Disclaimer: Some things in life are free and the X-Files isn't one of them.

"Thanks, Dr. Scully." Mulder said as she handed him report she wrote on the case.

"You're welcome, Agent Mulder." She threw her latex gloves away in the trashcan.

"Just call me Mulder, everyone does." He smiled at her, but she didn't smile back. She just gave him a cold icy stare.

"No offense, but I prefer to call you Agent Mulder. I am a professional and I treat others the same as well. I am a doctor and that's what you refer to me as I refer to you as an agent." She said as started to straighten out her things on her desk.

"If you were a teacher, would I refer to you as teacher Scully?" He walked over to her desk, and then leaned on it.

"You're a smart ass, aren't you." It was more of a statement than a question. She put her hands on her hips, and then looked him in the eyes. He stared back never breaking eye contact. Dr. Scully looked at him and licked her lips.

"Why yes I am." He smiled and she rolled her eyes at him.

"Have a nice day, Agent Mulder." She gave him one last look, and then walked away.

"I will as long as you have one, too." He said as he walked backwards out the door.

"Mulder, do you have a thing for Doc Ice?" His partner Reggie Perdue asked once the door was closed.

"I do not know what you are talking about." Mulder said dumbly as they walked.

"Mulder, I'm not going to question your interest in women." Reggie said as he walked beside Mulder. "But, don't fuck with this girl. She can make the tallest man fall to their knees and beg for mercy. She can make the strongest men piss on themselves because of how terrified they are of her. There is some shit that she can do that I don't want to mention."

"And you're telling m this because…"

"Because one minute you're madly in love with a girl and the next you forgetting about her. You can't do this woman the same way as you did the others." Reggie said.

"You're making it sound as if I'm going to hurt her." They walked out the door and headed straight towards their car. "I don't have bad intentions."

"Mulder, sometimes you can be so dense. I know you mean well, but it doesn't always happen that way with you. I'm just trying to say that whenever you have a relationship it always ends because of Diana." Reggie said as he opened the driver's side door and unlocked the door for Mulder.

"Here we go again." Mulder mumbled as he sat down.

"You're damn right here we go again!" He started the engine and looked behind him to see if any cars were coming. Reggie backed up and began to drive.

"I don't want to hear this bullshit." Mulder rolled down the window and turned up the radio.

Reggie turned off the radio and rolled up the window. "Well, you're gong to hear it, until it gets through you thick skull. I'm tired of this make up and break up shit, Mulder. It's either you two are together or you are not. There isn't an in between. There can't be because if there is the relationship isn't working."

"Reggie, you don't understand." Mulder moaned.

"No, you don't understand!" Reggie yelled. "I'm sorry for yelling, but you don't understand, Mulder. You don't see these women eyes once they realize that it is over. You don't see the heartbreak they go through trying to get over you. I know you don't see it because you are too caught up in what you call Diana's love, but I see it everyday at work or when I bump into them."

"Why now? Why didn't you tell this a while back?" Mulder pulled out some sunflower seeds and began to eat them.

"You need to know, Mulder. I thought you were going to get a clue or something, but I guessed I over estimated you." Reggie stopped at a red light. "Besides. This woman can hurt your feeling worse than Diana will ever be able to. Doc Ice doesn't hesitate to put anyone in their place whether or not if she knows them."

"So, are you saying that I shouldn't get back with Diana or shouldn't date my favorite pathologist?" Mulder asked as he looked out the window.

"I'm saying that you two should date others, until the both of you can learn to be in a more mature and stable relationship." Reggie looked at Mulder. "You probably should date Doc Ice. You're always so willing to learn and I bet she could teach you a few tricks and tame you."

"Reggie, you're so funny I can't contain my laughter." Mulder said with a straight face, but he gave what Reggie said some thought.