drabble for "ripple effect"
I'm perfectly happy blaming LC,
lc59 for this since she's the one that put Valerie Malden in my head. It's pure *headdesk* and written in the span of 10 minutes, but what are you going to do when the bunnies attack.
Title: Untitled
Rating: PG
Pairings: None really, undertones
Spoilers: Tag for Ripple Effect
Summary: Valerie Malden is human. Human from Earth human.
A/N: When I wrote this I forget LC had killed Daniel on Abydos, only realised it when I double checked the name, but I still mention a death. Still this really isn't Daniel. It’s Danèl. (yeah, I know and the icon is to help picture Danèl a bit better) :P
Daniel is in shock about how many Vala’s come through the gate. Ten thus far. All different, all the same, all still Vala. Two hold rings, one around her neck on a chain, the other twirls it around her ring finger. He does not ask who put the rings on their fingers, but the one with the ring on her finger practically jumped into his arms when she first saw him the gateroom. When she realized her mistake she unwrapped herself, twisted her lips and told him he used a different aftershave in her reality.
Three others have sad eyes, and one of them has a Jack. One is pregnant, and he really doesn’t want to ask who the father is.
But the one that catches is eye the most is not Vala at all. Her name is Valerie Malden, and she is human. Human from Earth human, and she talks too fast but too quiet too. Her hair is not wild and free around her head, but straight and it falls to her shoulders softly. She’s quick to smile, but it doesn’t always reach her eyes. She stands close to her Teal’c and Cam, and shares fast looks with Sam. She mentions a doctor Jackson that died long ago when the gate first opened, but it shocks him (all of them) because of who her fifth team member is. It is him, but not, because he wouldn’t wear the t-shirt that tightly and vest without a jacket. He wasn’t a host to Ba’al and they didn’t find him naked ready to be killed on a planet, well they didn’t find him naked, he already had been dressed, and for weeks at that.
More importantly he wouldn’t tease her with sharp blue eyes that make her blush and roll her eyes. And he definitely wouldn’t sneak his hand under her jacket to the small of her back. He just wouldn’t.
Daniel doesn’t know whether he likes them or hates them. He sees too much in Valerie when she pushes Danèl, that's his name, away her eyes grey, bright and distant. When she rolls her eyes and corrects him on certain aspects of history or colloquialisms. He see its all but he can push all that away, and he does.
But then he runs into them in the commissary and Valerie is with her Sam, rolling her eyes and not blushing at Danèl, who brushes some sauce from the corner of her lip and smiles.
“Danèl, look there’s doctor Jackson, talk to him for a change. We’re heading back to the lab.” Valerie waves to them and Daniel furrows his brow at his not twin, because really, who then stands obviously not interested in conversation with him.
“Why do you do that, if you know it bugs her?” He can't help himself.
Danèl only picks of the last of Valerie’s cake and raises an eyebrow to Daniel, “It makes her smile, if you haven’t noticed.” And he leaves.
Daniel blinks and his brain flashes to all the gathered images of Valerie Malden. Her fast talks, her grey eyes and her smiles. Her real ones, because like with Vala he can tell which are fake, and he almost reels in shock when he realises all the truly bright Vala - no Valerie smiles she gives are when she is around Danèl.
Daniel sighs and puts down his tray, realising, accepting, cataloguing and pushing back all he just learned, wishing this mess were over with.
lc59 for this since she's the one that put Valerie Malden in my head. It's pure *headdesk* and written in the span of 10 minutes, but what are you going to do when the bunnies attack.
Title: Untitled
Rating: PG
Pairings: None really, undertones
Spoilers: Tag for Ripple Effect
Summary: Valerie Malden is human. Human from Earth human.
A/N: When I wrote this I forget LC had killed Daniel on Abydos, only realised it when I double checked the name, but I still mention a death. Still this really isn't Daniel. It’s Danèl. (yeah, I know and the icon is to help picture Danèl a bit better) :P
Daniel is in shock about how many Vala’s come through the gate. Ten thus far. All different, all the same, all still Vala. Two hold rings, one around her neck on a chain, the other twirls it around her ring finger. He does not ask who put the rings on their fingers, but the one with the ring on her finger practically jumped into his arms when she first saw him the gateroom. When she realized her mistake she unwrapped herself, twisted her lips and told him he used a different aftershave in her reality.
Three others have sad eyes, and one of them has a Jack. One is pregnant, and he really doesn’t want to ask who the father is.
But the one that catches is eye the most is not Vala at all. Her name is Valerie Malden, and she is human. Human from Earth human, and she talks too fast but too quiet too. Her hair is not wild and free around her head, but straight and it falls to her shoulders softly. She’s quick to smile, but it doesn’t always reach her eyes. She stands close to her Teal’c and Cam, and shares fast looks with Sam. She mentions a doctor Jackson that died long ago when the gate first opened, but it shocks him (all of them) because of who her fifth team member is. It is him, but not, because he wouldn’t wear the t-shirt that tightly and vest without a jacket. He wasn’t a host to Ba’al and they didn’t find him naked ready to be killed on a planet, well they didn’t find him naked, he already had been dressed, and for weeks at that.
More importantly he wouldn’t tease her with sharp blue eyes that make her blush and roll her eyes. And he definitely wouldn’t sneak his hand under her jacket to the small of her back. He just wouldn’t.
Daniel doesn’t know whether he likes them or hates them. He sees too much in Valerie when she pushes Danèl, that's his name, away her eyes grey, bright and distant. When she rolls her eyes and corrects him on certain aspects of history or colloquialisms. He see its all but he can push all that away, and he does.
But then he runs into them in the commissary and Valerie is with her Sam, rolling her eyes and not blushing at Danèl, who brushes some sauce from the corner of her lip and smiles.
“Danèl, look there’s doctor Jackson, talk to him for a change. We’re heading back to the lab.” Valerie waves to them and Daniel furrows his brow at his not twin, because really, who then stands obviously not interested in conversation with him.
“Why do you do that, if you know it bugs her?” He can't help himself.
Danèl only picks of the last of Valerie’s cake and raises an eyebrow to Daniel, “It makes her smile, if you haven’t noticed.” And he leaves.
Daniel blinks and his brain flashes to all the gathered images of Valerie Malden. Her fast talks, her grey eyes and her smiles. Her real ones, because like with Vala he can tell which are fake, and he almost reels in shock when he realises all the truly bright Vala - no Valerie smiles she gives are when she is around Danèl.
Daniel sighs and puts down his tray, realising, accepting, cataloguing and pushing back all he just learned, wishing this mess were over with.