TITLE: Life is like a box of chocolates
AUTHOR: Katie W
E-MAIL: katiewillowsyahoo.dk
RATING: PG 13
CATEGORY: Drama/romance
KEYWORDS: MSR
SPOILERS: None really, but this happens before William is born.
SUMMARY: After sleeping together for the first time Scully and Mulder wake up to a huge fight. The distance between them continues to grow until something totally unexpected forces them to work together.
DISCLAIMER: All characters are the products of Chris Carter. They also belong to Ten-Thirteen Productions and the Fox Network. No copyright infringement intended.
Getting back to normal
"Stay here, I'll be right back" and with that he left her wondering slightly blushed in the living room.
Scully sat back on the couch and tried to collect her thought. All this intensity between the two just kept snowballing. She wanted this to happen didn't she? She heard the front door closing and the sound of Mulder making his way back to the living room made her jump a little.
He came in carrying a family size pizza and a bottle of good red wine. She looked at him in surprise.
"I know where you order your pizza from so I called them before I came here to change the order. I hope you don't mind?" He placed the pizza box on the table before her and went to the kitchen to find some wine glasses. She felt her heart beat with great intensity. Red wine? What was he implying?
Mulder returned and poured the red wine. He reached her a glass filled with wine and said
"Cheers to..." He suddenly didn't know what to say. She felt the slight embarrassment between them and quickly raised her glass.
"Cheers to this week ending and the weekend beginning" she said and drank a little of the velvety deep burgundy fluid.
The sat silently together watching the movie end. The pizza slowly disappeared, as did the wine. Mulder felt Scully lean a little in and place her head on his shoulder. She had done that so many times when tired out a case but this time it felt different. He wanted to touch her and encircle her with his arms but something held him back. A small voice in the back of his head still told him to watch out for her right fist!
Suddenly he woke up. They had fallen asleep there at the couch. She had encircled him with her arms. Her head was now on his chest and her arms held around his lower stomach. The smell of her hair made him slightly dizzy. She smelled like raspberry. Scully woke when feeling someone getting up leaving her alone on her couch. The absence of warmth and softness unconsciously made her reach out for him. She then felt him scoop her up in his arms. One arm behind her neck and head. The other one slid under her knees and lower tights.
He carried her into her bedroom. She pretended to be asleep but he knew she was awake. He lay down on her bed and slowly pulled the covers over her. Turning to leave he had only one wish that she would call out for him. He got to the door when he heard her whisper.
"Mulder stay with me tonight" she said so quietly he almost overhead her.
He walked back to her bed. The sentence had made him a little confused. Stay as in stay in her bed holding her or on her couch like so many times before. He decided to play it safe.
"I'll just grab a pillow and I'll be on your couch go back to sleep it's ok" He mouthed.
"No! I want you to stay in here with me" she said suddenly wide-awake. Stressing the two last words she withdrew the covers and he sat down on the bed.
"Scully are you sure" he asked her
She nodded and he saw the passion in her eyes shining like two candles in the dim room. He then closed the distance between them. With one hand cupping her face and the other slowly stroking her on her lower back they kissed. Kissed for the first time. Her hands came up to her hair. The kiss grew deeper and deeper.
She pulled him down on her. They roamed around her bed for a while.
"Scully are you sure" he asked again. She pulled off the tank top she had been wearing. The black lace bra she wore under lightly lifted her beasts. Mulder took a deep breath and quickly shed his shirt. They lay back on the bed. Somehow they managed to remove whatever remaining clothes without their lips parting.
As he entered her she lightly whimped, it had been a long time since she had made love. They both climaxed at the same time. Their screams merged with their damp bodies. For a while they just lay without moving. Mulder couldn't believe his luck. It had finally happened. This, them together (forever?) he moved over and gently hugged he.
Scully almost felt her heart burst with happiness at that moment. However, the feeling was quickly replaced with remorse. Why had she let herself melt and give into him? She felt him placing small kisses up her spine. The touch of his soft lips made her quiver. She once again lost every sense of time and place and turned to kiss him.
When the first birds began singing outside in the street Mulder and Scully lay entwined in her bed with the covers loosely covering them.
"I love you Dana" Mulder whispered but he got no response and assumed she was already asleep. If he could have seen her head, which was turned away from him, he would have seen a single tear slip down Scully's cheek.
