Title: SOS
Author: Princess Destiny
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Couple: Mulder And Scully
Rating: M 15+
Summary: 'One Hour Challenge' #1: Response Fanfic. Mulder and Scully get stranded in a forest after their car breaks down, their phones won't work and there's a bear after them.
Chapters: 1/2
Status: Completed
Year Started: 2002
Year Completed: 2002
Year Revised: 2011

Comments: Hi everyone! No, I'm not back yet. I have finally, after a year and half of surgery, fixed the cause of my pain for so long. I'd been having a lot of pain and discomfort in my stomach for about seven years and they finally figured out what was wrong and I had my final surgery two weeks ago. My poor computer has been broken the entire time and is still not fixed (I am posting this from someone else's computer), but as soon as I heal and get back to work I will be saving up to buy a new one. I have missed writing desperately! And I thought, why not post the stories from my site that you guys have never read up here at Fanfiction DOT net? This X-Files story was written way back before 2006, but I can't get to my computer to let you know the date, which I took from my site.

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SOS

By Princess Destiny

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Chapter One

"Mulder, explain this to me one more time?" Scully said, finally blinking after a long moment of staring at her partner as if he were a mad-man. "Why did you say you wanted me to take my top off again?"

Mulder spread his hands out innocently, trying not to grin at her. "Look, Skinner knows where we were headed, so he'll probably send out a helicopter or a small plane to scout this forest for us."

"Right. I got that much," she said, eyes steely. He was trying not to grin. She just knew it.

"So-we need a white flag. Metaphorically speaking, of course," His eyes fell to her white shirt under her black jacket. "You have the only white thing between us." He concluded, staring down at his 'all-black-and-totally-cool-dude' clothing.

Scully glared at Mulder, but was unable to come up with another plan. He was right, damn him! Her white tee-shirt was the only thing on them both that wasn't black. "I'm going to get you for this, Mulder." she threatened.

"Sure you will, Scully," He said cheekily, still looking completely serious. Inside, he was bursting to grin lasciviously at her. They had a look and not touch partnership that neither of them would cross-but he could dream! "Off with it!"

"I'm going to kill him. Slowly." she muttered under her breath, turning her back to him as she shucked her jacket, then pulled the base of her white shirt from her pants. Behind her, Mulder suddenly began to hum loudly.

"Da da da, da da da da!"

"Mulder!" she yelled, glaring at him over her shoulder.

"Just setting the mood," he shrugged innocently. Stripe-tease song for the stripe-tease, right? "Shuck!"

"I'm a shucking." she muttered darkly, pulling her top up over her head.

A wolf-whistle echoed around the forest.

"Mulder," Scully shouted, spinning angrily. "There's a bear after us!"

"So he'll get a show too." Mulder grinned openly now, then glanced down casually at her chest. "Nice bra"

"Mulder," Scully gritted through her teeth, hastily covering her chest with her shirt. "I have a gun."

"Sorry, sorry. I couldn't resist. Honest," he turned away, whistling tunelessly through his teeth and staring about the forest with apparent fascination.

"Men." Scully said under her breath, rolling he eyes. Flash them a bit of skin and they turned into complete perverts! She looked about her on the forest floor for a likely stick to tie her T-shirt to. "Mulder, give me a hand here-and no comments!" she finished, throwing him a no-nonsense look.

Mulder's mouth snapped shut, a disappointed look on his face. "Ruin my fun," he muttered. He spotted a long stick against a tree and strode over to pick it up. "Looks good." he threw over his shoulder, turning. Scully was bent over, picking up a stick, her butt facing him. Mulder groaned.

"What was that?" Scully said, straightening. She turned around and noticed that her partner's eyes were glazed over. "Mulder?" she said, walking over to peer into his face with concern. She waved her shirt under his nose to get his attention when he hadn't responded in half a minute.

"What? Oh, I found a stick." Mulder blurted out, coming out from his perverted thoughts to see his partner standing a few feet from him, waving her shirt under his nose. He thrust his stick out, hoping she didn't look down and see just what he was thinking about a moment before.

"Thanks," she said, taking the stick and proceeding to tie her shirt to it.

Meanwhile, Mulder tried not to look down further than her face. Sure, he'd seen her naked before, when they were being de-contaminated by evil-smelling chemicals and people in space-suits. But damn, when did Scully start buying such wonderful lacy-numbers from 'Victoria's Secrets'? His partner, half-naked, in a forest with him miles from anywhere...This was just like one of his dreams come to life!

"Are you alright, Mulder?" Scully asked him again, noticing his eyes glazing over again.

"I'm fine." he snapped to attention, throwing her a slightly ironic look. Trust his own partner not to notice his mental drooling over her. Usually, she was much more observant to his mood and boy, if this forest was petrol, he was suffering enough UST to explode the place!

