TITLE: The Rings That Bind Us (3/3)
AUTHOR: Mel X Lady
RATING: R
CATEGORY: Krycek and Scully
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Feel free to post this anywhere as
long as my name stays with the fanfic.
FEEDBACK: MLKChessQueen@Juno.com
http://www.expage.com/page/DailyJokePage
SPOILERS: Terma (AKA Tunguska pt II), Duane Barry, pretty much any of the Krycek episodes.
SUMMARY: Scully and Krycek are forced to wed, and this is the aftermath. (Please read the first two parts before this one)
DISCLAIMER: CC, I will give you $10 for Krycek! (You're not using him!) and rights to borrow Mulder, Scully, Skinner, the CSM and the LGM whenever I want and I won't bug you. Deal?
Oh yeah, I Don't own the Honeymooners either.
Time Line: Before Requiem
XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx
Scully quietly opened the door and shut it behind her. She flipped on the lights and took off her jacket. It was still early, and Mulder wouldn't be there for another half hour. She sat down in his desk and flipped on his computer.
His desk and His computer. Why did Mulder own everything in the office? She didn't even have a name plate on the door, and she'd been down there for seven years. She didn't even have a desk plate.
"You know, Scully, someday someone will come back down here and wonder how Mulder pulled off all these accomplishments off on his own."
Scully looked up startled and tried to figure where the voice was coming from or how it knew what she was thinking.
"Who are you?"
"I'm not a who, but a how."
"What the hell does that mean?" she called out.
"Amazingly, who and how consist of the same letters."
Scully stood up and began to look around for the source of the voice.
"I'm not playing, come out now!." she yelled. She was tired of all the mind games she'd been forced to in the past years. She was tired of alot.
Scully opened her mouth slightly as she watched the slight movements of a man in the dark corner. She waited for a match to flare up so she could tell the smoking man to leave her alone, but that match never came.
"I prefer the shadows, Dana, but I need to tell you something."
"What?"
"Agent Mulder's life is in danger."
"How?"
"I can't say, but get to his apartment, quickly. You may still be able to save him. Go."
Dana had learned not to doubt the words of a man who wouldn't show himself to her as she nodded and grabbed her coat. She didn't bother to turn off the lights or the computer, or even shut the door as she ran to the elevator.
The man waited for a few minuets before stepping out and walking to Mulder's desk. He quickly typed in Scully's name and password and began a quick search. Skinner stood up and walked over to the door quickly. He shut it and locked it and hit the lights. He walked back toward the computer and smiled at what he had found.
Nothing.
"Good." he said as he logged out and stood up. He opened the door but was face to face with Scully.
"Get back in there you dirty bastard." she said plainly as she pushed him back into the office and shut the door. He stood there and looked at her.
"Agent Scully, what the-"
"No, not this time Skinner, I know what's going on, I know how you've been spying on me, us, everyone."
"No, Scully, it's not."
"It's not what?"
"I was making sure you where okay."
"I'm fine."
"No, just listen to me, please."
"Talk."
"I've been getting anonymous tips that one of my agents has been meeting with the smoking man for the past few weeks now, and I was coming to warn you."
"By hiding in the shadows."
"How else would you listen to me?"
"What does that mean?"
"Nothing, just forget about it Scully, but you are being watched, we all are."
She sighed as she walked over to the computer and looked at it.
"What did you check?"
"E-mail, records, data bases."
"You really have a watch for him, don't you?"
"Yeah, I'm not letting the bastard getting away this time."
"Is anyone else on this?"
"About everyone but you and Mulder."
"We're the bate?" she asked as she closed her eyes for a second and opened them again.
"Somewhat."
She nodded as she looked to his hand.
"What's in your hand?"
"A Tape."
"One of Mulder's?"
Skinner looked at her and answered her question.
"No, one of his Lone Gun Men buddies ran it by my apartment last night."
She nodded and looked at the clock.
"You'd better get up to the office, Mulder will wonder what you're doing down here."
He nodded and walked to the door.
"oh, and Scully, please don't tell Mulder."
