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 series later.

Number Three: A Simple Touch

"What have you done?"

"I didn't touch a thing, Daniel, I swear."

"Something was touched because that was not glowing a minute ago."

"Well, it wasn't me, you must have touched it."

The light on his gun was pointed directly into Vala's face and she was trying to look innocent – quite unsuccessfully. "Vala, I've told you a hundred times not to touch anything!"

"Pfft! Ha! Like you never touch things. You're always touching things" She touched his chest, waggled her head and smirked.

He eyed her with disdain and touched her chest, inches above her breasts with one finger. "I'm an expert on touching. I can touch. You cannot." He ended with a very mild shove against her chest, dropping the light from her face.

She reared her head back, glared at him and then punched him in the chest.

"Ouch! Damn it, Vala." He backed up and let loose of the gun, "What the hell has gotten into you?" Hands went to his hips.

"What the hell has gotten into you Daniel?" Hands went to her hips.

The glow of the artifact had turned to a pulsing light. Daniel turned to the light and stared transfixed.

"What is it?" Vala touched his sleeve gently.

"I don't know, but I don't think it's good. Come on," he grabbed her arm and started pulling her behind him. Before he reached the doorway into the cavern, steel like bars dropped across the opening. "Now look what you've done."

"Me!?"

"Mitchell!" Daniel called into the radio. Dead silence followed. He tried again, "Mitchell?"

Vala tried her radio, "Mitchell? Sam? It's dead."

"Great!" Daniel suddenly felt weary. He tossed his pack on the ground and settled himself beside it, back against the wall, eyes staring ahead at the glowing object.

Vala sat in the dirt beside him, leaning into his arm. "I'm sorry. I swear I didn't mean to touch it. Not really. I just sort of touched it. I'm really sorry."

"I know."

"I don't feel good. I feel all weepy and sad and a few other things like that I won't mention." Vala moved to sit on the ground directly front of Daniel with her sad, lost puppy look.

He reached a hand out and smoothed her hair, then cupped her cheek, mesmerized by her face. "Me too. I think it's the artifact. I feel sort of emotionally drained. Like… well, something I've definitely felt before."

"Think it's going to kill us?"

"I don't know. Hopefully someone will come looking for us."

Vala yawned. "I'm sleepy."

"I'm sleepy too," he said, reaching out and pulling her closer to him. "I'm not mad. You just have a way of making me a little nuts sometimes."

She looked up at him, then crawled into his lap and snuggled as close to him as she could get. "I know. I can't help it. I love… I love making you crazy."

Slowly his head tilted closer and his lips brushed hers. "I love making you crazy too." He wrapped his arms around her.

"I love teasing you." She nibbled at his lips.

"I love it when you tease me." He kissed her, long and fully.

Her arms went around his neck and she turned into him, kissing him back with longing. "I love… I…I love…I love…"

"You. I love you. Goodnight Vala."

"Goodnight, Daniel. I love you." She fell asleep sitting on his lap arms still around his neck.

When they woke an hour later Mitchell was standing over them, "What the hell are you two doin?"

"Huh?" Daniel sat up, dumping Vala from his lap. He looked around. The bars across the entrance were gone and so was the artifact. "What the hell?"

"That was my next question, Jackson." Mitchell looked from Vala to Daniel and back again.

Daniel ignored him and approached the pedestal where the artifact had been. He rubbed his hands across its surface hunting for some sign that might indicate where the item might have gone. "It was right here."

Vala came to stand on the other side of the pedestal. "Where could it have gone?"

"What? Where is what and what has gone where?" Mitchell watched the two suspiciously. "Have you two gotten into the jungle juice?"

"It's in this somewhere. It has to be." Daniel walked around the stone structure and Vala followed him.

Vala looked at Mitchell. "I touched it and it glowed."

"Then it got brighter and started to pulse." Daniel kept trying to find a way to get into the pedestal.

"Then it made us sleepy." Vala was stooping down, inspecting the bottom of the stone.

"Yeah, and then it made us…" Daniel looked down. Vala looked up. They smiled at each other.

"What?" Made you what?" Mitchell was thoroughly confused.

"We need more time to study this thing." Daniel told Mitchell.

"Not on my watch, buddy, we're gettin' out of here before you both turn into simpering idiots… more. We'll send a team back to study it. This team is going home."

Mitchell just shook his head as Daniel and Vala walked ahead of him hand in hand through the Stargate.