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Chapter Five, Inconvenient Confessions

At first no the plan didn't seem like a good one, but after much discussion the plan was agreed upon. Adria would go with them and be a sufficient enough distraction. The Master wouldn't know what to do with a girl with no memory who had crazy, freak powers like him. That would provide good enough time for them to make it back to the Tardis.

Ten minutes later the team was getting suited up to go. "Think the plan will work? Do you think Adria will cooperate?" Sam asked, tying her shoes.

"We don't want him to hurt Adria. She's just supposed to be a distraction. The Doctor said if it came down to it, he could get her into the Tardis before we leave as long as she gets injected with nano- I don't remember what he said exactly but he's working with Dr. Lam on it now. Last I heard she was hesitant but willing to save her mother."

"Then it looks like the plan is going to work out just fine. Did the I.O.A. agree to everything?" She asked.

Daniel nodded. "Yes, they agreed finally. We're ready to leave as soon as The Doctor and Adria are ready."

"Alright, here we go." Sam said with a grin, grabbing her gun and leading the way out of the room into the gate room. Even though they didn't need to be there, it seemed like a good idea, central operations and all.

The Doctor, though very on edge about other people being in his ship, allowed the others in.

"No one told me this was bigger inside of it. I think I could figure something out like this." Adria said as she entered. She then clutched her head. She couldn't remember exactly what she could do…

"So, it's bigger on the inside." Sam declared.

The Doctor shut the doors behind them. "It's bigger on the inside."

~*~*~*~

Vala paced, back and forth. She didn't play prisoner well.

"Vala, it's time to give it a rest." Donna told her quietly.

"What if he—they don't come for us? What if they can't find us?" Vala worried. "I know I shouldn't be so worried. They're never given up in the past. Even before I was part of the team, they listened to me and tried to find me. I just…" She looked away.

"They'll find us." Donna reassured her.

Vala felt a lump in her throat. She didn't know if she was more afraid that the team would look and not find them, or if what she was really afraid of is if they wouldn't look for her at all. But as the thought was crossing her mind, their cell door opened and there stood the rest of SG1 and The Doctor.

~*~*~*~

Everything had run smoothly, Adria had proved a sufficient distraction, and it hadn't taken too long for the others to find Vala and Donna. Daniel was relieved when he saw Vala and Donna seemingly unharmed, --although, in all honesty, he was mostly just worried for Vala's sake.--

"You came?" Vala asked, in a surprised, but relieved, voice.

Daniel felt a little sick when he heard in her voice how very surprised she was. "Of course we did." He assured her, gently. "What were we going to do? Leave you? Never." He said, and he hugged her.

~*~*~*~

When they had come, Donna had been thoroughly relieved. She hugged The Doctor, and then watched Daniel and Vala with a sort of satisfied smile. Daniel had wrapped his arms around her and she had accepted the hug. Any tension, which had remained from earlier, seemed almost gone.

"Alright, let's have this reunion party back on base. Let's get outta here." Mitchell said, guarding the door.

"Right." Daniel said, pulling away. Vala did the same.

They followed Mitchell's lead back to the Tardis. As it turned our, the Stargate only worked when dialing from somewhere else. Therefore, they could not find the gate nor dial out from the gate. It was not a huge setback, but as the arrived at the Tardis—or rather, where the Tardis should have been— They looked questioningly at each other at the empty space where the Tardis should have been.

"He can't have…" The Doctor began.

Behind them a loud voice crackled in a laugh that sounded far more like victory than amusement.

All at once, they all turned to stare at the Master.

~*~*~*~

"This is unfair. We were gone. Completely out of here. We just had to get inside his ship and then we would have been fine. But no, somehow he got the Tardis and drug us all back here!" Vala complained, kicking the door with a frustrated sigh. She slid down to the floor and leaned against the wall.

All of SG1, The Doctor and Donna were confined to the small, locked room. Vala wasn't taking it well. She had already been locked up and now she felt like she truly was going to go crazy. And though she would never be able to remember it, the once spoken sentence, "I'm gonna go crazy and I'm taking you with me" rang too true at this moment.

