Chapter 12- Match
Will didn't sleep more than 4 hours that night, and from what he could see Dana didn't either. She tossed and turned in the bed the whole night. He had wanted to hold her while she slept but thought it inappropriate. He had no clue how she felt about him and didn't want to scare her off, she was dealing with too much.
When the alarm clock went off in the morning he was already dressed and ready to go. Dana slumped out of bed, dark bags under her eyes. Will handed her a cup of coffee and she graciously accepted.
"We have an appointment with the people from the lab in an hour, to see about the fingerprint. You up to going? You don't have to if your not ready."
"No, I need to go. I'll be ready soon."
"Ok. I'll be waiting."
As she walked into the bathroom her cell phone rang.
"Can you get that?" She called through the closed door.
"Yeah, sure." He searched through her bag and found it on its 4th ring. He pressed the talk button, "This is Will."
"Will? I thought I called Dana's phone."
"She's in the shower, Mr. Dogett."
"Oh, ok. Hey, call me Dogett or John, keep the Mr., out of it."
"Ok. I'll tell her you called alright?"
"Sure, how is she doing?"
"Better, she'll be fine."
"Ok, later then."
"Yea, bye."
He hangs up the phone and makes another cup of coffee. 20 minutes later Dana comes out of the bathroom dressed and ready to go, she searches for her shoes and then they leave.
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The whole ride there is silent, Dana looks out the window at the sunny July day and sighs profoundly, "Today's my birthday. Go figure. My 26th birthday and I just killed somebody." She snorts and once again resumes her stare.
"I didn't know…im sorry, I know this comes at the totally wrong time but happy birthday."
"Thanks, I mean it is kind of a bad time at the moment, but still I know you mean it."
"That's probably why your dad called."
"Oh, that's who called?"
"Yea. He just said to call him back. You can do it after the appointment I guess."
She nods and they pull into the parking lot. They exit the car and slowly make their way to the building, once again, in silence.
Upon entering a lab technician comes up to Will. "We've got your prints, you're going to want to see this. It could possibly win your case."
They follow him into a room equipped with computers, magnifying glasses, the works. The man leads them over to one of the many computers and brings up a screen. On it are two fingerprints.
"This," He says pointing to the left screen, "Is the print that you gave me yesterday Agent Van de Kemp." He points to the right screen, "And this is Taylor's print." He presses a button and the two prints collide, "They're a match."
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Chapter 13- Going Home
After their new find they went straight to Lewis's office at the Police Station. Lewis thought it enough to close the case and they did as well, so they were going to go home. Will had called and booked a flight for 3:00 that afternoon, Dana didn't know it but he was planning on taking her to the beach. She thought their plane was leaving at 1:30.
When 12:30 rolled around they packed their things into the car and headed for what Dana thought was the airport but was really Folly Beach. She seemed to be in a better mood since the case was officially closed. As they drove she looked around perplexed.
"Will, where are we going the airport is the other way."
"It's a surprise."
10 minutes later they reached their destination and Dana let out a happy squeal. She looked at Will with a smile, "Thank-you."
They head out to the beach, which its surprisingly not that packed at upon reaching the sand Dana takes off her shoes, "Am I glad I wore a skirt, against my better judgments." She walks farther until she reaches the ocean and stands in the surf.
Will comes up next to her after taking off his shoes, letting the water soak his pants, "Happy Birthday Dana."
"It's starting to turn out that way."
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Two hours later they headed back to the car to go to the airport, Will rolled up his pants due to the fact they were sopping wet, Dana laughed when she saw this and Will made a face.
"What?"
"You have some white ass legs."
"What are they suppose to be? Black?"
She rolls her eyes and they drive off. 25 minutes later after turning the car in they're waiting outside their gate for the plane to load.
"So, you got any plans for your birthday? Or, are you just going to stay home."
"I'll probably go over my parents, why?"
"Well, Bill's in town. I thought maybe you'd want to meet him, if you haven't already."
"I've never met Bill before, what time are you going to go to your parents house?"
"Well, our plane should land at 7:00. I was thinking maybe 9 or so. But if you want to go see your parents you should. Don't let me keep you away from them."
"I could always go to see them and then meet you at Dana and Mulder's. Around 10 maybe."
"It's a plan."
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Their plane landed at 6:46 and they both went the separate ways planning to meet again at 10, Will dropped his stuff off at his apartment and headed towards the mall. He was planning on finding Dana something other than a trip to the beach for her birthday.
