ADJUSTMENTS
Damn it! Scully thought as her radio alarm sounded at 6.45, as usual. But she had forgotten to set the clocks back, so it was really 5.45.
She hit it quickly, not wanting to disturb Mulder.
He stirred in his sleep, then she heard him snore gently again. It was a comforting sound to her.
She couldn't believe he had changed the radio from classical to rock music, again!
How she loathed that voice, that was waking her more and more frequently, telling her to "Rise and shine" to sound of various head-splitting songs.
She definitely preferred Bach.
She rolled slowly out of their bed, careful not to wake him.
She walked softly around the apartment, that was once hers, but was now theirs.
Of course, it was getting easier for her.
They had been living together for around month, more and more of his possessions were appearing there every day.
His DVD's were stacked in various piles, next to hers.
His CD's made the rack overflow, his clothes were strewn across the couch.
Multiple mounds of sunflower seed shells lay in little hidden areas of her main room, and newspaper cut-outs littered her worktops.
She loved having him there. She loved him.
But she was so used to having her own personal space, it was a little hard to handle sometimes.
She neatly piled the DVD's, pushed in all the CD cases and swept the seeds into a rubbish bag.
She had two brothers, and a sister, it should have been easier to adjust. She had been living alone way too long.
After all, it had sometimes felt like she and Mulder had been living together since the beginning, before they even got together. They'd constantly be at each others places.
Scully's across the hall neighbour had often asked if "That nice man" she worked with had moved in.
Scully was proud the day she could tell her, Yes, he had.
It was true, she didn't like the extra trash, finding the magazines he would never read in her presence,
the dirty clothes all over her bedroom floor,
the shaving foam left in the sink, the milk always finished just before she got to it.
But she liked him there to make her laugh, she liked not having to run up an excessive phone bill every time they wanted to talk, she liked him there to make her breakfast in the morning, and to go and get more milk if they ran out.
She liked him there to hold her, to keep her safe and warm when the nights got cold.
Everything else was worth putting up with.
THE END
