TITLE: Savage Garden Chapter Nine: Truly Madly Deeply
AUTHOR: Gaia Less
RATING: PG13
SPOILERS: everything through season seven
SUMMARY: Five months later.
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Chapter Nine
Truly Madly Deeply
by GL
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October 12th
Five Months Later
10:16 pm
God, look at her.
She's sleeping right now. And glowing. What they say about pregnant women is true, they do glow. And you don't get much more pregnant than she is right now.
She's almost into her ninth month. We're all ready for the baby. We didn't have to do too much shopping, because Dana still had a lot of things left over from when Lexie was a baby. But we did redecorate the extra bedroom for the baby. Lexie is very excited about being a big sister. She wanted to paint the room pink, just like her own. But since Dana didn't want to know whether the baby was a boy or a girl, we painted the room yellow, which could be a good color for either.
Dana says, opening her eyes. she whispers, looking up on me.
Hi. You can go back to sleep, I whisper back.
No. No, I'm up. She sits up. I've been sleeping a lot. I'm sick of sleeping. I offer her my hand to help her stand up. She takes it, and we walk downstairs together.
We walk into the kitchen. I'm hungry, she tells me, sitting at the table.
What do you want? I ask her, opening the refridgerator. *Please, let it be something we have...* I can't count the number of times she's asked me to go searching for some weird, rare-to-the-area food. She has the weirdest cravings sometimes.
I don't know, just a sandwich or something. She closes her eyes.
You okay? I ask her.
She reopens her eyes and smiles. Yeah. I'm fine. The baby's just kicking again, she says lightly.
Geez, Dana, that kid's gonna be a soccer player or something! I joke.
She smiles, but then says, Wait. I want ice cream, she says.
I sigh and put away the lunchmeat and open the freezer.
Of course, no ice cream.
We don't have any ice cream, I tell her.
She looks at me with a frown. You sure? she asks sadly.
She can get me to do almost anything she wants with just that look. I sigh again. What kind of ice cream do you want? I ask defeatedly.
~*~
I can get him do do anything I want with that look. I smile. Then I make my way out to the living room and lie down on the couch.
Oh. There that was again. But... the baby wasn't just kicking this time.
Oh.
I grab the cordless phone off the coffee table and dial Fox's cell phone number.
he answers it.
Fox--don't worry about the ice cream.
Just... come back home now. I pause and catch my breath. It's time.
What?! Are you sure?
I'm sure, I tell him calmly.
Okay. I'm on my way there right now.
Okay. Hurry.
I'm turning down our street right now. See you in a minute.
I hang up the phone and lean back into the couch. *Oh, please hurry, Fox...*
~*~
October 13th
3:32 am
It's a girl, the doctor tells me.
I smile and grab Fox's hand. The doctor wraps the baby up in a blanket and hands her to me. I sit up and hold the crying baby in my arms.
Fox kneals down next to me. I turn to him and smile. I love you, I whisper to him.
I love you, too. Both of you.
I give the baby to Fox. I say, still smiling. Then I close my eyes and drift off to sleep.
~*~
I wake up a few hours later. Fox is sitting in a chair in my room, with Lexie on his lap. He sees me wake up. Good morning.
Hi... what time is it?
About nine, he replies.
When did Lexie get here?
A little while ago. Your mom brought her over.
Where's Mom?
She just went to the bathroom, he says, just as she walks back into the room.
Hi, Mom, I smile, and she walks over to me and gives me a hug.
She's beautiful, Dana, she whispers to me. How are you feeling?
I'm okay. The baby, is she all right?
Yup. I just saw her when I went by the nursery.
I turn to Fox and smile again. I want to see her, I say. He nods, puts Lexie down, and then goes to find a nurse to get the baby.
He returns a few moments later, and a nurse comes in behind him, carrying the baby. She hands her to me, says, and leaves the room. Then Mom and Lexie go out of the room, leaving Fox and me alone with the baby.
I sigh happily. She's so perfect, I breathe, brushing her forehead lightly with my fingertips. Samantha Ann, I say, trying out the name we'd picked.
He smiles at me, but doesn't say a word. Words aren't even needed.
Samantha opens her eyes and looks up at me. Hello, little one, I say, smiling. She stares at me for another moment, and then starts to cry.
It was a noise that we'd definitely have to get used to.
Or at least Fox would anyway.
The crying doesn't seem to bother him. In fact, he keeps the same calm face on. *Of course, he has never had to wake up at three a.m. to the sounds of a screaming baby,* I think with a grin.
When Samantha's crying tapers off to a quiet whimper, I remember something. Hey. Happy birthday, Fox.
he says. Oh. I guess it *is* my birthday.
And Samantha's, too.
Weird. It must be an X-File, *Scully,* he says with a grin. *Scully.* No one's called me Scully in about five years or so...
I hand Samantha off to Fox, and lean back in the bed. He rocks her gently. Whoa. He looks more like a father now than he ever has around Lexie. And just because he isn't Samantha's birth father (or Lexie's, for that matter), doesn't mean he's any less of a father than David was, or would have been. In fact, he's a better father. He doesn't yell, or argue, or anything like that.
He's the man that I want my children to grow up with, and look at as their Daddy.
*****
December 15th
2:01 am
Dana mumbles, rolling over. She puts her pillow over her head. Your turn.
No it's not. It's *your* turn, I insist.
Would you just go in there before Lexie wakes up?
I sigh. Sure, fine, whatever, I whisper, shooting her a look. She doesn't seem to notice, or care.
I walk quietly into the baby's room, and I pick her up gently. What's the matter, Sam? I ask. She stops crying as soon as I pick her up. I carry her over to a rocking chair and sit down. See? That's better, I tell her.
Sam looks around the room for a little while before closing her eyes. She whimpers a little more before she falls back asleep.
I sit there for a little while longer. The past two months have been a miricle to me. I never thought I'd get to experience what being a parent was like. Taking care of a baby was a lot different than taking care of Lexie. But it made me *really* feel like a father. And it felt really good.
*****
Is she okay? I whisper when I hear Fox come back into the room.
he replies.
You know what, Fox?
I think she likes you.
He pauses for a moment, presumably taking this in, thinking about it. He doesn't respond. Instead, he gets back into bed and pulls me closer. He kisses the back of my head and says, I don't think I mind that.
Mind what?
The baby.
Oh. Yeah. I smile sleepily. Should I be jealous? I joke.
Only if you think you should be, he replies. He sounds just as tired as I do. He kisses the back of my head again, and whispers, I love you, Dana.
I love you too.
~*~
I'll be your dream I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly madly deeply do
I will be strong
I will be faithful
Cuz I'm counting on
A new beginning
A reason for living
A deeper meaning yeah
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
I wanna bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
And when the stars are shining
brightly in the velvet sky
I'll make a wish send it to heaven
then make you want to cry
The tears of joy for all the
pleasure in the certainty
That we're surrounded by the
comfort and protection of
The highest powers
In lonely hours
The tears devour you
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
I wanna bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
Oh can you see it baby?
You don't have to close your eyes
Cause it's standing right before you
All that you need will surely come
I'll be your dream I'll be your wish
I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope I'll be your love
Be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath
Truly madly deeply do
I wanna stand with you on a mountain
I wanna bathe with you in the sea
I wanna lay like this forever
Until the sky falls down on me
~*~
