Title: Page 65 Part 17: Sick
Author: Doc
Category: R, S
Key Words: Mulder/Scully Married, Alternate Universe
Summary: Josh gets sick and Dana doesn't want to hurt the baby.
Disclaimer: I don't own Mulder and Scully, but Chris, if you ever are going out of town, I'll baby sit them if you want.
Dedication: To Didi on her birthday! I hope you get a car!
Rating: G
"NO, NO, NO!" Josh Mulder yelled as he kicked his feet up in the air madly.
"I'm staying here!" he said as Mulder and Scully looked at each other. They needed the room because the new baby was coming, but Josh wasn't ready.
"Joshie, listen to mommy, okay. When you go into your new room, you'll have a big boy bed." She said her son stopped his tantrum to look at her.
"Really?" he said, giving his mother the famous Scully eyebrow. That was the thing he got from his mother. "Can I have a bunk bed?" he asked as he was back to his normal bouncy self. Dana thought that terrible two's weren't too bad. It was when Josh turned three he became independent. He didn't want help with anything. Not eating, not getting dressed, and not bath time. Dana still was in the bathroom with him, and for her, it was getting harder and harder to sit down on the floor and wash him. That's when Mulder took over bathtub duties.
Dana was getting rounder by the day, and to not make her other child jealous, the pediatrician recommended that she talk to him and let her feel his little brother or sister. Her OB/GYN was wonderful with Josh. That's one of the perks with having a good friend as your doctor.
Only this day, Josh wasn't going. He had woken up today with an itchy rash, with dots all over his body. It was easy for Dana to make the diagnosis. It was chicken pox, plain and simple. They dropped Joshie off at Grandma Maggie's house on their way to the doctor. Dana hated to leave her son, but she didn't want him to infect anybody.
"Hi Dana." Betsy said as she came into the room and smiled. Then she looked confused. "Where's Big Brother?" she asked.
"He's at grandma Maggie's with the chicken pox. He was sad that he didn't get to come and see his baby sister.
"Well, let's go do that right now." She said as Dana smiled and leaned back. She jerked as the cold petroleum jelly was put on her expanding belly.
"It's working out just fine. And the little one looks bigger than last week. That's good. It's now shifting to the birth canal, so it won't be long now. I've got a clear angle of the sex. Do you want to know?" she asked as Dana and Fox looked at each other.
"Well, Josh was a surprise, and he sure wasn't planned. So yea, why not." Dana said, and Fox agreed.
"From here, I can tell that it is a boy. But ultrasound isn't always accurate, so there's a small chance it'll be a girl."
She said.
Dana thanked her, and got a prescription for neonatal vitamins. Just as Dana and her husband were walking out the door, Dr. Sierra stopped them.
"Wait, just one question. Dana have you had the chicken pox as a child?"
"No, why."
"Oh dear. I don't want to break this to you, but in the late stages of pregnancy, the fetus is susceptible to many viruses. That includes chickenpox. Until the baby is born, or until Josh is completely healthy, you can't come in contact with him." She said as Dana looked at her as if she committed a crime.
"You're kidding."
"Honestly, I wish I was." She said.
Dana was silent the whole way home.
"You okay, Dana?"
"I hate it, Mulder. I hate these hormones, and I hate being pregnant. How are you going to explain to a four year old child that mommy can't see him." She said, half yelling, half-sobbing.
"It'll all be over in about a week, and then you can do anything you want, okay." Fox said as he squeezed Dana's hand.
They decided that Fox dropped Dana home, and then he'd swing back to pick up Josh.
Maggie had that concerned look on her face when Mulder knocked on the door.
"He's got a bit of a fever, and I tried to feed him some soup, but he threw it all up." She said, as Mulder nodded and entered Maggie's bedroom where his son was sleeping.
Mulder carried him out on his shoulder and frowned. "Mom, I'm afraid you'll have to change your sheets on your bed." He said as he walked out the door.
