Category: Daniel/Vala fluff
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Summary: Vala plans a Halloween surprise for Daniel.
“Party of Two” (1/1)
by Lisa Michelle
“Daniel, are you coming to the Halloween party?” Vala asked
him as he sat working at his computer.
“What Halloween party?” he replied, never looking up from his
work.
“Mine,” she said. “It’s nothing fancy, just a little something
I’m throwing together in my quarters.”
Daniel sighed and looked up at her. “Let me guess. It’s going
to be just the two of us and you’re -“
“No, Mitchell’s going to be there and a few other men,” she
informed him. “I just don’t know -“
“Men only? Just what kind of party is this?” he asked.
“Oh, get your mind out of the gutter, darling,” she chastised.
“It’s nothing like that. I don’t do threesomes or orgies anymore.”
“You -“ he began. “What?”
“Oh, never mind,” she said, coming around the side of his desk
and sitting on the edge, right on top of the papers he was looking
at. “I just don’t know what to dress up as. I thought about something
sexy, but then I’m already sexy, so no dressing up is required
for that.”
Daniel leaned back in the chair and tried not to groan. He crossed
his arms over his chest. “Halloween is really for kids, why -“ he
began.
“Oh, don’t be like that, Daniel. Just come to my party. You
don’t have to dress up if you don’t want to,” she told him. “It’s
at eleven tomorrow night.”
“Is Teal’c going to be there?” he asked.
“No,” she replied. “Muscles isn’t really much of a party person.
Besides, there’s going to be alcohol there and we all know he doesn’t
drink. So he’ll be no fun.”
Vala slid off the desk. “Just be there, darling. I promise it’ll be
fun.” She winked at him before leaving.
****
Against his better judgement, Daniel showed up at Vala’s
quarters the next evening around eleven. He was a bit curious
as to the identity of these other men Vala claimed were going
to be at the party. He wasn’t so worried about Mitchell, but Vala,
men and alcohol was a recipe for disaster.
He didn’t hear any noise coming from her quarters and briefly
wondered if this was just a ploy to get him over here, but he trusted
her and hoped his trust wasn’t misplaced.
Daniel knocked on the door and Vala opened it. “Trick or treat,
darling,” she said, clad only in a black silk robe.
Daniel shook his head. “I had a feeling this was going to be -“
She pulled him inside her quarters before he could run the
other way.
“It’s not what it looks like,” she said, shutting the door after
him. “I just haven’t figured out what to dress up as tonight.”
Daniel looked around her quarters. The place was lit with many
candles. She had a big punch bowl on the table over by the corner
along with a plastic pumpkin filled with what he guessed was candy.
“Go have some punch,” she said, pointing toward the table.
“I’m just going to finish getting ready.” She disappeared into the
bathroom.
Daniel wandered over to the table and ladled some punch into
a plastic cup. He took a big swallow and the liquid burned all
the way down. “Vala, what did you put in this?”
The bathroom door opened a crack. “The punch? Just a little
of this and a lot of that.”
“Well, if the that was alcohol, then I believe you went a bit
over the top,” he said.
“There’s no such thing, darling,” she called out before shutting
the bathroom door again.
Daniel sat down in a chair right next to the table. He grabbed
a fun size Snickers out of the pumpkin, unwrapped it and ate it
in two bites. He finished the punch, hoping it might make the
evening a tad more bearable.
Ten minutes later, Vala was still in the bathroom and no one
else had shown up. Daniel knew he’d been had. Why did he keep
falling for her tricks?
Daniel had another glass of punch. The second glass did the trick
and he felt the buzz of the alcohol. He looked toward the bathroom,
expecting her to come out naked any minute. He ladled out a third
glass and was about to take a sip when Vala came out of the bathroom
wearing only a black bra and matching panties.
“I’m not quite clear on this trick or treat thing,” she said, standing
right outside the bathroom door. “I know many tricks, which aren’t
appropriate for kids, and well, treats are always fun, so I’m not sure
what to choose.”
“No one’s coming, are they?” he said.
“No.”
“You lied to me.” His voice was laced with a bit of anger.
“No, I misled you,” she corrected. “I did try to get a party
together, but no one was interested.”
Daniel looked at her and he was sure it was the alcohol, but
she looked pretty sexy. It wouldn’t take much coaxing for him
to walk across the room and -
“So, what do you think of my costume, darling?” She placed
her hands on her hips and pushed her chest out, making sure he
got a good view of her cleavage.
“What costume? You’re in your underwear.”
“That’s because I’m dressed as a Victoria’s Secret model,” she
told him, like it was obvious. “I’m just as pretty as those women
are, if not more.”
Daniel didn’t give her an answer; he just downed that third
glass of punch in one swallow.
“So, you didn’t answer my original question, Daniel?” she
said.
He set the glass down on the table. “And what was that?”
“Trick or treat?”
He stared at her for a few seconds. Maybe it was the alcohol
that slowed down his speech or maybe it was just Vala standing
there in her underwear. The words came to him and he wasn’t
sure he should speak them aloud, but before he had a chance to
stop and think, they came tumbling out of his mouth. “Come over
here and I’ll show you.”
****
END (1/1)