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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Somewhere I Never Have Traveled
Author: Brighid (brighidestone)
Characters: Season One team – Sheppard, McKay, Ford, Teyla plus OCs
Prompt: 44 - Mask
Rating: Mature
Length: Long
Brief summary: The interesting thing about the amnesia story is how the core elements of a character still show through, even when they don’t remember who they themselves are, and while I may personally disagree with some of the choices made as ‘core characteristics’, it makes for a very compelling story.

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Link to the story: Somewhere I Never Have Traveled

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Obiter Dictum
Author: eretria(eretria)
Characters: Teyla, Carson, Rodney
Prompt: 45 - Trapped
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: After The Storm/The Eye, Teyla goes to the infirmary to treat her own injuries, really needing little more than bandages and antiseptic. She gets trapped there by Carson and Rodney, who start off arguing until Carson nearly collapses from his concussion. Carson and Rodney's friendship is explored through Teyla's eyes, along with some of the ramifications from this episode set.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Catharsis
Author:tigs(tigs)
Characters: Teyla, Rodney
Prompt: 40 - Confession
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: I like the way Teyla and Rodney's friendship is portrayed here, and it makes sense that as they have worked together on the team, they had grown close. They can complement each other -- Teyla is nuanced and quiet, while Rodney is bold and brightly lit -- and their friendship would be a little wondrous to them both.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Visiting Hours
Author: Teza(teza)
Characters: John, Rodney, Ronon, Teyla
Prompt: 41 - Redemption
Rating: PG-13
Length: Short
Brief summary: This is a interlaced series of drabbles set around "Conversion" where Ronon, Teyla, and Rodney each get a chance to deal with their reactions to what happened to Sheppard. I like the way each of the sections portrays the person and their relationship to Sheppard, as well as how they function as a team.

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Link to the story: Vising Hours by Teza

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Dinner at Eight
Author: Selenay (selenay936)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth
Prompt: 37 - Make-up
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Elizabeth and Teyla have been enjoying dinner together on a sporadic basis, but the events of Suspicion has caused problems with their building relationship. It's a very sweet story of the two of them coming to an understanding, and I love the subtext of them agreeing that their jobs will affect their personal life.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Need
Author: eretria (eretria)
Characters: Sheppard, Teyla
Prompt:38 - Betrayal
Rating: PG-13
Length: short
Brief summary: Another follow-on to The Gift, where Teyla is driven to seek out John in the middle of the night. I really like eretria's writing, and so much of it has a darker, more realistic edge.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Floating
Author: shell(umbo)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth, Sheppard
Prompt: 34 - Vacation
Rating: G
Length: Short
Brief summary: Okay, this one is pushing the definition of 'Vacation' a little, but in Atlantis, any day off is a vacation. It is also a friendship story, and a story about overcoming fear. I love the subtext in this too.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Gifts Unasked For
Author: tigerlady(docmichelle)
Characters: Ford, Sheppard, McKay, Teyla
Prompt: 35 - Threesome
Rating: Mature
Length: Epic
Brief summary: Written during the season one/season two hiatus, this story starts with John, Rodney, and Teyla looking for Ford, only to be stranded once they find him. This is a more gentle story than many I have recc'd; the threesome develops while they are isolated from Atlantis, in a post-Season One/pre-Season Two timeframe. And while bad things happen, both physically and emotionally, the bad things are external to the relationship that develops between John, Rodney, and Teyla. So while not paradise, there is a certain 'desert island' feel to it that I enjoyed.

The link is to Part 4 of the story. The first 3 parts are linked in at the top of the page, just after the header.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Forgetting
Author: Salieri (troyswann)
Characters: Teyla, Elizabeth
Prompt: 31 - Discovery
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: It is not easy to juggle everything that Elizabeth has to manage in order to keep the Atlantis expedition running smoothly. And sometimes, because she is human and no matter how hard she tries not to, Elizabeth will forget something and a details will be missed. This is a warm and gentle story showing Elizabeth's anxious mind as she tries to keep track of everything, and how she discovers that Teyla can derail it, giving Elizabeth momentary peace.

It is a discovery that Elizabeth needs.

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Link to the story: Forgetting

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Go Forth
Author: Frostfire (frostfire)
Characters: Teyla
Prompt: 32 - Secrets
Rating: Mature
Length: Short
Brief summary: A short glimpse of what life is like for the Athosians, living in the shadow of the Wraith, and what has become a focus of their culture, one hidden from the Earthers: how they will survive. The story is very short, but powerful and intense.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: The Taste of Apples
Author: auburn(auburnnothenna)
Characters: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagen, Aiden Ford, Elizabeth Weir, Carson Beckett, Sgt. Bates, Radek Zelenka
Prompt: 30 - Seduction
Rating: Mature
Length: epic
Brief summary: Seduction. Destruction. They sound very similar, don't they? In this novel-length story, Sheppard's team encounters an insidious grey mold that warps and changes them, blending them together and seducing them away from Atlantis. The edges of self are filed away, and eventually their bodies will go with it, no matter how desperate the rest of Atlantis is to save them. This is primarily a team story, told from John's POV, but it is interesting to see what happens to Teyla too.

