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[paian]

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The list that follows is all the prompts we received in our first solicitation, in the order in which they appeared in the comm.

The prompts:

(Prompts that had no responses at all when this entry was compiled are bolded in red. Extra gratitude to anyone who writes those!)

01.01 Five vegetables Jack O'Neill will never eat again.

01.02 Five things Daniel wishes he could tell his parents.

01.03 Five things Mitchell wishes he'd known before joining the SGC.

01.04 Teal'c's five favorite board games.

01.05 Five times Jack wished Daniel was a girl.

01.06 Sam's five biggest regrets.

01.07 Five things Cassie Fraiser did as soon as she left Colorado Springs.

01.08 Five things overheard in the SGC cafeteria two minutes after SG-1 leaves.

01.09 Five things Vala wishes she'd never learned.

01.10 Five things Hammond did as soon as he retired.

02.01 Five team conversations that no one else understood.

02.02 Five injuries Jack never healed from.

02.03 Five things that will break Cam, in the end.

02.04 Five events General Hammond most decidedly did NOT include in any of his reports.

02.05 Five Jaffa Teal'c wishes he could have saved.

02.06 Daniel's Top Five sexual fantasies.

02.07 Five items Daniel keeps in his nightstand drawer.

02.08 Five reasons Janet never re-married.

02.09 Five ways Jack never met Vala.

02.10 Five times SG-1 stepped foot on a planet, only to immediately turn around and go home.

03.01 Five times Jack has ended up wearing a "skirt."

03.02 Five things Daniel took out of Jack's hands.

03.03 Five times Ronon didn't tell John.

03.04 Four times Jack cried and one time he didn't.

03.05 Five things Sam wanted to be when she grew up.

03.06 Five times Cameron said "no" to Daniel.

03.07 Five things that Teal'c learned from watching Jello-wrestling.

03.08 Five things that Vala will never do to Daniel.

03.09 Jack's five pet peeves.

03.10 Five ways SG-1 said goodbye before going their separate ways.

04.01 Five times Jack listened to Daniel in the field without question.

04.02 Five times Daniel followed an order from Jack in the field without question.

04.03 Five pets Jack O'Neill remembers.

04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist despite the galaxy's attempt to prove otherwise.

