Title: Without You Part Twenty
All other information is in chapter one.
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May 30, 2002
Roseau, British Columbia, Canada
10:13 a.m.
Bright blue and white gleam off of 'our' house as Mulder and I walk up to the home with William in between us. We stand looking up at the home. It is fairly large, but not huge. A bay window looks out on the front yard, thrusting into the front yard--it would be a great place to just sit and read.
"So, where's the realtor?" Mulder asks.
"I have no idea," I say watching as William tries to run on his wobbly legs.
Mulder starts to chase after him, making William erupt into fits of laughter. His laugh is music to both of our ears. To think that we might not of had him in our lives almost makes me want to scoop the kid up and never put him back down again.
"Excuse me? Are you Mr. and Mrs. Mulder?" a demanding voice asks behind us.
I turn around and see a woman of moderate height, but with piercing, demanding blue eyes, staring us down.
"Yes," I respond reaching out my hand to greet her, "I'm Dana Mulder and this is my husband Fox, and our son, William."
The word husband sounds foreign on my tongue, but then again we've been like that for a long time. Dana Mulder almost sounds perfect anyways. No one needs to know if we are really married in the eyes of the court, in God's eyes I think that we were always meant to be.
"I'm Kate Forbes, with Roseau Realty. If you'll follow me, I'll start with the tour of the grounds."
Mulder picks up William and we are off to inspect the grounds of the blue and white house.
"This yard is perfect for a family of your size. Your kids live in a safe area that you can let them out in the backyard and know that they won't get hit by a car. Where are you from anyways?" Kate asks, as she continues to walk.
"Vancouver," I pipe up.
"When we found out that Dana was pregnant we decided that it would be better to find a smaller town to raise our family in. It's just taken us awhile to tie up loose ends and move out here,' Mulder says.
"Wonderful," Kate says and then opens the front door, bringing us into a nice little foyer that has the living room off to one side and a kitchen off to the other and a stairwell up to the second floor right in front of us.
"This house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms. All three bedrooms are upstairs which I will show you in a minute. One bathroom is upstairs and one is on this level."
Kate continues to show us through the main floor of the house. It is a small cozy house that I would love to raise our kids in. The living room has a fireplace, an is fairly large--a perfect place to sit and do absolutely nothing.
"So what do you do?" Kate asks out of curiosity.
"Dana is a doctor and I'm looking into a job at the high school," Mulder replies, shifting William from one hip to the other.
"What do you teach?"
"Psychology, mainly," Mulder says.
"Fun stuff," Kate responds.
We follow her up the stairs and find a long hallway with the three bedrooms and the bathroom. The rooms are colorful, painted different colors of yellow, blue, white, and light red with luscious carpet and fairly large rooms.
"The house is going for 89,000 dollars, but the previous owners are willing to bring it down to eighty-six grand," Kate tells us as we head down the stairs.
Mulder and I are both silent, contemplating the future. We both have money is safe funds that the Gunmen helped us set up before we left that could pay well for the house and furnishings.
"I'm showing this house in two days, so..." Kate starts.
"--we'll take it," Mulder interrupts, grinning.
Kate and I both stare at him shocked.
"Mulder?" I whisper, angrily.
Mulder pulls me aside out of earshot of Kate, "Look Scully, you know and I know that this is our house. It's perfect. I can see us raising our kids here. We are in a great neighborhood and I know that you want it, but you think that you have to be rational and think it through. Come on, Scully, be spontaneous for once."
"I was spontaneous when I fell for you. And some days I think was crazy," I say trying to keep a serious face, but I grin at him in spite of myself.
We walk back over to Kate.
"All right, we'll take it," I say.
"Are you sure?" Kate asks already pulling out the papers.
"Yeah," we say in unison.
"Okay, I have all of the papers right here. I'd suggest that you get in touch with the bank and get a down payment on this house," Kate says.
"Okay, will do," Mulder says.
"Do you have any other questions for me?" Kate asks.
There is silence except for the jibbering from little William.
"Our friends are also looking for a house. Are there any near here that are for sale?" I ask remembering John and Monica still sitting in the hospital, ready to be released today.
"There is a house just down the block that was put on the market a week ago. It's a little smaller than this one. Here I'll give you my card and you can have them call me," Kate says.
Fifteen minutes later we wave as Kate drives away from the house. Mulder turns to me with a huge grin on his face.
"Scully, we have a house," Mulder says.
"Yeah, Mulder we have a house, but I think we have it kind of backwards," I tell him laughing.
"Have what backwards?"
"Well you know how normal couples date, get married, buy a house and then have a kid, when did we ever do any of that in order?" I say.
"Scully, are you telling me that all of those stakeouts weren't dates?"
I shake my head.
"Even the flukeman?" Mulder asks.
I laugh and take his hand.
"Come on, Mulder, let's go. I think that we'll always be a little different from other couples."
"And look at where everyone else is in the world: divorced."
I laugh again.
"Mulder, we can't get divorced. We aren't even married."
"Maybe, that should change."
Mulder pulls out a small diamond ring and places it on my finger. He doesn't say anything, but just grins at me.
"Aren't you supposed to ask me a question?"
"I already know the answer," Mulder replies, leaning in and kissing me, passionately.
Our life is starting to look normal. Well, as normal as it could look for us. I mean we did spend most of our life together looking at the unexplained--I think our relationship could rank right up there as unexplainable.
I laugh at the thought as our little family walks back to our car.
"You know, Scully, all we need now is the rest of our family," Mulder says.
"Only four and a half more months to go," I tell him grinning.
"I can't wait."
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