Title: Life After Mulder: Life's Lessons (6/6)
All other information is in Chapter One
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"OH damn it!" I yelled. Mulder looked at me puzzled and Will just stood there laughing.
Scully! Watch your mouth. I like it." Mulder grinned at me for just a second. I gave him the "Don't you dare tell anyone, or I will kill you" look. He just smiled and went about his business.
"Mulder, how do we know that we can trust him? He's proceeded to try and kill us in the past, what's to stop him from trying in the future?" I knew that I was right, but I still wasn't sure.
"Scully, for seven years you have trusted me..."
"Only on a good day!" I said laughing.
"Anyway, You have trusted me for so long, why can't you trust me now?"
"I do, Mulder, but something is telling me that we shouldn't be doing this."
"Natural woman's instinct?"
"And Mother's!"
"O.K. Scully, I know that you don't trust him, so what I'll do is that I'll make pleasant conversation with him and find out if he's lost any money on a Redskin's game."
"MULDER, please stop joking around. What if he turns out to be from the race that is in that form of that black gooey crap, what are we going to do?"
Mulder stopped and placed his hand on my face.
"I'm with you until the end. I promise."
Mulder approached the alien bounty hunter while Will, Skinner, and I watched.
"So how much do you know about all of this colonization stuff?" Mulder asked the bounty hunter trying to sound casual.
"Mr. Mulder, I know more than anyone on this planet, let alone my own race."
"And what race is that? Does it fall under the black oil, cancer crap category or alien gestation using humans category, or is it the ones that create alien human hybrids?" Mulder asked questioning him like a lawyer in a courtroom.
"You have to put trust in me. I am trying to save you all. I have to confess I'm working with the men in the project, but they are going to fall into the same trap they did five years ago," the bounty hunter told us with compassion in his eyes, the feel of remorse and regret.
He took us to a room, a very comfortable room and I realized that this was where the men in the project met more than occasionally. I asked him why he took us here and he told me that this was the safest place: the rebels didn't know where it was located and the colonizing aliens wouldn't dare touch it.
There were two adjoining rooms. I walked into the second one, curious because this was the place where higher men in government power decided the fate of so many people, historical events, and things.
I approached the desk in that room and saw a chair that was stationed behind it. It was turned completely around facing the window that had a partially open shade. I caught a glimpse of the street, outside the world was literally falling apart and I was witnessing it. I went to turn the chair around, but it turned freely by itself and there facing me was the man who had made my life miserable, Mulder's too. The cigarette smoking man was sitting there in front of me. I was paralyzed in fear, not of him, but I thought he was dead. Maybe he had brought the rest of the group there too and we would never make it out.
Mulder called out to me walking in the room, "Scully?" He stopped dead in his tracks.
"You again," he said with such hate in his voice, "I thought you were dead."
"I have been waiting for you. The bounty hunter lead you in the right direction."
"I told you not to trust him," I hissed to Mulder.
"I guess I'm only right at driving," Mulder joked.
"It is time now for the beginning of the end," CSM said walking towards the window, lighting yet another Morley and watching the world fall apart. There was only one chance now to stop colonization and that was to ask for help from the devil himself, the man who had watched the destruction of history, of civilizations, of human life.
To ask the devil for help was beyond me. But we did.
"The only way to stop colonization was to ask your son, Agent Scully. You and Mulder had the means and the notion of doing this yourself without my help. So ask him."
I turned to Will.
"Will, honey, how do we stop this?"
"Wish it away. You only have 1 wish though. What ever you choose is up to you. It's your choice, mom."
"Will, honey what do you mean wish it away?" I asked confused. If wishing were the way to make all this disappear and if I'd have known that I would have done that the moment it started.
"You know Mommy. Like a genie." Will said so convincing.
"Scully, like Barbara Eden type," Mulder replied started to sing the theme song to "I Dream of Jeannie."
I grinned at Mulder. In any situation he could make a joke. I realized that was one of the reasons I loved him so much.
"Okay, fine. I wish that the all this would stop, the colonization, the world falling apart thing, end of the world."
As I said the last word the time stopped for a brief second, or was it nine minutes? I looked out the window and saw the streets of Washington DC completely restored. All the buildings were standing and we were back in Skinner's apartment.
