Mulder's POV:

Thursday and Friday qualify for the longest days of my life. Scully was at work and I was still stuck at home. Alone. I did finally give up on Friday, and went and saw the gunmen, but their constant questions about Scully and the twins only made things worse for me. I might need Prozac after this. Saturday was better; Scully and I spent the day with her brother and his family. Charlie doesn't seem to resent me. He's just content his sister if finally happy, Bill on the other hand--I hear--if furious about our admitting our feelings to each other.

Good. Let him be pissed I really don't give a damn.

After spending the day with Charlie we went back to Scullys place where we talked about work for a little bit then ordered pizza and watched 'The Shinning'. Scully fell asleep around the 'all work and no play make Jack a dull boy' part. So I switched off the TV and laid there in the dark, with her in my arms until I got tired and fell asleep as well.

When I woke up she was no longer in my arms.

I groggily sat up on the couch and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. I stifled a yawn while I stretched out my arms. While I was cracking my neck Scully came out of the bathroom, dressed but with a towel still wrapped around her hair.

"Well good morning sleepy head. I see you finally decided to wake up."

"Yeah. What time is it?"

"A bit after 9. Now go get dressed. Im meeting with an old friend from college around noontime and I want to show you off and make her jealous."

"Sounds like fun." I said standing up off the couch, "but I can think of some things I would rather do, and for them we don't even have to leave the apartment." I raised my eyebrows like I learned from Scully many years ago.

"No Mulder," she scolded, "I promised Brittany I would meet with her. She's only in town a few more days. Her kids are on vacation from school. They're leaving soon and I haven't seen her in years. Now go get dressed. I've got things to do before we go and see her.

"Like?"

"I need bigger maternity clothes. I was only planning on one kid, and now it looks like im going to get fatter sooner than expected."

I nodded my head then went to take a shower. We left the apartment around 10 and after shopping we went to the outdoor café that Scully was meeting her friend. It was a cute little place, called 'Adeline's'.

This woman--Brittany--and her husband must have been busy because this chicks got 5 kids. They were surprisingly well behaved too. Lets see if I remember this, Seth--the oldest--is 10. Rebecca is 8, Brianna is 7 and the twins Nathan and Samantha are 4. That's a handful of kids. Im thinking that these two--and maybe one more (if it's at all possible)--are it for me.

Scully's got the youngest of Brittany's twins--Nathan Jr.-- on her lap and Brittany is interrogating her about her own twins.

"How far along are you?"

"A little over 4 months."

"What are the sexes?"

"One boy and one girl."

"What are you going to name this?"

"What is this 20 questions? Im naming them William Fox and Samantha Emily."

"Your naming one of yours Samantha too? I always knew what I'd name mine. Since I was 17 I think. I told you about it once, didn't I? When me and Nathan got engaged? It was during med school. Im surprised, however, it's taken you so long to have children. I always thought you'd get snatched up quickly."

She looked over at me and smiled, taking my hand into hers, "I did. Sort of. I just didn't realize it at the time. You know, stubborn me. But it all worked out for the better."

"Oh, how sweet." Brittany squealed. "Excuse me, but im a hopeless romantic, it's a curse I've learned to live with." She looked past us and squinted, "I think somebody's calling you, Mulder."

I turned around in my seat and looked behind me to see Agent Dogett waving his hands towards our table. I gave Scully a worried look before getting up from the table to walk over to him. "Agent Dogett, is there something that I can help you with?"

He smiled at me, "we won't tell if you won't."

"We? I don't quite understand. Care to elaborate?"

He turned to look behind him, I looked as well. Not entirely too surprised by what I saw, he looked back at me. "It's not like its not obvious Mulder. You and Scully are together. Now im fine with that, but Kersh wouldn't be. And I don't plan on telling him. Im just letting you know that Monica and I are in the same boat as you. We don't plan on telling if you don't."

I nodded my head. "We won't tell Dogett. You can count on us to keep your secret safe."

"Vise versa."

