Title: The Truth Is Not Enough
Author: Dana_Maru
Summary: The guys are waiting for the girls to show, but will they?

Disclaimer: All right already, I am not going to keep writing the same thing over and over! None of the characters you recognize are mine - so sue me. Actually don't!

Chapter Twelve

Skinner is pacing along the top step, wondering why Scully and Monica aren't here yet, trying to think of logical reasons why they could be late. 'With any luck they're just running late, they'll be here. But what if something's happened? Walter, SNAP OUT OF IT, THEY'LL SHOW! But what if they don't?'

He stopped pacing; realizing it wasn't doing much for his nerves or that of John and Mulder. They stood, still on the top of the steps, waiting nervously for them to arrive. It was already gone two o'clock and there was still no sign of the car they should be arriving in. Mulder didn't understand why Skinner and John were acting the way they were. They were far more nervous than he was about them showing up. But then he didn't know the real reason they had been standing here for over an hour.

The minister was getting tired of waiting for Scully to show up, he had been standing inside the door watching the groom-to-be and his friends. He slowly walked out of the building to stand behind the three.

"So which one of you is the groom?"

Mulder gave a quizzical look to his former boss and colleague. They both gave each other a look that said 'busted!' and turned to point at Mulder.

"What?! No there is some mistake, I'm not getting married - not right now anyway."

"Um, you are actually, that's why you're wearing that outfit and why we are still waiting for Monica to get here with your bride."

It was Mulder's turn to start panicking now, he was supposed to be getting married, to Scully but she wasn't here. Maybe his worst fears were coming true, maybe she really didn't love him. But she had told him she did so why wasn't she here?

"Holy Shit! She's changed her mind."

"Don't jump to conclusions yet, Mulder. She's just running late."

"You don't know that John, she's not coming."

Tears started forming in his eyes as he said this, threatening to pour down his cheeks. He blinked them back so the guys wouldn't see him cry, but he couldn't hold them back for long. Soon they were pouring down his face, faster than the river flowing in front of him. Scully didn't love him like he wanted her too, she loved him just like a friend or a sister would, but not in the way he loved her. He broke down, falling to his knees and sobbing uncontrollably. Skinner looked uneasy, and put his hand on Mulder's shoulder while at the same time focusing on the white car about a half a mile away from them. As it got closer, Skinner noticed it was not just an ordinary car, but the white limousine Scully had said she would be arriving in. He hauled Mulder to his feet and told him to get his act together.

"Why? She isn't coming. She finally realized that she can do much better than me."

"She obviously hasn't, Mulder. See that limousine? That's them."

Mulder quickly wiped away the tears and brushed the dust from his blazer and knees. The car stopped at the bottom of the steps and out stepped Scully looking absolutely dazzling in the cream gown. Monica followed her out of the car, lifting the back of the wedding dress off the ground and they walked up the steps. All the guys turn to watch the two lovely women advance toward them, all with the same thing escaping their lips at the sight -

"WOW!"

"Sorry we're late, the car that was supposed to be bringing us here forgot to pick us up so we had to wait for the next one available."

Mulder caught hold of Scully, and very relieved that she did love him after all, pulled her into a tight hug. He finally let go after what seemed an eternity to their witnesses.

"Are you ready?"

They both nodded and stepped toward the minister.

"I believe you have prepared your own vows?"

Mulder obviously hasn't and Skinner steps forward to hand him a piece of paper with his vows on it. He quickly skims over it and smiles at Scully, his partner in 'crime' and soon his wife.

"Ladies first."

"Okay, well...Fox William Mulder, you and I have worked together for so long, and stuck by each other through thick and thin and been through so much in the past nine years. With any luck we will still be together for many years to come. We have shared the past as work partners and best friends, but now that we have finally admitted our feelings, there is nothing more I want than to spend the future with you. If I could go back in time and change anything of our lives - the only thing I would want to be different is that I had told you how much I loved you long before now. I wish I had but I could never get the courage, and now that I have I want to spend eternity with you, as husband and wife, together forever until death do us part.

Mulder glanced down at the piece of paper in his hands and scrunched it up.

"This piece of paper doesn't come close to what I want to say. Um...Dana Katherine Scully, what you just said pretty much sums up most of my own feelings. Although, if I could travel back in time, I would have at least tried to change the time when you got abducted and the time when you got cancer. I didn't wanna live anymore when I first thought I had lost you, but I didn't realize how much I loved you until I thought I would be losing you, again. I wanted so many times to tell you I loved you, I believe I did once, after I got off the The Queen Ann in the Devil's Triangle, but you thought I had gone loopy. So now that you listened to me this time, and we have overcome that particular barrier and what you want is exactly what I want, there is nothing stopping us from being together as long as we both shall live.

The pair both stand, gazing lovingly at each other with tears in their eyes. They hear some sniffles behind them and turn around to find that Monica, John and even Skinner have tears streaming down their cheeks. John handed a ring to Mulder and one to Scully and stood smiling as they put them on the other's finger.

"I now pronounce you man and wife."

Looking at Mulder he finished with,

"You may kiss your bride."

Mulder didn't need to be told twice, he pulled Scully close to him, passionately kissing the love of his life, now his wife.

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I hope that was worth the wait. Remember to review if you want more chapters. They are in my head waiting for your reviews so I can type the next part up.

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