04.05 Five things about Abydos Daniel doesn't miss.

04.06 Five things Sam knew about Cameron before they met up again at the SGC.

04.07 Five times Teal'c almost walked away.

04.08 Five ways George and Walter shared a first kiss.

04.09 Five hot and dirty things Carson wants to do to Rodney.

04.10 Five costumes worn to the SGC Halloween Party.

05.01 Five things Cam wishes Jack had told him about leading SG-1.

05.02 Five things Jack wishes he had told Cam about SG-1.

05.03 Five reasons Jack loves fishing.

05.04 Daniel's five favorite sex toys.

05.05 Five things Daniel shouldn't have touched.

05.06 Five times Daniel took a swing at Jack.

05.07 Five things Urgo made them do that will never be spoken of again.

05.08 Five things Sam and Teal'c did on their one and only date.

05.09 Five times Vala got what she wants: and regretted it.

05.10 John's five favorite foods.

06.01 Five ways Daniel let Jack down easy.

06.02 Five ways Jack thinks he let Daniel down.

06.03 Five reasons Jack took the job in Washington.

06.04 Five times Sam almost said something, but didn't.

06.05 Five, er, unusual civilian outfits Teal'c has worn.

06.06 Five things Daniel remembers from when he was Ascended, but hasn't admitted to.

06.07 Five things SG-1 did on Daniel's birthday the year he was Ascended.

06.08 Cam's five biggest fears.

06.09 Five things Siler left Jack in his will.

06.10 Five reasons Teyla will never marry.

07.01 Five things Daniel packed in Jack's suitcase when he left for Washington, D.C.

07.02 Five things Jack packed in Daniel's suitcase when he left for Atlantis.

07.03 Five Jaffa tattoos that make Jack snicker.

07.04 Five things Daniel can do with his tongue.

07.05 Five things Sam really liked about being a military brat.

07.06 Five times Cam made Teal'c's eyebrow go up.

07.07 Five things Daniel will never tell Vala.

07.08 Five missions that required an immediate trip to the showers.

07.09 Five times Sam almost told Jack she loved him.

07.10 Five things Rodney hopes John never, ever finds out.

08.01 Five things Daniel 'dug' up.

08.02 Five rules Jack wishes generals could make.

08.03 Five people Vala conned.

08.04 Five ways to tell Daniel and Cameron apart in the dark.

08.05 Five ways John surprised Rodney.

08.06 Five winter-holiday gifts Daniel got that Jack never admitted came from him.

08.07 Five winter-holiday gifts Jack got that Daniel never admitted came from him.

08.08 Four things Teal'c doesn't understand about Christmas, and one he does.

08.09 Five times Sam got the team to watch her favorite Christmas shows with her.

08.10 Five annual traditions that take place at the SGC in December.

09.01 Five reasons Atlantis accepted the Earthers.

09.02 Five languages that Daniel has used to get SG-1 out of trouble.

09.03 Five ways Jack told his team he was leaving command of the SGC.

09.04 Five times Jonas Quinn wanted to go home.

09.05 Five things Sam wished she had fixed.

09.06 Five conversations Teal'c never had.

09.07 Five people Ba'al has never broken.

09.08 Five reasons Cameron can't call Daniel "Daniel."

09.09 Five reasons Jack doesn't call Daniel "Danny" anymore.

09.10 Five things Sam regrets about getting involved in a threesome with Jack and Daniel.

10.01 Five things Jack will never admit to Daniel.

10.02 Five things Daniel had hoped for Jack.

10.03 Five sex toys/methods/positions Jack and Daniel really want to try.

10.04 Five times Jack held Daniel's hand.

10.05 Five times Jack pounces on Daniel.

10.06 Five things Sam wishes Jack had never said in bed.

10.07 Five times Jack almost told Sam he loved her.

10.08 Five ways Jack flirts with Sam.

10.09 Five ways Sam pissed Jack off.

10.10 Five things Daniel said after Jack caught him with Sam.

11.01 Five things that Jack wants to be when he grows up.

11.02 Five missions Jack fantasizes about.

11.03 Five scars that Jack wishes he didn't remember getting.

11.04 Five things Jack gave away to SG-1 when he packed up his house to move to D.C.

11.05 Five things Jack went fishing for.

11.06 Five things Jack likes about Ba'al.

11.07 Five ways Jack screwed the regs.

11.08 Five ways Jack wishes he was like the rest of SG-1.

11.09 Five things Jack saw in his rear-view mirror on the way to Washington, D.C.

11.10 Five planets Jack would like to retire to.

12.01 Daniel's first five languages.

12.02 Five things Daniel left on Abydos.

12.03 Five things Daniel misses about having long hair.

12.04 Five Goa'uld that Daniel wishes he'd had the chance to meet.

12.05 Five things Daniel touched that thrilled him.

12.06 Five laws Daniel broke.

12.07 Five things Daniel does when he can't sleep.

12.08 Five critical mistakes Daniel has made in translation.

12.09 Five ways Daniel improves Atlantis.

12.10 Five ways Daniel Jackson didn't die.

13.01 Five stories Jack will never tell, but Daniel might.

13.02 Five ways Sam got off thinking about one or more of her team members.

13.03 Five magazines Teal'c subscribes to.

13.04 Five times Jack made Teal'c laugh.

13.05 Five things Teal'c learned while kel'no'reeming with Daniel Jackson.

13.06 Five times Elizabeth bit her tongue.

13.07 Five ways Elizabeth dies.

13.08 The first five purchases Vala made on Earth.

13.09 Five true things about Cameron Mitchell that he doesn't know about himself.

13.10 Five people the original SG-1 really hope the press don't interview about them when the program goes public.


To sort the prompts by SG-1 team members, supporting characters, and SGA, use the links at the top of the page. In case you want to poke around the individual sets of ten prompts each, here are the tags: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Set 4, Set 5, Set 6, Set 7, Set 8, Set 9, Set 10, Set 11, Set 12, Set 13.

Thanks again to everyone who provided prompts! You can always give us new ones, too.

Comments

04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist... [Partial]

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

+ Jack had no memories – no good memories – of Skaara that weren’t colored orange and yellow, that didn’t smell like the desert. In that weird, sterile blue-grey light, he looked all wrong: too dark, too foreign in the washed-out monochrome the Tollans favored.

But Skaara grinned at him and looked just like a kid Jack had known once, one who had swiped a cigarette and saluted him, and this time there was nobody else behind it.

+ The people on P7X-932 didn’t think SG-1 were gods, or demons, or prime candidates for slavery. There was a village within sight of the Stargate, and it wasn’t half destroyed, or impoverished, or stricken with some weird space plague. The Goa’uld had probably been there (Daniel was apparently very interested with the snake imagery in their creation myth) but so long ago that everyone thought Teal’c was just fascinating. There was a stable government with no political crisis afoot. No natural disasters; no problems with the DHD.

