TITLE: The Rings That Bind Us (1/3)
AUTHOR: Mel X Lady
RATING: R
CATEGORY: Krycek and Scully
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Feel free to post this anywhere as
long as my name stays with the fanfic.
FEEDBACK: MLKChessQueen@Juno.com
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SPOILERS: Terma (AKA Tunguska pt II), Duane Barry, pretty much any of the Krycek episodes.
SUMMARY: Scully and Krycek are forced to wed, and this is the aftermath.
DISCLAIMER: CC, I will give you $10 for Krycek! (You're not using him!) and rights to borrow Mulder, Scully, Skinner, the CSM and the LGM whenever I want and I won't bug you. Deal?
Oh yeah, I Don't own the Honeymooners either.
Time Line: Before Requiem
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Krycek watched in horror as Scully was wrestled toward the ground. Normally he'd enjoy himself, maybe even get in on it too, but right now he knew her fate, the same as his. Krycek weakly looked toward his left arm and down to his hand and damned it for being so real that it would work for the experiments. He watched as they slipped the ring on her finger and she fell limp. They through her body up and she looked around. Krycek noticed how her bright blue eyes had become a lighter shade in moments. His green eyes had done the same, no doubt. They looked toward the front almost instinctively and looked at the Morely Man. He inhaled his cigarette deeply and dropped it to the ground.
"Let's start with the festivities." he said with an evil grin as Krycek reached out and took Scully's hand. She accepted and through the haze he could see that Scully was trembling.
"With the rings that bind you together---." Scully could only hear bits and pieces, but she suddenly realized that she was being wed--to Alex Krycek. He noticed that she tried and struggled but the men who held her still only held tighter. She finally sighed and gave in. Krycek knew better then to let her give in, but he himself had struggled for a few days now. He had been told his life would forever change and he didn't like that news. Any news that didn't result in him being upgraded from sewer rat or that Fox Mulder was dead, was bad news.
Scully closed her eyes and wished over and over that this would end. She was scared and didn't want to be there. Normally she would have been brave, but Mulder was gone. She didn't know where he went this time, but she knew it would be a while before he got back, and she hated that he'd do that to her again. She suddenly felt her body violently pushed toward Krycek and their lips where pushed together. She tried to push away but after she felt another violent push to her head, she finally just stopped fighting and kissed him. After what felt like an eternity, they where finally pulled away and dragged off. She could only hear the Smoking man's hysterical laughing and she tried not to let a tear slip down her cheek.
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She finally opened her eyes after they had been thrown into a room and she heard the door lock behind them. They where both quiet for about an hour as she stood up and held her head in her hand.
"What the hell happened?" he asked as she began to steady herself against the wall.
"I think we're married." she said as she slid down the wall. She couldn't walk but she managed to crawl a little bit so she could sit further down the wall away from the door.
She heard an aggravated sigh out of him and he tried to sit up.
"I thought you where dead!" she said, trying not to sound very surprised, but the surprise had almost killed her when the men first dragged her there. To that place where she was just a doll to play with.
"I almost did, I swore the old men knew I was dead-" he quickly cut himself off and dragged himself over toward Scully. She quickly tried to stand up but found that she couldn't. He quickly forced his lips onto hers and she tried not to scream and hit him.
He gently pulled away from her so he was still talking into her lips, but only she could hear him.
"They will kill us if we don't pretend we're married. Just pretend you can stand me and occasionally act like I'm Mulder or whoever you love and we'll fix this if they let us go. If they understand we won't run away, the'll set us free."
"I understand, and I don't love Mulder." she said as she kissed him back and tried to figure out where the camera would be in their room.
"That's the spirit." he said after she pulled away and he lay down and wrapped his arms around her as he rested her under his chin and against his chest.
"I'll protect you." he whispered into her ears and they both closed their eyes and slowed their breathing down until sleep hit them both.
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Dana fluttered her eyes and looked at the hands that were wrapped around her waist. The shock surprised her, more then that she found herself in her apartment, but the man who had his arms wrapped around her was Alex Krycek. She wondered how it happened simply because this was how they had fallen asleep, but that was in New York, and they where now in her apartment, in DC, but neither of them had moved.
"Krycek." she said as she looked around the room, making sure there was no one there.
"Hmm?" he asked as he quickly nuzzled his mouth next to her ear.
"Krycek!" she cried out. That startled him as he opened his eyes and realized where he was and who he had wrapped close to his body. He quickly released his hands and they both jumped out of the bed.
He sighed as he remembered everything. All the information had hurt his head the night before, and it wasn't making much more sense now.
"I'm sorry, I guess I didn't hear you." he apologized as she felt her neck.
"It's okay." she said as she walked over and hugged him. He was startled again but listened to her whisper,
"Are there any cameras here?"
"You go make coffee and act naturally, I'll search for cameras." he said as he kissed her cheek and she walked toward her kitchen.
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He walked in almost half an hour later and shook his head.
"I couldn't find any cameras, and I looked everywhere."
"Of course, why would they put cameras in knowing we'd look?" she asked as she poured a cup of coffee and handed it to him. She poured a cup for herself and looked at him. She never really noticed how handsome he was, she had been too busy hating him to even care. However, now that she was going to be looking at him everyday, she finally allowed herself to look at him.
