Gifts
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The Ancients' genes didn't just confer the power to activate their technology. For ten percent of Earth's population, like John Sheppard, the ATA gene also gave them Gifts: special abilities that made them admired, envied, and feared.
Sheppard was a Charmer, one of the feared ones, whose particular Gift let him create faith whenever he needed to be trusted or believed. But Sheppard didn't trust himself not to destroy what he loved most. And somewhere along the line, amid the terror and chaos of the Expedition's first year in the Pegasus Galaxy, what Sheppard loved most had become Rodney McKay.
McKay didn't trust anyone. As soon as you started trusting people, you started counting on them, depending on them, and that was when you became vulnerable. And vulnerable things didn't survive. So just when, exactly, had he started trusting Sheppard?
And what was going to happen, now that he did?
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- Part 1 of Gifts
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"Your Gift's like noticing a dead monkey?"
Evan Lorne comes to Atlantis with a Gift that isn't particularly useful--until it's desperately important.
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- Part 2 of Gifts
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Her energy signature just winked out. Her energy was gone. Gone, like she'd never existed. Gone like Atlantis had been scrubbed clean of her presence. Like the flicking of a light switch, like the dousing of a flame.
(Companion story to Aegis by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet) and Springwoof.)
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- Part 3 of Gifts
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Chuck felt a slow burn of anger ignite deep in his gut. "There's lots of people who can't control their Gifts," he said slowly. "I happen to be one of them."
(Companion story to Aegis by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet) and Springwoof.)
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- Part 4 of Gifts
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Enthrall by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), springwoof, Taste_is_Sweet
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis
13 Jan 2012
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Rodney McKay thought his biggest failure was the Arcturus Project and the destruction of 4/5ths of a solar system. John Sheppard thought losing his confidence in Rodney was the hardest loss he would ever face.
But their most terrible failures were yet to come, and they would each face losing everything, including themselves.
(Please note there is a warning for non-consensual sex in the story, but that there is no violence involved.)
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- Part 5 of Gifts
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Stricken by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), Squeaky, Taste_is_Sweet
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, Torchwood
13 Jan 2012
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In the beginning of their fourth year on Atlantis, the Expedition has survived the attack by the Asurans' wormhole-powered satellite, and successfully flown Atlantis to a new planet with little damage and no casualties. But the city has barely landed when Rodney McKay receives a devastating message, and that's just the beginning of a new and terrible threat.
Now, with all the Gifted on Atlantis in danger and Rodney facing imminent death, Rodney, Elizabeth Weir and John Sheppard are in a race against time to save the most powerful and vulnerable members of the Expedition. For John, that means confronting his deepest fears about his Gift—and even that might not be enough to save Rodney's life.
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- Part 6 of Gifts
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Major Lorne meets Mr. Jones – and a purple dinosaur.
(Companion story to Stricken.)
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- Part 7 of Gifts
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"You disappeared. Again. What did you want me to do? Play patty-cake with every piece of furniture in the room?"
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- Part 8 of Gifts
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Hunted by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), Taste_is_Sweet for raphe1
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Predators (2010)
19 Jan 2012
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"You know what? Yesterday--if it was just yesterday, and not, say, six months ago--I was watching my partner kick yet another door in and I was thinking that the only things I had to worry about were Steve getting us killed, Grace's eventual dating, and if I was ever going to find an apartment that wasn't infested with cockroaches, black mold or ghosts of old ladies in funny hats. And now, suddenly, I find out that the entire fucking universe is a giant terrarium project populated with aliens that want to kill us. And you two, apparently, live in another galaxy and don't seem to think there's anything weird about that. Does that sum up the situation here? Or did I miss something?"
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- Part 9 of Gifts
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Steve and Tom meet in a bar. Steve's just got rejected by the Canadian Army, but it's Tom who needs hope.
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- Part 10 of Gifts
- Part 2 of Intoabar fics
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Resistance by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), Squeaky, Taste_is_Sweet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Marvel (Movies), Captain America (Movies), X Company (TV)
21 Mar 2015
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Sergeant James "Bucky" Barnes and Resistance fighter René Villiers belong to the 10 percent of the world's population who have superhuman abilities, known as Gifts.
When their particular Talents cause them to be selected for human experimentation by Hydra, only their friendship can sustain them. That, and the slim hope of rescue.
It might not be enough.
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- Part 11 of Gifts
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Dear Leo by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), Taste_is_Sweet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America (Movies), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
21 May 2018
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Napoleon Solo meets Bucky Barnes in 1945. He's the only one who knows it's the first and last time.
(He was fairly certain there were other Clairvoyants who were able to change the future, not just be intimately aware of it. Napoleon was not one of them. Nothing he ever did mattered a good God damn to fate. If it was meant to happen, it would. He'd learned that the hard way, but he'd never forgotten it.)
Written for my Dreamwidth Intoabar Community prompt: Bucky Barnes meets...Napoleon Solo.
