A/N: Ahhhh! I can't believe I made it this far in one day! I am so stinking proud of myself it's sick. Oh well.

She looked happy. Really, and truly happy. Younger too. Her smiles were going all the way up to her eyes, and her giggles were making my stomach do flip-flops. And the best part of it was that I was making her happy. That's almost as rewarding as getting to take care of her.

"Where are we eating, Mulder?"

"You're really bad at taking it in stride, aren't you?"

"No, I just like to be prepared."

"I'll give you a hint. It's somewhere we haven't been in a long time."

"Do we order take-out or eat it there?"

"I can't tell you that."

She chewed on her lip as she thought.

"Is it Chinese food?"

I pretended not to hear her, but she saw right through me.

"Okay, so it is. Which is good because we really haven't had Chinese since before Christmas."

She continued to think and I started to worry that she was going to figure it out. It wouldn't have really mattered though. It wasn't so much where we were going as what was going to happen there.

"Mulder..." she said slowly, turning to face me. "Are we going to Wah Hings?"

I kept quiet, but my smile gave me away.

"Are you serious? We haven't been there in over a year."

"Yep. I know you like their Lo Mein, but it's kind of a long drive."

She giggled for about the 40th time (no, it wasn't bothering me) and squeezed my hand.

"You're good at surprises."

"I try."

She was surprised enough when the waiter led us to the private dining area that I almost wanted to warn her about what was through the doors. But I really wanted to see what she would do when she was truly surprised.

The waiter opened the door and flicked on the light.

"Surprise!"

Scully looked completely taken off guard. She certainly wasn't expecting her family to be waiting for us.

"What in the world..." was the only thing she could get out of her mouth. "Mom, I thought you were out of town."

"I lied," Maggie said, coming to hug her daughter.

"And Bill, I thought you had to go to the Philippines in a few days."

"Next week. I lied too."

I stepped back a little and let her talk to her family. I knew she hadn't seen Charlie in almost three years and his kids were a lot bigger than she remembered. If I thought she looked happy before, she was absolutely ecstatic now. Her eyes were actually dancing.

It was several minutes before she even remembered I was standing there. She turned around to look at me, her eyes shining with what could have been tears.

"Mulder, did you do this?"

"I had help, but yeah."

She smiled and stood on her tiptoes to hug me, her arms going around my neck.

"You're amazing, did you know that?" she whispered.

"I'm not ducking when I pass a mirror."

She laughed and kissed my cheek before releasing me.

The conversation in the room was light-hearted and I had never heard Scully laugh so much. Well, there was that one time when she'd had too much coffee and ice-cream, but this was genuine laughter. I hadn't ever spent so much time with her family in a positive situation. I usually only saw her mother in the hospital, and it wasn't a huge secret how Bill felt about me. Either his opinion changed or he was just being nice though, because we actually talked to each other, and I didn't see any hostility in his eyes.

We were just finishing our tea and fortune cookies when Scully leaned a little closer to me and rested her head on my shoulder.

"Tired?"

"It's been a long day."

"Want to skip the movie?"

"Nope. When do we need to leave?"

I checked my watch and realized that we were actually running about five minutes late. We made our excuses quickly and she promised everyone she would meet them at her mother's in the morning for breakfast. Once outside the restaurant, she pulled her coat closer around her thin frame and shivered a little. I slid my arm around her shoulders and she leaned into me with a sigh.

"Mulder, I can't believe you did all that."

"Your mom got everyone here."

"But it was your idea. No one has ever done something like that for me before."

"Well Scully, it's been a hard year. You deserve this night. You deserve about 100 of these nights."

"Thank you."

Her voice was barely a whisper, and I turned her to face me so I could wipe the tears off of her cheeks.

"I love you, Scully. I'd do anything for you."

She smiled.

"I love you too."

I kissed her forehead softly.

"Come on, lady, there's still two more stops on this crazy train."

A/N: Sorry I didn't have more family stuff... I'm not good at writing big group scenes like that.