What Was Meant-Chapter Seven
What Was Meant
Chapter Seven: When One Door
By: Assilem
Rating: PG
Series: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Daniel/Vala, Vala/Other
Prompt: 019 Doors of the 101 Table
Summery: When one door closes the other opens and everything changes
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
The months passed, too slow for Vala who seemed to suffer from every ill effect of pregnancy, and too fast for the rest of the team, who enjoyed every moment of watching the baby grow, although at the same time they didn’t enjoy the constant mood-swings from the expectant mother. Each member of the team tried to keep their patience with Vala at most times, but couldn’t succeed sometimes.
Teal’c decided to take it upon himself to become the Supreme Caretaker, who watched Vala like a hawk, making sure she was careful of the child that grew inside of her.
Cameron became very excited that “his team” was getting a mini-member, and was scheming to obtain SG-1 badges for the unborn child.
Sam took it upon herself to prepare everything for the child’s arrival, she was constantly reading parenting books or shopping for everything the child would need and not need, but she found cute.
Daniel was the worst of them all, constantly checking in on how Vala was doing, making sure she was eating enough, taking her to the Doctor’s appointments, he’d say on the phone for hours upon hours with Vala, sometimes assuring her things would be all right, or merely saying nothing.
Vala in mere frustration of everyone on base giving her name suggestions, to back off and if they had any parenting ideas to tell SG-1, and then if they deemed it safe, to tell Vala. The team even came up with names, as they knew Vala would only accept their suggestions. Sam came up with Olivia or Callum, while Cameron presented Molly and Toby, while Teal’c merely handed over a piece of paper with two words written on it, “You Decide.”
Daniel didn’t suggest or give Vala a piece of paper, instead he sat on Sam’s couch, rubbing her feet, her very swollen feet, discussing her life, the child’s future, everything Vala was thinking.
“What does Craig have to say?” Daniel asked one night, Vala’s pregnancy in the later months, and she was getting more and more worried about the coming baby.
“Oh honestly Daniel, I don’t think he cares,” Vala sighed. “He’s not concerned that he’s the baby’s father. He says there is no chance, not even a one percent chance that she’s his…”
“She?”
“Or he,” Vala replied, caressing her stomach. “The fact that he put in for a transfer is saying everything.”
“Vala, I’ll, uh, I’ll be here, there, for you and the baby, even if it isn’t mine,” Daniel said drifting off.
“Daniel, if it’s not yours, you don’t have to feel obligated, I can raise the baby myself.”
“You shouldn’t have to,” Daniel protested.
“It was my fault we’re in this triangle problem,” Vala replied. “I allowed myself to fall for both of you…you more than him.”
“Don’t blame yourself,” Daniel whispered as he noticed the welling of tears in her eyes. “Please don’t cry.”
“Daniel, I have lost every man in my life…my father, my best friend, my first love, my husband, my father again, my Craig, I can’t lose another man,” she said as tears started to run down her cheeks. “I can’t lose another Daniel…”
“I’m not lost,” Daniel whispered.
~
It wasn’t until her eighth month that Jack was able to get away from Washington to see his team. Deciding that his future Mini-Monkey was going to be the newest member of the team, he figured seeing the woman before the child was born and only cute for the 10 seconds it wasn’t crying.
Showing up at the house, pizza in one hand, and a huge teddy-bear in the other, his infectious smile rang through the house, which somehow opted as a way that the rest of SG-1 arrived at the house, each brining a different type of food.
“So, you pick a name yet?” Jack asked taking a drink of his Guinness.
“Well, I’ve narrowed it down for sure,” Vala smiled, her finger dancing over the rim of her water glass.
“Now, Jack, that’s a good name for a baby, or Jacqueline,” Jack smiled as everyone else laughed.
“No offence Jack, but I don’t want my kid named after you,” Daniel teased, his hand touching Vala’s stomach protectively.
“Why not? I’m a great influence you know,” Jack said as Sam snickered into her cup. “Carter, you got something to say to the audience?”
“No sir,” Sam said, quickly putting on a straight face.
“Well, what are you thinking anyway Vala?” Cameron asked, rescuing Sam from further prosecution.
“Well, if it’s a boy, then either, Laine, Fiyaro or Brandt, for reasons I don’t want to dwell into, and then for a girl, after my mother, Kendra, and most likely a form of my middle name, Ceya.”
“Your middle name is Ceya?” Cameron asked, looking a bit surprised.
“Yes.”
“I didn’t know that,” he replied.
“I don’t go introducing myself as it,” Vala replied a little fast.
“Well, I think its pretty, and middle names aren’t really a big deal, I mean mine is Gabriel,” Daniel shrugged.
