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Alexandria

Fox Mulder's apartment

11:45 PM

Why does she have to make this any harder than it already is? Why didn't she tell me that all the fuss was about Diana? And why was she acting this way? Diana wasn't a threat to our partnership or to our friendship for that matter.

When I left work earlier today I didn't want to go home, so I ended up in a bar of all the places. I was feeling like hell after our day at work sucked and I mean really sucked. When I arrived at the office, Scully was already there typing some report. When I said good morning she replied without lifting her eyes from the screen and was like that all damn day, all damn couple of weeks I should say. We were only having real conversations when it concerned the case we were working on, we weren't having fun anymore, no more innuendos from me, no more of that eyebrow raising that she did so much, not even the 'I'm fine' from Scully I was getting.

It had been a bad idea going to that bar and even a worse one coming out from that same bar drunk as a pig and ending up at her apartment of all places, again. I knew why I had gone there, I was finally going to straight things out with her. Easier said than done.

Now feeling like someone ripped my guts out, I was heading home, the place I should've headed in the very beginning, but no, c'mon Mulder, let's go have a little talk to Scully and screw the only good thing you got going on for you now. At least one thing came out of the whole argument. I knew why she was all touchy and I was going to bust my ass off trying to make it up to her, and for that one I would have to think really hard, because if I could recall correctly I told her that I trusted Diana instead of her and she told me to not come back.

I was seating on my leather couch for what felt like three hours when I heard a knock on the door. Getting up without falling proved to be a very difficult thing for me to do at the time. When I opened the door the last person on the face of the Earth that I wanted to see right now was standing on the door way.

'Hey Diana, it's almost midnight. What are you doing here?' I wasn't worried that I sounded like the most annoyed person to see her.

'Fox, I was just in the neighborhood and thought that I could drop by. Are you ok?'

'No, I'm not ok. I had probably the worst day of my life, I'm drunk and I just want to sleep it off. See you tomorrow, Diana.'

'Wait, maybe I can make you company. I didn't have the best day and I could use the company as well.'

'Diana, look I'm not the best person to be around with today and by the looks of things I won't be for a long time.'

'What happened Fox? Just tell me.'

There goes my chance to try and sleep it off and to start figuring out a way to make it up to Scully. Without saying anything she just stepped into my apartment and made herself comfortable on my couch.

'Diana, I think you should leave. Now.'

'Why? Are you afraid you won't be able to control yourself around me, Fox? Or are you afraid that that little partner of yours will burst through the door and catch us on the act?'

While saying that she managed to pull me to the couch and now she was practically sitting on my lap. Despite everything my groin started to stir and became alive with her actions. At the sight of that, she thought I was really going to do the naked pretzel with her, right here, on my couch. Her eyes became dark with desire and that was my clue.

'Diana, I need you to leave now. Please. And when I say leave I don't just mean my apartment, I mean my life. Leave me alone, for God's sake. What we had is in the past and I sure as hell don't want you in my life anymore. I'm in love with somebody else!'

She looked at me like I was an alien, and I don't mean those that abducted my sister, but those from the movie with Sigourney Weaver…

'In love with who, Fox? With Scully? Please, she can't mean half of what I meant to you…'

'You're right, she's not half. She's everything you MEANT to me once and ten times more, Diana. So please, suck it up and leave my damn apartment now!'

Now I did it. She simply got up and started to walk towards the door without looking at me. When she finally reached for the knob, we heard a knock.

Without even thinking twice she opened the door and there she was, beautiful as ever and now standing on my door way, much like the way I was at hers but without the being drunk part.

I instantly froze at that sight. Scully at the door, Diana answering the door and me behind Diana looking like…well I looked like a train wreck.

I always knew Diana was an egocentric bitch but what she did next I did not see it coming.

'Thank you for the lovely evening, Fox. Never thought a quickie could be so satisfying.'

And with that said, two things happened. Diana finally left but no without leaving a disaster behind her. When I took the courage to look up at Scully I saw a face that would haunt me for the rest of my life. In her eyes I saw sadness, despair, anger and mixed with all that was something else that I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

When I managed to get something out of my mouth I regretted it the second I said it.

'Scully, please. It's not what you think at all…there was no quickie…'

'Oh Mulder, sorry I kept you from finishing it.'


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