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Scully woke Sunday morning feeling numb and restless. She hadn't slept very well. The scenes from Friday and Saturday still dominated her every waken hour. She was happy that she had one more day to herself before having to face Mulder again. The terrible argument yesterday morning had left her with nothing than remorse and sadness. She loved him. She had realised that a long time ago. However, the fact that they were working partners prevented anything else from happening. At least that was what she had been trying to convince herself of. Now it had happened and she had tackled the entire situation like an immature teenager. She was ashamed of herself. She knew she had hurt Mulder but his comment on her former nickname 'Ice Queen' had hurt her just as much.
She wanted to pick up the phone and call him to apologize for her behaviour but she didn't have the courage. She thought it better to leave him alone for awhile as well.
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Mulder woke to a strange feeling. A feeling of loneliness. He turned to find the side besides him in the bed empty. He had dreamt of Scully and him again. Not the actual sex or the surrounding world. Just the two of them lying close in bed sleeping and feeling safe and secure in each other's arms. He got up and went to the kitchen. Right now he hated her for treating him like this. Well she was treating herself badly too he was sure. Well, hated was a strong word. Maybe it was more like misunderstood her?
Tomorrow he would have to back to the office. He decided to give her a lot of space and stay away from personal subject until she was ready.
He went into the living room and picked up the phone to call... he put the phone down again. Calling her on Sunday night to check up on their weekend together was like a habit. He almost found himself dialling her number automatically at times.
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It was early Monday morning. Scully was getting ready to go into the office. She had decided she would stay away from all personal discussions if Mulder didn't bring anything up. He was probably mad at her for throwing him out Saturday. She wouldn't push him. She wanted to restore the mutual respect between them. Telling him she loved him would seem too much after the way she had behaved. Platonic conversations and relationships were the way to deal with this until Mulder had come around.
Scully walked into the office. Mulder sat at his desk bent over a new file.
"Good morning" the two words seemed to be a thousand miles away. Scully tried again.
"Good morning"
"Good morning" Mulder answered. "I made you some coffee. I think this new case will be very interesting..."
Scully went to pour herself a cup of coffee. An interesting case!? This was just like any other morning. Except for the obvious politeness in their conversation. She went to her desk and sat down to read her emails and the files. Not once did she feel Mulder look up to speak to her.
Mulder sat at his desk pretending to read a file. He was a little disappointed that Scully totally avoided any talk of the previous events.
"Uhm, Scully do you think we should talk?"
Her head flew up and she dropped the file she was reading. He could see that she was getting very uncomfortable. "Mulder I don't think that..." she didn't finish before he said
"That's okay. Well then why don't we go down to the hospital and check this couple out?" He referred to their new case.
A couple had been mysteriously murdered in a Washington suburb this morning. Their bodies had been found at a posh hotel down town.
"Yes, let's just go ok?" Scully felt relieved that Mulder had backed off immediately.
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They arrived at the hospital. The two bodies of a red haired woman and a brownish haired man lay before them on the exam tables. Scully went into a nearby room to change into her scrubs and returned to do the autopsies.
"Mulder why don't you go down to the station and get the info on these two?" she wanted him to stay but she had to get to work and if they had to work on their personal relations then she preferred that they did so in their own free time.
A couple of hours later Mulder returned to the autopsy room. He handed Scully a sheet of paper with the information on the couple.
' Mr and Mrs. Hamilton'
'Mr. Matthew Christopher Hamilton – born January 15th in Missouri, Texas.'
'Mrs. Catherine Elisabeth Nielsen Hamilton – born July 28th in Chicago, Illinois'
They owned a jewellery store chain, Luxurious Living, on the west coast.
They had been married for 6 years. They owned a big house in L.A. and an apartment in San Francisco.
They had been in Washington D.C. on business. They had spent three nights at the hotel. They had both been shot in the back and through the head. It seemed symbolic in a way. However, besides that there was absolutely nothing that would connect them to an x-file. Mulder was a bit frustrated.
Scully looked at the two people on the tables in front of them. The good- looking man with the thick brownish hair and the smaller red haired woman. There was something about them made her feel so sad.
"Scully, this isn't even close to an x-file. I don't see why they would have us come down here and waist our time on something like this" Mulder raised his voice slightly seeing that Scully stood lost in thought.
"Mulder, I'm sure there's some reason as to why we have been handed this case."
They went back to the office and began researching further into the Hamilton case.
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Almost three weeks had gone by and there was still absolutely no lead in the murder case. No one knew the Hamiltons. Not even the people working in their jewellery stores. Not the neighbours and there was no family to be contacted. No one.
