Hey guys, sorry I've been gone forever, but I'm finally posting!
Home to Me
John sighed again as the rest of the houseguests jumped. The movie wasn't actually that scary, especially seeing as how they encountered worse things all the time; not to mention the cheesy plot line, predictable story and ridiculously horrible actors.
Beside him, Elizabeth sighed as well. She'd seen this movie way more than once and was beyond bored with the scenes playing across the screen in front of her. The surround sound was mildly amusing, but other than that, she was tired and just wanted to sleep. She was already nodding off.
Vala and Jennifer looked at each other stealthily from their seats, nodding in unison. It was already decided who would do the deed.
There were multiple factors intensely scrutinized before it was pronounced that Vala would be the one to execute this part of their plan.
Jennifer bit her lip as Vala prepared herself for the 'attack'.
'This is not going to end well,' Jennifer thought before mentally shaking herself. 'No, this will go well, it will work and they will thank us.'
She glanced at the pair on the floor and then back at Vala who was slowly shifting in Daniel's arms.
'They might thank us. One day. In the far, far, future.'
Vala carefully maneuvered herself from Daniel's lovely grasp and took hold of her cup of coke.
She inched forward before turning and very subtly if she did say so herself, she whispered to Daniel.
"I'm going to fill my cup, darling, would you like more as well?" She batted her eyelashes sweetly at Daniel, smiling and shaking her cup a little.
Daniel eyed her warily before reaching for his cup too. Vala grinned victoriously as the timing synched up and before anyone knew what was happening…
"I can't believe she did that." John said in an annoyed tone from behind the bathroom door.
"I can't believe she even managed to do that. It was, so chaotic." Elizabeth marveled from her spot leaning against the wall outside the door.
They were in Sam's bedroom, recovering from Vala.
"I mean, how could she not have realized? There was music and cues and everything! A deaf and blind man could have known it was coming even if he was sitting in the next house!" John continued, ignoring Elizabeth's voice.
"It was just so, I don't even know how to explain it." Elizabeth said again, pushing off the wall to sit on Sam's bed.
John eventually came out of the bathroom, holding his saturated clothes in one hand and toweling his hair with the other. Elizabeth's hair was almost dry and her clothes were waiting in the washing machine to be joined by John's.
"I think it was planned," John said tensely, moving off to laundry room. Elizabeth followed.
"How could anyone plan that? It was such a Rodney McKay accident." Elizabeth protested.
John shook his head. "I don't know. But it was. I know it."
Elizabeth chuckled and let John drop his clothes into the washing machine before pushing the start button. The sound of the machine drowned out the sounds of the movie, unpaused rewound to the point the chaos had erupted off screen.
"You have to admit, it was kind of funny though," Elizabeth said, smiling at John.
Vala chose the moment carefully, the music was winding up, suspenseful, she had to move a little slower and then…NOW!
A woman screamed on screen and Vala flung herself around, whipping the cups in John and Elizabeth's direction, drenching them and the coffee table completely.
But was that enough? Oh, no. Not by Vala's standards. She pitched herself forward, knowing full well she might hurt herself in the process, though it wasn't likely, and slammed her hands down on the table, catapulting the bowls of chips and popcorn not being eaten by the group up into the air…
…And down on the already sputtering John and Elizabeth. Around her, people began jumping up, shouting in surprise, displacing their significant others and children and helping everyone.
Chaos; beautiful, loud, messy, chaos. Vala smiled widely from her place kneeling on the floor as people darted around her and the small room, full of bodies.
She saw Jennifer getting up to help as well, figured she should too, considering she wanted to keep up the appearance of these near-hysterics being an 'accident'.
Vala saw another opening. She leaped up to help Elizabeth step over the crushed chips and popcorn and cups and none-too gently, or accidentally for that matter, shoved her directly in John's sticky body. There was a dull thud as they collided and John caught her, stumbling back slightly.
