39.
Washington DC
10.23pm
Mulder was cuddled up with Scully on the sofa. He laid back and she was leant against him as they watched the TV although Mulder's thoughts were not with the programme they had switched on. He suspected neither were Scully's. It felt so strange yet so natural to have her body moulded against his again. It had taken so long for everything to finally be perfect, for them to be complete as a family and now it was all in jeopardy. He could understand her wanting to know if the love was 'real' he hoped it was. The chip could be broken, making her love him; or it could be broken, and she loved him anyway. It was so hard for him to accept she may not feel the way he did. He loved her; he had for so long, it was painful not knowing if she felt the same. It didn't stop him being close to her. It was a death sentence of sorts. It was the death sentence to their love and tomorrow could be the end of the love of his lifetime. Yes, he would fight for her but succeeding would be bloody hard considering he was not exactly her 'type'. She'd had months to deal with this and come to terms with it. Mulder had only had a few hours. In the morning they would go to the hospital, he was determined to be there with her through this. She would have the chip removed under a local anaesthetic and then they would know almost straight away.
It wasn't just that. That evening's events were bugging her, he could tell but she was in denial again. It wasn't happening. Just like when she had cancer she had refused to accept it at first, even with the clinical evidence she held true to her. She wouldn't accept that it was happening to her. She had, in a few hours, turned from a warm caring person to a held back, almost coldly indifferent version of herself. She didn't want anyone fussing over her. He didn't blame her but it was too strange seeing her go through the motions, as it were.
"We have to talk about it Dana, you know that."
"I do. Not now, ok."
"I think now is the perfect time to discuss this, you know that as well as I
do." She sat up facing him a hurt look upon her face. He wasn't causing the
hurt it was the memories of what had happened.
"I really don't want to do this."
"That is exactly why we must." Scully sighed, taken aback at his words. She had hoped to win him over into not speaking about what had happened. She wanted to when she was ready. Why had it had to happen now, when she was on the verge of losing everything she held close to her heart? Looking down at her hands she avoided his eyes. After a moment he took her left hand in his and raised it to his lips. She followed their joined hands with her eyes and met his once more.
"Ok." She said admitting defeat, his kiss could win her over to anything and he knew it!
"Let's start with what you were doing on your unplanned 'sabbatical' shall we."
"I'll show you. I have all the files saved on a disk in my briefcase." They headed for her office collecting her briefcase from the hallway before heading upstairs.
Mulder booted up the pc, sitting on her computer chair, whilst Scully sorted through the papers in the briefcase. He took the disk from her as she puzzled over a handwritten envelope. She knew for sure that it was not her handwriting or belonging to anyone she knew. Scully opened the envelope with care, biting her lower lip as she did so.
"What's that?" Mulder asked, swinging around on the swivel chair, as she pulled the numerous pages from the envelope.
"I don't know, a letter from…" she paused as she turned the pages over to find a name. "3791… What the hell?"
"What?" she held up her hand, motioning him to stop speaking as she read through the delicately penned letter. As she finished each of the six pages she passed them to Mulder for him to read, too.
"Oh my God!" Scully said as she finished the last page. "They were trying to kill me!"
"That's not strictly true… It says here that…. And I quote 'the implanted being's purpose was to eat each ova produced by your ovaries.' It wasn't there to harm you in any other way, Dana, it was just make to sure we had no more kids."
"I don't want anymore kids." She looked at Mulder who winced at the idea "Fox? You ok?"
"Yeah. I just thought that maybe once things had settled down a bit…."
"Lets leave that for further discussion some other time." Scully said in the hope that the discussion would never arise.
"It says here that our kids have the potential to kill the alien colonies by the 'power of three'… Samantha said that tonight, but anyway what's-her-face says that the power works by the potential for new kids, too. So even if you don't have any more you will take the place of that third power. Who would have thought it the all powerful ones are our kids!"
"Just what we need!"
"Samantha is the key, apparently. The middle child binds the other two. She has the strongest psychic link… we knew that, though." Mulder pulled Scully onto his lap her mind was swirling with the information. "Hey, you ok, Dana?" she nodded, clearly not being fine, before shaking her head.
"All I've ever wanted was a normal family. You know the kind… with a Mom, Dad, two kids and a dog… that kind of family. I can cope with having given William away, I can deal with your not being here for six years, I can even handle the chip business but this… the alien inside of me… That is just too much Mulder. I would have sworn on my own life that I wouldn't have any more kids. I don't want more. I never have. They could've asked before implanting that thing inside of me. No wonder I was sick! An ulcer, my ass! I'm willing to bet the doctor in Australia fed me a load of BS to keep me sweet. No wonder my test results were absolutely normal. Way too normal for me. Damn them."