The two agents came in every morning at 8 am. and left at 5pm. Mulder was getting on Scully's nerves. He kept calling the Lone Gunman to complain about the slow progress they were making.
Then Scully on day found a lead. A stepbrother to the woman Catherine Elisabeth Hamilton. His name was Michael Sorensen. He lived in Atlanta and had not seen anything of the happy couple since their wedding back in 1998. However, he was the only person they had found even remotely connected to the couple so he agreed to fly in to be interviewed.
"Interviewed? Scully we are not the local police" Mulder exclaimed and sat back in his chair.
"Mulder this is the only lead we have found in three weeks. I know you don't see an x-file here but the non-existence of family or any who knew of the Hamiltons at all seems to me like a small x-file itself." Scully closed her laptop and prepared to head for home.
"Scully, do you want to grab a bit on the way home?" Mulder asked trying to sound as calmly as possible. The last three weeks had somehow distanced them even further than after the fight on that fateful Saturday morning. He wanted them to connect like they had done in the past. He wanted to be her best friend again. He wanted to call her every night like he used to before trying to go to sleep. He simply missed her. If not for anything else then at least to save their friendship.
"Not tonight Mulder. I'm having diner at my mother's" Scully saw the disappointment in Mulder's eyes when she didn't offer to bring him along as she used to. She was going to her mother's house for diner but she didn't want to bring Mulder. She knew her mother always tried to set them up and that she wanted them to get together. The last three weeks had been hard. She had however convinced herself that friendship was better than nothing. And she wanted to keep what they had now instead of loosing it all again.
Mulder waved at her without looking up as she passed him to go home. She didn't see the tears in his eyes.
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That's it for now! Well, so much for getting back to normal. To come is still Patricia Hunter, a box of chocolates and some even rougher times. Hey, and Michael Sorensen too... I wonder what he is like and what he will bring to this story!!! Exciting, exciting.... Well and what about the Hamiltons? Who are they and how do they fit into all this. Mulder was looking for an X-files well he's going to get one... but not the kind he expects( Take Care. Sorry it took me so long to update... but better to read one long chapter than two short ones don't you think?
I also wanted to thank all the people who left a review for me to read.. wow that made me so happy and inspired me to write even more( Thank you! So long for now... Love Katie W. ........To BE CONTINUED!
AUTHOR: Katie W
E-MAIL: katiewillowsyahoo.dk
RATING: PG 13
CATEGORY: Drama/romance
KEYWORDS: MSR
SPOILERS: None really, but this happens before William is born.
SUMMARY: After sleeping together for the first time Scully and Mulder wake up to a huge fight. The distance between them continues to grow until something totally unexpected forces them to work together.
DISCLAIMER: All characters are the products of Chris Carter. They also belong to Ten-Thirteen Productions and the Fox Network. No copyright infringement intended.
Getting back to normal
"Stay here, I'll be right back" and with that he left her wondering slightly blushed in the living room.
Scully sat back on the couch and tried to collect her thought. All this intensity between the two just kept snowballing. She wanted this to happen didn't she? She heard the front door closing and the sound of Mulder making his way back to the living room made her jump a little.
He came in carrying a family size pizza and a bottle of good red wine. She looked at him in surprise.
"I know where you order your pizza from so I called them before I came here to change the order. I hope you don't mind?" He placed the pizza box on the table before her and went to the kitchen to find some wine glasses. She felt her heart beat with great intensity. Red wine? What was he implying?
Mulder returned and poured the red wine. He reached her a glass filled with wine and said
"Cheers to..." He suddenly didn't know what to say. She felt the slight embarrassment between them and quickly raised her glass.
"Cheers to this week ending and the weekend beginning" she said and drank a little of the velvety deep burgundy fluid.
The sat silently together watching the movie end. The pizza slowly disappeared, as did the wine. Mulder felt Scully lean a little in and place her head on his shoulder. She had done that so many times when tired out a case but this time it felt different. He wanted to touch her and encircle her with his arms but something held him back. A small voice in the back of his head still told him to watch out for her right fist!
Suddenly he woke up. They had fallen asleep there at the couch. She had encircled him with her arms. Her head was now on his chest and her arms held around his lower stomach. The smell of her hair made him slightly dizzy. She smelled like raspberry. Scully woke when feeling someone getting up leaving her alone on her couch. The absence of warmth and softness unconsciously made her reach out for him. She then felt him scoop her up in his arms. One arm behind her neck and head. The other one slid under her knees and lower tights.
