Author: Danamaru

Title: Crossing Forbidden Lines Part 2/2

Distribution: Sure, no probs, just as long as I know
where my baby is?

Rating: PG

Disclaimer: Don't worry Chris, I'm only borrowing them, don't be
greedy now. They will be returned to you.

Summary: Will Mulder have the courage to really open up to
Scully?
Concluding part of previous discussions of fate.

Spoilers: Suz, Closure

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Author's Notes: The first part of this story is archived
at Ephemeral and Fanfiction.Net

"Peace is just a word". Eurythmics

Previously in Crossing Forbidden Lines

Mulder's Apartment pm

Scully came round to Mulder's apartment to go over the
Amber Lyn Lappiere case report.
The night Mulder found out about his mother's real suicide
from Scully, they hugged and much to his surprise, Scully
had kissed him, not just a miss-calculated forehead whopper,
this was a full and passionate kiss from his usually cool
and level headed partner.

Mulder desperately wanted to talk to her about it, but knew
that she would clam up and leave, and he didn't want her to
go.
He wondered if she thought that he regrets what took place.
He wanted to tell her that he didn't and that the main
reason for making her stay is in the hope that maybe she
didn't regret it either.

Concluding Part

Mulder breathed in deeply, exhaling slowly, seeing Scully
almost in a hypnotic slow motion state. He was nervous.
But he knew that this time he wasn't going to bounce her away
like he always did, waiting for her to bounce back and into his
hands. If he wanted to keep her here to tell her the things
that would haunt him until he did then he would have to do by
himself.

He braced himself and took a hold of her hand. Hers trembled.

"Scully, I think I found my real truth".

Her face remained the same, blank and coldly serious.

"What truth is that Mulder, about your sister?"

There was a pause as he thought and then spoke in a low tone.

"Samantha is gone, my mother and father are gone, but they were
never really my truth, Scully, don't you see".

Scully's eyebrows narrowed and her forehead lined with the frown.

"I'm sorry Mulder, but I'm a little confused. I thought your
sister was your main quest, to look for the truth involving
Samantha and her disappearance."

Still holding her hand he gazed into her eyes.

"I always believed that I would find Samantha, but as the years
past I began to realise that I never really would find her.
She's gone Scully, but it's okay."

Scully's anger began to rise inside of her as she tried to
comprehend what Mulder was telling her. Yes his sister was gone,
but how was it okay. This was the main reason for carrying on
after everything that had happened to them. Once the men behind
the conspiracy had been exposed, he had told her himself that the
only thing left to do was find Samantha.

She let go of his hand and could feel the sweat from his palm
on her own.

"Mulder, how can you just accept this. You've seen Samantha
before and it wasn't really her, how do you know it wasn't a hoax?"

Mulder laughed softly as he listened to her rally him again.
For seven years she had tried to bring him back to earth,
doubting his theories, making him take a step back and look at
things rationally. He could understand what she was trying to
say, but he knew she was wrong. His sister was finally at peace.

"Scully, I found my sister that night, of that I am certain.
It was not a hoax, there was no conspiracy. You know as well
as I do she was taken by the starlight. Taken so that nothing
bad could ever happen to her again. Don't you see, I've
completed my quest, I've found her and she's in a better place".

Scully's eyebrow's lifted again in disbelief.

"Mulder, I'm still not sure how to take all this".

He looked at her with so much gratitude for not questioning
further that her heart melt. She was still confused, but it
had been a difficult time for him. He wasn't himself.
She had to give him and time and space. She had to leave.

"I have to go Mulder, you need to get some sleep."
She got up to leave and was again tugged at by his hand.

"Please don't leave, Scully." His eyes pleaded, but she would
not give in this time. She couldn't trust herself with him in
this condition.

A voice was going over in his head "make her stay, make her stay,
don't leave, don't leave."

It was now or never. He had to cross that line.

"Scully, please listen to me, I told you that I had found my
real truth and that truth is you Scully, it always has been,
I've just being going around with my head in the sky for too
long to notice."

This got her attention and his statement almost made her legs
wobble, but she remained in her standing position. What
was he saying? That his real quest wasn't his sister but her.
He wasn't making sense.

"Mulder what are you saying? I don't understand."

He rose to meet her level towering above her, placing his
hands on her shoulders as he spoke gently.

"The other night Scully, that was..." He paused and she
could feel her face getting redder with embarrassment, knowing
that she would have to talk about it, knowing that he would want to,
made her nervous. He continued. "Was two people who couldn't help
being drawn to each other, then couldn't let go." His eyes
darkened and his breaths were rapid as he focused in on her eyes.
"I don't ever want to let you go, Scully."
He moved his hands up to her face and softly massaged her cheeks
with his thumbs. Her face was angelic, as he saw her in her own
starlight. Beautiful and content as he moved his head towards her.
"I not going to let go, Mulder I promise."

That night the sky was bright and the moon shone down on a fourth
floor apartment. The light streamed in through the window of that
apartment, bouncing off of the chest of drawers moving down to the bed
in the centre illuminating two sleeping figures wrapped tightly
together, dreaming. Free.

Finito

This was a tough one to finish, and I'm sorry that it's
taken so long.
Please let me know what you thought, it's what keeps me going in
the tough competition world of fanfiction.
Thanks to everyone who reads this, hope you enjoyed it as much
as did writing about these two fantastic characters.