5 things Vala has stolen on Earth
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1. An atlas of Earth.
She stole it from a bookstore, while Daniel was paying for the purchases that she had allowed the supervising SFs to notice her trying to sneak out with. It wasn’t particularly challenging; she threatened to throw a fit, Daniel freaked out, the SFs got all proud of themselves for catching her in the act. Daniel went to pay (so angry he wouldn’t even look at her – which was mean but oh-so-convenient), the SFs formed a little huddle of team congratulations, and Vala shoved her the actual objective under her jacket. It was huge and heavy, and anyone with eyes should have noticed. If the SFs or Daniel went to grab her, it would be obvious. But she’d just made him buy sexually graphic materials at an establishment where they knew him by name and she was smiling about it. So, he got out of there as fast as he could, Vala made sure she kept up, and the SFs followed inconspicuously. No one touched her.
In the car, she squealed over the items he’d bought her. They weren’t anything special, really, pretty tame and uninventive as sex literature went. But she plastered a huge grin over her face and practiced her craft. Her questions made Daniel turn bright red, and she needled one of the SFs until he had to put his hat over his groin.
Thus, they pretty much left her completely alone after they got back to the SGC. Vala went back to her room. She climbed under the covers, spread her sex books out in the open, and wiggled the atlas out from under her clothes without ever showing it to the security camera scanning the room.
She studied that atlas almost every night. Earth was a small planet, but it had lots of places to go. Vala wasn’t yet sure she staying, and she wasn’t sure she trusted that she’d be allowed to gate out. So, she studied that atlas and made some backup plans.
2. Daniel’s credit card numbers.
Initially, as a part of her eventual plan to escape the SGC and go on a treasure-stealing-spree around earth. She’d have to pay people to take her places, and these little plastic rectangles apparently served that purpose.
And when she decided that she was staying, they were still handy. Daniel wasn’t really home enough to actually notice her occasional purchases and the credit card companies had apparently long ago given up trying to contact him about unusual activity.
No one ever asked her how she got clothes and what not that hadn’t been purchased for her prior to Landry’s decision to start paying her. Probably because they assumed she was stealing them – and this was true, on occasion. She figured they were pretending not to notice, and although she briefly wondered why the limit on Daniel’s credit cards suddenly drastically decreased, no one ever said a word.
3. A collection of SGC uniforms and equipment.
Long before they gave her an SG-1 patch, she took one. Never wore it, though. Added it to her stash. Although her leather outfits definitely served a purpose, the SGC uniform would also come in useful on certain planets. She figured she’d use that as a disguise whenever she ended up leaving, and ingratiate herself into planets who owed SG-1.
That plan never materialized, and she gradually started wearing the uniforms (minus the team decal) she’d swiped. It was her choice but Mitchell seemed to assume Landry had ordered her to follow dress code regulations. He hadn’t. But since she was sticking around, it made sense. She liked matching SG-1; it made her feel like she was part of the team. Part of a team for the first time, and as much as she was never going to tell them that, she wore their ugly, unflattering uniforms completely voluntarily.
4. She didn’t consider it stealing, but as it did require obtaining a bunch of electronics without permission, she supposed that SGC would call it that.
In this way, Vala stole back her privacy. She hooked up the surveillance equipment monitoring her quarters to a tangle of wires and made it so that a previously recorded disc of her doing nothing of interest would play cyclically for as long as the camera was watching. She had to mess with it a bit so that the video had her sleeping at appropriate times and absent when she wasn’t actually there, but she doubted that the viewers were paying that close attention to the details.
Vala wasn’t actually doing anything illicit, but the point was she could if she wanted to.
5. The keys to Daniel’s apartment.
He would never give them to her, so she had to go about the old-fashioned way. Technically, she stole Sam’s copy of his keys. Some things were better done indirectly. She went out drinking with Sam, and then drunkenly upended Sam’s purse over a sewer grate. Sam was extremely pissed, but no one thought Vala had done it on purpose after pocketing the keys to Daniel’s place (as well as all of Sam’s cash – because hey – money).
After that, Vala could pretty much come and go as she pleased. Daniel initially yelled a lot, but that passed.
He knew she had his keys, and he didn’t change the locks. He couldn’t yet say he wanted her there, but Vala understood; she couldn’t yet say she was going to be there forever.
