NOTE: Nice and quick bit mainly with Daniel and Vala but I think it's cute.

Chapter 14 – Reunited

Vala was the last to arrive in the briefing room. The bruise on her neck had darkened considerably and some strange shades of yellow and purple had appeared. No more sling but she was holding her arm oddly as if she was trying to move it as little as possible.

"Hello Daniel." she said cheerily as she plonked herself in a chair between Daniel and Teal'c.

"Hey." said Daniel as he looked up from a transcript of the botched interrogation. "I see they've let you out."

"I see they let you in." she retorted playfully. Both she and Daniel missed the looks between the rest of their team full of a mixture of relief and suppressed giggles.

"Yeah, they did." Daniel smiled. "How are you feeling?"

"Glad to get out of the infirmary."

"I hate to break up the reunion people," said Landry slightly louder than need but with a small smile on his face, "but we are here for a reason. SG1 has captured a prisoner that has proven to be a threat. She has also proven that it may not be possible for us to contain her forever. We need to sort out this mess and I mean now people."

"Wait a second." interrupted Vala who had been reading the transcript over Daniel's shoulder. She ripped it out of his hands leaving him with a surprised look on his face. "She tried to get you to believe that she's not a goa'uld."

Landry rolled his eyes but at least they'd gotten a discussion going. "Is that even possible?"

Teal'c folded his hands in front of him, "We have seen technologies before that allow one to be disguised as a goa'uld."

Sam shook her head. "Voice maybe but not the eyes. Plus we searched her while she while she was out of it and we found absolutely nothing."

"She could have been telling the truth about learning it as a kind of trick." said Daniel. He was met with a lot of strange looks. "What?" He looked around at everyone. "It's obvious that she is capable of many things that we thought impossible. It could be possible that all of this is just the result of the biggest misunderstanding in history."

"I'm a little bit shocked that you're taking her side on this." said Cam. "You recognised her and she knew your name. It's obvious that it's been her making your life hell for the last few months."

"Look," Daniel leaned forward seriously, "I'm not saying that we should just forget what she's done," he made a quick glance at Vala, "she'll have to answer for that. But just remember that there are just too many unknowns in this. We can go jumping wildly to conclusions. We know from experience that first impressions can be royally screwed up. I say that we give her the benefit of the doubt that we always seem to need."

After a moments thought Landry said, "Well said Dr Jackson. You're right too. We need to keep our heads in this matter. We can't just jump to the easiest conclusion. We'll get a scan to see if there is a snake rapped around this Giya's neck.

"One way or the other, we will then restart the questions. This time with clear heads. Assumptions and unnecessary prejudice were both contributing factors to what happened earlier." He was looking at Cam as he said that. "It's now nearly lunch time and a lot of us haven't had any rest since the night before last, so, if that's all clear, I want this settled. Today!"

NOTE: I'd love to hear what you think and what you would like from this.