"I don't care about my sheets, I care about my grandson. You take care of him, and make him better." She said as he kissed his mother-in-law goodnight. On the way to the car, Josh stirred.
"Daddy? Where's mommy?" he whispered.
"She's at home."
"Why didn't she see me? Does she love me anymore?"
"Of course she does, but you see, because you're sick, she can't see you until you're better because it'll hurt you're baby brother."
"Sister." Josh said from the back seat, as he tried his hardest not to cry.
It had almost been a week since the doctor said that she couldn't have any contact with her son. Josh wasn't the only one suffering the loss. Fox had to stay home that week to take care of Josh. Dana would just stay in her room, only getting out to eat (once josh already ate) and then she would retreat back there. Mulder heard her crying often. He entered her room one night, after getting Josh to sleep in his new bunk bed. He put his arms around his sleeping wife, and couldn't seem to get his hands around her.
"What do you say to a child that needs to be loved. He needs to be loved by both parents. He probably feels like I'm abandoning him. It's just not fair. I wish that I were never pregnant, then I could still be a mom to my baby." She said, as she just lost it, and held Mulder, her sobs muffled in his T-shirt and her big belly almost squishing him.
"Please, daddy. I'll never do anything bad again! Please let me see mommy." Josh whimpered while Mulder gave him an oatmeal bath.
"Joshie, I promise you didn't do anything bad. You just need to get better for you're little brother's sake."
"Why do you keep saying that I'm going to have a brother, Daddy? I'm going to have a sister."
"No, I don't think you are, we checked, and it's probably a boy."
"Will he never get to see his mommy when he's sick?"
"I'm not sure." Mulder says, as he takes his son and dries him off with a towel.
"My tiger's turning into..." Mulder said in his announcer voice swinging josh high into the air. "SUPERMAN!" he said, as Josh giggled. This hopefully had never ceased to make Joshie laugh.
Mulder kissed Josh goodnight, and josh said for him to kiss his baby sister and mommy goodnight. Mulder was on his way out when he heard josh talking.
"You're lucky, Buddy. You get to see my mommy. Maybe she loves you and my sister more than she loves me. I must be just too boring to her. I love my daddy so very much, but he doesn't do very good being mommy. Mommy does good at being mommy." He said as Mulder sighed and went to bed, hoping that he can have peaceful dreams.
Mulder woke up to a hard punch. He opened his eyes to see Dana staring at him.
"Mulder, you're going to have a son in a few minutes."
"Sorry, already got one. Maybe it belongs next door." Mulder said sleepily. He was rewarded by another punch in the shoulder.
"Mulder, it's time." She said. It took him more than two seconds to realize what exactly she was talking about. Then it simply hit him.
"Oh my god." He said as he jumped up and ran down the stairs. Then he felt a slight breeze. Scully looked at him, one eyebrow raised.
"Mulder you might want to put something on, or the doctors will think you're a lazy bum from the psyche ward." She said as he looked down to see he was stark naked and went back upstairs to get clothes on. Dana was hit with a contraction, and fox ran down to help her, when his sock got caught on the railing and he fell down the stairs. Dana rolled her eyes as he looked at her sheepishly. They got their overnight bag and ran out the door. A few seconds later they raced back inside.
"Josh, we forgot about Josh." Mulder said as he ran upstairs to get him.
"But what about you're condition?" he asked at the top.
"I don't care, this kid's coming in a little while, what kind of things can it contaminate?" Dana asked as he shrugged. He went inside the room and came back horror stricken.
"Dana, Josh is burning up. He won't wake up." He said, as Dana frowned.
"We'll take him with us. What were we going to do?" Dana asked, as Mulder tried to protest, but she gave him a don't-mess-with-me glance and he obeyed like a good little puppy.
"But Dana, what about you're health?"
