Title: Been A While
Author: mardahin
Beta: ladyholder
Rating: PG
Author's Note: Written for the "Scars" challenge over on sga_flashfic. This is a concept that occurred to me while I was getting trained in the electrical trade, and has refused to leave me alone. Also, please note that there is a secondary Author's Note after the story, explaining my take on a certain blurriness in canon. Spoilers for "The Real World" and "The Return Part 1." Roughly 2,200 words.

Summary: Elizabeth didn't want to be there. She didn't want to be on Earth, but that was beside the point. She really didn't want to be sitting in a Starbucks, attempting to make smalltalk with a colleague she hadn't seen in four and a half years while sipping her Chai Latte, heavy on the chai.

Title: Lessons Learned
Author: mardahin
Beta: wymsie
Universe: Bridges
Pairing: Background Elizabeth Weir/Ladon Radim.
Author's Note: Apparently I'm on a roll, or something. This (like my other "Masks & Masquerade" submissions) is set in the Bridges universe, but doesn't require any detailed knowledge of it. The only thing you need to know is that after "The Return Part 1", Atlantis split away from Earth and Elizabeth Weir orchestrated an alliance against the Wraith with several of their former allies. Well, and that a year into the alliance, she started sleeping with Ladon Radim (for more detail on that, click here), but that's minor in the scope of things.

Image is everything. Or at least, it was.

Title: Dear Mom
Beta: wychwood
Rating: PG
Pairing: Weir/?? (unspecified)
Author's Note: This is the teaser/trailer for a much larger project that was just never getting done in time. Expect it in a few months.

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Summary: Dear Mom. Guess what? You're a grandmother! No. That would never work.

Title: All She Wants/All She Needs
Betae: click here
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Elizabeth Weir/Ladon Radim
Author's Note: This follows Before, Between, and After indirectly, and certainly falls within the same chronology. I recommend reading that first, but it's not necessary. Thanks to everyone who held my hand as I weeped and wailed my way through this fic, and also those who thought I was crazy to write this pairing but read and liked it anyway in the beta-stages. It was never, ever, supposed to grow to more than 6,000 words.

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Summary: It began with a box. Bridges Universe.

Title: Before, Between, and After
Rating: PG
Pairing: Gen
Author's Note: Another of the Bridges pieces. This universe wasn't designed to be Elizabeth-centric, but hers were the stories that demanded to be told first. A look at the parts of Elizabeth that we don't see onscreen. That we can't see.

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Summary: But if Pegasus had taught Elizabeth anything, it was that no victory came without a price. She hadn't realized that the cost of protecting Atlantis would be her soul. Set in the Bridges Universe.

Title: In or Out
Author: mardahin
Rating: PG
Spoilers: Through The Return Part 2 (03x11)
Word Count: 425
A/N: So I hand waived the rules of injection a little. No more than they've handwaived Carson before. Written for the sga_flashfic Body Modification Challenge.

Summary: There is a secret society within the Atlantis Expedition.

So I have 2 fics due in a day and a half, and what do I do? The re-write I've been promising to do on Bridges You Cross. Doh!

Title: "Bridges" Revisited
Author: mardahin
Pairings: Gen
Spoilers: Through The Return Part 2 (SGA 03x11)
Author's Note: This is a re-write (with significant alteration) of Bridges You Cross, a short story I wrote following the airing of "The Return" (03x10). It was one way I saw the episode resolving itself, even though I knew it wasn't what was likely to occur. After watching "The Return Part 2" (03x11), I decided to go back and adjust this to reflect some of the events of the canon resolution. This does, however, go strongly AU as of late 03x11.

Summary: ( What would have happened if Caldwell didn't just take their word at face value, and instead chose to let standing orders stand? What would the SGA command staff have done to protect their home? Told from the perspective of Elizabeth Weir. )

Title: Bridges You Cross
Author: mardahin
Pairings: Gen
Spoilers: Through The Return (SGA 03x10)
Author's Note: Thanks to scififreak for the title suggestion. This was written because I have this one little "Please let it happen" that's never going to happen in The Return Pt 2, and I needed to exorcise it.
Summary: ( We *will* one day defeat the Wraith, and we will do it together. )

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ETA: Bonus points if you get the TV joke.

ETA2: I have solved the "But what about Zelenka?" problem. There may have to be a sequel to explain.