He carried her into her bedroom. She pretended to be asleep but he knew she was awake. He lay down on her bed and slowly pulled the covers over her. Turning to leave he had only one wish that she would call out for him. He got to the door when he heard her whisper.
"Mulder stay with me tonight" she said so quietly he almost overhead her.
He walked back to her bed. The sentence had made him a little confused. Stay as in stay in her bed holding her or on her couch like so many times before. He decided to play it safe.
"I'll just grab a pillow and I'll be on your couch go back to sleep it's ok" He mouthed.
"No! I want you to stay in here with me" she said suddenly wide-awake. Stressing the two last words she withdrew the covers and he sat down on the bed.
"Scully are you sure" he asked her
She nodded and he saw the passion in her eyes shining like two candles in the dim room. He then closed the distance between them. With one hand cupping her face and the other slowly stroking her on her lower back they kissed. Kissed for the first time. Her hands came up to her hair. The kiss grew deeper and deeper.
She pulled him down on her. They roamed around her bed for a while.
"Scully are you sure" he asked again. She pulled off the tank top she had been wearing. The black lace bra she wore under lightly lifted her beasts. Mulder took a deep breath and quickly shed his shirt. They lay back on the bed. Somehow they managed to remove whatever remaining clothes without their lips parting.
As he entered her she lightly whimped, it had been a long time since she had made love. They both climaxed at the same time. Their screams merged with their damp bodies. For a while they just lay without moving. Mulder couldn't believe his luck. It had finally happened. This, them together (forever?) he moved over and gently hugged he.
Scully almost felt her heart burst with happiness at that moment. However, the feeling was quickly replaced with remorse. Why had she let herself melt and give into him? She felt him placing small kisses up her spine. The touch of his soft lips made her quiver. She once again lost every sense of time and place and turned to kiss him.
When the first birds began singing outside in the street Mulder and Scully lay entwined in her bed with the covers loosely covering them.
"I love you Dana" Mulder whispered but he got no response and assumed she was already asleep. If he could have seen her head, which was turned away from him, he would have seen a single tear slip down Scully's cheek.
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Scully woke Sunday morning feeling numb and restless. She hadn't slept very well. The scenes from Friday and Saturday still dominated her every waken hour. She was happy that she had one more day to herself before having to face Mulder again. The terrible argument yesterday morning had left her with nothing than remorse and sadness. She loved him. She had realised that a long time ago. However, the fact that they were working partners prevented anything else from happening. At least that was what she had been trying to convince herself of. Now it had happened and she had tackled the entire situation like an immature teenager. She was ashamed of herself. She knew she had hurt Mulder but his comment on her former nickname 'Ice Queen' had hurt her just as much.
She wanted to pick up the phone and call him to apologize for her behaviour but she didn't have the courage. She thought it better to leave him alone for awhile as well.
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Mulder woke to a strange feeling. A feeling of loneliness. He turned to find the side besides him in the bed empty. He had dreamt of Scully and him again. Not the actual sex or the surrounding world. Just the two of them lying close in bed sleeping and feeling safe and secure in each other's arms. He got up and went to the kitchen. Right now he hated her for treating him like this. Well she was treating herself badly too he was sure. Well, hated was a strong word. Maybe it was more like misunderstood her?
Tomorrow he would have to back to the office. He decided to give her a lot of space and stay away from personal subject until she was ready.
He went into the living room and picked up the phone to call... he put the phone down again. Calling her on Sunday night to check up on their weekend together was like a habit. He almost found himself dialling her number automatically at times.
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It was early Monday morning. Scully was getting ready to go into the office. She had decided she would stay away from all personal discussions if Mulder didn't bring anything up. He was probably mad at her for throwing him out Saturday. She wouldn't push him. She wanted to restore the mutual respect between them. Telling him she loved him would seem too much after the way she had behaved. Platonic conversations and relationships were the way to deal with this until Mulder had come around.
Scully walked into the office. Mulder sat at his desk bent over a new file.
"Good morning" the two words seemed to be a thousand miles away. Scully tried again.
"Good morning"
"Good morning" Mulder answered. "I made you some coffee. I think this new case will be very interesting..."
Scully went to pour herself a cup of coffee. An interesting case!? This was just like any other morning. Except for the obvious politeness in their conversation. She went to her desk and sat down to read her emails and the files. Not once did she feel Mulder look up to speak to her.
Mulder sat at his desk pretending to read a file. He was a little disappointed that Scully totally avoided any talk of the previous events.
