Chapter 7- Airplane
The ride to the airport was fairly silent, save for the sound of the music coming from the cd player/radio. The songs were old, probably from around the time he was born but he knew many of them, the Van de Kemps had listened them while he was growing up.
'Its 9:21 and this is 'Heaven' by Brian Adams.'
Dana's posture moved upright and she smiled brightly. Will watched the transformation while a small chuckle resounded in his mind. "You like this song Dana?"
"It's my favorite."
He turned back to the road and out of the corner of his eye watched her sing along with the song.
"Baby your all that I want,
When your lying here in my arms.
Im finding it hard to believe were in heaven,
love is all that I need,
And I found it there in your heart.
It isn't to hard to see,
Were in heaven."
He smiled at took the exit that would take them to the airport. When the song was over and she had stopped singing she looked over at him.
"That was the song my parents danced to at their wedding, your parents too, at theirs. Its such a beautiful song, Its going to be my wedding song; some day."
"Your right, it is a beautiful song. I remember when I was younger the Van de Kemps use to dance in the living room, they danced to this song a few times. I always liked it."
Dana smiled and looked out the window, the rain beat down on the glass and raced to the steal of the car door. She became intrigued with this notion and watched attentively. Will looked over periodically and watched her as she did this, she didn't seem to notice; or if she had noticed didn't seem to care.
As soon as he turned back to the road she spoke up, "Goose Creek huh. What a strange name for a city. Don't you think?"
"Yea, it is pretty weird isn't it. I'd never heard of it before, heard of Charleston though."
"Yeah, its only suppose to be a few miles away. Maybe before we leave we could go to the beach. I've always been drawn to the ocean. I think it's the sound of the waves and the smell of the surf. You know how all girls dream of their weddings when their young? Well when I would dream of mine it would always take place at the beach. I'd be in a beautiful white dress with no shoes so I could feel the sand between my toes, my hair up in curls, it was such a wonderful dream."
"Maybe one day it will become a reality."
"Yea, maybe."
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It took them only 15 minutes to get boarded on the plane, which was pretty impressive considering it usually takes over a hour. They were seated and Will had decided to give Dana the window seat. She store out into the stormy sky, captivated once again with the scene from across the glass. It had begun to thunder and lightening which caused her to be even more captivated. "Storms always use to scare me when I was younger. If they were bad enough I would even shake with fear. Maybe its because I had so many things to be afraid of when I was younger, you know just add another to the list. Or it could've been the fact that while we were on the run I had experienced more Hurricanes than I ever wanted to in my life. Im not sure what it was, but now for some reason they seem to calm me."
"Hmm." Will said also looking out the window, "I was afraid of storms when I was younger too. I guess I grew out of it though."
Dana turned to face him, he was a bit closer to her than she had expected however and when she turned their lips accidentally brushed against each other. She drew back abashed and turned to face the window once again. "Im sorry, I didn't mean--"
"Don't worry about it." He said in a small voice. The embarrassment in his tone fully audible.
Her cheeks flushed and she watched the lighting light up the sky. She turned back to see Will looking at her also flustered, with a sheepish smile on his face. She was about to speak when the Pilots voice boomed through the intercom systems and then the flight attendant showed the emergency procedures and how your seat could double as a flotation device.
Will leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Hey Dana, you a member of the mile high club?"
She laughed nervously, "No Will, im not."
"Ever think of becoming one?"
She thought about this for a second, then lifted her left eyebrow like she'd seen Dana do many times before. She smiled seductively, "What would you do if I said yes?"
"Faint."
She laughed and slapped him on the arm, the incident earlier seemed to have disappeared. Or they had both chosen to overlook it and enjoy the rest of their flight. The in-flight movie had been more than a classic, it was a classic from her mothers days. Maybe even her grandmothers.
Will leaned into her ear once more, "The Birds. Seriously, you think they could've found something a bit more, recent?"
"You know these movies are meant to bore passengers into sleeping so the lazy ass flight attendants don't have to do any more work that possible."
He laughed and then stifled a yawn. Dana tried not to but she yawned herself.
"Did you not sleep good last night?" Will asked concerned.