"Are you okay?" he asked as she snapped back and looked up at him.
"I'm okay, just in shock still." she replied as Krycek sat down.
"Don't worry, I'll think of something." he said reassuringly as she smiled slightly.
"What do we do now?" she asked suddenly, realizing she had to get to work in an hour.
"About what?"
"Well, I have work in an hour, and how do I explain this to people?"
"You don't have to. I can't think of a reason in the world for anyone to have to know that we're married."
They both stopped as he said that and looked at eachother. It was the first time either of them had actually said that.
"Mr. and Mrs. Krycek." she said quietly as she leaned against the counter.
She looked toward him and there was no mistaking the surprise on his face.
"You really had nothing to do with it." she said quietly as he touched his ring but sulked back in pain. The ring had sent a little shock through his body.
"No, all I knew was that I was going to get a surprise, Good surprise bad surprise." He wasn't sure what that ment, but he was relieved when she left it at that.
"Then is there a plan? Something we're supposed to do to please them?"
"I think we'll please them if we both don't kill eachother." he said looking at her curiously as she shifted her ring a bit and took her hand back a few times from the same shock Alex had just gotten.
"It's small." she said as she noticed he was looking at her.
"Mine too."
She nodded and started to walk to a chair to sit down but he stopped her and brought her close to him.
"Please don't touch me Krycek." she said flatly as she left and walked toward her bedroom. Their bedroom now. She sighed at the thought as she realized her whole world was gone and she now shared another world with an enemy.
He looked at her curiously and sighed as he stood up. She was gone now and he took off his jacket and checked his arm. He had had the fake one for over a year now, but it still hurt on occasion, especially when he slept on it or had it wrapped around someone all night, although that last time he spent time wrapped up with another person in bed had been far far too long. He touched his arm and shuddered at the memories. He usually had nightmares about it, but then again, nightmares where better then his real life. Nightmares couldn't hurt you.
Dana rummaged through her closet quickly trying to find something to wear to work that day. She suddenly realized something. Mulder was still in New York! They where working up there on assignment and she realized that she had been put back in DC so fast that she didn't even see Mulder since she went to bed that night. She quickly stepped to the door and called out,
"Alex, what was yesterday?"
She listened to the quiet for a moment before he responded.
"I think it was the 12th, Monday the 12th."
"It can't be though, today's Wednesday the 14th." she called back to him as she tried to remember everything that had happened.
"What the hell happened then?" she called back as she heard a sudden rapping at the front door.
She quickly sprinted down the hall way as she passed Krycek running back to her bed room. She listened to the door to shut before she opened the front door.
"Agent Scully, I--" A.D. Walter Skinner began but stopped as he turned his head away.
"Sir?" she asked as she looked down and noticed she hadn't put on her shirt or jacket yet, and she was just standing there with her bra and pants on.
"Oh!" she cried out as she grabbed a blanket off the back of the couch and wrapped it around herself.
"I'm sorry Sir, I got distracted when I was getting dressed and..." she stopped after she noticed he was looking at her left hand. She quickly put her right hand over it and hopped he wouldn't ask too many questions about her ring.
"I just wanted to check on you, Agent Scully, you didn't show up at work yesterday and you had a meeting."
Personally? she asked herself, but she quickly pushed that thought to the back of her mind and answered.
"Agent Mulder and I where on a case in New York-"
"Agent Mulder came back and claimed you disappeared from your motel room."
"He left without me?!" she said, trying to act surprised and hoping Skinner would accept it.
"You where still in New York yesterday?"
"Yes, sir." she said as she wished for an earthquake or a distraction or something, because she hated lying to him, he reminded her of her own father. She'd have to bite her tongue sometimes not to call him Ahab.
"Well, I'll discuss it with him this morning, I'll let you get back to getting ready."
She nodded and shut the door after he turned around. She sighed heavily as she took the blanket off and tossed it back on the couch.
"He's gone." she said as she opened the door and stopped as she noticed Krycek looking at his left arm.
"What happened to you?" she asked as she walked toward him but he slinked away from her.
"Mulder." he growled slightly as she looked at it closer.
"Oh God, It was-"
"Cut off and a prosthetic arm was put in place." he finished the sentence for her.
"But it's so realistic." she said as she walked toward the bed and picked up her shirt and jacket.
"I bet you didn't even notice it last night, did you?"
"No, that's why I was surprised. Why did you say Mulder? I don't think he would have done that to you."
"No, but when he dragged me to Russia, he forced me with men who gladly did me a favor and took the arm off for me." He shuddered a little bit and Scully noticed. She began to put on the shirt and put the jacket on over it. He watched her and never really noticed how beautiful she was. He was too busy trying to keep alive then to notice, and now he regretted not getting to know her a few years back, back when his life was slower and he wasn't being threatened with death every few days.
"Who was it?" he asked as she ran a brush through her hair a few times.
"Skinner. Apparently we've been her for a day Krycek...Alex..." she tried to shake the weird feeling away as she continued, "He said Mulder's been there for a day, he up and left me in New York, but I don't even think we where in New York then. I think by the time he realized I was gone, he just went straight back to DC without even thinking about it."
"Typical Spooky." he said as he pulled his shirt's sleeve back over his arm and put his jacket back on.
