Stargate
Infinity Series: Reunited Revamped

By GM Grantham

After the events of 'Flesh and Blood', Daniel and Vala share some alone time and discover some very interesting things about one another. Meanwhile, the battle against the Ori continues.

Spoilers for 'Flesh and Blood' through The Quest, Part II

Nothing of Stargate SG-1 is mine…no matter how I wish it was.

This chapter is rated PG-13.

A/N: This story fills in the time between Flesh and Blood, Morpheus, and The Pegasus Project. It also offers a possible explanation as to how Daniel and Vala came across the non-Ancient names of those two planets. Additionally, Chewbacca and the Sand People remain the property of Star Wars creator, George Lucas and I am merely borrowing them to blend them together and create a look for the Furlings, whom we have never met.


EIGHT

"A little slow today?" Daniel teased, slipping by him easily and putting the ball into the net. It slid down with a satisfactory swish.

Daniel bounced it to Mitchell, who caught it with both hands. "No…just wore out." He dribbled the ball back and forth between both hands, but the moment he tried to move around Daniel, his left leg collapsed under him.

He let out a surprised shout of pain, clenching his teeth and clutching at his shin. Concerned, Daniel let the ball roll away and dropped to his knees.

"Let me see it."

Cam batted his hands away from his sweatpant-covered leg.

"Come on. Don't be a baby. Let me see it."

With this, he slid the leg of the sweatpants up and his eyes widened at what he saw.

"Did you do this just now?"

Cam shook his head, clenching his teeth. "It's just a bruise. I can handle it."

Daniel frowned. "Obviously not. What the hell happened?"

"Carolyn kicked me in the shin at dinner the other night for being a smartass."

Daniel stared at the bruise disbelievingly and let slip a low whistle. "Damn. That's worse than the bruise Vala left when she…" Then realizing what he was saying, he shut his mouth, his gaze dropping from Cam's.

Cam's eyebrows shot up. "She bit your…" Daniel grimaced and nodded. "Hard?" This earned not only a grimace but a deep flush that reached the roots of his hair.

For his part, Daniel was speechless.

Cam chuckled. "Maybe Sam's more your type after all, Jackson."

"What makes you think that?" he asked, slightly flustered.

"She seems like she would be more…traditional when it comes to…"

Daniel's cheeks flushed. "Well, you'd think that…"

Cam's eyebrow's shot up again and a telltale smirk came over his features. "You walked in on her with another guy, didn't you?" Daniel, in an attempt to steer the topic away from dangerous waters, continued his examination of Cam's shin.

Seeming to take that for confirmation, Cam's smirk widened. "So you've seen her…you know…all natural?"

The flush of Daniel's features deepened and still he said nothing.

"Leads a man to wonder what a female scientist looks like without her lab coat if you catch my drift."

Daniel looked up, glaring at him. "I should deck you on principle."

Cam's eyebrows shot up. "A little sensitive there, Jackson?"

Daniel grunted. "She's practically a sister to me and I don't like hearing you talk about her that way."

Cam raised his hands defensively. "Sorry." Though he knew there was more to it. "Were you ever…attracted to her?"

"She's attractive and I noticed, if that's what you mean."

Cam shook his head. "You know what I mean."

The look Daniel gave him clearly told Cam that he was getting far too personal for his liking. "Why? Are you attracted to her any special way?"

Cam grinned. "I'd have to be blind, sterile, and dense as hell not to be."

Daniel frowned. "That's a hell of a thing to say."

"Yeah, I know. But you can't deny that she's attractive."

Daniel smiled wryly. "After several years of seeing both her feminine side and her masculine side, I can admit that she's attractive. But we've never had those kinds of mutual feelings for each other." Realizing that he'd given Cam exactly what he wanted, he waited for the man to use it against him.

"So you've had feelings like that for her?"

In a way very much unlike him, he startled wrestling with Cam in order to avoid the question. The two men grappled, enjoying the horseplay.

The moment Cam reached for his love handles to tickle him, however, Daniel jerked away. "I don't think so," he said.

Cam laughed. "Hey, I'm straight as an arrow. You can ask Carolyn."

"Yeah, I'm sure she'll tell me about your sex life," he said sarcastically, pinning Cam's hands above his head.

Cam smirked. "You've been hanging around Vala way too much, Jackson."

He tried to throw Daniel off, but Daniel wouldn't have it. "And you've been hanging around with your new girlfriend too much, Mitchell. It's turned you into a sissy, whipped chickenshit."

Cam winced, Daniel's last words striking a nerve. "Yeah? You're the one who let Vala bite your…"

Daniel landed a light punch in Cam's shoulder getting a rise out of the other man, who soon gained the upper hand.

Cam smirked. "How do you like the tables being turned, huh?"

Daniel grunted, struggling against the other man's grip. "I don't, you smug-ass bastard."

With a hard heave, Daniel was soon back in control, laughing breathlessly.

"I hate to interrupt, darling, but you've had your fun. We should get back to work on those translations and Colonel Mitchell should get that shin looked at."

"What are you? My mother?"

This earned him a playful slap on the back of the head from Daniel, leaving Daniel laughing when Cam punched him in the shoulder. "As much as I hate to admit it, Cam, she's right. We really should get back to work and you need to get that looked at."

