Assignments for the sheppard/weir ficathon v4 have now been posted. (Since I initially thought I wouldn't be able to send out assignments until the end of the week, this means we all get extra writing time! Yay!) You should have all received them in your inboxes by now. If you haven't, please let me know as soon as possible so I can try resending it.

If you haven't already, I would appreciate a quick reply to the assignment email so that I know you've received it. You don't have to say much: just a brief "got it" would suffice.

Also, if you think your assignment is impossible or unfair, don't hesitate to contact me and say so. We can always try and arrange something more suitable.

A couple of quick reminders:

Keep your assignment a secret. If you need clarification on a request, contact me and not your recipient.

If you cannot find a beta reader for your story, please contact me before the deadline and I will beta for you.

Do not post your story until the deadline week. The whole point of a ficathon is for all stories to be revealed together.

If you run into any problems at all, please contact me as soon as possible.

And finally: have fun! *g*

Sign up's for the sheppard/weir ficathon (v4) have now ended. Thank you to everyone who did sign up.

Assignments will be sent out shortly.

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Timeline:
Requests end: 14 June 2009 (midnight, EST).
Assignments handed out by: 21 June 2009.
Stories due: 27 July 2009 - 2 August 2009.

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Title: Nos da cariad
Summary: AU of season 5; Elizabeth has been back on Earth for two years when John comes to bring her home. But their friendship will be tested first by a secret she has kept from everyone.
Pairings: gen, Elizabeth & John friendship
Main characters: Weir, Sheppard
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none
Spoilers: Through late Season 5.
Beta: grav_ity
Disclaimer: Not mine, we only wish they were.
Author's Notes: This is for seramercury whose prompt was 1. There are many fics where John is sent back to Earth what about Elizabeth? Angst. Lots of angst. It's not quite that angsty, more like implying angst in the past. The story was inspired by the events of S4 and 5 and the song "Nos da cariad" by David Gray, in particular the last verse of the song: Hold on to St. Christopher, the sky is murderous red/ Go to sleep my one true love, our glory lies ahead. While there is a whole lot of subtext in this story, it is about the canon relationship between Elizabeth and John which was so stupidly and cruelly tossed aside by the show after 3 years.


( Nos da cariad )

Title: Easier to Hide
Author: Melyanna
Recipient: hariboo_smirks
Rating: PG
Summary: A routine mission ends with a freak accident, leaving Elizabeth and John waiting for rescue.
Notes: S4/5 AU (or fix, if you will). Some spoilers for the S4 premiere. Written as a backup for this prompt from hariboo_smirks: mission based, action, drama, established relationship. I may have taken creative license with that last bit, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. :)

Easier to Hide

Title: The Book of Life
Author: havocthecat
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir
Characters: Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Radek Zelenka
Summary: Elizabeth celebrates Rosh Hashanah during the expedition's first year on Atlantis.
Warning: None
Beta: triciabyrne1978
Spoilers: None
Author's Notes: Written as a backup fic for the swficathon for caroly_214, with the prompt 'homesickness by either John or Elizabeth (or both) during their first year on Atlantis, maybe because of a holiday.' The holiday I chose was Rosh Hashanah.

Title: Some By Virtue Fall
Author: havocthecat
Rating: PG
Warnings: Canon character death. Gosh, guess who?
Spoilers: General season three & four SGA.
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir.
Beta: miera_c
Summary: The development of trust.

Author's Notes: This story is a backup for the 2008 swficathon, written for phrenitis, with the following prompt: "'tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall." --Shakespeare, Measure For Measure.

Title: Simpler Than A Miracle
Author: miera_c
Summary: An accident traps Elizabeth and time is running out for the team to rescue her.
Pairings: Weir/Sheppard
Main characters: Elizabeth, John, Teyla
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Character whumping
Spoilers: None
Beta: melyanna
Disclaimer: Not mine, we only wish they were.
Author's Notes: Pinch hit for the swficathon for mylittleredgirl whose prompts were fire or a blackout, something unspoken, Teyla/Sheppard friendship.

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Remember the 2007 sheppard/weir ficathon? Remember how there were still a few stories that needed to be written? Well, if you can help out by writing one of the below sets of prompts, that would not only be fantastic, but also help pave the way for the 2009 ficathon! Yay!

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Title: Departure
Author: peanutbutterer
Rating: R
A/N: Written for anr
Summary: John’s lost a lot of things in his life and he’s managed to survive. He’ll survive this too.


