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||Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention. All personnel please report to the Observation Deck. Attention, Attention, all personnel...||

Stacy's voiced called the entire crew, until all of them were gathered at the Obs Deck. Then, a dossier appeared on the screens, along with the image of a rotating planet.

Planet Designation: Happy Happy Fun World Status: Terrestrial, H-class. Non-sentient life: Medium flora and fauna. Primarily domestic. Semi-Sentient Life: Yes. Sentient Life: A significant number of species of intelligent life. Water: 25% of the planet's surface. Climate: Climate varies by region. Landscape: Landscape has been significantly terraformed and is highly varied. Air: Normoxic concentration: 29% oxygen, 60% nitrogen, 3% xenon, 6% trace gases, such as hydrogen, krypton, and argon. Air Pressure: 14.352 pounds per square inch. Sky: Pink with white clouds. Sun: A class D4K, yellow star. Warnings: Crew should be cautious when consuming the popcorn. Mission: None. Shore leave is now initiated.

Hey, what's not to like about a planet called 'Happy Happy Fun World'?

[[ooc: Time for Shore Leave! Post reactions to the announcement here]]

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"That can't be what it's really called." Daniel muttered. He took of his glasses, cleaned them, and checked again. The words didn't change. Happy Happy Fun World blazed proudly on the screens, followed by miscellaneous information on the planet. Maybe Stacy's screens malfunctioned. At least, he hoped so, because who named their homeworld that kind of name.

Still, another shore leave, and another chance to get out, stretch his legs without an actual mission. Beggars couldn't be choosers.

"Well it's more descriptive than P3X blah blah blah," chirped in Vala behind him, her arm coming to rest casually on Daniel's shoulder.

"Personally, I think it sounds fabulous."

Now that he had a few hours to stew over the damaged mummy, Daniel thought he was ready to see Vala again. And so, apparently, was she. She came out of nowhere. Daniel blinked, surprised at the casual touch and just how familiar she was with him, and then politely removed her arm. She was probably going to break his shoulder next or something if left to her own devices.

Yeah. He might not be over the damaged artifact just yet.

"That's true, but it's an terrible name. Personally," Daniel said. "I think something's wrong with Stacy's screens." He looked her over. "You got cleared for shore leave?"

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"Absolutely." Vala beamed in response, clearly eager. It would appear Vala was as accustomed to Daniel rejecting her from his personal space as she was to invading it. The removal of her arm passed with barely a blink.

"Granted it's a little tacky but...wait, what did getting cleared for shore leave entail exactly?"

Nothing really. Call it petty revenge for destroying his mummy but Daniel couldn't resist the urge that followed.

"A full psych evaluation and a health check. And inoculations," Daniel added with some glee. He managed to keep a very serious face. "So we don't spread anything on the planet's population or catch anything. You should hurry, get checked out."

And maybe he could poke around this planet which he wasn't going to call Happy Happy Fun World, on his own. He didn't think he'd ever really get over the problem Vala caused earlier, at least not for a few months, but maybe he could try and figure her out. Without her pulling the floor out from under him.

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"You're kidding! That'll take forever if the long days of psych evaluations at Stargate Command are anything to go by!"

Vala didn't want to go through that again, it had been upsetting enough back home. Ink blots and trick questions were easy, she'd crammed for those, it was the rest that worried her - all that dredging up of the past.

"There must be a way of slipping through the net. Someone I can bribe."

The decent thing to do would be something along the lines of backing off and telling her he was pulling her leg. Stringing someone along wasn't exactly the nicest thing to do, especially since Daniel couldn't fool himself, he wasn't giving her a hard time like he might to someone he actually knew, like Jack. Maybe he was still more ticked off than he thought he was. He should tell her it wasn't required. Besides, keeping her from going on her first shore leave, and away from Stacy, was a little cruel.

Daniel's curiosity got the best of him. Vala's first reaction wasn't to take the test, it was to try and squeeze by, bend the rules

"Oh yeah, days definitely," Daniel said. Normally he wouldn't have continued, but Vala didn't exactly elicit a normal reaction out of him. Anyway, he'd put a stop to this if it started getting out of hand. "What would you even bribe with? You just got here."

"I'm sure I could find something," Vala pondered, going over her options; most of which she knew he wouldn't approve of anyway.

"Well, you've been here a while, collected a few knick knacks as it were?" In all that junk in his lab there must be something he could spare. Vala smiled at him, wide eyed and hopeful.