"Screw my health, Mulder. I just want it to be over so I can see my son." She said, as Mulder came down the stairs with Josh in his arms. The kid was very red and sweating with fever. Dana insisted on sitting in the back with him, and again, Mulder didn't protest. Dana was hit with a contraction on the way, and Mulder told her to breathe. She did, while stroking her son's head in her lap.
"Mommy?" he said weakly.
"Yea, baby. Mommy's here." Dana said, as she planted a kiss on his forehead.
"I thought you didn't love me anymore." He said, as his eyes closed from tiredness.
"Of course I love you. I was just worried about you're brother's welfare. You want him to be healthy when he comes, right?" she asked, as he put on a little smile.
"Sister." He said as he faded out of consciousness. Dana groaned, because she was hit with another contraction, plus she was worried about her son.
"We need a gurney in here." Fox says as he carries Josh to the ER. Dana's behind him, her contractions getting stronger. The pediatrician on call comes up with a gurney, looks at Dana and yells for a wheelchair. Fox puts Josh on the gurney and he's whisked away to the Peds ER. The doctors tell him to go with his wife, and that they'd page him when they knew anything.
"Go see you're other kid being born, we've got you're first born in excellent hands." The doctor said, and Mulder made a mental note that the doctor kinda looked like George Clooney. Mulder went with Dana, as they got her into a room and called Betsy, and unfortunately Dana and Fox found out that she was in Hawaii for a conference.
Fox needed a break from Dana's screaming and panting, so he left to get her some ice chips, and to savor the silence of the waiting room. On his way to the ice machine, he met up with Dr. Clansy, the pediatrician that he met earlier.
"Mr. Mulder, I was just going to see you."
"How's Josh?"
"He's got an extremely high fever due to an infection with the chicken pox. We've got him on strong course of antivirals and we think he'll pull through. He's waking up if you want to see him." The doctor said, as they both heard a scream from inside the room.
"Unless your wife won't let you." The doctor said as he chuckled to himself. Mulder nodded and went inside the room.
"I saw you talking to the doctor." Dana said, in-between panting. "How's Josh?"
"He'll be fine. The doc said that he'll be waking up soon."
"Mulder, go make sure that he doesn't wake up alone with strangers, you know how he hates that."
"What about..."
"I'll be fine. The doctors say it could be hours until." Dana was hit with another pain and started yelping.
"The *&!% doctor said I couldn't have an epideral until I'm at least four." Dana said, as Fox kissed her and went to check on their son.
"Daddy, is that you?" Josh asked, as he started to wake up.
"Yea, tiger, it's me." Mulder said as he took his son's hand. "You're baby brother's going to be born soon. That's where your mom is right now. She says that she loves you."
"I love her too, daddy. I feel even yuckier than I did before. And those white people stick needles in me" Josh said, as Mulder smiled that he called doctors "white people" due to their lab coats.
"I know tiger, but the doctors just want to make you better." Mulder said as he kissed his son on the forehead. "I promise, you'll be back to you're old self in a jiffy." He said as a nurse entered.
"Sir, you're wife is at nine centimeters."
"I just left five minutes ago!" Mulder said, surprised.
"Well, so did the doctor. But, it looks like you're going to have another kid faster than you thought. Come upstairs and I'll get you prepped and ready for delivery" The nurse said as she left.
"Well, Joshie. It looks like you're going to have yourself a new brother soon."
"I can't wait. And, oh, Daddy?" Josh said as Mulder was about to leave the room.
"What?"
"I'm having a baby sister and that's final!" he said as Mulder just nodded and raced up the stairs. He entered the room and Dana was breathing hard, giving him a death look as she pulled out her hand.
"You almost missed our son's birth." Dana said as she yelled at him. "But I'm glad you're here." She said, in a softer tone.
"This time, I'm not going to faint." Mulder said as she rolled her eyes.
Half an hour later:
"Okay, Dana. Ready to push?" the doctors say, as both Dana and Fox are wincing. Both are in extreme pain. Dana was in labor, and Fox was in pain due to his hand being squeezed by Dana. She nodded.
