Cause I still believe in destiny

That you and I were meant to be

Chapter 8: Meeting of two Times

Vala had indeed gone back into the past- only unlike her previous jump she decided that it would be better if she jumped back a full hour before the attack even began to give herself a fighting chance.

She had arrived in Atlantis early in the morning. She had soon found herself walking right into her beloved Daniel and the sight almost made her heart stop.

"Daniel!" She exclaimed, tears springing to her eyes as she laid her gaze upon her fiancée.

"Good morning my love..." He mumbled sleepily as he gave her a quick peck on the cheek. "...join me for my morning coffee?"

"Uh no." Vala declined politely. "---er, Elizabeth wanted to see me about something."

"What about?" Daniel asked his eyes narrowing in suspicion.

"Oh I dunno..." Vala lied easily. "But you know how she is Daniel, she wants to check in with us every once and a while."

"Oh okay then..." Daniel, who was not a morning person mumbled as he began to walk past her. Vala hesitated and wondered if she would run the risk of bumping into a past version of herself.

'Rodney never said anything about that.' She thought worriedly as she began to walk away from her fiancée. 'Maybe I should check it out---'

Vala walked to the control room, racing up the stars before she realised that she had to be the only Vala in this timeline. 'I've already jumped back once-' She mused. '-and while I lived through those first horrid days again, I didn't remember that I had jumped back in time till I activated the bracelet- there was a flash and then I was standing in the room again and-'

"Can I help you Miss Mal Doran?" Asked an accented voice and Vala looked up to see Zelenka standing in front of her.

"Uh yes- er Radek is it?" She asked, sighing when Zelenka nodded. "Radek, I know that this is going to sound crazy but I er- had this totally bizarre dream last night where there were two of me in Atlantis and while I know it was only a dream if felt real and well I-"

"-you wanted me to check to see if I could discern if there are two of your energy signatures in Atlantis."

"Well yes." Vala agreed with a nod. "I know that it's crazy- but I also know that my energy signature is different from everyone and—" She trailed off, watching as Zelenka tinkered with one of the control panels (the same one that Chaya activated in season one) and breathed a sigh of relief when it beeped. "That means no, right?"

"Right." Zelenka confirmed with a nod. "There is only one of you here, though there seems to be a temporal displacement around you, do you know why?"

"Uh no." Vala lied, getting nervous. She glanced down at her clock and saw that she only had ten minutes left. She took a fleeting look at the long range sensors and saw that they still did not detect any attack. "Listen Radek, I've really got to go and-"

Suddenly there was a resounding crash and all of Atlantis shook. Vala looked around frantically and saw John and Elizabeth stumble across the walkway from her office.

"Get the shield up!" John ordered as he raced from the room, glancing back at Elizabeth only once before muttering to her. "I'll be in the chair room."

He didn't glance at Vala as he passed her by yet he did falter briefly when Elizabeth cried out; "What's going on?"

"It is the Asurans." Zelenka answered solemnly, sighing with relief along with everyone else in the control room as the heard the resounding impact of the Asuran weapon against their shields. "I don't understand how we didn't see them."

'We still haven't figured that out.' Vala thought forlornly to herself as Atlantis shuddered beneath them due to secondary explosions. She knew that Daniel was going to be killed in one of the secondary explosions and she knew that she would have to work quickly to find him.

She fled from the Controlroom down the stairs and was halfway across the gateroom when she ran into Daniel.

"Daniel!" She cried out in happiness as she threw her arms around his neck. "You're okay!"

"Of course I'm okay." He answered as he led her away from the gateroom. "Why wouldn't I?"

"Oh no reason." Vala answered happily as she held on tight to Daniel. "No reason at all."

Then suddenly out of the blue they felt a fresh explosion rock the city and Elizabeth's EVAC command started to resound through the city's comm. System. Vala looked to Daniel in horror and watched as the wall they were standing beside suddenly exploded sending both of them flying.

As darkness closed in around her Vala noticed that her bracelet had shattered and she wondered what that meant for Daniel and her. And she wondered if she would ever be able to save him.

A/N- Hello beloved readers! Chapter 8 for ya'll. A huge thankyou goes out to acer-sigma, Shinki, HAZMOT, Bri, spacegypsy1 and Enajntram for reviewing the last chapter. I hope that the six of you and my other readers will review the this chapter too. :D