The Unforgotten Country

... Why yes, I do have too much free time on my hands... hehehe ^_~

FUTILITY
(a Play in One Act)

CHARACTERS
GREGORY HOUSE: Snarktastic Head of Diagnostic Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Leg injury, cane qualifies as lethal weapon. So does the snark.

RODNEY MCKAY: Chief Scientist of Atlantis, see above as to snark capabilities.

JOHN SHEPPARD: Head of Atlantis Military, immune to snark. Best bud of RODNEY.

FANFIC WRITER: Avatar of the writer.

CAT: Avatar of the cat. (Don't ask)

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TITLE: Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs (or: Rainy Days and TARDIS's)
FANDOM: Doctor Who
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG
SHIPS/WARNINGS: None
SUMMARY: Written for dw100 Challenge #201: Train


The TARDIS learned to translate concepts, not words, because English was a strange little language...

"It's a bit of a dress," Rose eyed her companions with something akin to pity, "you know, the flowing bit everyone steps on unless it's carried by small children."

"Not even close," Jack grinned. "It's engines and freight cars, whistles and smoke-- unless you've gone electric, but what's the fun in that?"

"It's the light of a wishing star, the entropic death of comets." The Doctor was brooding again.

So she threw a pillow at him... and their foray into linguistic scrabble devolved from there.

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DOCTOR WHO is trademark and copyright BBC Television, BBC Worldwide Ltd., etc. The title of the drabble references lyrics from the song "Rhythm Of My Heart" by Rod Stewart. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.
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Title: HC SVNT DRACONES
Fandom: Harry Potter
Length/Rating: 100 words, PG, Gen
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Summary: Written for hp100 Drip, but the deadline has passed, so now I'm not sure what to do with it. *sighs*

It's one thing to be born a wizard in a wizarding family, quite another to have muggle parents and a muggle world. --only fairy tales-- Most children stumbled from one existence to another, stepping from wading pools into deepwater tides, but not Hermione. She knew --folk tales-- just how much her world was changing. --legends--

Out of place, out of depth, she read to stay afloat. --just myths-- Soaking it in, hording every scrap of information, every drop of knowledge, determined to protect her family, her friends.

Because she knew what was waiting in the dark...

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* HC SVNT DRACONES is latin for "hic sunt dracones" or "here are dragons". It appears on The Lenox Globe as is the only confirmed instance of the phrase having been written on a map. [1] Ah, the things you learn whilst surfing the net. ^_~

HARRY POTTER is trademark and copyright JK Rowling, her publisher Bloomsbury, and, to some extent, Warner Bros. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.
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TITLE: Till Morning
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 230 words, PG, Gen
WARNINGS/SPOILERS: None
SUMMARY: "Second star to the right and straight on till morning." That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head. -- Peter Pan. Written for sga_flashfic Must Be Dreaming challenge.


It's never 'just dreams' to a medical board, even when night terrors are par for the course in Atlantis. Declaring someone fit for duty isn't a responsibility the SGC takes lightly; too many lives depend upon that designation.

The returnees argue that everyone has nightmares, heck, in Pegasus they even have nightmares about having nightmares. --not 'just' a vase of flowers, the smell-- It's normal, accepted, a minor stumbling point that everyone has learned to deal with. After all, they still manage to save the world and that's what counts. --how can you not hear that--

The SGC's well acquainted with the kind of damage a universe can bestow --he was acting suspicious, I had to be sure--, and still they don't realize how badly Atlantis is broken. --I left it right here, I must have-- Not until medical teams on the near side of the gate start dealing with the city's refugees. --wasn't a shadow, now check the damned sensor agai--

They seem so normal --second star to the right-- but somewhere along the way --every breath, every heartbeat, everything you see and everything you can't see; all of it can kill you-- Atlantis has forgotten where nightmares begin and end. --want me to think it was just a dream--

It's the central lie in Peter Pan, that Lost Boys can come home again.

--spent too long in Neverland--

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PETER PAN is possibly still under copyright to Sir James Matthew Barrie and the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, but apparently it depends on who you ask. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.

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TITLE: Fractal Irrationality
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 625 words, PG, Gen
WARNINGS/SPOILERS: None
SUMMARY: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." -- Albert Einstein. Written for sga_flashfic Must Be Dreaming challenge.


( She knows she's dreaming, but she can't wake up. )

TITLE: A Bitter Kind of Mercy
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 100 words, PG-13
PAIRING/WARNINGS: Carson and Rampant Pessimism
SUMMARY: Written for sga_flashfic's Not Dead Yet challenge, but is too depressing to post. :P


It wasn't a question, hadn't been one for years, but every time he woke back from the darkness, he thought-- I'm not dead yet?

Because there was no time in the cold, just overwhelming darkness; flashes of nothing that splintered his life into slivers of light.

The faces were never the same, but he'd learned not to let them explain. Too much time, too much life, was lost to the nothing. He let them run their tests and trials, and went back into the darkness carrying empty promises of 'next time' and 'almost'.

And his last thought, every time, was--


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TITLE: 100 Cranes (1/100)
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
AU: Imaginary Gate Team 5
LENGTH/RAITING: 409 words, PG-13
PARIING/WARNINGS: Ant/Amy, Post-death!fic
SUMMARY: Choices.

( The first swan is sky blue; outspread wings bleached white by time. )

TITLE: The Death of Time
FANDOM: Stargate Atlantis
LENGTH/RATING: 283 words, PG-13, Gen
SHIPS/WARNINGS: McShep if you squint, not death!fic.
SUMMARY: Inspired by the line: The bleeding to death of time in slow heart beats from the poem "Counting The Beats" by Robert Graves. sga_flashfic F**king freezing challenge. (sga_flashfic Post)


It had stopped hurting, but he couldn't remember when. He'd lost all sense of time, deep in the heart of the glacial fissure. There was no sunlight --save for the shifting shadows that tinted the ice above him-- but he thought it might still be day. He'd fallen so very long ago. Long in terms of heartbeats, breath, thought... his watch arm is twisted beneath him and he has no sense of hours.

There had been static from the radio, broken with what might have been voices, but that had been when he could still feel his legs. All he has now is breath, and heartbeat, and hope. He could count down Pi in rhythm with his heart, or count up primes, or hold one-sided conversations with the dark... But he's done all those, or he thinks he has, and now there's just the silence of the ice. So he stops counting.

He dreams of flying, soaring over the vast white plains of snow and ice, gliding on the creaks and moans and shuddering snaps as the glacier dies around him.


It takes them two days to find him, thirty-nine hours of increasing panic and decreasing hope. But they don't stop looking, Rodney won't let them stop looking, and finally John comes home. Two days in the ice is two months in recovery, but he comes back hale and whole and that's more than anyone had dared to hope for.

And they never tell him how long he was down in the ice. Rodney's buried the records and blackmailed the staff, and they let him... because John's sure, with a faith that they can't bear to break, that it was only heartbeats.


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