Departure

Remember the 2007 sheppard/weir ficathon? Remember how there were still a few stories that needed to be written? Well, if you can help out by writing one of the below sets of prompts, that would not only be fantastic, but also help pave the way for the 2009 ficathon! Yay!

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Title: Winter Light
Author: A.j.
Rating: PG.
Disclaimer: Not mine. Not makin’ money.
Recipient: Written for vickysg1, who wanted “Holidays on Earth, John somehow gets to meet Elizabeth's family, UST at first please, and then RST.”
Notes: First, I really am sorry this is so late. There isn’t really an excuse other than “A.j. sucks”, but I come bearing fic! Also, huge thanks to havocthecat, lyssie, and mylittleredgirl. The first two for beta’ing and the second because this is ALL her damn fault.

Also, this is the fluffiest fluff what has ever fluffed. And bears little resemblance to canon. No, seriously, the majority of this was plotted in like 2005, INCLUDING the family. This is a side-trip into A.j. and Little Red’s SGA fanon. Be afraid. But there's a reindeer sweater?

Summary: John and Elizabeth spend Christmas with her family. In Michigan.

Winter Light

Title: These Are The Voyages
Author: havocthecat
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir (along with background Laura Cadman/Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan/Kate Heightmeyer/Evan Lorne, Kolya/Sora)
Summary: Upon receipt of orders from Starfleet, Captain Sheppard and the crew of the USS McMurdo escort prominent Federation diplomat Elizabeth Weir and her entourage into Orion space to begin sensitive negotiations.

Title: Wireless
Author:lanna_kitty
Summary: She should have turned off the radio. She knew where this conversation was going, but she didn't. God help her, she couldn't.
Pairing: John/Elizabeth
Rating: NC-17
Warning:: Smut.
Spoilers: None.
Recipient: lone_pyramid
Beta: irony_rocks who is amazing for the speedy turnaround and awesome suggestions.
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, I'm just playing with them for awhile.
Author's Notes: Backup writing for lone_pyramid. I hope you enjoy it! And uhh I think it's still your birthday somewhere on the planet? :) I saw your prompt and thought "Ohhhh I want to write that!"

Request prompt:
2. Phone sex (i.e. headset/radio sex). established relationship. reasonably happy ending. *g*

( "So...What are you wearing?")

Unfortunately, while this ficathon has once again delivered some amazing sheppard/weir fics to the fandom, there's still a few stories that need to be written. If you can help out by writing one of the below sets of prompts, that would be fantastic.

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AN: For some reason I do not understand, I really have trouble with the Sparky ficathon. I have no idea why. I mean, I wrote three entries for it last year, and it’s still hard for me. In any case, I always feel like this ficathon is a mountain and every time I am surprised that I have made it to the top.

This fic is for melyanna, who wanted John and Elizabeth off-world with any team and Lorne involved for a bonus. I am sorry for the delay.

Thanks to irony_rocks and eldanna for all of their help.

Spoilers: None

Rating: PG

Summary: Home is where the heart is. Tents are sort of half a home.

Time Spent In Tents Whilst Off-World From Atlantis

Title: Pas de deux
Author: Melyanna
Recipient: havocthecat
Rating: R
Summary: When John and Elizabeth wake in a Virginia psychiatric hospital, nothing is as it seems.
Notes: Wow, only three days late? I think this is a record for me. Anyway, here was Havoc's request: "Both Elizabeth and John are infected by nanites, and are in a shared hallucinatory reality in The Real World." Hope I did it justice. :) Many, many thanks to my lovely and talented partners in crime, angelqueen04 and miera_c, for their beta work.

Pas de deux

OMG THIS IS A REALLY LATE ENTRY, LATER THAN I SAID, I AM SO SO SORRY I AM A HORRIBLE FICATHON PARTICIPANT *grovels*

TITLE: Calm Go the Wild Seas
AUTHOR: daygloparker
FANDOM: Stargate: Atlantis
PAIRING: Sheppard/Weir
TIMELINE: AU that deviates somewhere around "The Return" (S3)
SUMMARY: "He finds her in a tent in the desert, pretending to be an archaeologist."