"Is there something you want to tell me, Mulder?" Scully said tartly, seeing the silly grin that broke over his face. He put his hands into his pants pockets, drawing her attention down inadvertently. Her eyebrows rose when she saw his trouble. "I see" she said expressionlessly, internally grinning. Mulder had definitely been affected by her half-naked state. She'd have to try this again sometime-when they weren't in possible life-threatening circumstances. Contrary to popular belief, she wasn't as immune to her partner's boyish charms as everyone thought. Even him.

"What did you expect?" he almost whined at her, noticing her noticing his excited state. "You're half naked and wearing a lacy creation that'd be any guys wet-dream come to life!"

"I expect you to be more serious!" she snapped back, turning her back on him and grinning widely. "We have no car, no working phones and a bear after us! Not to mention, I now have no top because we're using it as a signal flare." she continued, eyes falling on her discarded jacket. Her eyes narrowed pensively for a long moment as she considered putting it on. Mulder had obviously forgotten that she had a jacket over her shirt and didn't have to parade around half-naked. And he was obviously enjoying a perve too much to offer his jacket as he usually would have done. Mulder was a gentleman in some ways. Not all, but some. Scully sighed and turned away from the jacket, facing her partner again. "We have to get to higher ground and somewhere more open so that they'll see the T-shirt."

Mulder looked south, where he'd briefly seen more open ground as they were being chased by the bear. "I saw something that way." he pointed with his chin, realizing the fun was over. They only had a few hours till night and then they wouldn't be spotted till morning.

"Lets go then," Scully said purposefully, heading off south.

Mulder nodded and followed, enjoying the view of his partner's shapely behind.

The jacket lay where it had been discarded. Forgotten by one and deliberately left by another.

Half an hour later and a run in with an angry bear, the two Agents stumbled up onto the higher ground and fell onto their faces.

"That bear wasn't a bull! How were we to know it's attracted to flash white things?" Mulder groaned into the pine-needles, aching everywhere. He'd probably crashed into more trees running from that bear than when he'd not been paying attention and staring at his partner's rear.

"I don't think they are usually. It must have been the name-calling." Scully groaned back, referring to Mulder's taunting of the bear when they escaped by running over a tree branch that was laying across a small waterfall. The bear had been too big-and Mulder's HEAD had swelled too big for him to resist taunting their aggressor. Scardy-cat had been the mildest thing he called it.

Mulder rolled to his side and stared at his prone partner, admiring the way the pine-needles went with her hair. "I thought a little taunting from the victor was customary in these circumstances" he sighed, crawling over to Scully and taking the shirt and stick from her hand. He pocked it into the ground and stared at their 'signal flare'. It wasn't half so white as it had been, but it would do. "Why can't we just shoot it?"

"The 'flare'?" she queried, rising onto her elbows and frowning at him.

"The bear." he retorted, glancing away from the interesting things gravity did to her breasts when she was laying on her front and leaning on her elbows like that. That bra should have been outlawed!

"Mulder, it's an endangered species!" Scully scolded, noticing his preoccupation with her chest. She turned onto her side, jiggling slightly.

Mulder stared.

"So? We are too." he muttered finally, sitting down and crossing his legs. He frowned at her as she shifted onto her bottom to mimic his position and she jiggled again. Was it his imagination, or was Scully doing that deliberately?

"Human? What do you-" Scully began, confused.

Mulder shook his head, a lock of dark hair falling into his eyes. "No, no. Agents for the X-Files. I count two," he said drolly, pointing from himself to Scully and back. "We can say it was self-defense" he pondered for a moment. "And use the fur for a bed."

"What?" she gasped, stunned and blushing bright red. Was he suggesting what she thought he was suggesting?

"I always wanted a fur-skin rug for my couch." he went on, grinning at his partner's red face. He'd have to remember that one. 'Bed' made Scully's face go all sorts of interesting colors.

"Oh, right," Scully said, somehow disappointed and relieved at the same time. She glanced about her. Forest all about, but for their little hill. "Now what do we do?"

Mulder grinned at her, reaching into his pocket for something.

Scully's eyebrows hit her hairline as he pulled a deck of cards from his inner-pocket and flashed her a devilish smile. "We'll, since you've already started-stripe poker?"

"Mulder," she glared at him. "Be serious!"

He stared at her for a long moment, not smiling. "I am."

She stared back, not sure what to say. Mulder, being serious about playing Stripe Poker with her? Was he saying...

"Aces are wild and if a bear comes crashing through the trees and we have to abandon ship, you can run first." he said, grinning evilly at her.

Scully blinked at his about-face, utterly confused. One minute he was serious, the next he was joking. "Why is that?" she said cautiously.

"You think I'm going to miss out on the sight of you running naked as the day you were born ahead of me?" he smacked his lips and gave her a goofy smile.

"Mulder!" she grabbed a shrunken pine cone and pegged it at his smirking face. It hit him in the forehead and he winced.