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- Part 12 of Gifts
- Part 4 of Fancy Meeting You Here
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Thaw by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), Taste_is_Sweet for librarychick_94
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis, Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America (Movies)
09 Oct 2018
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Danny Williams is one of the ten percent of Earth's population who have special, superhuman abilities known as Gifts.
Danny would say the better term is curse, especially when he gets kidnapped by criminals who expect him to do the impossible.
Now he's got two choices: comply, possibly destroy the world, and die in terrible pain; or refuse...and die in terrible pain. How is this his life?
And what do a bunch of impatient, angry Russians want with a big, green cylinder anyway?
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- Part 13 of Gifts
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The Light in Other Men's Hearts by Leah (Taste_is_Sweet), Taste_is_Sweet
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel, Captain America (Movies), Ripper Street
19 Jun 2020
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Edmund Reid has the Blessing of seeing people as they truly are. It doesn't always make a difference.
("You will do your best," Edmund said. Because his Blessing couldn't reveal the future, but it could assure him of that much. "You will do your best, and perhaps you'll fail. But you will have done everything you can to ensure all of your men come home."
There was another moment of silence. Perhaps Bucky swallowed, though Edmund could neither see nor hear it. "That doesn't feel like much," he said.)
Written for my Dreamwidth Intoabar Community prompt: Bucky Barnes meets...Edmund Reid.
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- Part 14 of Gifts
- Part 6 of Fancy Meeting You Here
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Approximately 10% of Earth's population has a gene that gives them Gifts: special abilities that are almost like super powers. Julie Molina has such a Gift, as does her best friend, Flynn.
Julie's Gift isn't very useful. It lets her see ghosts and one specifically: Her other best friend, Willie, who's been dead longer than she's been alive.
Everything changes the day that Flynn puts on a CD in the studio and three boys appear literally out of thin air. They're scared, hurt and apparently dead, and Julie can see all of them. She can also use her Gift to heal them, which has the surprising effect of making all four ghosts solid and visible to everyone -- including Julie's father, Ray.
Now, with more questions than answers and more problems then any group of living and dead teens should deal with, they turn to Caleb Covington, Willie's ghostly boss for help. Only Caleb's motives to help them may not be as pure as they'd hoped...
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- Part 15 of Gifts
- Part 1 of The school-year of Ray's discontent
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Approximately 10% of Earth's population has a gene that gives them Gifts: special abilities like super powers. Alex's Gift makes him awesomely physically coordinated, but that doesn't help him when a strange pain starts in his foot and begins to spread.
His boyfriend, Willie, is hiding his own issues, but when Alex's pain becomes critical, Willie's lies start to fall apart.
Now Willie needs to choose between facing his past or running from his present. And then Alex's strange condition takes a turn for the worse...
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- Part 2 of The school-year of Ray's discontent
- Part 16 of Gifts
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Approximately 10% of Earth's population has a gene that gives them Gifts: special abilities like superpowers. Luke's Gift makes him a Musical Empath, able to create beautiful songs effortlessly and at will.
Luke loves music, and he also loves Julie, his girlfriend and co-lead of his band. Luke also loves his best friends and fellow bandmembers, Alex and Reggie. The band is everything to Luke. Ensuring its success is the most important thing in his life.
But when Luke accepts an offer from Carrie Wilson, Julie's former friend, to help the band, Julie gets deeply hurt. Things between Luke, Julie, his bandmates and even Julie's father, start to fall apart. Feeling lost, upset and more alone than he's ever been, Luke makes an impulsive choice. Then things suddenly become even worse...
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- Part 3 of The school-year of Ray's discontent
- Part 17 of Gifts
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Approximately 10% of Earth's population has a gene that gives them Gifts: special abilities like super powers. Reggie can teleport, which becomes his only means of escape when he's suddenly faced with a threat from his past.
Flynn will do anything she can to protect her boyfriend, but she can't do much when Reggie refuses to tell her what's wrong. And then, overcome by fear, he makes a terrible decision that might not only cost him his relationship, but his life...
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- Part 4 of The school-year of Ray's discontent
- Part 18 of Gifts
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Approximately 10% of Earth's population has a gene that gives them Gifts: special abilities like super powers. Bobby Wilson, rhythm guitarist of Sunset Curve, doesn't have a Gift, but that doesn't prevent him from saving the life of Rose when he pulls her out of the Orpheum when it catches fire.
But he and Rose are the only survivors. His best friends and bandmates, Luke, Alex and Reggie, have died. Bobby is completely broken. He has no idea how to go on without them.
But Rose does.
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- Part 5 of The school-year of Ray's discontent
- Part 19 of Gifts
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Approximately 10% of Earth's population has a gene that gives them Gifts: special abilities like super powers. Flynn's Gifted, but it doesn't help her at all when she develops a sore throat and a fever the same weekend her mother is away.
Luckily her boyfriend, Reggie is there to take care of her.
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- Part 6 of The school-year of Ray's discontent
- Part 20 of Gifts