Disclaimer: Oye! I'm still wishing. Maybe when I become famous I can buy them from Chris Carter…then I'll really give you an NC-17 3rd movie ;)

a/n: I have decided that after sitting in 2 hour traffic to get somewhere that usually takes 30 minutes that I am going to come out with my own vulgar stickers. Then, while I am sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, send Laura and Angela to creep up on cars and put them there.

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Facing Reality

"Brad?" She is surprised when she walks into the house and all of the lights are still on. It is nearing midnight and he should be asleep.

"Dana," she watches as Charlie comes walking from the kitchen to greet her. "Brad got called in for an emergency meeting about an hour ago, so he called me over to watch William since you still weren't home."

"Oh, I had to take care of something."

"With Mulder." It is more of a statement, letting her know that nothing is a secret in the Scully family.

"Yes, with Mulder. We ran into him in the grocery store and William somehow knows what his real father looks like and yells daddy and points at Mulder in front of everyone. So I just got back from a very confusing and hard discussion with him."

Charlie just stands in front of his sister, with a big smile plastered to his face.

"Charlie, why are you looking at me like that?" When she doesn't receive an answer, she finally starts to put everything into place. "Oh, why do I have some sort of feeling that you have something to do with William knowing who Mulder is?"

"Hey, I might have showed him a few pictures of Mulder here and there." He responds before he can no longer contain his laughter and a full on belly laugh escapes his lungs.

"Charles Scully! I can't believe you would do this!"

"What, Dana? You know as well as I do that you do not love Brad like how you love Mulder. You know who you belong with. Why don't you just admit it to yourself?"

"That may be true, but that doesn't give you the right to teach my son who his father is. Brad has been more of his father than Mulder has."

"And whose fault is that Dana? It's not like you gave Mulder much of a choice on whether or not he could be a part of William's life."

She knows that he is right and she isn't quite sure how to respond. She took away Mulder's choice, she took away William's choice, because of her own selfishness. She slowly walks through her living room and falls onto her couch. Still trying to figure out when everything got so complicated.

"So what happened with Mulder?" Charlie asks as he sits down next to her.

"Trust me, you don't want to know." He studies her for a moment, realization dawning on him.

"Oh man, you slept with him, didn't you!"

"I don't know how it happened. I didn't mean for it to happen. I was just there and he was there and everything just started coming back, all the emotions that I used to feel when I was around him. I don't know what to do."

"Dana, you have to make a choice. You have to think about William and what would be good for him. You also have to think about Mulder, he has a right to be a part of William's life."

"I know."

He sighs as he reaches for her hand and squeezes it. "And you can't see Mulder on the side, he doesn't deserve that. No matter how much I would like to see you get back with him, you can't have both."

"I know. Where do I go from here?"

"Well, you need to face reality, you are in love with someone who is not your husband and who you can never be with."

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