1 [Holo-Location: Sanctuary]

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

All he did was blink, how could everything have changed so drastically? Daniel blinked again, hoping despite himself that he’d only imagined he’d seen a metal room with him standing on a platform. No luck. He glanced around, warily, before calling out.

“Thor?” Surely it had to have been the Asgard’s transporting beam, right? Except without the flash of white.

“Jack?” He tried again. Despite the fact Jack hadn’t been on the Prometheus with him, weird things tended to happen when Jack was involved, so it was generally a safe bet to assume he had something to do with this. Still nothing. He gave a sigh, reaching a hand up to ruffle his hair.

“This isn’t funny, guys.”

Only then did he look up and spy a rather odd and unusual device.

“..Okay, definitely not Asgard.”

Feeling a strange weight on his wrist, he sent an enquiring glance at it, only to do a double-take. What the heck was on his wrist? It didn’t hurt, despite the fact the metal seemed to be fused to his skin.

“Oh that can’t be good..”

He also noticed at that point the pedestal standing next to him. Was something wrong with his sight that he’d not noticed that? He stared at the tablet resting on top of the pedestal, the metal bracelet attached to him temporarily forgotten as he walked carefully around it before reaching out and picking the tablet up. Then he glanced around again.

“Jack?” Silence. “Isn’t someone going to say I shouldn’t have done that?”

This was getting tiresome, and he was starting to feel even more uneasy. He stared back down at the tablet, if only so he wouldn’t be looking around the large room anymore and see no one. Without really expecting anything to happen, he tried to open the tablet, finding it flipped open quite easily, as if it were a cell phone. He sighed again, glancing around once more despite himself.

“Jack, I know you have to be there. I get that you must be laughing your socks off, but this really isn’t funny.”

Comments

[valaunbound]

"Pretty much Daniel type things really." Well that was vague, and unusually brief for Vala.

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

Daniel removed his hand from over his eyes to glare at her again, frustrated once more. "Vala.."

[valaunbound]

"Daniel?" She tilted her head expectantly, feigning complete ignorance of what he was really asking.

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

"..You're not going to tell me anything else that's useful, are you?"

[valaunbound]

"Well, I would... but honestly there's no guarantee that your definition of useful and mine would be the same thing. So it seems a little pointless."

Which was of course complete bullshit, but he'd get everything he needed to know from Jack. She didn't need to get into it, and more importantly, she'd rather avoid any conversation that would potentially discuss anything that was an emotional trigger for her.

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

Daniel frowned at her. "Humor me and pretend our definitions are the same."

And he was actually aware she didn't want to say more about it, but this was just a way to see how far and how much information he could get out of her immediately.

[valaunbound]

"Okay," Vala nodded in agreement with his odd request pleasantly. Only she didn't offer any further information after that.

"I'm pretending that's the case, right now."

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, sure you are." Daniel stared at her, the sarcasm and frustration obvious in his tone. He tried again after a moment.

"What else is there that I should know?"

[valaunbound]

"I think I just about it covered it all really." Still putting on that air of flippancy, she winked at him.

"I probably shouldn't tell you about the endless nights of passion we shared."

And there it was, the crux of her problem covered up by a double bluff that was sure to make him stop probing further and sounded completely unbelievable. She even impressed herself with how blasé she could sound about it, even if her stomach did turn over in knots.

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

That wink just about made him actually flail, instead Daniel resorted to blinking in surprise. Then he shook his head. "I'm sure you missed-"

Daniel stared at her, letting his sentance trail off as he was more than a little irritated. Only Vala would make fun of something like that. She couldn't be telling the truth. At least that's what he told himself.

Besides, it was safer to believe she lied about that and not the other things she'd said so far.

[valaunbound]

"Oh well, it was worth a try," she pulled a face, looking up at the ceiling in fake innocence and tossing a hand casually.

Only she couldn't quite maintain the act. She gave him another tight smile, one that hopefully came across as sarcastic and not her biting back any upset.

"Anyway, I have a job to do, apparently. Namely, getting out of your office." With that she closed the tablet hastily. Once the transmission was cut, Vala took a deep breath to put a stop to the emotional reaction that was welling up. This wasn't going to be easy.

[ancient-monkey.livejournal.com]

Daniel blinked at the now blank tablet in confusion. What the hell had just happened? Vala almost acted...hurt..but he couldn't figure out what had caused it.

He finally sighed in frustration before putting the tablet away and deciding to just leave the room he currently was in and start exploring, hopefully run into Jack along the way.