Home Alone
By: spacegypsy1
CATEGORY: General, Romance
SEASON/SPOILERS: Shortly after Season 10
WARNINGS: None
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Geared up in Camo BDUs all but one of SG-1 surrounded the infirmary bed looking at the other member with sympathy.
“Come on Princess, cheer up you’ll be outta here in no time.” Mitchell patted Vala’s shoulder, “We’ll bring you a souvenir.”
“Carolyn assures me I will get out in the next twenty four hours totally un-contagious. I don’t understand this whole pox thing, why didn’t Muscles get it too? Now I’m disfigured for life! Look Daniel.” Vala threw the covers back and started to pull downward at the waist band of her pajama bottoms with her thumb.
“Whoa. Whoa. Whoa!!” Mitchell tossed his hands up into the air and jumped back.
Daniel wrestled the covers from Vala’s grip and pulled them back across her. “One small scar on your….tummy and one on your shoulder is hardly ‘scarred for life’. Teal’c’s Symbiote and now his Tretonin have protected him over the years. The rest of us all had it as children.”
“I’ve never even been close to any live chickens that I know of. Carolyn has assured me I can’t get it from eating chickens.” Pouting, Vala folded her arms across her chest.
Sitting on the side of the bed Daniel ducked his head to hide his grin while Sam looked down at the floor.
Teal’c looked at Vala sympathetically. “ValaMalDoran, what movie did you choose from our list to watch while we are gone?”
“Well Muscles, I’ve decided on Rosemary’s Baby.”
“Hell NO!” Mitchell yelled as Daniel shot up from the bed saying at the same time. “No, wrong choice. Don’t watch that one.”
Looking from one to the other curiously, Vala asked, “Why not?”
“We have got to go, wait on that one till we get back.” Mitchell folded his arms eyeing her speculatively.
Biting her lip, Vala nodded once in acquiesce. “All right Cameron.”
“Good. We’re outta here.”
* * * *
Pulling Daniel’s wallet from the pocket of the jacket she wore, Vala removed the video membership card and the American Express credit card. “Hello.” Vala grinned at the scruffy clerk. “I’d like to rent Rosemary’s Baby…well, the DVD, not the actual baby…anyway, do you have it?”
* * * *
Daniel’s car crept across the base parking lot and stopped
far from the entrance to
By the time she made it to the entrance she had removed Daniel’s jacket and scarf. The long hike had warmed her considerably. Dumping the bundle on the sergeant’s desk, Vala pulled off Mitchell’s Air Force sweatshirt and added it to the pile. She leaned over the desk with a smile, “James, would you mind hiding these for a bit? Ah, they’re…”
“Dr. Jackson’s?”
“Yes…and…”
“Colonel Mitchell’s?”
“Ahm. Right, I need to get them to the men’s locker room, so they don’t notice that I…”
“Borrowed them?” James offered with a small smile.
“Right.”
“I can take them for you ma’am when I get relieved.”
“Thank you. Have you heard…”
“They’re still off world – still not due back until tomorrow.” James checked his roster.
With a regrettable sigh Vala asked, “Ah, James, about the car…”
“I can have someone move it back where it was and get the keys to you.” James held out his hand, palm up.
Vala dropped the keys into his hand. “Can I bring you dinner up later, today is roast beef. I can be the first in line. I’ll pick up the keys then.”
“That would be nice, ma’am.”
She winked and sauntered off.
* * * *
Later, after delivering the Sergeant’s dinner as promised, Vala wandered into Daniel’s office and played some online games, bought three pair of shoes and two purses online with Daniel’s credit card and hacked into Daniel’s email, finding absolutely nothing of interest. That took up a few hours of her seemingly unlimited time alone.
Sometime around 2300 hours she roamed down to the mess hall, popped some pop corn, loaded her tray with three different varieties of Jell-o, spent ten minutes at the candy machine picking out two candy bars and one pack of bubble gum, wandered to her quarters, and finally hauled her treasures to Daniel’s room, along with her DVD movie, giraffe and her newest Victoria Secret nightie and she settled in for the night.