Scully glanced at the clock and noticed it was her usual time to leave to work.
"Krycek, I think it might be best if you stayed here today." she said carefully as she walked toward him.
"I know, but I'm not sure what they want."
"They can have whatever they want, if an FBI agent where to see you, they'd be on you so fast." she said quietly as she stroked the collar of his leather jacket.
"I'll stay here then, okay? Don't worry about me, please? I'll be all right, I know how to survive."
She brought her eyes to his left arm and tried not to make it obvious. Krycek looked at her and realized what she was looking at, a forever reminder that he had let his guard down for one night. He had felt comfortable enough to sleep that night, and that had cost him dearly.
He hugged her and stroked her hair gently for a moment. She stepped away and looked at him questionably.
"I'm sorry." he said sincerely as she nodded and left the room. He heard the front door shut and he sighed. He sat down on her bed. Their bed. It was all new to him and he wondered if he'd ever get use to it.
He lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. He took in all the sweet smells that reminded him of his new bride and hoped that if he did fall asleep, he would encounter more good dreams then bad.
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Scully worked on another file as Mulder glanced at her again for what felt like the 20th time that hour.
"Mulder?"
"Hmm?"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, well, yeah, something's wrong."
"What?"
Mulder stood up and walked over toward her and gently took her left hand. She tried to jerk it back, but he had already seen it.
"What does that mean?" he asked as he grabbed for her hand again.
"Mulder! Stop it! You're hurting me!"
"What the hell happened to you up there!?"
"Nothing! Why did you leave me up there?"
"Well, apparently you where a little busy." he said as he finally grasped her wrist and looked at the ring.
"What the Hell where you thinking?" Mulder screamed at her. She sat there and closed her eyes for a moment. Mulder was in control.
"That's the deal, I was finally thinking, Mulder, Damnit, I was finally thinking. He cares for me, unlike you, you selfish son of a bitch, I was here for 7 long years. You did nothing. Even when we've been forced together for 3 days, he's still shown more love to me then you have!." She sat there in shock. Those weren't her words, she didn't yell that, the fact remained that she still wasn't sure what the hell had happened that night in New York.
"Did you have sex with him?"
The question shocked Scully. She expected at least an hour of yelling, but Mulder had jumped straight to asking the simple questions, and Scully was frightened now.
"What do you think?" she asked. Trying to quieten herself, but she couldn't. She was mad, furious at him.
"I don't want to-"
"You never do."
The coldness in her voice startled her, but he was offending Alex and herself. She could understand his anger to a point.
Mulder looked hurt, but she couldn't do or say anything.
"You never want to think of anything but your goal, and that's what hurt you the most Mulder. You shut off the world, and you need the world."
"No Scully, Dana, Krycek, whoever the hell you are now, I don't need the world, I've seen it and I'm happier down here."
"Then why are you yelling at me for being apart of the world?"
She stopped and looked at him. How had he known it was Krycek?
"You knew about it!" She screamed at him. How else would he had known that the man was Krycek?
"I wish I had! So I could have stopped you!"
They both stopped and looked at eachother. There was no logical explanation for her to still be there, she could have left by now, and let this whole conversation be at rest, but for some reason, she couldn't move. She couldn't force herself to leave. She finally took a deep breath and stood up.
"I'm going home, Mulder."
"I knew you would find a home to go to. I'm not saying it's the right one, but it's a home at least."
She nodded and held out her hand.
"I might not come back for a while."
"Who's fault is that?" he asked. He couldn't help it, but the sarcasm just rolled out of him. He wasn't angry anymore, surprisingly, but he was scared now.
"Listen Mulder, I don't know what the hell is wrong with you, but I'm going to go home and calm down and I hope you'll calm down too. If you follow me, I will shoot you. If you come near me while I'm angry at you, I will shoot you, and if you even call me in the next day, I will find you and shoot you. Is this clear?"
"Crystal."
She stood up and walked out the door. She was so angry that she swore she felt steam coming out of her ears. She groaned as she got on the elevator and punched the button to go up. She was going to go home and try to get rid of this anger. Sure, Krycek was there, but she didn't care anymore, Krycek wasn't her worst problem. Mulder was.
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She pulled up infront of her apartment and jogged toward the door. She pulled her keys out and began to unlock the door. She opened it and dropped her bag and stripped off her jacket.
She listened for a moment and wondered where Krycek was. She walked to the kitchen, but found it unchanged since their morning coffee. She walked through the other rooms and was about to cry in anger. No one would listen to her. Then, she just broke down. She allowed the tears to slip down her face as she walked through her door and climbed into her bed. She was so concentrated on making it to the bed that she didn't even notice that Krycek was asleep with a blanket covering most of his body. She sobbed into the pillow and tried not to scream.
Dana blocked out the whole world then. She even blocked out the slight movement she felt next to her and the questioning eyes she felt fall upon her.
She did feel the hand that rubbed on her back and the soft soothing words she heard. She turned her body so she was facing Alex and she looked at him. He was lying down on his side and looking at her. She rested her head on the pillow that was now wet with her tears and looked at him.
"I had a bad day." she said before the tears fell down her face again. Alex leaned over and kissed her cheek gently where a tear was about to fall.
