Chapter 11 - The Morning After
Mulder sat up on the couch and slowly rose to his feet stretching. He managed to finally push his thoughts of Scully out of his head long enough to get at least a few hours sleep.
He stumbled into the kitchen and started up the coffee pot and then creeped slowly up the stairs to get take a shower. He paused in front of the bedroom door.
Usually Mulder waited until Scully was up to go into the bathroom and take a shower not wanting to invade her privacy, but today he had no choice. He had to meet with Roger in little over an hour and he was pretty sure that Scully would not want to be woken up at this early hour.
He slowly pushed open the door and peeked around the corner to make sure that Scully was asleep. She was and Mulder slowly, quietly started to make his way across the room.
He paused for a second just to look at her. She looked so beautiful and peaceful lying there that he wondered for a second what she would do if he just crawled into bed next to her.
"Probably have me drawn and quartered" he thought to himself as he went into the bathroom and started the shower. He stepped into the hot water feeling his body relaxing under the constant stream of water.
He tried to focus on his upcoming meeting but instead kept wondering about Scully. What would her reaction be to their brief encounter the night before? Would she want to talk about it or ignore it? Was it the start of something bigger between the two of them or just a pleasant experience?
Mulder smiled as he turned off the water and stepped out of the shower. "Knowing Scully, first she will ignore it, then she will want to talk about it and then she will want to ignore it again."
Scully was somewhat confused when she woke up. For a moment, she couldn't remember where she was or what day it was. All she could remember was that she wasn't looking forward to seeing Mulder and she could not remember why.
She lay there a second or two looking up at the ceiling until she became fully awake. Only then did she remember fully the events of the evening before.
"Oh my God, how am I going to face him today after shoving my tongue halfway down his throat last night?" she thought to herself fighting the temptation to pull the covers up over and head.
Ashamed of her timid behavior Scully forced herself to look at the clock. It read almost 9am. She strained her ears but heard nothing.
"Funny" she said to herself "usually I can hear Mulder up and about by now."
Scully flipped off the covers and swung her feet over the side of the bed still not quite sure if she wanted to leave the relative safety of her bed.
"Don't be such a chicken" she scolded herself. "This is the same man who pulled your naked body out of an alien ice block. Surely last night wasn't any worse than that."
She stood up briefly and then sat back down realizing that although she knew that Mulder had already seen her naked she had been pretty much out of it at the time and that the circumstances were quite a bit different.
Last night she almost let him see her naked again - this time without the aliens or the ice.
Shaking her head as if to rid them of negative thoughts, Scully got off the bed, picked up her robe and headed for the kitchen in search of coffee.
Descending the stairs, Scully was surprised not to find Mulder sitting at his computer or in the kitchen as these were his usual haunts in the morning.
"Great, I scared him away" Scully said out loud and she surveyed the living room. Mulder had put away the blanket and pillow he had used the night before and there was no sign of him.
Sighing she walked into the kitchen and immediately spotted the pot of coffee sitting staying warm on the coffee maker.
"At least he didn't leave with the coffee" she joked to herself pouring herself a large cup. It wasn't until she was opening the refrigerator door that she spotted his note sitting on the kitchen counter.
"J - I am off to meet Roger at the club. Will be back as soon as I can. Hope you liked dinner last night as much as I did. R-."
Scully ignored the comment about the previous evening and wondered how Mulder's breakfast meeting with Roger was going.
Mulder gathered together a good number of opinions about his breakfast partner Roger over the few hours they spent together. The first and foremost being that the man could drink - a lot.
Here it was barely nine in the morning and the man was on his third Bloody Mary while Mulder was slowly nursing his first one.
Mulder thought they were going to play golf or tennis or even racquetball but apparently Roger just wanted to get drunk and talk.
"So Richard, it must be nice to have such a beautiful and smart wife" Roger said blurring his words together just a bit.
Mulder just smiled in response.
"Can I ask you something rather personal Richard?" Roger said after motioning the waitress to bring him his fourth drink.
"Sure Roger" Mulder said wondering just how many drinks Roger had in an average day.
"Are redheads as fiery in bed as they say they are? You know, I have slept with a lot of women..more than a lot.and I have never been with a redhead."
Mulder didn't even want to think about what Scully would be like in bed let alone talk about it so he tried to chance the subject. "Lots of women, man are you lucky. Jodi and I have been together more or less since college."
Roger shook his head and seemed to be genuinely sorry for Mulder's plight. "That is too bad my friend when they are so many beautiful women out there who are looking for variety too."
Mulder saw his opening and jumped on it. "There are? How would you know that Roger, haven't you and Wendy been married forever?"
Roger smiled a wicked smile at Mulder. "There are ways to have your cake and eat it too."
"Really" Mulder said taking a big drink of his Bloody Mary.
"Oh yeah" Roger said and he began to talk about how he and Brian had grown rather frustrated with the fact that they were stuck sleeping with only their wives and how one night when they had both been drinking quite a bit they had made a deal to swap wives.