"Maybe we should do this every four years, you know, like dog years or something."
"Nahh, I think it's just a little too much work."
"One, two, three..." the nurse said, and Dana was fed up.
"Count faster!" she said, as she wanted this kid out now.
"Mulder, make the pain go away. The shooting wasn't even as bad as this. Please make it go away." Dana said, and fox realized that she was crying.
"Last push. Fox you want to come see the head."
"NO way!" he said,
"Okay, and last time." The nurse said, and ten seconds later they heard the squealing of an infant that wasn't very happy.
"You have a brand new baby girl." The doctor said, as Dana and Fox looked at each other.
"I take it that it was supposed to be a boy?"
"Well, let's just say that the only names we picked out were William and Fox Jr." Dana said, as she held the girl in her arms for the first time.
"Isn't she beautiful, Mulder?"
"She's the second most beautiful girl I've ever seen."
"Who's the first?"
"You, of course." Mulder said as he smiled.
Two days later, Josh's virus was not contagious so he could see his baby sister. Dana had to stay in the hospital, and Josh wanted a nurse to walk him up to the Maternity ward. He walked inside to his mom's room, with one hand on the nurse's hand, and one behind his back.
"Hi mommy." He said as he smiled, knowing that he had a secret.
"Hi Joshie. What do you have there?" she asked as he came closer.
"The nurses downstairs let me have it. I wanted to give it to you." He said as he showed what he kept hidden behind his back. There in his hands, was a single red rose.
"I told you I was going to have a sister." He said, as he climbed on his daddy's lap.
"What's my new sister's name?"
"We don't know yet, honey." Mulder said, as Dana was eagerly looking at the flower.
"Honey, what do you think of the name Rose?"
"Actually, that was Samantha's middle name. I never thought about it."
So on that day, Rose Samantha Mulder went home with her loving parents, and an eager big brother. Mulder and Scully took their two favorite children before leaving the hospital, and added it to the Mulder family scrapbook.
Author: Doc
Category: R, S
Key Words: Mulder/Scully Married, Alternate Universe
Summary: Josh gets sick and Dana doesn't want to hurt the baby.
Disclaimer: I don't own Mulder and Scully, but Chris, if you ever are going out of town, I'll baby sit them if you want.
Dedication: To Didi on her birthday! I hope you get a car!
Rating: G
"NO, NO, NO!" Josh Mulder yelled as he kicked his feet up in the air madly.
"I'm staying here!" he said as Mulder and Scully looked at each other. They needed the room because the new baby was coming, but Josh wasn't ready.
"Joshie, listen to mommy, okay. When you go into your new room, you'll have a big boy bed." She said her son stopped his tantrum to look at her.
"Really?" he said, giving his mother the famous Scully eyebrow. That was the thing he got from his mother. "Can I have a bunk bed?" he asked as he was back to his normal bouncy self. Dana thought that terrible two's weren't too bad. It was when Josh turned three he became independent. He didn't want help with anything. Not eating, not getting dressed, and not bath time. Dana still was in the bathroom with him, and for her, it was getting harder and harder to sit down on the floor and wash him. That's when Mulder took over bathtub duties.
Dana was getting rounder by the day, and to not make her other child jealous, the pediatrician recommended that she talk to him and let her feel his little brother or sister. Her OB/GYN was wonderful with Josh. That's one of the perks with having a good friend as your doctor.
Only this day, Josh wasn't going. He had woken up today with an itchy rash, with dots all over his body. It was easy for Dana to make the diagnosis. It was chicken pox, plain and simple. They dropped Joshie off at Grandma Maggie's house on their way to the doctor. Dana hated to leave her son, but she didn't want him to infect anybody.
"Hi Dana." Betsy said as she came into the room and smiled. Then she looked confused. "Where's Big Brother?" she asked.
"He's at grandma Maggie's with the chicken pox. He was sad that he didn't get to come and see his baby sister.