“Samantha Isabelle Carter,” Sam said raising her hand.
“I got two, and uh…Jonathon Keith James O’Neill,” Jack shrugged, bringing his beer bottle to his lips.
“Cameron S.M Mitchell,” Cameron added, feeling the need to keep the chain going.
“What does the S and M stand for?” Vala asked, looking curious.
“Nothing,” Cameron said quickly.
“Well, it does mean something Colonel,” Jack said as Cameron shot him a glance.
“Sir?”
“You see Vala, Mitchell’s middle names are Sunshine Moonbeam,” Jack elaborated as a smile that ranged from ear to ear spread across Vala’s lips.
“Sunshine Moonbeam?”
“Yeah, well, my Mom got to give me my middle names okay? Apparently I’ named after some friends who uh, changed her life, whatever that means,” Cameron shrugged leaning back in his seat.
“Four friends ya say?” Jack asked, looking at the younger man.
“And those friends gave your Mother the idea to name you after them?” Sam added as Cameron nodded, his brows frowning.
“Whatcha y’all getting at?”
“Well, you see Mitchell, lets do a bit of spelling,” Jack said as Vala leaned into the table, indent on hearing the great mystery behind his name. “Take, oh I don’t know, five letters from my name.”
“And another five from mine?” Sam added with a smile.
“Then, a few from my name,” Daniel smiled.
“And the remaining from mine,” Teal’c said, a smirk wanting to play upon his lips.
“Are you saying I’m named after you guys!?” Cameron exclaimed. “Wait, I’m being punk’d again aren’t I?”
“’fraid not Kid,” Jack said into his beer bottle, as the look of horror raged over Cameron’s face.
“Why do you this to me?” Cameron asked in horror as everyone laughed, except for Vala, whos laughter turned into a gasp.
“You okay?” Sam asked quickly, looking at her friend.
“I think…No, I’m in labour…” Vala said breathing out her mouth.
“Well now, isn’t this convenient?” Jack asked standing up. “Mitchell, get the cars started, Teal’c, help me get miss Vala here to the SUV, Sam calm Daniel down and grab the bags.”
“Yessir!” Cameron said grabbed the keys from the keybowl on the table and running outside.
“Okay Pigtails, lets go,” Jack said wrapping his arms around Vala helping her stand. “This is a piece of cake!”
Childbirth wasn’t a piece of cake…far from it.
~
“She’s sleeping,” Jack said gesturing to the child in his arms, as Vala looked up at Jack.
“She?”
“Yeah, you gotcha self a girl, she’s quite comfortable in Uncle Jack’s arms though,” Jack said sitting down opposite of Vala.
“Where’s everyone else?”
“Well, Cameron and Teal’c got hungry, so they went down to the cafeteria, then Daniel was hovering, so Sam dragged him to the gift shop, which left me and little Monkey here,” Jack smiled, cradling the child in his arms. “Go see Mama.”
“Thank you,” Vala smiled, looking at her baby girl in her arms. “She’s gorgeous.”
“Yup, doesn’t look a thing like Daniel though,” Jack said as Vala looked at him, her eyes, asking all the questions her mouth couldn’t. “DNA compared, she isn’t Daniel. Yours yes, Dr.Whatshisface yes, but not Daniel.”
“Does he know?”
“Daniel is a smart guy. Besides, between you and me Pigtails, I don’t think he really cares who’s the biological father.
Vala smiled brightly and looked down at the sleeping infant. “She needs a name…”
“That she does,” Jack said as the four other members of SG-1 walked in.
“Welcome back to the living Princess,” Cameron smiled sitting himself down on one of the chairs by the window. “We would have brought you back some food from the caf, but they shouldn’t even serve that stuff to prisoners.”
“How you feeling?” Sam asked sitting at Vala’s feet, her hand touching her leg.
“Tired, sore,” Vala smiled. “She’s gorgeous.”
“That she is,” Daniel said touching the baby’s head. “Have you decided on a name?”
“I have actually,” Vala said positioning the baby so that she was facing Vala. “Sorcia Kendra-Clare Mal Doran.”
“That’s a pretty name for a pretty little girl,” Jack smiled as a nurse walked in.
“I hate to break this up General, but the two need their rest,” the young woman, said regrettably.
“If you say so, keep your eye on the baby, she’s gonna be a trouble maker,” Jack winked as everyone started their goodbyes to Vala and Sorica, who was fussing her little heart out.
Vala looked down at the baby in her arms. One door closed many years ago for her…and it finally opened, and that opened door gave her everything she had ever wanted in her life, and more. She and Daniel started out on rocky grounds, but now, with little Sorcia, they’d get back to that sandy beach where everything was just right.
