Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story beside the plot and The character by the name of Tiffany
A/N: i hope you like this chapter! please review
Etched in His Heart
(Plane Ride to Egypt)
Daniel pulls into the parking lot of the airport at about 6:00 A.M. He parks relatively close to the doors. They get out of the car and Daniel opens the trunk. He pulls out his and her suitcases and puts them on the pavement. Tiffany walks to the back of the car and grabs her backpack as well as his. She takes her suitcase and pulls up the handle that allows her to roll the suitcase across the ground.
Daniel grabs his backpack from her "You have everything?" he asks double checking to make sure they didn't forget anything in the car. "Yep" she says tired/excited all at the same time. He shuts the trunk and they head into the airport. They roll their luggage bags across the floor of the airport. A man at the luggage counter takes their suitcases and puts them on a conveyor belt to be boarded on the plane.
"You want something to eat?" Daniel asks groggily. "Yes, please" she says, her stomach growling. They walk over to the Dunkin' Donuts in the airport. Tiffany pulls out her wallet. "No, no let me" he says and pulls out his wallet. "Chocolate chip muffin please" she says to her friend. "Do you want some coffee?" he asks in a yawn. "no, thank you, I had enough of that this morning" she yawns after finishing her words. Daniel looks down at her as if to say 'are you sure?'. "I'm fine" she insists.
"Good Morning, How can i help you?" the young man over the counter asks, seemingly too happy. "Uh, a Medium Regular Coffee and a chocolate chip muffin please" Daniel states plainly and looks back to Tiffany. "You aren't going to get food? a Bagel, something?" she asks. "No, I'm not really that hungry. "Here you go Sir," Daniel turns his head quickly back to the young man behind the counter.
"that will be $6.75" Daniel hands the young man $7. and is given a quarter back. "Thank you" Daniel says "Have a nice flight" the young man at the counter says still all to happily. Daniel hands the muffin to Tiffany and starts sipping his coffee as they walk to the waiting area near gate B.
They finish, "Let me see I'll throw it away" she says gesturing Daniel to hand over his now empty Styrofoam cup. She gets up and walks to the closest trash can and throws their trash away. She walks back and sits next to Daniel. She pulls out a book from her backpack she packed in their office the day before. She begins to read about the great pyramids of Giza. Daniel looks over and reads with her.
"Your attention please, flight 810 to Egypt is now boarding" a voice is heard. She closes the book and places it back in her bag. Daniel picks his bag up and they both get in line to board. They walk onto the plane and Tiffany finds their seats. They sit on the right side of the plane. Daniel sits in the window seat and she sits next to him. "Do you want the window?" He asks "no, i can see" she says looking in his direction.
"Good Morning, and welcome aboard." a squeaky voice comes over the intercom. The flight attendant went over all of the safety regulations and such. They take off. Tiffany takes out the video camera. she rewinds the tape and watches what was last recorded. A recording of some old ruins on P3R-540 taken a week or so before. She continues to watch it, Daniel leans over to watch also, nothing good playing on the airplane television.
They talk about what the writings could have meant and then the image in the camera goes from old ruins to Jack slowly bringing his face up to the camera lens. They both laugh. The tape ends, she pulls out a blank miniDV tape to put in the camera so she wouldn't forget later and accidentally erase their work on the other tape.
She places the camera in her bag once more. She yawns uncontrollably. Her attempt to cut the yawn short and hide that she was tired was unsuccessful. She remembers what her father said "long plane ride. It should give you time to catch some sleep" She puts her head back and closes her eyes. Daniel turns to her and sees that she is attempting to sleep. He opens his mouth and then closes it as if he were about to say something.
He looks at her. The delicate, innocent expression on her face as she sleeps. He smiles and takes a book out of his bag to read. She stirs a half an hour later. Moving about, her head ends up on his shoulder. He looks down at her, he takes off his red long sleeve button down shirt on top of his black t-shirt off carefully and drapes it over her so she isn't cold. He rests his head on the back of his chair and closes his eyes.
"We are now flying over Cairo Egypt, we will be landing in about 15 minutes at the Cairo International Airport. We hope you had a nice flight. Thank you for flying with EgyptAir" Daniel and Tiffany are both awaken by the squeaky flight attendants voice. Tiffany realizing she had used Daniel as a pillow, a very comfortable pillow, come to think of it, and lifts her head up. "i'm sorry" she says apologizing to her friend and colleague. "for what?" he asks puzzled. "for resting my head on my shoulder" she says back to the confused archaeologist. "Don't be" he says looking into her golden hazel eyes. She looks into his blue eyes and gets lost for a moment.
The plane lands. They snap out of their trance and gather their things. They get up and follow the line of people out of the plane into the airport.
A/N: I hope you liked this chapter and i will continue though i'm not sure when i will get the next chapter posted I've been very busy. watch out for chapter four!