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Sorry if the update has been long. Have been buys reading fantastic fanfiction ;)

Chapter 12 – Explanations

So it turned out that Polly Groban was the murderer. It had been hard to get her to talk at the police station, but when she heard that her mother, Akasha, had fled and was nowhere to be found, she broke. She had thought her own mother was going to stick up for her, but she realized that the only one who cared for her was her father. He went to jail too, for protecting her. The remedies for the weird potion they found in the tree house had been pretty easy for Polly to get. The blood and the fat she had gained from the hospital where her stepmother worked. She had used her stepmom's security card to get in and out of the building and the secured zones late one night and nobody had noticed her. The animal skin turned out to be from a cat. She had simply broken the neck on some stray cats in the neighborhood. The herbs had her own mother provided for her. This was probably the reason she had fled. She knew that she was going to end behind bars, and she loved her freedom more than her daughter.

It had been a long day but Mulder and Scully couldn't fall asleep. Maybe it was because of the adrenaline from being involved in a case, maybe it was the thousands of cups of coffee they had been drinking at the station or maybe it was the offer of getting back into the game once again. It wasn't the X-files, but the thought of being consultants for the Houston Police Department held some interest to them. Scully could still practice as a doctor in Texas and Mulder would have something to do.

"Would you like to live in Texas, Mulder?" Scully finally talked breaking the long thinking pause.

"I wouldn't mind. Would you, Scully?" he asked and turned focus from the ceiling to Scully laying next to him in the bed.

"I think I would like it here. I'm a bit tired of Father Ybarra anyway. That guy creeps me out", she honestly told him.

"That's no way to talk of a man serving God, Dana Scully!" Mulder joked and smirked. "There's no room in Heaven for blasphemists like you!"

"He may be serving God but not the same God as me. I really think living in celibacy has made him weird, 'cause there is no way he has always been so stuck up like this. Someone would have killed him long before!" she said only half joking.

"Speaking of celibacy…" was all Mulder got to say before Scully cut him off.

"Wanna rumble?" she said in a suggestive tone and smiling the most sexy and beautiful smile ever.

"As much as I would love that, it wasn't what I was going to say", Mulder smiled at her. "I was just wondering about Reverend Kane. Well, I thought that he, as a reverend, would have to live in celibacy, when he's a catholic. But he's married and has kids."

"Reverends can get special dispensation from the pope to marry. I guess he has. Or else he was married before he became a reverend", Scully answered. "But you're right. Otherwise a reverend has to live in celibacy."

"Interesting", Mulder commented.

They lay on the bed thinking to themselves some more. It had been a while since they had had so much to think about. Now it was 1:34 AM.

"Do you think we'll ever sleep?" Scully asked clearly annoyed that she wasn't able to sleep. She had never had any problems before.

"I don't know. I haven't had this much trouble getting to sleep since my insomniac days", he confessed.

"When did you stop being an insomniac?" she asked just to pass the time.

"That night in Roswell. When we first slept in the same bed all night long. Since then there hasn't really been any trouble. I think it's just all this stuff about being a detective again that keeps popping into my head."

"So I cured your insomniac?" she asked a bit surprised.

"I guess you did. I felt safe with you. I've never had it like that with anyone before. Why do you think we are so good together, Scully?" he asked wanting to pass the time too, and thought he might as well do it with something interesting.

"Maybe it's because we were friends before we were lovers. Because we're still friends. Best friends. And also because of all those things we've been through together when we worked for the bureau", she said beginning to sound more on the edge of falling to sleep.

"Yeah. Because we share so many experiences. Because we share a child. Even though he isn't with us, he is still a part of us. He always will be. Even though we might never see him again."

"We'll see him again someday, Mulder", Scully said.

"I know we will, Scully. I know we will!"

These were the last words they spoke before Scully fell asleep. Not long after Mulder slept too. Guess all he needed to sleep was knowing that Scully slept. That she was safe.

"Where do babies come from?"

"What?" Mulder asked surprised by Matt's question.

"My mom said that it's when someone two people who loves each other kisses then magic appears, and the lady becomes pregnant."

"That's right. Ehm… what your mother said… that's the truth", Mulder told him as he hoped someone would join them in the living room.

