"Scully!" Mulder said.
Scully turned around. She had been standing on the side of the train tracks,
wondering why Mulder had brought her here. She had also been wondering about
their life. How much longer could they go on like this, with their hearts full
of longing, their heads full of longing too?
"What is it?" Scully replied. Mulder was
holding something under his long trench coat. Scully paused to think about how
handsome he was. She didn't do that very often, because she knew it would throw
her into a frenzied fit of depression, and she would pine after him. The way a
maple tree pines for the spring, when the sap will throb through its tree branches
and finally burst into little wooden tubs at the bottom.
"So what do you think?" Mulder asked. He
opened his arms to reveal a wriggling bundle of wriggles. It was a little dog
with an alert, but furry face. It was a black and tan beagle in a black jacket
marked F.B.I. It was so cute, Scully thought she would bust a gut.
"Oh,
Mulder! Oh, Mulder!" she exclaimed. "Is it for me?" She took the
dog from him. The dog licked her face. "Bark!" it said.
"Actually, it is for both of us," Mulder
replied. "It is from Skinner. It is our new partner. It will sniff
things." Mulder smiled. He wished it could be him, wriggling and licking
her face. He loved her so much. At least, now they had something they could
both love and care for. They could also give it baths.
"Ooooooh!" said Scully. "What is it
called?"
"Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox," answered
Mulder. "I named her after all of our kids."
Scully took Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox home.
Mulder thought about how much he loved her. He went home too. And in the next
year, they all grew really close.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"When you call my name
It's like a little prayer
I'm down on my knees
I wanna take you there"
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"Mulder!" Scully said. Mulder was still
sleepy. He had been asleep, that was why. He rolled over in his spacious
waterbed and looked at the clock: 11:21.
"What is it, Scully?" he said into the
phone, because Scully had called him on the phone.
"Mulder, we're on a case. Down by the train
tracks. Me and Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder, we need you!" Scully
answered. "We're trapped in a big hole and there's a chance the killer
will find us. Mulder, please!"
"I am on my way!" Mulder exclaimed.
"Oh, no, oh, no," he thought. "Please don't let anything happen
to Scully," he prayed. "I love her. I have always loved her, and I
must tell her." He went to the train tracks really fast.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"In the Midnight hour
I can feel your power
Just like a prayer you know
I'll take you there."
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
Scully held on tight to Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy
Fox . They were trapped in the big hole. Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox had
been sniffing the trail and stumbled down into the big hole. Scully fell in the
big hole too. It was deep. She was scared to get out because the killer was
nearby! He might be close!
"Oh, Mulder," she said into Kibbles "Wham
Bam" Spritzy Fox's furry neck. "I know you will come and save us."
She thought about all the good times they had spent together. How Kibbles "Wham
Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder had brought them close. She remembered when they set
off the pesticide bomb in her apartment when Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox had
the mange. They had to get away from the flea bomb, and Mulder had held Scully
tight as they ran quickly away. As they fleed the fleas, Scully had held Mulder
tight too.
"Oh, Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox ,"
Scully said. She said it quietly lest the killer should hear. "What should
I do? I must tell him how I feel. Just talking to him made me feel better. How
long before he comes to us? I need him Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox,. You
know that."
Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox did not say anything,
but she lifted her intelligent head and stared intensely at the top of the
hole. It was like she actually understood or something.
"What is it, girl?" Scully enquired. Just
then she saw a familiar head pop like a weasel over the side of the hole.
"Mulder!" she said.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"I hear your voice
It's like an angel sighing
I have no choice
I hear your voice."
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
Mulder was so glad to hear Scully's voice.
"Scully!" he said. "Angel!" he thought. He helped
her climb out of the hole. "Are you all right?" he asked. She was
trembling like a leaf on a hot tin roof.
"Oh, Mulder," she answered, falling over
into his strong manly arms. "I thought I had lost you. Forever."
"Oh Scully," he said, wrapping his arms
around her like a faux fur coat, "I love...I mean, I love knowing that you
are safe." She lifted her eyes inquiringly. He lowered his questioningly.
Just as their lips were about to meet in a moment of fiery bliss and
passionateableness, something happened.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"Feels like flying
I close my eyes
Oh God I think I'm falling"
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"Quick, Scully, we have to get on the
train!" They had seen the psycho leap onto the train as it began to pull
out of the station. I guess he had gotten on while they were lost in each
others' loving glances.
"Mulder I can't" Scully said as she ran
alongside the train trying to catch his hand and get on. Kibbles "Wham Bam"
Spritzy Fox lept up on the train and barked, full of encouragement.
"Yes, you can!" He said, with feeling. She
did.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"Out of the sky
I close my eyes
Heaven help me"
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
Scully closed her eyes as Mulder held her close
again. "Ah," she thought.
Mulder
said, "Scully, will you marry me?"
"Oh
yes, Mulder! Oh, yes! Oh, Yes, yes, yes!"she exclaimed as they ran through
the train checking the passengers to see if any of them looked anything like
the pyscho killer they were pursuing so swiftly even though she was already
married to him but it didn't matter. Then he gave her a baggie full of cheerios to show his love. It didn't really mean anything, but again,
it's part of the title. Scully was a
little mad that they weren't frosted but she loved Mulder so much that it
didn't matter. And besides, what's wrong with a whole grain relationship?
