Holiday Party, SG-1 Style!

[holdouttrout]

First of all, thank you to everyone who submitted prompts--yes, this is very fast turnaround, but I wanted to give people time before Christmas day to start writing.

Now that we have prompts, and they've been more or less organized (and wow to people who have done this before, and with more prompts), it's time to write!

You have a couple of different options:

1) Write comment fic and post it here.
2) Write longer fic and post a link to it here.

You should, in the subject line, indicate your pairing, prompt, and rating, like so: "Jack/Sara, technology, R."

There were a lot of single-character prompts, or prompts where there were a few characters specified, but without it being a pairing--these I'm assuming are open to any and all pairings, unless otherwise stated. I'm also assuming that any and all pairing prompts could be friendship fic instead. The muse goeth where it willeth, after all, and you never know when your smut scene is going to turn into a gen adventure fic that involves research of mythology and biology. /grumping

I'll hold this post open until New Year's Day.

You can direct questions to me here, so this post can be all sorts of fic goodness.

Onto the prompts!



General:

The planet where Santa is a Goa'uld, SGC's secret Santa gift exchange, Fairy Tale of New York Colorado Springs, Ice skating on another planet, "It's just like Santa's workshop! Except it smells like mushrooms... and everyone looks like they wanna hurt me...", "The festival crossover option: Daniel: "Of Course, this was originally a pagan tradition..."", Cam takes Teal'c snowboarding, Cam teaching Vala to knit, Sam's first Christmas on Atlantis, NORAD at Cheyenne Mountain tracking Santa--plus George and Walter, reflecting on Christmas past, classic (or obscure) Christmas poetry, rif on A Christmas Carol, snow in Atlantis, Festivus


Team (any unless specified):
Elves, scrooge, snowballs, "This wasn't quite how they planned to spend the holidays...", offworld Santa (could be good, could be evil), the old classic: stuck in the infirmary over Christmas, cutting their own Xmas tree, decorating the tree, Christmas with Jonas, Teal'c first Christmas (What do you get the Jaffa who has everything?), decorating/baking cookies

(original team)--12 Days of Christmas: SG-1 style, caroling, loss, music, candlight service

(Team V 2.0) - Cam hosts Christmas in Gramma Mitchell style. Daniel/Sam cook, Cam/Vala decorate, Teal'c officiates. As shippy as you want (or not).


Het

Jack/Sara: traditions, the Ghost of Christmas Past, boxes

Sam/Jack: Christmas party, eggnog, broken new year's resolutions, candy canes, stranded, snowbound, apocachristmas, luminaries, Sam's 1st Xmas in Atlantis, closet, hiding presents, surprises, secrets

Sam/Daniel: mistletoe, Christmas morning, some assembly required, "a quiet holiday in Egypt", hot chocolate

Sam/Teal'c: caroling, mistletoe, peace, angels

Jack/Janet: midnight mass, scarves, snow

Daniel/Janet: a real Christmas tree, television

Catherine/Ernest: first Christmas home

Daniel/Sha're: winter wonderland

Sam/Cam: wrapping paper, early, baking cookies

Sam/Siler: "aluminum has a very high strength-to-weight ratio"

Daniel/Vala: Mars, astrobiology, trilobite, squid, marine biology, Spider-Man, cave paintings, sphinx, pony, octopus, the Kalevala, stapler, remote control, USB, gameboy, smurf, "Amazon prime membership and one-click buying"

Jack/Vala: "Jack's looking after the SGC for Christmas so that Landry can spend time with his family. SG-1 is out of town -- except for Vala.", north pole, piano, champagne


Slash/Femslash

Jack/Daniel: tinsel, mpreg, 'virgin birth', palm tree, spreading Christmas joy to the off-world natives, (post season 8) "Christmas isn't the same without you", "where'd that mistletoe come from?", ice skating, home, fireplace, Christmas in DC
"There's an old saying that whoever you ring in the New Year with is who you'll spend the rest of the year with. It's New Year's Eve, and though they weren't expecting or intending to, somehow Jack and Daniel wind up spending it together."

Jack/Teal'c: eight tiny reindeer, silence

Daniel/Paul Davis: the holly and the ivy

Daniel/Teal'c: festival of lights, menorah

Daniel/Jonas: closing accounts

Cam/Teal'c: red for luck

Cam/Daniel: snowmobile, too much eggnog

Sam/Janet: stockings, velvet dresses

Sam/Vala: customs, quiet, new traditions, forgetful, risky, boredom


OT3/OT4

Jack/Daniel/Vala: "Trapped for days at Jack's cabin due to a freak snowstorm and they must help keep each other warm"

Sam/Jack/Daniel: longest night, "you're a mean one, mr. grinch", eggnog, apocachristmas

Jack/Daniel/Teal'c: cocoa with marshmallows, three kings

Sam/Jack/Teal'c: star

Sam/Daniel/Teal'c: shoveling

OT4 (original flavour): Christmas pageant, "the longest night is also the turning of the year", comfort and joy

Sam/Jack/Daniel/Teal'c (or choose three): "gold, frankincense, and myrrh"

Sam/Jack/Cam: silent night


Character/Random/Unusual

Teal'c and/or Jonas and/or Vala: "Trying to understand/explain Tau'ri traditions"

Teal'c and Jonas: Yule log

Teal'c and Cam: sleigh ride

Teal'c and Gran'ma Mitchell: eggnog recipes

Cassie: First Christmas, snowstorm, winter break from college

Janet + Cassie: Santa hats, the grinch

Hammond: Christmas Eve alone

Hammond and Walter: Secret Santas

Jacob: icicles

Teal'c: "checking out all the Earth winter holidays, figuring out if he wants to celebrate any", "rededicating the temple", "the twelve days of Christmas", shopping mall Santa Claus

