The Unforgotten Country

Title: Halfway into the Forest
Fandom: Stargate SG-1; AU: Broken Wings by synecdochic
Length/Rating: 437 words, PG, Gen
SPOILERS: Tag for a howling in the factory yard. Which if you haven't read you need to go read! (Plus everything else she's ever written, but that's beside the point. ^_~ *grin*)
Summary: And then there was one... (Chen POV, because darned if the Russian speaking, Chinese national who listens to K-pop doesn't need more love. Srsly!) ((Mouse-overs for quote sources, translations, and full notes at the bottom).


( He's never been the first one in... )

TITLE: Rise Again For Me
FANDOM: Torchwood
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG-13, Gen (Ianto/Jack)
SUMMARY: Written for drabbles Day 25 Prompts: Song/Poem: Perfect by Maren Ord

( He wasn't used to it, you couldn't get used to something like that, but he'd accepted the fact that Jack was going to die. )

TITLE: Why Botany and Xenobotany are Not The Same Thing
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
AU: Imaginary Gate Team 5
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG-13, Gen
SUMMARY: drabbles Day 21 Prompts: Noun/Object: Horse (Mule/Donkey/Zebra)

( 'I think it's a zebra.' )

TITLE: That Long Horizon
FANDOM: Doctor Who
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG, Gen
SHIPS/WARNINGS: Set at the end of "Last of the Time Lords", no spoilers for season 4.
SUMMARY: Written for dw100 Challenge #210: Susurration. (su•sur•ra•tion n. A soft, whispering or rustling sound; a murmur).

( The problem with alternate realities was once you got your mind around them --and there was so very very much to wrap a mind around-- you can't forget. )

TITLE: Somewhere Ages and Ages Hence
FANDOM: Doctor Who and Torchwood
LENGTH/RATING: 187 words, PG-13, Ten/Jack (yes it's possible to have PG Slash, now shush)
SUMMARY: Written for drabbles Day 8 Prompt: Song/Poem: The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, but horribly, horribly too long... *mourns*


I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Jack's younger the next time the Doctor sees him, centuries younger and still flaunting that unabashed joy in life he never seems to lose. Time travel plays merry havoc with personal continuums and it's hard not to tell him go away, stay away, stop before she breaks you... because the Jack that was and the Jack that is are nothing but distorted images, ripped to pieces by the weft and weave of time.

But Jack is Jack, warnings will only guarantee the inevitable, so the Doctor turns to leave.

"Do I know you?" There's a hand on his arm and blue eyes, earnestly confused.

"Not yet."

There's the flash of a smile, and it's not what he meant, but it's how Jack takes it, and the Doctor already knows he'll be forgotten, because he's already been forgotten, so what does it matter?

The future can wait, just a little bit longer.

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