Return to Me 19
3 weeks later
4:03am
I don't know why I woke up. But I did. Just in time to feel my water break. I jumped out of bed--well as much as I could with 9 months of twins inside me--"Mulder. Wake up." I called as I grabbed my overnight bag from the chair it rested in. A contraction tore through my abdomen and I yelled out in pain. "Mulder, GET UP!" I screamed, "it's time!"
That was all he needed to hear, he was soon out of the bed and by my side. He took my bag out of my hands and started to guide me to the door.
"Im in labor Mulder, not blind. I still know how to get around *my* apartment, and furthermore you might want to put a shirt and a pair of shoes on."
He looked down at his bear chest and feet, "you're right. Clothes would probably be a good thing." He threw on a cotton tee and his shoes and then once again tried to lead me out of the apartment.
Now, I would have objected to this, but at the same time I was hit with another contraction, so all protesting was momentarily delayed. After the contraction was over all I really cared about was getting the cause of my pain out of me.
I got into the passengers side of Mulder's car, 10 minutes and an almost speeding ticket later--the officer let me go when he saw me--we arrived at the hospital and I was on a bed getting wheeled into the delivery room. Mulder was getting changed into my scrubs and calling my mother for me.
5 minutes later he came in and stood by my bed, taking my hand into his. I smiled up at him but a contraction started and I squeezed his hand as hard as I could. When it ended I let go.
"Ouch Scully, you think you can warn me next time before attempting to crush my bones."
"I'll try, but I make no promises."
Half an hour later mom showed up, and around 8--I was still in labor, who knew it would take this long--I was informed Dogett and Reyes had arrived. By 9 even Skinner and the Lone Gunmen had come. But still no babies.
10:06am
"Ok Dana, you've got to push ok? One, two, three…push!"
I pushed as hard as I could and then fell back onto the bed. 2 minutes and three more pushes later I had given birth to William Fox Scully, (we couldn't give them Mulder's last name, not while I still had a job with the x-files) and two minutes after that I gave birth to Samantha Emily Scully. I held the 4 pound 5 oz. Sam in my arms and Mulder held William, who was 5 pounds 1 oz, when everybody walked in. Mom kissed me on the forehead and looked down at the tiny child with a head full of red hair.
"She's beautiful Dana." She smiled, "she looks just like you."
"Well, you can't tell right now because she's sleeping, but her eyes are hazel."
Mulder looks up at me with a halfhearted smile, "well, at least we know their my kids. Will's got my nose, sorry."
I laughed, "what's wrong with your nose? I happen to love you nose?"
"Don't lie to me Scully." He chuckled, "I'm better at it than you, and I can spot one a mile away."
"Which one was born first?" Frohike inquires.
"William. He was born at 10:08, and Sam was born at 10:10. Just two minutes apart."
"That's going to suck when she gets older." Monica states.
"If he turns out to be like I was with Sam he'll tease her about it all the time, but I guess with twins it's different, seeing as it's a lot closer than 4 years." His smile fades.
I take his hand and give it a gentle squeeze. He looks at me and once again smiles, halfheartedly though. The nurse comes in to take Sam and Will to the nursery so I can rest. Although I put up a fight to keep them she won in the end. She promised that she'd bring them back as soon as I woke up.
Everybody gives me one more congrats and say they'll be by the next day to see us again. Mom is the last--besides Mulder, who's very adamantly said he's staying--to leave. She kisses me and tells me that Ahab would have been proud. I smile sadly at this, thinking how Ahab never got the chance to be a grandfather. Mattie was born long after he passed.
Mulder held my hand as I fell asleep, exhausted at the events of the past hours.
I still couldn't quite grasp the fact that I was now a mother.
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Mulder's POV:
1:43pm
Scully fell asleep a while ago, I stayed with her for a long time before I finally tore myself away to get some stale coffee and barley edible hospital food. I stopped by the nursery before going back to her room. Sam and Will were sleeping in their cribs, facing each other, as if they could feel the bond being just 3 hours old. They were so tiny and frail, and at less than a day--or one forth of a day for that matter--old they already scared me more than the syndicate, aliens, or the many evils Scully and I had encountered over the years ever had.
