Number 16 - Isolation

Isolation – with Vala. Daniel shook his head and groaned, but he was thankful for the large glass observation room. That should keep her from going too overboard. Hopefully.

They had the desk and computer, a table with two chairs, two beds, thankfully curtained, and Teal'c had sent a collection of DVD's for them to watch on the computer monitor.

There was only one computer in the room and he and Vala had already had a fight over it. He wanted to work. She wanted to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Three more days. The rashes were almost gone. How come Sam and Mitchell didn't get it on P23-M14? At least if they were here he would have some protection. He had a few books and his journal. The only things Dr. Lam had allowed along with the DVD's. There was the possibility that he would die…. from Valaitis.

He hazard a glance towards her. He'd been working; she'd been sleeping… at least for a short while. Now she was sitting at the computer, one foot on the chair her knee pulled up tight to her chest, that6 crazy sleep mask on her head and her hair sticking out everywhere. She looked so damned sexy he wanted to cry. Feeling sorry for himself he sauntered off to bed, pulled the curtains shut, undressed with distress that she might just show up to watch. When he heard her movements, he put on the pajama pants as fast as he could and jumped into the bed shirtless, pulling the covers up like a coward. Then he grinned.

She could make him so crazy! Vala was the most adorable woman he'd ever met. Full of life and vinegar, beauty and seductiveness and he struggled everyday to keep from falling in love with her. Why? Why did he fight it? She was in love with him. He saw it in her eyes every time he had the courage to look there. He tried so many times to wipe out Vala's attempts to capture his heart with thoughts of his deceased wife, but he failed miserably. Vala was different. She was more. Vala was everything he wanted but was too afraid to take.

Daniel's eyes grew heavy with sleep and he drifted off with thoughts of Vala.

He couldn't have slept more than a few minutes when his sense alerted him to her presence. She was standing beside his bed, the mask still on her head, dressed in those cute little pink sleep shorts and tank top. God have mercy on his soul.

……

Jack had landed over three hours ago, but he'd been in Carter's lab chit chatting with his favorite Colonel. Daniel would still be up working, it wasn't much past midnight, so he hadn't hurried from Carter's side. "Guess I'll go say hi, since I'm here." He was leaning over her microscope and watching something he didn't care to identify squiggling around. "Hopefully when I get back you'll be ready to go, I don't have the luxury of time, Carter."

Sam smiled up at him. "I'll be ready. Go talk to him. I'm sure he could use the distraction. She's probably about done him in by now."

When Jack entered the observation room he stopped in his tracks. There was nobody in the room. The curtains of one bed were open. The others closed. He stood for the longest time wondering… nah, he better call Carter and see what the deal was.

He got no answers from Sam, who didn't have a clue, but she told him she was on her way.

He called the good doctor next.

"What do you mean they're not there?"

"Well… curtain number two is open and curtain number one is closed… however, there is nobody… no bodies… nothing in the room…unless they are both behind curtain number one."

"I'm on my way!" Dr. Lam slammed the phone down. Where did they go? Or where did one of them go… probably Vala! Damn!

Jack got bored waiting and turned the mike on. "Yoohoo? Anybody home down there? Hey Danny-boy? Miss Wonko are you home?"

Nothing happened. No one answered. Curtain number one remained closed. Carter and Lam came through the door together.

"Dr. Jackson!" Carolyn boomed into the mike knowing full well Daniel would not leave.

She tapped the microphone. "I don't think it's working." She looked bemused.

Sam inspected the mike. "That's odd. It's working here. I think it's been disabled from inside."

"Vala." Both Sam and Jack said in unison.

Sam and Carolyn both turned on the monitors. Gray fuzz was all that came on screen.

"Vala." Both Carolyn and Sam said.

"We have to go in." Jack told them.

"Not without full hazmat suits."

The three started banging on window.

"This just never gets old!" Jack laughed, whacking the window.

……

Daniel pulled his lips from Vala's. "Someone's knocking."

"But they can't come in." Vala recaptured his mouth.

"They're gonna come in here." Daniel told her between hot kisses.

"Mmm, let's hurry. They have to suit up. We've got time."

"Vala!"

"Daniel?"

He grinned, rolling over and pulling her on top of him. "I am head over heels in love with you." His hands went to her hair pushing the dark mass aside. He shook his head in wonder. "I love you."

"I love you too." Vala's hands kept wandering down his stomach and Daniel kept capturing them.

"Stop! Please. I'm only human. I'm not about to be caught in the act! As much as I love you, and as much as I want you, this is neither the time nor the place."

"Agh! I'm not a patient person. I've waited a long time for this. Oh come on, they'll be in those orange suits with the big plastic fronts and all we will see is their eyes popping out of their heads. It'll be fun. Daniel… I'm dying to love you. Dying. I can't wait three more days. I've waited long enough. I deserve this. PLEASE!"

He laughed. He kissed her. He pushed her away. "When I make love to you I want you in my bed, in my house, where you belong. Go. Now. Please. We have our whole lives in front of us. We'll still be doing this when we're fifty." He sat up and Vala lay back on his pillow and pouted.

Daniel peeked out the curtains and saw the empty observation room. He retuned, gathered her in his arms and stood her beside the bed. With a quick kiss he left her and went to the cabinet and retrieved a few items.

When the orange shrouded threesome snatched the curtains open they found two fully dressed SG-1 members sitting on the bed, playing poker.

Daniel managed to look totally surprised. Vala just grinned.

"Hi guys, what's up?" Daniel laid his cards down and looked as innocent as a babe.

Sam and Carolyn blinked, stunned. Vala's hair was a fright, all mussed and her eyes slitted and glazed. She was flushed, her lips swollen, her chin chaffed. And both women knew it wasn't from her rash.

Jack had his sight on Vala's neck, where the big hickey was, right over the pink strap of her sleepwear that peeked out from her BDU. He grinned and caught Daniel's eye. Sliding his gaze from Jack to where he'd just been staring, Daniel spotted the mark. He rolled his eyes, shrugged his shoulders and grinned at Jack.