Title:"The Day After Yesterday"
Author: Kelly Mullins
E-mail: Kelly. Page: Any thing about the conspiracy, SR819
Rating: R or M depending on where you're from.
Sequel info: "The Day Before Tomorrow" to follow eventually
Keywords: Skiner/Scully romance, angst, some humor
Summary: The little palm-pilot-controlled nanites are back and Skinner and
Scully spend an unexpected night together and the consequences could be detrimental if Skinner can't do some thing fast.
Disclaimer: No Mine... CC...1013...Fox...Don't sue...Med. Student...No money...
Authors Note: I've never seen a story where someone other than Skinner is taken over by those horrid little blood guys so here I am, putting someone else in danger, Breathe people it's not Queequeg. Okay so I really don't think recovery is this fast, or that the nurse would give up on missing blood so easily, but hey this is my universe and I say what goes. Also under that clause comes the whole Kersh being in charge of the X-Files thing...I'm bored okay...I don't believe in studying...maybe that's why I can't spell...
"The Day After Yesterday"
by. Kelly Mullins
The Apartment of D.K. Scully
6:30am
Dana Scully rolled over in bed and was disappointed. He was gone, of course he was, he had to go home, just like her he had to be at work by nine. She only wished he had awakened her before he had departed for Crystal City. Last night had been amazing, she'd had more fun than she could remember and then of course she hadn't gone to bed alone...
It had all started when she had finally made the decision to go see a movie, her first time without Mulder or anyone else, she was all alone.
Dana stepped out of the cab and onto the curb, she paid the driver and he drove away. She was walking toward the ticket booth when she saw him; he was wearing jeans and a dark blue FBI tee shirt; she had never taken the time to notice how good he looked, his tight shirt showing his tight, not bulky, muscles- she soon realized she was staring at her boss' butt quite intently. "I've gotta get a life." She said to herself, and continued on in line to buy her ticket.
Walter Skinner had decided to go see a movie for the first time since his wife, Sharon, had left him. He was doing well so far; he had driven his Ford Crown Victoria all the way there, parked, and then bought his ticket. He started to walk into the theater when he saw her-Dana Scully. She was the picture of perfection in a yellow dress that accentuated her fire red hair and made her look like a teenager. He remembered this was one of his subordinates. "I need a life." He noted to himself, receiving questioning glances from those around him.
Somewhere in the crowd he lost sight of her and decided it was for the best. He went in and sat down in the dark theater.
Scully sat in the dark awaiting the start of the film. She was seriously rethinking sitting there for the next two hours alone; someone sat down next to her, why they kept the theater pitch black until the previews she didn't know.
Finally after an eon of waiting the previews started, Skinner looked around the theater and noticed how many people were there; he smelt a wonderfully familiar scent and looked around once more, right next to him he realized sat the source, the lovely Dana Scully. Dana could feel eyes on her, she looked around and right next to her sat the surly Walter Skinner.
Their eyes met and for a minute they just sat gawking at each other, eyes locked.
"Hello Sir." Dana had spoken first.
"Hello Agent Scully, how are you?"
"Bit bored, this is my first movie without my mother or Mulder, he decided to stay at his apartment and watch his 'videos' all night."
"Yeah, this is my first movie since Sharon."
"So what about this movie attracted you?" Dana tried to make conversation during the previews.
He smiled. "It was just something to see." She couldn't take her eyes off his unusually smiling face. "How about you? Why this movie?"
"I guess it's just a movie to see." She used his excuse and matched the size of his smile.
Eventually the movie started and about ten minutes into it they both realized this was not the film they had paid to see; it was an excruciatingly boring children's film. Most of the other people in the theater left but not Dana or Skinner, they both just sat there laughing at all of the kiddie jokes and making fun of it between the two of them.
"You wanna go grab some dinner?" Skinner asked, once the show had gotten too horrible to bear.
"Skinner, are you asking me on a date?" She questioned, feigning seriousness.
He thought a moment. "Yeah, I guess I am."
"Okay then, I accept, dinner sounds good." She gave him another smile as they got out of their seats.
"Did you bring your car?"
"No, I came in a cab."
"All right then, I guess we'll take mine."
"Sure, so where are we going?"
"I don't know, what kind of food do you like?" He opened the door to the
Crown Victoria for her.
"I'm starving, right now I'll eat anything."
"Feel like pizza? I know a great little pizza bakery."
"As long as the pizza is Chloral Hydrate free, it sounds good to me."
