Title: Page 65 part III
Author: Doc
Spoilers: None really, it's pre-xf
Disclaimer: I don't own the X Files, and I don't own the
scene at the end, which was used in Sixth Extinction II.
Summary: Scully wants to take driver's Ed. Mulder takes it
and meets a new "friend" by the name of Diana Fowley. Can
their friendship last?
Dedication: As always, to Didi. It's been a great school
year, Didz and next year will be too.
Enough technical stuff, on with da show, (drumroll please)
Page 65 part III
"Why, why, why?" Dana Scully stamped her feet on the
ground. "Why didn't you have me a year earlier?" she
screamed at her mother.
"Honey, Driver's Ed is not for young people like you. If I
had you a year earlier, you would be a different person."
"Yea, but I still could drive." She said as she huffed and
stomped upstairs to her room. The youngest in her
graduating class, she couldn't take Driver's Ed yet. She
was only fourteen, and she missed the cutoff date by just a
month. She couldn't take drivers Ed like everyone else.
Even Mulder was taking it. Her mother wouldn't let her
drive with anyone since she thinks that young people are
"inexperienced and don't have quick reflexes" Driving is
like an experience you take with your friends, just like
graduating. Everyone was talking about driver's Ed and how
it is so boring, while she had nowhere to fit in. Even
Mulder was becoming distant due to many hours of driver's
Ed after school. She then heard a knock, three sharp
knocks. She knew instantly who it was.
"Come in, Mulder." She said as he entered the room, slowly,
trying to determine what kind of mood she was in.
"Hey, Scully." He said. She was about to give him a hug
when she saw that little book with the stoplight on it. He
knew how sensitive she was to this. He then realized it,
and tried to hide it behind his back.
"Don't try to hide it, Mulder. I saw it." She said, not
facing him.
"Come on, Scully. It's not that bad, you can take it next
year or the year after that."
"Yea, by the time I get to take it, I'll be in a class with
Charlie!" she said, getting angrier by the minute.
"I'll take you everywhere, you know that."
"No you won't. You know my mother very well. She doesn't
trust anyone. Not even you."
"Just don't worry about it."
"Don't worry about it? Don't worry about it? This is my
life we're talking about, Mulder. I am missing the most
important thing in my teenage years. And you are rubbing it
in far too much. Get out, now!"
"Fine. Goodbye." He said as he left. She slammed the door
after him.
The next day, they gave each other the silent treatment.
Both of them hated it, but both were also too proud to
apologize. Finally, Scully couldn't take it anymore. She
was going to meet Mulder after school and they were going
to settle their little dispute. He was coming down the
crowded hallway, Scully saw he was talking to someone.
Being so short, she couldn't see over the person, but as he
came closer, so did his "friend" it was Dana's worst enemy
since third grade. She was not only talking to him, but
flirting as well. Dana walked right up to them and smiled a
forced smile.
"Oh, hey Scully. This is Diana. She is in my Driv.. one of
my classes." Dana shook her hand, her face was
expressionless.
"Fox, we don't want to be late for driver's Ed." She said.
"I'll be there in a minute Diana." He said, as she winked
at him, making Dana turn red in the face with jealousy.
"Mulder, who was that?" she asked.
"A girl from driver's Ed. She's my friend."
"Oh really. Now, not only do I miss the actual driving
class, but I also miss seeing Fox Mulder and Diana Fowley
playing tongue hockey. Must me missing a lot." She said,
sneering.
"She's really nice."
"She has breasts and is considered female."
"So are you. I don't see you that way."
"We have known each other since second grade, we have seen
each other naked for god sakes. That's why you don't see me
that way."
"Fine, I admit it. She has a nice body. There, happy."
Mulder was getting angry, and also drawing attention to
them. There were many rumors going around about Fox Mulder
and Dana Scully.
"NO, I'm not happy. Fox Mulder, with your male testosterone
frenzy these days, yes you have gained a girl. But you have
lost one as well." She said, handing him the cross from
around her neck.
"Consider it over." She said as she walked away, leaving
Mulder stunned, and the gathered crowd cheering.
"Oh, shut up." She screamed at the onlookers before she
left.
