In Few Words: 55-Word Stories
by Bil!
Disclaimer: The characters, situations, and universe are not of my creation. I'm just having fun playing with them.
Summary: The challenge is to write a story that is precisely 55 words long. No more, no less. It's a whole lot more difficult than it looks!
A/N: Episode-based stories are labelled with the relevant episode in brackets. There are spoilers for episodes from the first to fourth seasons so far. There is no order to these, and they come in a vast variety of flavours, including humour, angst, and romance. Mostly they focus on John and/or Elizabeth and there are plenty of Sparky ones. I'll post them in groups of six, since they are far too short to make chapters on their own!
Converted (Conversion)
Blue skin and yellow eyes fill her vision. A hand wraps around her throat, fingers tightening as she gasps for air. Glass shatters, silver shards. A strange scent, cold and musty, fills her nose.
Elizabeth wakes screaming.
Come morning she smiles and speaks as if nothing is wrong. Come night time, she knows everything is.
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Commonality (Common Ground)
He dreams of family, of trust and loyalty and love. Of pride in his sister, love for his brothers. He will fight the universe for them and regret nothing.
In his dreams his family wears the face of his enemy.
John wakes. And wonders just what the Wraith gave to him along with his life.
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Unreal World (The Real World)
When did the world she grew up in become no longer normal? When did stained-glass windows and alien technologies become her every-day reality? How could a dream leave her so utterly unconnected to the 'real world'?
Elizabeth can't believe Atlantis isn't real. Not when its mere memory has more substance than here.
Atlantis is real.
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Twenty-Four Hours Later (Thirty-Eight Minutes)
"What were you really going to say?" Elizabeth lounges on the end of his infirmary bed, watches him eat his smuggled-in Jello.
The Jello melts on his tongue as lights dance in her eyes. "Does it matter?" he asks.
Her smile is slow and deep. "I suppose not."
John never wants to leave this moment.
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Blue (Siege III – Colonel Everett)
He dreams in blue. Blue wormhole, blue city, blue sea, blue sky. Blue face laughing at him, blue hand drinking his life. Blue, blue, blue, blue.
He drowns and chokes and soaks in it, all blue, so blue, too blue. Blue is life and death and draining, drowning weakness.
When he wakes, Dillon is old.
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After Trinity (Trinity)
John doesn't talk about what happened. But Elizabeth knows he trusted Rodney and that trust was... not betrayed, but bent. And John's trust has been betrayed too many times, John's trust is fragile. She knows that.
Still, he won't talk about it.
But in his sleep he holds onto her as if she might disappear.