Title: Earth and Water
Author: alipeeps
Characters: John Sheppard, Team
Word Count: 7,400
Rating: Gen/PG-13 for violence
Spoilers: None
Summary: Sheppard risks his life to save his team-mate

Notes: Written for the 2009 Secret Santa exchange for sgafan.
Prompt given at the end.

( The heavens opened without warning )

Ummm. We may be moving house in just over a week!!

We've been wanting to move asap and just get it done and for the last couple of weeks it's all been just ongoing stuff with the solicitors, waiting for the searches to come back and for replies to enquiries etc. We heard from the solicitor yesterday that she's got the replies back and pretty much everything is about sorted now, she is just waiting for one more search to come back and was going to chase the search agent to see if she could get it by the end of the week.

So hubby emailed and asked her if, if she gets the search back by the end of the week, we could look at completing on e.g. 12/13 Feb. And she said, basically, yes!! If she gets that last search, she says there's no reason why we couldn't complete on 12 Feb! That's 9 days away!

And suddenly it's hit me that ( this is really happening! )

It would seem that the current trend for all things vampire has spawned a ( whole new literary category... )

...or is Gateworld completely kapput?

I keep getting this message:

System Message
Rebuilding search index.... this could take some time... ETR is 4pm GMT.

Given that it's now gone 8pm GMT, this does not look good. :/

Had enough whump yet? No? Goody! Cos here's more! :D

( Lots more!! )

So... ummm... yeah... I might have done a teeeeeeeeeeny bit of capping of The End of Time Part 2. Just a bit. You know... just the odd cap or two.... or seven hundred! *grins*

It's not my fault, honestly! There was just so much lovely whump - after such a long drought - that I just had to capture every delicious nuance of it!!

Prepare yourself therefore for the 10th Doctor Whump Picspam to End All Picspams!!*

*Mahoosive spoilers for The End of Time Part 2, naturally

Oh. Oh dear. It's.... ummmm. It's so big it's too big for one post! Whoops! Oh well... enjoy! :D

Are you ready? One, two... *sucks in a deep breath*.... ( SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMM!! )

Well, after a couple of days of time to process my thoughts and feelings about Part II (and hubby's departure back down to London, giving me some time to write in peace), I am finally ready to put my thoughts down in writing.

( Random - and long-winded! - blethering within, containing spoilers for The End of Time (Parts 1 and 2) and also for the trailer for Doctor Who Season 5 )

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Well, after three lovely weeks of having hubby home, Christmas/New Year is over and he has set off back down to London ready for the working week tomorrow. Boo. :(

He's been working away in London for two years now and I have gotten used to him being away and only seeing him at weekends but boy, it's hard when I've had him home for so long to see him drive off and to know I won't see him again for five days.

And Aimee has loved having him home. She loves her daddy to bits and every time she sees him she gives him a huge grin. I hope she doesn't miss him too badly.

Roll on Friday. :/

I can't believe it's finally here. 1 January 2010.

The tenth Doctor dies today and with him probably my obsessive love for this show/fandom.

It's not fair! I want more!! *sobs*

Well, I was unable to resist the overwhelming Doctor Who obsession that has currently taken over my life. There was some lovely whump in EoT Part 1 but, as ever, I wanted moooorrrrre!! :lol: This missing scene was crying out to be written so... I had to write it! I wanted to get it posted before the second part airs so.. here it is!

( Consciousness returned along with a pounding headache )

So it's 10th's final adventure in just a couple of days now and I'm equally desperate to see it and dreading there being no more 10th eps to look forward to afterwards! And - bloody typical! - they teeeeaaase me by offering up, in 10th last eps, some long-awaited 10th whump!

So yes. I'm a bit obssessed. I may have watched certain scenes from The End of Time - Part 1 more than a couple of time. And I may have done ( just a wee bit of capping: )

Well, we've put in an offer on another house and had it accepted! So now we start the process all over again. The christmas period is going to delay things a bit but the bank are hoping to get the valuation survey done during the next week. Then once the solicitors are back in work in the new year we can get going with the searches etc.

With any luck we will be able to move in end of January/beginning of February to our ( new house in Mirfield )

Well I think Aimee enjoyed her first christmas.

She had loads of pressies, not just from hubby and I but also from family and friends, and even friends of my mum etc, who wanted to get a present for baby's first christmas. She got soft toys, plastic toys, musical toys, clothes, books, CDs and a couple of big items like an activity centre and a walker thing.

She spent a lot of the day sitting on the floor surrounded by toys and paper as we unwrapped her pressies for her - of course she mostly enjoyed ( playing with the paper: )

Tagged by x_erikah_x... kinda... ;)

FIRST: If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.

