The Dead Will Follow You
Part 2
by Trycee
Time-Line: Season 7, After All Things
Disclaimer: I do not own the X-Files, it's owned by Chris Carter, this is written for Fun not Profit.
*Ethan was Scully's boyfriend, deleted from the pilot. I wrote him similar to the way he was portrayed in the deleted scene. You can see the deleted scene's on Youtube.
"Scully why are you sitting over there instead of on my lap?', he smiled wickedly.
"Because I know the closer I sit to you the less of this video we're gonna see...", she said, staring at the television screen as she picked at her Chinese food at the small hotel table.
Mulder was scrawled across the bed, gesturing for her to join him. She sighed and pushed the food back and made her way to sit in between his legs, her head resting against his chest and shoulder. He wrapped his arm around her small frame and kissed her on her cheek. "Okay, let's see this," he said, pushing play on the remote.
They watched as the small girl appeared out of no-where and Mulder kept rewinding the tape to see if he could see where she was appearing from. Finally he let the tape roll and noticed that she had disappeared from the exact area she had first appeared.
"A portal?", Scully said as if he had spoken the words out-loud.
"Yeah...some kind of dimensional portal...maybe she's not a ghost...maybe she's..."
"An alien or from the future?", Scully giggled but Mulder bent down and placed wet kisses behind her ears.
She screamed out, "Gross, Mulder...", but didn't pull away. "Come on...Mulder...we still have cases to solve...we have to practice a little self-control."
"What do you call the last 7 yrs Scully?", he said, pushing the button on the remote.
'Well, that just proves that we can do it if we need too...", she smiled.
The tape player opened and shot the tape out. He gently picked Scully up and sat her on the side of himself and then retrieved the tape, placing it into an envelope to have it air-expressed to the Lone Gunmen.
"What else could this be, I wonder...I mean, I have X-Files that have reported a kind of dimensional portal as well...like the case of the Ghost Ship...", he said, with his hands on his hips pacing the floor.
"The one where you kissed me in another dimension? And when you came too you told me you loved me but I didn't believe you."
Mulder stopped mid stride and came over and kissed her. "I was brave to say it...you weren't ready to hear it but that's ancient history now..."
"Okay...", she said, embarrassed. "We'll refer to that as just plain when you thought I was in another dimension and you kissed me...so you said."
"I did and you punched me," he said, rubbing his face, thinking back to that moment. "You were hot even back then!"
"MULDER!", she grinned shyly.
"Okay...well, the ghost ship just appeared in this dimension, right? At the same time I was being attacked by Nazi's with the other 'you', the current you and the Gunmen were on the ship searching for me..."
"Right and it was empty...but it did have its lights on somehow..."
"But I didn't see either one of you...just the 'you' of the other dimension and Skinner and Kersh and even Spender and CGB."
"And what we saw was cob-webs...we found your boat smashed and found you floating unconscious in water.", she said, staring into his eyes as he knelt down next to her.
"Okay...so there was one world that I had somehow crossed into...and then there is this one, that you and the Gunmen were in...just as the ship had suddenly crossed back into this dimension, right?"
"Yes," she said, yawning.
"Scully," he said, running his hand up her arm, causing a shooting sensation throughout her body. "Scully...", he said, removing his hands. "This girl isn't dead...not really...she just exists somewhere else."
"Then why is she a silhouette then Mulder? Why isn't she flesh and blood like us or like the Ghost in that house at Christmas?"
He thought about it a second. "Okay...so she is dead...but she's jumping dimensions."
"Mulder...if it weren't for the video recording...I'd think you were insane..."
"The tape is the proof that I'm not," he said, standing back up and then sprawling out on the bed beside her. "When we die...we cross over to another world, Scully. Another dimension. I wonder how many dimensions there are...and..."
"Why would she kill Mulder?"
"I don't know...I know it wouldn't be the first time someone was killed by a ghost."
"Yeah," she said remembering the ghost they'd encountered at Christmas. "But I haven't heard about a dead killer child ghost..."
"You think she's being drawn to kill him like from someone else's energy...say like Ethan?"
"Mulder," she said, rolling her eyes. She laid down next to him, her head resting on her hand as she propped herself up on her elbow so she could look down on him. "Mulder, whose bed am I laying in right now?"
"I know," he said, pulling her closer to him. "I know...I don't know why I feel so jealous, Scully..."
"Because he's tall, young, handsome..."
"He's not that handsome...", Mulder scoffed.