AUTHOR'S NOTE: For aj, as an entry in swficathon. Ms. A.j. requested a happy ending at the finale of the Atlantis project, but without the necessity of Season 4. This is what happened: aj, you know me. This is my happy ending. Trust me. There are metaphorical kittens at the end of this in my own special way. To taylorkate, my tireless beta; to anr, for the ficathon; and to the state of Egypt, whom I horribly abused in the writing of this fic - I pass you all each a glass of lowbgeh in Zahi Hawass' honor.

LINK: Calm Go the Wild Seas

Title: All the Echoes Mourn
Author: rushingwind
Characters/Pairings: Sparky (Sheppard/Weir)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3304
Disclaimer: Not mine, don't sue.
Spoilers: General early Season 3, pre-"The Return"
Recipent: lanna_kitty, who requested: "Aliens/Alien rituals made them do it/get married." This fic is probably not the type of thing you had in mind, as it came out a little strange. But either way, I hope you like it. :)

Comments: Thanks to aiaka for beta duty. :)

( I was worried, but now I don't remember why. )

Title: 'Bout Time
Author: oparu
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: The existence of Dr. Keller.
Disclaimer: SGA is not mine. I'd have a lot more smut if it was.
Betaing lanna_kitty and speckleberry rock.
Recipient: peanutbutterer who wanted John finding out Elizabeth likes him and not knowing
how to handle his discovery. Also, Ronon/Elizabeth friendship and the line, "I thought those were my pants."

Fic over here

Title: Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot
Author: caroly_214
Characters/Pairings: Sparky, Simon
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1743
Disclaimer: if I owned it, I wouldn’t have stopped watching it.
Spoilers: Only up to the beginning of season 2 (AKA: the good old days)
Recipent: sugargroupie, who requested: "established relationship, Elizabeth and John run into Simon while on earth. Please don't make Simon into some evil ex-boyfriend or pretend that Elizabeth never loved him. Can include angst and/or sex." Well, I don’t write sex, and I’m more of a fluff person than an angst person. Besides, I think season 4 has provided us with more than enough angst. This is probably not what you had in mind, but I hope you like it.
Comments: Thanks to daisycm83 for gallantly taking on beta duty. Also, big thanks to my Mom, who, when I complained that I was stuck, made a suggestion that started things going. The title comes from the song "Auld Lang Syne."

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Title: The Name of Action
Author: vickysg1
Summary: "And enterprises of great pith and moment with this regard their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action" – William Shakespeare
Type/Pairings: Angst, romance, a tiny little bit of humour, John/Elizabeth, with some Rodney/Katie and Sam/Jack
Main Characters: John Sheppard, Elizabeth Weir, Rodney McKay, Teyla, Ronon, Sam Carter, Lorne, Zelenka and appareance of others
Rating: PG-13
Spoiler: Anything up to This Mortal Coil (4-10)
Disclaimer: Not mine, I just borrow the characters for this fic.
Author's note: Written for icarus_abides for the swficathon. Request was "Season 4-based story, Search and rescue, Elizabeth/Carter interaction, rated PG-13 or higher". I don't know what happened but it became a 56 pages long fic! Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy it, and I think I've respected your request. Many thanks to csiangel who have beta'd this extra-long fic, and have come up with the title.


Part One & Part Two @ creation_corner

title: 'Til Human Voices Wake Us
author: medie
rating: PG-13
word count: 4157
pairing: Sheppard/Weir
note: Written from a prompt from swficathon. for rushingwind who wanted Elizabeth and John as Ancients, involving the plague and mentioning Ayiana (since we don't know her real name, she appears here as Annia) Elizabeth and John take the names Elisia (much thanks to azarsuerte for that) and Ioannis. HUGE amounts of thanks to havocthecat for the on the spot beta. All remaining mistakes are my own.

Title comes from the T.S. Eliot poem The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock


'Til Human Voices Wake Us

Title: Someone to watch over me.
Author: dangerusliasons
Pairing: John Sheppard/Elizabeth Weir
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Up to Lifeline
Summary: This is for gwenhwyfar1984 who wanted John and Elizabeth having a telepathic connection, for the swficathon. Thanks to triciabyrne1978 for the beta.

( She slips into his mind while he's sleeping )

Title: The Picnic
Author: Kate - thekatebeyond (posting from the writing journal squeelated)
Written for: Sammi - pixilove66
Genre: Humor
Length: 1,800 words
Rating: Safe for all
Prompt: A "Sunday" style fic, in which we get more insight into the personal lives of our favorite team. Carson should be included and other pairings are allowed but John/Elizabeth MUST be the main focus.

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