There was another man staring into the Plexiglas, with the same scared shitless look on his face. He turned to me and smiled, "which one's yours?"
"Well, actually, two of them are mine." I pointed to Sam and Will. "Samantha and William. What about you?"
He pointed to a girl sleeping in her crib, "Heather. My first. You?"
"First timer as well. How old is she?"
"Linda gave birth 7 hours ago. You?"
"3."
"They're so small, it's unnerving."
"I was just thinking the same thing."
"And then you have to take in consideration that your responsible for their lives, everything is riding on you, their lives are in you hand."
"Don't remind me. Im still trying to grasp the idea."
He looks back through the glass, "I'd better go see if Linda's awake." He smiles at me and walks off, I look back at Sam and Will before I walk off myself. When I get into the Scully's room she's still sleeping. I pull a chair up as close to her bed as it will go and lay my head down on the part of the bed she's not occupying. I rub her arm gently and before I know it im sleeping.
4:07am
Movement wakes me up and I lift my head to look at Scully. She smiles at me.
"He's alive."
"What time is it?"
"Just a bit after 4, the nurse just went to get the twins. I thought you'd want to be awake when she brought them in."
I nodded my head and two nurses came in, one holding Will the other holding Sam. She handed Sam to me and Will to Scully. I looked down at Sam's head full of Scully's red hair and she slowly opened her eyes to reveal a beautiful hazel color. They were a bit like my eyes, but they had specks of yellow and orange in them. I placed her extremely small palm into mine and looked at her small stubby fingers. "I still can't believe how small they are."
"They were a bit early, but other than that twins are normally smaller than when there is just one." She messes with Will's dark brown hair and he opens his mouth in protest but makes no noise. She laughs softly at him and he yawns. So she begins to rock back and forth. I look down at Sam who is also close to falling asleep, so I too slowly rock back and forth. Only im not having as much luck as she is.
After Will falls asleep she tells me to hand Sam to her, so I do, and I take the sleeping Will my arms. I watch as Scully lulls Sam to sleep and I can't help but smile at how natural this comes to her. Not to long after that the nurses come back to bring them the nursery.
Scully herself goes back to sleep not long after that. And im once again left to roam the corridors of the hospital. As before I end up watching Sam and Will asleep. I smile when I notice the guy from before is looking in on his daughter. He smiles at me too and we go back to watching our newborns sleep.
Who knew it would be this appealing?
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Scully's POV:
I never imagined that I would be this tired, but I can't seem to keep my eyes open for more than half an hour at a time. Each time I wake up Mulder's sleeping next to me, although once he was gone, but I just figured he'd gone to check up on Will and Sam, and when he came back he confirmed that theory.
I think that I've been awake for 10 minutes now, and Mulder's grumbling something in his sleep, although I can't make out what he's saying. Every now and then I'll catch a word, but never enough to make sense of the conversation. I switch on the TV and Mulder mumbles something about 'rat bastard', which causes me to smile. I turn my attention back to the TV and end up watching 'The West Wing', im surprised when I watch the whole show without falling asleep.
Mulder stirs next to me and lifts his head. He rolls his neck, and sickly popping fills the air. I hate when he pops his neck. He notices my look, "sorry Scully. I forgot."
I nod and turn back to the TV. I hate hospitals, there's never anything to do in them, except watch TV, and sleep. And the latter seems more appealing than the first. It's already after 10 now, and Law & Order is on, I yawn and my eyelids drop.
"You're going to sleep already?"
"Yeah, I think so. Im still really tired. Giving birth to two kids isn't exactly a picnic."
"Mind if I join you?"
"No, come on up." I scoot over a bit and allow him to climb in the bed. I cuddle close to him and lay my head down on his chest. He drapes an arm around my body. I sigh happily and close my eyes. I don't fall asleep right away, rather I enjoy to feeling of being this close to Mulder without my stomach getting in the way. My stomach has gone down a lot, but still not fully. It's only been half a day since I gave birth. But after half an hour I was asleep.
