2 months later:
Today it's been a year since we've been in hiding. We're still formulating a plan to release the antidote but we keep coming up at dead ends. There's still many years until colonization but the sooner this is over the better. What im concerned with at this point is the black oil. We have no antidote to that yet…the only remedy we have is the one to kill the Super Soldiers. Although that is a great accomplishment it's still not enough.
Soon Kim will have her little one, about a month now. John Jr. and Missy are getting bigger and bigger by the hour, although their still so very tiny and fragile. I don't think that I've let Missy out of my sight for more than two hours at a time. Will's a little perturbed at all of the attention she's getting but I think that on some level he understands because she's so young she needs more of mommy's time.
Right now she's crying, pleading at me with her big blue eyes to make everything better. Since I know not why she's crying and I've already fed her and changed her diaper so all that I can do is rock her and silently sing the same song I would sing to Will.
"Jeremiah was a bullfrog,
Was a good friend of mine,
I never understood a single word he said,
But I helped him a-drink his wine,
And he always had some mighty fine wine."
Will joins in on the chorus, what little he picked up from the nights of me singing to him and his small voice mixed in with mommy's too sooth his crying sister. She blinks back the tears and her wails slow down to the point where they finally stop. Will lays his head on my shoulder, closes his eyes, and yawns. Mulder walks into the bedroom and notices his son fighting sleep. He picks him up and lies him in his 'big boy' bed. Mulder rubs his back helping him to fall asleep as we've learned helps greatly. It only takes a few minutes before Will's soft snoring fills the air.
I look down at Missy whose eyes are closed and her breathing indicates she's sound asleep. Not wanting to let her go just yet I keep her close to me and slowly rock back in forth, to keep her from waking. Mulder smiles up at us and gets onto the bed next to us. He kisses me on the cheek and then Missy on the forehead. "How lucky am I to have the two most beautiful girls in the world here with me."
"As lucky as I to have the two most handsome boys." I reply with a smile. "Im going to put her in her crib so we can sleep." I say getting up from the bed and walking over to her crib. "Goodnight angel." I say as I cover her with her precious moments blanket. I brush a lock of brown hair out of her face. I retreat back to our king sized bed and relish the feeling of being off of my feet for the first time that day. I scoot in closer to Mulder and he wraps his arm around my waist.
"Goodnight Scully."
"Night Mulder."
Not too long after that I fell into a deep sleep.
The next day:
I woke up to the sound of Missy crying. I rolled over in the bed and mumbled at Mulder that it was his turn to feed her while pulling the covers over my eyes. He sighed and got out of the bed and the crying stops. I look up from under the covers to see Mulder rocking Missy in his arms and singing softly to her. I smile at the scene before me.
"What are you singing to her?"
"Amazing Grace, my mom use to sing it to Samantha when she was a baby, I presume she sang it to me as well, but I really don't remember that time of my childhood. It always soothed Sam so I figured that it'd work here as well."
"I think its more the singer than the song. She just knows your voice, you could sing 'highway to hell' and she'd stop crying.
"You think? We could test out that theory."
"Lets not." I looked over to Will's bed, "Will already awake?"
"Yeah, he ran out a few minutes ago looking for Papaw Walter." He says still looking down at Missy. "Scully. I think she's hungry, and well…I can't do to much about that."
"Give her here then." I say with my arms outstretched. He gently puts her in my arms and returns to his stance, his arms crossed.
"Mulder. Go find your son."
"Ah, do I have to?" He wines.
"Yes, go."
He walks off, a mock hurt look on his face. I laugh at him and feed Missy. After im done I bring her into the living room and put her into her playpen. She can't do much yet, won't be able to crawl for months, but she's still a handful to look after.
I go off to get my own breakfast and when I do Mulder, Will, Alan, Gibson, and the LG are all at the table eating ceral. "Men." I muse as I rumage through the fridge to find something to eat. I finally settle on a bagle and some orange juice and go back into the living room where Missy is making little baby noises trying to get somebodys attention. Tru and Nathan walk into the living room and to Missy's avail Tru picks her up, as any 17 year old girl would.
Around that time Mon walked in with a gurbiling John Jr. in her arms, John Sr. trailing right behind. Monica sits next to me on the couch and John goes off to where the others are eating their ceral. I laugh at the complexities of the male brain. Women are clearly the more refined of the species. No doubt about that.
Kim runs into the room her face flushed and looks at me panicked. "Dana…I think my water just broke."
"What?" I say jolting forward, "Kim your nearly a month away."
"Oooh, I know. I know. Trust me I know. Tell that to the little one who's trying hard as hell to escape."
"Ok. Ok, calm down, lets go find Dr. Smalls." I grab her hand and lead her to the underground yelling at Beyers along the way. "Come on daddy, your little ones about to be born."
His face turns a ghostly shade of white and Langly smiles, "uh, Beyers, dude. She's talking to you."
