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[The Gunmen's Lair

Undisclosed Location, Washington DC

Saturday, 10:45 AM]

"Okay, Scully. wahd'ya want his name to be?" Langley requested as he turned towards the computer to get started on Jacob's birth certificate.

"Uhm…" Scully thought for a minute as she jostled Jacob around in her arms, trying to keep him entertained. Em was content to just cling onto Mulder's neck and shoulders. Trying to remember exactly what her and Mulder had decided on for Jacob's birth certificate details. "Well, his birth weight is going to be 7 pounds, 2 ounces. and we're keeping his birthday the same since we actually know what it is. Put him down as being born at DC General, just like Em.."

"His name is going to be Jacob Bennett Scully," Mulder added before Scully got a chance to say it first.

"Mulder." Scully corrected him.

"What?" He turned to her, thinking that she needed to tell or ask him something.

She looked up into his eyes. "No, his last name is going to be Mulder," Scully clarified.

"Sc- Scully are- are you sure?" Mulder was surprised. He would have thought that Scully would want the kids to keep her name along with her. They hadn't actually discussed the topic of last names, but it was his in initial assumption.

She laid a hand on his shoulder. "Of course I am. They're our children. Yours. Mine. I want them to have the same last name as their father." She paused and ran her hand down his arm, until her fingers intertwined with his own, before quickly adding, "And as me."

Mudler beamed. He hadn't seen this coming at all.

Scully turned back towards the Gunmen. "We need to alter Em's birth certificate so it says Emelia Christine Mulder, too."

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[Mulder-Scully Residence

Mclean, Virginia

Saturday, 2:30 PM]

Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.

"Scully your phone is vibrating," Mulder stated, not making a move to get it. He was too comfortable. After their morning g with the Gunmen, they'd gone to the park for a lunchtime picnic. Both of the kids were out like a light by the time they got home.

Now that they were down for their naps, Mulder and Scully were left with some time for themselves. They decided to turn a movie on and spoon up on the couch.

When she didn't answer him back, he leaned over her and pulled the hair out of her eyes; she was asleep, as well. Sighing gently, Mulder carefully removed his left hand away from its resting spot on her stomach and grabbed her phone off of the coffee table.

"Hello?," he asked groggily into the phone, flexing his right hand a little bit to make sure it still had feeling since Scully was currently laying on top of it.

"Dana?," a female voice asked.

"No this is her.." Mulder didn't know how to introduce himself to the woman, as he wasn't sure who was on the phone or if Scully had wanted to keep their engagement a secret, as well as the children and the pregnancy. "….partner, Mulder. May I ask who's calling?" He was trying to sound casual, but not too casual.

The speaker paused briefly. "This is her sister-in-law, Michelle. Can I talk to Dana?"

Mulder looked back down at Scully and made sure she was still out for the count. "No, I'm sorry. She's asleep right now."

There was an incriminating second of silence coming from the other end of the line. "Asleep?," Michelle finally inquired accusingly.

"I can give her a message if you want?," he asked politely, trying to hide the nervousness in his voice. He didn't need or want another member of the Scully clan to dislike him.

"Uhm, yeah… Okay, sure. Can you just let her know that we'll be coming up to stay with her on Monday for a week?"

"Yeah, you got it. I'll let her know as soon as she wakes up from her nap." He said hurriedly. He was excited that he would get to meet his future nieces and nephews. "Well see you soon!" Mulder cringed as he hung up the phone. 'That probably sounded a little obvious.' He didn't want Michelle to get the wrong idea about the nature of their romantic relationship and then ruin his first impression. He did not want to meet her and be thought of as a fling or a 'friends with benefits' type of thing. Both of those things were disgraceful and empty and completely untrue in the reality of their actual relationship- not that he had ever really believed in or felt drawn towards those types of faux pas interactions in the past either.

