sg_five_things | Prompt 81.04

Four times Vala lied, and one time she told the truth

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1. “Good bye, Jacen. I really don’t care to see you around this time.” She thought she was telling the truth. Life certainly was simpler when he wasn’t around. But the squeezing hand around her heart as he turned away told her she’d lied.

2. “I’m fine with the way things went. What we did was for the best. It had to be done.” SG-1 needed to hear that. But inside her was a voice so loud, so clangorous, so piercing that she was astonished they could not hear it. “Foul!” it said. “Foul! Unnatural! Undeserving! What kind of a mother are you, that you worked to kill your own child?!”

3. “No, that’s okay. I know it’s an illusion, and it can’t possibly hurt me. You go ahead, Muscles!” Yes, her mind knew that the curtain of fire was not really there, that this was just another test of resolve on the way to the prize, but her body knew differently. It could still feel the terrible consuming heat of the prior’s fire, the agonized pain of seared lungs, the cloying choking smell of burning hair and flesh. Daniel was too consumed with curiosity to be concerned with anything but what lay behind that roiling curtain. Mitchell had already forged on ahead. Sam was using all her powers of concentration to overrule her senses and instincts with her intellect, but Muscles would watch, and he would know. Best to send him through now.

4. “You’re right, Daniel. I was just having a joke at your expense.” And as long as he let her keep her back to him, maybe he’d believe it, and she could keep her dignity. There was a weird sense of déjà-vu to this whole situation, although she knew she’d never offered herself like that before.

5. “You know, I never really had this before. It’s nice to have friends.” Cassie, who was in town for the weekend, put the heaping spoonful of whipped cream and fudge covered ice cream in her mouth and grinned in agreement.

Sam stopped riffling through the bag from Victoria’s Secret, where she was trying to retrieve her receipt to put it in her wallet, and took in the sight of Vala and Cassie and the food court table with its sundaes and crumpled paper napkins. It had been so long since a Girls Day Out had meant more than two girls. Not since Janet.

“Yeah,” she agreed. This is nice.”

She gave up on the receipt and started in on her own sundae.

So true, she thought. So true.

Oh I love #3. I think Vala and Teal'c have an interesting relationship: she flirts, he indulges, but underneath it all there's such a keen awareness. He knows when she's hiding, and she knows he knows.

I think they've both seen a little too much in the course of their lives, and it gives them an awareness that the "very young" lack. I agree that they have a fascinating dynamic.

I adore two. I've always been unhappy about how Vala just...cut off Adria, so I'm glad you've worked with that!

Glad you enjoyed it.

Vala had to have felt so much more than she allowed to show. But then that is her nature, to work tirelessly to keep it light on the surface, no matter the darkness within. I think she and Jack would "get" each other that way.

Oh, wow, #3. Excellent job, seizing on that moment and realizing what could have been going through Vala's mind.

#5 is terrific. Good to see all three ladies enjoying themselves and each other's company. :-)

That's the sad thing about the length of an episode. They need to use up all their time telling their story and moving the plot along, and we don't get to see those times they spend together having fun. That's what we're here for, isn't it?

It so totally is! :-)

I love #5 especially, and that the time she told the truth it was a happy thing.

Yeah, I get the feeling that when Vala lies it is almost always to cover vulnerability, so when she is telling the truth, she needs to be in a place where she feels secure.

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