He shakes his head as if just realizing what's going on and jumps up from the table. He takes Kim's arms and I let go of her to find Nathan. I run ahead of them to reach the good doctor first so that he can be ready for her by the time we arrive.
When I find him he's reading something in his office, "Nathan…Dr. Smalls…Kim's water broke, she's about to go into labor."
"What? She's still a month away."
"Yeah, well, obviously her kid isn't good at telling time. Cause it's happening right now."
He scrambles to his feet when Kim and Beyer's walk in, Kim huffing and puffing like the wolf from 'the three little pigs.' He leads her into the make-shift delivery room and get her ready on the bed. After giving her epidural I turn to leave.
"No, Dana, stay with me. You've done this before. Twice. You've got more experience than anybody else here. Besides the doc of course. I need your help."
I nod and take her hand. "Ok. Forewarning, it's going to hurt like hell, epidural or no."
She stifles a laugh and a contraction tears through her body, stopping the laughter.
4 hours and a numb hand later Kim gives birth to a baby girl with a head full of light blonde hair. When I ask her what she's going to name her she says Katherine Marie, I smile when she says that she named her Katherine after me.
"What about Marie?"
"My mothers name." Beyers's adds.
"Oh." I say before giving Kim a hug and letting her be alone with her new family. I go back upstairs and inform everyone else that Kim had a beautiful 5 pound baby girl. Katherine Marie Beyers.
Three newborn babies in one house…Lord help us.
1 week later:
Frohike came bounding down the stairs with a frantic look on his face, "you guys gotta see this." He said us. "It's big."
Mulder's the first up, and after laying Missy in her crib I myself go upstairs. Kim and Monica come out of their rooms as well after putting their noisy bundles to sleep. We all rush upstairs to find out what got Frohike so hot and bothered. All of those who are already up there have solemn looks on their faces.
"What is it?" I demand of Mulder.
He points at the computer and I bring my eyes along the path of his finger, when I see what they see my face drops. There on the screen is Marita Cobavarious (I know that is like spelled all wrong, if somebody knows how to spell it, let me know. Please)
"How did she find us?" Monica demands.
"Jimmy and Eyves (is that how her name is spelled? As you can see im no good with names) contacted us this morning. She sent them a video via the internet. Here…" he turned up the volume and the foreign sounding voice of Marita filled the room.
"Hello all, I had a feeling that to get to you I'd have to go through your friends. Cute couple if you ask me. Now, unlike Kersh, im all for your little 'fight the future' crusade. And im willing to help, and I have a feeling that you need what I have." She holds up some a vile of some sort, "anybody know what this is? If you guessed Black Oil antidote then you are correct. If your wondering how I got this then to make a long story short Krycheck was more of an ally than you thought. I got a package the other day, postmarked two over two years ago. It had more than one vile in it and believe you me I tested it out, it works. Now all I ask from you is protection. Kersh and his little group as bastards are after me, they know what Krycheck sent to me, and trust me, they want it. I hope that you know you can trust me. I need your help you need mine. I'll be contacting your friends soon, until then."
Then the video goes black. Those of us who know Marita stare at each other for a few minutes saying nothing.
"Well, if its any compensation, she's hot." Who other than Frohike says. I shoot him an evil glare and then look at Mulder.
"What do you think Mulder?"
"Hell or high water Scully and she did help us when I was on 'trial' I think she's being legit. We can trust her, I say we have Jimmy and Eyves let her know that we'll help her. We need that antidote Scully, in a bad way."
"I know we do, so its settled then? Next time they here for her the move will be made. We need that antidote as soon as humanly possible. Like Mulder said, its hell or high water."
Everybody else agrees that this is a much needed intervention and we need her down here as soon as possible. But one thing still boggles the minds of everyone here, how does Kersh fit into all of this? He's obviously the new leader of the syndicate, but how does he know about Marita? And why the hell did Krycheck have an epiphany of such magnitude?
What the hell is going on?
2 days later:
No more news from Marita at this point, but I have a feeling that its coming, and soon. Jimmy and Eyves had to wait for a while before getting back to her, security precautions of course, but I hate the waiting. Impatient as I am, but this is more than just impatience, although there's nearly 10 years until 2012. Nobody knows how long it'll take to get this into the population, or if they'll go by schedule. Because whose to say that they won't come next year, or next week. Hell, whose to say they won't come tomorrow.
This is all so stressful.
A high pitched wail coming from my bedroom takes me out of my thoughts and I run off to find out what exactly is wrong with Melissa. When I enter the room Will is standing by her bed covering his hands with her ears.
"Make stop mommy!" he pleads with me, "it hurt."
"Oh, I know Will." I assure him as I pick Missy up out of her crib, I sit onto the bed and rock her back in forth. Without much effort at all the crying ceases and she's sucking on her small stubby thumb, I keep rocking and in less than 5 minutes she's once again sleeping soundly. Will looks at me thankful that the crying stopped.
