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Etched in His Heart
(The First Day in Egypt)
They make their way to the luggage claim. A tall, strong man walks by and pushes Tiffany out of the way, not saying a word to her. Daniel quickens his pace to get to her. He was a bit behind her, but he saw what happened. "are you ok?" he says gently placing his hand on her arm. She turns and still in shock of the force with which the man had bumped her, well half that and half wanting to give him a piece of her mind. But, she knew Daniel would disapprove.
She hated disappointing people, especially her Father, Sam, Daniel, or Teal'c. So she decided not to give the man she could no longer see a piece of her mind. "Yeah I'm fine" she says, trying to smile with as little effort as possible. Daniel looks up to see if he can find the man who had bumped her. Failing he looks back down at her. "Come on" he says and leads her to luggage claim.
They get to the conveyor belt carrying the suitcases from their plane. Daniel and Tiffany both see their luggage, Hers then two others then his. Daniel reaches down to retrieve her suitcase at the same moment she did. Both reaching for the suitcase, their hands meet. They look at each other and both pull away.
Mean while the suitcases are continuing down the line. They realize and run down the line to find them again. "I'll get it" he says and grabs hers then his a few moments after. "Thank you" she says smiling at him. "No Problem" he says also smiling. They put their carry-ons on their backs, pulling their suitcases behind them. They stop to eat at a McDonalds in the airport.
"So, Daniel," Tiffany begins placing a fry in her mouth. He looks up at her sipping his coke. "yeah?" he answers after swallowing the drink. "If we're in Cairo, how are we getting to Giza?" "well, we're staying in a hotel here in Cairo, and we'll head to Giza tomorrow morning." he states matter of factly. "we'll rent a car, it's not too far." "ok Dr. Seuss" she teases. Daniel squints his eyes at her "funny" he says and goes back to finishing his food.
"Can i help you?" a woman exclaimed from behind the rental counter. She had a high pitched voice which tended to drive any sane person to the asylum. She wore bright red lipstick and so much perfume you could smell her from a mile away. "ah, we'd like to rent a car." "ya? and what kind sir?" she says chewing her gum.
"What do you have?" "i think we have a Black Wrangler, and a Ford left, I think" she says still chewing her gum open mouthed. "oh my god" was all Tiffany could think "this girl's a joke" she thought to herself. "Uh we'll take the Jeep." Daniel says taking out his wallet. "Anything for you babe" she says batting her eyes. Daniel looks up and raises his brow at the woman behind the desk. Tiffany glares at her "What a.." she thinks to herself, watching as Daniel pays her and she hands him the keys telling him where it's parked.
"Come on" Daniel says eager to get away from the woman behind the desk that was making him quite uncomfortable. They turn to walk out the door. "See ya stud" the woman yells after him. Anger and something else though she wasn't sure what kept building up inside of Tiffany. She spun around and started back toward the desk enraged. Daniel looks to his side and noticing she was no longer beside him he turned back to find Tiffany. He ran over to her "Come on, let it go"
She obeyed, not able to tell the woman behind the desk exactly what she thought of her. Probably a good thing, when an O'Neill gets mad, they get mad. They get to the Jeep and throw their things in the back. Daniel starts the car and they pull away from the airport.
They sit silent for a while, which was odd, the two always had something to talk about, whether regarding work or just random things going on in their heads. Tiffany stares out the window her arms folded, leaning her head against the back of the seat, thinking. "what a strange feeling" she thinks to herself, remembering the feeling that had come upon her along with anger at the woman behind the desk.
Trying to figure out what exactly it was she had felt, she looks at Daniel. "sad? no, Hurt? possible but i don't think so, annoyed, well i did feel annoyed but that wasn't it" she yawns and looks back out the window. suddenly an emotion she had not thought of came to her. "Jealousy?, was i jealous? no i couldn't be, could i? i mean he's just a friend right?" she thinks looking back at Daniel's sweet face. "No no i wasn't jealous i couldn't have been" she assures herself.
Daniel looks at her and smiles. She smiles back and looks out the windshield staring at the road. "What's wrong?" a concerned Daniel asks his friend. "nothing" she says smiling "i'm fine" "are you sure? you're so quiet" he says looking to her and then back to the road. "yeah, i guess i'm just tired, and you haven't said much yourself buddy what's up with you?" "nothing, just tired" he says in a yawn. Not admitting that he was wondering why she had gotten so mad that she felt she had to go back to the woman behind the desk.
They pull up to a gas station. After getting gas Daniel gets back in the car. "You want to drive?" "oh yeah, i would love to, one problem, i have no clue where we're going" "I'll give you directions as we go" She looks up at him, her eyes meet his. His look of encouragement convinced her. "ok, yeah I'll drive the rest of the way." she says getting out of the jeep to switch seats with Daniel.
They pull out and they make their way to the hotel. "What's the name of the hotel?" "Uh, the Intercontinental Pyramids Park Resort" "Now that's a mouthful" she says laughing. Daniel smiles. He looks out the window on her side and says "that's it" pointing to a big beautiful resort. "That?!?" she says amazed "yes" he says smiling.
She turns right and they get out of the car, the check in and bring their things to their room.
A/N: sorry it took so long, look out for chapter five, hope you liked it.