Too Much by valaMD (scifi_tv

Too Much

By: valaMD (scifi_tv_addict)

CATEGORY: Angst, Drama, Friendship

SEASON/SPOILERS: Season 10 “Dominion”

WARNINGS: None

AUTHOR’S WEBSITE:

http://scifi-tv-addict.livejournal.com/

As she headed out the door of the conference room she knew that despite her attempts to illustrate to them otherwise, the team knew she wasn‘t okay. In the span of the past week she had been “betrayed” by her team and lost her daughter, she supposed that they had a right to be concerned. Although she had had the device from the Galerans fix her memory, she still carried with her the betrayal and pain from the false ones.

Leaving her teammates behind, she made her way to the showers, hoping that the steady stream of water would wash away all of the feelings that she didn‘t want to deal with. She quickly changed out of her fatigues, grabbed a towel, and headed to one of the stalls. She turned the water on full blast at the highest heat the dial would allow her. Stepping into the scorching hot water she ignored her skins’ cries of protest, hoping that her mind and body would focus on the pain she was voluntarily inflicting upon herself rather than the painful memories that the last few days had given her.

But it seemed as if the more she tried to distract herself from the past week, the more the memories demanded her attention. When she reached for the soap, she remembered the dirt covering Major Reynolds. She remembered how the sweat and mud had mixed with anger as he accused her of killing his team.

Her hands instinctively flew to her throat, trying desperately to dislodge the lump that had formed in it. The gesture was so familiar. She remembered the way her hands had clawed at her throat when her daughter had been invisibly strangling her only yesterday. A wave of images flashed through her mind, all of the versions of Adria she had seen over the years, all of the ages of her daughter burned into her memory forever. Then the final image, her daughter’s tear-filled eyes as she softly said “Goodbye, mother.”

Vala backed up against the wall as she heard her daughter’s voice echo in her head. Then she heard the accusatory recriminations of Major Reynolds followed by all of the screams, explosions, and whispered conversations she had heard since then. The voices swirled around her, mixed with a myriad of images that she simply couldn’t ignore.

Her eyes had long ago filled with tears, but now she was gasping for breath between sobs. She couldn’t stop the flood of emotions now, they were too strong. She curled up in the corner of the stall, holding her body, trying to fight the cold enveloping her despite the heat of the water reigning down upon her bare skin.

She banged her head against the tiles, hoping that if she couldn’t shut the images and voices out maybe she could at least beat them out. But before she could, a light enveloped the stall and a figure appeared before her. Looking up, she could barely make out Daniel’s figure through the tears.

He said nothing as he got down on one knee in front of her. He slowly reached out to touch her, gently removing the wet strands of hair clinging to her face. Seeing him more clearly now, she recognized the raw fear and worry written all over his handsome features. He reached for the dial to turn off the water then grabbed her towel and gently wrapped it around her naked body. All she could do was numbly allow him to cover her and pull her into his arms.

He said nothing, and for that she was grateful. Nothing he said would help, the only thing he could do now was hold her and hope that his warmth would drive away the coldness of her memories.

** The End **

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