SECOND: Tag eight sexy people. Don't refuse to do it like a pansy.

1. Who sleeps in bed next to you?
At the weekends (and for the next 3 weeks - yaaaay!), hubby - weeknights, it's just little ole me.

2. What did you last eat?
A Cadbury's Wispa Gold! Mmmmm..... :D

3. What kinds of books do you read?
My favourite genre these days is probably crime/mystery - favourites include Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, Dick Francis and recent discovery Joanna Campbell Slan's Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft mysteries - and I also like tie-in novels such as the Doctor Who novels and some of the Fandemonium SGA novels.

4. What are you reading right now?
I've gotten very lazy with my reading. I have a pile of about 5-6 books waiting to be read. I was reading the most recent Dick & Felix Francis but I kinda got near the end, put the book under the bed (I was reading in bed and kinda put it on the floor under the bed when I decided to turn out the light and go to sleep) and haven't picked it up since!! :/

5. If you could be anywhere right now, where would it be?
In a nice new house with a big garden, a lovely big kitchen, minimum 2 reception rooms and 4-5 bedrooms. *sigh*

6. Tell me something interesting that happened today.
I got an email from a friend who has recently moved to Dubai for a few years, and who found out just before she left that she was pregnant for the second time, and she's had a scan and is having another boy! :)

7. Name one odd item within three feet of you.
Does hubby count? ;) *lol* Ummm.. okay then... well, let's see... there's the foam alphabet jigsaw floor mats, there's the 12 channel mixing desk hooked up to the CD player and mini disc player, there's a pile of random computer bits including a computer mic and several USB cables, there's the TV base unit for my Archos (which got stolen over a year ago), there's a pen with an LED light in the top of it and there's a weird battery/power box thingy, the functioning of which I barely understand but which hubby has hooked up to solar panels that he put on the roof!

8. What's your current fandom obsession/addiction?
My favourite current show atm that I feel even remotely fannish about is The Mentalist.

9. What did you really want to do today that you didn't?
Go look at lots of houses! :lol:

10. What are you most excited for?
Aimee's first christmas - oh and finding our dream house. I hope. :)

11. What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Hotmail, BabyCentre, LJ, Gateworld (not as often as I'd like though) and, these days, Rightmove.co.uk.

12. What was the last thing you bought?
A loaf of bread (for me) and a bottle of wine (xmas pressie for a friend).

13.What do you want right now, off the top of your head?
Something good on TV.

14. What's your biggest procrastination method?
Oh the internet. For sure. Quite frankly, it's a wonder I get *anything* done since hubby bought me a netbook! :lol:

15. Are there any bits of childhood you miss?
My sister. :( Freedom from care and responsibility - though to be honest, I was always a worrier, even as a kid - being able to run and jump and do whatever, without pain and stiffness in my knees!

16. Spring, summer, fall, or winter?
Tough one. I always used to prefer autumn (fall, if you insist on US-speak ;D), maybe because I was born that time of year? But now I think I maybe prefer spring... you know how you sometimes get those wonderful bright sunny spring days with a clear blue sky and brilliant sunshine but there is still a nip in the air? Awesome. :)

17. Say something to/about the person/s who tagged you.
She's smart and funny and multi-lingual and a great writer! :)

Okaaaaay so I tag.... a_pilgrim_soul, goose_entity, arctic_penguin, cazzblade, chayiana, dovil, karaotter and lahela_sga :D

I speak English as my native language and French and German pretty fluently - though I don't get to use them all that often so they are a bit rusty... but they come back up to standard pretty quickly once I start using them again.

I also still remember a bit of Welsh, a smattering of Spanish and a few words of Italian and Dutch - I can read documents in Italian or Dutch, and Spanish for that matter, and get a fairly good idea of the contents.

If I could learn only one other language.... hmmm. I quite like the idea of learning an Asian language - like Japanese or Mandarin. I'm pretty sure they're darn hard to learn though. Other than that, I've always had a romantic notion about learning Norwegian... partly cos of a fantasticly atmospheric murder mystery drama set in Norway called Maelstrom that was on TV in the UK I think sometime in the 80s... and partly cos of my huuuuuuge teenage crush on a-ha/Morten Harket! :lol:

And the thing is, I'm not that bothered. In fact, I'm rather relieved. Which I think pretty much confirms this is the right decision.

After a long chat with hubby tonight, we've decided to ( pull out of the house purchase )

Snurched from ruffles...

Using only four words, tell me what you would say to me if we woke up in a jail together.

Then copy and paste this into your own Livejournal and see what responses you get.

...in the ( housebuying process. )

Seen this pop up on my flist and it looked like fun so I thought I'd throw my name in the hat! :D

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