Tomorrow

By Jillian

CHAPTER NINETEEN

"C'mon." Dana Scully said, with her child in her arms. "Let's get out of here."

"Scully," Doggett began. "You don't think they'll come afta' you for him?"

"The local branch is wiped out, you know that. Nobody knows about us anymore. It's over for a while. He said it himself," She gestured towards the dead Super-soldier. "A bunch of people who know nothing about us are coming to clean up."

"They could get you for kidnapping," AD Skinner began.

"He's *my* son. I'm not leaving him. Not again."

"Let's go." Mulder said.

"Are you sure..." Doggett warned.

"Of course I'm SURE! He's my SON! I'm NOT leaving him behind AGAIN! NOBODY is going to take him away from me! You can't tell me to leave him behind. I can't. I won't. He's OUR son!" She yelled, tears starting to fall. She looked into her sons eyes, and then back at the others. Her voice was no longer a yell, just a mere whisper. "You can't take him away from me again. You can't. They'll never know. It's over for now. Over until we have to stop them before colonization. I'm taking my son to New York. I'm changing my phone number, and searching the entire house for bugs. After that, I'm going to live a normal life. I'm going to have another baby and my children are going to grow up safe. When the time comes to strike again at these Super-soldiers, we will. But not now. Not now. We're going home. Thank you for all your help." She said, her voice eerily calm.

Nobody said a word as they followed her out into the car. Once they were all inside, Mulder sat William on his lap, and buckled the both of them in. He took a long look at his son. God, it had been so long since he had held him. Since he had seen what he and Dana had created... William gripped his fingers and made typical baby noises, squirming around happily. To be a child again, Mulder thought. Blissfully ignorant.

"Hey William." Mulder said quietly. "I'm your Dad. You probably don't remember me..." Mulder had forgotten about everyone else in the car except his son and Scully. She put her hand on his lap as he continued to talk to his son. "I had to go away, Will, but I'm here now. I'm never ever going away from you again. You're safe now. Really, we mean it this time." He grinned.

"Um, Dana," John began. "I didn't mean to upset you inside before." He mumbled. "I uh, I guess I didn't realize how much you musta' missed him."

"I didn't mean to get upset... I was just so happy to with him again, that I couldn't imagine leaving him..." She said. "It's okay now. Everything is okay. Thank you, all of you. I don't know where I'd be without you..."

"Don't mention it." John smiled.

"You'd do the same for any of us." Monica said.

"What he said about killing you all, I uh, never really let you guys know that you mean a lot to me. You're good friends... You're always there to help me out, you always were... In the beginning it didn't always seem like that," A faint, nostalgic smile graced her lips. "But in the end, you were always there."

"You don't have to say that." Skinner said. "I mean, you saved my ass so many times... When early on I had been on the wrong side of things... You were always there yourself, both of you."

"We all have each other's backs... We know that. Do we need to get all sentimental?" Monica smiled.

"No, definitely not. There's been enough emotion for one day." Dana said.

"So the baby's due soon, huh?" John asked. The snow was less fierce than it was on the way to get William.

"Yes, two months about. We're expecting about the third week of February." Scully said.

"Do you know the sex?" Monica asked.

"No, we decided we'd wait." Mulder said.

"What about names?" Monica asked again.

Scully looked to Mulder. "We haven't really thought about it. I was thinking Samantha or Melissa, but it would be too depressing..." Mulder nodded.

"If it's a boy, you could name him Fox." Doggett grinned.

"I'd rather not subject him to the torture of my childhood." Mulder said.

"So you really don't let *anyone* call you Fox, besides Dana's mother?" Monica asked.

"Well, my parents did, and a few people from my past... People who I'd rather forget. All the people I let call me Fox turned on me, so I decided to stick with Mulder."

"So you don't even let Dana call you Fox?"

"Well, I guess I wouldn't stop her, but she doesn't. She knows I hate it, so she never uses it."

"Never?" Monica asked. "Not even," She raised her eyebrows.

"Never." Dana said, matching Monica with her infamous Scully-eyebrow-raise. "I tried once, on a case years ago, and he wouldn't let me call him Fox. He said his parents even called him Mulder when he was a kid."

"So you don't know a name for the kid, or the sex. What do you know?" Walter asked.

"He's healthy. That's all that matters." Dana smiled. "And, he's going to have a big brother, huh William?" She said, looking down at her first son.

"You're building quite a family." Walter said. "Congratulations."

"Thanks. It's kind of nice to be semi-normal. Just for a little while, of course." Mulder said.

The car ride carried on in a similar fashion, and the friends bantered back and forth. The baby fell asleep on Mulder's lap, and slept through the entire ticket-purchasing ordeal at the airport. He finally woke up when they sat him on the plane, between his parents. A few hours later, the plane landed at Dulles International Airport in Washington DC. Skinner's credentials would get the magnetite out of the airport safely, and Mulder, William and Scully would take a train back to New York to avoid going through security checks alone. They stood in the airport concourse silently. It was just about dawn, the day after Christmas. Everybody could use a good night of sleep, except for William. He seemed energetic, and unaware of all that had happened around him. It was better that way; he'd never have to know about all the pain in his life.

"You'd better get going, I don't want you to miss your train." Skinner said. Mulder was holding a suitcase of liquid magnetite, just some extra for safety.

"Yeah... Um, we'll call. About the baby. Tell my mother William is safe... Tell her we'll call when we get home. Maybe you could fly in, or something, just for a little while... It's safer now. The ones who knew personally about us are all dead."

"You're right." John said. "It would be a lot safer to keep in touch."

"Yeah. Stay safe." Monica said. "You too," she said, towards William. "Don't give your parents too much trouble."

They smiled, and there was an awkward moment of silence.

"Hopefully, we'll see you soon. Everything is safe. Everything is over for now. It'll be a long time before we have to worry again." Dana said.

"Tell Gibson I said hi." Mulder added.

With that, they uttered a last goodbye, and Scully scooped William up into her arms. Everything *was* safe now. They'd defeated their immediate enemy, for the time being. It would be a long time until they had to even think of Super-soldiers again. For one time in their life, everything was okay. Everything was better than okay. Okay would have been safety, but now they had more than that. They had William. William. They never imagined they'd have him back. Now, it was so sudden--so wonderful. He was back. They were going to have another child. The Super-soldiers who were after them were dead. They had a method of killing them later on and stopping colonization. They really were going to safe the world. They really were safe.

Looking into their child's eyes, they finally understood what they'd always wanted. All they'd ever want in life was right there. William *was* the essence of all the things they needed, rolled into one. He was love, beauty, safety, security, and that tiny hint of adventure they needed. He was everything. They had everything.

And they were about to get even more.

Authors Notes: You guys still kick butt! Never would have dreamed I'd have over 60 reviews! I just wanted to let you know there's one more chapter left… I'll have it up… I don't know when, pretty soon. Thanks for reading! Stick around just a little longer!