Title: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
Summary: Vala remembers fun times with Daniel and her friends while making a scrapbook.
Rating: K-T
Disclaimer: As always I own nothing.
Picture 9: Halloween
After Daniel had left, Vala continued on to the next page in her scrapbook. Looking through her photographs, she decided on the one of SG-1 and Jack all dressed up for the Halloween party that Vala had forced Daniel to let her have.
Vala was excited that she had finally convinced Daniel to have a small Halloween party at their house. She was starting to think that he would never give in, but she was stubborn and had finally won out in the end.
Vala and Sam decided to go Halloween costume shopping together at the seasonal Halloween store. The store was humongous and held everything from costumes, to fake blood, wigs, masks, and decorations as well.
They browsed the aisles looking for the perfect costumes.
"I have no idea what I want to be!" Vala pouted and rifled through the costumes on the shelf.
Sam held up a sexy devil costume. "How about this? I'll bet it would look great on you."
Vala shook her head. "No, too easy. I want something unique, but also something that Daniel won't be able to keep his eyes off of."
Sam smiled at her friend. "Ah, I see."
Vala continued on her quest for the perfect costume, quickly discarding the naughty nurse, police woman, hippie, maid, and witch. None of those costumes would be too appealing to Daniel. He was odd when it came to what he really liked, and she wanted something perfect for him to enjoy.
While Vala was busy considering her options, Sam finally picked out her costume and held it up for Vala to see. "What do you think of this one?"
Vala scrutinized the black leather outfit and odd mask with cat ears on it. "You are going to be a cat with a mask?"
Sam giggled. "No, I am going to be Catwoman. She is a character in the Batman franchise, and since Jack is going as Batman, I thought Catwoman might be an appropriate costume for me."
Vala frowned. "I thought Jack was going to be that yellow guy from that cartoon he watches?"
"Homer Simpson?"
"Yeah, him."
Sam sighed. "Well, he was, but only if I would go as Marge, Homer's wife. I was not going to be a yellow cartoon with big blue hair so Jack changed his mind."
"Oh, I see."
Vala spent nearly an hour looking through the various costumes to no avail. None of them were just right. She was walking out of the store when she saw a Cleopatra costume, it reminded her of the Goa'uld. The gears in Vala's mind starting turning and she quickly came up with an idea for her costume.
The day of the party, Vala went to Sam's house to get ready. Her costume only consisted of a small white tube top, white shorts, sand colored body paint, and black body paint. She had already painted her top and shorts all over, so after she was dressed, Sam had to help her with the next part.
About a half an hour later, the two arrived at the party, the last to arrive. Sam came in the door first and quickly found her Batman. Vala walked in after her and surveyed her friends' costumes.
Jack, of course, was Batman, already cuddling up with Catwoman Sam. Teal'c had gone as Darth Vader, one of his favorite villains from his favorite movies. Cameron must have gone along with the Jaffa, because he was dressed as Luke Skywalker, already battling Darth Vader with fake light sabers.
The men all stopped and stared at Vala.
"What are you supposed to be?" Cameron cocked his head to the side as he looked at Vala.
She just smiled. "Wait until Daniel comes down and I will tell all of you at once."
Daniel arrived just then. "I'm here, I'm here, what's going...wow."
His jaw dropped as he took in the sight of Vala before him. She was wearing barely anything , but that wasn't what caught Daniel's eye. She was covered in writing, Goa'uld writing to be exact, and her body had been painted the color of sand.
She walked over to Daniel. "I wanted a costume that would make you want to look at me all night, so this is what I came up with." She motioned her hand over her body. "I am a pyramid wall, with a mystery written in Goa'uld on me."
Daniel smirked as he gazed at her. "Well, I have to say that a pyramid wall with Goa'uld writing on it is definitely going to have my attention all night."
Vala grinned before finally taking in what Daniel was wearing. "A doctor? How unoriginal darling."
"Hey! I thought it would be a nice play on words. Like, you know, Doctor Jackson?"
She shook her head at him. "Nowhere near as creative as mine."
"I agree, now let me get a look at this writing, I have some translating to do."
Vala giggled as Daniel blatantly ogled her body to try to translate what she had written.
The rest of the party went by in a happy blur as everyone ate, drank, and laughed.
At one point, Teal'c had come over to Vala to read the Goa'uld writing on her body. She felt herself blush as he quickly understood the meaning of what she had wrote. She half expected him to say something to her about it, but he just raised his eyebrow at her before going back to another light saber fight with Cam.
Near the end of the party, Daniel finally had had enough time between socializing and eating, to translate all of the writing on Vala's body. It took him all of two minutes to announce that the party was over and everyone had to leave. It took only seconds after the last person left for Daniel to scoop Vala up and take her to their bedroom. He had correctly translated the last of the writings.
As Vala pasted the picture on her new, Halloween themed page, she recalled what she had written on her body. 'Good things come to those who wait, but if you want your treasure now, it's underneath these clothes."
Picture 9 is finished. I'm not sure how much further I want to take this fic. If you want me to continue, let me know. I want to know if any of you are still interested in it. Thanks!
-J