CH1
'Hello?' Special Agent Dana Scully picked up the phone and flicked her red-gold hair out of the way so that she could put the receiver to her ear, 'Yes Sir, what is so important that it couldn't wait for a few days? This was supposed to be a holiday, Mulder and I had planned on spending a few days together.' She listened into the phone, 'What do you mean you have cleared it with Mulder and he is on his way home now? Cleared what with Mulder?', she paused and listened again to what Assistant Director Skinner was saying to her, 'A case, yeah well in gathered that much so far but what, where and when?'. Just as she was listening to the beginning details of the new case a key turned in the lock of her front door. Scully put her hand over the bottom half of the telephone at the same time as saying 'hang on a sec' to AD Skinner.
'Ah… Mulder' she said in an 'Oh What Have You Gotten Us Into Now?' tone of voice that she found herself once too often when speaking to her partner.
'Is that Skinner?' Mulder immediately asked.
Scully nodded.
'Tell him you'll call him back, and I will explain'. Scully went back to the phone. 'Is it OK if I call you back Sir?' she waited for the answer, 'OK goodbye.'
'OK Mulder, speak.'
'Scully, don't get mad (although you're cute when you're angry). I heard about a new case. It's in England. I…'
'Mulder you know we can't go to England. We're FBI agents. Americans. The English have their own intelligence agency. They can deal with it.' Scully said lightly.
'I knew you were going to say that which is why I spoke to Director Kersche first. He has set it all up and, we leave for Cornwall tomorrow at noon.'
'Mulder! What are you going to do if I say no?'
'I will kiss you and throw you into bed, and hope that it persuaded you.'
'Oh Mulder…' Scully said thinking for any kind of excuse, 'I can't pack our stuff that quickly, I used to be able to but I can't now.'
'Scully, I will help you. Anyway, it will be easier now, we can stop avoiding our feelings and put our stuff in the same case. It will save on travel fees!'
'I will have to think about it Mulder, just because I married you doesn't mean you own me.'
'No, you're right, but it does mean I love you.'
'And I love you Mulder but you should have told me first, I don't think I can do it again. I mean this will be our first proper case since we got married. Don't you think it will change things. Do you not agree our feelings will get in the way and we won't be able to focus properly? We would be putting ourselves in danger. Please Mulder, can't you see, I love you too much to want anything to happen to you. I will come with you and help you to the best of my ability, but I am telling you now, I do not agree with it.'
'Oh Scully thankyou, I knew you would see my point of view sometime, that's why I love you. Lets go and start packing, we don't have long until we fly out.
The scene that greeted the two FBI agents seemed normal. But Mulder and Scully noticed little details that made them think differently. Of course it as normal, but for an American who was used to the city, the English countryside was a desert, empty for as far as the eye could see. For an Englishman it was absolute heaven. There was a tractor ploughing a field in the far distance. That was it. Over the hundreds of acres of land in between Mulder and Scully and their hotel, that was supposed to be just over the hill, the closest to human there was were a few shabby scarecrows and an abandoned farmhouse.
'Mulder, I thought our hotel was supposed to be right… here.' Scully walked over a lump in the ground and stood still with her arms out.
'Yes… so did I. This case has started sooner than I thought it would.' Mulder said putting the suitcase, that the English taxi driver had handed back to him after their long drive from Heathrow airport, and sat on it. There was a long pause while both of them took in their surroundings.
'I don't think our taxi driver knew where he was going Mulder… we are not in Cornwall, we are in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Look over there, in the distance,' Scully shaded her eyes from the sun and pointed, 'now if I'm not mistaken that looks like Stonehenge to me.'
'What? Scully, that can't be Stonehenge. No way! Are you sure?'
'Yes Mulder, I'm sure. I think we should go over to it, at least there is more chance of being noticed by someone and getting to where we are meant to be.'
'Ok, but its gonna be a long walk Scully.' Mulder sighed.
After a long trek across hills and fields Mulder and Scully seemed to be no closer to their target.
'Mulder… we are married, aren't we?'
'Um… yes I should hope so, the amount of money we paid!'
'Then why do we still call each other by our last names- especially as they are now the same!!'