Author: Jessspider/spidereyes/sasha

Rated: PG, kinda UST

Summary: Short pov of the end of millenium. Mulder ponders Scully during

millennium. Nothing fancy. Just pure adoration. First written in 2001

Disclaimer: they're not mine. Belong to bla bla..etc.

Millennium

I can see Scully standing there, watching the screen in front of her. Shelooks like she's concentrating. A couple of hours ago, she saved me again. Like she has a thousand times. I don't know what I would do without her as my partner, I don't know what I would do without this friend, this woman.

She means everything to me. She's all I have left. She really is, all I have left. She gave the work we've been doing for the last seven years some meaning. I know that I owe her everything. As I stand beside her this last hour before the New Year, I wish that she'll be standing besides me for every important event in my life forever. I want her to know how important she is to me, that she is the only one I trust whole heartedly and that I want her to be a part of my life so long as she is willing to be. I look at her again, and in her eyes I see a smile, that the future is approaching and that the new hour is near. She is beautiful. And maybe she knows it even though I have never told her. I wonder what she thinks of me still. I think she knows that I am grateful for her arrival in the nick of time or maybe it's something she doesn't expect thanks for, because it's become something she expects. That she knows she'll be my only lifesaver. Scully my saviour. Sometimes I am so selfish that I wish she were more than that. I wish that she were mine.

Maybe I wish that she were my wife. Seconds tick away, as the countdown starts. I look at her once more, and her lips take my attention. I realise that an opportunity like this, is one I cannot miss. I turn a little more fully towards her when she looks at me almost as though it was a glance, and as if like first light, I touch her lips to my own. Soft, scented, and sweet. Scully's lips to a T. I want this to last forever, but I can feel myself pulling away. It's not time to take what we have further I tell myself. Scully, may not feel that way, and I can't ruin this partnership, this friendship because of something that I want and something I fear she doesn't. But this moment in time, this special moment in time will be one that I will never forget. My first kiss with Scully fully conscious. My first sweet kiss of the new millennium, the century, the hour, of our partnership, with the woman I love so much. I pull away and I look at her eyes if only for a moment.

They look glazed, questioning, smiling, amused. I open my mouth to utter words to her.

"The world didn't end," I say in a tone that seems half hopeful and half glad.

I hope that she will understand this as a promise of the future. I am glad because Scully is still with me and because I've kissed her without a rejection I would fear for under other circumstances. Scully smiles. She seems almost lost for words, sorta surprised and perhaps unexpectant of that action as she says in return, "No it didn't Mulder."

And with that, quietly I put my arms around her shoulder and lead her out of the room and down the hallway. I can sense Scully's thinking, her smiling. I wouldn't be surprised if she's laughing inside. She knows that I've always been cheeky. And that I didn't dare let that opportunity pass. One in a millennium. I hope that I have more chances to kiss Scully this century. That this wasn't the last one of my life.