When Scully woke the next morning the first thought that crossed her mind was that this really shouldn't not feel so…normal. After years of single life waking up wrapped in the grip of warm arms should feel startling until clarity woke her mind and stirred her senses.

But this felt inexplicably normal, the first morning waking up in Mulder's arms and she felt like she had been lying in his embrace for years.

She felt his hand slide up to cup her breast and she smiled and hummed deep in her throat, "What time is it?" she asked with a sleepy voice.

Mulder hadn't opened his eyes yet so just lay his forehead on her upper back, "Dunno…early…"

Scully smiled and quickly turned to face him, "I like this…waking up with you…yesterday morning feels like another lifetime."

Mulder smiled, his eyes still closed, and stretched to lightly brush his hand over her hip and down to her ass, "I think I might still be dreaming…" he said with a surprising crack of emotion in his voice.

Looking at her bedside clock Scully saw that it was actually only a little after 5am, she pushed Mulder onto his back and shocked him by stretching her leg over to straddle his body.

Mulder opened his eyes at her sudden move and looked up to see Scully smiling down at him, her hair glimmering in the morning sun as she reached back to stroke his quickly growing erection. "Please tell me I get to open my eyes to this every mornin'?" he groaned out with a slow smile.

"This? I'm not sure we'll always have time…but me? Almost certainly…" she grinned happily and lifted to embed herself on his already straining cock. "Mmmmmm…although we could start setting an early alarm…" she added with a smirk as she felt him fill her and remembered the feeling of him ploughing hard and fast into her body the night before.

"Ohhhhh…I think you'll be the death of me…" he felt her muscles contract around him and groaned, "…but what a way to go!" he added with a laugh that made her wobble slighting and lean forward to brace herself more firmly on his shoulders.

"You are not going anywhere Agent Mulder, your ass is mine." Scully said with a raised eyebrow as she leaned to brush her lips across his.

Mulder smiled, "Mmmm…harder…" he murmured as Scully started to rock her hips against him squeezing her internal muscles in time with the motion.

He suddenly lifted himself upright into a sitting position and pushed his feet down into the bed to give him the leverage he needed to meet the movement of her hips. He slid his hands down to cup her ass as he pushed up into her body and opened his mouth to taste the skin on her shoulder. This new angle ground his pelvic bone right into her clit with every roll of his hips, and it felt amazing.

She felt her orgasm quickly start to build and ran her lips over the shell of his ear, "Faster, I'm going to cum, I want you with me…"

"Almost there…" he ground out as he felt her muscles start to flex around him, that pressure was enough to cause him to tip over the edge and begin to empty himself into her. He continued to rock into her as he felt her body come down from her own release.

"Good morning…" Mulder said smiling widely as his teeth grazed the skin on her shoulder.

Scully dropped her forehead to his shoulder and grinned, "Yeah…it is…" she said with a chuckle and moved her hands down his muscular arms. "Reeeeeally good."

Mulder chuckled happily, "I don't want to move yet, but I need to go to the bathroom."

Scully smirked and moved to lift herself off him, they both groaned when they felt his now flaccid cock slip out of her body and Scully dropped to the side as she watched Mulder cautiously move to his feet and walk towards her bathroom.

He groaned again, "We've been working muscles my body didn't even know existed!" He called back through the open door to the bedroom.

Scully laughed and stretched on the bed. "Haven't used them for a while Mulder?"

"Haven't used them period Scully. I wasn't exaggerating, I've had good sex before…but sex with you is like and out of body experience. I didn't even know it could be this good!" he called back.

Scully laughed again to hide her blushes, but inside her heartbeat raced. She couldn't deny she had felt a little intimidated by the women in Mulder's past, she had worried a little that she wouldn't measure up or satisfy him. But now she knew that he meant it, he brought out something in her that she had never felt before and she knew that he felt it to.

She felt so safe with him, she could be unguarded, she could open up and be herself without fearing his judgement…and that was so fucking liberating.

She stood and walked towards to bathroom, walking up to the mirror she looked at her reflection and smiled.

Mulder walked up behind her and reached around her waist to place one large hand on her stomach, he dropped his mouth to her shoulder and spoke to her reflection as his teeth worried her flesh. "If you don't mind me saying Agent Scully, you look like you've been well and truly fucked."

Scully smiled at her messy hair, swollen lips and red cheeks, "I really do don't I?" she laughed.

Mulder nuzzled the base of her neck and closed his eyes, "Why don't you have a nice long shower and get ready, I'll put on some coffee and dig out some breakie?"

Smiling Scully spun and wrapped her arms around his neck; he dropped his forehead to hers in a strangely familiar way…except now everything was different…except now everything was still exactly the same.

"You going to start taking care of me now Mulder?" she asked coyly.

