Etched in His Heart
(The First Day in Egypt pt4)
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A/N: Howdy do? anyway, I hope you like this next bit, i do apologize if some of these aren't very long and i think this is going to be my last part of day one lol.
The two pass by an indoor pool. Tiffany smiles and runs over to the glass to look into the pool area. The water a crystal clear blue color. Steam rises from the surface, indicating that it is heated. She even brought her bathing suit.. she never knew when she would need it. Not to mention the fact that Daniel MIGHT have said something about a pool.
"DANIEL! can we go swimming? i mean while we're here? not now obviously but.." "Yeah if you brought your suit" he says interrupting her. "Of course!" she says to him almost as if to say duh, who wouldn't? "How about, tomorrow after we get back from the pyramids?" he asks smiling at her, his arms folded.
She
looks up at him "Really?" she asks "yeah, you can
swim, I'll probably just bring a book or something to read while
y.." he says and is immediately interrupted. Tiffany turns her
body so she is facing Daniel. "Wait a minute, you're not gonna
swim?" she asks.
"I wasn't planning on it, i mean i didn't bring anything" "Come on!" She says upset that he won't swim. "It'll be relaxing, especially after a long day in the sun" she says trying to convince him. "No, no you can swim, enjoy yourself" he says smiling. "You're no fun" she says turning back to look at the pool.
"I'll
remember that, the next time i think about taking you with me on
vacation" he says smirking. "I didn't mean that i swear! i
just meant," she says trying to think of some way to say he was
a party pooper without actually saying it. "No fun" he says
smiling at her defeat.
"oh come on you know i didn't mean it" she says to the taller man smiling down at her. "I know what you meant" he says "and I'm sorry, but i can't swim without a suit" "Well, mister, you should have thought about that when you were packing" she says folding her arms, rising onto her tiptoes, so her face was inches from his face.
She turns and begins to walk away smiling to herself. She loved doing that to people, but when she just did it to him, it was different. She didn't however know what it did to him. He only laughed slightly to himself and followed her. But inside, he was breaking down. His heart was still racing, his blood pumping, his body temperature still trying to decide what level it had to drop to before it was normal again.
They went back to their room to chill a while before dinner. "Cards anyone?" she asks walking out of her room with a deck of cards in her hand. "What game?" he asks looking at her as she sits opposite him and spreads the deck onto the coffee table top. "7 up?" she asks "Never played"
"You've known me for eight years and you have never played 7up? Well you are about to learn." she says shuffling the deck. Daniel watches as she places seven cards in a line. She then chucks seven cards in his direction. "OK, put your cards in a line like mine" she says pointing to her cards.
She places the rest of the deck in a pile between their lines. "OK, aces count as ones, eight through king is discluded. Pick up a card from the deck" she says pointing down at the stack of cards. "Six" he says holding up the six of clubs to show her. "Ok, count from left to right, and put that card in place of the sixth card." Daniel does so.
"Ok, now what?" he says, the card he had replaced between his pointer and middle finger. "What's that one?" she asks "A three" "do the same thing you did before until you get a card that is eight, nine, ten, jack, king or queen." He does so, placing a card in the six, three, and seven spaces.
"My Turn," She says grabbing a card out of the deck. It's an ace. The ace of spades. She places it in it's spot. That card was a five, she replaces that card which was a three. Daniel watches as she quickly changed all of her cards. A two, which was a four, which replaced that card which was a seven, which was a six, leaving a three. The card in the six place just so happened to be a three.
She smirks in Daniel's direction as she replaces the card in the three spot with the three. She picks up the card that had been there face down. The Queen of Hearts. She shows it to Daniel and places it next to the pile of cards. She had won that first round, and she didn't even let him have a second turn. "Cheater" Daniel says squinting at Tiffany.
"It's the luck of the cards Danny Boy" she says sitting back, crossing her arms and smirking. He takes the cards and shuffles them all. Handing them both seven cards again. She takes the seventh card he gave her and puts it under the deck. He looks at her confused.
"I won the last round, i get six cards, YOU get seven" she says changing her position so she sits cross legged on the armchair. "So whoever wins gets one less card then before?" he asks "Yes, the person who gets down to one card, wins." "I see" he says as if he were thinking. She figured he was probably trying to figure out how she had won by just drawing one card.
"Come on Danny, whatcha waitin' for?" she asks. Daniel doesn't like it much when people call him Danny or Danny boy, or anything other then Daniel or Dr. Jackson. But when she said it, he found it, in a way, cute. He smiles every time she says it. He takes a card and continue to play until dinner.
A/N: OK, so i hope you enjoyed this part, i had fun writing it that's for sure. I'm not going to elaborate on their dinner, only because... well i can't tell you! muahahahaha well please comment and rate. sorry if it takes a while for the next part to come out.