"Don't worry, everything will be okay." he said as she tried to gain control again.
"I don't know, I mean, today has been stranger then most of the X-Files that I've experienced in the past seven years."
"Hey, don't forget that I worked for the X-Files too, I know how creepy they can be and I'm sure your day couldn't have been creepier then that."
She laughed at him as he tried to make sense of his sentence. She realized that she was smiling now, and that somehow, he had comforted her. He laughed and smiled back and stroked her face gently.
"Are you going to be all right?"
"I think so." she said as she reached her hand up and caught his hand in hers. She gently moved her hand over his and allowed their fingers to twist and twine together.
"Mulder knows." she said flatly as he slowed his fingering down and looked her in the eyes.
"How?"
"He didn't say, but I think he knew about the little arrangement, or deal or whatever this marriage is." she said as she sat up. The thought of it made her angry, not the thought that she was being forced with Alex Krycek, she could force herself with that, but the thought that she loved this man, she loved him up to 3 days ago, but something had changed her in the past 3 days that also changed her life.
"Scully...Dana..."
"Yeah, I'm having the same problem, what do we call eachother?"
"First names." he said as she looked at him.
"It's easier." he finished.
"Okay, Alex."
"Okay, Dana." he said as he realized they where still holding hands.
"What time is it anyway?" he asked as he looked around the room for a clock.
"10:31" she said as she looked at her watch.
"It's still morning, let's go get some breakfast." he said as he sat up and pulled her up with him. She cried out in surprise but felt safe when he had both his arms around her. She laughed at the thought and they walked off toward the kitchen.
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Mulder knocked on AD Skinner's door and waited. He normally would have waited for his secretary to announce him, but she was gone.
"Come in!" Skinner barked and Mulder stepped in and shut the door behind him.
"Where's the smoking man?" Mulder asked as he searched the room with his eyes.
"What?"
"The Smoking man, I think he has something to do with this."
"Agent Mulder, will you please make sense!"
"I'm sorry, but Scully is married."
"What?"
"She got married 2 days ago in New York, to Krycek."
Mulder noticed the shudder that ran down Skinner's spine and nodded.
"Agent Mulder, do you have proof of this?"
"Well, she admitted to it down stairs and has a wedding ring on her left hand."
"I noticed that too."
"And I think she's married to him against her own will."
"Did she say that?"
"No, but it's Scully! and that's Krycek!"
He was yelling now. Mulder lost all control as he screamed out all his rage and was left in a quivering heap. Skinner stood up and helped Mulder to the chair. Mulder hugged him and than sat down.
"Mulder, are you going to be okay?" Skinner asked as he watched Mulder in the worst shape he'd ever experienced before.
"I think so, thank you for letting me scream, but is there anything we can do for Scully?"
"I don't think so. We have no concrete reason to arrest Krycek, and we don't even know what happened out there.
"Even so."
"Mulder, just sit tight, it will work out."
Mulder nodded and leaned back.
"Where is Scully now?"
"She went home about an hour ago." Mulder said as he held his head in his hands while Skinner nodded.
"She'll be here tomorrow, talk to her then."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Trust me."
Mulder nodded and stood up.
"Thank you, sir." he said as he walked toward the door and back down to his office.
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Dana burst into laughter again and almost slipped off her chair. She never knew how funny Alex was.
"Wait Wait Wait!" she called out as she tried to catch her breath.
Krycek smiled as he waited for her to say the word for him to start again as he leaned against the counter.
"Are you okay?" he asked. He was starting to laugh too, and he enjoyed the power he held over Scully.
"I'm okay, just I haven't laughed this hard in so long, but it feels so good!" she laughed as she said it.
He smiled and she smiled with him.
"Alex, why didn't you ever tell me you where so wonderful?"
"You probably wouldn't have believed me, you don't believe alot of things." he said as he twisted his fingers together. It was a nervous habit he couldn't break, no matter how hard he tried.
"You're probably right." Scully said looking down. She hated the reputation she'd gotten around the bureau about either being really weird or really unfun.
"But we do have time for you to show me how wonderful you are." she said as she stood up and walked toward him. He stood and looked at her.
He had never truly allowed himself to feel anything for Dana Scully, simply because in his line of work, if you start feeling for anyone, that was probably the last thing you'd ever feel.
"Ohh, and what does that mean?" he said as he pulled her close to him, closer then he should have. She stopped and held her hands out to him to stop him.
"I'm sorry Alex, but no." she said quietly.
He nodded and let go of her. He held her left hand for a moment and slowly allowed his eyes to examine her ring.
"What happened to your wrist?" he asked as he saw the red that started to bruise.
"Mulder grabbed me earlier, trying to get me to admit something was wrong."
"He seems to have a problem with communicating without violence." he said as he remembered back to Duane Barry and how Mulder almost killed him for even touching Scully, how strangely things turn around.
"I'll be fine, if that's what you're thinking." she said as she turned around and sat back down.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
Krycek nodded, knowing that she probably wasn't all right, but he didn't want to push her to talk until she was ready.
They sat in silence for a minuet before Scully stood up again and put her plate in the dishwasher. She took Krycek's and put it in next to her's.
"Thanks." he murmured and she smiled slightly.
"Welcome." she replied.
This was going to be very interesting.