"Mulder what the hell just happened?" I asked him.
"I don't know, but we are back to where it all started with Gibbson and the alien bounty hunter. The last twenty-four hours didn't happen. Are we the only ones that remember?"
I looked around and saw the mess we had made from our food fight and Will was sleeping, his head down on the table, not remembering anything. Skinner came out of his bedroom with his p.j.'s still on and asked, "Agents what have you done to my kitchen?"
I just looked at Mulder and smiled. I took Will in my arms and changed him out of his clothes. The last 24 or so hours hadn't happened. Mulder and I were the only ones that remembered it. Will didn't even remember. It was a sign, a warning for us, of the long awaited future ahead.
The whole thing ended with just a simple wish. A wish that changed everything. But the next 24 hours for us know would be even more crucial than before and for the ones, who remembered, we knew how to stop it. I looked at Mulder then looked at Will. They just smiled at me. Mulder got up out of his seat and walked to me.
"What is it, Mulder?"
"I've been meaning to ask you..."
"Go ahead..."he seemed a little joked up.
"Scully, for seven years I have wanted to tell that, that, I love you. I have loved you for so long. You get to me like no one could. And now there's Will, who shares us equally. A sign of what's to come and the love I have for you. Will you marry me?"
I lost all words. I looked over at Will and I could tell that he wanted me to say yes, so, I did. Mulder and I were to be married. But I only had one question though, how did I get pregnant? I mean, I never slept with Mulder, (although it did cross my mind a few times). I asked Mulder and he said "I wished for you to be able to be happy and Will was the end result."
Marriage to Mulder-my gosh, I've been thinking about it forever, but it doesn't seem real. Mulder looked into my eyes, deep into my eyes and I realized that I wasn't there. I felt myself falling, the dizziness overtook me. It was like that night in Oregon two years ago, the final days before my whole life changed. I heard Mulder scream out my name as I fell into the darkness. I saw images flash through my mind. The last two years went on rewind. I saw the world falling apart again, the alien bounty hunter, Mulder's return. I saw me with the lone gunmen getting the message from Mulder, my mother's death, my grieving over Mulder, and last, but not least Will's long awaited birth.
I looked up and saw a light, a bright light, and a ceiling light. I found myself back in the hallway that I told Mulder goodbye two years ago. It was still 2000! And Mulder hadn't gone to Oregon yet.
"Scully are you all right?" Mulder asked with concern. They all stood around me:
Skinner, Krycek, the long gunmen, and that Marita girl.
"What happened?" Mulder asked.
"The dizziness returned, Mulder. How long have I been out?" I asked after returning from the future or did I?
He told me I was out for no more that a minute. I had lived two years in a minute. I looked at Mulder and passed out once again.
I awoke later that day in the hospital. Mulder was sleeping in a chair by my bed. I looked out the window and saw the sunrise. It was the beginning of a new day and Mulder didn't go to Oregon.
He opened his eyes and saw me awake, "Scully, I thought I had lost you there."
"Mulder I thought I had lost you too," I looked at him with such love and compassion in my heart.
"Scully, back in the office at the FBI, why did you ask how long you were out?"
"Mulder I don't know if it was a dream or what, but you went to Oregon and they abducted you. I gave birth to a child and the aliens were starting colonization. Our son was the only one who could stop it. I never told you I loved you before you left and that hurt me deep down. I held that within my heart for two years until your return and then I couldn't even muster the courage to do so. Mulder, I love you. I've loved you since the day I walked into your office 7 years ago."
"Scully, are you sure you didn't fall off a ship in the Atlantic that was caught in a time warp?" He looked at me and knew I meant it. "Scully I have something to confess: I love you too. If people say there is no such thing as love at first sight they are so wrong."
Later that day he proposed to me. I knew that we would watch many more sunrises and sunsets together. My doctor also gave me some wonderful news: I was no longer barren and could conceive a child. Our son Fox William Mulder Jr. was born nine months after our marriage. The moment we saw him, red and screaming, we both replied that is our Will, the will that we had to go on. It seemed like a strange kind of deja vu for Mulder. In my heart I knew that the dream or vision showed me that confessing my love for Mulder saved us both from an inevitable end and let us fulfill our deepest desire: to have a family at last.
THE END
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