"Well, let's go do that right now." She said as Dana smiled and leaned back. She jerked as the cold petroleum jelly was put on her expanding belly.
"It's working out just fine. And the little one looks bigger than last week. That's good. It's now shifting to the birth canal, so it won't be long now. I've got a clear angle of the sex. Do you want to know?" she asked as Dana and Fox looked at each other.
"Well, Josh was a surprise, and he sure wasn't planned. So yea, why not." Dana said, and Fox agreed.
"From here, I can tell that it is a boy. But ultrasound isn't always accurate, so there's a small chance it'll be a girl."
She said.
Dana thanked her, and got a prescription for neonatal vitamins. Just as Dana and her husband were walking out the door, Dr. Sierra stopped them.
"Wait, just one question. Dana have you had the chicken pox as a child?"
"No, why."
"Oh dear. I don't want to break this to you, but in the late stages of pregnancy, the fetus is susceptible to many viruses. That includes chickenpox. Until the baby is born, or until Josh is completely healthy, you can't come in contact with him." She said as Dana looked at her as if she committed a crime.
"You're kidding."
"Honestly, I wish I was." She said.
Dana was silent the whole way home.
"You okay, Dana?"
"I hate it, Mulder. I hate these hormones, and I hate being pregnant. How are you going to explain to a four year old child that mommy can't see him." She said, half yelling, half-sobbing.
"It'll all be over in about a week, and then you can do anything you want, okay." Fox said as he squeezed Dana's hand.
They decided that Fox dropped Dana home, and then he'd swing back to pick up Josh.
Maggie had that concerned look on her face when Mulder knocked on the door.
"He's got a bit of a fever, and I tried to feed him some soup, but he threw it all up." She said, as Mulder nodded and entered Maggie's bedroom where his son was sleeping.
Mulder carried him out on his shoulder and frowned. "Mom, I'm afraid you'll have to change your sheets on your bed." He said as he walked out the door.
"I don't care about my sheets, I care about my grandson. You take care of him, and make him better." She said as he kissed his mother-in-law goodnight. On the way to the car, Josh stirred.
"Daddy? Where's mommy?" he whispered.
"She's at home."
"Why didn't she see me? Does she love me anymore?"
"Of course she does, but you see, because you're sick, she can't see you until you're better because it'll hurt you're baby brother."
"Sister." Josh said from the back seat, as he tried his hardest not to cry.
It had almost been a week since the doctor said that she couldn't have any contact with her son. Josh wasn't the only one suffering the loss. Fox had to stay home that week to take care of Josh. Dana would just stay in her room, only getting out to eat (once josh already ate) and then she would retreat back there. Mulder heard her crying often. He entered her room one night, after getting Josh to sleep in his new bunk bed. He put his arms around his sleeping wife, and couldn't seem to get his hands around her.
"What do you say to a child that needs to be loved. He needs to be loved by both parents. He probably feels like I'm abandoning him. It's just not fair. I wish that I were never pregnant, then I could still be a mom to my baby." She said, as she just lost it, and held Mulder, her sobs muffled in his T-shirt and her big belly almost squishing him.
"Please, daddy. I'll never do anything bad again! Please let me see mommy." Josh whimpered while Mulder gave him an oatmeal bath.
"Joshie, I promise you didn't do anything bad. You just need to get better for you're little brother's sake."
"Why do you keep saying that I'm going to have a brother, Daddy? I'm going to have a sister."
"No, I don't think you are, we checked, and it's probably a boy."
"Will he never get to see his mommy when he's sick?"
"I'm not sure." Mulder says, as he takes his son and dries him off with a towel.
"My tiger's turning into..." Mulder said in his announcer voice swinging josh high into the air. "SUPERMAN!" he said, as Josh giggled. This hopefully had never ceased to make Joshie laugh.
Mulder kissed Josh goodnight, and josh said for him to kiss his baby sister and mommy goodnight. Mulder was on his way out when he heard josh talking.