He settled back down on the couch and resumed his post on behind Scully, placing his hand back on her stomach. He still couldn't believe it. There was a little teenie tiny baby in there. A baby that he and Scully made, together. It was going to keep getting bigger; and he's going to get to watch Scully's body change and grow, as well… in order to keep up with the baby. He couldn't even imagine what he's going to be feeling once she starts showing. He was already so protective and in love with this baby and the fact that it's Scully's, too. How is he going to react when he can actually see visible, tangible evidence that the baby was real? When she is full with his child? His feelings were going to intensify a lot, that much he knew. He just couldn't grasp the concept or possibility that his feeling could be even more intense than they already were.

"Mama mama mama," the baby monitor roared to life. 'Sounds like Jacob is awake.'

Scully moved in her sleep, the sound bringing her out of her unconscious state.

Mulder gently kissed her cheek. "I'll go get him."

"No." Scully stopped him before he finished getting up. Pulling on his arm until he flipped back down beside her, she got up slowly, fighting off a sudden wave of dizziness. "I'll get him and bring him back down here."

She reappeared downstairs a few minutes later with Jacob in both arms, cuddling into her neck. She laid back down next to Mulder and placed Jacob on top of her. Mulder wrapped his right arm around both of them and buried his nose in her hair. They all fell back asleep within minutes.

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[Mulder-Scully Residence

Mclean, Virginia

Saturday, 7:59 PM]

"Hey, Scully?" Mulder asked from his seat at the breakfast bar where he was researching cars that would be safe to drive and would fit three carseats in the backseat.

"Hmm," she replied as she finished up washing the dishes from their dinner.

Em and Jacob were playing 'cars' on the carpet in in the living room, right behind the breakfast bar.

"Michelle called your phone while when you fell asleep. She said that they were coming to visit us on Tuesday for a week…" He highlighted another car listing as a 'maybe' choice.

"Oh, okay," Scully breathed, trying not to sound as excited as she really was.

Mulder picked up on it- of course he did. "Scully, I know you're beyond happy about them coming and meeting the kids. It's okay. I am, too. I really want to meet the rest of your family and get to know my new nieces and nephews."

She smiled, pulling her soapy hands out of the suds and walking over to the bar to lean over the counter and kiss him sweetly. "Okay, maybe I'm a little excited," she said against his lips. She pulled away and then scrunched her nose up in thought. "We need to go get my bed out of my apartment. That's the only thing that's left before we're all cleared out… And I need it for the last guest room."

An idea popped into Mulder's head. "You know, he said dreamily. "I could take the bed out of one of the guest rooms, too, and put it into another. That way Bella and Peter could stay in the same room. We can put Michelle in the one that has only one bed. And then," he smiled deviously. "We can go shopping tomorrow for nursery furniture." He smiled hopefully at Scully.

Scully giggled and wiped her hands off on a dishtowel. Walking around the counter and over to Mulder, she sat in his lap. "Mulder, I'm probably not even three weeks pregnant, yet. We have, after all, only been together for month or so." She watched as his facial expression darkened slightly and started to fall into a disappointed frown. She hurried to add, "But I would love for us to go pick out the baby's furniture tomorrow."

His lips turned upwards into a gigantic grin. He hugged her close. "Thank you, Scully."

"For what," she sighed happily, running her hands through her hair.

"For everything," he breathe dint her chest. "For everything."

She kissed his forehead. "Ditto." Turning towards the children, who were still engrossed in their fantasy world of Tonka Trucks. "Alright Mister Jacob. It's time for night nights," she said as she picked him up and carried him upstairs.

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[Mulder-Scully Residence

Mclean, Virginia

Saturday, 8:15 PM]

Scully walked downstairs and approached Mulder and Em. "Okay, Em. You've got fifteen minutes until bedtime." She looked around the living room. "Do you want Mommy and Daddy to color with you? or read a book?"

"Color!," she exclaim enthusiastically.

"Okay, coloring it is!" Mulder got up to grab her coloring stuff, while Scully and Em found seats at the kitchen table. They'd decided last night that Em would have a slightly later bedtime in order for them to spend some one-on-one time with her every night. They didn't want her to feel jealous or angry towards Jacob and his need for more of their attention since he's younger than her. Scully had a feeling that their plan would work out just fine.

"Mulder walked back into the room carrying her crayons, colored pencils, and paper. "Who's ready to draw?"