The next day was horrible. In the middle of lunch, the
principal got on the loud speaker and said. "Everyone, you
can pick up your permits at the front of the cafeteria, I
repeat, you can pick up your permits at the front of the
cafeteria now. Thank you, and thanks for choosing Ford High
School." And there was literally a flood of people waiting
to get in line. Her and a few other people remained. She
felt the tears welling up, almost like in kindergarten when
everyone in the class was invited to a birthday party
except her. She needed to be strong. Nobody would see her
cry, nobody ever has. She saw Mulder get his permit and
jump for joy. Then she saw Fowley with him, he hugged her
and kissed her on the cheek, while Scully looked on,
sneering. Then they started to come her way, she
frantically got out her copy of Cider House Rules and
pretended to be reading.
"Hey Scully, I got my permit. I passed! Now I can drive you
around where ever you want to go."
"Mulder, did I not make myself clear yesterday?" she asked,
boiling like a pot of water.
"Diana, could you give us a minute?" he asked as she
nodded.
"Sure, Fox, I'll be in the car." She said as she gave him a
sexy smile and patted his shoulder.
"Scully, why are you doing this? Why are you so jealous of
me getting my permit?" he asked. But her eyes weren't on
his, they were on Diana, the brunette bimbo who walked and
her but jiggled.
"You're jealous of Diana aren't you?"
"Who wouldn't be? She hangs all over you." She said,
crossly.
"Look, Diana and I are going out to celebrate tonight. Do
you want to come? It'll take your mind off of it." He asked
sweetly.
"What am I celebrating?"
"Friendship?" he said, at a loss of words.
"Diana is anything but a friend to me. She is your friend,
and frankly, I'm not your friend either. We never see each
other anymore, because of Driver's Ed. Have a nice romantic
evening with a romantic candlelit dinner. But keep me out."
She said as she turned to walk away. "Oh, and another
thing, Mulder. This past few years you have treated me not
as your friend, certainly not the way you treat Diana. You
treat me like your little sister. You have to learn,
Mulder, that I am not Samantha." She said as she walked
away trying to fight the tears and the emotion, leaving him
dumbstruck.
When she got home, she crawled under the covers and buried
her head in her pillow and finally allowed the tears to
come. She had lost the best friend she ever had all because
he was flirting with a girl. Not just any girl, but the one
person she hated more than anything. Okay, so hate was a
strong word. Strongly, extreme dislike was how she put it.
IT was all due to an incident that happened in third grade.
Scully was quietly playing on the slide, minding her own
business when Diana comes up and says,
"Move it." Harshly. Well, that was her personal space. It
always had been. She didn't budge. Then, Diana actually
pushed her off the slide onto the wood chips on the ground.
Dana hurt her hands and skinned her knees, and she hurt. So
she started to cry.
"Oh, is poor Dana hurt? Do you want to run to mommy and
tell her what I did. Crybaby, crybaby, Dana is a big
crybaby with big fat freckles on her face." From that
moment on, Dana vowed to herself that she would never let
anyone see her cry in school again.
She heard a soft knock on her door.
"Dana, can I come in?" it was Charlie, her little brother
and favorite sibling. They understood each other, and
thankfully Charlie hasn't learned about the birds and the
bees yet.
"I guess." She said, softly, he opened the door slowly.
"Dana, what's wrong?" he asked as he climbed in her lap.
"Nothing, I'm just tired." She said, but Charlie knew his
sister better than that.
"It's about Fox, isn't it?" he asked. "It's either that or
Driver's Ed. One of those two you would be sad about."
"Both." She said, hugging him.
"Mulder likes this girl. She is hanging all over him just
to get him in be.." she stopped. She didn't go on, after
all, this was a ten-year-old.
"Anyway, she likes him, and he likes her." She said sadly.
Charlie got this really confused look on his face.
"What does this have to do with Driver's Ed?" he asked.
"Well, they are in driver's Ed together."
"So, you think that if you were in Driver's Ed that you
could have stopped this?"
"Yea, I think so." She said.
"Dana, you know Fox doesn't make friends easily. Maybe he
was just lonely in that class, not knowing anyone. He just
needed a friend." He said.
"But he has me. Or at least he had me."
"But you weren't in driver's Ed, and because of all the
hours he needed to talk to someone. Could you go for six
hours straight without talking to anyone?"
"No, I guess not."
"He was just being friendly. Now that Driver's Ed is over,
you can go back to the way things were." He said, but she
shook her head.
"No, we can't. I ruined it. I was so fed up with jealousy
that I said I never wanted to be friends again. And then,"
she realized what she did. "Oh, God, what have I done?" she
said as she raced down the stairs to go meet him. Her
mother stopped her.