While he was on his way to the mall he called his mother to see if she knew anything she would like for her birthday. His mother gave him a few ideas and he thanked her as he pulled into the packed parking lot.
After searching through 3 different stores he finally found the right gift. He paid for it and then went home to change, it was already 8:15.
10 minutes until 9 o'clock Will pulled into his parents house. His dad was sitting on the front porch mumbling something to himself, he looked a bit pissed. He's mood lightened however when he saw Will get out of his car.
"Will, you made it. Your mother's been waiting for you. How was the case?"
"You have no idea, wait, back up. I take that back, im sure you do. You went through something just like it, although it was the twin of the man I had to deal with."
"Twins, wow. Your mother didn't tell me that about Taylor. But I guess its possible. We never had a reason not to believe there was more of them. Im just glad you found him, and now he's gone. How's Dana doing? I know that she's got a lot to go through."
"She's better actually. She was really happy she got to go to the beach, so I think it lightened up her mood a bit, she'll be here in about an hour."
"Really. That's great. I figured she would spend her birthday with her parents."
"Well, that's where she is right now. In invited her over, mom knew about it. She didn't say anything?"
"Your mother's been dealing with Bill all day, she hasn't had the time to tell anybody anything."
"Oh. Why are you outside?"
"The wrath of Bill is not my favorite thing, and he was grumbling about you not being here. I think he thought I was lying when I told him you would be here soon. He doesn't trust me too much. Don't have the faintest why."
"Well come on, I'll protect you."
"What makes you think I need protecting? Im not that old you know, I already explained all this to your sister. You heard it, right? I can still kick ass, hey and I still own a gun. Wouldn't use it, but its still fun to point it at things."
"Your crazy."
"Yea, well that's what they all tell me."
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Chapter 14- Birthday Wish
Dana arrived at the Mulder's house a few minutes after 10, she wasn't dressed up because she didn't have the time to put something on after leaving her parents, so she wore a pair of jeans and a blue top and her jacket. She quickly made her way through the drizzling rain and onto the porch.
She knocked twice and Mulder opened the door. "Dana," He said giving her a hug, "Happy birthday."
"Thanks Mulder. It turned out to be better than I expected. With the events of the past few days still lingering in the air."
"Good, im glad. Come on in, everybody's waiting for you."
She took off her jacket and entered the house, hanging it up on the coat rack by the entrance. When she entered the living room she saw Dana and Will sitting next to each other on one of the couches and on the other a couple she assumed to be Bill and his wife Tara.
"Hey guys." She said with a smile, "How are you?"
"Wonderful, what im concerned about is you Dana. How you doing?" Dana said getting off the couch.
"Im fine, I've been through this before, nothing as dramatic, but nonetheless I've still shot somebody during the line of duty. I've been around death my whole life, hell, when I was 8 I saw my parents, and you two--"
Mulder cut her off, "Well, were just happy your ok, right Dana?"
"Of course, now come on. I've gotten you a present."
"Hey, I helped out a bit." Mulder says with a smile, "It was my money."
Dana laughs and walks into the kitchen then comes back with a box, "Sorry, I never got the chance to wrap it, but its in a box."
"Thank you so much Dana." She says giving her a hug, "And Mulder."
She sits on the couch next to Will and opens the box, inside is a red dress, its strapless and the bottom right goes down farther than the left. "Oh Dana, its beautiful. Thank you."
"I saw it and knew it was for you. I use to have one like it, I wore it on my first date with Mulder." She smiles and leans into her husband who in turn wraps his arms around her body.
"I remember that dress. Wonderful inventions, dresses." He gets a boyish grin and looks at his son, "Don't you think so Will?"
Will returns the grin, "Yea."
They all start talking, and soon the conversation drifts to the case that they just got back from, Tara asks her about what happened and she reluctantly tells. "It wasn't as bad as it seems, I did more damage than he did." She says quietly.
"Oh, im so sorry Dana." Tara says with a frown, "I shouldn't have brought it up."
"No, its fine. IM fine, you've got to be able to deal with things like that in my line of work I guess. I signed up for it, I've got to deal with it. Dana knows what im talking about don't you Dana."
"Yea, I've gone through plenty of things like that. You get use to it really, it becomes a way of life."
Bill snorts and Dana (Mulder) glares at him, he turns his head away from her sight and mumbles something.
After a little over an hour Dana gets up to leave and Will walks her outside.
"You know, I've heard stories about Bill not liking your father, but he seems to loathe him, I can't imagine why, if anything your father is such an easy person to get along with."
