"Hey, Little Sister" PG, by mhalachaiswords

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Rec Category: Elizabeth Weir
Pairing: None
Category: Elizabeth Weir, crossover, pre-series
Warning: Language
Author on LJ: mhalachaiswords
Author's Website: N/A
Summary: John Winchester has no illusions about his family. That's why he's never told the boys where they came from.
Link: Hey, Little Sister

Why This Must Be Read: This is a crossover with Supernatural, that largely takes place during the time before either series began, back when Elizabeth Weir and John Winchester (from SPN) were young and not-so-carefree. I like the POV, the possibility of this relationship, and places where it could go. I'm hoping the author will continue the series, although this fic can stand as a one-shot. Great little fic. Go. Read.

"Five Secrets Lorne's Team Doesn't Want Told" (PG?) by <user site="livejournal.com" user="miss_porcu

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Rec Category: Elizabeth Weir
Pairing: None
Category: Elizabeth Weir, Lorne
Warning: none, but spoilers for "Common Ground"
Author on LJ: miss_porcupine
Author's Website: N/A
Link: Five Secrets Lorne's Team Doesn't Want Told

Why This Must Be Read: This is actually only one part of a "Five things" fic, centered around Lorne and his team, but this has an interaction with Elizabeth that's just perfect. Despite that fact that it's from Lorne's POV, it's just as much about Elizabeth and the decisions she has to make and how they effect her as it is about him. It's poignant and beautiful, and perfectly in character. The author hits the perfect tone with this fic. Wonderful read.

Survival Is The First Imperative by miera_c (R)

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Rec Category: Elizabeth Weir
Pairing: This is primarily gen but it contains two background 'ships: Teyla/Lorne and Beckett/Heightmeyer.
Category: Elizabeth Weir, hurt/comfort, au,
Warning: Adult themes, Character death, Non-consensual
Author on LJ: miera_c
Author's Website: Here
Link: Survival is the First Imperative
Author's Summary: Three years after being kidnapped and sold as a slave, Elizabeth Weir returns to her people. Please consider the warnings carefully, as this is a dark future AU story.

Why This Must Be Read: Because miera_c writes Elizabeth Weir like few others, who manages to get the strengths and weaknesses of the character, and doesn't mind exploiting them to create wonderful fics. You'd really be hard pressed to find an author that writes her better in any incarnation (the stoic leader, the lover, the friend, the strong-willed woman, the fragile woman). miera_c does it all, and this story exemplifies many of them all wrapped up into one fic.

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Sleepover by d. (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Sam/Vala
Pairing: Sam/Vala
Category: Femslash, PWP
Warning: Femslash (there is sex ;))
Author on LJ: svendra
Author's Website: http://svendra.com/fica.html
Link: Sleepover

Why This Must Be Read:
So yay! Sam/Vala! I'll be reccing this pairing for this month, so hopefully it will inspire some people to get out and write more! :D

Sleepover is one of the best Sam/Vala fics I've read. Sam and Vala crash at one of Vala's off-world houses. A very nice build-up leads into some very well written sex. There's just the right amount of weariness I guess from Sam at the start and playfulness of the girls at the end that makes this fic seem quite real. A joy to read :)

A Dangerous Business, by Tarimanveri (PG)

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I'm quite pleased to be reccing Sam this month, although I was a little taken aback to discover that six of the fics on my list were already included in the Memories section of this category! Still, lots more gems to be had…

Rec Category: Samantha Carter

Pairing: none
Categories: Samantha Carter, team, angst, character study
Warnings: mild Sam and Daniel whumping
Author on LJ: tarimanveri
Author's Website: unknown
Link: A Dangerous Business

Why This Must Be Read: A Dangerous Business is one of the many delightful fics that emerged from the wildly successful ficathon of samcarterfic a few months ago. I have a special fondness for early SG-1, and this story – set some time after their first mission – is about as "early" as you can get.

Here we have Captain Carter with a queen-sized chip on her shoulder, wary of her CO and determined not to show any kind of weakness whatsoever. So when weakness does appear, Sam is frantic to hide it – until she discovers that not only is that impossible, but also wholly unnecessary. Maybe Colonel O'Neill is a better officer than she realized, a man she can truly learn to respect and follow…?

Tarimanveri does a good job of drawing us into the crisis without realizing exactly what's happening. And it's interesting to see the stark differences between civilian-Daniel and military-Sam – one willing to admit to weakness, one afraid to admit to anything, and the slow understanding that maybe, just maybe, she's found a group of people where she doesn't have to be afraid at all.

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