A Thousand Reasons Why (Not)
Chapter Six
Based upon Stargate: SG-1
- - - Season 10
He was cute.
He was smart.
He had the most adorable glasses.
He was the first person to trust her.
He had hit her.
She had beat him up.
He had shot her.
He knew what she had been through.
He saw through her.
He knew (most of the time) exactly what she was up to.
Vala Mal Doran surprised herself. She didn't just want to sleep with Daniel Jackson (although she really did); she was in love with him. Never before had she met someone that really made her want to change. He made her want to stop running.
And she had. She started to change. She changed herself for him. But in the back of her mind, she knew that there were a thousand reasons why he would never love her like she wanted him to.
He would never love her because of who she had been.
He would never love her because she tried to trick him before.
He would never love her because she was never serious with him.
He would never love her because she always hid her feelings behind promiscuity.
She watched him while he worked. He was deciphering something, as he always was. She often watched him and was much less of an annoyance than she had been a year or so ago. She liked watching him work, quietly whispering to himself, and often sounding out the words aloud.
He was so smart.
He would never love her because they were too completely different people.
Maybe that was part of why she loved him so.
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