The Doctor seemed equally frustrated. He paced, back and forth, hands in pockets, (of his suit, because the Master had taken his jacket because it was Time Lord technology and therefore, bigger on the inside. Containing all sorts of ding-dabs that might help in their escape), "Why did he have to take my screwdriver…" He was muttering. "Anything else would have been fine…"

Vala was the only one sitting on the ground, she looked up at everyone around her. "You might as well get comfortable, it seems we're going to be here for a while. If I could get out, I would have already done so." She said, completely serious.

Of course, they all knew she was right. Being one of the best thieves in their galaxy, picking a lock couldn't be so hard. "The lock is just deficient." She muttered. "Substantially deficient."

Teal'c stood near the door, and looked down at her, with a slight nod he said, "Indeed."

A long silence ensued. "What's really bad about this, is that we're just left to his mercy. Which doesn't seem to exist." Vala said, breaking the silence.

Everyone mumbled their agreement. No one had a plan. Or any idea of how to get out. They were stuck.

"Well, if this wasn't a life threatening situation as ever.... If anyone wanted to say anything to anyone, this would definitely be the time." Donna hinted loudly.

Mitchell nodded, and looked pointedly at Daniel and Vala. But they didn't appear to notice.

There was another long silence, before some of the others started muttering to each other in low voices, holding conversations not really because they wanted to talk, but because it was the only thing they really could be doing.

"What were you going to say?" Vala asked Daniel, in a low voice.

"What?" He asked, confusedly.

"When we were arguing, and got interrupted by Adria, you were going to say something about...My feelings?"

"Oh." Was all he said, then he looked in another direction, but had a sort of thoughtful look on his face.

"Well?" Vala asked, impatiently. She wasn't the kind of person who would sit back and wait for someone to talk when they wanted too. She was going to pry whether he liked it or not.

"It's nothing." He said, shaking his head. This wasn't the time to talk about this...Of course, he was sure he would never think it was the time to talk about this.

"It's never nothing with you." Vala said, smacking him on the arm. She wanted to hear this.

"Ouch!" He complained, before saying, "I just was going to ask you why you never showed me." He said, quickly.

"Showed you what?"

"Your feelings."

Vala looked down at her hands that rested in her lap. She didn't want to answer that question. She didn't have a good answer. She just didn't ever want to show him.

He was waiting for an answer. He would always be more patient than her.

"I just… I never…" She looked up. "I knew that you would always think it was a joke, like always. I didn't need to hurt myself that way."

He looked away, thinking. "Well, I'm sorry that I did that to you."

"It isn't your fault. I was that way for a while, but I"m not any more and I wanted you to understand that." She said, quietly. But everyone in the room was watching them now, they didn't notice.

"I should have been more sensitive to how you felt." He said, sadly.

"You probably should have, but I shouldn't have been such a big flirt." She said.

He touched her cheek gently. "It bothered me more then it should have."

"I shouldn't have said what I did." She informed him.

"I shouldn't have, either. I should never have brought up."

"I don't want to die hating you." She told him.

"I don't want to die on bad terms with you." He told her.

"I wouldn't mind dying after we've gotten everything resolved. I mean I'd like to live. But if I died and everything was alright with you, I think I would be okay." She said, after a small pause.

"We'll try not to die, but we can sort everything out just in case, sound alright?" He said, with a small smile.

"Sounds alright." She said, nodding. "I don't hate you."

"I don't hate you either..." He told her.

"I don't hate you but I do lo--Never mind." She said, wishing she hadn't said anything.

"No. What?" He asked. In his head he thought, It may never be nothing with me, but it's the same with you. It's always something.

Vala looked down at her hands and refused to look at him. If she was going to tell him, she wasn't sure it could be while she was making eye contact. "I love you." She felt the urge inside her to run. She was always running. Maybe she had stopped physically running, but she was still emotionally running. Running from anything that might hurt her inside. She was ready to run again. The only thing keeping her in the room was the locked door. She had nowhere to go. She had to completely stand still emotionally.

Daniel smiled softly, but just as he got ready to answer, The Master entered the room.

Authors' Note: So, we know you are probably made at us for ending it like that, but hey! Got to have some suspense or it isn't drama! =) Reviews are wonderful.