"No, not really."
"You should try to get some more sleep, I'll wake you up when we get there ok?"
She managed an 'ok' through the fit of yawns and leaned her head onto Wills shoulder. Within minutes she was sleeping.
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A few hours later the husky voice of the pilot once again came over the intercom tearing Will out of his peaceful slumber. He lifted his head and sleepily looked around, Dana was still sleeping on his should enabling him from looking farther. The pilots voice repeated 'Were approaching the landing strip, would everybody please sit in their seats and fasten their seat belts.' He looked over at Dana whose seat belt was still unbuckled. He almost shook her awake but then thought better of himself when she sighed and shifted in her sleep, burying her face further into his jacket.
He reached around her waist and grabbed the belt pulling it to the other side. He clipped the belt and she stirred, her eyes slowly opened and she smiled.
"Morning, were landing."
"What time is it?"
He looked at his watch then back at her, "12:42."
She sat upright in her seat and ran her hands through her hair, "Have I been asleep this whole time?"
"As far as I know, yeah. But I fell asleep shortly after you did."
She turned and looked out the window, "The storm stopped."
"Yeah, just wait, muggy South Carolina weather starts early in the morning."
"That's one thing im dreading." She thought a moment, "Have you already got our hotel?"
"Yeah, were lucky too, it being 4th of July weekend and all, got the last two connecting rooms at the Jameston Inn."
She yawned. "Good. What time are we meeting the local PD in the morning?"
"Uh, we have an appointment with Deputy Sheriff Lewis at 9:30."
The plane started its decent and Dana picked the fuzz off of her dress. "I should've changed before we got on the flight."
Will smiled, "Why? I like that dress."
Dana smiled and lowered her head her cheeks a dark crimson color, Will chuckled inwardly and watched this display. She looked up to see him staring and his smile grew.
"What?"
"You blushed."
Her cheeks flushed more, "No, its just hot in here."
"Sure."
The plane came to a stop and minutes later they were exiting on their way to baggage. They grabbed their bags, rented a Sedan and went off in the direction of their hotel.
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As they drove Dana cursed herself for blushing, from the corner of her eye she could see Will once again watching her but as she turned her head too look at him he fixed his eyes on the road.
"I don't know what it is with men and driving. Mulder never let Dana drive, dad never let mom drive. Now you don't let me drive, unbelievable."
He laughed and looked at her, "Well, maybe it's the fact women cant drive."
"Bullshit I bet im a much better driver than you are."
"Sure. Fine. Whatever."
"You sound like a teenage girl. Your father and mother do that all the time."
Will smiled at the last sentence and pulled into the hotel parking lot, they walked to the front desk and a blonde women who looked maybe 28 smiled gawking at Will. She looked at Dana and her smiled faded a bit, 'Eat your heart out blondie.' She thought standing closer to Will than before.
"Can I help you?" She said in a voice way to cheery to be real.
"Yea, we have reservations. Rooms 121 and 122. William Van de Kemp and Dana Dogett."
She typed on her computer and looked up with a frown. "Um, we've given those two rooms away."
"What? I reserved them this morning."
"Yes, I know. But your deadline was 1 am. Its almost 2 now. We gave them away 30 minutes ago."
Wills brow furrowed and he rubbed the bridge of his nose with his thumb and pointer finger. "Do you have any rooms available?"
She typed again, "Umm, yea. Two, one with a king bed and one with two full beds."
"We'll take the second one." Dana said quickly, not giving Will the chance to answer.
"Ok, that's room 213, $65 dollars."
Will looked at Dana and she raised her left eyebrow, he sighed and took out his wallet giving her his credit card.
"Doesnt the bureau pay for things like this?"
"Well normally yes. But seeing as the FBI has the policy that male and female agents are not to share a room, I doubt this time they will."
"But Will, there's no other rooms."
The blonde listened to their conversation intrigued. "So you're the FBI Agent that they sent down?" She said looking at Will.
"Well, actually, we're the FBI Agents they sent down." He answered.
The women frowned glared at Dana who glared back, laughing on the inside. 'Ha, bitch.'