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AUTHOR: Mel X Lady
RATING: R
CATEGORY: Krycek and Scully
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Feel free to post this anywhere as
long as my name stays with the fanfic.
FEEDBACK: MLKChessQueen@Juno.com
http://www.expage.com/page/DailyJokePage
SPOILERS: Terma (AKA Tunguska pt II), Duane Barry, pretty much any of the Krycek episodes.
SUMMARY: Scully and Krycek are forced to wed, and this is the aftermath.
DISCLAIMER: CC, I will give you $10 for Krycek! (You're not using him!) and rights to borrow Mulder, Scully, Skinner, the CSM and the LGM whenever I want and I won't bug you. Deal?
Oh yeah, I Don't own the Honeymooners either.
Time Line: Before Requiem
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Krycek watched in horror as Scully was wrestled toward the ground. Normally he'd enjoy himself, maybe even get in on it too, but right now he knew her fate, the same as his. Krycek weakly looked toward his left arm and down to his hand and damned it for being so real that it would work for the experiments. He watched as they slipped the ring on her finger and she fell limp. They through her body up and she looked around. Krycek noticed how her bright blue eyes had become a lighter shade in moments. His green eyes had done the same, no doubt. They looked toward the front almost instinctively and looked at the Morely Man. He inhaled his cigarette deeply and dropped it to the ground.
"Let's start with the festivities." he said with an evil grin as Krycek reached out and took Scully's hand. She accepted and through the haze he could see that Scully was trembling.
"With the rings that bind you together---." Scully could only hear bits and pieces, but she suddenly realized that she was being wed--to Alex Krycek. He noticed that she tried and struggled but the men who held her still only held tighter. She finally sighed and gave in. Krycek knew better then to let her give in, but he himself had struggled for a few days now. He had been told his life would forever change and he didn't like that news. Any news that didn't result in him being upgraded from sewer rat or that Fox Mulder was dead, was bad news.
Scully closed her eyes and wished over and over that this would end. She was scared and didn't want to be there. Normally she would have been brave, but Mulder was gone. She didn't know where he went this time, but she knew it would be a while before he got back, and she hated that he'd do that to her again. She suddenly felt her body violently pushed toward Krycek and their lips where pushed together. She tried to push away but after she felt another violent push to her head, she finally just stopped fighting and kissed him. After what felt like an eternity, they where finally pulled away and dragged off. She could only hear the Smoking man's hysterical laughing and she tried not to let a tear slip down her cheek.
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She finally opened her eyes after they had been thrown into a room and she heard the door lock behind them. They where both quiet for about an hour as she stood up and held her head in her hand.
"What the hell happened?" he asked as she began to steady herself against the wall.
"I think we're married." she said as she slid down the wall. She couldn't walk but she managed to crawl a little bit so she could sit further down the wall away from the door.
She heard an aggravated sigh out of him and he tried to sit up.
"I thought you where dead!" she said, trying not to sound very surprised, but the surprise had almost killed her when the men first dragged her there. To that place where she was just a doll to play with.
"I almost did, I swore the old men knew I was dead-" he quickly cut himself off and dragged himself over toward Scully. She quickly tried to stand up but found that she couldn't. He quickly forced his lips onto hers and she tried not to scream and hit him.
He gently pulled away from her so he was still talking into her lips, but only she could hear him.
"They will kill us if we don't pretend we're married. Just pretend you can stand me and occasionally act like I'm Mulder or whoever you love and we'll fix this if they let us go. If they understand we won't run away, the'll set us free."
"I understand, and I don't love Mulder." she said as she kissed him back and tried to figure out where the camera would be in their room.
"That's the spirit." he said after she pulled away and he lay down and wrapped his arms around her as he rested her under his chin and against his chest.
"I'll protect you." he whispered into her ears and they both closed their eyes and slowed their breathing down until sleep hit them both.
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Dana fluttered her eyes and looked at the hands that were wrapped around her waist. The shock surprised her, more then that she found herself in her apartment, but the man who had his arms wrapped around her was Alex Krycek. She wondered how it happened simply because this was how they had fallen asleep, but that was in New York, and they where now in her apartment, in DC, but neither of them had moved.
"Krycek." she said as she looked around the room, making sure there was no one there.
"Hmm?" he asked as he quickly nuzzled his mouth next to her ear.
"Krycek!" she cried out. That startled him as he opened his eyes and realized where he was and who he had wrapped close to his body. He quickly released his hands and they both jumped out of the bed.
He sighed as he remembered everything. All the information had hurt his head the night before, and it wasn't making much more sense now.
"I'm sorry, I guess I didn't hear you." he apologized as she felt her neck.
"It's okay." she said as she walked over and hugged him. He was startled again but listened to her whisper,
"Are there any cameras here?"
"You go make coffee and act naturally, I'll search for cameras." he said as he kissed her cheek and she walked toward her kitchen.
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He walked in almost half an hour later and shook his head.
"I couldn't find any cameras, and I looked everywhere."
"Of course, why would they put cameras in knowing we'd look?" she asked as she poured a cup of coffee and handed it to him. She poured a cup for herself and looked at him. She never really noticed how handsome he was, she had been too busy hating him to even care. However, now that she was going to be looking at him everyday, she finally allowed herself to look at him.