"I won't." she said while she looked down at the file that already rested on Mulder's desk.
XXXXXX
Scully shut the door and took off her jacket.
"Home sweet home." she said quietly as she began to walk toward the kitchen.
"Alex?" She called out, waiting for his response.
She walked into the kitchen but found he wasn't there.
"Alex?" she called again.
Usually he was there when she got home, they'd make dinner together and eat together. Like a family.
"Krycek, where are you?" she called out as she walked to the bedroom and walked toward the shut bathroom door. She heard water running, but that wasn't right. She had seen him take a shower this morning, well, not actually seen, but she saw him go in and then come out with a towel. She left right after that. Amazingly though, his arm looked as real as the other, so meaning it was water proof.
She opened the door slightly and looked in. She heard muffled sobs as she shut the door behind her and stood next to the shower curtain.
"Alex? Are you okay?"
She heard him breathing deeply before he answered.
"Yeah, I'm okay."
"Are you crying?"
"Yes."
She sat down on the outside of the bathtub and listened to the water fall.
"What happened? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just-"
"Just what?" she asked quietly as she heard the shower stop and saw Alex reach out for a towel that wasn't there.
"Hold on." she said as she reached and grabbed a towel and handed it to him.
"Thank you." he said quietly as Scully looked at the shower curtain and sighed.
"Alex, has something happened?"
"Yes, and I couldn't stop it."
"What?" she asked as the shower curtain opened slowly and he stepped out with the towel wrapped around his waist.
He looked horrible, he had probably been crying for a few hours.
"Come here." she said without stretched arms as she hugged him. He held onto her body for a few minuets, gently rocking as he sobbed.
She tried to think of something to say, but what could she say? She had no idea what was bothering him and even where to start, even if to start.
After a few minuets, Alex stepped back and looked at her. She was a comforter, an angel of sorts.
"Thank you." he said quietly as he walked toward their bedroom and put on a pair of boxers and a T-shirt. He took the towel off after he slid the boxers on, he was very good about that.
Scully finally walked through the door and stood behind Krycek.
"Alex..."
He turned around and faced her.
"Scully, I think I'll be all right, I just needed to be held."
She nodded and they walked toward the kitchen. Scully got a box of Macaroni and Cheese out and began to boil the water in the pot. Krycek walked over to help but she stood in his way.
"I'll get it, you just relax." she said as she ran her hand down his now dry arm and went back to opening the packages that imprisoned the macaroni, and then the cheese.
Alex sat down in a chair and watched her. A few minuets later the water was boiling and Dana was about to pour in the macaroni when Alex looked over to Scully's hand and noticed a red dot beginning to go up toward her head.
"Scully, get down!" he yelled as a shot rang out and Scully dove to the ground. She felt a stinging sensation to her arm and legs but she crawled away from the window without looking.
They waited in silence for a few minuets until Krycek finally stood up and walked over to Scully. He stretched out his hand to help her up, but stopped when he saw that she had been burnt.
"Dana, come here." he said as he reached for her arm and pulled her up.
He walked with his body hunched over her as he took her to the bathroom and he turned the cold water on in the bath tub. Scully looked at him as he gently took off her jacket and her blouse. She slid off her skirt and painfully peeled off her hose. She stood there trembling slightly at the shock as her body began to register to the burns. He took off her bra and slid down her panties as he helped her into the bath tub.
"It's cold." she said quietly as he sat on the edge of the tub and splashed water on her back as she soaked.
"My Mom taught me that ice is the best way to heal a burn." he said as he took a wash cloth and began to rub it on her back lightly. She felt the warmth of his body next to her freezing one and realized something.
She wanted Alex Krycek.
"Alex, I want you." she said quietly as he leaned behind her body and began to stoke the wash cloth over her arm lightly.
"That's just the ice water talking." he said as he scooted down toward her legs and turned the water off. He walked back toward her head and helped lean her back so she could rest.
"You stay here and rest, I'm going to go see what happened."
