Title: Camping Can Be Fun
Author: spacegypsy1
Rating:
Teen
Category: Action/Adventure/Romance
Season: After Season
10
Featured Character(s): Jack, Sam, Daniel, Vala, Teal'c,
Mitchell
Pairings: D/V and J/S
Warnings: None
A/N: From Marishal's story idea! Thanks Mari, for the idea and keeping me under control. And thanks Supershipper for the beta.
Synopsis: The Murdering Hook Man tries to patch things up, Vala is unforgiving. Teal'c pegs the couple right. Mitchell gets the Vala flirty treatment. And Camp Counselor Jack and Camper Sam have a moment.
Chapter Four: The Murdering Hook Man
Daniel tightened his arm around her waist, pulling her flush against him. Then suddenly he let go, pulling back.
She knew the instant the murdering hook man awoke. Having lived through unbelievable tragedies, surviving a Goa'uld host, burning to death, just to name a few, she was going to die at the hands of some…..
"Vala?" It was Daniel's sleepy, confused voice.
"Oh, Daniel!" She cried in relief, turning over and rolling to lie atop him. She kissed him all over his face, mouth and neck. She hugged him, tears streaming down her face, then she kissed him again. "Daniel, it's you. It's really you!" And she kissed him again.
Dazed and confused he let her kiss him. Damn but she was the best. No woman had ever kissed him like Vala Mal Doran. Thankfully she had forgiven him. It was just her way of telling him.
Finally she moved off of him.
Daniel propped himself up on one elbow and grinned.
Vala struggled out of her sleeping bag and slapped him across the face. "Oh, I hate you!" Throwing open the SUV door she jumped out.
He sat up, mouth agape and watched her stomp off through the mud. "Nope, not forgotten, not forgiven."
Jack, Mitchell and Teal'c standing side by side near the Coleman stove, coffee cups in hand, watched the scene with interest. The morning had brought clear skies, and bright sunshine.
Jack took a sip of coffee. "Like Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner." He stuffed the remainder of his breakfast, the last of four sweet rolls, into his mouth.
"Hum, I don't know, maybe Tweety and Sylvester." Mitchell refilled his coffee cup, stepping carefully around the mud puddles.
"Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker." Teal'c drank the last of his coffee, holding his cup out for Mitchell to fill.
"She being Darth Vader?" Mitchell asked.
"Indeed."
"That works," Jack held his cup out for Mitchell, too.
When Sam arrived at the picnic table, the three of them joined her. "This is our hearty camping breakfast?" She asked Jack.
"Yeah, so?"
Daniel, all sleepy eyed and without his glasses, sat beside Sam and grabbed three of the sweet rolls.
"Mornin' sleepy head." Jack raised his cup in salute.
"Mornin' sunshine," Mitchell merely grinned.
Daniel squinted his eyes dangerously.
"DanielJackson, if you continue to continually manipulate your face and eyes in that manner, I have heard it said you may be in danger of permanently affixing that glare to your eyes." Teal'c ended his dissertation, sitting quietly, expression blank.
Daniel smiled. "And if I continually, continue to affix a smile?"
"Possibly the same result. Would it not be better to be permanently smiling as opposed to permanently frowning?"
Hearing the Jaffa's comment, Vala approached the table. She perked up and plastered a silly smile on her face. Vanity must survive at all costs.
"Cameron?" Saccharine and sultry, Vala greeted Mitchell, sitting beside him at the picnic table.
"Vala." Mitchell looked at her warily.
"Could you please pass me one of those sweat rolls?" Her smile was alluring.
Picking one roll up with two fingers, Mitchell plopped it on her plate.
She smiled warmly, patting her eyelashes, "thank you."
He scratched his head. "Sure."
"And thank you for yesterday, in the car. That was gallant."
He smiled, unsure of her motive. "Not a problem."
With a disgusted sigh, Daniel picked up his plate and moved away.
"Oh, I get it." Mitchell looked around the table, making eye contact with Jack, moving on to Sam and finally Teal'c. All three watched with interest. "Don't mix me up in your little lover's quarrel." He said turning to Vala.
"Cameron, please. I only wished to thank you. Really."
Again he looked around the table and met smirks and thin lipped smiles. "Sure. Ok. You're welcome."
"Your Camp Counselor, Mr. General Jack, will now give you your schedules for today, gather 'round." Jack stood at the head of the table. No one seemed the least bit interested. He checked his watch. "Due to rain, our hiking trip will be delayed an hour." Taking his sunglasses, he put them on to check the sky, "it should dry out enough, but we'll have to cut it short today. We….."
Except for Sam, the campers were moving away.
"Hey!" he yelled, "meet at the trial head in one hour." He looked at his only camper. "They can be so obstinate."
Camper Sam looked up in stunned silence.
"I have a dictionary. Let's take a little private hike into the woods." Jack wiggled his eyebrow in rapid motion.
Silently, Sam left the table in the direction of her tent.
"There are chores to be done before the fun!" He called out. Jack looked at the messy table. "Come on guys, play nice!" Ignored again he began to clear up the littered table.
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Daniel caught up with Vala. "Hey?"
Lifting her chin, she turned away.
He gently took her arm.
She snatched it free. "Don't touch me. You might get… those things you human's get… those coolies."
"Cooties?"
She pushed every ounce of air in her lungs out in frustration and walked away, hips swaying, pigtails bouncing.
Defeated yet again, Daniel returned to assist Jack in clean up.
Jack looked up with a grateful grin. "Having a little…."
"Don't"
"Fine, I coulda been stacking papers on my desk. But I gave it all that up for you guys. So cut me some slack." When he didn't get any he grumble, "T's right, I think it's permanent." Jack stalked off leaving Daniel with the mess.
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An hour later, after inspecting the trail, Jack came back to the muddy campsite. The track up the mountain seemed safe enough, a bit muddy in places, but the canapé of trees protected it from too much of the rain. They'd be fine as long as the stuck to the trail. No one was about, so Jack went to get his backpack, fill his canteen and rouse the hikers into action.
Next Chapter: A Hiking We Will Go. Vala, fashion icon, boggles Daniel's brain. Camp counselor Jack, pulls camper Sam into the woods! Daniel lags and gets the best view, Mitchell and Teal'c observe.
