A/N:
This is AU.
Mulder and Scully are married here, and they have William
with
them. William is in middle school here. Not as random as the other
one.
One-shot.
Wallflower:
By: LOSTrocker
It
just wasn't that he, William Mulder was dateless for this dance
that he
didn't want to go. It was the fact that his parents were
chaperoning, and
his parents… well, mostly his father could be
somewhat embarrassing.
"Can you please try to behave
yourself?" William pleaded with his father
one last time.
"Honey, I've tried asking him that for years, and it
hasn't happened
yet." Scully informed her son.
"This is going to fail isn't it?" Will asked his mother.
"An epic fail." She confirmed.
"I come with no quartette!" Mulder made known.
"We know." Mother and son said at the same time.
"Hey!" Mulder came to his defence. He wasn't
that bad was he? He
wouldn't answer that.
Scully tried
to resist but she couldn't help herself. Her son looked
overly
handsome this evening. "You're just too cute!" she
went to grab him so
she could sneak a quick hug.
"MOM!" he cried out, pushing her away from him.
"Sorry, sorry." She apologized, unwillingly letting him go.
"I'm the cool
one now right?!" Mulder shouted as his son disappeared in
the
ocean of preteens. William didn't answer back. Mulder would
blackmail it
out of him with a new computer game before the week's
end.
"I think we've done enough damage, come on."
Scully dragged her husband
to the wall where the other parents
were.
Mulder didn't have any trouble conversing with the
other parents. However,
Scully did. She was never comfortable at
these large gatherings, especially in
a school's environment. It
just reminded her of the hell she'd gone
through. She felt like
the old tomboy she once was, back in the day, against
the wall, no
one even looking her way. Scully grew tense at the memory.
Mulder
could sense something was wrong with his wife. "Excuse me,"
he
pardoned himself from talking with the football coach
to check on Scully.
"What is it?" he whispered.
"Nothing," Scully lied.
"Dana," he urged, knowing her better then she thought he did.
"Sorry, I hate these things." She finally admitted.
"What?" he asked.
"These stupid dances," Scully answered.
Mulder was confused. When
the PTA announced they needed members to watch over
the kids,
Scully's hand was the first to go up. Now, she was cowering?
What
was the deal? He wasn't sure, but he was determined to find
out. He hated it
when she felt uncomfortable, because when she
did, so did he.
"Hey, I was against this from the start
because Will didn't want us to go
remember?" Mulder reminded
her.
"Yeah, I know, and I wanted to go because of William."
She returned. Was
it so wrong to be part of her son's school
days?
"Then what is it?" he asked her.
"It's silly." She answered.
Mulder pulled her a few feet away
from the parents. He didn't want them to
stick their nose in
their business. "It's me you're talking to here,
The
King of all Silliness." he said. "Surely, it can't be
any worse then
me."
She hit him playfully. Scully
sighed. "Fine, it's just I remember my days
at school, and if
school wasn't bad enough they had to hold these." She
motioned
the dance around them.
Mulder had a pretty good guess where
she was going. "And let me guess, no
one asked you."
"Bingo, they were too busy gawking at Melissa to notice."
Then an idea popped into Mulder's head. "Want to dance with me?"
Scully blushed and smiled. "Mulder,"
"I'm serious," he went on. "Dance with me."
"No, no not here." Scully told him.
"You're rejecting me?" he acted hurt.
Scully laughed. "No, it's just we, mostly I,
promised William we would
behave and I don't think dancing
qualifies as behaving ourselves. His
friends will murder him."
Scully made known.
"Okay. Hold on a sec."
Scully
watched as he went back to the parents. Then returned
momentarily,
"You," he pointed at Scully. "Come with me."
Scully didn't have time to answer him. He dragged her off
far down the
hall, far away from the gym, with no witnesses. "What
in the world
Mulder?" she questioned him worriedly.
"I'll ask you again, want to dance with me?"
"What? Here?" she asked.
"Why not?"
"We don't have any music for one." She confirmed at the silence.
"So," he pleaded
with her. "C'mon, do something spontaneous for
once!"
Scully gave in. Mulder smiled once he had her in his arms. It
was always nice
here. It was weird dancing with out any music. He
took care of that easily
enough. Jeremiah Was A Bull Frog echoed
around them. It was one of his
favorite songs.
Scully
laughed. Mulder was such a terrible singer, but at least they
had
music. She might have been the wallflower in her past, but not
tonight she
wasn't.
Fin.
