making the girls really think about why they're there and what they'll be doing, effectively committing them more thoroughly to the project. Ends with some kind of emotional moment from the old SG-1 members commiserating about how long it's been since they were those bright-eyed newbies, and how far they've come since.
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1. "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" for
spk1121 (xover B:tVS with SG-1 and/or Firefly)Buffy loses Ben's cell number and is unable to reach him during the events of "Spiral" (5.18); as a result, the Scoobies tend to the wounded Giles themselves, and the Key's expiration date passes without Glory finding out where Dawn is. Buffy does not die, Tara sadly remains insane-- and Glory takes over Ben's body completely. Barred from ever going home, she begins to search for some other means to regain some fraction of her former power, and stumbles across one of the Trust, the network of rogue NID agents who were taken over by the Goa'uld during Season 8/9 Stargate SG-1.
The Goa'uld manages to take Glory during one of her periods of insanity; the Goa'uld's personality is overwritten by Glory's in the process, but it also stabilizes her mind, leaving her sane for the first time and with all the memories of the symbiote, its former host, and her own erstwhile host at her fingertips. If she could but get off the planet and begin assembling her own armies, she would be a foe to equal Anubis-- but first she would have to get there. (As she is still quite vain, she hums one of the host's favorite hymns as she travels, altering its words to reflect her own magnificence). Fortunately, she underestimates the resolve of the SGC much as she underestimated the resolve of the Scoobies, and in her brute-force attempt to reach the Gate she runs across SG-1. Her imminent reign of terror is nipped in the bud by Teal'c, wielding a variety of weaponry, after an epic struggle that leaves the SGC severely damaged and several of its staff injured or dead.
2. "Item, One Pair of Ruby Slippers" for
izhilzha (xover CSI with SG-1)One of the SGC's Marines cuts loose in Vegas on leave and ends up dead. It seems like a garden-variety murder until anomalies in the victim's bloodstream-- some unidentifiable drug, perhaps?-- and an innocuous-looking souvenir in the victim's luggage that happens to be made of materials that don't actually exist on Earth create much confusion for the CSI team. And that's before they analyze the secondary-source blood drops apparently caused by wounds inflicted on the attacker by the victim as she tried to defend herself, and discover a protein that throws up all kinds of red flags. (Left by a Goa'uld infected Trust member, natch, who suspected the Marine in question knew too much about-- whatever).
As a result, the NID descends on the lab and confiscates everything, including the body. The CSIs smell cover-up, but can do nothing about it. All the lab is left with is the red high-heeled shoes the victim had been wearing when she died, which were overlooked for some reason in the evidence clean-up. Gil makes some pithy Oz-related comment whilst staring meditatively at the slippers as the episode ends. (Perhaps to pick up in a sequel later, wherein Gil actually discovers the answers to some of the unresolved questions left by the story?)
3. "Two Coffees and an Apocalypse" for
remeyXander stops by Rome on his way back to Africa from London (where he'd dropped off some of the new Slayers he'd uncovered) and goes to a café with Buffy, where they hash over the events of the last several months and make more progress toward reparing their frayed friendship. It's not a café Buffy usually frequents-- Xander chose it-- and so she is caught completely off guard when she spots the Immortal nearby, apparently up to something in company with someone suspicious, say, Ilona Costa Bianchi.
Xander decides to stay in town longer, worried for the Buffster, as she goes into denial-overdrive about yet another boyfriend, investigates what could possibly be going on with the intent to prove the Immortal's innocence, and instead discovers some kind of apocalyptic plot which is going down, like, immediately. She must rush to stop the plot with only Xander, Dawn and Andrew to back her up, a more un-powered support crew than any she's had since high school. Of course, they succeed-- by the skin of their teeth. Buffy ends up surprised by how un-devastated she really is by the Immortal's defection, and there is more bonding with Xander, though not romantic (unless I were prodded in that direction for a sequel).
4. "And Then There Was Pudding" for
empressvesicaThe SG-1 team, in pursuit of some Ba'al or other on-planet Goa'uld anytime in seasons 8-10, takes a hotel room for the night in close proximity to a quickie marriage chapel. Teal'c, not used to how alcohol affects him now that he doesn't have a symbiote, gets plastered, wed (to Faith, if it's a crossover, which I'm inclined toward), and there is much consternation the next morning as he must detangle himself from his new bride, get the marriage annulled without raising her suspicions about anything, and get on with the mission. Only, the new bride is also in town on some other agenda with her own group of people, and both groups stumble suspiciously-- though never quite connecting 2 plus 2 and getting 4-- over each other constantly for the rest of the day(s) they're all in town.
None of this takes place in the story, however; the actual story takes the form of General O'Neill questioning the team upon their return, trying to prise the details of the train-wreck out of them. It's all revealed in dribs and drabs in rather humorous style, and at one point, very near the end of the fic, Teal'c responds to some disbelieving question/statement of Jack's with, "And then there was pudding, O'Neill." Which is just TMI for poor Jack. =)
5. "With Two, You Get Jaffa" for
larakailynCamulus shows up again unexpectedly, asking to parley with Earth again, but this time he's got an unfamiliarly-named young female Goa'uld in tow. Who turns out to be a new Queen, just about ready to spawn-- who doesn't want her symbiotes ending up serving Ba'al or being mown down by the Ori. She promises to pull an Egeria with them-- give them good memories/morals/whatever instead of the standard evil instapak-- in effect becoming a new Tok'ra Queen, which that dying race desparately needs, in return for some concessions. Which of course include her personal survival, and Camulus', among other things.
The SGC is extremely leery, but the idea of fitting loyal Jaffa who are about to lose their symbiotes with Tok'ra symbiotes instead of adding them to the ranks of those subsisting on Tretonin is very appealing. Many delegates from the Jaffa nation descend upon the SGC when word leaks out, and the whole mess turns into a three-ring circus. Ends on a cautiously hopeful note (because I thought the show wasted its opportunities with Camulus, damn it).
6. "Falling For the First Time" for
beatrice_otterThe story of Sam Carter and her first doomed engagement. Jonas Hansen was a very minor character in one ep of early SG-1, but that relationship has to have had a major impact on Sam's character and contributed all her dating disasters since. So what attracted her to him in the first place, really? And how'd it all fall apart? Much foreshadowing included for all the men she meets over the course of SG-1... possibly with a bit of Sam/Daniel hinting at the end, if you squint.
7. "Thoughts and Potatoes" for
emony2 (B:tVS xover of some kind)Post-Chosen, some of the new Slayers get integrated into the Stargate program. SG-1 shepherds one such group on a training mission; a few, who were city girls before their calling, gripe about the conditions, from latrine-digging to the taste of the MREs. One of the other girls, a fan of LOTR, quotes Sam from TTT: "What we need is a few good taters," meaning to turn the conversation in a humorous direction. Daniel, ever the anthropologist, picks up on that, and the conversation morphs from a discussion of likes/dislikes in movies and literature to more serious subjects, making the girls really think about why they're there and what they'll be doing, effectively committing them more thoroughly to the project. Ends with some kind of emotional moment from the old SG-1 members commiserating about how long it's been since they were those bright-eyed newbies, and how far they've come since.
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