"Your first impulse is to-" Daniel almost, almost said 'steal', and for both of their sakes, caught himself in time. He didn't need a repeat of himself being that much of an ass, and neither did Vala. Not that he wasn't being something of an ass now, but this was more harmless. So far, she hadn't actually stolen anything, he'd suggested it. She'd only... made him eat his words and then broken something incredibly valuable within the same hour. Being a pain wasn't the same as being a thief. "-is to use something of mine? What if I said no?"

It wasn't that he was extremely attached to most of his things. Daniel would give them up if it helped someone who needed it. When you moved around a lot, there just wasn't any point. Being able to get up and move from city to city, or dig to dig was worth a lot more than accumulating a lot of things. Although his place back on Earth was getting stuffy, a sign he'd settled down on Earth for the long haul and a sign he wasn't too sure he liked.

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"But you're not going to say no are you?" Vala pouted. In a very short space of time in Vala's head, this had gone from just being about the shore leave to getting out of that psych and medical test permanently. She'd seen the announcements on the comms and she knew she was supposed to attend.

"Come on Daniel," Vala nudged him with an elbow playfully, deflecting her need to get out of the tests more than she'd ever admit with a fake smile, "you wouldn't deny a girl the chance to go to Happy Happy Fun World, would you?"

Forget the fact she has no idea who to bribe, or if they'd even be open to that sort of suggestion. She hasn't thought that far ahead yet.

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Ow. His ribs were healing fast but it didn't mean they weren't a little sore. Vala's elbow, which he thought was surprisingly sharp for her size, went into it. Daniel grinned tightly. Any thoughts about backing off just yet went out the window.

"I am this time," seeing as how this was all hypothetical. And apparently only Daniel knew this was a hypothetical discussion. If it were for real, yeah, he wouldn't say no. Although he'd prefer not to help her build a bribe. He'd got with her to the start of the eval or the inoculations if she wanted company, but he wasn't going to help her squirm out of it. "So now what?"

Now that that less than legit option was a bust, maybe that meant she'd actually take the other route.

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Oh God, she'd forgotten about his injury, have an 'eep' face Daniel. "You have had that checked out, haven't you?" Why yes she is a hypocrite, thank you for asking.

Nothing is hypothetical in Valaworld, he'll probably learn that in time. An idea can become a full blown plan of action in a matter of seconds, usually without the need for discussion and often mid-sentence.

"Well I guess I'm not going then am I?" She looked genuinely disappointed, "bring me back something. Preferably not the popcorn."

"They said it was healing."

Yes, Vala, unlike you Daniel did actually go to the infirmary. He just didn't stay put. As long as he wasn't in danger of keeling over, it was good enough. He could still move about and work. Maybe it was just a matter of a no-show patient versus a bad patient, so he probably shouldn't talk. He wished she thought of it before she introduced her elbow into his side.

Daniel only had to take one look at her face and tell she was really disappointed. The enjoyment at watching her try to worm out of the hypothetical physicals vanished in about two seconds flat. Great. Now he felt like an ass. She really did seem set on getting out of the ship and looking around. Daniel had been trampling all over it just to see what she'd do.

Damn.

"You don't need a test or shots," Daniel sighed, then added. "I was pulling your leg."

"I knew that!" Vala's puppy face switched to a look of sheer denial and indignance in the time it took her to sharply lift her head. She shrugged as if she knew his game all along. She's allowed to mess with you Daniel, but she really doesn't like it when the tables are turned.

So much so, she added a quick "I had you with the face though!" Then she smiled sarcastically. If smiles could talk then that one said 'I win, Daniel'.

Yeah right. It was like watching Vala try to gather her dignity. He should have stopped earlier before it really affected her, but as far as he saw it, it was a little late to save some pride. Daniel's eyebrow lifted, if you could compact a 'are you seriously trying to salvage your ego?' into one motion.

"No you didn't. You really wanted to go," Daniel couldn't resist being a pain in the ass. Vala hadn't won a thing, other than getting him to back out. "I know what real disappointment looks like. You had it."

Maybe she won this round. And if she didn't find anyone else to hang around, Daniel guessed he could accompany her this time. Show her the ropes and make sure she didn't get lost or something on this planet. She was, supposedly, part of the SGC in some distant future. But just this time.

"Come on, we should get going."

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