"You're lucky, Buddy. You get to see my mommy. Maybe she loves you and my sister more than she loves me. I must be just too boring to her. I love my daddy so very much, but he doesn't do very good being mommy. Mommy does good at being mommy." He said as Mulder sighed and went to bed, hoping that he can have peaceful dreams.
Mulder woke up to a hard punch. He opened his eyes to see Dana staring at him.
"Mulder, you're going to have a son in a few minutes."
"Sorry, already got one. Maybe it belongs next door." Mulder said sleepily. He was rewarded by another punch in the shoulder.
"Mulder, it's time." She said. It took him more than two seconds to realize what exactly she was talking about. Then it simply hit him.
"Oh my god." He said as he jumped up and ran down the stairs. Then he felt a slight breeze. Scully looked at him, one eyebrow raised.
"Mulder you might want to put something on, or the doctors will think you're a lazy bum from the psyche ward." She said as he looked down to see he was stark naked and went back upstairs to get clothes on. Dana was hit with a contraction, and fox ran down to help her, when his sock got caught on the railing and he fell down the stairs. Dana rolled her eyes as he looked at her sheepishly. They got their overnight bag and ran out the door. A few seconds later they raced back inside.
"Josh, we forgot about Josh." Mulder said as he ran upstairs to get him.
"But what about you're condition?" he asked at the top.
"I don't care, this kid's coming in a little while, what kind of things can it contaminate?" Dana asked as he shrugged. He went inside the room and came back horror stricken.
"Dana, Josh is burning up. He won't wake up." He said, as Dana frowned.
"We'll take him with us. What were we going to do?" Dana asked, as Mulder tried to protest, but she gave him a don't-mess-with-me glance and he obeyed like a good little puppy.
"But Dana, what about you're health?"
"Screw my health, Mulder. I just want it to be over so I can see my son." She said, as Mulder came down the stairs with Josh in his arms. The kid was very red and sweating with fever. Dana insisted on sitting in the back with him, and again, Mulder didn't protest. Dana was hit with a contraction on the way, and Mulder told her to breathe. She did, while stroking her son's head in her lap.
"Mommy?" he said weakly.
"Yea, baby. Mommy's here." Dana said, as she planted a kiss on his forehead.
"I thought you didn't love me anymore." He said, as his eyes closed from tiredness.
"Of course I love you. I was just worried about you're brother's welfare. You want him to be healthy when he comes, right?" she asked, as he put on a little smile.
"Sister." He said as he faded out of consciousness. Dana groaned, because she was hit with another contraction, plus she was worried about her son.
"We need a gurney in here." Fox says as he carries Josh to the ER. Dana's behind him, her contractions getting stronger. The pediatrician on call comes up with a gurney, looks at Dana and yells for a wheelchair. Fox puts Josh on the gurney and he's whisked away to the Peds ER. The doctors tell him to go with his wife, and that they'd page him when they knew anything.
"Go see you're other kid being born, we've got you're first born in excellent hands." The doctor said, and Mulder made a mental note that the doctor kinda looked like George Clooney. Mulder went with Dana, as they got her into a room and called Betsy, and unfortunately Dana and Fox found out that she was in Hawaii for a conference.
Fox needed a break from Dana's screaming and panting, so he left to get her some ice chips, and to savor the silence of the waiting room. On his way to the ice machine, he met up with Dr. Clansy, the pediatrician that he met earlier.
"Mr. Mulder, I was just going to see you."
"How's Josh?"
"He's got an extremely high fever due to an infection with the chicken pox. We've got him on strong course of antivirals and we think he'll pull through. He's waking up if you want to see him." The doctor said, as they both heard a scream from inside the room.
"Unless your wife won't let you." The doctor said as he chuckled to himself. Mulder nodded and went inside the room.
"I saw you talking to the doctor." Dana said, in-between panting. "How's Josh?"
