Title: The Life of Vala Mal Doran
Summary: An autobiography of sorts ranging from Vala's childhood to Unending and beyond. DV eventually.
Rating: T (for the most part)
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate.
Warning: Mentions of sexual situations.
Chapter 8: Lying, Cheating, and Stealing
I had learned a lot through my father and Qetesh as well. None of these things were good, but they did help me survive.
I had become such a good liar that I couldn't even remember what was the truth and what was a lie sometimes. I could con anyone out of anything, but if I didn't want to put the effort into that, I would just steal whatever it was that I wanted.
My good looks helped me quite a bit in my endeavors. Sometimes all that it took was a wink here and a flash of skin there and a man would do whatever I wanted him to do. I obtained so many jewels and other treasures just on my beauty and seductive ways alone.
It wasn't always that easy though. Some men wanted more, more than just a tease of shown skin and a flutter of eyelashes. At first I refused to give my body for the things that I wanted. It had been misused enough under Qetesh's rule, and I never wanted to go through that again.
However, somewhere down the line, I changed. I became a shell of my former self. I had no innocence and no naivety anymore. I slowly began to realize that I was alone, that no one truly cared for me. It was right about then that I no longer cared. My whole life became one big scam, anything to gain fortune and excitement. I left what remained of my morals and began to sleep with men to get what I wanted. Plus, it was the only kind of relationship I knew how to have. I knew how to seduce men, to give them what they wanted so I got what I wanted in return. Qetesh taught me that, how to use my body to get my way. I figured that she used my body enough, it must be desirable and useful for me to use as well.
It was a terrible way to live, but I felt like I was not left with any other options.
In all of my travels, I soon came across the Lucian Alliance. Not exactly the most trustworthy of trading partners, but neither was I. I made many deals with them over the years. I definitely would not call them an ally of mine, I was pretty sure that they were not allied with anyone, but I got some good deals from them just the same.
I quickly discovered that the best aliens to trade with were Tenat and Jup. Ugly looking creatures, not too intelligent either. Their utter lack of intelligence made them easy targets for me. I got away with many deals that would have never gone through with anyone else from the Lucian Alliance.
Tenat and Jup worked for the head of the Lucian Alliance, so whatever they traded for went to the alliance before they got anything out of it. The alliance must have been paying them something good, because I know that I would never want to share my fortune and treasures with anybody, especially not the Lucian Alliance.
One day, I flew to a nearby planet to meet Tenat and Jup to discuss a new deal. When I arrived in my cargo ship, they were already there.
"Tenat! Jup! If it isn't my two favorite trading partners!"
They looked at each other, then back at me. "Vala, we just got word from the head of the Lucian Alliance that he is in need of a large ship."
I pondered what they had just told me. "What kind of ship? Goa'uld?"
Tenat shook his head. "Not necessarily, he is just using it to transport a rather large amount of kassa to the edge of this galaxy and they need a ship large enough to carry it all in one trip."
"And what do I get out of this little arrangement?" I cocked my head to the side as I looked at the aliens.
"Refined weapons grade naquadah of course."
I rolled my eyes at them. "Right..." Like there was anything else that Tenat and Jup ever had to offer.
Jup glared at me. "So are you in, or what?"
I nodded, it sounded easy enough to pull off. I had hijacked ships before, no big deal.
Tenat pulled out a large, black bulky suit and weapons out of the box he had with him. "The Lucian Alliance was able to procure this Kull Warrior suit to assist you on your mission."
I looked over the suit, unsure of how it could help me.
Tenat and Jup quickly explained how the suit was zat proof and that I would be able to use the weapons because I had naquadah in my blood from formerly hosting a Goa'uld. I didn't ask how they knew I had been a host before, the alliance had their ways.
One week later and everything was in place. I sat in my cargo ship about to send out a fake distress call, when an Al'kesh appeared out of nowhere and began to fire on my ship. I quickly fired back, but it was too late, my ship's shields were already failing and the life support was dwindling as well.
A made a swift decision to ring aboard the Al'kesh and fight off the Jaffa currently occupying it.
It didn't take me long to hijack the Al'kesh. However, it was now badly damaged. I quickly made a new plan. I disabled the rest of the ship that was not already damaged, and worked on that fake distress call to lure any large ships to my position.
"Help. Require assistance, all systems have failed and I've lost power to the hyperdrive. Repeat, stranded and require assistance."
I sat back and waited. Maybe an hour or two later, a saw an odd, primitive looking ship come into view. I had never seen a ship like that before and I was curious as to where it had come from. It didn't matter though, the ship was definitely large enough to please the Lucian Alliance. I suited up and prepared to ring aboard.
End of Chapter 8. I believe we all know where this is going... Reviews are loved as always!
-J