Then she handed Will the keys and flashed him a full teeth smile. Dana's glare turned to a scowl and Will placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Come on Dana," He said slowly, "It's late. We need to get to bed."
"What I need is to get out of this dress. It figures I would get all dressed up to see your uncle again, after over 10 years nonetheless and we would have to go on a case." She smiled fully, "But for a case like this, I think I would drop anything."
Will laughed, "You sound like my father."
The blonde huffed and Dana smoothed out her dress, "Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to wear it the next time I see Charlie, oh, or Bill's coming down in three days right? Hopefully were not still here, it would just give Bill more of a reason to hate your dad." With that Dana turned from the desk and walked towards the elevator.
She walked with so much confidence that Will could do nothing but stand there and watch. After a few steps of nobody walking behind her she turned around and gazed at Will. "William Fox are you coming?"
He smiled, "Yeah. Yeah, im coming."
The blonde grumbled something incoherent and Dana looked at her with a smile, "Have a nice night."
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Will slumped onto the bed with a sigh, he turned on the light that rested on the nightstand in-between the two beds. He heard a door click and he looked up to see Dana exit the bathroom, wearing a pair of short black night shorts and a small red tank top. He smiled at her choice of clothes, she obviously had planned on sleeping by herself.
He got off the bed and grabbed his bag so that he to could change into something to wear to bed. He returned moments later and Dana was lying under the covers of her bed seemingly asleep. But when he laid in his bed she opened her eyes.
"I set the alarm for 7:30, but that's just so I can get ready. I don't know what time you plan on getting up."
"7:30 is good, I can go out for a jog, make some coffee." He sat up in his bed, "Dana can I ask you something."
"Shoot."
"How long have you worked on the X-Files?"
"Less than a year. They were shut down in 2011, didn't get reopened until just recently and since my parents had run them for so many years I was assigned. To tell the truth it's the only reason that I joined the FBI, I was determined on running them. Would've done anything it took."
"Well, goodnight Dana."
"Goodnight Will."
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a/n: the mile high club subject came from another fic i read, i didn't come up with it on my own. The reference to liquid magnite was also from another fic.
The ride to the airport was fairly silent, save for the sound of the music coming from the cd player/radio. The songs were old, probably from around the time he was born but he knew many of them, the Van de Kemps had listened them while he was growing up.
'Its 9:21 and this is 'Heaven' by Brian Adams.'
Dana's posture moved upright and she smiled brightly. Will watched the transformation while a small chuckle resounded in his mind. "You like this song Dana?"
"It's my favorite."
He turned back to the road and out of the corner of his eye watched her sing along with the song.
"Baby your all that I want,
When your lying here in my arms.
Im finding it hard to believe were in heaven,
love is all that I need,
And I found it there in your heart.
It isn't to hard to see,
Were in heaven."
He smiled at took the exit that would take them to the airport. When the song was over and she had stopped singing she looked over at him.
"That was the song my parents danced to at their wedding, your parents too, at theirs. Its such a beautiful song, Its going to be my wedding song; some day."
"Your right, it is a beautiful song. I remember when I was younger the Van de Kemps use to dance in the living room, they danced to this song a few times. I always liked it."
Dana smiled and looked out the window, the rain beat down on the glass and raced to the steal of the car door. She became intrigued with this notion and watched attentively. Will looked over periodically and watched her as she did this, she didn't seem to notice; or if she had noticed didn't seem to care.
As soon as he turned back to the road she spoke up, "Goose Creek huh. What a strange name for a city. Don't you think?"
"Yea, it is pretty weird isn't it. I'd never heard of it before, heard of Charleston though."
"Yeah, its only suppose to be a few miles away. Maybe before we leave we could go to the beach. I've always been drawn to the ocean. I think it's the sound of the waves and the smell of the surf. You know how all girls dream of their weddings when their young? Well when I would dream of mine it would always take place at the beach. I'd be in a beautiful white dress with no shoes so I could feel the sand between my toes, my hair up in curls, it was such a wonderful dream."
"Maybe one day it will become a reality."
"Yea, maybe."
