Disclaimer: Stargate is the best. Vala and Daniel together for... well... ever. But hey that is only if i actually owned the show. For those of you that are really really slow, i will spell it out, "N-O, I D-O-N-T O-W-N S-T-A-R-G-A-T-E!" If i did i would change a few things... but anyways.

Author's Note: This as you all know by now, is my first Stargate Fanfiction, so please continue to be oh-so-kind. Don't forget to leave a reaview too, since it makes me so happy and then i write more:)

Oh and again, the title is NOT a spelling error. Thank-you for your patience.

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I Had To Tell You In Person...

Chapter Three: Priors To Conception

And it felt like everything was moving in slow motion and too fast at the same time.

At first his legs wouldn't move and he was convinced that he had gotten to her too late. Then in a rush of adrenaline he was at her side, but his thoughts were in a jumble. He couldn't think straight; any medical training he had picked up through the years eluded him.

Finally, gently, he brushed a lock of dark hair off her cheek and reached down to check for a pulse… she had one. He was so relieved it felt like the world was spinning to fast, who was in control of that anyway?

Laying a hand on her head he just wanted to feel her, make sure she was all right. "Damn it!"

"Daniel?" Came Sam's voice lightly across the room. She didn't need to say anymore, the one word had a thousand questions attached to it. Was she alive? Was she hurt? How? Who did this? Could they move her? Was danger near? Was this some kind of ambush? A thousand questions and no answers.

Daniel's outburst echoed in the room. He could hear the last words she said to him, Daniel, why is it so hot. They hadn't made much sense and he had just dismissed them like half the things she said. She had a fever, that's why she had been mumbling on and on about, a mistake and something she couldn't fix. She had probably been delirious.

Leaning over Daniel tried to assess her injuries. Looking her over, she was lying on her side facing away from him, in a semi fetal position, her clothes were so bulky and the lighting in the room obscured much so he couldn't get a good look at anything, but her injuries were visible. Her shoulder and upper side had a deep laceration surrounded by red chafed looking skin. Infection had settled in.

Her right forearm arm held a suspicious bump on it where only bone should be, and somewhere she had bled as he noticed a smudge of blood on the floor next to her head. What had she been through in the last months that she had been gone from the SGC? Daniel kicked himself. Why hadn't he tried harder to find her?

Suddenly Cameron was by his side, "Daniel? She okay?" Even his words held a little bit of worry. "Daniel?"

Then suddenly things came into focus. It was like he hadn't been wearing his glasses and now he was.

"Pass me the med pack." He addressed Sam. "She has a fever, maybe caused by this wound being infected…"

Sam signaled to Teal'c to take her post and she hurried over to Daniel and knelt down. She started feeling Vala's neck for signs of trauma and moved down to her arms, listing injuries as she went. Deep laceration…infected." Samantha Carter was always much better at assisting with illness and injury that Daniel ever had been. "Broken right arm, bruising, possible broken ribs or internal injuries, head wound…" So that was were the blood had been coming from. Sam stopped suddenly.

"Uh Daniel?" Sam was finished looking her over but she had a funny look on her face.

Instantly thinking the worst, "What's wrong? He demanded.

"I can't know more until we get her back to Earth, she could have possible internal bleeding, the bruising her is pretty bad… and she in dehydrated…" Sam paused seeming to get her thoughts in order.

Cameron spoke up, "Would you just spit it out already, the pausing-for-affect-thing is really not humoring me right now," the words were spoken with a little less humor than usual. "And," He pointed to Daniel, "the tension has got to be killing him."

Giving a slight nod Sam continued, "I think she's… pregnant."

Daniel took it quite well.

Not.

O o O o O

"She's what?" Daniel repeated for the fifth time in disbelief.

"She's-"

Sam got cut off by a small moan from Vala, "Dan…"

Vala tried again to speak, but her mouth was so dry. She tried to open her eyes, but only made it halfway before she felt the pain coursing through her abdomen. She groaned grabbing he stomach and curling into a ball the best she could, there was nothing else to do. She had failed it. She was probably having a miscarriage. Breathing hard with her eyes closed tight she heard a voice telling her to be still and to take it easy.

