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.

A/N: The majority of you would like me to skip to Unending and a few of you believe that the other episodes are necessary to do as well. First of all, I want to say thank you so much for all of your input. Second, here is what I plan to do...For now I am going to post my Unending chapters. Afterward, I will see if my inspiration hits me and I will go back and write about a few more season 10 episodes because I do agree that some of them are very important. I hope I haven't disappointed anyone too badly and that you will all continue to read and enjoy the story!

Chapter 28 (For now...) Life Is Too Short (Episode Tag to Unending)

SG-1 along with General Landry and the crew of the Odyssey were all aboard said ship on our way to go meet the Asgard. I was bored already, so I decided that it would be fun to throw Daniel a surprise birthday party. Originally, I tried to convince the crew that it was my birthday, but they stopped believing me after a while.

So, the crew and I set up one of the rooms full of decorations, a cake, and even some weird cat-shaped, candy-filled thingy called a pinata.

"Surprise!"

Daniel just looked at me and the others, clearly not amused. "It's not my birthday."

I followed him out into the hallway and tried to explain that I had made him the pinata and everything, but he didn't care. He told me that I shouldn't use the crew for my entertainment. Daniel was always such a spoilsport.

When we got to where we were going, Thor showed up and explained that the Asgard were dying and that they wanted us to have their technology and knowledge. Even though I didn't know Thor like Sam, Muscles, and Daniel did, I was still sad to hear that their race was dying off.

Before we knew it, those damned Ori crusaders had somehow found us and went about firing upon us. The Asgard fled while two Ori ships fired on the planet and one fired on the Odyssey. I watched in horror as the planet exploded and hit us with the shockwave.

The hyperdrive was not working correctly for some reason and our shields were failing. Finally, we made it into hyperspace and away from the Ori ships.

My relief was short lived. The Ori ships were able to detect us through the Asgard core and were following us everywhere.

The Odyssey crew left, leaving me with only Daniel, Mitchell, Sam, Teal'c, and Landry. Sam figured out how to put us in a 'time dilation' field until she could figure out how to solve our problem.

She thought that it could take up to three months to figure everything out.

"I'm gonna go crazy, and I'm taking you with me," I whispered into Daniel's ear.

I was correct. It didn't take me long to get bored and slowly go insane. I tried to entertain myself, but there is only so much a girl can do on a spaceship in a time dilation field. I attempted to seduce Daniel one night, I put on my sexy hot pink nightgown, grabbed my fuzzy handcuffs and stood seductively outside of his quarters and knocked.

When he opened the door, I cocked my brow at him in invitation.

He shut the door in my face. I wasn't surprised, he had never really taken me up on my offers before. I was not about to give up on him though.

The next three months trudged along way too slowly. I tried to keep Daniel or the others company in whatever they were doing or I helped Landry with his plants or watched Teal'c and Mitchell spar. I would do anything to keep myself occupied.

Around the three month mark, I was sitting on Daniel's bed in his room, discussing the fate of the Asgard with him.

"I mean, all they wanted to do was live a little longer. We're no different. Sequence DNA. Cure diseases. One fatal mistake, and they doom their entire race."

He seemed so sad, so lonely.

"I guess no matter what you do, at the end of the day…life is too short."

I had to agree with that. Life was too short, and it was certainly too short to waste another second not being with Daniel. He needed comforting, I needed comforting, we needed each other.

He was standing by a bookshelf, facing away from me.

"I agree," I said as I stood and shed my black top, leaving only my camisole underneath.

Daniel turned back and regarded me in confusion. "What are you doing?"

Trying to comfort him, to make things better. "Something we should have done a long time ago."

I reached forward and started to unbuckle his pants.

"Don't do that."

Oh no, he was rejecting me again, really? I thought that he felt something for me.

I laughed nervously as I began to unbutton his pants. "Why not?"

Daniel grabbed my hands and then pushed me away from him. His rejection stung, I was so lonely, and he was too. I was in love with him and I wanted him to feel the same way.

"We've been here three months, Daniel. Three months!… You do like girls?"