"I love my mom, but she has never been pregnant when I have kissed her!" he stated and looked at Mulder with his big blue eyes, not sensing Mulder's dislike in topic of questions.

"Well… that's because you love your mother, but you're not in love with her. You need to be in love… and you need to be an adult. Children can't have children, you understand that, right?"

"Yeah. That's a good thing. Or else both Katie and Bella from my class would be pregnant!" he told Mulder kind of relieved.

Mulder laughed at this. "You have a girlfriend, Mattie?"

"No!" now Matt's cheeks turned a bit red, but soon he smirked. "I have two", he then proudly told Mulder.

"Wauw. Mr. Popularity, huh? Then I don't have to teach my nephew any pickup lines!"

"No… I mean yeah. You could do that. I would like to have Emma as my girlfriend too, but I don't think she likes me! You could teach me how to me more like you. Then she would want me!"

"Matt, I don't think you should have more than one girlfriend at a time. And it should be the one you like the best or no one. And it wouldn't help you to be like me!"

"It would! You have one of the prettiest women in the whole world! You have to be special!" Matt frowned.

"Trust me I'm not", Mulder now squatted so he was more the same height as Matt. "The special one is your aunt. And I don't care that she's pretty. I care that she likes me and that she's a nice person. That's why I love her. It's not because she's pretty."

"Oh… I see. Girls are complicated!"

"Yeah", Mulder laughed and got up.

"Hi boys. Whatcha doin'?" Scully asked as she entered the room and saw the smile on Mulder's gorgeous face.

"Uncle Mulder told me where the babies come from, and explained girls to me!" Matt proudly stated.

"He did?" Scully asked worried. "And what did Uncle Mulder tell you, Matt?"

"That you can't have babies with your mother unless you're in love with her, and that he doesn't think you're pretty but nice."

"No, Matt! I said I didn't lover her because she's pretty, but because she's nice person!" Mulder tried to save himself.

"Oh.. Yeah!" Matt said.

"Could you go see your grandma in the kitchen, Matt? She wants to see you before we have to fly out tonight."

"Okay", Matt said and ran to the kitchen.

"It's not as bad as it sounds, Scully, I assure you!" Mulder instantly tried to explain.

"Just tell me exactly what you said to him, Mulder, and I'll see if we owe his parents money to pay for his psychologist."

As Mulder began to explain Scully's mood lightened up, and she laughed at how Matt had interpreted the whole conversation.

"He's such a funny kid!" Scully finally laughed when Mulder was done with the story.

"Yeah. I'm gonna miss him, when we head back. Maybe we can visit them more often, now I'm not wanted anymore. At least when they're visiting Maggie. Do they visit her a lot?"

"Yes, they do. They had been staying there a few days when they picked us up. We'll also be able to visit my mother some more."

"Well, that is if we decide to stay in Virginia. If we move to Texas, California will be a lot closer, but it's gonna be hard to visit your mom!" Mulder thought out loud.

"That's right. But maybe we can get her to move to Texas too. Most of her friends back home have passed away anyway. And she would live closer to the rest of the family too", Scully said.

"It would be nice, to have family close to us the whole time! I think we should move here, Scully!"

"Yeah, Mulder! I think so too!" she agreed smiling.

"Really?" Mulder couldn't believe they had just made such an important decision basically over night.

"Yeah, really!"

Mulder and Scully hugged. It was a long and warm hug, filled with love. Scully felt Mulder's hands slipping further and further down her back until they finally rested on her but.

"What are you doing, Mulder?" she whispered into his chest.

"I'm hugging you!" he answered as his hands slid up to rest on her hips.

She pulled away from the hug and looked him in the eyes. He was happy. She could see that clearly but there was something else hiding in those deep eyes of his. It was lust. She felt it in her own eyes too. She felt it in her whole body. Her whole existence wanted to be with him. And she knew he felt the exact same way.

"The others talked about catching a movie the last day we're here. But maybe we should stay home?" she suggested while she tickled him with her fingers at his neck.

"Mmh… I would love that", he said with a husky voice.

Just as they were about to kiss Bill appeared in the room.

"Hey… what's up?" he asked trying to ruin their moods.