* * * *
Closing his locker, Sergeant James Seymour turned to leave for the night and bumped headlong into Daniel. “Dr. Jackson, you’re back!”
Looking exhausted and dirty, Daniel barely had the strength to smile. “Yeah, we ran into a little trouble and came back early.”
“Oh, hope everyone’s alright.”
“Nothing too bad, Mitchell’s in the infirmary with minor injuries, Sam’s not really happy, she lost a lot of data and Teal’c’s … well, Teal’c’s just Teal’c. I think we’re all glad to be home.” Daniel was riffling around in his locker obviously searching for something.
“Lose something?” James slipped on his heavy parka as he headed for the door.
“My wallet and car keys, I must have left them in my quarters. Too tired to drive home anyway. Night, Sergeant.”
“Good night,” Uh oh, poor Vala, James thought closing the door behind him.
Daniel stripped and headed for a long hot shower.
* * * *
With a chocolate bar held halfway to her mouth, Vala stared unbelievingly at the TV screen. Heart beating frantically she tried to look away from the horrifyingly familiar scene of Rosemary being impregnated by the evil beast. She’d skipped this scene earlier, but when she reached the end of the movie she backed it up to once again attempt to watch it. No way. Vala dropped the candy bar, hit the off button on the remote and sank down under the covers as the room plunged into pitch blackness. She should have listened to her friends. They had known and wanted to protect her. Definitely a bad choice in movies.
Snuggling Daniel’s pillow tightly to her chest, Vala inhaled his scent. He would be home tomorrow. Her Daniel. In the darkness she patted around the bed until she located the giraffe and tucked it under her chin. “It will all be alright tomorrow, really. Daniel will be home.”
An eerie feeling went up her spine when the door creaked open. Surely she’d imagined it. The thud of someone knocking into the foot of the bed sent her heart to her throat and she sat up with a screech.
“Damn!” Daniel called out in pain when his knee hit the bed followed closely by a startled, “Holy...crap! Vala is that you?”
The bedside lamp came to life and Vala leaped up, standing on the bed, “Daniel! Daniel you’re home. Oh, Daniel I was so frightened.” By this time she’d walked along the mattress to the end of the bed. “Thank the gods you’re here.” She took a quick bounce on the bed and propelled herself into his arms.
His arms automatically locked around the projectile that was Vala. Her legs automatically locked around his waist.
“Oh my god, darling, I am so sorry, I should have listened.” Vala laid a hot wet open mouth kiss on him.
Shocked and surprised, he returned the kiss none the less.
She pulled her face back and with tears rolling down her cheek she smiled apologetically. I promise… I really, really promise to listen next time.” Once again she kissed him, this time deepening the assault on his mouth.
When he finally managed to force himself to break the kiss, Daniel found that he’d carried her to the side of the bed. He let her go but she dangled, wrapped around him like an albatross. “Vala. Let go.”
“I can’t.”
“Yes you can. The beds right beneath you. Let go.”
Turning her head for a peep she found that indeed the bed was right there to catch her. “How very convenient. Daniel I love you. I’m sorry, I tried not to. And I really tried not to watch that awful movie that may as well have been about my life. And while I’m at it I want to tell you that I used your credit card. And your movie membership card. And, well darling, I used your car, your jacket and even your scarf. And I read your email and I used your computer. And slept in your bed. I think that’s all, at least for today. Except for Mitchell’s sweatshirt.”
“Why?”
Vala let go and plopped onto the bed looking up at him, lip held between her teeth, brows knitted and expression pained. “Because I missed you terribly. I was bored. I had nothing to do. I didn’t have any money here and I was curious about the movie,” she shuddered, “and well, to be honest I….”
“No, why do you love me?”
Vala grabbed his belt and yanked him down onto the bed. “Because, darling, you’re you.”
This time Daniel initiated the kiss.
“Why do you love me?” Vala pulled at his shirttail.
“How do you know I love you?”
“Pfft! Really, Daniel you’re no ancient text when it comes to reading you…you loved me the moment I first socked you, it was in your eyes. Now come here and make me forget all about monsters.”
** The End **
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