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's First Christmas in Atlantis (with bonus second prompt of Snow in Atlantis covered, too), G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

Christmas.  In Atlantis.  It's not that Samantha Carter had been home for Christmas in years.  Whatever that meant.  Not since she joined the Air Force and headed off into the Wild Blue Yonder.  No, Samantha Carter, Wanderer of Galaxies, had most assuredly avoided "home" in the holidays of the last two decades.  Even as a cadet, she preferred to make her place with her host family in Colorado Springs over visiting a house (not a home) that was cold and empty after the death of her mother.  After she and her father had made their peace, there still remained little in the way of family celebrations.  Selmak was nice, but ...omnipresent.  She enjoyed Mark and his family, especially her nieces.  But.  Fish and houseguests...

 

So how was it that she felt so at odds with her surroundings now?  The multi-national force she commanded in the Pegasus Galaxy had creatively decked the halls with enough shiny and bright to make her feel as though she'd become lost in a flock of magpies.  The commissary whipped up cultural holiday delicacies with every meal.  And, dear God, if Radek did not stop playing Elvis' Christmas Album, if she heard Blue Christmas one more time, she was going to lose her mind. But the holiday spirit was just not in her.  "Yes, Samantha Carter, you are Ebenezer Scrooge," she thought.  And so, she dredged up the ghosts of Christmas Past. 

 

She and Mark, trying so desperately to stay awake to catch Santa Claus in the act.  Her parents, watching indulgently as they ripped open their gifts in the morning.  Her beloved host family's twin daughters, racing into "her" room on Christmas morning to wake her up, covering her with sticky stocking candy hands.  That Christmas in the Middle East, where the First Shirt played Santa Claus and gave everyone gifts out of an overstuffed A-3 bag.  An event made all the more surreal by the fact that the Shirt was a she.  And Asian.  And about the same size as the A-3 bag.  Watching the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, knowing she would be headed back to her office in the Pentagon to work more on the calculations that would eventually help crack the Stargate.  Her first Christmas after joining the SGC.  The one where she and the recently-divorced Janet knocked back most of bottle of Limoncello with their Christmas cookies and spent Christmas day regretting that lemons were ever cultivated.  The SGC Holiday parties.  The third year, around the campfire on a distant planet, discussing the "meaning of Christmas" with Teal'c and Daniel as Colonel O'Neill sat quietly to one side and smirked as the conversation led to an detailed analysis of "evolution vs creationism."  The first year Daniel wasn't there.  The Christmas following Janet's... Samantha swallowed hard. 

 

Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

She'd been off-world with SG-1 for more than half the Christmas' of the last 10 years.  What was so different now?  Sam shook her head to clear her mind and her lips tightened in a firm line that Daniel would have recognized.  And teased her about.  "Don't be so hard on yourself.  You don't need to be perfect.  Just be yourself."  And suddenly, it all became crystal clear.  The problem.  She looked down at the photographs on her desk and saw her "family."  Here, where they weren't, she was the outsider.  "Weir would have never doubted me," Ronan had said, coldly.  "You're no Elizabeth Weir," being the obvious subtext.

 

"Colonel Carter, I think you should see this." Ronan stood in her office doorway, as though summoned by her thoughts.  She blinked her beginning-to-tear eyes rapidly.  No weakness here.  Move along.  "What have we got?" she asked, following him down the hall and out onto the Atlantean balcony overlooking the city.  She looked in wonder at the light coating of snow on the railings.  Snow.  Coming from the sky in enormous, soft, white flakes.  She held her hands out to catch them as they drifted down, a smile spreading slowly over her face.  In the perfect muffled silence of snowfall, Ronan's answering smile spoke volumes. 

 

Doors opened and suddenly, there were Terran expats flocking out onto the overlook.  "Bring the tree out here!"  "Do we have an extension so we can light it?"  "Oh, that will be sooo pretty!"  "It's snowing!"  "No kidding, Rodney.  Thought of taking up meteorology?"  A cup of hot cocoa was pressed into her outstretched hand as Jennifer Keller fluttered past her and twirled in the snow, head back, face to the sky.  Sam looked around slowly and then back to Ronan, who was still watching her with a quiet intensity that was somehow familiar to her.  Flashing him a grin, she realized she was now in the midst of the noisy crowd.  Perhaps she was home for the holidays after all.
 

 

 

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[paian]

Love the Carter backstory/flashback montage (and how and where it cuts off), and how thinking of Daniel and what Daniel would say brings her situation into focus for her, and Ronon epitomizing her not-Weir-ness and then being the one to pull her out to see the snow, all the 'outsiders' going outside. Can imagine it being very much like this for her.

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

thanks so much for the feedback! I do not usually think in "Sam" so it kind of surprised me when the prompt jumped off the page at me!

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Very lovely. I love Christmas. And Sam and Ronon have a very interesting dynamic.

*happy sigh*

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

I like the dynamic. Not sure yet what kind of dynamic they would have, but I think they can be kindred spirits...the other half of this season may help

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

I love the ache of this resolving into something a little more hopeful. Poor Sam! Imagining what Daniel would say, and the reminiscing about Christmas pasts were perfect.

And Ronon being the one to reach out to her isn't what I would have expected, but I like it! Very interesting little exchange. :)

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

it felt right having him be the one to come get her. don't know why, but I think it has to do with other-ness and outsider qualities.

her "past" ran thru my mind like a clip show LOL

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

AW!

I love the glimpses of Sam's past so, so, so very much and the memories of the team and the awkwardness on Atlantis where she doesn't yet quite belong and YAY Ronon and Sam and that interesting dynamic between them.

So wonderful!
*squishes Sam*

(and then, of course, the 'gate activates and her old team shows up to visit bringing all sorts of goodies from Earth to share with the Lanteans, right?)

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

you, always with the happy ending LOL!!!

thanks for the feedback on her past. I picked up the S/R dynamic in that rescue scene - you know, the two of them in the puddle jumper. Just a split second, but ...

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[nandamai]

Aw. Very sweet.

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

thanks! I can't wait to have a minute to sit and read all of these. I see you posted on below.

*chomps at bit. reluctantly goes back to holiday prep*

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[stargazercmc.livejournal.com]

Yay snow!!

Oh, this is so sweet. Love the reminiscences.

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

thanks!

don't you love the silence of snow?

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[besyd.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I really loved the whole Sam-Ronan interaction.

Re: Part 2 Sam's First Christmas in Atlantis, G

[zats-clear.livejournal.com]

thanks! I am hoping they have more interaction in the back half of season 4.