She nodded weakly and he stood up and walked toward the door. He looked back and realized what he had done. He had just helped her, and saved her life. He smiled to himself as he slowly walked into the living room and saw the broken glass and the spilt water. He walked over and picked up the pot and put it back on the range. He put down a few paper towels to wipe up the water as he walked toward the window. It had shattered from the bullet that was fired, but he didn't hear one or see one. He began to look around the room for a shell or a case.
Krycek heard a quiet clicking sound as he looked up and pulled out his gun. He stood there with a silent face off with the shadows as he prepared to fire.
"Krycek, it's time." a man said as he put his hand on Krycek's shoulder and he just looked forward.
"I can't, I don't want to." he said quietly so he wouldn't disturb Scully.
"but you have to, go kiss your wife good-bye, then we have to go."
"Where are we going?" he asked as he turned around and faced the man, his contact for the past few years.
"Away."
Krycek looked at him angrily but realized what he still held over his head. The contact owned Scully's life, and her health. Skinner's too. He was in control, and Krycek wasn't about to let his friends die. Even if they where brief friends, they once showed a compassion for him, and he had done the same. Alex had kept Skinner alive and had been with Scully for a few months now.
"I can't leave, Scully is my wife, I can't just leave my wife."
"You told no one, the wedding never happened." he said plainly as Krycek stood there and nodded lightly.
"I'll go say goodbye." he said as he walked toward the bed room and shut the door behind him and locked it.
"Scully?" he asked as he opened the door and saw her looking at her arms and her legs.
"Well, you're Mom was right, look at my arm and legs. All the burns are gone!" she said as she wrapped a towel around herself and walked to Krycek. He stood there and tried to capture every moment of her, every movement, every curve of her body, the smell of her hair, he tried to capture it all.
"Dana." he said with a tear in his eye. She stopped and looked at him. She quickly ran over and hugged him as he cried into her again, like they had done less than 3 hours earlier.
"Dana, I love you so much."
"Alex, it's okay, I just had a small burn, I'll be all right, it's not life threatening."
"No, but I am." he said as he kissed her cheek gently.
"What?"
"I have to go."
"You've never cried about going out before."
"No, I mean it, I have to go forever."
"What! No, You can't, Alex, you can't leave, I love you too much, stay." she said as she began to cry into his chest as he held her closely.
"I wish I could, but If I stayed, you and Skinner would die. If I leave, everyone lives. I can't possibly live with that guilt." he said as he stroked her hair and she pressed her face into his chest.
"Oh my God, Alex." she said quietly.
"Don't worry though, the marriage never happened, it's been taken off the record, you're still single and never married." he said as she pulled her head away from him for a moment.
"No, I want to stay with you, where are you going?" she asked as she opened the door and went to her dresser to get a pair of leggins and a shirt. She already slipped her panties on and her bra as she pulled the shirt on and the pants on.
"Scully, you can't come, you're place is here, you are needed here."
"I don't care where I'm needed, I want to be with you." she said as she hugged into him again and he held her closely.
"Here, take my ring and remember me by it." he said as he began to pull the ring off.
"No."
"Yes."
She nodded and took his ring. She took her's off and handed them to Krycek.
"Wait." she murmured as she took off her cross necklace and handed it to him. She slid the two rings on and closed the clasp on it.
"Scully, I can't."
"Remember me, Alex." she said quietly as they kissed each other passionately until they where interrupted by a sharp knocking at the door.
"Krycek, we gotta go, hurry it up in there."
Dana looked at Alex and sighed. She hugged him one last time and followed him as he walked through the door to the man who was impertinently waiting.
"Ready?" he asked as he opened the door and began to step out.
"Never." Alex said as he looked at Dana and down to his pocket for a moment where he had placed the cross with the two wedding rings, set for a wedding that never happened.
Krycek hugged Scully again and whispered into her ear,
"Remember." He than walked out of the door and shut it behind him. Scully stood there for about an hour as she sat down on the couch and noticed her window was no longer broken. She thought about dismissing the whole past few months as a hallucination, but she decided against it.
"Remember." she said quietly as she turned on the TV and watched the Honeymooners. It was the one where Ralph was learning to play golf.
