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A friend of mine was interested in seeing a crossover drabble, so I did some research and came up with this.

prompt: Kate/Fleur, stars

Not in the stars but in ourselves

"I always had this thing about the stars. Like they belonged to me and no one else...."

Kate blushed, but Teyla's inquiring look invited her to go on.

"My grandmother – my mum's mum – used to tell me stories about how my great-great-great-... oh I don't know how many greats... grandmother studied the stars. It was really unusual back then for even an aristocratic woman to be so educated. She kept a journal. It's in a museum now. I always thought she must have had such spirit, and been very clever, and when I was little, I wanted to be her...."

prompt: Kate & John, effusiveness

Unlocked

Effusiveness wasn't a word Kate associated with Major Sheppard. Evasive was more like it. She knew he appreciated what she did for the military personnel he sent her way, but he kept conversations with her brisk and businesslike. The merest hint that maybe he should come talk to her himself had him backpedaling like a dozen Wraith were advancing on him.

Until she made a passing comment that normally on New Year's Day she'd be watching the Rose Bowl on TV, and suddenly there was no stopping him. Kate smiled and let him babble on, because it was a start....

prompt: Kate/Ronon, comfort

(Dis)Comfort

Kate looked up from making notes as the door to her office slid open. "Ronon?" She shot to her feet, sending several sheets of paper wafting to the floor.

"Didn't mean to startle you." The Satedan ambled into the room, one hand hidden behind his back.

"Did you... was there... is there something I can do for you?" Kate blushed as she stuttered out the question.

"Nope. But maybe something I can do for you." With a flourish, Ronon produced the plate of cookies he'd been hiding. "Thought you might need them after listening to McKay whining for an hour."

prompt: Kate/Elizabeth, Ascension

A Higher Plane of Existence

"Would you want to?" The late afternoon sun striping the room was making Elizabeth sleepy.

"Ascend?" Kate lifted her head and met Elizabeth's inquiring gaze

"Yes."

Kate considered the question, a faint frown creasing her forehead. "Does it mean leaving behind the flesh."

"That's the idea."

Kate's lips twitched. "In that case...," she traced a fingertip lightly down Elizabeth's arm, "I don't think I'm ready for it just yet."

Elizabeth slid her hand around the back of Kate's neck, gently tangling her fingers in the other woman's hair, and drew her closer. "Me neither," she murmured, her lips against Kate's.

prompt: Kate & Teyla, chocolate eggs

Hidden Treasure

"It is very pretty," Teyla held up the elaborately-fashioned box and turned it around, "but what is it?"

"It's an Easter egg."

"Easter?"

"It's this holiday we have. Kinda like Christmas, except it commemorates Jesus's resurrection rather than his birth."

"Resurrection?" Teyla was still examining the package. "This Jesus had an eventful life."

Kate smiled. "That he did. The egg's really more of an ancient symbol of spring and rebirth rather than anything to do with Jesus." She coughed gently. "Uh... there's chocolate inside the foil."

"Why did you not say so before?" Teyla eagerly began to unwrap the package.

prompt: sunlight

Set post-Doppelganger

Eulogy

She brought sunlight.

Sometimes like the first touch of dawn after a long dark night: a word, a gesture, her endless quiet patience with those who had seen too much and done too much.

At other times, she lit the city with the slanting beams of a summer afternoon: laughter, smiles, her joy at life and living and loving and friendship.

In private, she burned with the fierceness of noon, giving and receiving pleasure without restraint or reserve.

Harsh duty might cloud her, but still she gave light for others to work by

She is gone; now comes the night.

I'm not doing very well with the -a-day part of the Kate drabble-a-thon (maybe I should have just numbered them rather than mentioning 'days' *g*) but I'm going to post what I've written and try and catch up....

prompt: Kate/John, storm

Sparring Partners

"You did what?" John glared at Kate.

"I was fine."

"She might have hurt you!"

"Don't be silly! Teyla wouldn't–"

"She's hurt me often enough." John unconsciously rubbed his elbow.

Kate's lips twitched, but she managed not to laugh. Injured male pride? Or jealousy? "Teyla was just showing me some moves. It was more like Tai Chi." She stepped closer, resting her hands on his chest. "What's really eating you?"

He drew her against him. "I just...." He shrugged. "You're part of my life that has nothing to do with... war. Fighting. Guess I want to keep it like that...."

prompt: honor

For Auld Lang Syne

Kate made it her business to perform one kind act every day that the recipient didn't expect.

An invitation to a lost-looking new arrival to Atlantis to sit with her at dinner; or taking an interest in someone's hobby, family or (far too often!) pet theory; or a publicly spoken word of praise for a thankless task.

It was something Carson had managed to do every day, just by being who he was. And now he was gone. So Kate honored his memory by trying to spark something of the bright flame that had, all too soon, been snuffed out.

prompt: Kate & John; Elizabeth

Lost In Space

"Keep thinking about a conversation I had with Elizabeth the first day we got here."

Kate kept quiet. John had been prowling around her office ever since he'd arrived on the pretext of discussing crew evaluations. At last what was really on his mind was coming out.

"I told her: You don't leave people in the hands of the enemy."

Abruptly, he sat down. "I shouldn't have...." He scrubbed a hand across his face. "And I keep forgetting. Keep.... Only reason I haven't mounted a rescue mission is I couldn't face the chewing out I'd get for risking more lives...."

prompt: Kate & Elizabeth; past lives

Famous

"Have you used hypnosis much before?" Elizabeth had wondered ever since Kate put Teyla under, but with so much happening right after, there hadn't been a chance to explore the topic more with Atlantis's psychologist.

Kate stirred the granola in her bowl and shrugged. "Not really. I took a course on using it to treat addictions once, but the prof was kinda... kooky." When Elizabeth raised an enquriing eyebrow, she added, "She was really into past-life regression."

"You don't believe in the possibility of reincarnation?"

Kate laughed. "I don't believe we were all of us once Cleopatra or Abraham Lincoln."