Begin, End, Begin Again
spacegypsy1
Oh these two, can they find their way to happiness? A Daniel and Vala tale.
Chapter One – It begins
"We'll move out at first light before the arctic air turns to jungle rot heat. Damn crazy weather. I suppose the dang MALP couldn't do an accurate weather forecast. Somebody needs to upgrade that sucker." With his head tucked inside his sleeping bag Mitchell's words were mumbled.
"Vala! Move over." Daniel nudged the lump beside him.
"I am over!" Vala responded with spitefulness.
Mitchell's head popped out from his bedroll and his voice rose. "Will you two please be quiet?"
"I'm freezing." Vala snapped back.
"We're all freezing, and exhausted. We have one closet sized room and three dry, count them, three, sleeping bags. I have one, Teal'c has one and you two have one. There are three beds. Three. I have one, the big guy has one and you two have one. So quit your yammering, at least you have a body buddy. Go to sleep. That's an order."
"It wasn't my fault." Vala tried to explain. "I thought mine was on the MALP." Then silence settled for all of thirty seconds.
Teeth clinched Daniel used his shoulder to one again nudge Vala. "Move," he grouched low, but firm.
Vala, who had her front to Daniel's back, huffed out a disgruntled breath and very, very quietly told him. "I'm co... co... cold."
Trying to keep her voice very low her words sounded like a spitting radiator.
"You have the inside." He whispered back as if that was supposed to console her.
"The wall is freezing."
"You're inside a sleeping bag with a live heat giving person. Why didn't you leave your jacket on?"
"Still cold. The wall is cold. And my jacket is in the bottom of the bag to keep my feet warm."
"Fine." He turned to his back, grabbed her arm pulling her over him. She landed straddled across him, her chest low, face much too close inside the zipped sleeping bag. He clutched her hips holding her in place for a heartbeat before he moved himself one way and her the other.
They settled, Vala's back to Daniel's front. Backing away the remaining few inches he swore under his breath when his back felt the icy cold wall through the bag and he scooted once again up against her warmth. Danger, danger Will Robinson, he thought. When her face was over him he'd wanted to kiss her, truth be known, when her legs were straddled over him he'd wanted to do much more.
"See, I told you."
"Yes, you did." he whispered, his breath tickling at her ear. "Please remove your six from my crotch."
Vala let out a short laugh before mashing her lips together. She scooted as far as she could go in the confines of their cocoon. "So, now I'm cold on my front."
"The only solution to this problem is for you to sleep on top of me."
"Or," she said into his ear, "you to sleep on top of me."
He sighed, not in frustration but in surrender. "Not tonight. We go home tomorrow. We can sleep on top of each other then. Go to sleep."
"Promises, promises." She teased knowing he was joking.
"Yes. It's time. I promise, Vala. We've been heading in this direction for way too long."
She remained silent thinking he sounded quite sincere. Finally she decided he was and told him, "I'm cold, now."
Daniel pulled her close, tucked her into him, and put his arm over her midriff. "Better?"
"Yes."
~0i0~
After the infirmary post mission checkup and debriefing Daniel went to pack for a three day 'do not disturb' break.
Mitchell went off to visit his family, Teal'c went to Dakara.
Vala was scheduled to join Sam on the Hammond for their time off, though the plan was, if Daniel could convince Sam, Vala would be dropped off at Daniel's.
Attempting to stuff one more book into his satchel Daniel didn't realize Vala stood in his doorway. With a sudden feeling that someone was watching, his gaze lifted, "Oh. Hey."
"Do you honestly think that you are going to have time to read all that?" Vala fluffed her hair and perfected a sexy stance.
Grinning, he shoved the last book in. "Nope. Hopefully I won't. But it looks convincing, doesn't it?" Looking up he waggled his brows.
For the first time in many, many years, Vala felt the urge to giggle. "I see." Folding her hands together, lacing her fingers she brought her fists to her chest. "So. Well. Off I go. To visit Sam. On her big ship. Out in space. Far away. Not..."
"Okay, okay, I think you've made your point. Cameras aren't on, by the way."
"Oh?"
