Tomorrow's Moments-Chapter Five
Title: Tomorrow's Moments
Author: Assilem
Rating: PG-13, possibly higher.
Chapter: Five
Synopsis: We saw what 50 years on the Odyssey left us, but what about 50 years on earth, without the pressure to live together...
Pairings: Daniel/Vala, Sam/Jack, Cameron/Other
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
August 2009
She was now officially past her first trimester. And just starting to show, really show. The bump was familiar, but new all at the same time. Poking her stomach, she waited on the bed, as Daniel fused around the bedroom.
George Hammond had passed, and she could tell Daniel just needed her to be there, being the one to hold his hand at the memorial. She didn’t know the man, not really. Met on a handful of occasions, and she knew Daniel had called and informed him of their baby-to-be.
Sam had cried, and she held her friend in her arms, passing her off to Jack, the moment he walked on base.
“Daniel, we’re going to be late,” Vala said softly, running her hands over the swell of her stomach, that was covered in black- an odd tradition on this planet, black for mourning.
“Okay,” he said softly straightening his tie, and holding a hand for Vala, helping pull her up. “Thank you, for coming.”
“Always,” Vala replied softly, giving his hand a squeeze. They were being picked up, by Teal’c, who insisted he drive his team to the memorial, waited patiently outside Daniel’s apartment, in the government issued SUV.
The ride to the Academy was silent, no stories were told, no small talk, just silence. The grounds of the Air Force Academy was that of mostly a sea of all blue, only a smattering of black.
This was her first Tauri funeral, and she had to say, it was weird. Not something she’d ever experienced, people talking about the departed. Daniel whispered it was a military funeral, and therefore, a different kind of experience. She sat quietly, knowing that’s what Daniel needed, and the other part of her was that she was so exhausted already, she swore Adria’s pregnancy never took this much out of her.
“Come on,” Daniel said softly, as Vala looked at him, her eyes drooping. “You okay Vala?”
“Just tired,” she said. “Baby is taking a lot out of me.”
“Did you want to go for a nap, before the wake?” he asked, as Vala nodded. “I could use a hour of shut eye too.”
“Daniel, you don’t have to, you can go to the base, I can catch up,” she explained as Daniel shook his head.
“No,” Daniel said, and without an argument he wrapped his arm around her back and guided her towards the procession of cars. They stepped beside Jack and Sam, who were merely standing far closer than officers of their rank should, but most of the brass there knew of their marriage, and long standing relationship. “We’re going to go take a nap, Vala’s tired,” he said absently to Jack, who nodded.
“Nap sounds good,” he agreed. “Carter?”
“Sounds good sir,” Sam said, blinking. She too didn’t want to face the crowd first, SG-1 was Hammond’s flagship, his last big command, the people that got him in more trouble and praised more than ever before. It was only fitting they’d show up late.
“Mitchell, T, we’re gonna nap,” Jack said as the other two joined their wait for the car.
“Sir?” Cameron asked, looking at the General.
“It’s fitting,” Sam smiled sadly, looking at Cameron. Cameron didn’t say anything, but look at the four, and Teal’c bowed his head knowingly.
-
“How you feeling?” Daniel asked as the two walked into the fifth house of the day, in attempts to find something, just something they both liked.
“I’m fine Daniel, she said rubbing her poked out stomach affectionately. “Just some movement.”
The whole house hunting was turning into a nightmare, not a single house both he and Vala liked, and to be honest, if they were going to raise their child in a house, they both might as well like it. Daniel wanted a few things, a basement office, and a place to put the piano that was it, Vala wanted everything else, and he couldn’t blame her. She never really had anything that was truly what she wanted, and this would be the first step to it.
“Daniel, its so bright here,” she said happily. Vala lit up immediately as they walked into this house. He had to admit, it was a beautiful house, large, full of light and windows, and five bedrooms. The only downside was it was on the opposite side of town than the base. As they walked through the house, looking at bedrooms, Vala lit up as she entered one, “the baby’s room!”
“Is this it?” Daniel asked, already noting it had an upstairs study, which would do, or he’d take the downstairs Rec Room as his own. Vala looked at him and nodded. “Okay, I’ll go talk to Laura, make an offer.”
Vala nodded as Daniel left and she looked around the bedroom. This was her first real home, something she wanted, that she could design and raise her family in. Her family, that was a term she had yet to designate to what she and Daniel had, they were a little family, with the baby.
