Fire in the Hole

Title: The web of changes
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #093 Thanksgiving
Word Count: 2.003
Rating: K+
Summary: For every officer of the US Air Force who lives to see it, there comes the day of retirement... and the according speech.
Author's Notes: Okay... this is it. My last Lorne/Cadman Fanfic100 story. I can't... believe I got this far. It's over and it's been... an incredible experience (let's see... I wrote despite being part of three election campaigns, driver's license lessons, going to Canada on vacations, losing my job, having to find a new one and a new apartment as well...). Most of this is due to my equally incredible beta-reader mackenziesmomma who gave me encouragement and some kicks in the ass when I needed them, cracked her whip on the last stretch of finishing the challenge and didn't even quit when my extensive usage of the word "already" drove her to commit verbicide (the word equivalent for homicide... yes, we know that we're 'special'...). 

( Beware of gushy A/N... and still read it because mac deserves that everyone reads my praise of her. ) 

And here's the LDT.

 

( The web of changes )

Title: Potato, potahto
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #017 Brown
Word Count: 2.973
Rating: K+
Summary: Dusty Mehra knows one thing for sure: It never gets boring on Major Lorne's team.
Author's Notes: So, remember the "Strange Bedfellows"-verse from "I hate you" and "True anarchists"? This is a prequel to it (and I'm sure sgteam14283 will like it since she expressed the wish to read about a certain mission mentioned in "Purple") and I hope you like it. mackenziesmomma assured me that it was fine but I'm a little doubtful because the whole story feels a little... off. What do you think?

Also, this is the fault of my friend koboldmaki who gave me the prompt "You can never have too many cormorans." ages ago and I was resolved to write her a story for it.

And here's the LDT.

 

( Potato, potahto )

Title: Somewhere to start
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #049 Club
Word Count: 2.326
Rating: K+
Summary: Being Laura Cadman-Lorne and Evan Lorne's son isn't easy... most of all when jumpers aren't exactly your best friends.
Author's Notes: This one is also part of the same universe as "Need not look no more", "Make me laugh" and "Still remember which way to go" are and takes place over 20 years after "Still remember which way to go" so you might want to reread it. Also, it's my second story for LJ's 10_ocs challenge, leaving me eight stories to go. Why is it that I developed this strange affinity to challenges anyway? Must ask mackenziesmomma... as my omnicient beta, she probably knows. And here's the LDT.

 

( Somewhere to start )

Title: Never goin' back
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #018 Black
Word Count: 1.691
Rating: K+
Summary: Sometimes... grown-ups have to make decisions that kids don't understand, as Laura Cadman's son Marcus has to find out.
Author's Notes: And now for something completely different... Anyone remember the verse I started with "You keep moving on"? This is how Laura got to Evan's place in the first place. Because mackenziesmomma is an evil whip cracking beta who is very creative in finding new ways to torture her author, she made me write this from a quite... challenging perspective. So how did I do?

Also, on the writing front... I just finished writing the 99th Fanfic100 prompt. No really, I did. Seriously. There's exactly one prompt to go and then I'm done. Eeep!

And here's the LDT.

 

( Never goin' back )

Title: Never lost our nerve
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #055 Spirit
Word Count: 1.573
Rating: K+
Summary: Writing condolence letters has never been Laura Cadman's strongest suit.
Author's Notes: And another one... this one was also written for sg_rarepairings (the prompt was Gen - Laura Cadman & Evan Lorne, comfort) and could actually be a kind of companion piece to "A rugged and ready crew", since it features the Marines' Hymn, whereas the other one featured an Air Force song (yeah, I'm being Captain Obvious here... sorry :S). BTW, on the writing front... I'm done with 96 prompts and have four to go (started writing the 97th piece yesterday but forced myself to go to bed before I could finish it because I figured I need to stop hacking my jaws into things I can very well finish the next day ;)). That, of course, is all mackenziesmomma's merit because she keeps pushing me forward as relentlessly as every self-respecting beta should. You rock, mac! And here's the LDT.

( Never lost our nerve )

Title: To have and to hold
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #063 Summer
Word Count: 2.081
Rating: K+
Summary: What could be more beautiful than a summer wedding?
Author's Notes: And now... something for everyone who follows my Minor Characters/Protect and Survive series on ff.net (I swear, one day I'll bring them over to LJ) and is pissed at me for taking so excruciatingly long with updating the latest story, "Take Charge". It entails major spoilers (and I really mean MAJOR... as in... character related, both good and... not so good), since it's taking place way later so everyone who doesn't like to be spoiled should better skip this (I really won't mind if you do). Everyone else... this is... um... mackenziesmomma's fault. All of it, even the embarrassing new nick name for Tom and the possibility that I might have gone a little over the top with the wedding fluff clichés. No idea how exactly but mac's definitely to blame for it. Yeah. And here's the LDT.

( To have and to hold )

Title: True anarchists
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #016 Purple
Word Count: 1.466
Rating: K+
Summary: Despite Rodney's reassurance, Evan Lorne got drafted into babysitting duty for Rodney and Dusty's son... and he could really use some help.
Author's Notes: And here we go with the sequel to "I hate you" and more Lorne/Cadman banter. I love it when they do that and I just wish I was continually good at writing it, not just in rare moments of genius (seriously, all that lighthearted banter is the result of lot of nights of sweating over stories and dialogues). Anyway, I'm now at seven stories to go but the bunnies are still attempting to stomp me to the ground (and it's all mackenziesmomma's fault!). Evil little buggers, keeping me from writing those last seven stories... Meh! Ahem, alright, just... on with the story... And here's the LDT.

Title: Every generation has its way
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #023 Lovers
Word Count: 2.108
Rating: K+
Summary: So, did Evan Lorne's father finally see reason?
Author's Notes: Sequel to "Same old story", second part in this trilogy. And the story where I realized that conflicts with fathers take a great precedence over conflicts with mothers in my stories. Mh... personal preference? Result of years of socialization in science-fiction fandoms where father/son conflicts are practically omnipresent while conflicts with mothers are practically non-existent? I think I'll have to ponder this a little more. Anyway, here's the story... that gave mackenziesmomma a few interesting thoughts ;) And here's the LDT.

( Every generation has its way )

Title: The closest thing
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #019 White
Word Count: 1.227
Rating: K+
Summary: Laura Cadman learns about regret. The hard way.
Author's Notes: This story... is probably the hardest Fanfic100 piece I wrote yet, mainly because it's just too close to home in a way (and yes, I leave you now to speculate what exactly home is in this case ;)). It's defintely not a happy story, at least for Lorne/Cadman shippers. It also was mackenziesmomma's (brilliant, I might add) idea to challenge me with writing a story where... oh, you'll see what I mean and she really made me push my limits and confront some issues with it (see, that's why I love my beta: She strives very hard to make me give my best with each and every story. And everything else I'll probably better keep for the A/N to the last story ;)).

Oh, oh, oh, also: Am now in the one-digit area again (i.e. I have exactly 9 (NINE) story left to write and then I'm done with writing Fanfic100)! Yay!

And here's the LDT.

Title: Need not look no more
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters: Cadman/Lorne
Prompt: #001 Beginnings
Word Count: 1.091
Rating: K+
Summary: Laura Cadman found something - or rather someone - to look at on the long first trip to Atlantis on the Daedalus.
Author's Notes: And so we are here with another piece. Another one-shot for which I had to do an astonishing amount of research (no telling because that would probably spoil the punchline ;)). Of course I had a great research assistant in mackenziesmomma (in fact, she does almost all of my research and I'm infinitely grateful for that), as well, so I hope we researched right ;) And here's the LDT.

 

( Need not look no more )