E-MAIL: eli @ popullus.net
RATING: PG
POSTED: Feb. 3, 2006
SUMMARY: Interlude without leather.
NOTES: S9. For Cofax and Thea, who both requested Jack and Vala.
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When his admin walked in with a pinched, struggling-against-horny look on his face, Jack didn't need the man to say anything.
"Send her in," he said. "And then go call your wife."
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The woman who strode into his office, caressing the door closed behind her, looked just like her picture and a million times more dangerous than he'd imagined.
He ignored her smile -- the one filled with knowledge, one that tilted up just enough more on the right to make you wonder -- and pointed at a chair. "Thanks for coming."
Vala's head cocked as she stepped forward with a little less swing to her hips. She still sat gracefully, and with a kick that showed plenty of the skin not covered by her boots or her skirt while she crossed her legs, but her eyes were also still harder than her body language wanted you to see.
"Always glad to come," she said. He didn't blink at the darkness of her voice, but the accent certainly gave it an extra twist. "Daniel said I should meet you."
Jack's eyebrows rose. "Really."
She broke eye contact for barely a second, and shrugged more with her face than her body. "Actually..." she admitted with another smile, a genuinely pained one, Jack thought; a smile that came often when dealing with Daniel, "...he said he wanted to see which of us would walk out."
"It's my office," Jack told her. "Was he taking bets?"
Now one of her brows arched as her lips pursed, considering or annoyed, it was hard to tell. "Not that I'm aware of, but we are merely connected, not attached," she said, presenting her arm to show off the wrist band that was playing merry hell with the SGC.
"Fancy piece you've got there," Jack said. "You know we'd all like even the 'connected' part to be not true."
"It's not all that bad, really," she said, confident seduction back in her expression.
Jack leaned forward and folded his hands together on top of his desk as he gave her a tight-lipped grin. "Then why are you all here in D.C.?" he asked pointedly.
She pulled in a breath; not a deep one, but he'd trained on sergeants and Asgard, and he could read her.
Then she said, "To see your lovely large buildings," and she grinned. And Jack saw a hint of what had made Daniel hesitate when Jack had called to suggest that it'd be nice if an extra moment could be scheduled in their little visit.
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They walked out together -- cordially, if not hand-in-hand and singing -- just to see Daniel's face.
When Jack walked back in, alone, he decided that he'd wait until after she was out in another part of the galaxy to claim his share of Daniel's take.
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