She would have to design the nursery, and even then, there was the house. Her smile brightened and she walked out of the room, tracing her fingers along the clean walls. She was mentally moving Daniel’s furniture and decorations in, buying their own, and maybe, getting Sam to help.
She knew Sam would, after moving in with the General, only a handful of her was spattered in their home, although Vala bet, it was because Sam still hadn’t fully unpacked her house.
Walking downstairs, Daniel stared at their realtor: “Over 1400 a month? Seriously?”
“Dr. Jackson, we can always extend the mortgage, but the house at this price, would get paid off in 22 years,” the woman said. “It has no other offers, so if you accept it, its yours.”
Running his hand through his hair, Daniel was thinking, she could tell. His salary, and her salary, and expenses, he looked at her and shrugged. “It may be tight,” he said and she nodded. “Okay, where do I sign?”
Vala jumped in excitement, hugging him before pulling away. “I have to pee!” she said and bounced off towards one of the 4 bathrooms.
“I remember that stage, it gets worse,” the woman smiled. “I have three of my own. Your first?”
“Yeah, she picked out the nursery already,” he explained.
“Well, there are also several schools around,” she said pulling out the list.
“Oh, that, yeah, no, we both work for the Air Force, at Cheyenne Mountain, the kid will be going to The Colorado Springs School,” he said, as almost all of the children who belonged to the base personal went to the school. That and he was sure a half alien baby, would not fit well into the public education stream.
“Oh,” she said with a smile. Daniel nodded and looked back down at the stack of paperwork. Taking a deep breath, he clicked his pen, and began signing, initialing, etc.
-
“Daniel?” Vala asked softly, as the two laid in bed, in their brand new home, on their first night. The team left a few hours before, after a day of beer and pizza, and Teal’c being the only sober one to take them away.
“Yes?”
“My Doctor said that we should be able to know the gender of the baby in a little while, did you want to know?”
Daniel moved a bit, so that he could look at her face, her hair was pulled into a braid that hung to one side, and she looked tired. She was always tired lately.
“As long as the baby is healthy, I don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl,” he said touching her cheek. “If you want to know, if you want to make the nursery more gender friendly, then I say we find out, but don’t think you have to find out. You don’t, we don’t. It can be a surprise, and I’ll be just as happy either way.”
Vala nodded and placed her hand on her stomach. “I’ve been having dreams.”
“Oh?”
“About the baby. All my dreams, it’s a boy.”
“A boy?” Daniel asked, a hint of amazement in his voice.
“Yes,” Vala said. “They’re just dreams.”
“Just dreams,” Daniel smiled. In four months, they were to become parents, he was scared shitless. Jack had tried to calm him down, saying that there was no reason to panic or worry until the baby came, but that wasn’t Daniel, he was scared, and they needed to do things, needed to be the ones to care for a child, their child. He was having a child…
Vala was worried, it wasn’t like she hadn’t been pregnant before, so she knew what to expect, but there was an aspect that this wasn’t planned, and she was in a relationship, and they were living together, and together they were going to have a baby.
Sam had already talked names with her, and they had spent an afternoon on a website, making a list of names. Boys and Girls. As Sam said, you never know. Sam had fallen in love with the name Elliot, and told Vala, that if she ever had a son, she would name him Elliot. She hoped that Sam would soon get her dream, as from the moment they got married, she had been talking about having a baby. Just one, to give her something so that she was equal to Jack’s first wife.
“Daniel?”
“Hmm?”
“What would you name our baby?” she asked curling up into his side. Daniel remained quiet for a few moments. His arm tightened around her, pulling her closer into his.
“If I had my choice?”
“Your choice,” she said earnestly. Nodding his head, his spare hand moved around her body and settle on her babybump.
“A girl, I’d want to name her Alexandra, it means Defender of the People, we could call her Alex for short, or Lexi,” he explained. “Middle name, Samantha, Sam’s the only family I have, have had in a very long time, so I think her name would be Alexandra Samantha.”
“Pretty,” Vala smiled. “A boy?”
“I don’t know, but his middle name should be Jonathon, for Jack,” Daniel explained. “What about you?”
Vala took a breath, and smiled. “I like the girl name, for a boy, I think Lukas, or maybe Carter, or Wyatt, or we could name him Jonathon,” Vala went on as Daniel chuckled.
“We still have time.”
“I know.”
“What do you say we find out?” he said softly after a few moments of silence. Vala smiled and nodded her head.