Fandom: Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG1
Title: How Not To Eat An Elephant
Author: tielan
Summary: You don't bite what's gonna bite you back. Some people learn this the hard way.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 1,650
Warnings: hostage situation (resolved)
Prompt: 45) Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Author's Notes: I didn't really use this prompt quite as I initially intended, so the connection with the story is somewhat tenuous. And there really should be more fic about Teyla and Vala causing havoc in Pegasus. Because they would. And it would be awesome.

How Not To Eat An Elephant

Title: Winners And Survivors - Part One
Author: tielan
Rating: PG
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Prompt: #104. Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it. --Diane Feinstein.
Summary: She was questioning her sanity in ever agreeing to this. She had never seen war as a game.
Notes: Since this is over 10,000 words, I'm posting it in two parts. I've wanted to write this concept for a while - a kind of 'reverse situation' to what usually occurs in the show. Many, many thanks to my betas, pandora_576 and dzurlady, and many thanks to gehayi for organising this round of the femgenficathon!

( Winners And Survivors - Part One )