Comparing Notes by 6beforelunch

Comparing Notes

By: 6beforelunch

CATEGORY: General

WARNINGS: None

AUTHOR’S NOTES: I must have written this right after seeing Travelers when I couldn’t get over the Prometheus Unbound parallels. It will probably only make sense if you’ve seen both episodes.

AUTHOR’S WEBSITE:

http://emily.ink-and-quill.com/

To: Jackson, Daniel; Mal Doran, Vala; Tealc; Mitchell, Cameron
From: Carter, Samantha
Subject: i think i saw this one before
Attachments: incident_report_A1432.doc

you guys are going to like this :-)

sam

* *
"Hey, did you guys get a chance to go through Sam's e-mails from the data burst yet?"

Vala looked up from her scrambled eggs which turned out on closer inspection to be Daniel's scrambled eggs, Daniel's plate having been replaced with Vala's half-eaten French toast. (Cameron only knew this because he knew that Vala was the only person on the base that smeared Jello on her French toast. It scared him sometimes how much he knew about these people.)

"No, why?"

Cameron dropped the printed copy of Sam's e-mail attachment onto the commissary table and sat down.

"It is indeed entertaining reading," Teal'c said and sat down, as Vala reached across to pick it up.

Daniel finally looked up from his book. "Huh? What's entertaining reading?"

Vala rolled her eyes. Daniel looked at her, looked at the paper, looked at their plates and switched them back with a glare. Vala smiled at him and knocked his hand away when Daniel tried to reach for the incident report.

"I had it first," Vala said.

"I read faster than you."

"Eat your breakfast."

"You ate it for me."

"Eat my breakfast then."

Daniel sighed and started eating Vala's French toast. Cameron glanced at Teal'c who was watching them with a bemused fondness. Moments like this, Cameron remembered that Teal'c had spent more time with SG1 than SG1 had spent with themselves which was...not something he liked to think about much.

Vala snorted and passed the report over to Daniel. "I did it with more style."

Daniel skimmed the report, eyes growing wide at first and then narrowing as his forehead furrowed. He was almost smiling when he finally set it down which for Jackson was really something. "And yet, she got away with the ship. And you didn't," he gave her a smug smirk.

Vala gave him a sarcastic smile. "Well clearly she got lucky and Sheppard turned out to be an idiot."

"Maybe she's just better than you," Daniel said.

Vala narrowed her eyes but said nothing. Daniel just stared back at her calmly, even when Vala gave him a huge grin that would have sent a sane man running for the hills. Or at least donning an athletic cup for a few weeks. Cameron had never seen two people engage in a longer or more bizarre courtship ritual.

"I might not have gotten away the ship," Vala said finally, "but there were other compensations."

It took Cameron a minute to figure out what she meant. "Worth it?"

Vala looked around at each of them in turn before knocking the plate of half eaten French toast onto Daniel's lap. Over Daniel's squawk of indignation, he heard her say, "Yeah, it was."

** The End **

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