"Mulder, wake up! Mulder…"

"What now?" I was getting really annoyed with Scully not letting me sleep. She would say I had a nightmare, but I never remembered dreaming anything.

"You were calling Melissa," Scully said with her puppy eyes: "Did she come to you Mulder? In your dreams?"

"I don't think so, Scully."

"What did she say to you? Did she have a message for me? She never comes to my dreams…"

"Oh for God's sake, leave me alone! I told you I don't remember! Would you just let me sleep for once?"

"Mulder…" her eyes were already filling with tears. I was getting tired of having her fall apart around me all the fucking time. Of all the feelings, rage decided to return first and I found myself overcome with it. I didn't mind. It was only reasonable to feel it and justified by all accounts.

I wasn't allowed to go back to work soon and mandatory leave was driving me crazy. My partner had a new partner, some sorry excuse for the FBI agent. I hated agent Carter for using my office, going through my files and working with Scully. I didn't want to share her with anybody, I was the first partner she ever had and I wanted to be the only one. I hated Carter for coming between us.

He wasn't the only one on my black list. I hated Skinner, too, for coming up with this brilliant idea of his to dig up my grave just because some dead guy turned out not to be dead at all and he wanted to see if that trick works on me too. I was better of in the grave, sir!

Scully, however, was on top of my list. And it was time for me to stop vegetating and take back control of my life. I wasn't yearning for revenge, I just wanted what's rightfully mine.

"I want the baby, Scully," I told her when she didn't show any interest in leaving my apartment. If I was going to be denied sleep, at least I could use that time to straighten some things up.

"I would never keep it away from you, Mulder," she said: "You are his father."

"That's not good enough, Scully."

"What do you mean?"

"I want to raise it."

"Mulder, you can come by whenever you want and spend as much time…"

"That's it Scully! I don't want to come by! I don't want visitation rights! And I sure as hell don't want my kid to grow up on tofu and salads! I want the child HERE, with me!"

"A child needs to be with its mother!"

"It needs a father too!"

"I would never deny you that, but Mulder, please listen to reason…"

"Damn it, Scully! This was my last chance! You took it away from me!"

"You asked me for this!"

"I asked you to be a donor, not a custodian!"

"Mulder, please! Don't ask me to give up my baby! I can't do that! I can't!"

"What makes you think that I can?"

"We can work this out, I'm sure we can…"

"I don't want to work out anything with you! I just want what's mine!"

"Please, Mulder… I love you… Don't do this me…"

"Oh for the love of God, will you ever stop crying? I'm sick and tired of your damn tears! And don't talk to me about love! What do you know about love? You are just a heartless frigid whore who used her dead partner to get pregnant, because nobody in his right mind would ever take her to bed with him!"

"Mulder…"

"Get away from me, Scully! GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!"

Finally, she left.

I still wasn't able to sleep.