"I know, but mom told me he blames what happened to her on him, and he seems pretty set in his ways, I don't think a man that stubborn would just give up on a grudge that easily."
"Well, I'd better be going, bye--"
"Wait, here. Sit down really quick."
"Why?"
"Just sit down, it's a surprise."
"Another one?"
"Yes, another one. Are you going to stand there all night? The sooner you sit down the sooner you can go home."
"Ok, ok. I'll sit."
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They sat on the bench and Will reached under it and took out a medium sized box. He handed it to her and said, "Happy birthday Dana."
"Will, you didn't have to get me anything."
"I know, will you just open it though."
She smiled and slowly took the wrapping paper off the box. When she opened it she took out a small white teddy bear.
"Oh, Will. It's beautiful."
"Look harder, that's not all."
She looked closer at the bear and hanging around its neck was a gold necklace. Hanging on the necklace was an angel charm. She fingered the charm for a moment and then looked up at him.
"It's a guardian angel."
"It's wonderful, thank you."
She gives him a small chaste kiss on the cheek and takes the necklace off of the bear.
"So, what did you wish for?"
"Cant tell you. Then it won't come true."
"Well, tell me when it does ok?"
"Will do, you think you can put this on for me?" She says handing him the necklace.
"Yeah." He says as he takes it out of her hand, he undoes the clasp in the back, brushes the hair from her back and drapes the necklace across her neck. He redoes the clasp and lets his hands linger on her neck before moving her hair back.
She turns back around and their faces are now inches apart, their eyes lock for a second and Will moves in closer to her face closing the gap. Dana holds her breath as he inches closer and her eyes close. Their lips touch and she lets out a small gasp. Will pulls away unsure but Dana leans in once more.
The kiss starts out simple but Dana brings her arms around Will's neck and Will's wraps his arms around her waist, she leans in closer and her lips part slowly allowing the kiss to deepen. When they break away for air Dana leans her forehead onto Will's, "My wish came true." Saying that she stands up off the bench and takes the teddy bear into her hands, "See you at work tomorrow Will."
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A/N- I know, I know. Sappy. There's defiantly going to be another chapter. Oh, for those who were wondering Goose Creek, SC is a real town. And all of the references to it (Breck's dinner, the hotel, and Folly beach) are real places. Some of the characters are too (Lewis and his family). Thanks for all the reviews.
Will didn't sleep more than 4 hours that night, and from what he could see Dana didn't either. She tossed and turned in the bed the whole night. He had wanted to hold her while she slept but thought it inappropriate. He had no clue how she felt about him and didn't want to scare her off, she was dealing with too much.
When the alarm clock went off in the morning he was already dressed and ready to go. Dana slumped out of bed, dark bags under her eyes. Will handed her a cup of coffee and she graciously accepted.
"We have an appointment with the people from the lab in an hour, to see about the fingerprint. You up to going? You don't have to if your not ready."
"No, I need to go. I'll be ready soon."
"Ok. I'll be waiting."
As she walked into the bathroom her cell phone rang.
"Can you get that?" She called through the closed door.
"Yeah, sure." He searched through her bag and found it on its 4th ring. He pressed the talk button, "This is Will."
"Will? I thought I called Dana's phone."
"She's in the shower, Mr. Dogett."
"Oh, ok. Hey, call me Dogett or John, keep the Mr., out of it."
"Ok. I'll tell her you called alright?"
"Sure, how is she doing?"
"Better, she'll be fine."
"Ok, later then."
"Yea, bye."
He hangs up the phone and makes another cup of coffee. 20 minutes later Dana comes out of the bathroom dressed and ready to go, she searches for her shoes and then they leave.
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The whole ride there is silent, Dana looks out the window at the sunny July day and sighs profoundly, "Today's my birthday. Go figure. My 26th birthday and I just killed somebody." She snorts and once again resumes her stare.
"I didn't know…im sorry, I know this comes at the totally wrong time but happy birthday."
"Thanks, I mean it is kind of a bad time at the moment, but still I know you mean it."
"That's probably why your dad called."
"Oh, that's who called?"
"Yea. He just said to call him back. You can do it after the appointment I guess."
She nods and they pull into the parking lot. They exit the car and slowly make their way to the building, once again, in silence.
Upon entering a lab technician comes up to Will. "We've got your prints, you're going to want to see this. It could possibly win your case."
They follow him into a room equipped with computers, magnifying glasses, the works. The man leads them over to one of the many computers and brings up a screen. On it are two fingerprints.