"Uhm, Scully do you think we should talk?"
Her head flew up and she dropped the file she was reading. He could see that she was getting very uncomfortable. "Mulder I don't think that..." she didn't finish before he said
"That's okay. Well then why don't we go down to the hospital and check this couple out?" He referred to their new case.
A couple had been mysteriously murdered in a Washington suburb this morning. Their bodies had been found at a posh hotel down town.
"Yes, let's just go ok?" Scully felt relieved that Mulder had backed off immediately.
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They arrived at the hospital. The two bodies of a red haired woman and a brownish haired man lay before them on the exam tables. Scully went into a nearby room to change into her scrubs and returned to do the autopsies.
"Mulder why don't you go down to the station and get the info on these two?" she wanted him to stay but she had to get to work and if they had to work on their personal relations then she preferred that they did so in their own free time.
A couple of hours later Mulder returned to the autopsy room. He handed Scully a sheet of paper with the information on the couple.
' Mr and Mrs. Hamilton'
'Mr. Matthew Christopher Hamilton – born January 15th in Missouri, Texas.'
'Mrs. Catherine Elisabeth Nielsen Hamilton – born July 28th in Chicago, Illinois'
They owned a jewellery store chain, Luxurious Living, on the west coast.
They had been married for 6 years. They owned a big house in L.A. and an apartment in San Francisco.
They had been in Washington D.C. on business. They had spent three nights at the hotel. They had both been shot in the back and through the head. It seemed symbolic in a way. However, besides that there was absolutely nothing that would connect them to an x-file. Mulder was a bit frustrated.
Scully looked at the two people on the tables in front of them. The good- looking man with the thick brownish hair and the smaller red haired woman. There was something about them made her feel so sad.
"Scully, this isn't even close to an x-file. I don't see why they would have us come down here and waist our time on something like this" Mulder raised his voice slightly seeing that Scully stood lost in thought.
"Mulder, I'm sure there's some reason as to why we have been handed this case."
They went back to the office and began researching further into the Hamilton case.
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Almost three weeks had gone by and there was still absolutely no lead in the murder case. No one knew the Hamiltons. Not even the people working in their jewellery stores. Not the neighbours and there was no family to be contacted. No one.
The two agents came in every morning at 8 am. and left at 5pm. Mulder was getting on Scully's nerves. He kept calling the Lone Gunman to complain about the slow progress they were making.
Then Scully on day found a lead. A stepbrother to the woman Catherine Elisabeth Hamilton. His name was Michael Sorensen. He lived in Atlanta and had not seen anything of the happy couple since their wedding back in 1998. However, he was the only person they had found even remotely connected to the couple so he agreed to fly in to be interviewed.
"Interviewed? Scully we are not the local police" Mulder exclaimed and sat back in his chair.
"Mulder this is the only lead we have found in three weeks. I know you don't see an x-file here but the non-existence of family or any who knew of the Hamiltons at all seems to me like a small x-file itself." Scully closed her laptop and prepared to head for home.
"Scully, do you want to grab a bit on the way home?" Mulder asked trying to sound as calmly as possible. The last three weeks had somehow distanced them even further than after the fight on that fateful Saturday morning. He wanted them to connect like they had done in the past. He wanted to be her best friend again. He wanted to call her every night like he used to before trying to go to sleep. He simply missed her. If not for anything else then at least to save their friendship.
"Not tonight Mulder. I'm having diner at my mother's" Scully saw the disappointment in Mulder's eyes when she didn't offer to bring him along as she used to. She was going to her mother's house for diner but she didn't want to bring Mulder. She knew her mother always tried to set them up and that she wanted them to get together. The last three weeks had been hard. She had however convinced herself that friendship was better than nothing. And she wanted to keep what they had now instead of loosing it all again.
Mulder waved at her without looking up as she passed him to go home. She didn't see the tears in his eyes.
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That's it for now! Well, so much for getting back to normal. To come is still Patricia Hunter, a box of chocolates and some even rougher times. Hey, and Michael Sorensen too... I wonder what he is like and what he will bring to this story!!! Exciting, exciting.... Well and what about the Hamiltons? Who are they and how do they fit into all this. Mulder was looking for an X-files well he's going to get one... but not the kind he expects( Take Care. Sorry it took me so long to update... but better to read one long chapter than two short ones don't you think?
I also wanted to thank all the people who left a review for me to read.. wow that made me so happy and inspired me to write even more( Thank you! So long for now... Love Katie W. ........To BE CONTINUED!