Chapter 2

Summary: Vala's bored and decides to indulge in her favourite past time. Lunch with Sam and Daniel asks a question.

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Vala was bored. She had gone to the gym, read a magazine, she had even finished her mission report from their last mission aboard the Odyssey. "What is a girl to do," she wondered. Her face suddenly broke out into a wide grin, she knew exactly what to do, indulge in what had become her favourite pastime since returning the the SGC.

She skipped down the corridor towards her favourite archaeologists lab, smiling to herself when she saw him hunched over the latest artifact that SG-6 had brought back from some planet many light years away. He was so absorbed in what he was doing, she didn't think he knew she was there. She allowed herself to study him for a few more moments. She loved his intensity, his passion when it came to his work. "I wonder what other things that extends to" she thought to herself, a wicked grin spreading onto her face.

"Hello darling" she said, making her presence known. In that instance she saw him become tense, almost dropping his precious artifact.

"Vala..." He said her name in a warning tone. She knew that it was wrong that she enjoyed playing with him like this, but she loved knowing that she knew what buttons to push and how to get him going.

"You've been working on that Ancient thing for days. I so bored, can we please do something fun." She told his back, seeing as he hadn't turned to face her. She looked at his strong shoulders and back, just drinking in the sight of him.

"This is fun" he told her, deadpan, before attempting to go back to his translation.

She smiled wickedly once again, knowing that he could not see her and then in her best whiny voice she responded. "Daniel, we're on down time, let's get out of here." She batted her long eyelashes, despite the fact that she knew that he couldn't see her. She could feel the frustration coming off him in waves, and smiled, loving that she could affect him like this.

"Vala, can you please go bother someone else, I'm trying to work." The comment stung her a bit, smile disappearing as she stared at the back of his head trying to get him to turn around so she could look into those beautiful bright blue eyes. After a few seconds he slammed his pen down on his desk with such force that she was surprised that the pen was still in one piece, causing her smile to reappear. "Vala, please I need to get this done."

She could feel her smile falter a bit, she wasn't stupid she knew when she was unwanted, though that particular feeling stung her more then she cared to admit, especially when it was caused by a certain blue eyed archaeologist. She pushed that feeling down, hoping that by simply ignoring it, it would just go away and quickly made something up. "Well I must be off anyhow, I told Samantha that I would meet her for lunch, don't work too hard." She gave him one last dazzling smile that she knew he couldn't resist flipped her long black hair over her shoulder and left his office in her usual bouncy manner and tried to figure out what she was going to do next. Deciding that she was in fact actually hungry she headed to the mess.

Upon entering the mess and grabbing a tray of food, if it could even be called that Vala saw Sam sitting at a table alone in the far corner of the cafeteria and decided to go over and join her friend.

"Hey Vala" Sam greeted her as she sat down. "Where's Daniel?" Sam knew that usually where ever Vala was, the archaeologist wasn't too far behind.

"Oh you know Daniel, he has his head buried in some artifact that SG-6 found on their last mission. Apparently I was bothering him."

"He kicked you out?" The revelation surprised Sam, usually the archaeologist didn't mind the ex-pirates company, though she knew he would never admit it.

"Not in so many words Samantha, but I can tell when I'm not wanted so I made something up and left before he could." She smiled at the woman across from her "Besides this is way more interesting then sitting in his lab being ignored for some stuffy old artifact that is apparently more interesting then I am. Which I don't understand. I think I'm a lot more attractive then some thousand year old dust covered piece of rock."

Sam laughed, she had to admire the younger woman's confidence and determination. When Vala had first come to the SGC, she knew that her leather loving friend had used flirtation and seduction as a game with SG-1's archaeologist. Over the past several months since the team rescued Vala from Athena and the trust, however, Sam had noticed a subtle change in the way that Vala acted towards Daniel. The flirtation between the two was still there, but there was something different about the way that the black haired woman acted towards the man she had come to see as a younger brother. There was something more genuine about her behaviour then had been present before, a thought that caused the air force colonel to smile softly.

"Yeah, but as you said before, this is Daniel we're talking about, when he gets into his work a mark nine naquada bomb could be set to explode next to him and he wouldn't even notice." Vala laughed, knowing that her friend was right, though it still didn't make that nagging feeling in the pit of her stomach go away. This was a feeling that she hadn't allowed herself to feel since before Quetesh took her as a host, but a feeling that she had experienced a lot since she had regained her memories after the incident with the trust. Vala sighed softly, as she felt another presence come up to the side of the table. She looked up, meeting the beautiful blue gaze she had come to adore. Sam smiled looking at the two and quickly excusing herself to go work on the latest dohickey that had been discovered off world.

Daniel rocked back slightly on his heels "Vala, listen about earlier, I, uh, I'm sorry if I sounded mean, I just really wanted to get that done, so I just wanted to tell you that." He ran his hand through his short sandy brown hair and against his better judgement, pulled out the chair beside her and sat down. "Listen, um, I'm heading home for a few days, we're on down time until next week and I was wondering if you wanted to come and spend the week at my house, I have a guest room. I mean you don't have to I just thought that..." he was cut off by one of her long graceful fingers coming in contact with his lips, and he blushed softly cursing the affect that she had on him. Meeting her gaze he saw that she was beaming back at him.

"Why darling I would love to spend the week at your house. Just think of all the fun we will have." she said seductively, winking at him, which caused him to blush more.

"Vala" he said in a warning tone. She beamed at him. "Can you please be serious for just this once."

"But darling, I am being serious. Plus you're absolutely adorable, well more so then usual, when you blush." He dropped his gaze to his hands, suddenly finding them very interesting and feeling a fluttering feeling in his stomach that he had been trying to ignore since she had returned from the Ori galaxy. She smiled in victory. "Anyways darling I'm going to go and pack for our little vacation." With that she got up from the table and without thinking about it bent down and kissed him softly on the tip of his nose, gathered her tray and went to her quarters to pack.

Daniel watched as Vala skipped out of the mess with a stupid grin on his face and he felt that fluttering feeling come back again. "Yeah, I am so going to regret this." he said to himself, before following her steps and going to get some things together to head home for the week. His week with Vala, this was definitely going to be interesting.