They also had no technology worth acquiring, no nadquada in the soil, no particularly interesting medicines or plants. They did have a very tasty and entirely non-alcoholic spiced drink they liked to ply the team with at every opportunity, and some kind of sweet bread with raisins in that featured at every meal. And they did have some strong solar winds that caused a pretty cool aurora effect in the sky a few clicks north of the village.

They spent three days there, about a week after Reese, with had been right after K’Tano, which had been not so long after the fucking nightmare combination of Daniel’s little rendezvous with Osiris and the Carter-Lantash-Elliot thing that was going to take a long time to shake. If the next mission out had been a rough one, if there had been anything to cause any kind of serious dissension in the ranks – someone would have cracked. They were all too worn down; it was too much. But instead they got 932 and raisin bread, and three days to breathe, and when they finally walked back down the ramp everyone could look everyone else in the eye again without immediately looking away, without needing to be somewhere else. When they left again to go clean up Maybourne’s mess, they did it acting like they were, in fact, all on the same team.

Kelowna happened, and it and was unthinkable. It wasn’t Jack’s worst nightmare, it was the one that lurked behind it, the one he couldn’t have even contemplated before it happened, to lose one of them like that. But afterwards, some of Jack’s most recent memories of Daniel were not of him sitting hunched over a dead robot, eyes bright with tears and fury and failure. They were of Daniel, sprawled flat on his back next to Carter on a flat rock, glasses reflecting blue-green waves of light back into the night sky; chuckling over the rim of a wooden cup at something some village woman said. It didn’t bring him back and it didn’t make the empty space where he wasn’t any less oppressive. It did give Jack a closed, quite space in his head to go during those long months before he found out that Daniel hadn’t gone so far after all, and that was something. Small mercies, big mercies – he would take what he could get.

Re: 04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist... [Partial]

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

+ It was near 0300 by the time Jack actually eased the front door shut, toed off his boots, and crept up the stairs with a deft avoidance of all the spots that creaked. His bedroom door was open; the room beyond was lit in slanted moonlight and absolutely silent. It used to freak Jack out that he could never hear Sara breathing unless he was right next to her. It was the way she slept, when she had the bed to herself: sprawled out almost on a diagonal, foot dangling off one side, face in the pillow. Jack tapped his finger on the door frame, debating with himself, but then the pile of blankets stirred at about shoulder level and he shook his head, smirked a little, and turned away.

The door across the hallway was mostly shut. Jack nudged it open with his foot, stepped halfway in, and took stock. The humidifier was sputtering a little, probably needed a refill; the night-light was on, turning and slowing spinning pale golden stars across the walls; Charlie was flat on his back in the crib, wide awake (as usual) and watching him. Jack stood over the crib for what felt like a very long time, watching his boy watch him. It’d only been two weeks, but he looked – bigger. Older. Charlie kicked a little, chewed on three fingers, and Jack thought a month stand down had never sounded so short.

His boy, his baby, he had been a gift. Jack was sometimes overwhelmed by the weight of it. Years later, after Charlie and those hellish months that followed, after Abydos, after that year of waiting, after everything…he knew, still, Charlie had been a gift. God had given him something precious and he would never, ever, forget. When he lost it, and everything with it…well, that was Jack’s fault, and no one else’s.

Re: 04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist... [Partial]

[paian]

These are beautiful. I love that you gave them that mission between Reese and Kelowna. (Does that make you-the-author God? *g* If the ptb are the gods of canon, and writers are the gods of their own fics, you win the Battle of the Gods in my book, for giving Jack those memories to tide him over while Daniel was gone, instead of what the ptb left him with. :-) ) I also love that you gave us that sweet moment of ordinary family life for Jack, and kept it sweet and cherished instead of using it to make the tragedy that much more brutal, and giving Jack an attitude about it that I can believe. You good writer-god.

Re: 04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist... [Partial]

[niamaea.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that is some trippy meta right there. Fanfic authors as the gods of their universes...I like it!

I think I mentioned to you when you posted your version of this ("There is no #3") that, man, this prompt was hard. And good. Thinky. So, count me doubly glad to know the partial attempt clicked anyway (especially that last one, I wasn't sure.) Thank you.

you win the Battle of the Gods

Best. feedback. ever. Even better out of context. Hee! ; )

Re: 04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist... [Partial]

[starglyph.livejournal.com]

Oh these are wonderful. I love Daniel on the rock and the good Charlie memories. I love Charlie in fic! I did this prompt too, and it was tough. Glad you did these!

Re: 04.04 Five reasons Jack thinks God might actually exist... [Partial]

[secretbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Just had to comment to let you know that while I loved all of these, the last one had me in tears.