The One With The Almost Date
Vala paced the hallways near Sam's lab. This was not good. This was so not good. She couldn't believe what had just happened. Okay, that was a lie, she could believe it, but it just felt so wrong. And that bug her in it of it self. But… didn't he know? She had thought everybody knew. How was it that he didn't?
Kevin Sheppard. Dr. Kevin Sheppard from the archeology department. Six foot, black hair and brown eyed, Dr. Kevin Sheppard from the archeology department. How? Reviewing the scene again in her mind she still came to the same conclusion, and still, she couldn't really believe it. Kevin Sheppard had just not possibly asked her out for dinner. And she might have not possibly said yes, right? This was so not good. So not good. Biting her thumbnail she came to one conclusion to solve this dilemma. She needed Sam. Sam would know what to do. Taking a breath she rushed into Sam's lab.
"I think I have a date!" Vala burst out the second she entered her blonde friend's lab not noticing the others who occupied the room.
Sam for all her genius only seemed to manage a good goldfish impersonation as she stared at the brunette.
"What?" Vala heard from the side of the lab and finally noticed the other occupants of the room. Cam. Teal'c. Daniel. Daniel. Suddenly, she felt her stomach bottom out, her heart stop beating and her brain short-circuiting. Looking at Daniel she felt her entire body still and freeze. This was not happening. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending how you looked at it, Cam interrupted.
"What do you mean 'you think'?" Thankful for the distraction from Daniel and the feeling in her stomach, Vala turned to Cam. Getting her bearings back she let out a breath.
"I was helping Dr. Sheppard in the archeology department…"
"Oh, he cute." Sam exclaimed, resulting in her getting looks from everybody in the room. Clearing her throat and sitting up straighter she apologized. "Sorry, go on."
"It's alright, he is rather easy on the eyes, isn't he?" Vala gave her friend a conspiratorial smile.
"Vala."
"Um, right. Well, anyways, we were discussing the Goa'uld tablets that I was helping him translate and how ridiculous some of the stuff they wrote was, and then he was asking me out to dinner. I'm not even sure how we got there, which rather worries me to tell you the truth. And the I don't even know if I agreed." Letting out a deep breath Vala went back to biting her thumbnail.
"What do you mean, you don't even know if you said yes?"
Vala glared at Cam. Cam shrunk back.
"I mean, I wasn't excepting it, so I might have said that it sounded nice or some such thing before I left the room and came here." Looking at her friends, and steadfastly avoiding eye contact with Daniel, Vala then asked the question that had been burning in her mind. "Was I just asked out on a date?" Looking utterly perplexed as she did, the others couldn't help but chuckle and think she looked cute. Except Daniel, who was fighting the twisting in his stomach and the urge to fire Kevin Sheppard.
Sam nodded. "Yep, I think you were."
"Oh."
"What do you plan to do, Vala Mal Doran?"
"Dunno, I don't get this Tau'ri dating thing of yours, it's so time consuming and half the doesn't even end up well, just with ice cream and/or alcohol. Plus, I've…" Vala voice turned smaller, like she really didn't want to say what came next, "I mean, I've never really been on real date before…"
At Vala's words, Daniel felt his stomach turn over unpleasantly.
"Do you want to go?"
He hadn't even realized he had asked the question until he noticed everybody's eyes on him, but the only eyes he focused on were Vala's as their soft blue-grey stare met his. And if they had been focused on the rest of the team, they would have noticed how they all heal their breath, but they didn't. In moments like these they never did. The world just seemed to blur around them.
"No." Vala's voice softly broke the silence that had descended upon the room. Her voice coming out almost breathless, never looking away from Daniel.
"No, I don't." Daniel nodded. "What am I supposed to do now?" Vala asked, sounding like a nervous three year old, she had never been more nervous about the words that would come out Daniel's mouth next.
Daniel just smiled softly. "Don't worry, we'll figure it out."
Vala nodded. Their eyes were still locked.