Mulder sat down looking at his precious menus for a few minutes .'Uhm... what's my food mood today?' he wondered. After several minutes of deliveration he decided to order a large pizza, he always wanted to eat all by himself an entire large pizza but he had never been able to do it, so that night sounded like the perfect time to acomplish that goal. He picked up the phone and ordered it.
After hanging up the phone he found himself sitting on his couch with nothing to do, alone, waiting for a large pizza to come knocking at his door,. 'Great!' he thought and looked around.trying to find something interesting. "I guess I'll have to invite my Friday's friends." Mulder reached out for the remote and tunned in his favorite channel, free porn.
Suddenly just when Sally and Jane where about to kiss, someone knocked the door. The pizza delivery guy knew perfectly about Mulder's... let say hobbies, so he just pushed the 'Mute' button and opened the door.
"It's me again." Scully said sweetly. "I'm sorry to bother you, stupid me left my apartment keys inside the apartament, and my cellphone run off battery, I was wondering if you could lend me your phone to call my mother." Mulder looked confused, so Scully explained. "My mom has a pair of spare keys."
"Yeah, of course." Mulder raised the arm that was holding the door opened for Scully a little bit so she could pass under it.
"Thanks, I won't take long. Just continue doing what you were doing. I know where the phone is." Scully passed through the living room next to the couch not noticing what was happening on the tv and started dialing her mother's number.
Mulder returned to where he was before Scully knocked. "Are you sure you want me to continue doing what I was doing?" Mulder said with a big mysterious smile. Scully turned around very slowly and found a dirty scene involving two women in 'action' and rolled her eyes. "Gross Mulder... just keep it on mute." she said.
"Sounds are kinda important Scully, I
mean how can- "
"Hi mom..." She interrupted Mulder's
explicit explanation.
"It's me...Dana mom... no I... I
just need a favor, I need you to lend me the spare keys for my
apartment I gave you two weeks ago...what do you mean?...
no!, ok I'll wait..." Scully looked all around the place
trying to avoid the nasty images in front of her. For once in his
life Mulder wasn't really putting any attention to the movie, but
he was having a blast making Scully uncomfortable.
"You can't
find them?... of course I gave them to you!... well can I
stay there with you for the night?... visit? what kind of visitor?
like a date?... no, I'm calling from Mulder's apartment...
I'll tell him... yes I will... " Scully loked at Mulder with a
fake smile "My mother says hi... "
"Oh, tell Margaret I... " - "Whatever" Scully said before Mulder could finish his sentence.
"No mom I can't... " Scully's voice started to lower. "Ok mom, whatever... of course I am... I'll be fine, thanks anyway..." Scully hang up.
Mulder turned off the TV and pretended not to have payed attention to the conversation. "So, does she have the keys?"
"No she doesn't, apparently she lost them." Scully said while making a hand gesturetelling him to move away so she could sit on the couch.
"So why don't you stay with her?"
Scully leaned over placing her elbows on her knees and sighed. "Could you turn off that thing? She's on a date."
Mulder laughed. "What?" he continued laughing. "I didn't know your mother still dated."
"That makes two of us" Scully answered with a cute smile and helped herself to stand up with Mulder's knee. "Thanks Mulder."
Mulder stood up quickly after her. "Where are you going?" he said with a worried tone that Scully became aware of.
"Don't worry Mulder. When I get there I'm going to try to find the janitormaybe he knows how to open doors without knocking them down, that I can do myself."
Mulder wanted to offer his place so bad, he took a deep breath. "Why don't you stay... here for the night and I give you a ride tomorrow morning and help you find the janitor."
Scully looked
around in hesitation.
"Come on Scully! It's going to be fun!"
Someone knocked the door. "I won't be able to eat a large pizza
all by myself.".
Scully looked down at her feet. "Mulder I
don't think I should stay... " she raised her head just to find
Mulder's puppy eyes looking at her.
Ignoring Scully's answer
Mulder walked pass her, opend the door and took the pizza from the
delivery guy and placed it on the table, both sat on the couch.
Mulder opened the box and took a huge piece from him and gave Scully
a small one. First she stared at the slice of pizza on her hands as a
piece of evidence, then she stared at Mulder while he ate. Mulder
noticed Scully was looking at him so he putted down his pizza. "Are
you ok Scully?"
"I'm fine." Scully looked down at her
pizza again and started eating. It seemed that Mulder had forgotten
why Scully was there in the first place and the discusion they had
been in.
'God, is he self-involved!' she thought. Scully
didn't wanted to leave him but she felt like she had to. The idea
of spending her life on the FBI searching for UFO's and unexistant
little grey men scared her to death. She hadn't had a real date
since she started working with Mulder, how could she meet someone to
spent her life with and form the family she always dreamed of working
in the FBI, with Mulder. Not that Mulder was a problem, as she had
said to him earlier, it was her decision to work with him, she knew
his reputation in the bureau, she never imagined she could get so
close to him, now they have risked their lives many times to save
each others. But the real problem was that work consumed her, her
life was only about work, nothing more. How could she have a life
outside work when she spends all day dealing with weirdos with
Mulder?
Mulder
knew Scully wasn't fine, but he was trying to avoid the subject. He
didn't wanted Scully to start grumbling about work, he tried to be
funny and to annoy her just a little bit, but the truth was he was
crushed inside, when Scully said those things to him he felt his
world falling apart. She was all he had. All he wanted to
have.
Scully finished her piece and leaned back placing her right hand on her stomach. "I wasn't even hungry." Scully informed him with a big smile and looking at the seeling."You know... I don't remember the last time I ate pizza."
"Yeah you changed it for yummy non-fat ice cream." he said with sarcasm after taking a humongous bite of his second slide of pizza.
"I forgot how tasty fat is."
"See? I told ya'." He bited his pizza again.
Scully straightened with difficulty. "Says the sunflower seeds man?"
"Take the bed, I rather sleep in the couch to be honest." Mulder said out of nowhere. She looked up at him, as if to see if his offer was genuine, then relented, smiling gingerly "Are you sure?"
"It's all yours." He turned around and found her with no shoes on. "The heels were kelling me" She explained.
"Yeah, I hate heels too." Mulder answered.
"Just let me grab sheets from my closet."
Scully didn't say
anything, she just stared at Mulder who was standing infront of her.
"What?" Mulder finally asked.
Scully opened her mouth to say something but she didn't, her mouth kept open, finally she spoke. "I'm surprised. You?... you have an extra pair of sheets? In a closet? In a bedroom, in you bedroom?" Scully advanced towards Mulder and took him by the arm, then whispered. "Twilight Zone"
Mulder felt the air coming out of her mouth and nose
caresing his cheek.
"Very funny." he said with a big smile as
he walked past her into the bedroom, she followed him.
Scully lay
down on Mulder's bed directing her sight towards him. Mulder opened
the closet and pulled a blue old blanket from between his clothes on
the top shelf, desarenging everything else in the way, his closet was
a mess. Scully watched with angst as pieces of clothing fell down in
his face.
"A blanket?" She said and closed her eyes.
"I don't need more." He said as he made his way out of the room. "Good night Scully." His voice sounded warmer than normal. Before Scully could say anything back he closed the door shut.