"No," she said, planting a kiss on his jawline. "He's nothing compared to you Mulder...he couldn't even come close...I never worried about other women snatching him away from me like I did with you all those years..."
"Really?", Mulder grinned. "You were a fierce jealous woman...it made me love you even more, you know."
"You're acting just like I did because he's a threat...you acted like this a little with Jack too but you hid it better back then," she grinned.
"Oh yeah...", he smiled guiltily.
"But even with the Ed Jerse situation and that creepy neighbor of yours...I don't think you're as jealous as you were then..."
"I can be jealous, Scully...but I always had this threatening male vibe that told other men to back off. I would stake my claim and they got the hint, most of the time."
"Women have that vibe thing too but they're more vicious," she said, kissing his lower lip, tugging gently on it with her teeth. "They sense the vibe and then they use it as a challenge...like Phoebe and Diana," she said, rolling her eyes.
Mulder smiled and then ran his hand through her hair, pulling her over so he could kiss her fully. They broke apart and Scully smiled down to him. "This is exactly why we need to enforce our sleeping-in-separate-rooms-while-on-a-case-rule. We get nothing done when we sleep together..."
"We get something done," he smiled leeringly.
"Mulder," she giggled. "We can't get our cases finished...we really do need to stay in separate rooms still so we can concentrate on our assignments."
"The whole time I'm wondering what you're doing and how you look doing it," Mulder chuckled. "Its not easy being partners and lovers, Scully."
"No, it's not...but we have to do it or else we'll slip up and the FBI will figure out what we're up too."
"I think Skinner already knows...", he said smiling. "But I can't sleep in that other room tonight, Scully...not tonight. But maybe...tomorrow. And as soon as we get back home...I'm not letting you out of my sight."
"You feeling threatened, Mulder?", she said, running her hands through his hair and kissing his lips again. "You have nothing to fear...I'm yours forever."
"You promise?"
"I do...Do you promise, Mulder?"
"I do...Scully...tomorrow we have to pick up the autopsy result and send this video off to the Gunmen. We need to investigate this guy's home life...family...see if maybe any little girls died recently and what their connection is to him...and the history of this television station."
"Okay," she said, sitting up. "Well...since we have tonight...why don't I go get ready?'
Mulder sat back. "Now that's what I'm talking about...", he smiled.
Scully stood up and grabbed her nightie from her suitcase and made her way to the bathroom when there was a knock on the door. Mulder pulled out his gun and walked over to the door. He peered through the peephole and then flung the door open to find Ethan standing there with a boutique of flowers in his hand. "What are you doing here?", Ethan asked.
"No...What are YOU doing here," Mulder said, looking Ethan up and down.
He was dressed in a shirt and tie, black slacks and black alligator shoes. He flashed Mulder a smiled. He was as tall as Mulder but wasn't as fit, Mulder figured he could easily knock him out if he needed too. Mulder turned towards the bathroom and could see that the door was closed. He motioned for Ethan to step inside.
"Really, " Mulder began. "What are you doing here?"
"Dana used to be my fiance`," he said smugly.
"The key word was 'used to be'," Mulder said, standing directly in front of him. "Look, she's taken!", he said shaking his head. "She's not interested!"
Just then the bathroom door swung open and Scully walked out dressed in a long flowing red sexy but elegant satin gown that matched the red of her hair, with a deep V neck cut down to near her navel and tied at the breast, and with a slit up her leg exposing her creamy bare leg all the way to her waist. She wore red high heels as she walked out but stopped short when she saw the blazing look in Mulder's eyes and the wide smile spread across Ethan's face. "Oh god...", she said, running back into the bathroom, slamming the door.
"Get the hell outta here!", Mulder said, grabbing Ethan by the arm.
"I will not," he said, standing his ground, they were eye to eye. "I have the right to talk to her."
"Don't you see you're interrupting something here?", Mulder said, snatching the flower's from the man's hands. "Get out or I'll physically throw you out."
"One phone call from me Spooky and you're little secret about you and your partner will be exposed...", he smiled smugly.
Mulder laughed out loud. "They knew before we did, Ethan. Now get out or I'll have you arrested," he said, slamming the flower's hard into Ethan's chest.
"Augh!", Ethan yelled at the impact of the flowers. He glared at Mulder as he made his way through the door, exiting without a word.
Mulder slammed the door and locked it and then made his way to the bathroom. He knocked on the door and Scully let him in. Her face was red from embarrassment but Mulder quickly covered her face with kisses. "You're beautiful, Scully," he said, picking her up in his arms. "And you're mine..."
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