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The Funeral of Hearts
Romance and Adventure
Rated M
English
Daniel & Vala
Chapter Eight
He then answered. "As am I. I- We wouldn't know what to do if you had gone." He found some clothes, cloaks and food the villager had left behind for them. Daniel then had managed to scrape together a small lunch of bread and cheese for the both of them, which had earned several delighted sighs from Vala who had mused of missing her creature comforts back at Stargate Command. Earth food, cheese and chocolate apparently especially being two of them. He had chastised her for eating too quickly and told her to be careful what with not being fed since her incarceration. He then suggested for them to get more nutritious food.
"We'll leave soon as I'm able. I won't let you down, I promise." She nodded as Daniel picked threads from the hooded capes and leather footwear for them both to wear. He handed her the lighter from his pack and told her to search for supplies as he exited the bedroom to go in search of supplies.
Though Vala felt a chill creep up around her shoulders after he left the house and pulled the bedsheets around herself. Vala then exited the bedroom, still covered in the blankets and walked softly from the door and over the stone floor to the fire. Something next to the fireplace nailed to the wall took her attention slightly as it resembled a bath in size and shape, only the colour was different as well as the fact as it was hung on the wall rather than fixed to the floor. Vala gave the offending item a raise of her brow before going about her task. She lit and relaxed in front of it for a few moments before thinking of going to replace the lighter. Vala opened the door to try and see where Daniel had gone off too. After squinting and raising her hand at eye level, all she could make out where some shadowy figures of villagers and their houses. No archaeologist shaped person in sight. She pulled the cloak and blankets around herself more before standing more outside on the doorstep. Vala turned her gaze upward and found a swirling mass of grey and black in the place of the fluffy clouds, the blue and sky. She huffed and narrowed her eyes again, but this time trying to make out the beached Ha'tak vessel shrouded in the trees and shrubs at the far side of the village. But nevertheless, she couldn't make out that peculiar shape either. Vala shuddered at the memory and when she did that, felt an icy cold droplet of rain run down her back. With a gasp, the followed the path of the rain drop with her fingers. Noticing the same thing happen to the villagers she was studying from afar, Vala, though having her own problems with the rainy planet saw the rain his the muddy excuse for the ground and saw the drops double then multiply on the floor of the single-floor village. She closed the door behind her then pulled up the hood of the cloak.
"Vala? What are you doing?" Chastised a figure who took his own hood down from his face. "This isn't good. You'll catch a death of cold. Or pneumonia in your case." He jostled with Vala, the door and wicker basket of supplies tucked under his arm.
After a good telling off and and an impromptu show and tell from Daniel of the fruits and vegetables the planet had to offer, Vala had quirked what the gold looking object was on the wall. And not an hour later Vala was rather happily reclining in the bath of warm water in front of the fire. 'Well, you want me all refreshed if we're going to break out of this village.' She had pleaded and so Daniel, with several buckets of water from the well had ran her a rather peculiar looking bath. Giving her hair a good shake in the water and the fire in the bedroom to keep herself warm, she mused to Daniel telling her it'll heat the water and the metal will make sure it won't go cold.
Daniel busied himself with the food he had bought and traded for; a bigger loaf of bread and a whole basket of vegetables, which he was sure he could make a last minute stew or soup for himself and Vala, seeing as she was feeling better. Stocking the fire with new logs and using the water he had gotten earlier he started cooking the meal before checking in on Vala. He knocked softly on the door before entering and mumbled an apology for disturbing her. "Daniel, you know I'm naked under all this." She had flirted before laying out some clothes for sleeping in as well as for the day after and the imminent escape.
"I hope so it's strange even for you to bathe with clothes on." He answered and watched as she relaxed back down in the bath water. "I've got you some clothes when I was out earlier and there's some from the villager who lived here before us, he had a wife who lived here." He shrugged. "There was a few clothes left or something, I didn't really ask questions, or his name. He didn't really say much of anything to be honest." Daniel frowned. "Anyway I'm making some dinner, so don't be long."
"I won't." A warm smile pulled at her lips and she looked over her shoulder at him. "Thank you for all this, Daniel, really." She watched him retreat and leave her alone in the candle lit room again. With the fire illuminating her and reflecting off of the bath. Back in the room, Daniel used the fire poker as he crouched down and made sure the food was coming along. 'She's still naked in that room, you know?' His mind probed but it had him plunging his hands into the cold water to rid himself of such thoughts. He looked up at the doorway in fear she'd be able to detect such thoughts and mock him for such matters. A grabbed the two buckets and slammed the door shut before venturing in to the pouring rain, hoping it'll rid them for a good long while.