"This," He says pointing to the left screen, "Is the print that you gave me yesterday Agent Van de Kemp." He points to the right screen, "And this is Taylor's print." He presses a button and the two prints collide, "They're a match."
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Chapter 13- Going Home
After their new find they went straight to Lewis's office at the Police Station. Lewis thought it enough to close the case and they did as well, so they were going to go home. Will had called and booked a flight for 3:00 that afternoon, Dana didn't know it but he was planning on taking her to the beach. She thought their plane was leaving at 1:30.
When 12:30 rolled around they packed their things into the car and headed for what Dana thought was the airport but was really Folly Beach. She seemed to be in a better mood since the case was officially closed. As they drove she looked around perplexed.
"Will, where are we going the airport is the other way."
"It's a surprise."
10 minutes later they reached their destination and Dana let out a happy squeal. She looked at Will with a smile, "Thank-you."
They head out to the beach, which its surprisingly not that packed at upon reaching the sand Dana takes off her shoes, "Am I glad I wore a skirt, against my better judgments." She walks farther until she reaches the ocean and stands in the surf.
Will comes up next to her after taking off his shoes, letting the water soak his pants, "Happy Birthday Dana."
"It's starting to turn out that way."
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Two hours later they headed back to the car to go to the airport, Will rolled up his pants due to the fact they were sopping wet, Dana laughed when she saw this and Will made a face.
"What?"
"You have some white ass legs."
"What are they suppose to be? Black?"
She rolls her eyes and they drive off. 25 minutes later after turning the car in they're waiting outside their gate for the plane to load.
"So, you got any plans for your birthday? Or, are you just going to stay home."
"I'll probably go over my parents, why?"
"Well, Bill's in town. I thought maybe you'd want to meet him, if you haven't already."
"I've never met Bill before, what time are you going to go to your parents house?"
"Well, our plane should land at 7:00. I was thinking maybe 9 or so. But if you want to go see your parents you should. Don't let me keep you away from them."
"I could always go to see them and then meet you at Dana and Mulder's. Around 10 maybe."
"It's a plan."
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Their plane landed at 6:46 and they both went the separate ways planning to meet again at 10, Will dropped his stuff off at his apartment and headed towards the mall. He was planning on finding Dana something other than a trip to the beach for her birthday.
While he was on his way to the mall he called his mother to see if she knew anything she would like for her birthday. His mother gave him a few ideas and he thanked her as he pulled into the packed parking lot.
After searching through 3 different stores he finally found the right gift. He paid for it and then went home to change, it was already 8:15.
10 minutes until 9 o'clock Will pulled into his parents house. His dad was sitting on the front porch mumbling something to himself, he looked a bit pissed. He's mood lightened however when he saw Will get out of his car.
"Will, you made it. Your mother's been waiting for you. How was the case?"
"You have no idea, wait, back up. I take that back, im sure you do. You went through something just like it, although it was the twin of the man I had to deal with."
"Twins, wow. Your mother didn't tell me that about Taylor. But I guess its possible. We never had a reason not to believe there was more of them. Im just glad you found him, and now he's gone. How's Dana doing? I know that she's got a lot to go through."
"She's better actually. She was really happy she got to go to the beach, so I think it lightened up her mood a bit, she'll be here in about an hour."
"Really. That's great. I figured she would spend her birthday with her parents."
"Well, that's where she is right now. In invited her over, mom knew about it. She didn't say anything?"
"Your mother's been dealing with Bill all day, she hasn't had the time to tell anybody anything."
"Oh. Why are you outside?"
"The wrath of Bill is not my favorite thing, and he was grumbling about you not being here. I think he thought I was lying when I told him you would be here soon. He doesn't trust me too much. Don't have the faintest why."
"Well come on, I'll protect you."
"What makes you think I need protecting? Im not that old you know, I already explained all this to your sister. You heard it, right? I can still kick ass, hey and I still own a gun. Wouldn't use it, but its still fun to point it at things."
"Your crazy."
"Yea, well that's what they all tell me."
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Chapter 14- Birthday Wish
Dana arrived at the Mulder's house a few minutes after 10, she wasn't dressed up because she didn't have the time to put something on after leaving her parents, so she wore a pair of jeans and a blue top and her jacket. She quickly made her way through the drizzling rain and onto the porch.
She knocked twice and Mulder opened the door. "Dana," He said giving her a hug, "Happy birthday."
"Thanks Mulder. It turned out to be better than I expected. With the events of the past few days still lingering in the air."
"Good, im glad. Come on in, everybody's waiting for you."