"Not much", Mulder said with an arm around Scully's waist.

"Are you coming to the movies? We're gonna watch 'How the Grinch stole Christmas'!"

"Thanks, but no thanks. We're just gonna stay here and…" Scully looked up at Mulder for some help.

"…and pack!" he finished for her.

"Oh!" Bill said. "Well… see ya' guys later then."

"Yeah, see ya' Bill!"

"So… finally alone, Mulder", Scully said as she walked towards Mulder in the kitchen.

"Yeah. Finally!"

Scully threw her sweater as she walked towards him, standing before him in her black lace bra.

"That's the underwear I got you for your birthday, Scully!" he remembered.

"No! It's the one you got me the day after my birthday!" she remembered, yet smiling.

"You're not still mad at me for that, are you, Scully?" he asked smiling as he ran his fingers over her naked back while kissing her neck.

"You'll just have to make up for it now, Mulder."

"I can do that…" he said continuing the trail of kisses down to her breast and further down her stomach, until he was on his knees, unzipping her jeans.

This was the moment when Deputy Ingalls chose to announce his presence by coughing loudly.

"Ingalls!" Mulder exclaimed surprised as he got up from the floor, and covered Scully who stood shirtless in the kitchen.

"I'm sorry to… disturb, like this. I just wanted to come over here and say goodbye before you had to go", he tried to explain.

"Oh, I see. Well, if you could just wait in the other room, while we… ehhh…" Mulder tried to find the words.

"Yeah sure thing, Mr. Mulder. I'll wait", he said and left them, not at all sorry for having seen the wonderful Dana Scully in a bra.

"Guess, we gave him something to think about!" Mulder tried to joke.

"That was so embarrassing!" Scully said as she pulled her sweater back on and zipped her jeans.

"Why?" Mulder asked. "You look stunning. You have nothing to be embarrassed about!"

"Thanks, Mulder", she said and gave him a quick peck on the cheek before they met the deputy in the living room. As it turned out he wasn't a deputy anymore.

"Since I solved this case they made me sheriff. I don't think I had a lot to do with the solving, that was pretty much the two of you, but I'm glad to be sheriff", Ingalls proudly told them as he showed them the star on his uniform.

"That's really great, Ingalls. And we only helped you. You did the most", Mulder told him.

"Well, I don't know 'bout that. But did you think about the job offer you were given?"

"We're gonna take it, so you're gonna be seeing a lot more of us", Mulder happily told him. "Well, you're hopefully not gonna see more of Scully, since you already seen the most, but…" Mulder joked earning a slap on the arm from Scully and making Ingalls blush.

"Well, I'm happy to see you again. You are the most skilled people I've ever worked with, and I think you are some pretty nice people too", Ingalls confessed.

"We think you're pretty nice yourself, Woody", Scully told him and smiled.

When Ingalls blushed was when Mulder found out. Ingalls had a crush on Scully. First he felt a little weird. It was like his younger brother having a crush on your wife. But then he thought; I can't blame him, Scully is an extraordinary woman.

Ingalls stayed for some time. They had a cup of coffee and talked about old cases. Ingalls found the flukeman especially interesting, which Scully quite couldn't grasp. When he had left the rest of the Scully clan returned from the movie theater. Even though Mulder and Scully wanted to 'run off some steam' they didn't have the time. Now, they actually had to pack. They said their long goodbyes with the whole family. Bill, Tara and Matt had to leave a few hours after Mulder, Scully and Maggie so it was just them waiting in the airport.

Mulder and Scully could feel themselves getting more and more hot for each other. Maggie had left them alone to go to a shop and get some water for the long flight. Practically the moment she had left, they were all over each other. Mulder's right hand was on Scully's hip and the left one gripping on to the chair. Scully's hands found their way to the back of his neck while their mouths joined in a passionate kiss. They heard some woman whisper something about 'honeymoon' as she walked by to her husband. This just made them smile. And as everybody else waiting for a plane looked at the bizarre couple Mulder thought: 'It won't be long till we will be on our actual honeymoon'. And this made him, just as Scully thought it impossible, deepen the already deep kiss.

Alright, so this is probably the second last chapter. It could function as a last chapter too, since it wraps things up. Please review and tell me what you think :)