The next morning Mark and Lillianna woke up fairly early. When Lillianna glanced at her alarm clock she noticed the bright red numbers said it was only 5:23. They had both had nightmares about Dana getting shot, and didn't want to go back to sleep. They layed silently in their beds for a few minutes before Lilly finally whispered, "Come on Mark, maybe we can make mom breakfast or something. I'm sick of sitting here." she sat up and pulled a sweatshirt over her head and pulled socks on before standing in the doorway with her arms crossed and an eyebrow raised.
"I guess I can butter toast." Mark said grudgingly getting up to follow his spirited twin.
The twins walked down the hallway and into the living room, where they stopped in their tracks and stared wide eyed with their mouths hanging open. "What the hell happened while we were asleep?" Lillianna asked rhetorically. Mulder and Scully were still curled up asleep in each other's arms. The two practically clung to each other in their state of unconciousness. Lilly couldn't help but notice Scully's eye's were red and she had dried tear tracks on her face.
That's when Mark noticed the box. He silently walked over and knelt next to the coffee table. The first thing he picked up were the teddy bears. "Lil, come look at this." he whispered almost frantically.
Lillianna looked at what was in his hand and gasped, "Did mom have a baby?" she whispered as she pulled out pink and blue blankets. They sat going through the box. They found ballons declaring 'It's a boy!' and 'It's a girl!', hats that a baby might recieve at a hospital or as a gift, and little baby clothes.
"What is all this?" Mark asked shocked. They had never heard Dana mention a child the whole time they had lived together.
"Mark?" Lilly asked as her voice shook, "Can you go get the picture please?"
Mark looked at his sister curiously, "What is it Lil?"
"Just get the damn picture!" Lilly whispered harshly. She never took her eyes off of whatever was in the box that she was staring at.
Mark held his hands up in surrender and went back towards their room. He returned a minute later carrying a polaroid. "Okay Lil, I got the picture, now explain!" Mark demanded handing the picture over.
Lillianna threw the picture in the box and shook her head as her smile grew, "Look at this!" Lilly exclaimed as she pulled the picture out and turned it to face him.
"Yeah so? It's our picture..." Mark said grabbing it. He stared at the picture sadly. It was the only picture he and Lilly owned with their mother in it. Apparently a nurse had snuck it to their social worker when they were being picked up at the hospital.
"No it's not Mark." Lillianna said lifting something else out of the box, "This is our picture." she said showing him and identical photo, "That one is mom's."
Mark grabbed the other picture in shock. He placed them delicately on the ground. The two twins stared at two photos of a red haired woman holding a pink and a blue bundle, one in each arm, with a huge smile on her face.
"This isn't possible..." Mark whispered after a minute or so. He turned to his sister with a huge smile on his face. They didn't have to say anything to know that they were both about to cry.
"Mmmmmmm." one of the sleeping adults behind them groaned, "Oh, morning guys." Scully whispered as she sleepily rubbed her eyes, "What are you two up to this early?"
"Mom," Lilly asked seriously, "What is this?" she held up one of the pictures.
Scully gasped and quickly grabbed the photo, "I-it's just a picture of mine. Nothing to worry about."
"Actually no." Mark said holding up the matching picture, "This is your picture. That one is ours."
"What?" Scully asked crawling off the couch, "Why on earth would you have that picture? I mean..."
Lilly took over answering, "We were told that a nurse had taken that picture the first time our mother held us." she explained quietly as she curled into Scully's side, "They said that half an hour later she had hemmoraged and died."
"No." Scully said right away, "Th-this isn't p-possible. They were...c-complications! You died!" she said loudly as a few tears started to make there way down her face.
Mulder was woken by Scully's loud outburst and crawled to the ground next to her, "Scully? What's wrong?" he sat behind her and pulled her so she was sitting between his legs and started rubbing her shoudlers, "Dana? Angel, what's wrong? What's going on?"
Mark and Lilly looked at each other, each of them raising an eyebrow at the use of the pet name.
"I-it's them!" Scully yelled as she started brushing her tears off.
"Who's who?" Mulder asked still extremely confused.
"Mark and Lilly!" Scully said holding the pictures up for him to examine, "They are them! They are MY twins!" Scully exclaimed happily.
"Sweetheart, that's a bit of a leap isn't it?" Mulder asked trying, for once, to be the voice of reason.
"Sweetheart?" Mark and Lillianna whispered to each other. They were just observing the two adults 'talk'.
Scully sighed turning and kneeling in front of him to look him in the eye, "No! One of these pictures I have had for over thirteen years, and the other one is the kids!" she said animatedly, "They are my twins. Don't you see it Mulder? They aren't dead!"