A classic.
AUTHOR: Mel X Lady
RATING: R
CATEGORY: Krycek and Scully
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: Feel free to post this anywhere as
long as my name stays with the fanfic.
FEEDBACK: MLKChessQueen@Juno.com
http://www.expage.com/page/DailyJokePage
SPOILERS: Terma (AKA Tunguska pt II), Duane Barry, pretty much any of the Krycek episodes.
SUMMARY: Scully and Krycek are forced to wed, and this is the aftermath. (Please read the first two parts before this one)
DISCLAIMER: CC, I will give you $10 for Krycek! (You're not using him!) and rights to borrow Mulder, Scully, Skinner, the CSM and the LGM whenever I want and I won't bug you. Deal?
Oh yeah, I Don't own the Honeymooners either.
Time Line: Before Requiem
XxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXxXx
Scully quietly opened the door and shut it behind her. She flipped on the lights and took off her jacket. It was still early, and Mulder wouldn't be there for another half hour. She sat down in his desk and flipped on his computer.
His desk and His computer. Why did Mulder own everything in the office? She didn't even have a name plate on the door, and she'd been down there for seven years. She didn't even have a desk plate.
"You know, Scully, someday someone will come back down here and wonder how Mulder pulled off all these accomplishments off on his own."
Scully looked up startled and tried to figure where the voice was coming from or how it knew what she was thinking.
"Who are you?"
"I'm not a who, but a how."
"What the hell does that mean?" she called out.
"Amazingly, who and how consist of the same letters."
Scully stood up and began to look around for the source of the voice.
"I'm not playing, come out now!." she yelled. She was tired of all the mind games she'd been forced to in the past years. She was tired of alot.
Scully opened her mouth slightly as she watched the slight movements of a man in the dark corner. She waited for a match to flare up so she could tell the smoking man to leave her alone, but that match never came.
"I prefer the shadows, Dana, but I need to tell you something."
"What?"
"Agent Mulder's life is in danger."
"How?"
"I can't say, but get to his apartment, quickly. You may still be able to save him. Go."
Dana had learned not to doubt the words of a man who wouldn't show himself to her as she nodded and grabbed her coat. She didn't bother to turn off the lights or the computer, or even shut the door as she ran to the elevator.
The man waited for a few minuets before stepping out and walking to Mulder's desk. He quickly typed in Scully's name and password and began a quick search. Skinner stood up and walked over to the door quickly. He shut it and locked it and hit the lights. He walked back toward the computer and smiled at what he had found.
Nothing.
"Good." he said as he logged out and stood up. He opened the door but was face to face with Scully.
"Get back in there you dirty bastard." she said plainly as she pushed him back into the office and shut the door. He stood there and looked at her.
"Agent Scully, what the-"
"No, not this time Skinner, I know what's going on, I know how you've been spying on me, us, everyone."
"No, Scully, it's not."
"It's not what?"
"I was making sure you where okay."
"I'm fine."
"No, just listen to me, please."
"Talk."
"I've been getting anonymous tips that one of my agents has been meeting with the smoking man for the past few weeks now, and I was coming to warn you."
"By hiding in the shadows."
"How else would you listen to me?"
"What does that mean?"
"Nothing, just forget about it Scully, but you are being watched, we all are."
She sighed as she walked over to the computer and looked at it.
"What did you check?"
"E-mail, records, data bases."
"You really have a watch for him, don't you?"
"Yeah, I'm not letting the bastard getting away this time."
"Is anyone else on this?"
"About everyone but you and Mulder."
"We're the bate?" she asked as she closed her eyes for a second and opened them again.
"Somewhat."
She nodded as she looked to his hand.
"What's in your hand?"
"A Tape."
"One of Mulder's?"
Skinner looked at her and answered her question.
"No, one of his Lone Gun Men buddies ran it by my apartment last night."
She nodded and looked at the clock.
"You'd better get up to the office, Mulder will wonder what you're doing down here."
He nodded and walked to the door.
"oh, and Scully, please don't tell Mulder."