He gave me a look. "Yes!"

What was his problem then? Was I that repulsive to him?

"Oh. Well, I don't see many other options around here, do you?"

He didn't say anything, just crossed his arms in disapproval. That must be it, he must not be attracted to me at all.

"Unless…you really…don't find me attractive."

"Do you want an honest answer to that question?"

No, I didn't. I didn't want to hear that he didn't think I was attractive. I didn't want to hear that he did not love me. I just wanted to leave and save some of my pride from the trampling I knew it was about to receive.

"No."

But Daniel wasn't done. "No seriously, you started this! Do you want an honest answer to the question?"

He was beyond angry. I awaited the inevitable tirade. "No, don't worry about it."

"Do you believe I could have any kind of serious feelings for you?"

Well not anymore I didn't. I thought that maybe he had grown to care for me as I had him, but apparently not. I had to salvage what was left of my pride; make it seem like I was joking with him. "I wasn't suggesting you have serious feelings, Daniel."

That answer seemed to enrage him even further. "Oh! Oh, what, so what-what, we sleep together once, then what? We work together! And you know, even saying that part out loud sounds unbelievable."

I sat on his bed and turned away from him, no longer able to fight back the tears that were slipping down my face.

"I mean…come on! I mean, I can't even imagine what a—what a relationship with you would be like!"

I wanted to tell him to stop; just to let it go, but I couldn't let him see me cry.

"I mean, yes, yes, you've proven yourself to be…trustworthy on a professional level, and for that I am very proud of you, but on a personal level? Vala, come on, give me a break!"

He didn't even find me trustworthy on a personal level? Wow, just wow, I didn't know him as well as I thought.

"I mean, at best, you're an emotional, unstable wreck! I'm not saying I'm much better. I'm not saying I'm much better. There was a time when I thought I would never get over my wife. I mean, the idea of…being hurt that way again. But I've finally gotten to the place. I've finally, for the first time in a long time, have gotten to the place where I actually feel I could get close to somebody again. But not in a million years, a million, million years, would I ever possibly consider that person being you! I mean, we are so completely opposite and wrong for each other, it's not even funny! And the worst part, the worst part about that is, you know that! And this whole flirty sexual thing that you do, that's just your way of having a laugh at my expense. So I'm so sorry if I'm not more appreciative of that and I'm so sorry that you're bored. But don't you pretend it's anything else!"

It wasn't pretending. What I felt for him was real, more real than anything I had ever felt for anyone before, even my old fiance. He just couldn't see past the person that I used to be, the thief and the liar. But, I wasn't that person anymore, I had changed. I had always felt an attraction to him, but now it was so much more. I was in love with him; in love with a man who still thought that I was messing with his head.

"Don't act like you're hurt."

Act? Who was acting? The tears staining my face were one hundred percent genuine, I couldn't mask them if I tried to. I did try though, I faked a laugh and pulled my sweater over my head. Unfortunately, my laugh sounded choked, and he seemed to notice.

Daniel walked over and sat down next to me on his bed. What now? What else could he possibly have to say to me?

He touched me lightly on the back. "Hey."

I covered my face with my hands, still trying to hide my tears. "Just give me a minute."

"Look at me."

He pulled back my hair gently. I lowered my hands and look at him. He had a serious look etched across his features. There, he has seen me. I looked away again, but he turned my face back towards him and rubbed my cheek with his thumb. The sudden intimate gesture stunned me. What surprised me even more is when he leaned forward and kissed me. How did he go from yelling at me to kissing me in only the matter of minutes? His warm lips caused a tingle of pleasure to radiate throughout my body and I began to kiss him back.

It ended all too soon, but he was smiling. A rare sight indeed; a Daniel Jackson smile.

"You better not be messing with me."

I didn't answer him, instead I crushed my lips against his and we fell onto the bed together. Part of me wanted to stop him, to defend myself against all of his earlier accusations, but it doesn't matter now. Mitchell told me that actions speak louder than words, and Daniel actions told me everything that I needed to know.

End of Chapter 28. The next chapter will have a mature rating, for obvious reasons.