Just an excellent drama, complete with personality destruction.

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Link to the story: The Taste of Apples

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Paper Moon
Author: Pares(kormantic)
Characters: Sheppard, McKay, Teyla, Weir, Zelenka, Jilan, Dandin
Prompt: 27 - Original Character
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Jilan and Dandin are actors, well-known to Teyla, who has seen their stories before. She doesn't explain how detailed the experiences are that Jilan and Dandin present, and Rodney and John learn more about themselves and each other than they really wanted to know.

The description and dialogue are wonderful in this story, and it's really the language that draws me in to this story, as it all feels very character-driven.

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Link to the story: Paper Moon

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Falling Down
Author: lyndac (lyndac)
Characters: Teyla
Prompt: 28 - Dream
Rating: R
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This isn't precisely a dream, but I think it's close enough to qualify. We get to see bits of Teyla's life, from childhood to the present, and what her friendships mean to her. Lonely and spare in tone, with great imagery, it takes very few words to tell a full story.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Shadows Before Dawn
Author: the moonmoth (the_moonmoth)
Characters: Teyla, McKay
Prompt: 24 - Future Fic
Rating: PG
Length: Medium
Brief summary: This is set at an indeterminate point in the future, where Teyla has gone through the same type of scenario many times, and finally cracks when one more mission goes wrong in just the right way. I like the idea of that, that it is just one more bad thing, but that one thing is enough at some point to totally swamp her.

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Link to the story: Shadows Before Dawn

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Tantalus
Author: kbk (kbk)
Characters: Elizabeth, Teyla, John
Prompt: 25 - Kink
Rating: Mature
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Threesomes with two women and a guy are very rare in this fandom, and oh, the kink in this is that the women are the ones running the show, even if physically, they are the ones being fucked. Don’t think too hard about characterization in this. Instead, think 'power', 'control', and 'hot.'

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Heightened Awareness
Author: miera (miera_c)
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard
Prompt: 22- UST
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Beautiful meld of setting and characterization. Sheppard's team takes refuge inside a cave while a Tornado is building around them, and the author uses the physical sensations associated with that as a background and metaphor for the relationship building between Sheppard and Teyla. Nothing is explicitly stated, but it builds just the same.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Typical Day
Author: Martha Wilson (ltlj)
Characters: Teyla, Sheppard, Ford, McKay, Beckett
Prompt: 23 - Time
Rating: PG-13
Length: Medium
Brief summary: Time, in this case, means 'A Day in the Life' of Sheppard's team. It's fun and slightly absurd, yet still remains strongly rooted in the characters.

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Claim: Stargate Atlantis: Teyla
Title: Dark Moon, High Tide (aka Pegasus Ba'al)
Author: tafkar (tafkarfanfic)
Characters: Aiden Ford, Carson Beckett, Daniel Jackson, Elizabeth Weir, John Sheppard, Jack O'Neill, Rodney McKay, Teyla Emmagan, Ba'al, and others
Prompt: 20 - Non-Con
Rating: Mature
Length: epic, about 50K words.
Brief summary: First of all, this novel-length story is impossible to summarize briefly. It is an AU of the Pegasus-B universe, a universe that presupposed that Daniel Jackson never joined SG-1, and that he and Rodney were once lovers. In the shared pegasus_b universe, Daniel ends up on the Atlantis expedition, while the Military head of Atlantis is Colonel Jack O'Neill. (Jack had survived his ordeal at the hands of Ba'al but had retired after, until he is asked to be a part of the Atlantis team.)

In Dark Moon, High Tide Ba'al got to Atlantis first. He is already waiting for them when the expedition steps through the gate, and is cut off from Earth. Ba'al takes Jackson as his slave/lover, along with Sheppard, whom he kills and revives repeatedly using the sarcophagus. Meanwhile, Rodney and Jack end up in hiding, while Dr. Wier foments rebellion, with the help of Dr. Heightmeier and Sgt. Bates. Teyla comes in late in the plot as another slave, 'tribute' from her people to Ba'al, and ends up as a rival with Daniel for Ba'als favor.

Ba'al's favor, by the way, isn't necessarily pleasant. I'm going to take non-con to mean coercion for the purposes of this rec.

As with much of "Pegasus B", DMHT is still primarily a Daniel/Rodney story, one with a cast of thousands. (Well, dozens) The action/adventure plot is complex, the integration of SG-1 canon is deftly handled, plus there's a lot of time spent taking the characters apart. No one gets out of the story with out at least a few scars, and yes, some of the characters do die.

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