"Why she cry much."
"She's a baby Will, they all cry a lot. You did too."
He crinkles his face, "me no cry. Me big boy."
"Now you are, but when you was Missy's size you cried almost as much as she did." I stand up and put her back into her crib. I pick Will up and tickle him furiously and he laughs against his will.
"Mommy, stop! Pwease."
"Ok Will, I'll stop." I laugh when we enter the living room. I set him down and he turns the channel so that were watching 'Blue's clues.' Mulder walks in and looks at the TV.
"Having fun Scully?"
"Oh yes, watching a cartoon hunt for clues is so riveting. You don't know the half of it."
"Oh, but I do. Trust me, Will drags me out here all the time to watch this. Im just glad this time it's you."
"Oh, that's really sweet."
He leans down to kiss me when Mon comes running into the room waving something in her right hand. Mulder looks over at her frustrated but his mood softens when he sees the white plastic object in his right hand. I sit up straight in my seat and stare at her bewildered. "Oh, Mon…don't tell me--"
She squeals in excitement, "im pregnant!"
Mulder looks at me and sighs, "oh God, not another one."
4 days later:
We are all upstairs now, the LG got another video from Jimmy and Eyves. Langly turns the video on and we all stare in anticipation.
"Hello all," Marita says, "It seems you are as eager to get my help as I to get yours. Your friends have informed me that in a matter of days I will be traveling to meet up with you. Good. Im looking forward to seeing familiar faces, or at least the friendly kind. The people I have encountered lately haven't been too fond of me. Soon my friends, very soon. Until then."
Then blackness.
"Jimmy said that the day after tomorrow is when she'll be coming down. So it looks like more waiting until then. But I think we can deal with two days. Until then Dana, I think that you should get everything you need ready, we should get working on this as soon as possible." Beyers states as if I didn't already know it.
Not wanting to be bitchy I just nod.
"Ken has agreed to bring her here, im guessing she'll be in the underground bunker, seeing that we have no open rooms up here."
"I still don't quite know who this woman is." Alan asks. "I only know she's some sort of ally."
"She's been a part of this quest for many years now, not as long as Skinner, Scully and I, but longer than Mon and John. We've been helped by her many a time. We can trust her, that's all that needs to be known."
"And this Krycheck she was talking about?" Hannah asks standing close to her husband.
"Alex Krycheck was not as trustworthy as Marita is, while she's helped us he's worked against us. He's no longer among the living." Mulder says.
"Let the dead stay buried." Comes a familiar voice from behind us. We all turn surprised by who we see.
"Marita? I thought you wouldn't be here for two days."
"Oh come on, you know as well as I do that people are always watching. It's your policy, trust no one, I just go live by it. We had to lie and say that I wouldn't be here for a few days, just in case somebody was listening in. What, no welcoming committee? I thought a few of you would be happy to see me."
I snap out of my daze and go to hug her, "im sorry Marita. It's so good to see you." I think for a second, "oh. Come with me. I want you to meet some people."
She follows me confused and I take her into the bunker where Tru, Nathan, and Gibson are watching the little ones. Gibson is already waiting for us when we come and when we get downstairs he gives Marita a wide smile and a hug. "Its good to see you Marita. How have you been?"
"Alive."
"That's always good."
She turns to me, "Scully--"
"Uh Marita, you can tell you've been away. It's Dana now, nobody but Mulder calls me Scully. It's sort of a little husband/wife thing."
"Your married?"
"Well, technically, no. But we plan on getting hitched as soon as this is over." I lift up my left hand, "but engaged will have to do until then. But to everybody here im Dana Mulder, only to Mulder am I Scully."
"Gotcha. Now why are we down here again?"
"Them." I say pointing to the corner where Missy's second crib and Will's second bed are. I lead her over to them and smile upon my little ones. "Marita. I'd like you to meet William, who's around 20 months, and Missy who's just over 2. They're mine and Mulder's children."
"Thank God they have your nose."
"That's what Mulder said." I point to where John Jr. lay. "That is John Richard Dogett. Monica and John got married just before we went into hiding. Their one year anniversary was a few days ago. Johnny is around 3 months. And this over here…" I say taking here to Kathy, "Is Katherine Marie Beyers. Kim and Beyers little girl. She's just over a month. And now Monica is once again with child."
"Great, so im standing on the breeding grounds for the children of whack jobs."
"Your just as crazy--if not more so--than any of us here. And you know it. Now that your introduced to the little ones we should introduce you to everybody else." I turn around to face Nathan and Tru, "these two are Nathan and Tru, they're 17 year old twins. Upstairs is Ryan and Vikki, their parents, Alan and Hannah, the people who adopted Will, and Alan's sister Diane. Then you know everybody else, oh, besides my mom. Margaret Scully, soon to be Margaret Skinner. And Dr. Smalls, he's the resident pediatrician."
