Abnormal Psychology by Siriaeve (PG)

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Rec Category: Crossover
Pairing: None
Category: Crossover, John Sheppard, Gen, Character Study, Humor
Warning: None
Author on LJ: http://siriaeve.livejournal.com/
Author's Website: http://siriaeve.unrealwords.com/
Link: http://siriaeve.livejournal.com/334181.html

Why This Must Be Read: I've seen quite a few Bones/SGA crossovers. This is the first I've liked. It's laugh-out loud funny and incorporates my favorite part of each show, the laconic John Sheppard and his exact opposite, the impossibly awkward young genius psychologist Lance Sweets.

The psychologist from Bones has inherited Heightmayer's post as the Atlantis shrink and sits down for his first session with John Sheppard, whom may prove to be his hardest patient yet. The two characters are contrast wonderfully as Sweets always bares more of his emotions and thoughts than is wise or he intends, and Sheppard is whom Churchill must have had in mind when he coined the phrase, "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."  The comic chemistry and the sheer fun of John's sarcasm and Sweet's sincerity in the face of what he knows to be strong resistance and snarkiness is fabulous. I'd love to see the author spool this out into a series.

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What the Ducklings Did on Their Summer Vacation by Roga (PG-13)

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Rec Category: Crossover
Pairing: Cameron/Chase per canon
Category: Crossover, Gen, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Mystery, Humor, Atlantis, Action-Adventure, Hurt/Comfort
Warning: None
Author on LJ: http://roga.livejournal.com/
Author's Website: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/193006/Roga or http://roga.livejournal.com/67383.html
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3746389/1/What_The_Ducklings_Did_On_Their_Summer_Vacation or http://roga.livejournal.com/97652.html

Why This Must Be Read: In Roga's What the Ducklings Did On Their Summer Vacation, a House/SGA crossover, Dr. Carson Beckett hires the newly fired from Princeton-Plainsboro Medical Drs. Chase, Foreman and Cameron to come work on Atlantis. It is a place where keen and creative diagnostic skills are needed. The author does an amazing job keeping everyone in character. Her real triumph is creating in one story a seamless combination of what feels like an authentic SGA episode, with its trademark mix of adventure and humor, and an authentic House episode, complete with a facinating medical mystery and going through someone's stuff (John Sheppard as the patient of course!). The characters evolve and yet still feel familiar. It also raises that immortal question, who is a worse and more offensive boss, Drs. House or McKay?

Sanctus Espiritus and Weapons of Mass Distortion by Rhi (PG)

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Rec Category: Crossover
Pairing: None
Category: Crossover, Gen, John Sheppard, Humor, Angst, Character study, Episode related, Zelenka, Miko Kusanagi, Ronon
Warning: None
Author on LJ: http://vipersweb.livejournal.com/
Author's Website: http://vipersweb.livejournal.com/38173.html
Link: http://vipersweb.livejournal.com/37872.html and http://vipersweb.livejournal.com/79225.html

Why This Must Be Read: In Sanctus Espiritus, a SGA/Eureka AU non-canon crossover by Rhi aka vibersweb, John Sheppard turns out to be the child of two Global Dynamics scientists and comes home to Eureka to try to start a new life after the events of "The Return." He develops a great and deep platonic friendship with Jack Carter. I love how they each find a true kindred soul in a fellow regular guy with common sense who's much smarter than he lets on. They both understand the joys and frustrations of working with a bunch of crazy geniuses and the daily challenge of keeping them from ending the world or killing themselves on a regular basis. There's a lovely melancholy tone to the piece and John's longing for Atlantis and homesickness is palpable through out. Miko and Zelenka, who go to work at Global Dynamics during the exile on Earth make fun cameos.

This story is probably one of my favorite SGA crossovers because the Eureka characters and setting are done well, in character, and add to my enjoyment and understanding of the SGA characters. The story is by turns funny and sad and nothing much happens but that's part of the charm. The sequel, Weapons of Mass Distortion, picks up shortly after John's return to Atlantis as the two men continue their friendship long-distance, creating much gossip and amused speculation in Eureka as to the exact nature of their relationship. It's perfectly in tone with the first story and just as much fun. I can only hope for more of this series soon.

P.S. A lovely background snippet, Going Home, can be read here: http://vipersweb.livejournal.com/23104.html

Happily Ever by queenzulu (R)

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Rec Category: Teyla Emmagan
Pairing: Teyla/Sora
Category: AU, Femslash, 5 things
Warning: None
Author on LJ: queenzulu
Author's Website: None
Link: Happily Ever

Why This Must Be Read:

Another one that was written for me, this is five ways Teyla and Sora got a happy ending: after Sora flees the Genii, after the expedition don’t uncover the Genii’s secret, after Sora is sent to live with the Athosians after the storm, after Sora is ill in Atlantis, and after the expedition leaves.

Every section is a completely beautiful story on its own, digging into Teyla and Sora, what they mean to each other, what their lives mean in the context of their relationship, and what Pegasus means to them, how it affects their lives and their friendship. My favourite is the third, in which Teyla insists on sending Sora to live with the Athosians after the storm – it’s a lovely look at Teyla’s compassion and understanding, and her roots in Pegasus culture that no-one else in the city has at that moment.

Last Train For The Coast by dirty_diana (NC-17)

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Rec Category: Cam Mitchell
Pairing: Cam Mitchell/Daniel Jackson
Category: slash, first-time, episode-related
Warning: spoilers for Continuum
Author on LJ: dirty_diana
Author's Website: http://shockingpink.compromisingpositions.net/
Link: Last Train For The Coast

Why This Must Be Read:

Read this if you want to get your heart broken. This is Daniel and Cam, during Continuum, finally managing to get together, once. Except we know what’s coming at the end and it just – yeah, breaks your heart.

I love this because it’s melancholy and beautifully written. I especially love it for how well she captures the characters, how out of place they feel, how they know what they’ve got is this fleeting, doomed thing, but if it’s what they’ve got they’ll have it anyway, even if it really hurts.