Title: The End of All Things: Life of the World to Come
See Part One for disclaimer, ect.
"I have seen things that I can not deny," –Scully "Within"
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The days of our small, but budding romance began and I loved every single moment of it. We didn't become lovers until February of the next year, right around the time I was trying to get pregnant with In-vitro fertilization. We tried five times. On the last time I knew that I couldn't do it anymore. My entire childhood screamed at me, telling me that it was a mistake. I was never meant to be a mother.
I cried in Mulder's arms and we made love that night. It was late April by that time and I was completely exhausted with trying to get pregnant and hiding our relationship from the FBI as well just working.
And then May came around. Memorial Weekend was just around the corner and I planned on spending it with Mulder at my mother's house for awhile. That entire week before I didn't feel right. Something was off. My entire body ached and I felt nauseous, getting sick just smelling the scent of food.
Mulder and I got in trouble because we were spending too much. The thing is they couldn't compare our work with other departments of the FBI. Mulder and I worked on our final case together in late May. A man by the name of Billy Miles called us. Telling us that the abductions were happening again. Mulder and I headed out to Oregon, out on the case of our lives.
They were disappearing. Lots of residents of Bellfluer continued to go missing, including Theresa Hoese. We met with her the day that she disappeared. Theresa's young child was put into my arms and she went find some records and I felt a twinge of regret for not trying harder to have a child. The way Mulder was looking at me, I think he felt it too. But then I also saw a ray of hope. Something I didn't realize at the moment.
That night I began to feel dizzy and I went to Mulder…a lot like the way I did eight years before. In 1992, I was a young, scared agent that didn't know the difference between mosquito and alien markings.
All we did was cuddle in bed. Mulder told me that there was so much more to life, so much more than this. And then he was abducted. My Mulder was taken away from me by the forces we've been fighting since the beginning of time and then I found out I was pregnant.
"Scully?" Mulder questions worried.
"What?" I say looking at him. And then I look down at my swollen belly. The child that grows within is special and just about everyone knows it.
"Are you okay?" Doggett questions just as worried as Mulder.
"The baby just moved and I was thinking of everything I went through for this child," I say trying to cover for everything I relived in the last five seconds.
"We are going to send you to a cottage in the woods with Monica Reyes," Doggett starts to inform me, "I have found out that both Billy Miles and Alex Krycek are after your child."
"What about Mulder?" I ask, scared to be separated from him.
"I have to stay here, in case they come for you, all they'll get is me," Mulder tries to reassure me, but I know that deep down he wants to go too.
I look into his deep hazel eyes and ache deep down. I don't want to leave him. I need him more than he knows. When he died I didn't think I could go on living. I have the fear that I'll never see him again. Monica Reyes walks in the door as I continue to stare at Mulder.
"Agent Scully are you ready to go?" Monica questions.
"Yes," I say barely whispering.
"I need a moment alone with her," Mulder says.
Agent Doggett and Monica Reyes walk out the door leaving me with Mulder. I am standing in front of him with the future and the past between us.
"Scully, I love you," Mulder hugs me as he says it.
"I love you, too," I say starting to cry.
"Come on, Scully I'm not dead. This is only temporary. Until the threat has gone away for the baby," He pulls back and looks into my eyes, "I promise you that I will see my son born if it is the last thing I do."
I smile. We kiss, long and hard. Michael kicks hard as Mulder and I are still connected and Mulder laughs.
"I don't think he wants to leave," Mulder says laughing.
He then puts his head down to her swollen belly.
"Hey, Michael, its me, dad. Now you behave and let your mother get some rest. I'll see you soon, slugger," Mulder pulls away and looks up at me, "The kid's going to play baseball right?"
I smile through the tears, "I hope so."
"Good," Mulder turns his attention back to my stomach, "I'll miss you Mike."
Mulder stands up and looks at me. He puts his hand on my stomach and kisses me again.
"I'll miss you too, Scully," Mulder whispers into my lips as I continue to kiss him.
I pull back and look at him. "Mulder, I love you so much…I don't know how I'm going to live with out you."
"So you'll miss me then?" He asks with a playful tone.
"Of course," I say meaning it.
Monica Reyes and Doggett walk back in the room.
"It is time," Monica says.
January 27, 2001
The days have been long and the threat on Mike's life is still strongly there. Mulder called me today. I have only been here for a day, but I miss him so much. And then I feel a sharp pain shoot across my abdomen.
I double over in pain. This is the real thing. I call out to Monica, who runs my side.
"What is it, Agent Scully?" Monica asks.
"I just had a really intense contraction," I say gritting my teeth as another one shoots through my lower region.
"Aren't they coming a little bit too quick?" Monica asks frightened.
"Yes. This child is impatient," I say.
"I have to tell a guard," Monica runs out of the room.
A man in full uniform walks into the small living room. He looks at me and smiles a toothy grin. A dark substance goes over his eyes as he stares at me.
I scream, this time not in pain, but in fear. I am not safe here. We weren't careful enough. The aliens have started the colonization and they've come for the only one that will stop it….my son.
Another contraction comes hard and I scream:
NOOOOOOOOOOO! My voice lifts to the Heavens as I stare at the alien that wants my child. I try to get up, but I stumble. I need to save Mike and myself. Monica comes up behind me.
"Dana, what are you doing?" She asks. Suspiciously I think she knows exactly what I'm doing.
And then I hear his voice behind me.
"Dana Scully, how nice it is to see you again," the raspy voice whispers, "What you do to this child, you do to all of mankind," he utters, smoke escaping from his lips…I turn around and confront my arch enemy…He looks at me and a sly smile comes across his lips as I double over as another pain shoots through my abdomen…
Thoughts of Mulder run through my head as I black out…
To Be Continued…