"After hearing about all these marriages and kids im not so sure that I want to stay here." She laughs.
Everybody else walks into the room and introduces themselves to Marita. After they're all done I take her aside and get down to business, "so. Where's the antidote?"
1 week later:
Work. Work. Work. That's all we've been doing this past week. Work. Im trying to find a way to break down the components of this antidote so that I can do the same thing with it that I did with magnite. So far to no avail but I didn't expect fireworks right away. It'll come with time. Im can feel it.
Marita's doing nicely here, she's been a huge help when it comes to work. With her, Dr. Smalls, Monica, Hanna, and Vikki helping me im sure we'll have the airborne antidote within months. Hannah and Vikki really don't help much, but I think they like it that they're needed. They feel like add ons to our quest. Sort of the way I felt when I was assigned to the x-files all those years ago. God, it seems more like yesterday than over 10 years.
If somebody had told me then that it would end up with Mulder and I having two miracle children I would have told them that they were crazier than Mulder was. But then again if you had told me when I was in Med School I would end up in the FBI I would have had them committed.
Gibson moved his room downstairs so we could put Will and Missy in a separate room, which Mulder and I have taken full advantage of. And their room is right across the hall so if Will ever needs mommy and daddy were right there. Only a locked door separates us from them, a locked door that will stay locked. That's what baby monitors are for.
Right now we are eating dinner, it's pretty late so only those of us who have been working downstairs are eating at the moment. Im thinking that Dr. Smalls and Marita are involved, well close to it at least. They share glances every so often. I think I'll have to ask Marita about this.
When I climb into bed Mulder wakes up, "hey Scully, what took you so long?"
"Looks like for once the tables are turned and im the one who obsesses over work. Ironic no?"
He laughs, "well, Scully, that's what saving the world does to you."
I kiss him deeply and break apart with a smile, "so Mulder. Tell me, it's our first night without the kids, what do you suppose we do?"
"Make another?" He says before kissing be back. "Or just enjoy the process."
"I like both choices." I smile.
Im going to like having my own room again.
3 months later:
Nothing has happened. Absolutely nothing. And its really starting to piss me off. And to top it all of I've been getting sick…a lot. And im no fool, I've had two kids before, I know the signs. I my friends am having another child. I just have to tell Mulder.
When I find him he's got Missy in his arms, and she's desperately trying to reach his hair. "What's up Scully?"
"Well. Mulder. Hypothetically speaking. Would you be happy if we had another child?" I say, trying to make it sound just in theory.
"Of course I would, Scully, why do you ask?"
"Well. Mulder. Im pregnant."
He almost jumps out of his seat but remembers that Missy is still in his arms, he quickly puts her into her play pen and collects me in his arms, "Scully, that's great." He lets me go and then looks at me in all seriousness, "did you think I wouldn't want another child Scully?"
"I…no…its just…when Monica said that she was pregnant you didn't look to happy about having another baby in the household. I don't know, I was just apprehensive I guess." I look down at the floor away from his eyes though I can still feel him watching me.
He moves my face to where my eyes meet his, "Scully, of course I want another child. Why wouldn't I? I was just joking around with Monica when I said that. Believe you me, I want this child, hell if you have 5 more I'll want them too. You have nothing to be nervous about, trust me."
"5 more Mulder? I wouldn't go that far. But I feel a lot better knowing that you want this as much as I do."
"How could I not?" He says before hugging me once again. "I must be a miracle worker Scully, seeing as we now have 3 little ones that were never thought possible. I must be doing something right."
"Hmm…you can say that again."
Missy starts making her I-want-to-be-held noises, and I break out of Mulder's embrace to pick her up. When she's safely in mommy's arms she reaches up to grab my hair and pulls with more force than a baby that's almost 6 months should have. I wince and lightly take her hand a pull it until she releases her grip on my hair. Mulder chuckles behind me and I turn to shoot him an evil look. He gets the hint and stops his laughter.
Will comes bouncing out of the room with Papaw Walter chasing after him. Will runs up to his daddy and lifts his hands up demanding to be held. Mulder picks him up, throws him into the air, and catches him as he comes down.
"Gain! Gain!" Will squeals, "do gain."
He throws him up once again and catches him mid-air. After throwing him a look that says stop-that-right-now he puts Will back down onto the floor, and Will goes running up to his papaw.
"Papaw, papaw, hide n seek."
"Ok. Ok. Go hide, I'll find you." Skinner states and Will goes running off down the hallway. Skinner looks at me, "that kids a handful."
"But he adores his papaw Walter. You got to admit, at the end of the day its all worth it. And chasing him around makes for good exercise." I laugh. "Hey dad, I got a confession to make."
"What is it?"
"Your going to be a grandpa of 3."