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3 weeks later
4:03am
I don't know why I woke up. But I did. Just in time to feel my water break. I jumped out of bed--well as much as I could with 9 months of twins inside me--"Mulder. Wake up." I called as I grabbed my overnight bag from the chair it rested in. A contraction tore through my abdomen and I yelled out in pain. "Mulder, GET UP!" I screamed, "it's time!"
That was all he needed to hear, he was soon out of the bed and by my side. He took my bag out of my hands and started to guide me to the door.
"Im in labor Mulder, not blind. I still know how to get around *my* apartment, and furthermore you might want to put a shirt and a pair of shoes on."
He looked down at his bear chest and feet, "you're right. Clothes would probably be a good thing." He threw on a cotton tee and his shoes and then once again tried to lead me out of the apartment.
Now, I would have objected to this, but at the same time I was hit with another contraction, so all protesting was momentarily delayed. After the contraction was over all I really cared about was getting the cause of my pain out of me.
I got into the passengers side of Mulder's car, 10 minutes and an almost speeding ticket later--the officer let me go when he saw me--we arrived at the hospital and I was on a bed getting wheeled into the delivery room. Mulder was getting changed into my scrubs and calling my mother for me.
5 minutes later he came in and stood by my bed, taking my hand into his. I smiled up at him but a contraction started and I squeezed his hand as hard as I could. When it ended I let go.
"Ouch Scully, you think you can warn me next time before attempting to crush my bones."
"I'll try, but I make no promises."
Half an hour later mom showed up, and around 8--I was still in labor, who knew it would take this long--I was informed Dogett and Reyes had arrived. By 9 even Skinner and the Lone Gunmen had come. But still no babies.
10:06am
"Ok Dana, you've got to push ok? One, two, three…push!"
I pushed as hard as I could and then fell back onto the bed. 2 minutes and three more pushes later I had given birth to William Fox Scully, (we couldn't give them Mulder's last name, not while I still had a job with the x-files) and two minutes after that I gave birth to Samantha Emily Scully. I held the 4 pound 5 oz. Sam in my arms and Mulder held William, who was 5 pounds 1 oz, when everybody walked in. Mom kissed me on the forehead and looked down at the tiny child with a head full of red hair.
"She's beautiful Dana." She smiled, "she looks just like you."
"Well, you can't tell right now because she's sleeping, but her eyes are hazel."
Mulder looks up at me with a halfhearted smile, "well, at least we know their my kids. Will's got my nose, sorry."
I laughed, "what's wrong with your nose? I happen to love you nose?"
"Don't lie to me Scully." He chuckled, "I'm better at it than you, and I can spot one a mile away."
"Which one was born first?" Frohike inquires.
"William. He was born at 10:08, and Sam was born at 10:10. Just two minutes apart."
"That's going to suck when she gets older." Monica states.
"If he turns out to be like I was with Sam he'll tease her about it all the time, but I guess with twins it's different, seeing as it's a lot closer than 4 years." His smile fades.
I take his hand and give it a gentle squeeze. He looks at me and once again smiles, halfheartedly though. The nurse comes in to take Sam and Will to the nursery so I can rest. Although I put up a fight to keep them she won in the end. She promised that she'd bring them back as soon as I woke up.
Everybody gives me one more congrats and say they'll be by the next day to see us again. Mom is the last--besides Mulder, who's very adamantly said he's staying--to leave. She kisses me and tells me that Ahab would have been proud. I smile sadly at this, thinking how Ahab never got the chance to be a grandfather. Mattie was born long after he passed.
Mulder held my hand as I fell asleep, exhausted at the events of the past hours.
I still couldn't quite grasp the fact that I was now a mother.
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Mulder's POV:
1:43pm
Scully fell asleep a while ago, I stayed with her for a long time before I finally tore myself away to get some stale coffee and barley edible hospital food. I stopped by the nursery before going back to her room. Sam and Will were sleeping in their cribs, facing each other, as if they could feel the bond being just 3 hours old. They were so tiny and frail, and at less than a day--or one forth of a day for that matter--old they already scared me more than the syndicate, aliens, or the many evils Scully and I had encountered over the years ever had.