"Jeez, Scully. I was joking!" he said, glaring and rubbing the sore spot.

"Sure you were!" she retorted, glaring back. She held out her hand. "I'll cut."

Mulder gaped at her incredulously, eyes hopeful and also filled with an indefinable emotion. "You're playing?"

"I don't intend to loose," she informed him loftily. "Cards?"

"You're a cool customer," Mulder told her admirably. His Scully was one great lady! And he was going to do his darnest to see her lose!

Scully shuffled the cards he handed her and dealt them five each.

Mulder grabbed his cards and perused them eagerly. Two nines, one ace, one three and a five. Not too bad. He kept a poker-face and looked up at his partner. She was staring back, face bland. He scowled at her suspiciously.

Scully allowed herself to smile angelically. She had two eleven s, two threes and one seven. "What've you got, Mulder?" she asked him, taping her long nails on the back of her cards.

"Two nines," he lay his cards down and stared at her expectantly.

"Two eleven s," she said blandly, laying her cards down.

Mulder was even disappointed. "Okay, what do I take off first?" he leered at her.

"A shoe will do nicely." she informed him, grinning.

"A shoe?" Mulder groaned, then reached down and undid the laces of his left shoe. He slipped the shoe off and tossed it to the left. It thunked lightly on their 'Signal flare' and lay there sadly. "You have a shirt off and you want me to start with a shoe, Scully?"

She shrugged at him, jiggling again.

Mulder winced.

"Problem?" she asked innocently, knowing now exactly what she was doing to him.

"Not yet..." Mulder groaned back. He caught himself and stared at her suspiciously again, then reached for the cards and began to shuffle. TWO could play at that game! He dealt the cards, then reached up and undid his shirt.

Scully stared, then swallowed as his muscled chest was revealed. "What are you doing?" she demanded.

"I'm sure I'm going to loose, so I'm just getting ready to shuck my shirt." he told her innocently.

Scully stared at him.

Mulder stared back.

"Okay," she muttered, grabbing her cards and staring at them blankly. She counted her cards twice, then looked at what they added to, then groaned. Visions of Mulder's chest kept going through her brain. What was going on here? She'd seen him naked! Okay, so they were being de-contaminated at the time...Muscles rippling...

"What've you got?" Mulder demanded, staring at her over his cards. He noted her glazed eyes and smirked. 'Mission Impossible' was becoming 'Mission Accomplished'! Miss Coolness wasn't as cool as she'd like to be at the sight of HIM almost half-naked.

"What've I got?" she said, re-focusing her eyes on her cards. Threes! She had two threes

"Scullllllyyyyyyy?" Mulder crooned, enjoying her frustrated look at her cards. Obviously a low hand.

"Threes," Scully yelled, throwing them down.

"Don't be mad. It's only a game. Three aces," Mulder said mockingly, grinning at her and flashing his cards. His eyes fell to her boots. "Boot, please."

"Right," Scully unzipped her boot and flung it over at his discarded shoe. "My deal." she said, regaining her confidence. She grabbed the pile of cards.

"You forgot these," Mulder said, waving his cards at her.

Scully scowled, then reached out to snag his cards. His fingers brushed hers and a jolt of electricity shot down her arm to the pit of her stomach. That'd never happened before!

Mulder swallowed as he felt the jolt of awareness go through him when Scully touched his fingers. That had never happened before! "Deal." he said thickly.

Scully nodded and shuffled swiftly, hair falling over her face to hide it. She wasn't going to let him get to her! They were partners and this was unprofessional! She jerked her head up and met his eyes, noting the curious look in them. "Here we go," she said, dealing.

Mulder picked up the cards and looked at them, eyebrows rising. He grinned, then peeked at Scully, swiftly hiding his gleeful look. Four kings, what were the odds!

Scully stared at her cards and felt like throwing them at Mulder. Two threes again!

"What'ch got pardner?" he drawled at her.

"Threes," she said disgustedly. "You?"

"Four kings." he tried to keep his face straight, but his lip twitched.

"Are you cheating?" she demanded suspiciously, looking from the card pile to his cards.

"You shuffled, Scully." he reminded her, sticking his tongue out. Scully responded in the same way and they suddenly stared at each other, then quickly away.

"Your deal," she said under her breath, throwing her cards down and pushing the pile of cards his way, complete with old dried pine-needles.

"Boot." he reminded her, smile all gone. He stared at her bent head thoughtfully. This game was turning out differently than he'd expected. Was he really doing the right thing by playing this game with his partner? They'd never been this affected by each other...

Scully yanked off her other boot, which joined the growing pile of footwear and threw a challenging look at Mulder. If he was game, then so was she. Maybe it was time their feelings came out in the open anyway.

Mulder returned her challenging look and smiled slowly, getting her message. Maybe they'd both win. And, failing that, there was always 'Truth and Dare'.

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To Be Continued...

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