"Oh is it cold! Are you cold?" Vala shivered and wrapped her arms around her shoulders.
"Vala, for the eight hundredth time, we're all cold! Quit whining, you big baby." Cam snapped. It had been three hours since their captors left. Three hours of constant complaining and chattering. Three hours of…Vala. Anytime now, Carter.
"Somebody's cranky." Vala glared and stuck out her tongue.
"I wouldn't be so cranky if you just shut your mouth for one second! Is that so hard for you to comprehend?"
"I'm just making conversation, Cameron. You don't have to be this way."
"How are you feeling? When do you think Carter will be here? Don't you love the ceiling pattern?" Cameron said. "That is making conversation. Not 'I'm cold. It smells funny in here. I'm cold. This floor is hard. I'm hungry.'"
"According to you, we're all cold, so what's wrong with saying it?"
"Nothing, once. Or twice, maybe even three times. Not six billion."
"I thought you said it was eight hundred."
"Shut up."
"You're just miserable because I was right and you were wrong."
"What are you talking about?"
"I told you we should have gone the other way. If you hadn't…"
"Oh, come on!" He interrupted with a waved hand. "You really think that would have changed anything?"
"It might have."
"They were following us from the moment we arrived on the planet!"
"But the other path might have given us a better…tactical situation."
"There were fifty of them! We would have been surrounded either way."
"You don't know that."
"Yes I do!"
"How?"
"I just do!"
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"I think we've had this conversation before."
"We have? Oh, right! When I suggested we take the path that wouldn't lead to an ambush? You asked how I knew it was a better choice, and I said I just did, and you said…"
"Vala, shut up!"
"You shut up!"
"You started it!"
"I only said I was cold."
"Eight hundred times!"
"Well, I was cold! Every time!"
"We're all cold, so suck it up, princess!"
"Don't be such a –
"Enough!" Teal'c cut in.Vala's mouth hung open for an instant, but she clamped it shut.
"Thanks, T." Cam said.
"You were as much to blame for the argument as she was, Colonel Mitchell."
"I was not!"
"Indeed you were."
Cam glared and bit his lip to keep from saying something he'd regret. Too late for that, he thought. I hope Carter finds us soon. Otherwise I'll go crazy. He looked at Vala, who stared back at him blankly. He felt bad for snapping, but at least now it was quiet. At least for a while.