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It took them only 15 minutes to get boarded on the plane, which was pretty impressive considering it usually takes over a hour. They were seated and Will had decided to give Dana the window seat. She store out into the stormy sky, captivated once again with the scene from across the glass. It had begun to thunder and lightening which caused her to be even more captivated. "Storms always use to scare me when I was younger. If they were bad enough I would even shake with fear. Maybe its because I had so many things to be afraid of when I was younger, you know just add another to the list. Or it could've been the fact that while we were on the run I had experienced more Hurricanes than I ever wanted to in my life. Im not sure what it was, but now for some reason they seem to calm me."
"Hmm." Will said also looking out the window, "I was afraid of storms when I was younger too. I guess I grew out of it though."
Dana turned to face him, he was a bit closer to her than she had expected however and when she turned their lips accidentally brushed against each other. She drew back abashed and turned to face the window once again. "Im sorry, I didn't mean--"
"Don't worry about it." He said in a small voice. The embarrassment in his tone fully audible.
Her cheeks flushed and she watched the lighting light up the sky. She turned back to see Will looking at her also flustered, with a sheepish smile on his face. She was about to speak when the Pilots voice boomed through the intercom systems and then the flight attendant showed the emergency procedures and how your seat could double as a flotation device.
Will leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Hey Dana, you a member of the mile high club?"
She laughed nervously, "No Will, im not."
"Ever think of becoming one?"
She thought about this for a second, then lifted her left eyebrow like she'd seen Dana do many times before. She smiled seductively, "What would you do if I said yes?"
"Faint."
She laughed and slapped him on the arm, the incident earlier seemed to have disappeared. Or they had both chosen to overlook it and enjoy the rest of their flight. The in-flight movie had been more than a classic, it was a classic from her mothers days. Maybe even her grandmothers.
Will leaned into her ear once more, "The Birds. Seriously, you think they could've found something a bit more, recent?"
"You know these movies are meant to bore passengers into sleeping so the lazy ass flight attendants don't have to do any more work that possible."
He laughed and then stifled a yawn. Dana tried not to but she yawned herself.
"Did you not sleep good last night?" Will asked concerned.
"No, not really."
"You should try to get some more sleep, I'll wake you up when we get there ok?"
She managed an 'ok' through the fit of yawns and leaned her head onto Wills shoulder. Within minutes she was sleeping.
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A few hours later the husky voice of the pilot once again came over the intercom tearing Will out of his peaceful slumber. He lifted his head and sleepily looked around, Dana was still sleeping on his should enabling him from looking farther. The pilots voice repeated 'Were approaching the landing strip, would everybody please sit in their seats and fasten their seat belts.' He looked over at Dana whose seat belt was still unbuckled. He almost shook her awake but then thought better of himself when she sighed and shifted in her sleep, burying her face further into his jacket.
He reached around her waist and grabbed the belt pulling it to the other side. He clipped the belt and she stirred, her eyes slowly opened and she smiled.
"Morning, were landing."
"What time is it?"
He looked at his watch then back at her, "12:42."
She sat upright in her seat and ran her hands through her hair, "Have I been asleep this whole time?"
"As far as I know, yeah. But I fell asleep shortly after you did."
She turned and looked out the window, "The storm stopped."
"Yeah, just wait, muggy South Carolina weather starts early in the morning."
"That's one thing im dreading." She thought a moment, "Have you already got our hotel?"
"Yeah, were lucky too, it being 4th of July weekend and all, got the last two connecting rooms at the Jameston Inn."
She yawned. "Good. What time are we meeting the local PD in the morning?"
"Uh, we have an appointment with Deputy Sheriff Lewis at 9:30."
The plane started its decent and Dana picked the fuzz off of her dress. "I should've changed before we got on the flight."
Will smiled, "Why? I like that dress."
Dana smiled and lowered her head her cheeks a dark crimson color, Will chuckled inwardly and watched this display. She looked up to see him staring and his smile grew.
"What?"
"You blushed."
Her cheeks flushed more, "No, its just hot in here."
"Sure."
The plane came to a stop and minutes later they were exiting on their way to baggage. They grabbed their bags, rented a Sedan and went off in the direction of their hotel.