"Are you okay?" he asked as she snapped back and looked up at him.
"I'm okay, just in shock still." she replied as Krycek sat down.
"Don't worry, I'll think of something." he said reassuringly as she smiled slightly.
"What do we do now?" she asked suddenly, realizing she had to get to work in an hour.
"About what?"
"Well, I have work in an hour, and how do I explain this to people?"
"You don't have to. I can't think of a reason in the world for anyone to have to know that we're married."
They both stopped as he said that and looked at eachother. It was the first time either of them had actually said that.
"Mr. and Mrs. Krycek." she said quietly as she leaned against the counter.
She looked toward him and there was no mistaking the surprise on his face.
"You really had nothing to do with it." she said quietly as he touched his ring but sulked back in pain. The ring had sent a little shock through his body.
"No, all I knew was that I was going to get a surprise, Good surprise bad surprise." He wasn't sure what that ment, but he was relieved when she left it at that.
"Then is there a plan? Something we're supposed to do to please them?"
"I think we'll please them if we both don't kill eachother." he said looking at her curiously as she shifted her ring a bit and took her hand back a few times from the same shock Alex had just gotten.
"It's small." she said as she noticed he was looking at her.
"Mine too."
She nodded and started to walk to a chair to sit down but he stopped her and brought her close to him.
"Please don't touch me Krycek." she said flatly as she left and walked toward her bedroom. Their bedroom now. She sighed at the thought as she realized her whole world was gone and she now shared another world with an enemy.
He looked at her curiously and sighed as he stood up. She was gone now and he took off his jacket and checked his arm. He had had the fake one for over a year now, but it still hurt on occasion, especially when he slept on it or had it wrapped around someone all night, although that last time he spent time wrapped up with another person in bed had been far far too long. He touched his arm and shuddered at the memories. He usually had nightmares about it, but then again, nightmares where better then his real life. Nightmares couldn't hurt you.
Dana rummaged through her closet quickly trying to find something to wear to work that day. She suddenly realized something. Mulder was still in New York! They where working up there on assignment and she realized that she had been put back in DC so fast that she didn't even see Mulder since she went to bed that night. She quickly stepped to the door and called out,
"Alex, what was yesterday?"
She listened to the quiet for a moment before he responded.
"I think it was the 12th, Monday the 12th."
"It can't be though, today's Wednesday the 14th." she called back to him as she tried to remember everything that had happened.
"What the hell happened then?" she called back as she heard a sudden rapping at the front door.
She quickly sprinted down the hall way as she passed Krycek running back to her bed room. She listened to the door to shut before she opened the front door.
"Agent Scully, I--" A.D. Walter Skinner began but stopped as he turned his head away.
"Sir?" she asked as she looked down and noticed she hadn't put on her shirt or jacket yet, and she was just standing there with her bra and pants on.
"Oh!" she cried out as she grabbed a blanket off the back of the couch and wrapped it around herself.
"I'm sorry Sir, I got distracted when I was getting dressed and..." she stopped after she noticed he was looking at her left hand. She quickly put her right hand over it and hopped he wouldn't ask too many questions about her ring.
"I just wanted to check on you, Agent Scully, you didn't show up at work yesterday and you had a meeting."
Personally? she asked herself, but she quickly pushed that thought to the back of her mind and answered.
"Agent Mulder and I where on a case in New York-"
"Agent Mulder came back and claimed you disappeared from your motel room."
"He left without me?!" she said, trying to act surprised and hoping Skinner would accept it.
"You where still in New York yesterday?"
"Yes, sir." she said as she wished for an earthquake or a distraction or something, because she hated lying to him, he reminded her of her own father. She'd have to bite her tongue sometimes not to call him Ahab.
"Well, I'll discuss it with him this morning, I'll let you get back to getting ready."
She nodded and shut the door after he turned around. She sighed heavily as she took the blanket off and tossed it back on the couch.
"He's gone." she said as she opened the door and stopped as she noticed Krycek looking at his left arm.
"What happened to you?" she asked as she walked toward him but he slinked away from her.
"Mulder." he growled slightly as she looked at it closer.
"Oh God, It was-"
"Cut off and a prosthetic arm was put in place." he finished the sentence for her.
"But it's so realistic." she said as she walked toward the bed and picked up her shirt and jacket.
"I bet you didn't even notice it last night, did you?"
"No, that's why I was surprised. Why did you say Mulder? I don't think he would have done that to you."
"No, but when he dragged me to Russia, he forced me with men who gladly did me a favor and took the arm off for me." He shuddered a little bit and Scully noticed. She began to put on the shirt and put the jacket on over it. He watched her and never really noticed how beautiful she was. He was too busy trying to keep alive then to notice, and now he regretted not getting to know her a few years back, back when his life was slower and he wasn't being threatened with death every few days.
"Who was it?" he asked as she ran a brush through her hair a few times.
"Skinner. Apparently we've been her for a day Krycek...Alex..." she tried to shake the weird feeling away as she continued, "He said Mulder's been there for a day, he up and left me in New York, but I don't even think we where in New York then. I think by the time he realized I was gone, he just went straight back to DC without even thinking about it."
"Typical Spooky." he said as he pulled his shirt's sleeve back over his arm and put his jacket back on.