"Look, its ok…" Mulder soothed.
"No, it is not ok! They used me to help them find a cure for their clones and in return they make me infertile AGAIN! It's so unfair. Look at me! I'm some kind of fucking science project, Fox; I'm a lab rat. It's so fucking unfair!" he held her close to him and stroked her cheek with his fingertips. He loved it when she got mad. Her skin glossed over with a deep shade of red and her eyes had a fire in them that was next to nothing.
"3791 said in her letter that you scare them. The whole mystic triangle thing, the power of three, It's a legend throughout the universe, apparently. The power our children have is next to nothing. They have the magnetite in their immune systems, which destroys all alien life. Together our children blow them apart. We saw that tonight. The aliens putting that thing inside of you just shows how much you scare them."
"What worried me was how it got there. I mean I was out cold for two days. They must have put it inside of me then. I – uh – it makes me feel ill just thinking about it. What if they… what if I was raped and don't know about it."
"Dana, I doubt that very much. Would you say you put an
alien in someone if you knew that a rape had taken place? She befriended you
and I don't think she would lie to you. Do you?"
"No. I just can't believe they did that. After all the help I was to them. Ok, I
did get my revenge by making their new clones allergic to oxygen but they didn't
know that!"
Mulder laughed and held her close to him.
"Only you are capable of doing something like that. I think you should get a scan or something just to make sure. If only for your peace of mind, you did say that you were sick in Australia."
"An ulcer. That's what the Doctor said. I don't believe him now." Mulder touched her stomach tenderly "I hope nothing is left there, after the agony of giving birth to that thing I don't think I could take anymore surprises, this week at least."
"Neither do I."
He said taking her face in his hand once more. His fingers traced the line of her neck causing her to turn her head to face him. He pulled her face towards his. They kissed an almost chaste kiss. She was hurting and he wasn't making it any better by doing this. Scully pulled back from him her eyes searching for any uncertainty in him. There was none. He loved her unconditionally.
He pulled her face back against his in a deep kiss making her groan with pleasure. A sound he had longed to hear. A sound, which drove him wild making him more aroused than ever. Breaking the kiss he slid down a strap of her dress and kissed the pale skin where it had been.
"Fox…" Scully purred as the desire for him spread like wildfire through her. He silenced her with another kiss to her lips. Holding her around the waist he used his free hand to trail its way up her inner thighs. He drew imaginary circles with his fingertips making her squirm on his lap as his fingers moved closer to her core. Her head rested against his shoulder as she parted her thighs a little wider. Her breaths were short and sharp against his neck. Reaching his destination Mulder smiled and whispered huskily to her.
"I love summer… just for the reason that you never wear any underwear." Scully let out a small laugh but being caught up in the moment she let the feeling wash over her. Gently he toyed with her clitoris making her moan louder. She shifted slightly on his lap running a hand down his chest she covered his groin with her hand feeling him get harder. Gently she unzipped his trousers releasing his arousal from its prison. Taking him in her hand and Scully stroked the length of him.
"No." he growled in both pleasure and pain, it had been so long "You first." He was always the same. Her pleasure came, quite literally, before his. He'd been like this the first time. Pleasure her then they would have hurried, furious, passionate sex followed by soft, tender lovemaking. Pushing his fingers inside of her he felt her muscles tighten to accommodate him. His thumb continued to toy with her clitoris as he slid his fingers in and out of her. Scully gasped for breath holding onto him for support. Her legs kicked outwards as the bubbling of passion enveloped her soul.
"Fox… Please… I'm… I'm…"
"I know." He continued teasing her as the rising orgasm overwhelmed her. He loved to watch her orgasm despite it making him ache to be inside her.
"FOX!" she screamed as she came. He was too late to kiss her. Then again they weren't exactly in a good position to kiss. As her breathing slowed Mulder took himself from within her. On shaky legs Scully stood, rocking on her heels as she pulled Mulder to his feet. She kissed him hard on the lips, he leant her backwards, giving her a head rush, before easing her to the floor. He broke the kiss for a second pushing his trousers down. Boy did he need her.
Parting her legs as welcome to him Mulder eased himself inside of her causing her breath to catch in her throat. Mulder thrust deeply inside of Scully causing her to call his name and scratch at his back with the second wave of orgasm. Scully dug her heels hard into the floor as she bucked her hips against his. With a final thrust and engulfing waves of passion Mulder exploded into her just as Scully, herself, came her heels to her shoes breaking with the undue pressure upon them. Both laughed as Mulder collapsed on top of Scully kissing her deeply before nuzzling her neck.
A few moments later Mulder led Scully to the bedroom. The night was still young!