"I won't." she said while she looked down at the file that already rested on Mulder's desk.
XXXXXX
Scully shut the door and took off her jacket.
"Home sweet home." she said quietly as she began to walk toward the kitchen.
"Alex?" She called out, waiting for his response.
She walked into the kitchen but found he wasn't there.
"Alex?" she called again.
Usually he was there when she got home, they'd make dinner together and eat together. Like a family.
"Krycek, where are you?" she called out as she walked to the bedroom and walked toward the shut bathroom door. She heard water running, but that wasn't right. She had seen him take a shower this morning, well, not actually seen, but she saw him go in and then come out with a towel. She left right after that. Amazingly though, his arm looked as real as the other, so meaning it was water proof.
She opened the door slightly and looked in. She heard muffled sobs as she shut the door behind her and stood next to the shower curtain.
"Alex? Are you okay?"
She heard him breathing deeply before he answered.
"Yeah, I'm okay."
"Are you crying?"
"Yes."
She sat down on the outside of the bathtub and listened to the water fall.
"What happened? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just-"
"Just what?" she asked quietly as she heard the shower stop and saw Alex reach out for a towel that wasn't there.
"Hold on." she said as she reached and grabbed a towel and handed it to him.
"Thank you." he said quietly as Scully looked at the shower curtain and sighed.
"Alex, has something happened?"
"Yes, and I couldn't stop it."
"What?" she asked as the shower curtain opened slowly and he stepped out with the towel wrapped around his waist.
He looked horrible, he had probably been crying for a few hours.
"Come here." she said without stretched arms as she hugged him. He held onto her body for a few minuets, gently rocking as he sobbed.
She tried to think of something to say, but what could she say? She had no idea what was bothering him and even where to start, even if to start.
After a few minuets, Alex stepped back and looked at her. She was a comforter, an angel of sorts.
"Thank you." he said quietly as he walked toward their bedroom and put on a pair of boxers and a T-shirt. He took the towel off after he slid the boxers on, he was very good about that.
Scully finally walked through the door and stood behind Krycek.
"Alex..."
He turned around and faced her.
"Scully, I think I'll be all right, I just needed to be held."
She nodded and they walked toward the kitchen. Scully got a box of Macaroni and Cheese out and began to boil the water in the pot. Krycek walked over to help but she stood in his way.
"I'll get it, you just relax." she said as she ran her hand down his now dry arm and went back to opening the packages that imprisoned the macaroni, and then the cheese.
Alex sat down in a chair and watched her. A few minuets later the water was boiling and Dana was about to pour in the macaroni when Alex looked over to Scully's hand and noticed a red dot beginning to go up toward her head.
"Scully, get down!" he yelled as a shot rang out and Scully dove to the ground. She felt a stinging sensation to her arm and legs but she crawled away from the window without looking.
They waited in silence for a few minuets until Krycek finally stood up and walked over to Scully. He stretched out his hand to help her up, but stopped when he saw that she had been burnt.
"Dana, come here." he said as he reached for her arm and pulled her up.
He walked with his body hunched over her as he took her to the bathroom and he turned the cold water on in the bath tub. Scully looked at him as he gently took off her jacket and her blouse. She slid off her skirt and painfully peeled off her hose. She stood there trembling slightly at the shock as her body began to register to the burns. He took off her bra and slid down her panties as he helped her into the bath tub.
"It's cold." she said quietly as he sat on the edge of the tub and splashed water on her back as she soaked.
"My Mom taught me that ice is the best way to heal a burn." he said as he took a wash cloth and began to rub it on her back lightly. She felt the warmth of his body next to her freezing one and realized something.
She wanted Alex Krycek.
"Alex, I want you." she said quietly as he leaned behind her body and began to stoke the wash cloth over her arm lightly.
"That's just the ice water talking." he said as he scooted down toward her legs and turned the water off. He walked back toward her head and helped lean her back so she could rest.
"You stay here and rest, I'm going to go see what happened."