They rather thought that their wives would be hesitant to go along with the idea so they hopped on the internet and started looking up ways to 'loosen' up their wives a bit.
After many days and nights of research, Roger had stumbled upon a small shop in California that specialized in ordorless, flavorless substances that would increase desire with no real side affects.
"Besides cheating your spouse" Mulder thought to himself as he ordered himself another Bloody Mary and encouraged Roger to continue.
Roger, who flew to California several times a year for business, picked up the substance on his next trip and Roger and Brian slipped it into their wives wine over dinner.
"It was unbelievable." Roger was saying "Within a half of hour of drinking the wine, Brian and I were out in the kitchen trying to decide if we should give them another douse and when we returned to the living room they already beginning to grope at each other. Needless to say, it was a very enjoyable evening."
"Weren't they mad at you for slipping them the drug?" Mulder said figuring that Scully would have surely emptied her service weapon into him if he ever pulled such a stunt.
"They were disappointed about not being consulted beforehand but were actually willing to try the substance again - as long as we took some too. Before long, they had told all their friends and our little parties began to grow and grow and Wendy was growing the necessary herbs for the potion out in our garden. Of course, the best stuff still comes from California. Brian and I try to get out there at least a few times a year."
Mulder just sat there when he finished speaking wondering if he was given that opportunity if he would jump on it the way everyone else had.
"So what do you think Richard? Wanna give it a try?"
"I don't know Roger" Mulder started "I am not sure that Jodi would go for it?"
"Who says you have to tell her."
"I don't know if I can just drug her up and set her loose in a room full of strange men."
"I understand completely" Roger said "I felt the same way about Wendy and that's why we always break people in slowly."
He ordered a couple more drinks and began to tell Mulder exactly how they were going to pull it off.
Agnes was pulling weeds out from the garden which separated her driveway from that of her neighbors when she saw a cab pull up. Out of it came a very obviously drunk Mulder.
"Hiya Agnes" he said trying his best not to sway too much. "I just want to thank you for the tea. I don't think I have ever seen my wife as passionate as she was last night."
And with that he staggered to the door wondering how he was going to explain to Scully about being dead drunk before one in the afternoon.
Agnes barely nodded her acknowledgement before heading into her house..
She headed straight to her library going directly to the section dedicated to spells. She ran her finger along the binders until she found the correct book.
"Well, Richard" she said out loud sitting down and opening the page "I need to find out some more about you. I think this should do the trick nicely."
End of chapter 11
Mulder sat up on the couch and slowly rose to his feet stretching. He managed to finally push his thoughts of Scully out of his head long enough to get at least a few hours sleep.
He stumbled into the kitchen and started up the coffee pot and then creeped slowly up the stairs to get take a shower. He paused in front of the bedroom door.
Usually Mulder waited until Scully was up to go into the bathroom and take a shower not wanting to invade her privacy, but today he had no choice. He had to meet with Roger in little over an hour and he was pretty sure that Scully would not want to be woken up at this early hour.
He slowly pushed open the door and peeked around the corner to make sure that Scully was asleep. She was and Mulder slowly, quietly started to make his way across the room.
He paused for a second just to look at her. She looked so beautiful and peaceful lying there that he wondered for a second what she would do if he just crawled into bed next to her.
"Probably have me drawn and quartered" he thought to himself as he went into the bathroom and started the shower. He stepped into the hot water feeling his body relaxing under the constant stream of water.
He tried to focus on his upcoming meeting but instead kept wondering about Scully. What would her reaction be to their brief encounter the night before? Would she want to talk about it or ignore it? Was it the start of something bigger between the two of them or just a pleasant experience?
Mulder smiled as he turned off the water and stepped out of the shower. "Knowing Scully, first she will ignore it, then she will want to talk about it and then she will want to ignore it again."
Scully was somewhat confused when she woke up. For a moment, she couldn't remember where she was or what day it was. All she could remember was that she wasn't looking forward to seeing Mulder and she could not remember why.
She lay there a second or two looking up at the ceiling until she became fully awake. Only then did she remember fully the events of the evening before.
"Oh my God, how am I going to face him today after shoving my tongue halfway down his throat last night?" she thought to herself fighting the temptation to pull the covers up over and head.
Ashamed of her timid behavior Scully forced herself to look at the clock. It read almost 9am. She strained her ears but heard nothing.
"Funny" she said to herself "usually I can hear Mulder up and about by now."
Scully flipped off the covers and swung her feet over the side of the bed still not quite sure if she wanted to leave the relative safety of her bed.
"Don't be such a chicken" she scolded herself. "This is the same man who pulled your naked body out of an alien ice block. Surely last night wasn't any worse than that."
She stood up briefly and then sat back down realizing that although she knew that Mulder had already seen her naked she had been pretty much out of it at the time and that the circumstances were quite a bit different.
Last night she almost let him see her naked again - this time without the aliens or the ice.
