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-2 days later-
"Have we made any progress on restoring Vala, to her original age?" The general asked Sam and Daniel. Sam looked stumped, and Daniel looked mega tired.
"Well Sir, the box itself contains nothing, so I don't see how it could've changed her." Sam said. She, too, had bags under her eyes, but they weren't as big as Daniel's. "I'm sorry sir, but I need to run more tests."
"The writing on the box is in code, and is a mix of many different languages. So far I've been able to translate 'grow up' and that's it. So it does have something to do with aging and growing up." Daniel explained his findings to the General.
"I don't want to grow up. Being a grown up is no fun." Vala whined, and resituated herself on Sam's lap. The little girl went back to attempt to color inside the lines like any normal 6 year old.
"Well you'd better hurry. Vala has been terrorizing so many guards; I think they might just go insane. I'm advising you to keep a stricter eye on here Dr. Jackson and Colonel Carter." The general ordered them, and retreated into his office. Sam and Daniel gave each other an exasperated look.
"Sam, I'm hungry." Vala looked up at Sam, with pleading eyes.
"You just ate Vala." Sam replied, patting the girl on the head.
"But I'm hungry again." She whined now.
"Alright, I'll take you to get some food." Daniel interrupted, and picked Vala up, hauling her off to the Mess Hall.
-Mess Hall-
"Vala, I said no chocolate." Daniel told her as she had snuck off to the desert bar again, and picked up a slice of chocolate cake. Vala pouted, and looked quite disappointed.
"Put I hate all the healthy food! I want desert!" She whined, and disobeyed Daniel, by taking a bite out of the cake, then shoving the rest in Daniel's face and storming out of the mess hall. The Sf's at lunch, all stared at Daniel covered in chocolate.
"VALA, get back here, right this instant!" Daniel demanded, as he cleaned off his face, and followed the little girl. He soon caught up with her, and picked her up off the ground. "Why, did you do that?"
"Because you're mean." She stuck her tongue out at him. "And grumpy."
"I am not."
"Are too"
"Gee Daniel, what are you two arguing about." Mitchell came up behind the two, amused as they were still fighting the same as if they were adults. Vala took this opportunity, and freed herself from Daniel's grasp. Once free she kicked him, and ran off yet again.
"God she's strong for a 6 year old." Daniel rubbed her leg where she had kicked him.
-Sam's Office-
Vala, ever so sneakily, crept into Sam's lab, and sat upon one of the stools. Sam was busy at the computer, her back turned to the door.
"Why's Dr. Jackson so mean?" Vala asked. Sam jumped at the tiny voice creeping up on here.
"Oh you scared me. What do you mean, mean? He's a nice guy; you just have to not make him…mad. What did you do?" Sam said realizing Vala must have done something to him. Vala looked innocent.
"I shoved cake in his face, cause he wouldn't let me have it, and then I kicked him, ma'am." She always told the truth when she was little, which was amazing. When she was little she was a bad liar, and nicer then she was as an adult, but she also had a short fuse.
"You shoved cake in his face? Oh you're going to get it." Sam taunted, and smiled at the little girl. Sam believed Daniel did believe it, after all Vala was a little child, and a girl, you don't take cake away from a little girl.
"No I'm not. You'll protect me…right?" Vala looked pleadingly at Sam, and Sam just smiled, as Daniel came in behind Vala, and grabbed her from behind tickling her. Vala let out short giggling shrieks as she gasped for air between tickling. After a couple minutes of tickling, Daniel let her go, and she panted heavily.
"Not fair!" she complained, but was still smiling.
"Oh it was perfectly fair. Now tell Daniel you're sorry about what you did to him." Sam instructed the little girl, and gave her a slight nudge. Vala furrowed her brow, but looked at Daniel.
"I'm sorry, for smushing chocolate cake in your face, and kicking you." She said quietly. She hated apologizing, it made her feel bad, and she didn't like that feeling.
"I forgive you." Daniel smiled, and mussed up her hair a bit. She frowned and fixed it quickly. "Sam have you made any progress?' He asked turning their conversation adult wise.
"Actually I have." Sam opened the box but nothing happened. "We all act our age, right?"
"Right…except Vala, who acts like a kid." Daniel pieced it together.
"Exactly, that's why it only affected her. So I'm guessing she has to start acting like a grown up, or she won't grow up." Both adults looked at the child, who was completely dazed, and had no clue of what they were talking about.
"Why do I get the feeling that's going to be very tricky to do." Daniel sighed.
"I never said it was going to be easy."
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