A note from Chiri-O:

This story has been turned into a series of connected one-shots, thanks to the stellar advice of ladygris. Each will be able to be a story by itself though. Since, however they are connected (in some way or another), I am putting them in the same place. They will (probably) all be in first person. I am going to put the summaries, who's POV the story is from, and other information of import at the start of each chapter.

Thanks very much!

Title: Waking Up Next to Her

POV: Daniel

Summary: Daniel wakes up in Vala's room… and someone knocks on the door.

Other Info: This takes place directly after Not What I Expected, but you don't need to read it first. But it might be helpful. Spoiler (or rather, reference to…) for Unending, but really, nothing big. I couldn't help myself…

"Daniel? Wake up!"

Her voice is right in my ear. I'm trying to ignore her… but should have realized that was impossible. She is, after all, Vala. I roll over, so I am facing her, and blink a couple of times. Before I can say anything, Vala sits up, grabs the comforter, which, I am wrapped up in, and starts to pout. She looks down at me with sad eyes.

"Share." Is all she says. She tugs on the comforter to emphasize her point. Smiling as I roll back over, I simply say,

"No."

"No?"

"That's what I said. 'No.'" She is quiet for a moment. A minute later I am pulled down onto my back. She smirks. A smirk. Great. Her smirks always spell "disaster" when their aimed at me. Her smirk drops and she adopts an innocent look. Oh, wonderful. Innocent 's not much better.

"Please?" She puts her hand on my face and runs her thumb across my lips. I forget what she wanted when she kisses me. I move the comforter aside and sit up, so I can put a hand behind her neck and a hand in her hair. We kiss for a while before I feel something being yanked out from under me. Our kiss is broken when I fall forward on the bed. Typical. I should have expected it. But who was I to turn down a kiss? I sit up, and see that Vala had gotten off of the bed and was holding the comforter.

"Hey!" I'll play along and pretend to be angry. "I wasn't done with that."

"Well, if you won't share, I won't share!" She declares with a determined expression on her face. It makes her look adorable.

"Is that a fact?" I ask, raising an eyebrow at her.

We are interrupted by a loud knock on the door. We both stiffen. Vala's eyes widen Nobody knows I am here. Ok. Except maybe Teal'C.

"Princess? You in there?" Cam yells from the other side of the door. Vala throws the comforter at the bed and grabs a robe off of a chair. I didn't think should be seen, I mean, it did seem kind of… Anyway, I grab my clothes and move out of sight. I am pulling on my pants when Cam knocks again.

"Vala?" Cam sounds worried

"I'll be right there, Cameron," She said tying the robe. I put on my glasses as Vala looks over at me and smiles before I pull on my shirt, and she opens the door.

"Princess," He pauses, "Didn't wake you up, did I?"

I can't exactly see what's happening; the door is blocking my view. But I can see part of Vala. She shakes her head,

"Not at all."

"Good,"

"Cameron, what did you want?" Vala says.

"Vala, I don't know what happened yesterday," Cam pauses. Yesterday? He's here to talk about yesterday? Just great. My gut twists as I think about it. I said some pretty awful things. I can't help but remember.

"Ugh! Quit lying!" I yelled, not able to suppress the things I said to her.

"I hate you when you're like this." I murmured angrily "You just never quit! You just keep prodding, and prodding me until I can't take it anymore!" I couldn't help it, I started yelling again. "Don't you know when enough is enough?"

"Daniel, I-" She tried to defend herself. She was only messing with me. A part of me knew that. But I couldn't take it anymore. It was the third time this week she had done something annoying like that. And I couldn't take it anymore.

"No! I can't stand this anymore! You're such a nuisance! I can never get anything done when you're around!" "You constantly distract me from whatever I am doing. You never stop to think that it might be important, or that it might have some value. You just plow on ahead with whatever distraction it is you have planned! You could be useful. God knows you're not stupid! But no, you choose to be a hindrance! You choose to be annoying and not take anything seriously! And you know what the worst part of this whole thing is? Cam always sends you with me! So I never can get anything done! All because you're bored!" Ok, so maybe that wasn't the complete truth. She wasn't always annoying…. But right then, it didn't matter to me. I was just angry.

She had said"If I am really such a burden, then I'll leave. I'll have Cam send someone else to help you," and left.

Looking back, I should have followed her. Right after I said it I started to feel bad. I hadn't meant what I said.

You know what they say, "Hindsight is 20/20." And isn't that the truth? Cam's voice broke me out of my memories when he said

"Look. It's not going to affect the mission is it?"

"Oh!" Vala says. She sounds genuinely surprised. As if it were only a distant memory and it hadn't only happened yesterday. "No, everything is fine. " I can hear her grinning as she says it. Cam is silent for a minute.

"Jackson came and apologized, didn't he?"

"He did." I smiled. She forgave me, when I visited her last night. She even apologized. She had ignored my knocking, at first. But, I deserved that. I deserved more than that. She had been so sincere, and so beautiful, that I had kissed her. And she had kissed back. I definitely didn't deserve that.