"Take it easy." She thought sarcastically.

Someone else was forcing water from a bottle to her lips. "Stay still. Try not to move." A women's voice was saying. She had heard that voice before, but everything was eluding her… she should know this, but the facts were just out of her grasp like a helium balloon floating away.

It wasn't until a moment later that she realized that everything was in commotion around her. Everything was hazy, swirling around her. People prodding at her and talking to her all got jumbled up. The only thing that was clear was her thoughts… her guilt.

People were talking to her and around her and through her… "Vala, Vala… Vala." Why wouldn't everyone just shut up and leave her alone.

Didn't they see? Didn't they realize? She didn't deserve rescue anymore. She had failed it. It had been the only reason she had deserved to be rescued in the first place. It was her duty. Her obligation. To protect it. And she had failed at something once again, but this time the stakes were much higher.

"Vala, can you hear me?" Someone was asking, shinning a light in her eyes that made her use a colourful four letter word, they spoke to someone behind them, "…vitals don't look good… better move quick…" Someone else spoke in an urgent voice, "I think they may know we are here…" and the replying voice, a string of creative expletives that even impressed Vala in her semi-conscious state.

Her thoughts wondered back… this was her child; she was talking about, her daughter. Her Daughter. She didn't know how she knew, but it was girl. She had never felt like this before, to have so much love for a tiny being and for once she really didn't want to fail, she wanted to succeed at this one little thing. Just this teeny tiny little thing if she never did anything else good in her life. Just this…

"…Tyler take your team ahead to make sure we won't be getting anymore nasty surprises…" Daniel's voice, "Hurry up, she's in and out of consciousness."

Awww, how sweet of Daniel to care. Why was he here again? The details kept failing her. Didn't someone say she had a fever?

The sweat was dripping down her, oh please, would someone please turn down the heat? It was almost as debilitating as the pain. She gasped once again as a wave of pain washed over her. Okay maybe not as bad.

"…ETA twenty minutes… watch your footing, the rubbles loose…" Then Cameron's voice, "Ain't the rubble you need to watch for…"

She had the feeling of being lifted and placed on something, probably a stretcher. She suddenly jerked her hands away, "No, no no no." She cried. Then she heard his voice, clear and strong through the jumbled mess of her senses. "Vala, listen, everything is going to be alright." It was Daniel's voice.

She didn't hear the rest of what he said, but that didn't matter, he was here, maybe he would make everything all right. He always made everything all right.

O o O o O

The next thing she remembered was the deafening sound of weapons fire, bullets ricocheting off rocks and trees and equally loud scream of voices. Angry, tense, urgent voices commanding and complying, reporting and evaluating the risks. And then there was the comforting swoosh of the gate being engaged.

People were running towards the 'Gate kicking up rubble as they went. Walking backwards and firing their weapons at an enemy she couldn't see, but could fully imagine… in Technicolor.

"Go, go, go…" Cameron screamed, "Get the hell outta here."

Then Sam's voice, "No," Simple as that. Just no.

"Damn, Carter! Get the Hell out of here while you-"

And explosion erupted and the rest of the sentence was drowned out.

Then everything was silent, just for a moment. In hushed voices, "Fall back, through the gate, now, before the get there asses back in first gear."

O o O o O

She must have passed out again, because the next time she woke up she wasn't in pain.

Uh-oh.

Frantically, she tried to sit up, to move, then to do anything. It felt like an elephant was sitting on her chest. She could barely move, her limbs felt like led weights. They must have drugged her, because all she could do was, well it wasn't much. The rapidly increasing rate of the heart monitor beside her made shrill beeping noises alerting anyone nearby.

Suddenly, the person in the chair next to her jerked awake. "Vala-"

"Daniel, where is it." Vala blurted out alarmed and confused, "She's dead isn't she." Rambling on so Daniel could barely get a word in edgewise.

Doctor Lam appeared by her side, with a needle that was way too big. It didn't exactly make her feel less hysterical as she eyed the needle her nervousness increasing.