"Now if you'll excuse me."

He nodded, "go, see you on Monday."

I walked back to the table and relayed the conversation--in a whisper--back to Scully. She smiled and turned around to see for herself. Then she looked back at me, "I knew it."

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Monday Morning

Scully's POV:

I woke up--not to the sound of obnoxious beeping--but to Mulder's soothing voice calling my name. I sat up in bed and ran a hand through my unruly hair. "Time to get up already?"

"Uh-huh. Im going to head home and get ready there. We cant arrive at work in the same car now can we? Might make the boss-man wonder."

"Your right. I'll see you at work." I said stepping out of my warm bed and onto the cold, hardwood, floor. I kissed him deeply and hugged him tightly.

"What's this for?" He said into the embrace.

"Just making up for the hours we'll miss during work. Getting my fill until 5."

"That's what lunch breaks for."

"We can't take the risk of somebody seeing us, you know that. So unless during work were alone without the possibility of somebody barging in on us, then now will have to do."

"If I'd know that then I'd have waken you up earlier." He said before kissing me again. "I'll see you later."

I nodded and he left. When I heard the click of the front door I quickly showered and got dressed. After grabbing something to eat I quickly hurried out the door and started my journey to work.

Upon arriving I could see Reyes pulling into the garage as well. We smiled slyly at each other but said nothing. We rode the elevator together, and when everybody else had gone she turned to me. "So, anything interesting happen this weekend?"

"Met with an old friend. Saw some new ones on a date. You?"

"Took some good advice and ran with it."

I smiled warmly at her and the doors to the elevator opened. We both stepped out and made our way to our offices. "You know," I started, "the doors to the offices lock."

She laughed at me as she twisted the knob to her and Dogetts office, "I'll keep that in mind. For a rainy day maybe."

"Sounds like a plan."

Then she disappeared into the office and I went to mine and Mulder's. "Morning Mulder." I said upon entry. "How'd your weekend go?" I wrote on a piece of paper, 'trust no one. Right?'

He nodded, "It was great, and then some. How about you?"

"Wonderful. I could use some more like it." I say at my desk and opened my laptop, "see anything new?"

"Not yet, but I have hopes."

I smiled at him, then went to working on my laptop I could hear him throwing pencils up at the ceiling and looked over the rim of my laptop to set a pencil drop on his head. So I laughed. He raised an eyebrow and got an I-have-an-evil-idea look. He got up out of his chair and started to slowly creep towards me.

"Mulder…what are you doing?" I said in my sternest voice.

He said nothing, just continued walking. When he reached my desk he stood there looking down at me in my chair. He grinned slyly at me and leaned in.

Then he started to tickle.

"Mulder. No…stop!" I said during fits of laughter and gasps for air, finally a brilliant thought entered my mind. "Mulder…no…the babies." I finally spit out and instantly the tickling stopped.

He got the 'panic' look on his face, "Scully…im sorry--"

"I got you big time." I laughed. "I even got a glimpse of your all exclusive 'panic' look. That was way to easy."

He smiled that sexy sly smile and went to both the doors, and locked them.

"Mulder. What are you doing?"

"Shhh…" he dragged out the word as he once more slowly walked towards me. I took the moment to look his body over. God this man is sexy. He doesn't even know the half of what he does to me but just…walking. He stopped in front of my chair again, took my arms, and pulled me out of it.

Then his lips caught mine, I moaned softly into the kiss and pulled myself closer to him. He wrapped his arms around my waist and I let he kiss deepen. A knock at the connecting door tore us away form the embrace and I instantly missed his soft lips. So, I sat back in my chair, flushed and breathless and Mulder opened the door. Monica--who was on the other side--smiled when she saw my face. "John and I are going for lunch, you guys want to join us?"

Mulder looked back at me and I nodded approval. I got up from my desk and we walked out the office door. Mulder's hand in it's rightful place on the small of my back.

God im so happy to have him back at work.