Skinner drove expertly through the streets of downtown DC. "So how has life with Kersh been going lately?"
"It's been making Mulder and I miss you very much."
"Well the excitement has really gone out of my life without the expense and field reports that read like cheap science-fiction, I'm speaking of Mulder's, not yours, of course."
"Well some of mine were pretty out there too."
He pulled up next to a building and parked in the back. "We're here."
They had walked into the small Italian restaurant and were immediately assaulted by the wonderful scent of baking pizza. "Hi Walter." Said a rotund Italian gentleman from behind the counter. "Go ahead and seat yourselves, I'll be right over."
Skinner steered Scully toward a booth on the far side of the restaurant where a couple other patrons were quietly eating their dinners.
"So you come here often?"
"Oh yeah, all the time, it's kinda far from my apartment but you can't beat the service and then there's the pizza, best in the DC area."
"I live so close to this place and didn't even know it existed, which is surprising considering Mulder's been dragging me to eateries all over the DC area."
"So you and Mulder do a lot together?"
"We do everything together, but if you're asking if we're involved the answer is no. He's my best friend and we love each other more than anything... but not that way." She laughed. "I can't believe I'm telling you this."
"It's good to talk to you, and don't worry, I'm not gathering intel for Kersh."
"Walter, who's your beautiful dinner companion?" The man had joined them, as promised, to take their order.
"Vinnie, this is Dana Scully, we used to work together."
"Well Ms. Scully I've heard lots of things about you, and your partner, Fox Mulder."
"Really?" She questioned looking at Skinner.
"Nothing but good things of course."
"Of course." She winked at Skinner.
"So Ms. Scully, Walter- what'll it be?"
"Scully you mind?" He nodded toward her.
"No, go ahead."
"Okay, we'll have my usual and to drink I'll have an ice tea, Scully?"
"I'll have the same."
"Everything'll be right out." Vinnie turned and left.
The food came and she soon understood why Skinner loved it so much, it had been the best pizza she had ever tasted. The conversation hadn't been bad either once they had gotten past the "Call me Dana" and "Call me Walter" lines.
"Dana, you ready to go?" Walter asked. Once they had settled the bill after a mini-war of Scully wanting to pay - Walter had finally won claiming he had made her go and he would never be able to talk to his mother without knowing that he had failed her. The bill finally settled, they had lurched into a conversation about their mothers.
"Yes." Scully answered his question and took his hand on the way out of the restaurant.
She soon found herself and Skinner sitting in his car outside her apartment. "Thank you for tonight, I've felt uncharacteristically exuberant tonight and even though it's," She had paused to look at her watch. "1:30 am, I was wondering if you'd like to come in for some herbal tea?"
"I'd love to; I haven't enjoyed myself this much in years." They went into her apartment and he was astounded by the homelike feeling surrounding him as she went into the kitchen to put the water on to boil. Walter roamed around her living room looking at pictures of children, adults, and of course a lanky, paranoid FBI agent. Fox Mulder appeared to be at all of the Scully family gatherings.
"Mulder has joined my family." She said, answering the question she knew he couldn't ask. "My mother took him in while I was gone."
"So you now have Fox Mulder for a brother?"
"He adds color to our family gatherings." She laughed. The teakettle whistled and Dana scurried to the kitchen. "Hey Skinner, what flavor do you want? Mint, honey-lemon, or chamomile?" She yelled from the kitchen.
"I don't know, you choose for me."
"Okay." She chose chamomile and carried the two cups of steaming liquid out to the living-room, where Walter was flipping through her music collection.
"You've got quite a lot of stuff here."
"Most of those are Mulder's, he likes my sound system better than his so he basically lives here on weekends." She took the CD case from him and chose a disk. She put it on and soon the room was filled with the intoxicating sound of dark rhythms.
They sat on the couch and just talked for about an hour about their lives, Skinner had opened up to her about when he was a marine and the crazy things that occurred during the war. Eventually she leaned her head against his shoulder and he pulled his arms around her; she moved so she was facing him and as they began to kiss the phone rang. Dana broke the embrace and scrambled to get the offensive ringing device.
"Scully."
"Hey Scully, it's me."
"Mulder! It's 2:30 in the morning, what do you need?"
"Nothing Scully, how was your movie?"
"It was great Mulder, I saw the latest kid's flick- of course I left before it was over, but I did have a wonderful dinner."
"Okay, good night Scully, glad you had fun."
"Bye Mulder." She hung up the phone.
"Does he always call at this hour?"