He smiles a toothy grin, "that's great Dana--"
"Papaw! I redy!" Will's small voice comes somewhere in the back of the house.
Skinner smiles at me and goes running off to find Will, "you better go tell your mother. She'll be pissed if she finds out your pregnant and didn't tell her first." He calls while running down the hallway.
Mulder looks at me with a smile, "he's right. We better go find her."
With Missy still clinging onto my shirt and trying desperately to pull a lock of my hair out of my head we go in search of mom, when we find her she's sitting next to Hannah outside and reading a book. She looks over the rim of her paperback novel when she hears the door open and smiles when she sees us. She outstretches her hands her look saying you-better-hand-over-my-granddaughter and I reluctantly let my baby girl go.
Missy coos at the prospect of new hair and reaches her short stubby fingers to pull. Mom grabs her hand gently and says 'no Missy' then looks back up at me. "What is it Dana?"
"Well, mom, I found something out today."
She glances between Mulder's goofy grin and my own and motherly instinct instantly takes over, she smiles her own toothy grin, "your pregnant!" she squeals, "oh Dana, that's wonderful." About that time Missy pull hard on her hair, she winces and looks up at me, "just don't have another puller. Ok?"
"I can't control that mom, but I'll try." I laugh. "You want to watch Missy while we go and tell the others?"
"Go ahead, its fine. By the way do you know where Walter went off to?"
"Him and Will are playing hide and seek…they could be anywhere."
She smiles and waves us off. "Ok. If you see him tell him where I am."
2 hours and many hugs later everybody in the house knew about our newest miracle and I was spilling my guts in the nearest toilet while Mulder held back my hair with one hand and rubbed my back with the other.
Ah, the joys of pregnancy.
10 days later:
Im in the office working when Marita and Monica walk in.
"You need any help?" Marita asks.
"Yeah, could one of you get me one of the vials? I've got an idea…what if we don't release this into the air but say that there's a deadly virus going around that can be spread by simply breathing the same air as somebody who has it?"
"Sure, but what would we call it. And how would we get it to all the 3rd world countries? We would have to make a hell of a lot of antidote."
"I know, I know. There's a lot of things to work out with that theory. Im just not sure if I'll be able to do the same with this that I did with the antidote."
"What about putting it in the water supply?" Monica muses. "I don't think it will taste like anything, and it would be a lot easier to get around to everybody than doing shots. Although I still think the airborne way is the best way to go."
"Your right, the water supply is a good idea but the airborne would be the easiest. I just wish it didn't take this long."
"Your being impatient Dana," Marita laughs, "from what Monica tells me it took a little bit longer to find out a way to do the magnite, and if you figured out a way to do that then im sure you can figure out a way to do anything."
"Thanks Marita." I smile, "can I ask you something personal?"
"Sure."
"Where you and Krycheck involved?"
She exhales profoundly, "that's a personal question if I ever heard one. But yes, for a time there we were…although it was more of me using him at first."
I nod slightly and turn back around, "thanks for being honest. I was wondering why he would send you the antidote. How did you know how to find us anyway?"
"Well, I knew that you would bring those 3 guys…the Lone Gunmen…with you when you went into hiding, so I went to where they use to live and saw that younger couple there. I followed them for awhile, found out their names, and sent the video to them, its all relatively easy if you know who to look for. I don't think Kersh is that smart though, so you probably don't have much to worry about."
"About Kersh, what all do you know about him? What's going on." Monica asks. "That's what's blowing my mind."
"Kersh is the new leader of the syndicate. After the CSM died Kersh took it in his hands to run the project, arrogant ass…I never did like him. Before he died the CSM kept in touch with Kersh, kept him up to date with everything dealing with the project. So Kersh knows everything CSM knew, but I doubt he's as smart as CSM was."
"Even so, this is more complicated than any of us ever dreamed."
4 days later:
Kim comes downstairs with Kathy in her arms signing her a lullaby, she looks at me holding Missy and smiles, "your up early."
"Missy woke us up around 15 minutes ago, it was my turn. What about you?"
"Same thing, joys of motherhood right."
"Well, at least you only have one, and none in the oven." I laugh, "3 is going to be a handful. And then Monica's two."
"Well, im hoping that in maybe a year I'll have one in the oven, I don't want Kathy to be an only child, I know how much I hated it."
"Well, even if you don't have anymore she'll never be lonely, that's a promise. With the 4 kids we have already and the 2 that are on the way, I'd say she might wish she was an only child. Nonetheless I hope you get your wish, I surely did get mine, threefold. I could say be careful what you wish for but that would implicate that im not happy with my wishes comes true. If somebody had told me 3 years ago I would have 3 children I probably would have sent you to the psych ward."
She laughs and sits on the couch next to me and rocks Kathy back and forth. "You know how people always talk about the perfect life, you know a house with a white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a golden retriever named buddy running around in the back yard, well I think that this life is better, you know besides the running from the shadow government. We're saving the world Dana, that means more than a white picket fence ever could."
