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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[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?"