"Are you sure Angel?" Mulder asked bringing his hand up to cup her cheek. He was only trying to protect her. He didn't want her getting her hopes up for nothing.
"Angel?" Mark and Lilly finally questioned in their regular voices.
"Mulder, sweetie, just look at them!" Scully said gesturing as she turned back to face the kids. Both were confused by the looks on their faces, "What?" the two adults asked almost simultaneously.
"What was with the pet names?" Lilly asked. She had an almost conspiritorial smile on her face.
"What are they talking about Mulder?" Scully asked quietly.
"Not a clue sweetheart." Mulder answered. The two kids rolled their eyes, "So I know your half of the story, what about the twins?"
The kids had a much shorter version of the events that had transpired than their mother did, "We were told that mom had died of a hemorage a half an hour after she gave birth to us. We were put in the system and were bounced from house to house, well until now hopefully." Mark explained.
Scully quickly reached out and grabbed one of there hands each. Mulder studied all three closely for a moment before casually saying, "I have to admit baby, they do look a lot like you."
Scully smiled at him a little before it quickly fell from her face, "I-I just can't figure out why we were seperated! I mean why go through all the trouble of so much lying? Why were my kids taken from me?" Scully questioned.
"I don't know mom, I'm just glad we found you." Mark said as he hugged her from the left side. Lillianna quickly hugged her from the right.
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The family spent the morning and most of the afternoon continuing what they had been doing for the past three weeks; Getting to know one another.
Mulder had run home quickly to grab a few changes of clothes and other miscellanious items he would need. After everything that had happened everyone agreed he shoud stay for a few days.
"Mom?" Lilly asked.
"Yeah baby?"
"Whose our dad?"
Scully blushed and looked down at the drink in her hand, "Uh actually, I uh don't know." she admitted, "I got like really REALLY drunk and had a one night stand. I never got his name and I really don't remember much."
they sat quietly for a second before Mark laughed quietly, "What, may I ask, is so funny young man?" Scully asked glaring at her son.
"I was just thinking," Mark began as he tried to stop his giggles, "Dad's not gonna have to fight off any ex-boyfriends." when Mark realized what he had just revealed he slapped a hand over his mouth. He hadn't meant to let Scully know that he and Lilly privately referred to Mulder as dad.
Scully just smiled and took an easy sip of her drink, "Mulder really does loves you guys. I have no problem with you calling him dad, if he's okay with it."
Lilly stared at her mother in shock. Today had been one of the most chaotic days of her life, "So I have to ask, what happened between you and dad last night? I mean we go to bed and you're partners and friends and we wake up and you're cuddling on the couch and calling each other sweetie and angel. What gives?"
Scully blushed a little under her daughters scrutiny, "Last night I told him all about you guys. How I got pregnant, when I found out it was twins, the...incident at the hospital, all of it. He had been comforting me because I had cried. A lot. I guess we just let the pet names slip this morning. We're still just friends, nothing has changed there."
Mark sighed, "You two could be having the best sex of your life! Just tell him how you feel!"
"Oh?" Scully asked with an eyebrow raised, "And, please do tell me, just how do I feel?"
"You two are so in love with each other every other person in the universe can see it!" Lillianna yelled exasperated, "I don't know how you two can be so utterly blind. It is litterally mind baffling!"
Quietly Mulder opened Scully's front door, hoping that they had all decided to take naps. Everyone had been up really early that morning. He snuck in and immediately heard voices. no such luck he gurmbled silently to himself. He decided that this was the perfect opportunity to scare they pants off of Scully. He stopped just short of the living room, where he could finally make out their conversation.
"Mulder is not in love with me! We're partners..." Scully explained.
"Does that mean that you love him?" Mark asked slyly.
"What? I never said that!" Scully answered immediately.
"Oh." Lillianna said thoughtfully, "So you don't love him?" she asked. Mulder thought that these two were better interrogaters than most of the ones that Quantico had trained.
There was a rather long stretch of silence after that question, "I didn't say that either..." Scully finally admitted.
"Ugh! You two are impossible!" Lillianna declared flopping against the back of the couch.
Mark and Lillianna were sitting facing the door with Scully directly across from them so when Mulder emerged and quickly put a finger to his lips, the woman was completely oblivious. He crept up behind Scully, bent over the back of the couch, and grabbed her around the waist quickly lifting her off the couch.
Scully let out an uncharacteristic squeal before bursting out laughing, "Mulder!" She yelled with a huge smile, "Put me down!"
Mulder had somehow turned her around so he put her down facing him. Their eyes quickly locked. In that minute she wanted to kiss him so badly but once again chickened out and looked away before going to sit down. Mulder sighed but followed her lead, inserting himself into the conversation almost effortlessly.
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