"Ah. Well then…. I didn't need to…. Did I?"

"Nope" Vala giggles

"Ah." Silence "If you see him, tell him we leave at 0730."

"I will."

After a moment, Vala shuts the door. She's silent for a minute before she started laughing. After a while, she stops.

"You should have seen his face," she tells me. "He looked so embarrassed…" She giggles.

"Oh. " She turns and looks at me. "He said were leaving at 0730."

"Vala…" I start, but she smirks. I just shake my head. She's messing with me again. I thought struck me. What if she was messing with me? About all of this.

"Vala…" I start. "About you and me…." Her eyes widened. She looks like she is going to interrupt, so I hurry and say

"You'd better not be messing with me." We both stiffen. I was going to continue, I had more to say…but when I said that… I don't know… it just felt like….

"I feel like you've told me that before…" Exactly. I nod. I know exactly what she means. We sit there in silence for a few minutes, waiting for the feeling to pass. Eventually she relaxes. She stands up as she whispers,

"I'm not." I almost don't hear her.

Her comment makes me smile. I stand and walk over to her. I pull back her into my arms and say the first thing that came to my mind.

"I believe you." I brush her hair aside and kiss the back of her neck. She sighs in contentment, leaning into me at the same time. We stand there for a moment, just enjoying each other's company. She turns her head so she can see my face. She smiles. I kiss her forehead before she moves away.

I am sure I'm smiling like an idiot, but I can't help myself. Vala makes me smile in a way Sha're never could. My smile saddens as I remember her. Sha're… Yes, I still miss her. She was my wife, I loved her. Of course I miss her. I will always miss her. But… that doesn't mean…

"Daniel?" My gaze focuses on Vala. I can feel my smile brightening. Vala. She has given me much more… emotion. It hasn't been as easy to love Vala, as it had been with Sha're. She looked worried. I wanted to erase that worry from her face.

"I was just thinking." I put my arms back around her. She sighs happily.

"Well that isn't really surprising," She wraps her arms around me. "You're always thinking." I laugh.

I look at the alarm clock on her bedside table. It's 5:30. Vala probably wanted some time to do… well, whatever she does in the morning.

"I should go," I say, loosening my arms. I grab her chin and kiss her, softly. I smile at her when I pull back. "I'll see you at breakfast." I tell her. She kisses me one more time before I leave.

I make my way to my room. I want to change before I eat. I meet up with Teal'C on my way.

"Good morning, Daniel Jackson."

"Hey Teal'C."

We walk to the mess in silence.

Once we were seated, we, obviously, begin to eat. I start to think about this morning. It had been a great morning. I think it over. Going over each detail in my mind. When I got to the part when I had said "You better not be messing with me" I shiver.

"What troubles you, Daniel Jackson?"

"It's nothing Teal'C."

He just raises his eyebrow at me.

"Really. It's nothing"

Teal'C returns to his breakfast as Sam puts her tray down next to mine.

"Morning. Daniel. Teal'C. " Teal'C bows his head in response.

"Morning Sam,"

After a while Sam looks up from her food.

"What did you say to her?" She asks me.

"What did I say to whom?"

"I believe what Colonel Carter wishes to know what you said to upset Vala Mal Doran yesterday."

Sam and I both look at Teal'C for a moment, before I decide to answer her question.

"Oh. Only that she was a nuisance, annoying, that I never got my work done when she was around and that she wasn't useful. Oh. And I may have called her a hindrance. It was bad…"

"No wonder she was so upset."

Before I can say anything, Cam sits next to Teal'C.

"She wasn't upset this morning. " He sates

"She wasn't?"

"Nope. Whatever Sunshine said when he apologized did the trick. She wasn't even slightly mad." He pauses to take a bite of his eggs, "In fact, when I brought it up, it looked like she was remembering some distant memory. " He reflects for a moment. "She even smiled."

Everyone at the table looks at me. Teal'C raises his eyebrow.

"What?" I try to look innocent, but my face seems to give something away, because Cam smirks.

"There's only one way you could have pulled that off, Jackson. " He pretends to think for a moment. "She did seem awful happy for someone who had been hurt yesterday."

Sam caught on. She raises both of her eyebrows at me. I take my glasses off and I put my head in my hands. I do not want to talk about this. I rub my eyes with the heels of my hands.

"Good morning," a voice sings happily. Vala. Vala and her horrible timing. I look up. Everyone at the table is smirking at me. Even Teal'C has a slight smile. Vala notices. I'm sure my face is red, so I get up from the table and leave. I only heard Vala say

"What was that all about?" and Cam snicker before I was out the door. I avoid them until the debriefing.

Later, as we we're going up the ramp to the 'gate, Teal'C turns to me with a small smile and says

"Congratulations on your new relationship with Vala Mal Doran, Daniel Jackson. I believe you will find happiness with her." I murmur "thanks Teal'C" as we step through the 'gate.

Thank's very much for reading. :D Please review. I really want to know what you think on this one. Daniel's hard to write for! D:

~Chiri-O