Chapter Seven: When One Door
By: Assilem
Rating: PG
Series: Stargate SG-1
Pairing: Daniel/Vala, Vala/Other
Prompt: 019 Doors of the 101 Table
Summery: When one door closes the other opens and everything changes
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
The months passed, too slow for Vala who seemed to suffer from every ill effect of pregnancy, and too fast for the rest of the team, who enjoyed every moment of watching the baby grow, although at the same time they didn’t enjoy the constant mood-swings from the expectant mother. Each member of the team tried to keep their patience with Vala at most times, but couldn’t succeed sometimes.
Teal’c decided to take it upon himself to become the Supreme Caretaker, who watched Vala like a hawk, making sure she was careful of the child that grew inside of her.
Cameron became very excited that “his team” was getting a mini-member, and was scheming to obtain SG-1 badges for the unborn child.
Sam took it upon herself to prepare everything for the child’s arrival, she was constantly reading parenting books or shopping for everything the child would need and not need, but she found cute.
Daniel was the worst of them all, constantly checking in on how Vala was doing, making sure she was eating enough, taking her to the Doctor’s appointments, he’d say on the phone for hours upon hours with Vala, sometimes assuring her things would be all right, or merely saying nothing.
Vala in mere frustration of everyone on base giving her name suggestions, to back off and if they had any parenting ideas to tell SG-1, and then if they deemed it safe, to tell Vala. The team even came up with names, as they knew Vala would only accept their suggestions. Sam came up with Olivia or Callum, while Cameron presented Molly and Toby, while Teal’c merely handed over a piece of paper with two words written on it, “You Decide.”
Daniel didn’t suggest or give Vala a piece of paper, instead he sat on Sam’s couch, rubbing her feet, her very swollen feet, discussing her life, the child’s future, everything Vala was thinking.
“What does Craig have to say?” Daniel asked one night, Vala’s pregnancy in the later months, and she was getting more and more worried about the coming baby.
“Oh honestly Daniel, I don’t think he cares,” Vala sighed. “He’s not concerned that he’s the baby’s father. He says there is no chance, not even a one percent chance that she’s his…”
“She?”
“Or he,” Vala replied, caressing her stomach. “The fact that he put in for a transfer is saying everything.”
“Vala, I’ll, uh, I’ll be here, there, for you and the baby, even if it isn’t mine,” Daniel said drifting off.
“Daniel, if it’s not yours, you don’t have to feel obligated, I can raise the baby myself.”
“You shouldn’t have to,” Daniel protested.
“It was my fault we’re in this triangle problem,” Vala replied. “I allowed myself to fall for both of you…you more than him.”
“Don’t blame yourself,” Daniel whispered as he noticed the welling of tears in her eyes. “Please don’t cry.”
“Daniel, I have lost every man in my life…my father, my best friend, my first love, my husband, my father again, my Craig, I can’t lose another man,” she said as tears started to run down her cheeks. “I can’t lose another Daniel…”
“I’m not lost,” Daniel whispered.
~
It wasn’t until her eighth month that Jack was able to get away from Washington to see his team. Deciding that his future Mini-Monkey was going to be the newest member of the team, he figured seeing the woman before the child was born and only cute for the 10 seconds it wasn’t crying.
Showing up at the house, pizza in one hand, and a huge teddy-bear in the other, his infectious smile rang through the house, which somehow opted as a way that the rest of SG-1 arrived at the house, each brining a different type of food.
“So, you pick a name yet?” Jack asked taking a drink of his Guinness.
“Well, I’ve narrowed it down for sure,” Vala smiled, her finger dancing over the rim of her water glass.
“Now, Jack, that’s a good name for a baby, or Jacqueline,” Jack smiled as everyone else laughed.
“No offence Jack, but I don’t want my kid named after you,” Daniel teased, his hand touching Vala’s stomach protectively.
“Why not? I’m a great influence you know,” Jack said as Sam snickered into her cup. “Carter, you got something to say to the audience?”
“No sir,” Sam said, quickly putting on a straight face.
“Well, what are you thinking anyway Vala?” Cameron asked, rescuing Sam from further prosecution.
“Well, if it’s a boy, then either, Laine, Fiyaro or Brandt, for reasons I don’t want to dwell into, and then for a girl, after my mother, Kendra, and most likely a form of my middle name, Ceya.”
“Your middle name is Ceya?” Cameron asked, looking a bit surprised.
“Yes.”
“I didn’t know that,” he replied.
“I don’t go introducing myself as it,” Vala replied a little fast.
“Well, I think its pretty, and middle names aren’t really a big deal, I mean mine is Gabriel,” Daniel shrugged.