"To save the World, it'd be a great book. I think your right Kim, this life is much better than any other life could be. Even when I worked on the x-files I knew that if I had that picturesque life in the suburbs I'd be bored out of my ever loving mind. I guess falling in love with a conspiracy nut does that to you."
"Ain't that the truth."
Missy yawns in my arms and her heavy eyelids droop and then close. She yawns and turns in my arms, I look over at Kim who is once again rocking Kathy back in forth.
"Go ahead upstairs Dana, its still early, you can still get a few more hours of sleep if you try. I'll see you in the morning."
I nod at her and silently make my way upstairs, after putting Missy in her crib, kissing Will on the forehead and tucking him in, I go to mine and Mulder's bedroom and slip under the covers. He stirs in his sleep and mumbles something before scooting closer to me and draping his arm over my side. I smile and close my eyes, before I know it im sleeping once again.
a/n: sorry it took so long to get this out, it would've been out a lot later but we had a day off of school thanks to the snow we didn't even get. I have no clue how many more chapters im going to have, im still not sure how im going to end this, but there will be at least 2 more I think. Please review
Today it's been a year since we've been in hiding. We're still formulating a plan to release the antidote but we keep coming up at dead ends. There's still many years until colonization but the sooner this is over the better. What im concerned with at this point is the black oil. We have no antidote to that yet…the only remedy we have is the one to kill the Super Soldiers. Although that is a great accomplishment it's still not enough.
Soon Kim will have her little one, about a month now. John Jr. and Missy are getting bigger and bigger by the hour, although their still so very tiny and fragile. I don't think that I've let Missy out of my sight for more than two hours at a time. Will's a little perturbed at all of the attention she's getting but I think that on some level he understands because she's so young she needs more of mommy's time.
Right now she's crying, pleading at me with her big blue eyes to make everything better. Since I know not why she's crying and I've already fed her and changed her diaper so all that I can do is rock her and silently sing the same song I would sing to Will.
"Jeremiah was a bullfrog,
Was a good friend of mine,
I never understood a single word he said,
But I helped him a-drink his wine,
And he always had some mighty fine wine."
Will joins in on the chorus, what little he picked up from the nights of me singing to him and his small voice mixed in with mommy's too sooth his crying sister. She blinks back the tears and her wails slow down to the point where they finally stop. Will lays his head on my shoulder, closes his eyes, and yawns. Mulder walks into the bedroom and notices his son fighting sleep. He picks him up and lies him in his 'big boy' bed. Mulder rubs his back helping him to fall asleep as we've learned helps greatly. It only takes a few minutes before Will's soft snoring fills the air.
I look down at Missy whose eyes are closed and her breathing indicates she's sound asleep. Not wanting to let her go just yet I keep her close to me and slowly rock back in forth, to keep her from waking. Mulder smiles up at us and gets onto the bed next to us. He kisses me on the cheek and then Missy on the forehead. "How lucky am I to have the two most beautiful girls in the world here with me."
"As lucky as I to have the two most handsome boys." I reply with a smile. "Im going to put her in her crib so we can sleep." I say getting up from the bed and walking over to her crib. "Goodnight angel." I say as I cover her with her precious moments blanket. I brush a lock of brown hair out of her face. I retreat back to our king sized bed and relish the feeling of being off of my feet for the first time that day. I scoot in closer to Mulder and he wraps his arm around my waist.
"Goodnight Scully."
"Night Mulder."
Not too long after that I fell into a deep sleep.
The next day:
I woke up to the sound of Missy crying. I rolled over in the bed and mumbled at Mulder that it was his turn to feed her while pulling the covers over my eyes. He sighed and got out of the bed and the crying stops. I look up from under the covers to see Mulder rocking Missy in his arms and singing softly to her. I smile at the scene before me.
"What are you singing to her?"
"Amazing Grace, my mom use to sing it to Samantha when she was a baby, I presume she sang it to me as well, but I really don't remember that time of my childhood. It always soothed Sam so I figured that it'd work here as well."
"I think its more the singer than the song. She just knows your voice, you could sing 'highway to hell' and she'd stop crying.
"You think? We could test out that theory."
"Lets not." I looked over to Will's bed, "Will already awake?"
"Yeah, he ran out a few minutes ago looking for Papaw Walter." He says still looking down at Missy. "Scully. I think she's hungry, and well…I can't do to much about that."
"Give her here then." I say with my arms outstretched. He gently puts her in my arms and returns to his stance, his arms crossed.
"Mulder. Go find your son."
"Ah, do I have to?" He wines.
"Yes, go."
He walks off, a mock hurt look on his face. I laugh at him and feed Missy. After im done I bring her into the living room and put her into her playpen. She can't do much yet, won't be able to crawl for months, but she's still a handful to look after.