Vala sighed and offered Cam her hand. When he was standing, she wrapped his arm around her shoulders.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Vala glared at him. "You looked like you needed help walking."

Cam was about to protest, but Daniel elbowed him in the ribs. "Just let her help." With this, he wrapped Cam's other arm around his shoulders and the three moved slowly toward the infirmary.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

As Cam limped into the infirmary, he spotted Carolyn coming out of her office. He groaned internally, knowing she was going to be pissed.

He'd tried to pretend like it he was fine, but he'd barely been able to walk the last couple of days. How he'd kept up, he didn't know.

The moment that Doctor Lam saw them, she looked about ready to faint.

"What happened? I thought you said your shin was fine?"

With a grunt, he climbed onto the bed and despite his protests, Vala pulled up the leg of his sweatpants.

Carolyn's eyes widened and she fought down a gasp of horror. A bruise about six inches long and three inches wide marred the skin of his shin. It was mostly purple with a few black and blue spots.

Daniel let out a whistle. "Damn. It didn't look that bad when I first got a look at it."

"Well, I'm sure your little wrestling match only agitated it more," Vala observed.

Doctor Lam raised her eyebrows, though she said nothing. Her gaze turned to Cam, telling him very clearly by her look that she wasn't happy he'd lied to her.

"You need to quit acting like such a tough shit, Cam, or you're going to be bleeding internally one of these days and never even know it."

The tone of the comment surprised Daniel, as he'd never seen her react quite this way before. Apparently, it was something Cam was used to because he looked at her unflinchingly.

"It was fine for the first 36 hours."

Carolyn sighed, shaking her head. "I swear, Cam. You can't let go of your pride enough to know when you could be seriously hurt."

Cam frowned. "It's not my pride, it's my principles."

She snorted. "Do your principles include an amputated leg? Because if you'd walked on this for another day without getting medical attention, that's just what you'd have." She scribbled something on a clipboard and then looked up at him. "You're on bed rest for the next 12 hours." Carolyn held up her hand to stall his protests. "And you're going to be on crutches for a couple of days at least."

Again, Cam frowned. "But that means…"

Carolyn nodded. "You won't be going off world until you're off the crutches."

Cam glared at her, clearly blaming her. "Ah, hell."

Instead of storming out like he normally would have, his shoulders sagged and he pouted like a two-year-old, muttering to himself and avoiding the others' gazes.

As Carolyn moved toward her office, Daniel and Vala followed her.

"Will he really be out of commission for three days? We really need him…"

"I'm sure that General O'Neil can do without him if necessary," she replied.

Daniel nodded and glanced over at Cam, who was still sulking and looking like he desperately wanted to hit something.

"Is he going to be alright?" Daniel asked.

Carolyn sighed. "If you mean do I think he'll get over it, yes. But he's not going to be an easy patient until he's able to walk on his own again."

Daniel nodded. "Yeah…with his past, I wouldn't expect him to be. He gave the nurses hell at the hospital until he walked out on his own two feet."

"You'll know the moment he's off bed rest because he'll be wandering around the base on crutches looking for something to do."

Daniel smiled. "I have no doubt."

With this, he and Vala exited the infirmary, headed back to Daniel's office to continue work on the translations.

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

"Back so soon?"

Cam looked up to find Jack smiling down at him. Cam grunted. "Yes, sir."

"Is that annoyance in your voice, Colonel?" Carolyn asked as she entered the room with an ice pack for his leg. "You have only yourself to blame for lying to me and telling me you were fine."

He looked at her, anger and bitterness flashing in his eyes.

She said nothing more, placing the large ice pack on his leg and leaving the room.

Jack looked down and saw the bruise on Cam's leg. "So what happened to your leg?"

"Carolyn kicked me in the shin for being a smartass."

Jack's eyebrows shot up. "That's what the bruise is from?" Again, Cam grunted and Jack grinned. "You're not the first one of us to get injured by an angry woman."

"Yeah, I was there when Vala gave Jackson that shiner," he muttered.

Jack's eyebrows shot up even higher. "I was talking about the time Carter bit my hand and left a nice-sized bruise." He paused. "She decked him? When?"

"A few days ago when he got her all riled up."

Jack chuckled. "Sorry I had to miss that. Would have been a nice change. I'm usually the one who gets hit."

Cam sighed. "I should've run while I had the chance."

"From Lam?" Cam nodded. "I can tell you don't mean it, Mitchell."

Cam paused considering and again sighed. "I suppose you're right. I wouldn't have run if I had ten Jaffa warriors coming at me."

Jack nodded and a moment of silence passed between them. "So you're confined to Earth for a few days…"

The displeasure in Cam's eyes flared. "Yes, sir."

Jack paused. "I'm sure it'll take some time for Daniel and Vala to get through the translations anyway."

"Three days?" Cam asked sarcastically.

Jack's eyebrows shot up. "I could ask them to stall if you'd like."

Cam sighed, shaking his head. "No, sir. For once I'm going to take my lumps like a man instead of acting like a two-year-old having a temper tantrum."

Jack nodded. "You should be up and about in a few hours. Why don't you meet us in the Commissary for dinner?"

Cam nodded and smiled slightly, pleased at the invitation. "Yes, sir. I'll be there."


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