Title: Life After Mulder: The Truth is Out There (3/6)
All other information is in Chapter One
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WILL MUST SAVE WILL, rushed through my head as I ran to his bedroom. The hallway seemed so much longer and I couldn't get there fast enough and there he was: Mulder was standing there in front of me holding my son, our son and rocking him back and forth.
"Oh my God Mulder, You're back. You scared me to death."
"I came to save you and Will. They are coming for him, to end all of mankind. Scully, he is the key and they know about him."
"Mulder," I said with a smile on my face, "You sure know how to make an appearance, I almost shot you."
"Scully we've got to get out of here. The project is almost finished. They are coming for him."
Mulder told me how he had escaped from them, but he thought they had let him go to only for him to see his suffering when we were taken away, especially Will. He told me he always knew about Will even on that night in Oregon over two years ago when he told me to go home and leave because the personal stakes were too high. Will was almost two years old. He was talking much better than he should for his age. His hazel eyes became big and he whispered quietly, "Mommy they are here. They want me, not you or Mulder."
Then all of the sudden out of no where a bullet came flying through the window. Mulder grabbed Will and got out of the way, but I wasn't quick enough. There was a hot searing pain as the bullet ripped through my chest, less than an inch from my heart I was later told. A second shot came from the door and I saw Mulder fall before the world started going hazy and I closed my eyes. I heard feet and Will calmly telling the men he would save all of mankind including his parents that lay on the ground bleeding.
I woke up later in a hospital. First I saw just the white ceiling and thought I was in heaven until I heard a familiar voice, my Mulder was here comforting me. He was conscious when we were drove to the hospital. He saw the men that took Will, but he was too weak to stop them.
"Scully I'm so sorry," he told me almost crying.
This scene was so familiar. The same scene that Skinner and I had had when Mulder was abducted.
He continued, "They took him, I couldn't stop them."
I tried to raise my head, but a dizzy sensation came over me and I couldn't. He told me I had come out of surgery two hours ago and it was the painkillers.
I replied what I did over two years ago, "We will find him, I have too." It was deja vu all over again. Mulder took my head into his hands and said, "I've been waiting two years to do this." He leaned in and kissed me. The kiss I had so long awaited for. He told me he loved me and I told him I did too. The he said, "I have to return this to you." He took off the cross I had given him that fateful night so long ago and he told me, "This gave me strength and now it will give you strength."
Tears that were welled up for so long fell freely on my face and we hugged forever as it may seem and I knew everything would be all right. We now had to find our son and save all of mankind from the inevitable end.
I could feel Mulder's hand in mine. The panic, the fear. The fear that everything could be turned around. Both Mulder and I knew that Will was the base of the conspiracy now. To protect him was our ultimate goal. Not only as parents, but also as partners to the end.
The bullet had entered my chest and through the upper right shoulder blade. I could hear Mulder crying and praying. I had never heard that before, but I liked it. As I listened, I too began to cry. He asked god to return our son. To bring him home safely. I got up out of my bed and walked to the window where he stood. I wrapped my arms around him.
"We will find him Mulder. After all, he found us."
His arms, my Mulder's strong arms I had so often seen myself in, took away the chills that were imbedded deep in my bones. I had wanted this for so long, but not like this, both of us in probably the deepest, darkest time of our lives. We had to find him now. I still felt quite dizzy when Mulder led me back to my bed and then walked in Skinner.
"Agent Mulder!" he said with a shocked look on his face.
"Skin-man long time, no see," Mulder said with a smirk on his face.
"Agent Mulder, I told you not to call me that," he cracked a smile and the two of them exchanged a hug, "I'm glad you are back." Skinner told us that there was a search going on for Will. He also told us that there were men outside the doors from 'the project' and they were waiting for us to leave.
Mulder walked over to the window and took a careful look at it, "We are on the ground floor and I think I can get this screen out."
I looked at him shocked, but realized that it was the only way to get out without them killing us.
"Okay Mulder, we'll go, but first let's change into our regular clothes because people will track us down if we are walking around in hospital gowns."
"Scully whatever happened to the random act of surprise?"
I smiled and threw my pillow at him and left him with a 'what did I do?' look on his face and walked into the bathroom. In less than fifteen minutes we were changed and ready to go. Mulder went first so he could catch me if I fell. We both got out safely and headed to the only place we knew where to go: The Lone GunMen. We were ready to start the search that would save all of mankind and bring our son home to us to be one happy family.
We escaped the hospital with no problems. No one seemed to care anyway. Mulder, Skinner and I all got on the subway to Arlington where the Lone gunmen's headquarters where located. We approached the door with careful consideration, until, a little man about 5'3 and awful looking glasses came out the door screaming "OH MY GOD! ITS MULDER. HE'S BACK."
It was a very excited Frohike. He wrapped his arms around Mulder and said to him " We all thought that you were gone for good, Mulder. Where the hell were you?" Mulder replied that it was hard to describe and that he would put it in his memoirs whenever he would get the chance.
" Have you met little Fox?" asked Langley.
" Yeah, I did. He looks just like his beautiful mother."
I looked deep into Mulder's words. They sounded like music. Music. Music. The thought raced through my head. Mulder reached for my hand and I took it. It felt so warm. Warm like, well, it's kind of hard to describe. He proceeded to kiss my hand, and he spoke " We will find him. And I've always known. I also want you to know that I love you. You do keep me guessing in everything that you say and everything that you do. You are my life. You and Will. I promise on my grave never to leave the both of you. And I promise, oh god I promise this, I will never let any of the men we have tried so hard to bring to justice take you and Will away from me. I would die first before anything like that ever happened."
His touching words echoed through me and I felt like a teenager again in love for the first time. Mulder wiped away a single tear that had decided to show itself. Frohike, Langley and Byers all watched as Mulder got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. My face flushed and I of coarse said "YES!" who wouldn't when asked that question, especially coming from Mulder. But I knew that our lives would be on hold until we found Will.
AD Skinner stayed in the dark still a little confused about what had just happened...
I couldn't believe he had asked me to marry him, I will become Mrs. Fox Mulder. My Mulder was finally fulfilling my greatest fantasy. He slipped a diamond ring on my ring finger and fully kissed me on the lips. I felt myself falling into a great dream. Everything after that made total sense. My knees went weak and I think Frohike was going to faint or die of a hard attack.
"So where is Will?" Frohike asked still quite jealous of Mulder.
My eyes started to well up with tears again; tears of sorrow not joy. "That's why we came to you. He's been taken by the same men that took Mulder."
"There has been some weird signal or something coming from our computer. It has a code or something. Wait, there is an address, a location on the globe." Frohike, Langley, and Byers looked excitedly at the computer.
"According to this Will is in Antarctica."
"That's where the project started years ago, the place they stored the ship. They must have put it back after we saw it Scully," Mulder said staring at her, deeply, lovingly. "We have to go there to stop them before they are finished."
That night I went to Mulder's apartment. The place where we had shared so much. I had kept up his rent and didn't move anything at all. It looked the same way it did two years ago. I saw the couch where we had shared so much, including the conception of Will. Mulder had gone to a bar in Washington DC hoping to find someone who could tell him what to do, how to save Will.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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"Truth is stranger than fiction." –Mulder "Hollywood AD"