I go off to get my own breakfast and when I do Mulder, Will, Alan, Gibson, and the LG are all at the table eating ceral. "Men." I muse as I rumage through the fridge to find something to eat. I finally settle on a bagle and some orange juice and go back into the living room where Missy is making little baby noises trying to get somebodys attention. Tru and Nathan walk into the living room and to Missy's avail Tru picks her up, as any 17 year old girl would.
Around that time Mon walked in with a gurbiling John Jr. in her arms, John Sr. trailing right behind. Monica sits next to me on the couch and John goes off to where the others are eating their ceral. I laugh at the complexities of the male brain. Women are clearly the more refined of the species. No doubt about that.
Kim runs into the room her face flushed and looks at me panicked. "Dana…I think my water just broke."
"What?" I say jolting forward, "Kim your nearly a month away."
"Oooh, I know. I know. Trust me I know. Tell that to the little one who's trying hard as hell to escape."
"Ok. Ok, calm down, lets go find Dr. Smalls." I grab her hand and lead her to the underground yelling at Beyers along the way. "Come on daddy, your little ones about to be born."
His face turns a ghostly shade of white and Langly smiles, "uh, Beyers, dude. She's talking to you."
He shakes his head as if just realizing what's going on and jumps up from the table. He takes Kim's arms and I let go of her to find Nathan. I run ahead of them to reach the good doctor first so that he can be ready for her by the time we arrive.
When I find him he's reading something in his office, "Nathan…Dr. Smalls…Kim's water broke, she's about to go into labor."
"What? She's still a month away."
"Yeah, well, obviously her kid isn't good at telling time. Cause it's happening right now."
He scrambles to his feet when Kim and Beyer's walk in, Kim huffing and puffing like the wolf from 'the three little pigs.' He leads her into the make-shift delivery room and get her ready on the bed. After giving her epidural I turn to leave.
"No, Dana, stay with me. You've done this before. Twice. You've got more experience than anybody else here. Besides the doc of course. I need your help."
I nod and take her hand. "Ok. Forewarning, it's going to hurt like hell, epidural or no."
She stifles a laugh and a contraction tears through her body, stopping the laughter.
4 hours and a numb hand later Kim gives birth to a baby girl with a head full of light blonde hair. When I ask her what she's going to name her she says Katherine Marie, I smile when she says that she named her Katherine after me.
"What about Marie?"
"My mothers name." Beyers's adds.
"Oh." I say before giving Kim a hug and letting her be alone with her new family. I go back upstairs and inform everyone else that Kim had a beautiful 5 pound baby girl. Katherine Marie Beyers.
Three newborn babies in one house…Lord help us.
1 week later:
Frohike came bounding down the stairs with a frantic look on his face, "you guys gotta see this." He said us. "It's big."
Mulder's the first up, and after laying Missy in her crib I myself go upstairs. Kim and Monica come out of their rooms as well after putting their noisy bundles to sleep. We all rush upstairs to find out what got Frohike so hot and bothered. All of those who are already up there have solemn looks on their faces.
"What is it?" I demand of Mulder.
He points at the computer and I bring my eyes along the path of his finger, when I see what they see my face drops. There on the screen is Marita Cobavarious (I know that is like spelled all wrong, if somebody knows how to spell it, let me know. Please)
"How did she find us?" Monica demands.
"Jimmy and Eyves (is that how her name is spelled? As you can see im no good with names) contacted us this morning. She sent them a video via the internet. Here…" he turned up the volume and the foreign sounding voice of Marita filled the room.
"Hello all, I had a feeling that to get to you I'd have to go through your friends. Cute couple if you ask me. Now, unlike Kersh, im all for your little 'fight the future' crusade. And im willing to help, and I have a feeling that you need what I have." She holds up some a vile of some sort, "anybody know what this is? If you guessed Black Oil antidote then you are correct. If your wondering how I got this then to make a long story short Krycheck was more of an ally than you thought. I got a package the other day, postmarked two over two years ago. It had more than one vile in it and believe you me I tested it out, it works. Now all I ask from you is protection. Kersh and his little group as bastards are after me, they know what Krycheck sent to me, and trust me, they want it. I hope that you know you can trust me. I need your help you need mine. I'll be contacting your friends soon, until then."
Then the video goes black. Those of us who know Marita stare at each other for a few minutes saying nothing.
"Well, if its any compensation, she's hot." Who other than Frohike says. I shoot him an evil glare and then look at Mulder.
"What do you think Mulder?"
"Hell or high water Scully and she did help us when I was on 'trial' I think she's being legit. We can trust her, I say we have Jimmy and Eyves let her know that we'll help her. We need that antidote Scully, in a bad way."
"I know we do, so its settled then? Next time they here for her the move will be made. We need that antidote as soon as humanly possible. Like Mulder said, its hell or high water."
