Here's Chapter two. Don't forget to Review, please.
Story Title- With Snow There's Magic
Chapter Title- "When you love someone you know it."
It was nice and quiet as Dana Scully was laying in Fox Mulder's bed alone on Christmas morning that is up until she heard Mulder come into the room. At the sound of the creaking door opening Scully pretended to be peacefully asleep. He crept over to her; hovering over her body as he took in how tranquil she looked lying there, fake sleeping. He stayed hovering over her as he gave her a gentle shake.
"Scully, it's Christmas." He smiled.She looked at the clock, noticing that it was nine in the morning.
"Mulder you remind me of my two year old nephew Matthew on Christmas morning." She groaned, as she shifted to prop herself up on the pillow. He only smiled, as he picked her up out of bed putting one arm around her waist and the other below her knees. He carried her into the living room where he sat her down on the couch.
"My favorite part of Christmas Scully." He gestured to the presents and then lifted one up and sat it on her lap. "Each one of them are yours." "What?" She looked shocked. There were four poorly wrapped gifts in front of her, obviously Mulder's wrapping.
"I forgot yours at my house…"
"Now, open them." He urged her as he walked on into the kitchen to grab his coffee.She began to neatly unwrap the flashy red paper on the small rectangular box. As she opened the velvet box, her jaw dropped, which is exactly the reaction Mulder was hoping for.
"Mulder… It's beautiful." She managed to get those words out of her mouth as she was gaping down at the gold chain with a heart charm with a diamond in the middle. He smiled and handed her another present. This one was a large box, most likely clothes. She unwrapped the green flashy wrapping paper on this one and shook the lid of the box off. It was a nice light blue v-neck sweater. She smiled up at him as he handed her another rectangular present. She gasped as she saw what she had just unwrapped. "Mulder…How? How did you possibly get this?" She was holding Jose Chung's most recent book, which wasn't even on the shelves yet.
"Let's just say I have a way of persuasion." He smiled and brought her to her feet and handed her last present to her. Scully took the small square box. Once unwrapped it was clear that this box was holding either earrings or a ring. As she opened it and saw what it was holding her eyes became bigger than when she had seen her necklace. It was a white gold ring with a blue diamond in the middle which was cut in a heart shape and had four other diamonds that were small encrusted into the actual ring. Scully removed it from its original placing and looked at it, and then her eyes found the inside where something was engraved. 'Forever and Always, Scully and Mulder'. She looked up at Mulder, speechless.
"This is optional. You can choose whether to wear it or not," he began his hand on Scully's cheek. "It's a promise ring. I want us to make a promise never to leave each other's side." He wasn't finished but Scully had to say something.
"You know that I would never leave you. Or even think about it." She whispered.
"I know… but the next part… Well I want you to be mine."
"I've been yours." She whispered to him even softer, now caressing his cheek.
"Will you wear the ring?" He said leaning in.
"Yes."
He lifted up her hand and slid the ring on her ring finger. She smiled, with tears in her eyes. He pulled her closer. She arched her back and was now staring at his green eyes. He began to tilt his head, and Scully slowly closed her eyes, making tears fall from them. The kissed passionately for about 10 seconds. He pulled away. They both smiled a smile that told each other that they were both thinking the same word, 'perfect'.He pulled her back down to the couch where they were both sitting next to each other, smiling.
"You know I was thinking about this for about some time," he began putting his hand on her knee, and then Scully put her hand on his. "I've been feeling this feeling for about some time too." She looked at him, confused at what he was trying to tell her. "When you love someone you know it. It's not a maybe thing," She smiled up at him finally realizing what he was trying to tell her. "This may seem like I'm rushing this, by telling you," He pulled her even closer. "I love you."
"Good," He pulled her into an embrace, and she whispered into his ear. "Because I love you too." They looked at each other smiling and tears continued to run down Scully's face. He wiped them away and she giggled at his touch.
"So what now?" Just as Mulder asked this Scully's phone rang. She looked down and then back at Mulder.
"Scully." She said standing and walking away. "Mom?". Scully and her mother talked for about five minutes on the phone. "Mom, there's something I think you would like to know." She paused as her mom spoke. "So we'll see you for lunch around two?" She smiled and turned to Mulder who was looking at Scully with the 'what do you mean we?' face on. As she hung up the phone she ran back to Mulder who was now standing and jumped into his arms.
"We'll see you for lunch around two?" He asked her, pouting.
"Mulder, I love you and wouldn't want you to do anything you didn't want to do, but this is really important to me. I want my family to know about us."
"Alright, for you. But you know Bill hates me." They both sat down, he pulled her onto his lap.
"My brother's bringing his family. He won't say anything too rude and I'll make my mom talk to him about it before hand."
"I guess I have no choice."
"That's right." She smiled and kissed him at the same time. He was smiling too. They both began to laugh while they were kissing, and it felt kind of funny so that made them laugh even harder.
"I'll take you home so you can get ready." He was still laughing.
"I still need to give you your presents." She smiled as she stood up and broke away from his grasp walking to the bedroom to put her pants on. "Can I keep this sweat shirt?" She asked as she walked out in her clothes from the previous day, except she was still wearing Mulder's sweatshirt.
"Of course, you can. You didn't have to ask." He helped her put on her jacket.
"Good. It's warm and it smells like you." She rubbed the small of his back as they began to walk out of his apartment.
They left hand in hand walking to the car which was freezing inside. Mulder saw her shaking, so he put his jacket over her and she smiled. The drive was silent. Mulder was thinking of what Scully could have gotten him. Yep it's true Mulder acted so childish at Christmas. Once in front of Scully's apartment he ran to Scully's door, but Scully had already gotten out. He looked a little disappointed as he let out a sigh loud enough for Scully to notice.