She took off her jacket and entered the house, hanging it up on the coat rack by the entrance. When she entered the living room she saw Dana and Will sitting next to each other on one of the couches and on the other a couple she assumed to be Bill and his wife Tara.
"Hey guys." She said with a smile, "How are you?"
"Wonderful, what im concerned about is you Dana. How you doing?" Dana said getting off the couch.
"Im fine, I've been through this before, nothing as dramatic, but nonetheless I've still shot somebody during the line of duty. I've been around death my whole life, hell, when I was 8 I saw my parents, and you two--"
Mulder cut her off, "Well, were just happy your ok, right Dana?"
"Of course, now come on. I've gotten you a present."
"Hey, I helped out a bit." Mulder says with a smile, "It was my money."
Dana laughs and walks into the kitchen then comes back with a box, "Sorry, I never got the chance to wrap it, but its in a box."
"Thank you so much Dana." She says giving her a hug, "And Mulder."
She sits on the couch next to Will and opens the box, inside is a red dress, its strapless and the bottom right goes down farther than the left. "Oh Dana, its beautiful. Thank you."
"I saw it and knew it was for you. I use to have one like it, I wore it on my first date with Mulder." She smiles and leans into her husband who in turn wraps his arms around her body.
"I remember that dress. Wonderful inventions, dresses." He gets a boyish grin and looks at his son, "Don't you think so Will?"
Will returns the grin, "Yea."
They all start talking, and soon the conversation drifts to the case that they just got back from, Tara asks her about what happened and she reluctantly tells. "It wasn't as bad as it seems, I did more damage than he did." She says quietly.
"Oh, im so sorry Dana." Tara says with a frown, "I shouldn't have brought it up."
"No, its fine. IM fine, you've got to be able to deal with things like that in my line of work I guess. I signed up for it, I've got to deal with it. Dana knows what im talking about don't you Dana."
"Yea, I've gone through plenty of things like that. You get use to it really, it becomes a way of life."
Bill snorts and Dana (Mulder) glares at him, he turns his head away from her sight and mumbles something.
After a little over an hour Dana gets up to leave and Will walks her outside.
"You know, I've heard stories about Bill not liking your father, but he seems to loathe him, I can't imagine why, if anything your father is such an easy person to get along with."
"I know, but mom told me he blames what happened to her on him, and he seems pretty set in his ways, I don't think a man that stubborn would just give up on a grudge that easily."
"Well, I'd better be going, bye--"
"Wait, here. Sit down really quick."
"Why?"
"Just sit down, it's a surprise."
"Another one?"
"Yes, another one. Are you going to stand there all night? The sooner you sit down the sooner you can go home."
"Ok, ok. I'll sit."
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They sat on the bench and Will reached under it and took out a medium sized box. He handed it to her and said, "Happy birthday Dana."
"Will, you didn't have to get me anything."
"I know, will you just open it though."
She smiled and slowly took the wrapping paper off the box. When she opened it she took out a small white teddy bear.
"Oh, Will. It's beautiful."
"Look harder, that's not all."
She looked closer at the bear and hanging around its neck was a gold necklace. Hanging on the necklace was an angel charm. She fingered the charm for a moment and then looked up at him.
"It's a guardian angel."
"It's wonderful, thank you."
She gives him a small chaste kiss on the cheek and takes the necklace off of the bear.
"So, what did you wish for?"
"Cant tell you. Then it won't come true."
"Well, tell me when it does ok?"
"Will do, you think you can put this on for me?" She says handing him the necklace.
"Yeah." He says as he takes it out of her hand, he undoes the clasp in the back, brushes the hair from her back and drapes the necklace across her neck. He redoes the clasp and lets his hands linger on her neck before moving her hair back.
She turns back around and their faces are now inches apart, their eyes lock for a second and Will moves in closer to her face closing the gap. Dana holds her breath as he inches closer and her eyes close. Their lips touch and she lets out a small gasp. Will pulls away unsure but Dana leans in once more.
The kiss starts out simple but Dana brings her arms around Will's neck and Will's wraps his arms around her waist, she leans in closer and her lips part slowly allowing the kiss to deepen. When they break away for air Dana leans her forehead onto Will's, "My wish came true." Saying that she stands up off the bench and takes the teddy bear into her hands, "See you at work tomorrow Will."
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A/N- I know, I know. Sappy. There's defiantly going to be another chapter. Oh, for those who were wondering Goose Creek, SC is a real town. And all of the references to it (Breck's dinner, the hotel, and Folly beach) are real places. Some of the characters are too (Lewis and his family). Thanks for all the reviews.