“Samantha Isabelle Carter,” Sam said raising her hand.
“I got two, and uh…Jonathon Keith James O’Neill,” Jack shrugged, bringing his beer bottle to his lips.
“Cameron S.M Mitchell,” Cameron added, feeling the need to keep the chain going.
“What does the S and M stand for?” Vala asked, looking curious.
“Nothing,” Cameron said quickly.
“Well, it does mean something Colonel,” Jack said as Cameron shot him a glance.
“Sir?”
“You see Vala, Mitchell’s middle names are Sunshine Moonbeam,” Jack elaborated as a smile that ranged from ear to ear spread across Vala’s lips.
“Sunshine Moonbeam?”
“Yeah, well, my Mom got to give me my middle names okay? Apparently I’ named after some friends who uh, changed her life, whatever that means,” Cameron shrugged leaning back in his seat.
“Four friends ya say?” Jack asked, looking at the younger man.
“And those friends gave your Mother the idea to name you after them?” Sam added as Cameron nodded, his brows frowning.
“Whatcha y’all getting at?”
“Well, you see Mitchell, lets do a bit of spelling,” Jack said as Vala leaned into the table, indent on hearing the great mystery behind his name. “Take, oh I don’t know, five letters from my name.”
“And another five from mine?” Sam added with a smile.
“Then, a few from my name,” Daniel smiled.
“And the remaining from mine,” Teal’c said, a smirk wanting to play upon his lips.
“Are you saying I’m named after you guys!?” Cameron exclaimed. “Wait, I’m being punk’d again aren’t I?”
“’fraid not Kid,” Jack said into his beer bottle, as the look of horror raged over Cameron’s face.
“Why do you this to me?” Cameron asked in horror as everyone laughed, except for Vala, whos laughter turned into a gasp.
“You okay?” Sam asked quickly, looking at her friend.
“I think…No, I’m in labour…” Vala said breathing out her mouth.
“Well now, isn’t this convenient?” Jack asked standing up. “Mitchell, get the cars started, Teal’c, help me get miss Vala here to the SUV, Sam calm Daniel down and grab the bags.”
“Yessir!” Cameron said grabbed the keys from the keybowl on the table and running outside.
“Okay Pigtails, lets go,” Jack said wrapping his arms around Vala helping her stand. “This is a piece of cake!”
Childbirth wasn’t a piece of cake…far from it.
~
“She’s sleeping,” Jack said gesturing to the child in his arms, as Vala looked up at Jack.
“She?”
“Yeah, you gotcha self a girl, she’s quite comfortable in Uncle Jack’s arms though,” Jack said sitting down opposite of Vala.
“Where’s everyone else?”
“Well, Cameron and Teal’c got hungry, so they went down to the cafeteria, then Daniel was hovering, so Sam dragged him to the gift shop, which left me and little Monkey here,” Jack smiled, cradling the child in his arms. “Go see Mama.”
“Thank you,” Vala smiled, looking at her baby girl in her arms. “She’s gorgeous.”
“Yup, doesn’t look a thing like Daniel though,” Jack said as Vala looked at him, her eyes, asking all the questions her mouth couldn’t. “DNA compared, she isn’t Daniel. Yours yes, Dr.Whatshisface yes, but not Daniel.”
“Does he know?”
“Daniel is a smart guy. Besides, between you and me Pigtails, I don’t think he really cares who’s the biological father.
Vala smiled brightly and looked down at the sleeping infant. “She needs a name…”
“That she does,” Jack said as the four other members of SG-1 walked in.
“Welcome back to the living Princess,” Cameron smiled sitting himself down on one of the chairs by the window. “We would have brought you back some food from the caf, but they shouldn’t even serve that stuff to prisoners.”
“How you feeling?” Sam asked sitting at Vala’s feet, her hand touching her leg.
“Tired, sore,” Vala smiled. “She’s gorgeous.”
“That she is,” Daniel said touching the baby’s head. “Have you decided on a name?”
“I have actually,” Vala said positioning the baby so that she was facing Vala. “Sorcia Kendra-Clare Mal Doran.”
“That’s a pretty name for a pretty little girl,” Jack smiled as a nurse walked in.
“I hate to break this up General, but the two need their rest,” the young woman, said regrettably.
“If you say so, keep your eye on the baby, she’s gonna be a trouble maker,” Jack winked as everyone started their goodbyes to Vala and Sorica, who was fussing her little heart out.
Vala looked down at the baby in her arms. One door closed many years ago for her…and it finally opened, and that opened door gave her everything she had ever wanted in her life, and more. She and Daniel started out on rocky grounds, but now, with little Sorcia, they’d get back to that sandy beach where everything was just right.