A/N: Thanks to everyone who has reviewed this in the past few chapters, very sorry for the major delay in the last chapters. I'll try and get through this bit of writer's block and be back to posting a chapter a week. Please review!
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The Funeral of Hearts
Romance and Adventure
Rated M
English
Daniel & Vala
Chapter Six
Daniel had felt Vala stir before he saw her wake in his arms. Blinking open one eye and then the other, he noticed the morning light streaking through the window over the floor and small rug. He saw how much of a mess he had left the evening before; supplies and his green BDU uniform and tactical vest were strewn higgledy-piggledy all over the floor bedside the bed. Daniel ran a hand over his face while the lighter, pale glow in the room cast shadows over them both. He pulled his hands around her waist to coax her awake as he moved the pile of blankets over them underneath her chin. He heard her moan softly and slowly wake. She looked even paler against the sandy, beige sheets, hair still mattered and plastered to her face. It was only then when he noticed the small scratches on her cheeks that matched those on her wrists to some extent. Although those were made by the torture devices. There was a bare window with no curtains and a door leading out into what should be a main living area. It reminded her of the homes in the Ori village. Even with the sparse décor. "Hey, good morning." Daniel Jackson greeted Vala as he watched her grow comfortable in her surroundings.
She smiled weakly and stretched her hand out to his cheek to feel his cloud of a beard on his face. "Am I dead?"
"Dead? No..." He shook his head and noted just how cold her fingertips were.
Her small smile grew a fraction as she smoothed her fingers over his beard several times before answering. "Then I must be dreaming at least? Hmm?"
"Nope, I assure you, I got you out of that that hell before you did die. Just as you asked me to." He answered, pulling her a little closer.
"Then I think it is a good morning?" Vala settled down in the narrow bed and gazed around the room. "I'm tired as hell."
"Then get some sleep, I'll get us some breakfast sorted." Daniel rummaged around in his pack for food and water and found two uneaten power bars and the canteen of fresh water. Along with some military food packs, he hadn't brought much in edibles, knowing just outside was a farming community and consequently whole planet and assuming it shouldn't be too hard to come by some food for himself and Vala. He was about to exit the room, hastily pulling on clothes after Vala had fallen asleep, hearing a commotion at the front door of the farm house. Daniel ran back in to the back bedroom, shaking her awake. Earning a less than polite reply, he pulled her out of the bed and into the store cupboard that equalled as another adjacent room. Holding a hand over her face, he whispered close in her ear. "Guards are outside."