Title: Missing Moments: V
Author: Gillian Leigh
Disclaimer: Uhh yeah...I think you get it by now...
POV: Mulder
I walked out to the waiting room, and laughed at the sight of John, Skinner, Skinner's niece Jennifer, and Dana's mother all pacing the perimeter of the room, covered in snow. I shook my head, and cleared my throat. They all looked up at me, and rushed over.
"Well?" Maggie asked, taking my hands. I grinned at all of them and said,
"Scully and I have a son." Maggie wrapped her arms around me, and kissed me on the cheek. Everyone else crowded around, shaking hands and giving hugs.
"Well, what's his name?" Skinner asked.
"William Fox," I said.
"When can we see him?" Maggie asked, beside herself with excitement.
"Now, if you'd like. The nurse just brought him in to Scully so she can feed him. Just follow me," I said, unable to stop smiling. It was as if I had no control over the muscles in my face. I noticed that Maggie was the only one following me. I put my arm around her shoulder.
"So how's it feel to be a grandma again?" I asked.
"I still can't believe Dana had a baby. It's a miracle," she said, putting her hand on my back. We came to Scully's room, and I knocked briefly before entering. The sight of her sitting in the rocking chair, near the window, holding our son, took my breath away. I don't think I'd ever seen her more radiant. I had told her that her smile rivaled the brilliance of a 100 watt light bulb, and she'd told me the same thing. We looked like two fools, the way we couldn't stop grinning. Maggie put a hand to her mouth, and she too was smiling.
"Hi, Mom," Scully said, glancing from her mother down at William.
"Hi, baby," Maggie said, crossing the room and kneeling beside Scully. She shifted the blanket slightly, so she could see Will's face. Scully lifted the cap on his head a bit to show her mother the mass of brown hair that he had.
"Isn't he beautiful?" Scully asked, her voice barely above a whisper, so as not to disturb the baby.
"He's absolutely perfect, sweetheart," Maggie said. Scully studied the baby for a moment with a smile on her face before saying,
"I'd like to lay down for a while. Mom, would you take William for me?" Maggie took him from her, and cradled his sleeping form as she rocked back and forth. Knowing that walking was still a chore for Scully, I had her put one arm around my neck, and I put my arm under back, and my other behind her knees and carried her to the bed. I placed her in it and she kissed me when I brought the covers up to her waist.
I watched as she looked to her mother, happy to see her holding the baby, but wanting so badly to have him back in her arms. Maggie sensed the urgency in her, and handed William back to her. Scully looked at me and said,
"Where's Monica? I haven't gotten the proper chance to thank her yet, or ask how the hell she knew what she was doing delivering a baby."
"She's out talking to the reporters."
"There are *reporters*?!"
"Yeah. Apparently, some of the ones who where at the Ball last night caught sight of me carrying you through the door, and I think a few even got you going into labor. One set of insane people followed our car, and they caught up in time to see the paramedics loading you and William into the ambulance. They want to get the rest of the story. We're a very big deal this morning," I said, and laughed. "But it's not just the TV people anymore, there are newspaper reporters all over the place outside. You'd think we were celebrities rather than just two FBI Agents who happened to have a baby." Scully smiled, and gently rocked the baby, who had awoken and was beginning to fuss.
"Mom, will you get me my makeup bag and mirror, please? I want to look human when the reporters come in," she said. Maggie obliged, and Scully turned to me, and asked,
"Mulder, will you take him, please?" I bent down and gently took our son from her. I rocked back and forth, watching as he opened his eyes and yawned.
"Hey, sleepyhead. How come you're so tired now, but you kept us up all night last night?" I asked, yawning myself. Maggie laughed and shook her head.
"You'd better get used to that, Fox. The two of you are going to be more sleep deprived than normal for a *long* time. Dana didn't start sleeping through the night until she was seven months old."
"We're never going to sleep again, are we?" I asked, looking at Scully. She smiled at me and shook her head. She was brushing on eye shadow, and checking her teeth at the same time. She put her makeup and hairbrush away, and handed the bag to her mother.
I was still wearing my tuxedo pants, shirt, dress shoes, and my bow tie hung around my neck. My ruined jacket was in a plastic bag in the corner, having been forgotten as soon as the doctors took William in to clean him up. There was a knock at the door, and Dr. Regenski stuck her head in.
"Dana, there are some reporters who'd like to speak to you and Fox," she said. "Can I send them in?" Scully nodded, and I handed William back to her. I sat down in the chair next to her bed, and we said our goodbyes to Maggie as she slipped out the door. A well dressed woman stepped in, followed by the cameraman, and several others carrying various forms of equipment. The woman stepped over to me and shook my hand, and then Scully's, and said,
"Hello, Mr. Mulder, Ms. Scully. I'm Andie Andrews with Channel 10 News. Nice to meet you, and congratulations."
"Thank you," Scully said, smiling at her. I smiled as well. "This," Scully continued, moving the blanket away from our son's face, "is William."
"Oh, he's beautiful," Andie said, and then asked me, "Can I have the guys get a shot of this?" I nodded and looked at Scully for confirmation, and she nodded as well.
"Were you the news crew who followed our car?" Scully asked, shifting William so it would be easier for the cameras to get a shot. Andie blushed a little and said,
"Yes. That's how we got in here first. There are six other crews with cameras and at least the same amount of newspapers waiting in the parking lot in their satellite vans and cars. The security guards had to literally push them away," Andie said, taking off her jacket. Scully looked at me and raised her eyebrows.
"I can't believe we attracted so much media attention," I said. "Babies are born every day."
"Yeah, but not to two FBI Agents who have to leave one of the biggest media events of the season, in the middle of the biggest blizzard D.C. has seen in ten years, only to have to stop less than three blocks from where they left and deliver the baby in the back seat of an FBI issue Dodge Intrepid," Andie said, with a smug smile on her face.
"I take it you were one of those who actually filmed me going into labor then too?" Scully said, looking up at the young, blonde reporter with growing respect.
"Yes." she looked to the men, who had finished setting up, and said to us, "If you're ready then, I'd like to get started." We nodded, and I settled back into the chair, and waited for the interview to start.
The camera focused on Andie, and she taped her introduction.
"I'm Andie Anderson, for Channel 10 News, and I'm here at Georgetown University Hospital. As you may remember, we covered the FBI Ball last night, when we caught sight of a particular female Agent as she went into labor in the middle of the event. We followed their car down the road in the snow for about three blocks before they stopped, and moments later, when paramedics arrived on scene, we witnessed the mother and child being loaded into the back of the ambulance. This morning, I'm here with the proud parents, Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, and the little one who couldn't wait for the hospital, their son, William." They cut the tape, and she repositioned herself so she was seated on the other side of Scully's bed, and said,
"I'm just going to do a few routine questions, and then we have to leave. We've been given strict orders that we only have a half an hour," Andie said, and smiled again. "Ready?"