Title: Finders - Keepers
Author: X_fairy fairy175@yahoo.com
Disclaimer: The X-files belong to CC and Mulder and Scully belong to each other, not to me! No infringement intended!
Rating: PG
Category: H, MSR
Spoilers: None!
Archive: Anywhere, with my name and addy, but please let me know!
Summary: Mulder's birthday...
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Finders - Keepers
By X_fairy
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Entering the basement office on the morning of October 13th, Dana Scully found her partner sifting through the papers on his desk.
"Morning, Scully. You don't happen to have seen a little package with a red ribbon?"
"No, sorry," she shook her head and leaned across the desk to kiss his cheek. "Happy birthday, Mulder. Want some help?"
"Yeah, thanks," he said distractedly. "It's unbelievable! Where the hell did she put it?" He opened a drawer and started rummaging through the content.
Scully began to search a shelf full of papers, books and videotapes. "What exactly are we looking for?"
"Your Mum called me this morning to say that she'd put my birthday present here on the desk, and she said it's a little package with a red ribbon!"
An hour later they had reshuffled the whole office, but without success. When Mulder looked over the desk for a second time, Scully leaned down to open a drawer, just the one he was blocking, and one they had already searched twice, and suddenly she had the package in her hand. "Got it!" She slipped out under his arm.
"Where?" He swung around. She hid it behind her back.
"C'mon, Scully!"
She shook her head and grinned. "Finders - Keepers!" And the next moment, she was out the door.
"Scullyyy!" he called, exasperated. This couldn't be true! When she didn't answer, he went out after her. He just saw her stick out her tongue at him and disappear up the stairs.
He grinned, 'Well, two can play the game!' and followed her up.
In the entrance hall he almost had her, but she got away and ran towards the laboratories, down and down a long hallway. Suddenly he heard a soft laugh behind him and turned just in time to see her take off out of a side hall.
"Scully!"
Now she was on the way to the gym rooms. Nobody was there in the middle of the morning, and the hallway got darker and darker. He couldn't see her anymore and started searching through the rooms.
Finally he found her in the shooting facilities. She stood with her back to him, trembling with chuckles.
He locked his arms around her shoulders so she couldn't move anymore. "Gotcha!"
She tried to wriggle out of his embrace, but he turned her around with both hands on her shoulders, "Finders - Keepers, remember?" And then, out of an impulse, he leaned down and kissed her.
Time stood still. He waited for a slap, a definite answer to his unspoken question, but to his infinite surprise she reached up to slip her arms around his neck and kiss him back. And at that moment he understood what this was all about. "Thank you, Scully, this was my best birthday present ever."
"Dana."
"Dana..." he let her name linger on his tongue. "Dana, I love you."
The End!