It was 10:00pm when they made it home. Mulder and Scully snuck in and finished setting up everything for Emily and William. Maggie had done most of the work though. She smiled at them when they walked into the door. They each carried armfuls of gifts. By 11:00pm Maggie had gone off to bed and Mulder snuck in and got Emily from her bed at Scully's request. He brought her into their bed and set her between himself and Scully. Scully and him had finished showering together. However, as Mulder had turned the water on to let it warm up, Scully sat on the edge of the tub.
"Mulder. My only joy in life isn't to prove you wrong you know?" She said cautiously.
"You didn't want to be out there with me? I thought you would enjoy it. I know that's egotistical to say that but…" He trailed off.
"Fox… Are you really ready to commit to everything? Not just me but to Emily and William. Can you leave the X-Files be for a day? Can you be there not only for me but for them?" Mulder took Scully's face in his hands and kissed her.
"I can't help it. I need to find Sam, but I need you. I need you in my life. I need Emily and William in my life. I just can't turn a blind eye to Sam though." Scully nodded. She understood that.
"I can't set a date until we find out what happened to Sam then." She told him. Mulder leaned in and kissed her passionately. He wasn't sure what he had done to deserve this beautiful woman in front of him but he was glad he'd found her. He needed to prove himself worthy of her. Mulder worked the silk robe off of Scully's form as Scully worked Mulder free from his boxers.
Scully and Mulder stepped into the steaming shower together. Their intentions were to get cleaned up and clean the cuts they had gotten from the house before Scully took care of them, however, as Mulder deepened the kiss with Scully he reached down and grabbed her ass, pulling her closer to his body. She felt him, poking at her stomach. As the water hit them, Scully broke the kiss and slid down to his waist. She saw him at attention for her already but still felt the need. She slowly kissed his head before sucking the entire length of him into her mouth. Mulder moaned, leaning himself over Scully's body, placing his hands against the shower wall. It had been some time since they had been able to be together. It always seemed as if one child didn't need something at that moment, the other one did. Plus Mulder had been pulling long nights again when someone came forward, claiming to know something about Samantha.
Mulder brought one hand down to Scully's hair and wrapped his hand in it and pulled her away from him. He needed to be inside of her. Since William had been born, his dick had only seen the inside of Scully's mouth. The first month he was too fearful to even touch Scully, yet when he went back to work, they both went back running. Holidays, dance classes, carting the kids around. It was mostly Scully doing the carting around. They had to play it cool at the Hoover Building. Mulder's car never contained car seats or toys, while Scully's did. Then around October, a file containing something crazy was found in Mulder's stack of cases. One that contained potential information on Samantha. After having come across another dead end, Scully had to cheer Mulder up and now it was Christmas.
He picked Scully up and slammed her back against the wall, kissing her. She wrapped her legs around him and Mulder pushed himself into her. He groaned heavily into the kiss. She felt tighter than the he could remember. He held still for just a moment, taking it all in, and willing himself to not cum on the spot before beginning to pump into her. He felt himself slip in and out of Scully as Scully broke the kiss and threw her head back against the wall. She was panting. Mulder knew she was close. She was whispering his name with each thrust.
"Mulder. Oh god. Faster. Harder. Mulder." Mulder picked up the pace as he began to feel his movements become more and more constricted. Both were close. Then he felt Scully's inner muscles clench around him and he felt himself being pumped empty.
The two pulled themselves apart from each other, realizing the water was now cold. They hurriedly got out of the shower and dried off. Scully took a good look at Mulder's nose. It was a slight burn. She pulled out some ointment and rubbed it into the tip of his nose and told him to go get Emily. She finished getting herself dressed as Mulder tossed on a pair of plaid flannel pajama pants and a white t shirt, while Scully pulled on an oversized terrycloth sweatshirt and a pair of black yoga pants along with a pair of fuzzy socks before looking at the cut on her forehead. There was a slight bruise forming around it already. She used the same ointment she had used on Mulder's nose on her own forehead before placing a band aid on over it. She climbed into bed, waiting for Mulder and Emily. In a few moments Mulder was settling Emily between them.
Scully rubbed Emily's little shoulder causing Emily to wake up.
"Hi baby. We're sorry we weren't here to tuck you in." Emily played with the lace on the chest of her green night gown, which would go down to her feet, however it was scrunched up to her waist now. Emily nodded.
"It's ok. You're here now." Scully smiled.
"I know you've been a very good girl this year. We talked to Santa. We let him know we wanted to wake you up so to swing on over just a little bit later. Can I read you your story now Emily?" Emily nodded as Scully pulled out 'The Night Before Christmas', which Mulder pulled out of Scully's hands.
"Can I read it to you and Mom instead Emily?" Emily's face lit up and she smiled nodding.