All of a sudden, Mulder stopped. And said,
"Let's do it." He turned to Scully as the train canteened back and
forth over the tracks. But Mulder did not let the canteening of the train keep
him from standing tall as he turned to Scully and said:
"I, Mulder, take thee, Scully..."
Scully thought she would cry. It was not how she had
always imagined her wedding. She and her best friend, who was also named
Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox, like the dog. They would storm down the aisle
together in a cloud of white. And Mulder would await at the altar, so handsome
in his jacquard tuxedo. Like a beautiful antique couch. With Director Skinner
as his best man, but wearing a different tux. Oh, she had thought it would all
be so different.
"I, Scully, take thee, Mulder..." she
said. As they finished their vows, Mulder plucked a white rose from a load of
flowers in the baggage rack. He cried as he put it in her beautiful hair. Her
suit was green, not white, but to him she looked just like the angel bride of
his dreams.
"I now pronounce us man and wife," he
said. "Congratulations, Mrs. Mulder." Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox
barked. They both laughed. "I guess that makes you Kibbles "Wham Bam"
Spritzy Fox Mulder now, doesn't it, girl?"
Just then they heard a laugh! It was the psycho!
Only, it wasn't a psycho, it was Krychick.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"Like a child you whisper softly to me
You're in control just like a child
Now I'm dancing"
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"So, Mulder," Krychik said. He was
whispering, softly. "You thought you could capture me. But it is I who
will capture YOU. I will hunt you and your new wife down, forever. You will
never be free now. You knew that I wanted Scully. Now you have denied me this
precious pearl, who shone like a diamond in my dreams with her ruby lips and
emerald eyes! Farewell, Mulder, until we meet again!" And Krychik jumped
off the train, leaving Mulder and Scully staring after him, paralyzed stiff.
"Oh, no!" Scully said. "What shall we
do!"
Mulder turned to her. He looked really sad. "I
have to follow him, Scully, you know that," he said.
"No, Mulder, no! What about our wedding
night?" Scully said. She looked really sad too. Her whole face was
twisting in the wind of grief, but Mulder thought she had never looked more
prettier.
"We will have our wedding night when I return,
Scully. And I will return. Wherever you go, I will find you, if it takes a
thousand years. I will always be with you, Scully. With you and Kibbles "Wham
Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder. In your heart. And you will be in my heart, too,
Scully. And on my mind. Always on my mind, Scully. It's like a dream, no end
and no beginning. You'll be here with me, like a dream, so let the choir sing,
Scully. Let it sing," he said.
And he jumped off the train into a passing
waterfall.
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
"Just like a prayer,
Your voice can take me there
Just like a muse to me
You are a mystery
Just like a dream
You are not what you seem."
@~~~{~~~~}~~~~
Five years went by. That meant that Kibbles "Wham
Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder was now seven, which in human years meant she was
somewhere between 28 and 42, depending on how you calculate it. Since she was a
smallish dog, it was probably on the lower end, and that made it 35. So, Kibbles
"Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder was about 35. Maybe less, because she was in
really good shape, but she also ate a lot of doughnuts, so maybe not. But
Scully felt older.
She was sitting down by the train tracks. She went
there a lot, when she and Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder were not
working on cases. It was "their" place, and she would think about her
lost husband Mulder. Everyone thought he was dead.
"But he's been dead before," she would say
to Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder, "and that didn't stop him!"
She thought about their past lives. She now
completely accepted all of Mulder's wild theories and ideas. She completely and
totally believed that they had lived before, except she knew that it was her,
not Melissa, who had waited for him wearing a southern accent and a dress.
She knew that Mulder had probably seeked her
desperately many a time in the olden days. She pictured him running through the
woods looking for her with no shirt on. She sighed.
She thought about that old movie, Anna Careenina,
where the lady threw herself at the train. She felt sad like that right now.
She despaired, quietly.
"Maybe he never will return to me, Kibbles
"Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder," she said. Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox
Mulder, as ever, didn't say anything. But she looked sad too. Then she sniffed
something.
And Scully thought she heard a voice inside her
head, a voice crying with the desperation of a man who has reached the end of
his rope and hung himself with it. "Scully, I need you to come to me and not
give up on me because I will always love you, so follow my voice!" it
shouted.
"Mulder?" she replied. There was nobody
around, but she had heard the voice. Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder
looked at Scully. If she could of talked, Scully felt certain that Kibbles
"Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder would have told Scully to follow her heart, to
find her man, to listen to the voice inside her head. Kibbles "Wham Bam"
Spritzy Fox Mulder was Scully's very best friend.
"You're right, Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox
Mulder." Scully stood up, and looked down the train tracks. The wind
caressed her like a buttermilk on an ulcer. "I must go to him. I must find
him. I will never give up on him, but Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder, he
needs us. And I need him. He's my muse, Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder,
my mystery, my dream. His voice will take me there, Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy
Fox Mulder. I WILL find, him. Oh yes, I WILL."
Her
beautiful red hair whipped around her, her green dress whipped too. She gathered
Kibbles "Wham Bam" Spritzy Fox Mulder into her arm, and with the other arm
raised her hand to the sky.
"As God is my witness," she vowed,"I
will never lose Mulder again!"
It was just like a prayer.