Scully glanced at the clock and noticed it was her usual time to leave to work.
"Krycek, I think it might be best if you stayed here today." she said carefully as she walked toward him.
"I know, but I'm not sure what they want."
"They can have whatever they want, if an FBI agent where to see you, they'd be on you so fast." she said quietly as she stroked the collar of his leather jacket.
"I'll stay here then, okay? Don't worry about me, please? I'll be all right, I know how to survive."
She brought her eyes to his left arm and tried not to make it obvious. Krycek looked at her and realized what she was looking at, a forever reminder that he had let his guard down for one night. He had felt comfortable enough to sleep that night, and that had cost him dearly.
He hugged her and stroked her hair gently for a moment. She stepped away and looked at him questionably.
"I'm sorry." he said sincerely as she nodded and left the room. He heard the front door shut and he sighed. He sat down on her bed. Their bed. It was all new to him and he wondered if he'd ever get use to it.
He lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. He took in all the sweet smells that reminded him of his new bride and hoped that if he did fall asleep, he would encounter more good dreams then bad.
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Scully worked on another file as Mulder glanced at her again for what felt like the 20th time that hour.
"Mulder?"
"Hmm?"
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, well, yeah, something's wrong."
"What?"
Mulder stood up and walked over toward her and gently took her left hand. She tried to jerk it back, but he had already seen it.
"What does that mean?" he asked as he grabbed for her hand again.
"Mulder! Stop it! You're hurting me!"
"What the hell happened to you up there!?"
"Nothing! Why did you leave me up there?"
"Well, apparently you where a little busy." he said as he finally grasped her wrist and looked at the ring.
"What the Hell where you thinking?" Mulder screamed at her. She sat there and closed her eyes for a moment. Mulder was in control.
"That's the deal, I was finally thinking, Mulder, Damnit, I was finally thinking. He cares for me, unlike you, you selfish son of a bitch, I was here for 7 long years. You did nothing. Even when we've been forced together for 3 days, he's still shown more love to me then you have!." She sat there in shock. Those weren't her words, she didn't yell that, the fact remained that she still wasn't sure what the hell had happened that night in New York.
"Did you have sex with him?"
The question shocked Scully. She expected at least an hour of yelling, but Mulder had jumped straight to asking the simple questions, and Scully was frightened now.
"What do you think?" she asked. Trying to quieten herself, but she couldn't. She was mad, furious at him.
"I don't want to-"
"You never do."
The coldness in her voice startled her, but he was offending Alex and herself. She could understand his anger to a point.
Mulder looked hurt, but she couldn't do or say anything.
"You never want to think of anything but your goal, and that's what hurt you the most Mulder. You shut off the world, and you need the world."
"No Scully, Dana, Krycek, whoever the hell you are now, I don't need the world, I've seen it and I'm happier down here."
"Then why are you yelling at me for being apart of the world?"
She stopped and looked at him. How had he known it was Krycek?
"You knew about it!" She screamed at him. How else would he had known that the man was Krycek?
"I wish I had! So I could have stopped you!"
They both stopped and looked at eachother. There was no logical explanation for her to still be there, she could have left by now, and let this whole conversation be at rest, but for some reason, she couldn't move. She couldn't force herself to leave. She finally took a deep breath and stood up.
"I'm going home, Mulder."
"I knew you would find a home to go to. I'm not saying it's the right one, but it's a home at least."
She nodded and held out her hand.
"I might not come back for a while."
"Who's fault is that?" he asked. He couldn't help it, but the sarcasm just rolled out of him. He wasn't angry anymore, surprisingly, but he was scared now.
"Listen Mulder, I don't know what the hell is wrong with you, but I'm going to go home and calm down and I hope you'll calm down too. If you follow me, I will shoot you. If you come near me while I'm angry at you, I will shoot you, and if you even call me in the next day, I will find you and shoot you. Is this clear?"
"Crystal."
She stood up and walked out the door. She was so angry that she swore she felt steam coming out of her ears. She groaned as she got on the elevator and punched the button to go up. She was going to go home and try to get rid of this anger. Sure, Krycek was there, but she didn't care anymore, Krycek wasn't her worst problem. Mulder was.
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She pulled up infront of her apartment and jogged toward the door. She pulled her keys out and began to unlock the door. She opened it and dropped her bag and stripped off her jacket.
She listened for a moment and wondered where Krycek was. She walked to the kitchen, but found it unchanged since their morning coffee. She walked through the other rooms and was about to cry in anger. No one would listen to her. Then, she just broke down. She allowed the tears to slip down her face as she walked through her door and climbed into her bed. She was so concentrated on making it to the bed that she didn't even notice that Krycek was asleep with a blanket covering most of his body. She sobbed into the pillow and tried not to scream.
Dana blocked out the whole world then. She even blocked out the slight movement she felt next to her and the questioning eyes she felt fall upon her.
She did feel the hand that rubbed on her back and the soft soothing words she heard. She turned her body so she was facing Alex and she looked at him. He was lying down on his side and looking at her. She rested her head on the pillow that was now wet with her tears and looked at him.
"I had a bad day." she said before the tears fell down her face again. Alex leaned over and kissed her cheek gently where a tear was about to fall.
"Don't worry, everything will be okay." he said as she tried to gain control again.