Teal'c and Ry'ac: Santa

Bra'tac: wrapping paper

Teal'c, Ry'ac, and Bra'tac: shou sui,

Siler: "how I spent my winter vacation", christmas tree stands

Paul Davis: figgy pudding,

Sam: "in the bleak midwinter", "Judith with a sword", "the unconquered sun", (with Mark's family) presents,

Sam and Janet and Cassie: gingerbread house

Jack: ginger bread, "willingness to sacrifice", "Lord of Musrule",

Daniel: clay lamps, preparing a large meal, Solstice

Apophis: sleigh ride

Sam/anyone: holiday in Atlantis

Sam/team: surprise

Jacob Carter/Selmak and George Hammond: "the end of a pilgrimage"

Sam and Jacob: "I'll be home for Christmas"

Vala: "I've been reading up on your quaint little traditions; Darth Vader wasn't the only one..."



Have fun!

Comments

Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[nandamai]

"Tannenbaum"

It was Christmas Eve, according to Jack.

It was really the end of February. But Jack had insisted on celebrating Christmas during Sam's next leave, no matter how many times she'd told him that the small celebration on Atlantis had been sufficient. So they were at the cabin, with the tackiest Christmas tree Sam had ever seen, and Sam was willing to play along.

Part of Jack's plan had already gone awry. With storms blanketing the Rockies and the upper Midwest for the past two days, their friends were stuck in Colorado and Cassie's flight to Minneapolis had been canceled. Sam missed Cassie -- she'd seen the others when she'd arrived on Earth four days ago -- but more time alone with Jack was never a bad thing.

Tonight they were playing chess by the fire, each of them wrapped in a blanket because he habitually kept the thermostat at 60. Two half-full, now cold mugs of hot chocolate sat next to the chessboard, and a DVD of A Christmas Story was on the TV as background music. In the corner, the multicolored tree lights blinked at irregular intervals that would have driven Sam crazy in her own house.

"Wind's dying down," Jack said.

Sam looked up from the board and squinted into the darkness of the closest window. It was no longer being pummeled by snow. "Huh," she said, and went back to contemplating her move.

Jack stood and walked to the window, cupping his hands around his face so he could see out. "The snow's stopped, too."

At that moment, the electricity went out.

"Oh, I should have seen that coming," Jack said.

Sam laughed in the dark. She heard Jack shuffle to the door and tug on his boots. He kept an emergency generator around the side of the house, and they needed it frequently during the winter.

"Be right back," he said. Cold air burst in as he shut the door behind him.

She found the door and her boots by touch. She was already wearing a wool sweater and socks, long johns and jeans, so she didn't reach for her parka but kept the blanket instead.

The snow was powdery and as high as her knees, and the sky was clearing. She could see a few stars.

The generator roared to life. Seconds later Jack came to stand behind her on the deck, wrapping one arm around her waist. With the other he pointed into the sky, towards Atlantis.

"That way, right?"

Sam smiled. She leaned back into his chest; he wrapped his gloved hands around her bare ones.

"Yes, but I wasn't looking there," she said. "I was looking at the trees."

They were little more than dark shapes, across the pond. When she and Jack had hiked into the woods on his property to chop down a tree, Sam had touched the trees as she walked. She'd rubbed the bark with her fingers and inhaled the scent of evergreens.

As silly as she'd thought Jack's Christmas in February was, it was a rare gift, these days, to smell pine in her sleep.

Now she breathed in the bitter air and the smell of snow. She squeezed his fingers. "It's getting late," she said. "We should go to bed. Save some fuel."

Jack chuckled by her ear. "Subtle," he said.

"Don't ruin the moment," she said.

He chuckled again as they went inside to stamp off the snow.



(Edited to change rating, because I'd forgotten about the teeny tiny innuendo.)

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay. I love the scent of the pine trees being the thing she likes about it, and the idea that Jack would arbitrarily decide on a Christmas date for Sam...funny and perfect.

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[nandamai]

Thank you!

I'm determined to write at least one more. And I tell you this because then I will feel bad if I don't write it.

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[splash-the-cat.livejournal.com]

AWWWWW.

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[nandamai]

*smoooooooooch*

Stupid cute!

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[stargazercmc.livejournal.com]

So, so adorable! It's like we're there, cuddling in between them.

Wait, that sounded more pervy than I meant. Um, you know what I'm saying, right?

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[nandamai]

I know what you meant, but it'd be funnier if I pretended not to. ;)

Thank you!

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Eee! So wonderful! And it was my prompt too, so YAY! And you know Sam spent the first few hours ranting about Rodney and the IOA and how ridiculous everything is when you have to be a leader, and Jack finally had to revert back to yelling "Carter!" and then push her up against the wall and kiss her to get her to shut up. And then... well, yeah.

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[nandamai]

Hee! She's not obsessed with work, she's just intently focused.

I'm glad you got your prompt filled! And thank you!

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Aw, they are so cute and I love Sam enjoying all the bits of home and him going out of his way for her. So sweet!

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[nandamai]

Aw, thanks!

I find myself wanting to say "aw" in response to all these stories and comments. Aw!

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[memento1.livejournal.com]

Oh yaaaaaay, Sam/Jack sweet, cuddly, fluffy fic. I love it. And it reminds me of Minnesota winters, so extra kudos for doubling the heartwarming ;)

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[besyd.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so lovely. The lights going on on cue is priceless. But I really love how Jack just knows her (of course). Beautiful.

Re: Sam/Jack, snowbound, PG

[elly427.livejournal.com]

Oh nanda, so perfect and pretty and peaceful.