"Oops, maybe I should just stop moving all together." Vala apologized sweetly, sitting down brightly on the floor, on a clean patch of cushion. She looked over at Jennifer and the doctor was helping to mop up the mess.
While grinning madly. They gave each other quick, covert thumbs up.
"Okay, kind of funny. But next time we sit as far from her as we can get." John declared, moving towards the door.
They went to leave when the beige painted door slammed shut in front of them with a resounding bang. Between the movie and the washing machine, nobody but the two of them and whoever had shut it would have heard it.
"Great. Just…great." John sighed, letting his head thud against the door as he jiggled the handle, finding it stuck.
Elizabeth just smiled slightly and hopped up to sit on the dryer.
On the other side of the door, Jennifer Keller strolled away to the bathroom, smiling a thousand watt smile and humming merrily to herself.
"Um, where are Elizabeth and John?" Daniel asked at the end of the movie, having finished his speech about any discrepancies in the plot, of which there were many.
Vala looked up in sudden alarm and caught Jennifer's proud, blushing face. She smirked proudly as well and spoke up.
"Perhaps off being naughty in a closet? What's that game called again Sam, help me out here?"
Sam chuckled slightly, standing and stretching. "Seven minutes in heaven."
Vala smiled widely, "Right, that's the one."
"I'll go find them, not that I really want to if they're, well, never mind." Jack said, frowning at his words before going off down the hall to search.
"Well I guess it's time I took my future wife home before she burns your house down, Sam." Daniel said, gripping Vala around the shoulders and smiling forcefully.
Sam smiled back and saw them off before going to help clean up everything from the evening.
"What were you thinking?" Daniel asked calmly in the car as he and Vala drove down the dark streets.
Vala looked over at him suspiciously. "What do you mean? I did nothing but behave."
Daniel just sent a quick stare her way, one that said 'yeah like I'm gonna believe that'.
"I may be a little oblivious sometimes but I saw what you did." Daniel said, turning his attention back to the road.
"Okay, fine, take my fun away. But you know what I'm doing is right. Jennifer agrees with me too!" Vala pouted.
"What exactly are you trying to do?" Daniel looked confused for a moment.
"Oh, really, Daniel you can't tell? They're almost as bad as Sam and Jack!" Vala exclaimed loudly. Daniel swerved at the sudden volume.
"Jeez! What are you talking about? You think that Dr. Weir and Col. Sheppard are…"
"Made for each other? Pining after each other? Longing for each other's delicious touch? Take your pick darling, they've got them all." Vala declared, turning in her seat slightly to face Daniel.
Daniel thought about it for a moment. "I can see certain resemblances between their behavior and Jack and Sam's. By the way, where did they disappear to in the middle of the movie?"
Vala blinked. "What?"
"Jack and Sam, in the middle of the movie, they were, gone." Daniel said.
"Gone?"
"As in, not in the room," Daniel said a little exasperated.
"Really, interesting, I knew that some-," she stopped herself short. Daniel smirked, still facing forward.
"You know, that's going to have to stop when we're married. This whole playing with my mind thing," Vala pouted again.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. Now, yes, I've noticed the relationship between Elizabeth and John."
"Thank you. And what will you help us do about it?"
"Ah, yes, you've dragged Dr. Keller into this too, haven't you? Of course you have."
Vala thwacked his arm. "She was as willing as I was. Now, really Daniel, what will you help us with?"
She waited in anticipation.
"Alright, count me in. But I'm not throwing myself around a living room or having them sneak off somewhere,"
Vala beamed. "Oh wonderful. And I didn't get them to sneak off anywhere. Wherever they are, innocent little Jennifer Keller locked them up there."
Daniel sighed. "Of course."
"So, whatcha doing?" Jack said as he opened the door to see John and Elizabeth on the floor, next to each other and very close.
They jumped up. "Nothing," They chorused, like school children caught by a teacher.
They rushed past the smirking general and out into the living room, blushing the whole way.
hmmm. lol interesting. what were they doing indeed? guesses?
Juliet =]