Speaking of Vala, by Salieri (PG)
Oct. 26th, 2009 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figs_sg1_recRec Category: Gen
Pairing: none
Categories: gen, Daniel, Vala, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:troyswann
Author's Website: Outside the Box
Link: Speaking of Vala
Why This Must Be Read: The premise of this fic is so powerfully plausible that it has largely entered fandom consciousness as canon.
Set in early S9, when Daniel and Vala were very much at loggerheads, here is Daniel's first real glimpse into Vala's past. Salieri includes marvelous stage dressing, sharp dialogue, and the creeping, horrifying realization of things that are done in the course of a war... and what happens to those caught in the fallout.
Read this one slowly, and then wonder if you'll ever look at the word "interface" in the same way again.
He was swiping his card to call the elevator when he realized she wasn't behind him anymore. Backtracking around the corner, he found her in the middle of the hallway, tugging at one of her ponytails and looking at her feet. "What?"
"I don't want to visit the Tok'ra."
"Of course you do." He waved her toward the elevator with his file folder and when she didn't move he waved her toward the elevator with his file folder a little more emphatically. "You like the Tok'ra."
Over his head, a red light started flashing and Walter's voice announced the offworld activation he was now late for.
"Really," Vala said to the floor. "I like the Tok'ra. I don't know why you'd have that impression."
Giving up on waving the file folder, he let it fall with a slap against his thigh. "Because they saved you? Extracted the symbiote?"
"Yes. Of course." She breezed past him. "Eventually."
Pairing: none
Categories: gen, Daniel, Vala, character study
Warnings: none
Author on LJ:
troyswann Author's Website: Outside the Box
Link: Speaking of Vala
Why This Must Be Read: The premise of this fic is so powerfully plausible that it has largely entered fandom consciousness as canon.
Set in early S9, when Daniel and Vala were very much at loggerheads, here is Daniel's first real glimpse into Vala's past. Salieri includes marvelous stage dressing, sharp dialogue, and the creeping, horrifying realization of things that are done in the course of a war... and what happens to those caught in the fallout.
Read this one slowly, and then wonder if you'll ever look at the word "interface" in the same way again.
He was swiping his card to call the elevator when he realized she wasn't behind him anymore. Backtracking around the corner, he found her in the middle of the hallway, tugging at one of her ponytails and looking at her feet. "What?"
"I don't want to visit the Tok'ra."
"Of course you do." He waved her toward the elevator with his file folder and when she didn't move he waved her toward the elevator with his file folder a little more emphatically. "You like the Tok'ra."
Over his head, a red light started flashing and Walter's voice announced the offworld activation he was now late for.
"Really," Vala said to the floor. "I like the Tok'ra. I don't know why you'd have that impression."
Giving up on waving the file folder, he let it fall with a slap against his thigh. "Because they saved you? Extracted the symbiote?"
"Yes. Of course." She breezed past him. "Eventually."