"Dana, where are you going?" she asked.
"Mulder's house." She replied breathless. "Have to
apologize." She said.
"Honey, sit down for a minute." She said. Dana was getting
worried.
"Why, mom." She said as she sat down.
"Honey, Fox was in a car wreck today. He and Diana Fowley
were driving and Diana had been drinking. They crashed the
car into a tree. Mrs. Mulder will pick us up right now, she
just heard. Dana, I'm so sorry." Maggie said as she saw her
daughter stare into space, obviously in denial. The
doorbell rang with anticipation. Teena came in, slowly.
Dana walked over to her, and for the first time since Dana
met Mrs. Mulder, she gave her a hug.
"Mrs. Mulder, I am so sorry. It's all my fault." She said,
sobbing now. Teena cried too as she tried to comfort the
child that she called her second daughter
"Now, dear. Why is it your fault?" she asked as she patted
Dana's back.
"I let him go with Diana. I should have told him not to. We
had a fight today, a big fight." She said as she sobbed
harder.
"Honey, it was my fault for letting him go with Diana, I
said he could go. It's not your fault you know that."
Finally, Dana stopped crying, and was silent all the way to
the hospital. Fox was in bad shape. He had a nasty head
wound which would be hard to recover from since he had a
concussion before. Diana was sent to another hospital, via
helicopter, in critical condition. Mulder also had a
ruptured spleen, so they had to perform surgery on him, so
he wouldn't bleed out. He had a 50/50 chance. The doctors
say it could go either way.
She let Mrs. Mulder in with him first. Mulder was all
that she had now that William was in jail. Dana waited
outside, and she went to the hospital chapel. She lit a
candle for him, and prayed. She prayed for Mulder and his
recovery, she prayed for Mrs. Mulder and that she will get
through this. She also prayed for herself to be forgiven of
the mean thoughts that she thought about earlier in the
day. Maggie then entered the chapel.
"Honey, you can go see him now. He's stable for the
moment, but he just may need some coaxing to wake up." She
said, as Dana nodded and entered the room. It was silent
except for the heart monitor, pulse ox and blood pressure.
"Hey, Mulder." She said, sitting beside him on the chair
Mrs. Mulder used. She looked at his face, which was torn up
and bloody. She saw his hands were scraped also. She put
her head down on his chest.
"Oh, God, Mulder. What have I done? I am so, so sorry.
Please forgive me." She waited. Tears were streaming down
her cheeks. Who cared about being strong at this time.
"Mulder, take me back. I am sorry for what I said about
Samantha and I knew I shouldn't bring it up. I just saw
your heart ripped in two, and at the time I was glad, since
you hurt me. But now I regret it more than ever. Oh please,
Mulder, please wake up. Please." She begged. Then she
remembered the song that they used to sing together when
they both needed to get away. It was about the Hill of
Wishes. "Somewhere, out there, beneath the clear blue sky.
Someone's thinking of me, and loving me tonight." She
smiled. "Now it's your turn Mulder." She thought she heard
him say something, but it must be her mind playing tricks
on her. No, it wasn't. His lips were moving, but nothing
coming out. She leaned in to hear what he was saying.
"Somewhere out there, someone's saying a prayer. That we'll
find one another. Somewhere out there. Out where dreams
come true." He smiled at her as she smiled back, tears
gleaming in her eyes.
"Mulder, I knew you'd come back." She smiled.
"Mulder, I am so, so sorry. Please forgive me?" she begged.
"On one condition." He said, looking up at her with joking
eyes. "That you take this back." He said as he opened his
hand to reveal Scully's cross. She nodded and put it on.
"Mulder, Diana Fowley was pronounced dead this morning. I'm
so sorry. I know she was your friend."
"Scully, even when the world was unrecognizable and upside
down, there was one thing that remained the same. You were
my friend, and you told me the truth. Even when the world
was falling apart, you were my constant, my touchstone."
"And you are mine." She whispered as she kissed his
forehead.
"Promise me one thing." She said.
"What's that?"
"That if I ever get beat red in the face with jealousy
again, tell me."
"Deal. As long as you let me take you out for ice cream."
"Have to talk to my mom about that one."
"Kay."
"Mulder?"
"Yea?"
"It's good to have you back."
"It's good to be back, Scully. It's good to be back." He
said, as he sighed.
Through twists and turns, and bumps in the road, our heroes
always win in the end. They don't necessarily win at the
game of life, but they win each other.
