Time has no meaning on Stacy! Bendytimed like woah!

[valaunbound]

For the archeological team that went to Kalimba on Stacy's mission, they've been gone for six months give or take. Six months of being held prisoner and tortured. None of them have any idea that they've only been gone a few days as far as the rest of Stacy are concerned, something they'll discover sooner rather than later presumably.

When they do arrive back Vala's on the brink of collapse, barely able to stand up or stay conscious. She'd been injected with poison and used as a booby trap for the Goa'uld Sobek that had used Daniel as a host for six months and she still has the dead Goa'uld inside her. Whether it's that or the poison that's in her system or the signs of malnutrition or a combination of all of the above is unclear but in a nutshell, she's not looking good even if the naquadah in her bloodstream is helping her a little.

Right now she's laid out on a bed in medbay, still dressed in the skimpy ceremonial Goa'uld robes and hoping someone knows how to get this 'thing' that's wound itself around her spinal chord out of her. When she can stay lucid enough to think about it that is.

[OOC: Open to those who were on the Kalimba mission and Medical Staff]

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[hi_there_aliens]

"No, I guess you didn't have much of a choice," Daniel had to concede. Sobek would have left them all to rot or as sport for the faithful that remained behind, even if he hadn't taken to Vala as a possible host. They had to do something. Sobek had been distracted in the last stages of his plan, so that had been the best time to act. The only chance they got, really. Vala had chosen to risk everything on that slim chance.

"Maybe in acting as a carrier. But you could have cost everyone else and your own life because you wasted time on me."

[valaunbound]

"I was hardly going to leave you after I'd gone through all that. You know a bit of adoration and eternal gratitude wouldn't go a miss."

The Ancient tech that was nullifying the poison in her system was clearly starting to show signs of working already. There was colour returning to her gaunt cheeks, and Vala's inimitable ego was definitely returning. She shot him a look that suggested his martyr act was tiring her.

It wasn't up for debate, Vala had chosen to do what she'd chosen to do. "The others would have left without us, I don't think they would have been stupid enough to wait much longer." She wasn't taking any responsibility for their lives. Risking her own was one thing, but accusing her of risking theirs... that stung.

[hi_there_aliens]

"Sorry." Daniel said after a moment, tight-lipped. "Thank you for taking the risk."

Whatever he thought of bringing him back to life, it wasn't right to go dropping it on her, especially at this time. Too bad that realization was just hitting him now. Nothing better than being nice and late to the party. People were harder than deciphering an ancient language. Vala even more difficult. What was done was done. He couldn't go back and change it. He could live with the fact that Vala wasn't going to succumb to the poison in the next few hours.

Vala looked like she was regaining some color, so at least that much was going right. The doctor did know what he was doing.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. I would have said I didn't think they all could leave us, but this experience taught me a few things. Even the Doctor."