Soon Emily was back to sleep between her parents. Scully decided to let her stay in bed with them. She was snuggled up into Mulder's side so sweetly she didn't have the heart to move him. Soon Scully drifted off as well.
Six am, Scully woke up to the sound of William wanting to be fed and changed. It didn't take much time for Emily to wake up and begin bouncing around on the bed waking up Mulder.
"Santa was here! Santa was here!" She exclaimed happily.
"Em. Shhh. Clam down." Mulder said sleepily, grabbing her and hugging her to him.
"After we feed and change your brother we can go see if Santa did come. I'm sure he did because you were such a good girl this year. Especially such a great big sister." Scully said, cradling William to her breast in the rocking chair glider in the nursery. Emily huffed.
"Ok. Can you tell him to hurry up though?" Scully smiled.
"Did you and your cousins tell William who Santa is?" Emily nodded.
"Christopher did a bad job at it though. So I took over. We told him he was so little he hadn't a chance to be bad so Santa was bound to bring him tons of stuff but the older he got the more he'd have to work to be good."
Soon William was fed and burped Scully moved over to the changing table to change him and put him in his Christmas morning onesie. Baby's first Christmas written across the chest. His tiny feet kicked in the soft feet of it. Scully was grateful William had inherited Mulder's darker locks so that he could be put in red. Too much red on Emily made her look ill. She was lucky that the red streaking his tiny head wasn't much. Emily stood by her mother's side now trying to rush her. She rubbed the top of Emily's head before taking her hand leading her into the bathroom. She had passed William off to Mulder. Mulder had hoped to go back to sleep but he realized that it wasn't going to happen and had William sitting on his stomach making spit bubbles for entertainment. Scully picked Emily up and sat her on the counter. Scully began to brush her curls. They sprang right back but at least she didn't have bed head. Scully than took out a white ribbon bowed hair clip and brushed Emily's bangs to the side, tucking them into the hair clip. The four than crept downstairs silently. They need not have been silent though. Maggie was sitting on the sofa with Charlie, who looked like he'd been woken up by her only moments ago. His red hair was a mess and he was rubbing his eyes and freckled nose. Bill and Tara were trying to keep their two boys from tearing apart the well set room, while holding their newest addition. Bill took in the two of them as Emily ripped her hand out of her mother's and went running to the tree, to the pile of presents. After posing for the family picture the kids went crazy.
"Dana. What happened to your head?" Bill asked. Scully brought her hand up to her forehead and felt the band aid. She had forgotten all about that.
"Hit my head Bill." She said. As the kids tore paper, Maggie and Scully went into the kitchen to being preparation for the day and for breakfast. Mulder, before Scully stood up, grasped her hand attempting to keep her with him. He knew what was coming.
"What did you do to Dana?" Bill demanded as Dana left the room.
"We were on a case last night. She said she fainted and clipped her head going down."
"Sure. You ask her to marry her but you're hitting her." Scully Choose that moment to walk back into the room.
"I am not hitting her. I love her." Mulder said frustrated. He didn't know what Bill had against him entirely, but he was devoted to making Mulder's life hell.
"Bill. Stop it." Scully yelled at him.
"I'm on Dana's side." Charlie groaned out, half asleep, eyes closed on the sofa section that was unoccupied. Charlie had moved to the small L side in order to lay on his stomach and attempt to go back to bed. As much as he loved his niece and nephews, he was on leave and he wanted to not have to get up at the ass crack of dawn. He also had taken to video chatting more and more with his big sister. He had taken that time to notice that Mulder wasn't a bad guy and loved Emily and William dearly. Before the argument could heat up any further the doorbell rang.
"We were expecting anyone else?" Scully asked the room. Everyone shook their heads. Scully walked over and opened the door. "Melissa!" She yelled throwing herself on her big sister. Scully was so happy to see her big sister. She couldn't wait to have her meet William either. William, however, when placed in her arms cried for his mother and father.
As the day wore on the kids were changed into their Christmas dinner clothing. Mulder was trying to figure out how to put Emily's white tights on. Scully came out wearing a strappy black dress, putting her earring in. She went over after putting the pearl in her ear and took the tights from Mulder. Mulder finished getting himself ready by tossing a sweater over his dress shirt, wearing the slim jeans from the night before. Scully bunched up Emily's white tights and began to get her dressed. Her black and white dress was sitting on their bed. The dress was white with a black satin bow and covered just the shoulders. On the bottom were circles swirling. The little capped sleeve black jacket sat next to the dress. After pulling on her tights, jacket and dress, Scully bent down and slapped the little black Mary Jane's on her daughters tiny feet.
Mulder couldn't be more proud of his family at that table. They looked so put together. William was happy and in a good mood. Emily was swinging her little legs at the kids table with her cousins and Uncle Charlie. Scully on the other hand couldn't believe how fast everything had gone by.
In two weeks' time, Emily was back to school and Melissa had decided to hang back in town and help Maggie babysit William.