The New Girl Part II

By Jinxd n Cursed

Chapter Ten

Never an Ordinary Day

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Dana, Rianna, and John were slowly learning to live with each other although definitely grudgingly. Dana, having seniority over both John and Rianna, ruled the office. She threw such a fit when John inquired about the desk again, he dropped it completely for three weeks. Rianna promised him he would have a desk but she didn't guarantee it would actually be in their office. Maybe out in the hallway. John's macho side preferred standing twenty four seven than to have all the alpha males of the FBI see him sitting in the hall bossed around by two pregnant women though so he opted out of that choice. Unfortunately for the two ladies of the office, while pregnancy had its perks, the downside was just as awful. Nausea, fatigue, and headaches were commonplace for both of them but particularly difficult on Rianna who was still struggling with her anemia. Scully's apartment was locked up with all of her remaining things gathering dust while she lived with David and Rianna in their townhouse in Alexandria. Although it was hard to leave a place filled with all her memories, she was grateful to be facing nine months of pregnancy with friends and not alone.

Of course, life in the X-files was far from ordinary, particularly with two pregnant women. John couldn't bring his customary donut and coffee into the office because just the scent of them sent Rianna and Dana running for the restroom. He also spent a great deal of time debunking all the theories of Rianna and Dana on certain cases they were assigned to. Many cases he refused on the grounds of physical endangerment of the fetuses growing inside the two women, earning him many dark looks and grumblings about not being fragile damsels in distress but hard-ass FBI agents, both of whom outscored him in every test in the Academy. Nonetheless, they did go through a few good cases that left John perplexed and Dana and Rianna shaking their heads at his closed-mindedness.

Much to the sadness of Dana, there was no sign of Mulder and few leads were turning up. Whenever they did find one, however, not even god himself would have been able to prevent Dana from charging out to where ever it was with John and Rianna. This set her up for several disappointments though, leaving her to come home disheartened to her mother to cry about her missing fiancé and being just another unwed mother who's child would never know its father.

On one of the particularly bad days, she stayed home while Rianna and John watched the office. That was when things began to go from ordinary to extraordinary. Rianna had put her feet up on her desk, her black pumps and stocking abandoned on the floor because of her swollen feet. Leaning back in her chair, she was looking through one of the massive stacks of folders that had come in overnight. John sat at Scully's desk. (or really Mulder's desk as she still refused to remove the nameplate from the door or the desk.)

"This one looks interesting," Rianna said as she flipped through a folder. Crop circles appearing in a wheat field in Nebraska with bodies turning up in the field and bright lights overhead.

John rolled his eyes. "For a Yale Med graduate, you really are unreasonable some times. It's probably a farmer who happened to ace geometry and happens to enjoy killing people as well."

"John, let us not forget that I have been on the X-files longer than you. Not much longer, mind you, but longer. And Dana's been here even longer. We know this stuff a bit better than you do."

"I'm aware of this," he said. "But I'm not going to run out to Nebraska just because some farmer thinks he's seen aliens. Cases should be solved on evidence and cold hard facts, not hunches and ideas."

"But there is evidence John!" Rianna said. "Look at the god damn pictures! I may be pregnant and anemic but that doesn't affect my eyesight!"

Grudgingly, he took the sheaf of papers from Rianna and looked over the pictures. Flipping the page over in a bored kind of way, he glanced at the pictures and took a sip of coffee. "What the hell!" he said, spraying Rianna with coffee, his eyes bugging out of his head.

"Say it, don't spray it," she told him.

"Look at this!" he said, thrusting it back to her. "Did you see this picture?"

"I just glanced at it briefly but—OH MY GOD!" she exclaimed. "John, call Skinner and ask him to book three plane tickets to Nebraska. I'll call Dana to tell her."

He nodded and picked up the phone.

Rianna grabbed her cell phone. "Hello? Dana? Get packed. We're going to Nebraska. We think we found Mulder."

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Dana clothes haphazardly into a suitcase, along with her hair and toothbrushes. In the next room, David was packing for Rianna who couldn't drive home because Skinner needed her. She had been anticipating this, the reunion between her and Mulder where she would tell him she was having his child. But Rianna hadn't said if they'd found him dead or alive. She felt queasy suddenly. What if they'd found Mulder's body? What if he was dead? Then he'd never know about their miracle. He'd never see their child. What would she do? As nice as they were about the whole thing, she couldn't continue living with Rianna and David for the rest of her life. She took a deep breath, pushing that thought out of her mind. She would cross that bridge when they came to it.

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"How can you be so relaxed?" Dana asked Rianna as they sat on the plane.

"This is relaxed?" Rianna asked, adjusting the pile of folders on her lap. "I'm trying to go through some stuff so we can be prepared when we go down to the farm."

"Oh," Dana said. "Rianna?"

"Yeah?" she replied.

"Did they—um—did they say whether he was alive or dead?" Dana questioned.

Rianna frowned slightly, not meeting her sister's eyes. "He's alive but barely. They found a faint, slow pulse but he was half frozen. The doctors aren't optimistic about his survival." She set her jaw determinedly and met Dana's eyes. "But if anyone can get through this, Mulder can."

Dana looked down at her slightly swollen stomach. "I hope so," she said. "For my sake and for the little one."

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Sorry for the delay. My muse took an early Christmas vacation but she's back. This chapter is dedicated to Gillian Leigh who bugged me about this so much, I finally got fed up and started writing it.