"I don't know, I mean, today has been stranger then most of the X-Files that I've experienced in the past seven years."
"Hey, don't forget that I worked for the X-Files too, I know how creepy they can be and I'm sure your day couldn't have been creepier then that."
She laughed at him as he tried to make sense of his sentence. She realized that she was smiling now, and that somehow, he had comforted her. He laughed and smiled back and stroked her face gently.
"Are you going to be all right?"
"I think so." she said as she reached her hand up and caught his hand in hers. She gently moved her hand over his and allowed their fingers to twist and twine together.
"Mulder knows." she said flatly as he slowed his fingering down and looked her in the eyes.
"How?"
"He didn't say, but I think he knew about the little arrangement, or deal or whatever this marriage is." she said as she sat up. The thought of it made her angry, not the thought that she was being forced with Alex Krycek, she could force herself with that, but the thought that she loved this man, she loved him up to 3 days ago, but something had changed her in the past 3 days that also changed her life.
"Scully...Dana..."
"Yeah, I'm having the same problem, what do we call eachother?"
"First names." he said as she looked at him.
"It's easier." he finished.
"Okay, Alex."
"Okay, Dana." he said as he realized they where still holding hands.
"What time is it anyway?" he asked as he looked around the room for a clock.
"10:31" she said as she looked at her watch.
"It's still morning, let's go get some breakfast." he said as he sat up and pulled her up with him. She cried out in surprise but felt safe when he had both his arms around her. She laughed at the thought and they walked off toward the kitchen.
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Mulder knocked on AD Skinner's door and waited. He normally would have waited for his secretary to announce him, but she was gone.
"Come in!" Skinner barked and Mulder stepped in and shut the door behind him.
"Where's the smoking man?" Mulder asked as he searched the room with his eyes.
"What?"
"The Smoking man, I think he has something to do with this."
"Agent Mulder, will you please make sense!"
"I'm sorry, but Scully is married."
"What?"
"She got married 2 days ago in New York, to Krycek."
Mulder noticed the shudder that ran down Skinner's spine and nodded.
"Agent Mulder, do you have proof of this?"
"Well, she admitted to it down stairs and has a wedding ring on her left hand."
"I noticed that too."
"And I think she's married to him against her own will."
"Did she say that?"
"No, but it's Scully! and that's Krycek!"
He was yelling now. Mulder lost all control as he screamed out all his rage and was left in a quivering heap. Skinner stood up and helped Mulder to the chair. Mulder hugged him and than sat down.
"Mulder, are you going to be okay?" Skinner asked as he watched Mulder in the worst shape he'd ever experienced before.
"I think so, thank you for letting me scream, but is there anything we can do for Scully?"
"I don't think so. We have no concrete reason to arrest Krycek, and we don't even know what happened out there.
"Even so."
"Mulder, just sit tight, it will work out."
Mulder nodded and leaned back.
"Where is Scully now?"
"She went home about an hour ago." Mulder said as he held his head in his hands while Skinner nodded.
"She'll be here tomorrow, talk to her then."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Trust me."
Mulder nodded and stood up.
"Thank you, sir." he said as he walked toward the door and back down to his office.
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Dana burst into laughter again and almost slipped off her chair. She never knew how funny Alex was.
"Wait Wait Wait!" she called out as she tried to catch her breath.
Krycek smiled as he waited for her to say the word for him to start again as he leaned against the counter.
"Are you okay?" he asked. He was starting to laugh too, and he enjoyed the power he held over Scully.
"I'm okay, just I haven't laughed this hard in so long, but it feels so good!" she laughed as she said it.
He smiled and she smiled with him.
"Alex, why didn't you ever tell me you where so wonderful?"
"You probably wouldn't have believed me, you don't believe alot of things." he said as he twisted his fingers together. It was a nervous habit he couldn't break, no matter how hard he tried.
"You're probably right." Scully said looking down. She hated the reputation she'd gotten around the bureau about either being really weird or really unfun.
"But we do have time for you to show me how wonderful you are." she said as she stood up and walked toward him. He stood and looked at her.
He had never truly allowed himself to feel anything for Dana Scully, simply because in his line of work, if you start feeling for anyone, that was probably the last thing you'd ever feel.
"Ohh, and what does that mean?" he said as he pulled her close to him, closer then he should have. She stopped and held her hands out to him to stop him.
"I'm sorry Alex, but no." she said quietly.
He nodded and let go of her. He held her left hand for a moment and slowly allowed his eyes to examine her ring.
"What happened to your wrist?" he asked as he saw the red that started to bruise.
"Mulder grabbed me earlier, trying to get me to admit something was wrong."
"He seems to have a problem with communicating without violence." he said as he remembered back to Duane Barry and how Mulder almost killed him for even touching Scully, how strangely things turn around.
"I'll be fine, if that's what you're thinking." she said as she turned around and sat back down.
"Are you sure?"
"Yes."
Krycek nodded, knowing that she probably wasn't all right, but he didn't want to push her to talk until she was ready.
They sat in silence for a minuet before Scully stood up again and put her plate in the dishwasher. She took Krycek's and put it in next to her's.
"Thanks." he murmured and she smiled slightly.
"Welcome." she replied.
This was going to be very interesting.
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