"Mulder calls whenever he's thinking, no matter what time it is." She walked over to the CD player and restarted the disk that had finished playing, then went Skinner who was now standing, grasped his neck and pulled him down to her level.
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Skinner questioned her actions.
"Oh yeah." She said and covered his mouth with hers.
"Sounds good to me." He got caught up in a wave of passion; he lifted her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist and stumbled in the general direction of her bedroom. Skinner paused, thinking to himself, he knew that Dana wouldn't have a one night stand, and that by doing this he had agreed to an unspoken commitment.
Dana looked over at her clock and rolled over to get ready for work, she felt a piece of paper under her.
Dana,
Had to go, sorry I didn't wake you.
We'll talk later.
Walter.
She was happy he didn't wake up and run out her door scared at what they had done, she was having trouble believing it herself; she had just had sex with Walter Skinner! Her mind was reeling, no protection was used, obviously neither one of them had expected this to happen. She knew she couldn't have children so there was no pregnancy scare to worry about; the doctor part of her mind was also on over drive, she knew she didn't have any sexually transmitted diseases, but what about Skinner? The only thing she knew was that he was divorced from a woman named Sharon and they'd never had any children; of course Skinner was required to undergo regular medical exams...
Scully stopped herself, she wasn't going to think about this right now, she stood up and walked over to her closet, immediately wanting to crawl back under the sheets and sleep away an eternity. Every muscle in her body ached, not just from her early morning activities with Skinner, but mostly because she'd had only two hours of sleep; her muscles were not ready for the exertion she'd submitted them to.
She made the decision to go into work and make sure Mulder didn't run off on some wild alien chase before coming back home to sleep. She forced herself to open the closet doors and take out the most comfortable clothes she had- a pair of jeans and a white T-shirt she'd had since her academy days, she loved it and was delighted it still looked brand new.
Walking out of her apartment and into the assaulting heat of Washington DC in the summer, she quickly locked her door and made her way to her car, nodding politely to Dannie and Kat, the two women who were always standing outside the building sharing the latest gossip.
It was an uneventful car ride to the Hoover building and Scully was hoping she didn't run into Skinner; she just didn't have the energy to be Assistant Director Skinner and Special Agent Scully. She managed to make it safely down to her and Mulder's office, Mulder was there, of course, hunched over his desk looking intently at some sort of file.
"Good morning Scully." He didn't look up.
"Speak for yourself." She replied tiredly.
He finally looked at her. "What's wrong Scully, you're not dressed for work."
"I just came in to make sure you don't run off without me. If you promise not to leave town, I'm going home."
"Are you feeling okay?"
"I feel like I've been exsanguinated a couple of times over, I'm tired and I really want is to go home and sleep."
"Go home Scully, I'll call you if anything exciting happens." The phone rang, interrupting him. "Mulder." Pause. "yeah, on her way up." pause. "Thanks Kim." Scully already knew where this was leading. Mulder hung up. "That was Kimberly; you've been summoned to Skinner's office."
"Alone?"
"Yeah, look at the bright-side, without me there, he probably won't yell, and just remember, he's not your AD anymore."
"That's helpful Mulder, but I'm not even dressed for a meeting."
"Better go on Scully, wouldn't want Kim to have to come all the way down here- just explain that you were on your way out."
"Bye Mulder, see you tomorrow."
Scully rode up in the elevator silently nodding to other people coming on from various floors. She stepped out and walked down the hall, getting odd looks from the people noticing her attire. Finally she arrived in Skinner's outer office where Kim sent her in telling her the AD was waiting. She went in, closed the door behind herself and was relieved that Skinner was the only other person in the office.
"Good morning, sir." She said, taking her customary seat in front of his desk. If she thought she looked tired, he looked as if he hadn't slept in years.
"Dana I really think we could forgo the 'sir'."
"Okay, so you wanted to talk?" She crossed her arms over her chest, fully cognizant of her attire.
"Yeah, but let's do that over lunch."
"I was just on my way home. I only came in today to speak to Mulder."
"You didn't tell him about...?" He didn't want to finish the sentence in the presence of any electronic ears.
"No, I just made sure he wouldn't run off and get himself killed."
"I noticed you weren't exactly dressed for work. But that shirt is a nice touch." They both laughed. "How about I come pick you up at your place and we can go to Vinnie's."
"Okay, what time?"
"Noon?"
"I'll be ready." She stood up, smiled at him and left- another meal with Skinner, she couldn't wait.