Blame It on the Mistletoe
By: spacegypsy1
CATEGORY: Friendship
WARNINGS: None
AUTHOR’S WEBSITE:
http://www.fanfiction.net/~spacegypsy1
Vala appeared at his office doorway in usual fashion. Grinning foolishly, delighted to be going somewhere and impatient to get there.
“Hey, almost finished.” Daniel continued to scribble in his notebook but a bit faster now, knowing any minute his entire train of thought would be lost to Vala chatter.
“It’s Christmas Eve. We have a little over an hour left before we have to be there!”
He could tell from the corner of his eye that she’d moved further into the room. “I know. I promise we’ll be at Sam’s on time. Five minutes, give me five minutes.” Then with a small laugh he scolded, “I told you to ride with Mitchell.”
“Humph!” She was on the move again, striding towards him and he finally looked up.
“Wow!”
Vala smiled genuinely in response. With one hand she self consciously smoothed her wrinkle free red satin dress and then touched the back of her upswept hair. In the other hand she held a sprig of mistletoe, twirling it nervously. “You’re not wearing that are you Daniel?”
It took him a moment to recover, “Ah. No. I’ll go change.” His eyes darted to her red lips, down her neck to the red décolleté tufted bodice, to the ruffle of red that floated around her knees, all the way to her red satin shoes.
“The shoes match don’t they?”
“Hmm?”
“The shoes, they match, right?”
“Oh, yeah.” Daniel pushed his chair back and Vala moved closer.
“Daniel?” She spoke softly sitting across his lap, head down, twirling the mistletoe round and round.
“Hmm?” He was completely unaware as his hand came to rest lightly on her thigh.
“Before we leave, I’d like to give you a…a Christmas kiss. Chaste of course. A kiss between friends. We are friends, right?”
“Yes. We are.”
“And all that…well…all those thingies in our past, that’s okay now, right?”
His grin was electric, “Right.”
“A kiss between friends. I know you’d be too embarrassed to do it in front of anyone – with me – I mean – a kiss with me, but I thought here would be okay.”
She’d turned her face to him and her eyebrows waggled comically, then her eyes looked down at the mistletoe she held.
Daniel, trance like, lifted a finger to her jaw, turned her face towards his, smiled and raised his face closer to hers.
One hand on his shoulder for support, Vala held the mistletoe over his head reverently. “I’ve never done this particular Earth ritual, thank you, Daniel.” She landed her chaste and subtle kiss just left of center on his warm mouth, lingering almost too long. “Merry Christmas, darling.” The whisper wafted across his lips as she stood, “Now go and get dressed.”
‘Mmm, ah, sure.” The oddest thrill still reverberated throughout his entire body from that simple, soft, chaste kiss as Daniel watched her disappear into the corridor.
** The End **
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