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Mulder's POV:

For lunch we go to that safe café that we'd gone to yesterday. 'Adeline's' is a soup and sandwich sort of place. Very romantic. Dogett sits close to Reyes and I sit close to Scully. Both Scully and Reyes get a the grilled chicken salad and I get a sandwich packed with everything, turkey, ham, mayonnaise, cheese, lettuce, mustard, all the trimmings. Dogett gets the same minus the mustard.

"So," Reyes starts. "When did all of this happen?" She gestures to us sitting with barley an inch between us.

"A few days after he got back." Scully relies smiling. "After watching a basketball game."

"Which game?" John asks.

"Clemson vs. USC." I reply remembering like it was yesterday. Not that I could ever forget. It's way to important to forget.

"My team won." Scully beams. "He got mad because I was throwing it in his face, he pinned me down on the couch. And well…the rest is our business. What about you guys? Why the sudden epiphany?"

"Well, really, it was the talk you and I had Thursday. When John came in to say that he was sorry I told him that he could make it up by taking me out. He looked a bit shocked at first but the agreed. The rest is our business." She laughs mocking Scully, "Its going to be hard as hell to keep this from Kersh."

Scully looks over at me, "well, we'll just have to behave during work. Won't we Mulder?"

I pout a bit, "yes, Scully. Behaving from now on." I salute her and she smacks my arm playfully.

"It's just good to have somebody else besides my family know about us. We contemplated telling Skinner but I figure he already has an idea. The way he smiled when he took me to get Mulder. He defiantly knew then and nothing had even happened yet. Maybe he's psychic." Scully says laughing.

"Maybe we should investigate it." I add, "It'd be an interesting x-file, don't you think? The all-knowing boss."

Reyes laughs and looks at her watch, "Oh. We need to get going. Lunch is almost over."

We get up from the table and go off to our separate cars. I see Reyes and Dogett share a kiss before they get into Dogetts SUV and I kiss Scully before getting into my Toyota. I smile when I pull away and before she walks around to her side of the car she smacks me on the ass.

"What did I say about behaving?"

"If that's my punishment I think I might misbehave more often." I grinned putting the key into the ignition. "I've been a bad, bad boy."

She laughs at me and shakes her head. "You are so lucky I love you."

"You don't have to say it twice Scully. I know how lucky I am to have you. Somebody up there must really like me. Or it was a major fluke on their part."

"I don't think He makes mistakes Mulder. Fate doesn't work out that way."

"That's what this is isn't it? Fate. Wow, it takes a bit to wrap that idea around your head. Most people don't really believe in fate, I happen to like the idea. I like thinking it's written in the stars that we're meant to be together. Don't you?"

"Yes. And I thank God everyday for sending you to me. It's his biggest blessing on my part."

"Scully. When's the last time you went to church?"

"Oh God, in forever. But going to church really doesn't change much. I mean it shows how devoted you are, sure, but not going doesn't change your faith. Other things do. I've seen some things to could convince me that God doesn't exist but I don't want to believe that. I want to believe that he's real, and that those we've lost will one day be reunited with us."

We pull into the Hoover building and I once again eye Dogett's car. "You know what Scully I think im going to get an SUV. Or a Suburban. You know a manly car, something unlike this damn red Toyota. I'd much rather have a nice, big, truck. What do you think? I'm sure the little ones would love it."

"That's your decision not mine. I think a Suburban would be good. Blue maybe. I always loved blue cars. Ahab had a dark blue truck, said the color reminded him of the ocean. He would let me drive it when I turned 14. It was the car I learned to drive on, I loved that old Ford. They don't make them like they use to."

"Your right, now they come equip with CD players and DVD's. I'd say I like the newer models better wouldn't you?"

"Nothing can replace the way I felt driving my daddy's truck. It's like that country song, by Alan Jackson I think. It's called 'drive'. Memories last longer than a CD player."

"Your right." I said getting out of the car, "we could find an old Ford if you'd like."

"No, you get you your manly suburban. I'm content with just remembering."