"He'll be fine. The doc said that he'll be waking up soon."
"Mulder, go make sure that he doesn't wake up alone with strangers, you know how he hates that."
"What about..."
"I'll be fine. The doctors say it could be hours until." Dana was hit with another pain and started yelping.
"The *&!% doctor said I couldn't have an epideral until I'm at least four." Dana said, as Fox kissed her and went to check on their son.
"Daddy, is that you?" Josh asked, as he started to wake up.
"Yea, tiger, it's me." Mulder said as he took his son's hand. "You're baby brother's going to be born soon. That's where your mom is right now. She says that she loves you."
"I love her too, daddy. I feel even yuckier than I did before. And those white people stick needles in me" Josh said, as Mulder smiled that he called doctors "white people" due to their lab coats.
"I know tiger, but the doctors just want to make you better." Mulder said as he kissed his son on the forehead. "I promise, you'll be back to you're old self in a jiffy." He said as a nurse entered.
"Sir, you're wife is at nine centimeters."
"I just left five minutes ago!" Mulder said, surprised.
"Well, so did the doctor. But, it looks like you're going to have another kid faster than you thought. Come upstairs and I'll get you prepped and ready for delivery" The nurse said as she left.
"Well, Joshie. It looks like you're going to have yourself a new brother soon."
"I can't wait. And, oh, Daddy?" Josh said as Mulder was about to leave the room.
"What?"
"I'm having a baby sister and that's final!" he said as Mulder just nodded and raced up the stairs. He entered the room and Dana was breathing hard, giving him a death look as she pulled out her hand.
"You almost missed our son's birth." Dana said as she yelled at him. "But I'm glad you're here." She said, in a softer tone.
"This time, I'm not going to faint." Mulder said as she rolled her eyes.
Half an hour later:
"Okay, Dana. Ready to push?" the doctors say, as both Dana and Fox are wincing. Both are in extreme pain. Dana was in labor, and Fox was in pain due to his hand being squeezed by Dana. She nodded.
"Maybe we should do this every four years, you know, like dog years or something."
"Nahh, I think it's just a little too much work."
"One, two, three..." the nurse said, and Dana was fed up.
"Count faster!" she said, as she wanted this kid out now.
"Mulder, make the pain go away. The shooting wasn't even as bad as this. Please make it go away." Dana said, and fox realized that she was crying.
"Last push. Fox you want to come see the head."
"NO way!" he said,
"Okay, and last time." The nurse said, and ten seconds later they heard the squealing of an infant that wasn't very happy.
"You have a brand new baby girl." The doctor said, as Dana and Fox looked at each other.
"I take it that it was supposed to be a boy?"
"Well, let's just say that the only names we picked out were William and Fox Jr." Dana said, as she held the girl in her arms for the first time.
"Isn't she beautiful, Mulder?"
"She's the second most beautiful girl I've ever seen."
"Who's the first?"
"You, of course." Mulder said as he smiled.
Two days later, Josh's virus was not contagious so he could see his baby sister. Dana had to stay in the hospital, and Josh wanted a nurse to walk him up to the Maternity ward. He walked inside to his mom's room, with one hand on the nurse's hand, and one behind his back.
"Hi mommy." He said as he smiled, knowing that he had a secret.
"Hi Joshie. What do you have there?" she asked as he came closer.
"The nurses downstairs let me have it. I wanted to give it to you." He said as he showed what he kept hidden behind his back. There in his hands, was a single red rose.
"I told you I was going to have a sister." He said, as he climbed on his daddy's lap.
"What's my new sister's name?"
"We don't know yet, honey." Mulder said, as Dana was eagerly looking at the flower.
"Honey, what do you think of the name Rose?"
"Actually, that was Samantha's middle name. I never thought about it."
So on that day, Rose Samantha Mulder went home with her loving parents, and an eager big brother. Mulder and Scully took their two favorite children before leaving the hospital, and added it to the Mulder family scrapbook.