"What's wrong?" she asked concerned as if she had done something to upset him. She grabbed his hand and began to walk inside the complex.
"I was supposed to open your door."
Scully relieved that she didn't do something that bad joked, "I never would have pinned you to be such a gentleman."
"Hey, I'll have you know, that I can be a perfect gentleman at times." He laughed along with her.
"I know," She said as she opened the door. "You are to me 90 percent of the time."
"And the other 10 percent?" She put down her purse and guided Mulder over to the couch where there were three presents.
"Well, five percent of the time you're very childlike and the other five you're a stubborn asshole." She smiled looking over at him making sure he knew that she was only joking around.
"Ouch, Scully." He put his hand over his heart pretending like her words hurt him. She threw a pillow at him which he caught. As she began to continue to fix up the coffee table that had a bunch of magazines and a few books on it she felt a clonk on the head. Being surprised she yelped and then she grabbed a pillow and clonked Mulder back."Pillow fight?" Mulder asked. Scully hit him in the side. "Taking that as a yes." It was adorable a cute couple just hitting each other with pillows and laughing.
'With him for once I don't have to try to be happy or have fun. It just happens.'
She thought as she received a strike in the back which made her let out small muffled painful scream. "Scully!" he immediately stopped goofing off and was suddenly very serious and concerned. "I'm very sorry. Are you alright? Can you sit down?".
"Calm down G-man." She sighed touching his cheek. "It's just my injury. Yes, I can sit down. Let's do just that. You can open your presents too." She grabbed the presents before sitting down. Mulder took one of the very neat and precisely wrapped gifts into his grasp and set it in front of him. He unlike Scully when she had opened her presents shredded the gift wrap off of the present and threw it aside. He removed the lid off of the box to reveal a green sweater that would bring out his eyes perfectly.
"Thanks, Scully." He smiled.
"I was thinking that you could wear it today, to my mother's. There're a tan pair of corduroys in there."
She handed him the next present which was much smaller than the first. He once again took the neatly wrapped present and tore off the paper. He then had a black velvet rectangular box in his hand. As he opened the box and saw the gold chain inside his eyes got big just like Scully's had when she say her ring. "This is great. I was actually going to buy one of these at Kauffman's last month. You didn't have to spend so much!" He smiled and gave her a hug and kissed her with more passion than they have experienced in a long time.
"You like it?" She asked, knowing the answer by his reaction.
"Yes!"
"Then I did well." She said as they stared into each other's eyes, noses touching and then pulled back. "There's still one more." She added handing him the round box.He unwrapped it to unveil very expensive aftershave.
"You know me well." He said grabbing her hips so he was in between her legs. He enveloped her into a deep kiss that lasted a few minutes, once they both needed air. She licked her lips.
"I'm going to go take a shower."She got up and he grabbed her hand. "I'll be back in ten. Aren't you going home?"
"Trying to get rid of me, huh?" He joked letting go of her hand.
"I just thought that you should get ready considering the fact that it is already about," she glanced at her watch. "Eleven thirty."
"I thought I'd just get ready here. Don't I have some boxers and socks here too?"
"That's a good idea actually, why don't you just take a shower after me. I'll be done soon." She inched towards her bathroom. He got up walking towards her with a grin.He wrapped his arms around her from behind.
"Now, why don't I just get one with you? To save the water."She laughed and she removed his arms from holding her tightly.
"Mulder," he began to nibble on her ear as if he were begging her. "Fine." She answered giving up.
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Scully began to dry her hair with her hair dryer as Mulder began shaving. Good thing Mulder kept some stuff at Scully's just in case they stayed there all night on a case. In truth, if they both would have taken separate showers they would have saved more water unlike what Mulder had said and they would have taken less time. It was now 12:45 and she knew that they were both going to be late. As soon as Mulder had finished shaving he headed towards his presents where he grabbed his outfit he would be wearing that day. Once Mulder was done changing Scully had finally finish drying her hair. They had switched rooms Mulder used the bathroom to put on his after shave and once Scully had retrieved her new blue sweater she had gotten from Mulder from in the living room where she had left her stuff she went into her room to change. She quickly applied brown eye liner mascara and her lipstick, but still looked decent.
"Mulder, are you almost ready to leave? It's one o'clock." She said as she smoothed he hair behind her ears and put on her very best diamond stud earrings. He walked in right over to her and laced his arms around her waist.
"I love you" he said.
'Hmm his eyes do look amazing in that sweater.' She thought to herself before replying back to him. "And I love you too." He kissed her on the forehead and she looked in the mirror at the together and smiled. "We should leave now." She said burying her head into his sweater on his chest, taking in the scent of his new aftershave.
He had her necklace he had gotten her in his hands. "Let me put this on you first." He insisted. She turned and lifted up her short red hair so Mulder could easily hook the clasp. "Very nice." He stood behind her moving his hand from her collar bone down a few more inches to where the heart pendent was. "Let's go." He grabbed her hand and began walking towards the door where they only stopped to put on their winter coats.
They had finally arrived at Mrs. Scully's house at roughly 1:50.Once they parked the car Scully took a deep breath and sighed. Mulder took her hand to comfort her, and then he kissed the back of it.
"Nervous?" he asked her.
She nodded, "Are you?"
--- Hopefully updating within the next few days.
I wonder how Bill will act towards Mulder.
Will Mulder be absolutely adorable with the kidsresembling a very good father.
&& will Maggie Scully be happy for her daughter?
X-FILES MOVIE UPDATE- Last week David Duchovny stated that Chris Carter told him that he should have a script to read next week. So basically the script is out and I am very excited for next summer when I see the movie.
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--Andrea