There was another man staring into the Plexiglas, with the same scared shitless look on his face. He turned to me and smiled, "which one's yours?"
"Well, actually, two of them are mine." I pointed to Sam and Will. "Samantha and William. What about you?"
He pointed to a girl sleeping in her crib, "Heather. My first. You?"
"First timer as well. How old is she?"
"Linda gave birth 7 hours ago. You?"
"3."
"They're so small, it's unnerving."
"I was just thinking the same thing."
"And then you have to take in consideration that your responsible for their lives, everything is riding on you, their lives are in you hand."
"Don't remind me. Im still trying to grasp the idea."
He looks back through the glass, "I'd better go see if Linda's awake." He smiles at me and walks off, I look back at Sam and Will before I walk off myself. When I get into the Scully's room she's still sleeping. I pull a chair up as close to her bed as it will go and lay my head down on the part of the bed she's not occupying. I rub her arm gently and before I know it im sleeping.
4:07am
Movement wakes me up and I lift my head to look at Scully. She smiles at me.
"He's alive."
"What time is it?"
"Just a bit after 4, the nurse just went to get the twins. I thought you'd want to be awake when she brought them in."
I nodded my head and two nurses came in, one holding Will the other holding Sam. She handed Sam to me and Will to Scully. I looked down at Sam's head full of Scully's red hair and she slowly opened her eyes to reveal a beautiful hazel color. They were a bit like my eyes, but they had specks of yellow and orange in them. I placed her extremely small palm into mine and looked at her small stubby fingers. "I still can't believe how small they are."
"They were a bit early, but other than that twins are normally smaller than when there is just one." She messes with Will's dark brown hair and he opens his mouth in protest but makes no noise. She laughs softly at him and he yawns. So she begins to rock back and forth. I look down at Sam who is also close to falling asleep, so I too slowly rock back and forth. Only im not having as much luck as she is.
After Will falls asleep she tells me to hand Sam to her, so I do, and I take the sleeping Will my arms. I watch as Scully lulls Sam to sleep and I can't help but smile at how natural this comes to her. Not to long after that the nurses come back to bring them the nursery.
Scully herself goes back to sleep not long after that. And im once again left to roam the corridors of the hospital. As before I end up watching Sam and Will asleep. I smile when I notice the guy from before is looking in on his daughter. He smiles at me too and we go back to watching our newborns sleep.
Who knew it would be this appealing?
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Scully's POV:
I never imagined that I would be this tired, but I can't seem to keep my eyes open for more than half an hour at a time. Each time I wake up Mulder's sleeping next to me, although once he was gone, but I just figured he'd gone to check up on Will and Sam, and when he came back he confirmed that theory.
I think that I've been awake for 10 minutes now, and Mulder's grumbling something in his sleep, although I can't make out what he's saying. Every now and then I'll catch a word, but never enough to make sense of the conversation. I switch on the TV and Mulder mumbles something about 'rat bastard', which causes me to smile. I turn my attention back to the TV and end up watching 'The West Wing', im surprised when I watch the whole show without falling asleep.
Mulder stirs next to me and lifts his head. He rolls his neck, and sickly popping fills the air. I hate when he pops his neck. He notices my look, "sorry Scully. I forgot."
I nod and turn back to the TV. I hate hospitals, there's never anything to do in them, except watch TV, and sleep. And the latter seems more appealing than the first. It's already after 10 now, and Law & Order is on, I yawn and my eyelids drop.
"You're going to sleep already?"
"Yeah, I think so. Im still really tired. Giving birth to two kids isn't exactly a picnic."
"Mind if I join you?"
"No, come on up." I scoot over a bit and allow him to climb in the bed. I cuddle close to him and lay my head down on his chest. He drapes an arm around my body. I sigh happily and close my eyes. I don't fall asleep right away, rather I enjoy to feeling of being this close to Mulder without my stomach getting in the way. My stomach has gone down a lot, but still not fully. It's only been half a day since I gave birth. But after half an hour I was asleep.
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a/n: Like I said before, there's only a few more chapters left. Please review.