"She's panicking, I'll need to give her a sedative." Doctor Lam intoned briskly.

"No, no, no." Vala pleaded. "Please don't let it be…" She mumbled, "I tried so hard… the Ori… I just couldn't get away in time…"

Daniel spoke up, "Wait, just a minute." He directed to the doctor. "Vala, listen, everything is fine, you're at the SGC… you're safe." He rubbed her arm comfortingly.

The sharp tone of the Doctor interrupted Daniels's speech, "This level of panic will harm the baby if it goes on any longer, I must administer the sedative."

Baby.

That was the only word she had to hear. The baby was alive. He daughter was alive.

Daniel noticed the sudden lowering of heartbeat, panic residing. "Yes, Vala, your baby is fine. We found you just in time. Although I have to say you didn't make it very easy for us." He chuckled.

"Much better." Doctor Lam observed and wrote something on her chart, moving away.

She breathed in deeply. She still felt a little muddled and it was struggle to keep her eyes open. She felt hot tears on her cheeks, only just realizing that she had been crying.

Any energy she had, had was gone; lifting her arm she found it was bound in a sling to her chest. Broken. She had a broken arm.

Great.

Not.

Moving her other arm she drifted off to Daniel's comforting voice and the large lump under her hand, that was her belly swollen with her child. Why hadn't she just checked if she still had this annoying mound on her body, instead of panicking? The baby kicked and Vala smiled for the first time in what felt like years.

Daniel's voice interrupted her thoughts once again, "The doctor gave you some antibiotics, fever reducers and some pain medication, that's why your weak. That and you had a fever of about 104 degrees…" Again Daniel's voice faded and she felt like she was falling.

O o O o O

The next time she awakened, the lights were dimmed. Daniel was in a chair by her bed. The pain meds must have been starting to wear off because there was a dull throbbing in her shoulder where she had gotten cut on that damn trap the Ori had left for her.

Moving her hand slowly Vala was afraid that somehow Daniel had been lying, that somehow, it had all been an illusion that she had felt her baby kick, that it was all an elaborate lie. That she wasn't still pregnant, that she really had failed. Then her hand encountered a rise on her body. She breathed out in a gush not even realizing that she had been holding her breath. Relief flooded over her.

She was still pregnant. Not that she really enjoyed being pregnant, personally it wasn't something she would want to repeat. And it especially hadn't been pleasant on a world were you had to do prostration for six hours a day. It's not like they had let her go on bathroom breaks. Despite it all though, the realization that she was still pregnant brought unimaginable happiness to Vala.

"Vala Mal Doran, looks what's happening to you now." She whispered. "You, a mother. Never thought that would happen."

It felt strange to feel so much protectiveness towards this little invader in her body. It wasn't like she had expected it; actually it was quit the opposite. After she had been a host and then had been rescued by the Tok'ra, who had removed the symbote and nursed her back to health she had left to find her family and her home village. But it turned out her family and her village didn't want her any more. That message was very clear when they had stoned her. Her own fiancée the leader of them, she had vowed never to bring a child into this hateful and cruel world.

A silent tendril of worry started to snake it's way into her mind. Daniel and the others would not believe her once she told them how this all happened. Daniel especially. She had lied to him so many times, and then, time and time again she had sworn that she wasn't lying just to be proven wrong by some dumb person who had happened to turn up and know the truth. That was so annoying!

How could she prove to him that she wasn't lying this time? That this child, this baby wasn't created by anything she had done. She hadn't had sex with any of those Ori-huggers. Not a chance. Even the man she had been married to, she hadn't. That had been tough, delaying and delaying the inevitable consummation of their marriage that was only a mere formality so that Vala could live among those people without…well… being burned alive, to tell the truth.

Now how was she going to get Daniel to believe that? That she Vala Mal Doran had actually controlled herself to not be with a man.

"Right! As if he is ever going to believe me that my womanly wiles had nothing to do with this baby being created." She spoke out loud as trace of anger in her voice, because it was all the Ori's fault. "That Prior did this." But how in the galaxy was she going to get Daniel to believe her, because that was all the really mattered.

O o O o O

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