Mulder laughed, "Always…" then he leaned to give he a quick kiss before pulling away a walking towards the bedroom.

She heard his voice drifting though from the bedroom as she turned on the shower, "We look after each other Scully, just likealways…only now we get to do it in the bedroom as well!"

Scully smiled and stepped under the water.

They ate breakfast, changed and headed into work. It felt like a normal day as they walked through the corridors on the way to their office.

Weirdly normal considering everything that had changed.

Mulder opened up and they both went about the normal morning business; putting on coffee, checking messages. They had a message from Skinner saying that he wanted to see them at 9am regarding some paperwork…all standard stuff.

Mulder looked up and smiled at Scully, "This feels weird doesn't it?"

"Weirdly normal?" she clarified.

"Yeah…" Mulder shook his head. "It's been a long time since yesterday."

Scully smiled. "It has. I was thinking, it's Friday today, we have nothing planned for the weekend…as far as I'm aware…." She looked up questioningly.

Mulder smiled and shook his head, "Even if I had any plans…which I don't…they'd be cancelled."

"So we could do something weirdly normal together? Like a movie? And dinner?" she smiled.

"Dinner and a movie with Dana Scully…" Mulder said dreamily, "I'll be the envy of the Bureau!" He grinned.

"Mulder…" she smirked.

"So what are we seeing Scully some dire rom-com?" Mulder asked with a raised eyebrow, he would take Scully to see just about any movie she set her heart on right now, but he was still going to make her work for it. "You want to go and see that new Hugh Grant thing don't you?" He rolled his eyes.

"I wouldn't mind going to see…" she smiled and looked down, "…now you will laugh at me."

Now Mulder was intrigued, "God it's worse than Hugh Grant isn't it?" he exclaimed, he was secretly loving making her squirm.

"Well I guess you might think it's a kids film...but my grandfather and I used to love classic horror films…that's why one of my favourite films in The Exorcist." She smiled happily remembering their movie nights when she was a teenager.

"Your mom's father?" Mulder asked to clarify and he thought of the rings safely hidden in the pocket of his bag at Scully's.

"Yes…when I was a teenager I'd often go and stay with them for a week on my own during the holidays. Missy had boyfriends and the boys wanted to stay with their friends. Whenever my grandmother went out for a meeting at the church she would leave us both snack food for our 'Movie Nights', of course she didn't know he was letting me watch horror movies on TV!" Scully laughed at the memory.

"We'd huddle down in the den with bottles of pop and lots of unhealthy food and watch classic movies, then play chess until Grams got home…"

Mulder listened enchanted, "Why have I never heard these stories before?" he asked.

"I don't know…I guess I didn't know you'd be interested…you never asked…" Scully pulled a face Mulder couldn't discern.

"I am always interested in everything about you Scully. I think the stories about your childhood are my favourite so far…" Mulder smiled sadly and nodded for her to continue.

"I loved the ghost stories, obviously, but I also loved the mummy films...the mythology, the romance…Egypt…as time went by he started buying the old classics on VHS. I think he thought they would encourage me to keep visiting, but I was happy just to go and see them really." Scully eyes welled up slightly at the memory and Mulder started to really understand what a precious gift her mom had given him.

She looked up at him and smiled brightly, "They've brought out a new film, The Mummy…I think it's a bit of a kids film so it might be a little silly…but I really would like to see it…" she asked hopefully.

"I'd love to go and see a mummy film with you Scully, it would like sharing a tiny bit of your relationship with your grandfather. I think I would have liked him a lot, he turned my Scully into an adventurer…"

Scully laughed, "I guess he did in his own way, I've never thought of it like that. You remind me of him a little bit. I've often found myself in relationships with men like my dad, good men…solid…dependable…but they wanted to control me. My grandfather let me be myself, encouraged me to have fun, inspired my imagination to flourish and pushed me to take risks…he challenged me but made me feel safe - I knew he'd catch me if I fell. I think that's an amazing gift to give anyone."

Mulder got up and moved to wrap his arms around Scully from behind, he leaned to kiss her temple and smiled. "I wish I could've met them...your grandparents."

Scully reached up to cover his hands, "Me too…"

After a second she broke the somber mood by pulling away and spinning her chair, "So tonight? We're going to the movies?" she asked excitedly.

Mulder laughed, "Well after that story I can hardly say no!"

"We can see something else if you want Mulder, seriously."

Mulder shook his head, "This is a little Scully family tradition I am just dying to muscle in on. I hope your grandfather would have approved."

Scully turned back to her desk and started work, "I can answer that question for you Mulder. I love you and you make me happy. Gramps would have loved you too..."

Mulder smiled sadly and thought briefly about the family that he had never really had. But then as he walked to his chair he thought about the family he was now an honouree member of – their history, their laughter, their love.

Not everyone was as lucky as him.