She nodded weakly and he stood up and walked toward the door. He looked back and realized what he had done. He had just helped her, and saved her life. He smiled to himself as he slowly walked into the living room and saw the broken glass and the spilt water. He walked over and picked up the pot and put it back on the range. He put down a few paper towels to wipe up the water as he walked toward the window. It had shattered from the bullet that was fired, but he didn't hear one or see one. He began to look around the room for a shell or a case.
Krycek heard a quiet clicking sound as he looked up and pulled out his gun. He stood there with a silent face off with the shadows as he prepared to fire.
"Krycek, it's time." a man said as he put his hand on Krycek's shoulder and he just looked forward.
"I can't, I don't want to." he said quietly so he wouldn't disturb Scully.
"but you have to, go kiss your wife good-bye, then we have to go."
"Where are we going?" he asked as he turned around and faced the man, his contact for the past few years.
"Away."
Krycek looked at him angrily but realized what he still held over his head. The contact owned Scully's life, and her health. Skinner's too. He was in control, and Krycek wasn't about to let his friends die. Even if they where brief friends, they once showed a compassion for him, and he had done the same. Alex had kept Skinner alive and had been with Scully for a few months now.
"I can't leave, Scully is my wife, I can't just leave my wife."
"You told no one, the wedding never happened." he said plainly as Krycek stood there and nodded lightly.
"I'll go say goodbye." he said as he walked toward the bed room and shut the door behind him and locked it.
"Scully?" he asked as he opened the door and saw her looking at her arms and her legs.
"Well, you're Mom was right, look at my arm and legs. All the burns are gone!" she said as she wrapped a towel around herself and walked to Krycek. He stood there and tried to capture every moment of her, every movement, every curve of her body, the smell of her hair, he tried to capture it all.
"Dana." he said with a tear in his eye. She stopped and looked at him. She quickly ran over and hugged him as he cried into her again, like they had done less than 3 hours earlier.
"Dana, I love you so much."
"Alex, it's okay, I just had a small burn, I'll be all right, it's not life threatening."
"No, but I am." he said as he kissed her cheek gently.
"What?"
"I have to go."
"You've never cried about going out before."
"No, I mean it, I have to go forever."
"What! No, You can't, Alex, you can't leave, I love you too much, stay." she said as she began to cry into his chest as he held her closely.
"I wish I could, but If I stayed, you and Skinner would die. If I leave, everyone lives. I can't possibly live with that guilt." he said as he stroked her hair and she pressed her face into his chest.
"Oh my God, Alex." she said quietly.
"Don't worry though, the marriage never happened, it's been taken off the record, you're still single and never married." he said as she pulled her head away from him for a moment.
"No, I want to stay with you, where are you going?" she asked as she opened the door and went to her dresser to get a pair of leggins and a shirt. She already slipped her panties on and her bra as she pulled the shirt on and the pants on.
"Scully, you can't come, you're place is here, you are needed here."
"I don't care where I'm needed, I want to be with you." she said as she hugged into him again and he held her closely.
"Here, take my ring and remember me by it." he said as he began to pull the ring off.
"No."
"Yes."
She nodded and took his ring. She took her's off and handed them to Krycek.
"Wait." she murmured as she took off her cross necklace and handed it to him. She slid the two rings on and closed the clasp on it.
"Scully, I can't."
"Remember me, Alex." she said quietly as they kissed each other passionately until they where interrupted by a sharp knocking at the door.
"Krycek, we gotta go, hurry it up in there."
Dana looked at Alex and sighed. She hugged him one last time and followed him as he walked through the door to the man who was impertinently waiting.
"Ready?" he asked as he opened the door and began to step out.
"Never." Alex said as he looked at Dana and down to his pocket for a moment where he had placed the cross with the two wedding rings, set for a wedding that never happened.
Krycek hugged Scully again and whispered into her ear,
"Remember." He than walked out of the door and shut it behind him. Scully stood there for about an hour as she sat down on the couch and noticed her window was no longer broken. She thought about dismissing the whole past few months as a hallucination, but she decided against it.
"Remember." she said quietly as she turned on the TV and watched the Honeymooners. It was the one where Ralph was learning to play golf.
A classic.