The rest of the day went by in similar fashion. I did manage to get another make-out session with Scully, but nonetheless it only lasted around a minute before she pulled back and scolded me for not heading her warning. She also said that if I acted out again I'd be sleeping alone tonight. That got me behaving.

We left at exactly 5, both taking out own vehicles. We went to her home seeing as mine is basically uninhabitable. Lord only knows what my fridge holds, its got to be worse than anything we've ever investigated by the amount of time I was away.

We were sitting on the couch when an idea came to mind, "hey Scully how about I move into here."

"In my apartment? I don't think our supervisors would approve of that."

I shook my head in laughter, "not 'here' per se. More like Georgetown or your apartment building. Hey I think the room across the halls empty. It's about time I moved away, my apartments getting so bad that pretty soon the CDC will be investigating it."

"I'd like that Mulder."

"The CDC investigating my apartment?"

"No silly. You across the hall. I'd enjoy that very much. You should see about that soon." She scooted into my arms and closed her eyes, exhaling profoundly. I lay one hand on her stomach and gently rub it then run my free hand through her bright auburn hair.

"I love you so much." She whispers leaning into me.

"I love you too." I say wrapping my arms around her, "for always and a day."

"We wasted so much time being stubborn." She sighs.

"Don't think like that. Because we waited for over 7 years were closer than any couple could ever hope to be. I know things about you that many people don't."

"Oh yea. What exactly are those things?"

"Your eyes change color when your mad. When a man threatens you--or even just gives you the wrong impression--you clench your jaw and stand as tall as you can, if you wanted to you could beat the crap out of the toughest man. Your not as you portray yourself--you master at building walls--you are in now way the 'Ice Queen', your compassionate, loving, honest, and keep me in check. You shiver when I touch you, your great in bed--"

"Mulder." She warns.

"What?"

She turned her body so it was facing me. "Thank you Mulder. You don't know how much all of that means to me. I had no idea you could tell that when you touched me I'd shiver. You never said anything to me about it."

"That's because I shiver too."

Before I know it her lips are on mine begging for entrance. I allow it and our kiss deepens. We reposition ourselves to where she's lying on the couch and im on top of her. She immediately goes to remove my shirt but before she can finish the phone rings. She shifts under me exasperated and grabs the telephone cord pulling it out of the phone jack just as big brother Bill's voice says, "Dana pick--"

"Now." She says, "where were we?"

I pick her up off the couch and she squeals happily. I carry here into her bedroom and set her down on the bed positioning myself as we had been before the rude interruption from Bill. "Right about here."

Needless to say, the alarm clock wasn't set that night.

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Scully's POV:

I wake up the next morning--not to the endless beeping of my alarm clock or the soothing sound of Mulder's voice--but to the joys of pregnancy.

It's only after im done spilling my guts into the toilet that I notice its already bright outside. What time is it? I rush to the bedroom and look at the clock, oh shit. It's already 10:13am. Im late, 'we' are late. Why did nobody call?

Then I remember, I tore the damn cord out of the wall. Shit. Damn you Dana. I rush to where Mulder's still naked body is lying asleep. I gaze at him a moment before remembering exactly whats wrong. Then I shake him awake.

He looks at me confused, "what's wrong?"

"It's almost 10:15. We overslept."

He leaps out of the bed almost knocking me over. "Oh, God. Sorry Scully." He thinks a moment, "I've got an idea. You call in sick, and I'll just go in late. But you should wait until I call you from the office to call in sick, say, say its your morning sickness. Hopefully Kersh isn't too much of an ass." He kisses me and then runs off to change.

10 minutes later he kisses me again before running out the door. The look on his face makes me laugh harder than I can remember. I crawl back into bed and instantly back to sleep.

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a/n: whew, that was a long chapter. And it took long enough to get it out too. Im not sure how many more chapter's I'll have. At least two, maybe 3, who knows maybe even more like 7. It all depends on what crazy ass ideas pop into my mind. Please, please, please review!