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Common room 2nd floor, morning

Needing some room to study and get some work done, Cameron moves with his notes into the common room. It seems to work better when he doesn't see Vala's notes lying close and ends up freaking out over the huge differences.

When he runs into some stray pages from Criminal Justice, he folds them up into paper planes and flies them across the room. Soon, the room is filled with crashed airplanes and more than a few might end up flying into the hallway.

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"Hey there, YoYo," Vala walks in, catching a plane neatly mid air as it zooms towards her. "What's up?"

She might look a little down, for Vala anyway.

"Planes and archaeology mostly," Cameron frowns as he picks up on her mood. He dumps the notes down beside the couch and makes room for her. "What's wrong?"

She looks surprised, then embarassed. When did she become that easy to read?

"Oh, nothing," she says, plopping down on the couch beside him and concentrating intensely on folding the wayward plane into a little box...

"Hmmmm," Cameron strokes the back of his fingers along Vala's cheek as he watches her closely. "Did Shamu hog up all the blankets again?"

She can't help but laugh. "Yeah, he's a terrible covers hog, you know... you'd think with all that blubber...." She sighs.

"Cam, I'm worried about Crissmass. I'm thinking maybe I shouldn't go home with you."

"If you're worried about my parents, don't be. It will be alright. I promise," he says gently as he plays with her hair.

She sighed, and turned to face him. "Look, Cam. I know you don't think I take the whole," she drops her voice and flails a little, "'danger thing' seriously. But I do. I've already involved Jack and his family in this. I don't want to put your family in danger too."

He hadn't thought about that. Cameron drops his hand on the back of the couch and glares at her. "You can save your breathIf you're about to suggest I leave you here alone."

Vala drops her face into her hands. "I know you want to see your family, and...." And she was not going to point out again that he had no realistic way to protect her just by being there.

"I'm sorry, Cam. I'm sorry this... thing just became this whole complicated thing."

She sighs again. "I keep telling you I'm used to taking care of myself, YoYo, and I am. What I'm not used to is worrying about the people around me. There's a reason I worked solo whenever I could -- easier to cut your losses and run if things got sticky."

He stiffens, his fingers dig into the back of the couch as he keeps himself from reaching for her. "What are you saying? That you want me to go home for Christmas so you get time to sneak off and disappear by the time I get back?"

"No!" Vala looks shocked, then guilty. "Although, you're right, I probably should, just to protect you...."

For a moment, he gets angry. His hand is already up to grab hold of her chin and force her to face him so he can't tell her that he'd look for her if she did. The feeling washes away even before he gets that far and he drops his hand in his lap.

"Do you know how tired I am of hearing you talk to me like I'm some child who you need to take care of?" He asks as he rests his chin on top of the hand that's still on the back of the couch.

"What child?" Vala frowns at him. "Aren't you the one saying they can come after anyone at any time and I can't stop them?" She's getting more than a bit upset herself now. "Well, what if you're right? Huh? And nobody can stop them? I'm already in this too deep, but the only reason they'd come after you is because of me! How do you think that makes me feel?

"Maybe if I leave they'll go looking for me and leave you alone!" She's close to crying now. "Dammit, Cam! I don't know any other way to keep them from hurting the guy I love!"

"And by running off you're letting them win," he raises his voice as the anger apparently is still around. "I know that you can't stop them. I know that I can't stop them either. The only thing you leaving would achieve is that you'd be out there all alone without anyone watching your back for you. How much good is it to love someone when you're on the other side of the fucking universe."

"But I know how to hide, Cam! I know how to hide one person. I'd still have a pretty damned good chance at keeping out of their hands. I've run from people who'd do far worse than wipe your memory before."

Her face crumples. "But I haven't left because I don't want to lose you." She swallows hard, and the next is almost a whisper. "And I'm afraid that that's going to get you hurt or killed."

"Which would be my decision," Cameron finally replies, his tone stubborn but he gives just a little as he reaches out and touches one finger to her arm.

She looks down at where he's touching her. "I don't know how to do this, Cam. I've never gotten serious about anyone, not in a long, long time. And this is why. I'm too dangerous."

She finally looks up at him. "Do you know how much just the thought of something happening to you scares me? Let alone if it's something I caused or could have prevented?"

"So much so that you'd give this all up?" He asks as he draws slowly and deliberatedly draws something on her skin.

"So much that I should," she whispers, watching his fingers move. "But I don't think I'm that good a person...."

He frowns. Part of him tells him he should just take what he gets, but he's too stubborn to let it rest. "So being with me makes you feel guilty?"

"No," she sighs. "It just sometimes makes me scared." She tenetively reaches a hand up to his face. "I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you, YoYo."

He turns his head into her hand. "I imagine it's a lot like how I feel when I think about you getting hurt without me around to at least try to keep it from happening," he says softly and leans forward to brush his lips over the patch of skin he had only just been caressing.

Vala sighed. "Yeah, but it's different when it's you," she insisted quietly, half-heartedly. "I don't worry like that about me." She moved her hand back though his hair. "I don't worry like that about anyone else."

"I know," Cameron whispers and leans his forehead against her shoulder, "but you can't expect me to move into a padded cell so I won't bump my knee on a sharp corner."

Vala frowns over-dramatically as she slides in closer to him. "Really?" She's definitely pouting now. "But I had this lovely one all picked out...."

He rolls his eyes and gently bites at her shoulder, ending mostly up with a mouth full of shirt. "I suppose it would make some things more comfortable..."

She can't help snickering at that. "I've created a monster, haven't I?" she grins, sliding her arm around him and ~~maybe under his shirt in back~~ pulling them tighter together and leaning in for a kiss.

"I can see a whole lot potential in soft walls. So sue me if that's wrong," he chuckles and kisses her softly as he slips his arms around her.

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