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As they drove Dana cursed herself for blushing, from the corner of her eye she could see Will once again watching her but as she turned her head too look at him he fixed his eyes on the road.
"I don't know what it is with men and driving. Mulder never let Dana drive, dad never let mom drive. Now you don't let me drive, unbelievable."
He laughed and looked at her, "Well, maybe it's the fact women cant drive."
"Bullshit I bet im a much better driver than you are."
"Sure. Fine. Whatever."
"You sound like a teenage girl. Your father and mother do that all the time."
Will smiled at the last sentence and pulled into the hotel parking lot, they walked to the front desk and a blonde women who looked maybe 28 smiled gawking at Will. She looked at Dana and her smiled faded a bit, 'Eat your heart out blondie.' She thought standing closer to Will than before.
"Can I help you?" She said in a voice way to cheery to be real.
"Yea, we have reservations. Rooms 121 and 122. William Van de Kemp and Dana Dogett."
She typed on her computer and looked up with a frown. "Um, we've given those two rooms away."
"What? I reserved them this morning."
"Yes, I know. But your deadline was 1 am. Its almost 2 now. We gave them away 30 minutes ago."
Wills brow furrowed and he rubbed the bridge of his nose with his thumb and pointer finger. "Do you have any rooms available?"
She typed again, "Umm, yea. Two, one with a king bed and one with two full beds."
"We'll take the second one." Dana said quickly, not giving Will the chance to answer.
"Ok, that's room 213, $65 dollars."
Will looked at Dana and she raised her left eyebrow, he sighed and took out his wallet giving her his credit card.
"Doesnt the bureau pay for things like this?"
"Well normally yes. But seeing as the FBI has the policy that male and female agents are not to share a room, I doubt this time they will."
"But Will, there's no other rooms."
The blonde listened to their conversation intrigued. "So you're the FBI Agent that they sent down?" She said looking at Will.
"Well, actually, we're the FBI Agents they sent down." He answered.
The women frowned glared at Dana who glared back, laughing on the inside. 'Ha, bitch.'
Then she handed Will the keys and flashed him a full teeth smile. Dana's glare turned to a scowl and Will placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Come on Dana," He said slowly, "It's late. We need to get to bed."
"What I need is to get out of this dress. It figures I would get all dressed up to see your uncle again, after over 10 years nonetheless and we would have to go on a case." She smiled fully, "But for a case like this, I think I would drop anything."
Will laughed, "You sound like my father."
The blonde huffed and Dana smoothed out her dress, "Oh, well. I guess I'll just have to wear it the next time I see Charlie, oh, or Bill's coming down in three days right? Hopefully were not still here, it would just give Bill more of a reason to hate your dad." With that Dana turned from the desk and walked towards the elevator.
She walked with so much confidence that Will could do nothing but stand there and watch. After a few steps of nobody walking behind her she turned around and gazed at Will. "William Fox are you coming?"
He smiled, "Yeah. Yeah, im coming."
The blonde grumbled something incoherent and Dana looked at her with a smile, "Have a nice night."
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Will slumped onto the bed with a sigh, he turned on the light that rested on the nightstand in-between the two beds. He heard a door click and he looked up to see Dana exit the bathroom, wearing a pair of short black night shorts and a small red tank top. He smiled at her choice of clothes, she obviously had planned on sleeping by herself.
He got off the bed and grabbed his bag so that he to could change into something to wear to bed. He returned moments later and Dana was lying under the covers of her bed seemingly asleep. But when he laid in his bed she opened her eyes.
"I set the alarm for 7:30, but that's just so I can get ready. I don't know what time you plan on getting up."
"7:30 is good, I can go out for a jog, make some coffee." He sat up in his bed, "Dana can I ask you something."
"Shoot."
"How long have you worked on the X-Files?"
"Less than a year. They were shut down in 2011, didn't get reopened until just recently and since my parents had run them for so many years I was assigned. To tell the truth it's the only reason that I joined the FBI, I was determined on running them. Would've done anything it took."
"Well, goodnight Dana."
"Goodnight Will."
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a/n: the mile high club subject came from another fic i read, i didn't come up with it on my own. The reference to liquid magnite was also from another fic.