"No. Not on."
"I see, so, I can actually kiss you good bye? Before I say hello?"
"You can." He took a deep breath, coming around from behind his desk.
"What!? Really! You? Dr. Jackson of the Tau'ri is going to let some alien kiss him in his sacred office?"
"Yep." With a challenging look Daniel waited.
"What," she said as she moved close, leaning her breast into his chest, "will you do for three days, darling. Or much longer if your plan with Sam doesn't work?"
Daniel cleared his throat then took her face in his hands and placed his lips ever so lightly on hers, "I said kiss, not seduction. One," he sucked on her bottom lip, "sweet," his tongue made a quick foray, "kiss," he finished as his mouth took full possession of hers.
~0i0~
Once Daniel found the strength to move after Vala left he sat at his computer, pulled up a private link Sam had set up – secretly – after her first few weeks on the Hammond, and hit the button. He typed in a series of pass-codes and puffing out a nervous breath he sat back and waited.
Usually it took a good ten minutes, or longer, to reach her wherever she was out in the universe. He had time to think of what to say and how to convince her to take part in his crazy plan.
Taking off his glasses, he put them on the desk and scrubbed his face, rubbed his eyes and rolled his neck. The sudden ding startled him. Daniel grabbed his glasses, putting them on so fast they ended up crooked.
"I'm closer than you think." Sam said with a huge grin. "What's up, Daniel?"
"Need a favor." Straightening his glasses Daniel attempted to grin back, but his voice gave credit to his nervousness.
"And that would be?" Her tone held a note of resistance.
"Er..." He hesitated, then rushed ahead, "to send Vala to my place when she gets there because... because we need some time together and I can't figure out any other way to do that. I mean without setting off alarms everywhere. We, well, we're, well, you know. We want to be alone. Will you do it?"
"Daniel!" Sam scolded, tilting her head and sending him a reproachful look. "I'm happy you two have come to a place in your crazy relationship that you want to be together, but I can't believe you would ask me to do that. How would I explain? Don't answer that. I can't ask my crew to lie."
"Say she's sick with, uhm, a highly contagious disease?"
"And ask my med staff to lie?"
"Ah? Hmm. I have it! She can say she's suddenly not feeling well and you can send her back... say to your house because she doesn't want to go to the SGC. That would work."
"No. No way."
It took him a moment, but finally he responded. "Really? So those two nights you were supposedly stuck at my place sick and I lied for you, face to face lied to General Hammond, and then the time I lied to General Landry for three days don't count? Maybe I need to tell those Washington tales to Mitchell..."
"Oh my God! That's blackmail!"
"Yep. Don't keep her too long, okay?"
Sam's only answer was a hard, squinty eyed stare as she shut down the connection.
~0i0~
"Hello." Vala said happily as she materialized in Daniel's living room.
He looked up from his reading and smiled.
A bit nervous, Vala still managed to return a smile.
The longer they stared at each other the more their smiles grew. Daniel removed his glasses and stood.
Vala started in his direction and he moved in hers.
"You're here." He said coming close to her.
"Yes, darling. Here I am." She took the last step wrapping her arms around his neck.
"Here we are." Daniel kissed her, softly, experimentally.
"I think, Daniel," She placed a hand on his cheek. "I think I'm just a tiny bit unsure."
"Mmm," was his reply as he kissed her again, this time releasing the pent up passion he'd held in check for all the years since the Prometheus.
In rapid speed Vala had his shirt pulled from his pants and unbuttoned.
Daniel, still enthralled with the kiss, dropped his grasp on her six and let her pull his shirt down his arms, never breaking the seal of their lips.
Still kissing Vala he fought to get the remainder of his shirt off his arms. Once free Daniel pulled back, clutched the end of her tee shirt and pulled it off over her head. He sighed, pleased, and kissed her once again.
Backing him up with her hands splayed on his bare chest she pushed him towards the couch.
Daniel went willingly all the while undoing her jeans. "This is crazy," He said between kissing her and trying to undress her.
"Insane." Vala gave him a hearty shove onto the couch and leapt on top of him.
~0i0~ TBC