Is Your Love Strong Enough? Part 6 - The Final Scratch

[cityship]

Such a strange occurrence needed, finally a conclusion. Thanks for the Time Lord's trinket gift, there was suddenly an old, fearsome creature made of gears, it's old features squeaking (although not as bad as before, since a certain someone had given him a good oil job). Analog,the fearsome creature known by some as a the crankiest Time Dragon, walked in the city to find out o where Eleven was. She could smell him even in here, you see (wow that's creepy). Flanked by her three handmaidens, the women giggling like schoolgirls at everything, memorized at the ship. The city could hold her well, for all her large size.

First step - Find the Doctor, ask him what he wants. Step two - Do that. Step three - Get out of here.

She still was a Time Dragon, after all. Proud....and cranky. These boring old puny humanoids were nothing as the greatness of HERSELF so the sooner they were our of her mind, the better.

[OOC - Done! Go for it.]

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Re: Vala and Daniel

[hi_there_aliens]

Flabbergasted didn't even begin to cover what he was feeling right now. Maybe stunned, or taken aback, or something better because none of those was doing the trick.

"I got that, yes," Daniel muttered. If it weren't for the fact that she'd offered sex to pass the time earlier, he'd have thought she was saying it just to get this over with. Actually it wasn't exactly flattering either way, but he'd caught hints of what she was really thinking now. Unless he read her completely wrong, it went further than wanting a one-night stand. Whatever it was Vala saw him. When Daniel looked at himself, he saw an occasionally awkward archaeologist with long hair, allergies, and glasses, who made up for it by being the biggest pain in the butt when he believed in something, which generally wasn't an attractive quality to most people either.

Vala on the other hand, had plenty going on for her, confident and- Daniel cut the train of thought before it could run away on him. She was a lot of things. Whatever he thought of her, it was complicated, and he didn't really understand it himself. Now Daniel was expected to put it into words, right now, and every single language he knew failed him spontaneously.

"I don't know if I can do this." Where to even start?

[valaunbound]

Oh for God's sake Daniel, Vala thought at him. Just say you find me attractive and we can end this. She doesn't need to know any more than that. How can she possibly know what's the truth or what just skims the truth?

Vala looked over at the empty shell of Daniel, she wanted him back. She wanted that Daniel back. He was important to her, as important as he would be ten years later. This whole experience had taught her that if nothing else.

[hi_there_aliens]

He found himself looking at the shell of himself and felt Vala's determination. She really did want to do this and not just because she was tired of having someone in her head.

And here I thought you liked me for my brain, Daniel grinned tightly. Anything to put the confession off. Obviously he found her attractive, who wouldn't? He'd been trying not to think of it, especially since he was in her own body, but he couldn't keep tight control over his thoughts constantly. Some hint of his attraction must've slipped out to her. God he hoped not, but it probably happened. Obviously that alone wasn't enough. He was still here and his body was right over there. Things were never that easy.

They had to actually confess what the other meant to them, or at least, how they felt. If Daniel didn't see it work on others around them, it would've sounded fake. Other people apparently still had the words to say it.

Daniel licked their lips. Here goes nothing.

"I don't even know where to begin." he said instead.

[valaunbound]

If I wanted you for just your body, then it's right over there! The half confession slipped out with even realising it, it had merely been a snappy retort to his sarcasm. And yes your attraction had slipped out Daniel, it was one of the first things she 'heard' him thinking when this fiasco started. Her legs Daniel? He'd definitely hung on to the image of her naked legs from shore leave, she saw the mental picture they conjured up.

"Just say out loud you like my legs. A lot. You wouldn't be the first to feel that way, and you certainly won't be the last."

That was all that was needed in her opinion, she'd said her bit and he was about to say his and it would all be back how it should be. She was getting impatient with his procrastination and reluctance, unaware that Nezaitben was going to need far more than that from both of them, and she'd have her own issues to deal with before this could come to an end.

[hi_there_aliens]

He didn't even want to go there with some of the wrong images her retort brought up, but privately, Daniel caught the slip. It just confirmed that she thought more about him than having her finding him just physically attractive, or having glasses and academic fetish.

Daniel kept his mouth shut. No way he was saying those words. Besides, he didn't think that kind of confession would work. Not that she didn't have very nice legs or anything. She had extremely nice legs, but there was more to it than that. He didn't believe in curses or magic, but somehow whatever technology this "goddess" used sensed a connection between them, and he doubted it was based solely physical attraction. If his hunch was right, this confession was based on honesty. The good news was that he didn't have to look her in the eyes. The bad news was that that body sharing was more intimate than that and they didn't have to see each other's faces.

It helped if he could put it into words, but this was the best a suddenly failed linguist was going to do.

"Vala," Daniel took a deep breath and tried to ignore the nagging sense of betrayal. Or the rising embarrassment, because he usually didn't go admitting his feelings openly to most people. Even the people he was close to, like Jack. "I want you to listen very carefully because I can only say this once. "

The archaeologist tried to put as much weight in every single word that followed, because what he couldn't express in more words or more clearly was under the surface if she looked. "I care about you, more than I have any right to."

That was going to have to be it. For all his words, Daniel couldn't sum up the conflicted feelings much better.

[valaunbound]

"Really?" Vala honestly didn't expect that, physical attraction yes and a modicum of caring in so far as he'd probably rather see her not in danger, but 'more than he had any right to'? Her mouth opened and closed like a god damn goldfish, she couldn't understand why. Not that she wasn't pleased, far from it, she was ecstatic. At least underneath the unfathoming shock she was.

Right focus, forget that he said that or trying to work it out because surely that was enough for them to be separated now. She'd said her part and well he'd said his part, which was admittedly far more meaningful than anything she'd uttered.

"I... I don't know what to say." She shrugged, waiting for the moment of truth to do its work. Vala really didn't know what to say, it was more than she ever imagined. Especially with the timeline thing, he barely even knew her. Maybe that was it. He barely knew her. Things would change, they always did. Her mood shifted as quickly as her pessimistic thoughts. But still there was no change.

[hi_there_aliens]

That made the two of them, he didn't know what to say to the admission either and he was the one who said it! Not one of his finer moments, but sometimes Daniel felt he did as good a job as Jack did when it came to expressing his own feelings, which was basically summed up in one word; terribly. Or abysmally, he thought, that captured the gist of it even better. At least he'd never run out of words when it came to labeling how poorly he was doing.

Daniel waited along with her, simmering in both his faint embarrassment, uncertainty and the glow of pleasure Vala was radiating, before it faded into worry, pessimism. He barely knew her, that wasn't quite true. Maybe he didn't know her as much as her Daniel, but getting stuck in the same body and mind seemed like a pretty good start.

Nothing happened.

"Either someone just lied to us or we did something wrong," Daniel spoke up. If he'd just spilled his guts for nothing, he might have to find a way to put himself out of his misery somehow. It should have worked. Maybe he hadn't been eloquent enough. Which was a no brainer, in this case, 'not eloquent enough' was just a nice way to say 'coming off as a caveman'. You Vala, Me Daniel, then he had to go brain something and bring it back to her and they'd be set for life.

It was hard to pretend like he was looking at something interesting and not avoiding the awkward silence when he was stuck in the same body. "We're supposed to say why we think we're connected, right?"