Title: My Dinner with Vala
Author's LJ/DWJ: aelfgyfu_mead / aelfgyfu_mead
Categories: Friendship, Humor
Warnings: None
Author's Webpage/Fic list: Aelfgyfu's Mead Hall
Link to story: My Dinner with Vala
Why this should be read: Jack's first meeting with Vala. Complete with dinner and lots of snarky dialogue.
Missing scene for "The Ties that Bind." Jack takes the gang out to dinner while they're in DC.

“Daniel frowned but continued washing his hands mechanically. “Ok, so maybe that wouldn’t be such a great plan. But why have Vala at the hearing? Landry said that was your idea.”

“I thought more aliens would be more convincing!” Jack argued.

“Yes, I’m sure Vala has them really convinced we face a grave threat. To decency! He’s a Republican, you know!” Daniel waved his hands, splattering Jack with drops of water. Jack stepped back. “Why not Nyan? He's an alien! And he actually knows things! Useful things about other plan—other peoples and cultures, the threats that we face; you didn’t invite him!”

"Nyan?" He pretended to search his memory. "Sideburns?" Daniel just looked annoyed. “He’s shy! Look, she’s seen the Ori. You’ve seen the Ori. And you weren’t going anywhere without her.”

“Couldn’t we have chained her to that row of chairs outside the hearing room?” Daniel finally turned off the water, shaking his hands a little over the sink. "Or sedated her and locked her in a nearby closet?" he muttered.

“You talked an alternate SGC into sacrificing itself to let you escape! You convinced an Unas to make you part of his tribe instead of eating you! You got the Russians to lend us their DHD! And you couldn’t persuade one senator?” Jack said.

“If I’d known about Vala, I’d have stayed in the alternate universe.”

“It was overrun by Goa’uld! They were trying to kill you!” Jack suddenly remembered where he was and glanced around the otherwise empty restroom. Surely they couldn’t be heard outside.

“Exactly.”