Shaking her head as if to rid them of negative thoughts, Scully got off the bed, picked up her robe and headed for the kitchen in search of coffee.
Descending the stairs, Scully was surprised not to find Mulder sitting at his computer or in the kitchen as these were his usual haunts in the morning.
"Great, I scared him away" Scully said out loud and she surveyed the living room. Mulder had put away the blanket and pillow he had used the night before and there was no sign of him.
Sighing she walked into the kitchen and immediately spotted the pot of coffee sitting staying warm on the coffee maker.
"At least he didn't leave with the coffee" she joked to herself pouring herself a large cup. It wasn't until she was opening the refrigerator door that she spotted his note sitting on the kitchen counter.
"J - I am off to meet Roger at the club. Will be back as soon as I can. Hope you liked dinner last night as much as I did. R-."
Scully ignored the comment about the previous evening and wondered how Mulder's breakfast meeting with Roger was going.
Mulder gathered together a good number of opinions about his breakfast partner Roger over the few hours they spent together. The first and foremost being that the man could drink - a lot.
Here it was barely nine in the morning and the man was on his third Bloody Mary while Mulder was slowly nursing his first one.
Mulder thought they were going to play golf or tennis or even racquetball but apparently Roger just wanted to get drunk and talk.
"So Richard, it must be nice to have such a beautiful and smart wife" Roger said blurring his words together just a bit.
Mulder just smiled in response.
"Can I ask you something rather personal Richard?" Roger said after motioning the waitress to bring him his fourth drink.
"Sure Roger" Mulder said wondering just how many drinks Roger had in an average day.
"Are redheads as fiery in bed as they say they are? You know, I have slept with a lot of women..more than a lot.and I have never been with a redhead."
Mulder didn't even want to think about what Scully would be like in bed let alone talk about it so he tried to chance the subject. "Lots of women, man are you lucky. Jodi and I have been together more or less since college."
Roger shook his head and seemed to be genuinely sorry for Mulder's plight. "That is too bad my friend when they are so many beautiful women out there who are looking for variety too."
Mulder saw his opening and jumped on it. "There are? How would you know that Roger, haven't you and Wendy been married forever?"
Roger smiled a wicked smile at Mulder. "There are ways to have your cake and eat it too."
"Really" Mulder said taking a big drink of his Bloody Mary.
"Oh yeah" Roger said and he began to talk about how he and Brian had grown rather frustrated with the fact that they were stuck sleeping with only their wives and how one night when they had both been drinking quite a bit they had made a deal to swap wives.
They rather thought that their wives would be hesitant to go along with the idea so they hopped on the internet and started looking up ways to 'loosen' up their wives a bit.
After many days and nights of research, Roger had stumbled upon a small shop in California that specialized in ordorless, flavorless substances that would increase desire with no real side affects.
"Besides cheating your spouse" Mulder thought to himself as he ordered himself another Bloody Mary and encouraged Roger to continue.
Roger, who flew to California several times a year for business, picked up the substance on his next trip and Roger and Brian slipped it into their wives wine over dinner.
"It was unbelievable." Roger was saying "Within a half of hour of drinking the wine, Brian and I were out in the kitchen trying to decide if we should give them another douse and when we returned to the living room they already beginning to grope at each other. Needless to say, it was a very enjoyable evening."
"Weren't they mad at you for slipping them the drug?" Mulder said figuring that Scully would have surely emptied her service weapon into him if he ever pulled such a stunt.
"They were disappointed about not being consulted beforehand but were actually willing to try the substance again - as long as we took some too. Before long, they had told all their friends and our little parties began to grow and grow and Wendy was growing the necessary herbs for the potion out in our garden. Of course, the best stuff still comes from California. Brian and I try to get out there at least a few times a year."
Mulder just sat there when he finished speaking wondering if he was given that opportunity if he would jump on it the way everyone else had.
"So what do you think Richard? Wanna give it a try?"
"I don't know Roger" Mulder started "I am not sure that Jodi would go for it?"
"Who says you have to tell her."
"I don't know if I can just drug her up and set her loose in a room full of strange men."
"I understand completely" Roger said "I felt the same way about Wendy and that's why we always break people in slowly."
He ordered a couple more drinks and began to tell Mulder exactly how they were going to pull it off.
Agnes was pulling weeds out from the garden which separated her driveway from that of her neighbors when she saw a cab pull up. Out of it came a very obviously drunk Mulder.
"Hiya Agnes" he said trying his best not to sway too much. "I just want to thank you for the tea. I don't think I have ever seen my wife as passionate as she was last night."
And with that he staggered to the door wondering how he was going to explain to Scully about being dead drunk before one in the afternoon.
Agnes barely nodded her acknowledgement before heading into her house..
She headed straight to her library going directly to the section dedicated to spells. She ran her finger along the binders until she found the correct book.
"Well, Richard" she said out loud sitting down and opening the page "I need to find out some more about you. I think this should do the trick nicely."
End of chapter 11