How Many Ways Can You Say I Love You?
Spacegypsy1
Romance/Daniel and Vala
Bits and pieces of Daniel's and Vala's possible confessions of love. No real story line, just little snippets of their confessions - totally unrelated - that could happen between our archeologist and space pirate! Adding more to this later.
Number two: No longer puzzled
"Vala, get out of my way." Daniel's frustrated voice held a slight tinge of humor.
"Oh, Daniel, it's a puzzle," she stood directly in front of him before the wall of symbols in the dark and dusty temple. "At least give me a chance at it. I do so love a puzzle. But not those Sudoku thingies, but these, I used to be quite good at them. So let me help."
He was grinning at the back of her head. "Nope, I wanna do this one."
Her arms went out wide and with fingers splayed she moved them up and down as if she were weighing something. "Give me a minute, I think I see something." Her hands went to her hips, her head went to one side.
"Vala." How had she gone from nuisance to delightful? When had that happened? He knew he'd stopped disliking her some time ago. But when had it changed to adoring her goofy ways? "Vala… the teams outside in the hot sun waiting for us."
Ignoring him she continued, "All the little writings on the wall and all the little figures that have to go together and tell you something… I like these. I like this." She moved to the wall and traced a symbol. "Like this one. Right here. What does it say?"
"It says… ah jez, Vala… I love you."
"Really? That's odd - why would it say that?" Her head cocked the opposite direction.
He didn't answer. Just smiled and shook his head and stood there behind her while she stared at the wall totally confused.
Vala tilted her head back and forth trying to discern how he got 'I love you' from those silly little squiggles. Suddenly she turned, hair flying and eyes wide, a completely surprised look on her face, "What?"
"I love you."
She grinned, jumped into his arms, legs around his waist and kissed him.