hi_there_aliens: by zatgun (ij) (My hat is awesome haters gonna hate)
Dr. Daniel Jackson ([personal profile] hi_there_aliens) wrote in [community profile] trans_9 2011-11-03 06:52 pm (UTC)

Vala spat out the word nice like it was something filthy.

Maybe she had survived on her own for years, but it only took one accident, one lapse and you suffered for it. Taleen had been something of an unpleasant reminder of the fact. Getting overconfident or even making assumptions at this stage wasn't a good idea, and Vala, whatever she claimed, was drunk. Dead drunk. She was taking this room. It wasn't up for debate as far as he saw it. There were plenty of places he could go if she wanted to be alone, but she was not risking the stairs. Or starting a bar fight or something. "Well you're not going to tonight. If you want me gone, I can do that."

Vala apparently didn't do things halfway and an emotional explosion, which he was the source of, was one of them. Even without his glasses, he could see the faint shimmer on her eyes that betrayed her. No matter how she tried to hide it, what he'd said had affected her more badly than he thought. His fingers dug furrows into the slightly scratchy sheets. Was she telling the truth? He'd seen hints of the lying and cheating back on previous shore leave, but she made it seem like a way of life.

Had the everything she said been a lie? She could be lying to him right now.

Daniel got up a split second after she did. His muscles, fooled into thinking they actually had some downtime, flinched in response at the abrupt rise. Either he'd worked harder than he thought or he didn't work hard enough recently and it was coming back to haunt him. It only proved he needed to work on his shape more. He'd gone on worse digs, worse missions certainty, than a day working with the locals.

"The SGC wouldn't have let you stay without a good reason. They're not stupid," Daniel didn't want to say it, but it was left up in the air between them; unless you lied about being there too. He stepped around the bed, not quite blocking the way. "Whatever you think about yourself, they obviously see something in you."

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