She stole it from a bookstore, while Daniel was paying for the purchases that she had allowed the supervising SFs to notice her trying to sneak out with. It wasn’t particularly challenging; she threatened to throw a fit, Daniel freaked out, the SFs got all proud of themselves for catching her in the act. Daniel went to pay (so angry he wouldn’t even look at her – which was mean but oh-so-convenient), the SFs formed a little huddle of team congratulations, and Vala shoved her the actual objective under her jacket. It was huge and heavy, and anyone with eyes should have noticed. If the SFs or Daniel went to grab her, it would be obvious. But she’d just made him buy sexually graphic materials at an establishment where they knew him by name and she was smiling about it. So, he got out of there as fast as he could, Vala made sure she kept up, and the SFs followed inconspicuously. No one touched her.
In the car, she squealed over the items he’d bought her. They weren’t anything special, really, pretty tame and uninventive as sex literature went. But she plastered a huge grin over her face and practiced her craft. Her questions made Daniel turn bright red, and she needled one of the SFs until he had to put his hat over his groin.
Thus, they pretty much left her completely alone after they got back to the SGC. Vala went back to her room. She climbed under the covers, spread her sex books out in the open, and wiggled the atlas out from under her clothes without ever showing it to the security camera scanning the room.
She studied that atlas almost every night. Earth was a small planet, but it had lots of places to go. Vala wasn’t yet sure she staying, and she wasn’t sure she trusted that she’d be allowed to gate out. So, she studied that atlas and made some backup plans.
2. Daniel’s credit card numbers.
Initially, as a part of her eventual plan to escape the SGC and go on a treasure-stealing-spree around earth. She’d have to pay people to take her places, and these little plastic rectangles apparently served that purpose.
And when she decided that she was staying, they were still handy. Daniel wasn’t really home enough to actually notice her occasional purchases and the credit card companies had apparently long ago given up trying to contact him about unusual activity.
No one ever asked her how she got clothes and what not that hadn’t been purchased for her prior to Landry’s decision to start paying her. Probably because they assumed she was stealing them – and this was true, on occasion. She figured they were pretending not to notice, and although she briefly wondered why the limit on Daniel’s credit cards suddenly drastically decreased, no one ever said a word.
3. A collection of SGC uniforms and equipment.
Long before they gave her an SG-1 patch, she took one. Never wore it, though. Added it to her stash. Although her leather outfits definitely served a purpose, the SGC uniform would also come in useful on certain planets. She figured she’d use that as a disguise whenever she ended up leaving, and ingratiate herself into planets who owed SG-1.
That plan never materialized, and she gradually started wearing the uniforms (minus the team decal) she’d swiped. It was her choice but Mitchell seemed to assume Landry had ordered her to follow dress code regulations. He hadn’t. But since she was sticking around, it made sense. She liked matching SG-1; it made her feel like she was part of the team. Part of a team for the first time, and as much as she was never going to tell them that, she wore their ugly, unflattering uniforms completely voluntarily.
4. She didn’t consider it stealing, but as it did require obtaining a bunch of electronics without permission, she supposed that SGC would call it that.
In this way, Vala stole back her privacy. She hooked up the surveillance equipment monitoring her quarters to a tangle of wires and made it so that a previously recorded disc of her doing nothing of interest would play cyclically for as long as the camera was watching. She had to mess with it a bit so that the video had her sleeping at appropriate times and absent when she wasn’t actually there, but she doubted that the viewers were paying that close attention to the details.
Vala wasn’t actually doing anything illicit, but the point was she could if she wanted to.
5. The keys to Daniel’s apartment.
He would never give them to her, so she had to go about the old-fashioned way. Technically, she stole Sam’s copy of his keys. Some things were better done indirectly. She went out drinking with Sam, and then drunkenly upended Sam’s purse over a sewer grate. Sam was extremely pissed, but no one thought Vala had done it on purpose after pocketing the keys to Daniel’s place (as well as all of Sam’s cash – because hey – money).
After that, Vala could pretty much come and go as she pleased. Daniel initially yelled a lot, but that passed.
He knew she had his keys, and he didn’t change the locks. He couldn’t yet say he wanted her there, but Vala understood; she couldn’t yet say she was going to be there forever.