Everybody else agrees that this is a much needed intervention and we need her down here as soon as possible. But one thing still boggles the minds of everyone here, how does Kersh fit into all of this? He's obviously the new leader of the syndicate, but how does he know about Marita? And why the hell did Krycheck have an epiphany of such magnitude?
What the hell is going on?
2 days later:
No more news from Marita at this point, but I have a feeling that its coming, and soon. Jimmy and Eyves had to wait for a while before getting back to her, security precautions of course, but I hate the waiting. Impatient as I am, but this is more than just impatience, although there's nearly 10 years until 2012. Nobody knows how long it'll take to get this into the population, or if they'll go by schedule. Because whose to say that they won't come next year, or next week. Hell, whose to say they won't come tomorrow.
This is all so stressful.
A high pitched wail coming from my bedroom takes me out of my thoughts and I run off to find out what exactly is wrong with Melissa. When I enter the room Will is standing by her bed covering his hands with her ears.
"Make stop mommy!" he pleads with me, "it hurt."
"Oh, I know Will." I assure him as I pick Missy up out of her crib, I sit onto the bed and rock her back in forth. Without much effort at all the crying ceases and she's sucking on her small stubby thumb, I keep rocking and in less than 5 minutes she's once again sleeping soundly. Will looks at me thankful that the crying stopped.
"Why she cry much."
"She's a baby Will, they all cry a lot. You did too."
He crinkles his face, "me no cry. Me big boy."
"Now you are, but when you was Missy's size you cried almost as much as she did." I stand up and put her back into her crib. I pick Will up and tickle him furiously and he laughs against his will.
"Mommy, stop! Pwease."
"Ok Will, I'll stop." I laugh when we enter the living room. I set him down and he turns the channel so that were watching 'Blue's clues.' Mulder walks in and looks at the TV.
"Having fun Scully?"
"Oh yes, watching a cartoon hunt for clues is so riveting. You don't know the half of it."
"Oh, but I do. Trust me, Will drags me out here all the time to watch this. Im just glad this time it's you."
"Oh, that's really sweet."
He leans down to kiss me when Mon comes running into the room waving something in her right hand. Mulder looks over at her frustrated but his mood softens when he sees the white plastic object in his right hand. I sit up straight in my seat and stare at her bewildered. "Oh, Mon…don't tell me--"
She squeals in excitement, "im pregnant!"
Mulder looks at me and sighs, "oh God, not another one."
4 days later:
We are all upstairs now, the LG got another video from Jimmy and Eyves. Langly turns the video on and we all stare in anticipation.
"Hello all," Marita says, "It seems you are as eager to get my help as I to get yours. Your friends have informed me that in a matter of days I will be traveling to meet up with you. Good. Im looking forward to seeing familiar faces, or at least the friendly kind. The people I have encountered lately haven't been too fond of me. Soon my friends, very soon. Until then."
Then blackness.
"Jimmy said that the day after tomorrow is when she'll be coming down. So it looks like more waiting until then. But I think we can deal with two days. Until then Dana, I think that you should get everything you need ready, we should get working on this as soon as possible." Beyers states as if I didn't already know it.
Not wanting to be bitchy I just nod.
"Ken has agreed to bring her here, im guessing she'll be in the underground bunker, seeing that we have no open rooms up here."
"I still don't quite know who this woman is." Alan asks. "I only know she's some sort of ally."
"She's been a part of this quest for many years now, not as long as Skinner, Scully and I, but longer than Mon and John. We've been helped by her many a time. We can trust her, that's all that needs to be known."
"And this Krycheck she was talking about?" Hannah asks standing close to her husband.
"Alex Krycheck was not as trustworthy as Marita is, while she's helped us he's worked against us. He's no longer among the living." Mulder says.
"Let the dead stay buried." Comes a familiar voice from behind us. We all turn surprised by who we see.
"Marita? I thought you wouldn't be here for two days."
"Oh come on, you know as well as I do that people are always watching. It's your policy, trust no one, I just go live by it. We had to lie and say that I wouldn't be here for a few days, just in case somebody was listening in. What, no welcoming committee? I thought a few of you would be happy to see me."
I snap out of my daze and go to hug her, "im sorry Marita. It's so good to see you." I think for a second, "oh. Come with me. I want you to meet some people."
She follows me confused and I take her into the bunker where Tru, Nathan, and Gibson are watching the little ones. Gibson is already waiting for us when we come and when we get downstairs he gives Marita a wide smile and a hug. "Its good to see you Marita. How have you been?"
"Alive."
"That's always good."
She turns to me, "Scully--"
"Uh Marita, you can tell you've been away. It's Dana now, nobody but Mulder calls me Scully. It's sort of a little husband/wife thing."
"Your married?"
"Well, technically, no. But we plan on getting hitched as soon as this is over." I lift up my left hand, "but engaged will have to do until then. But to everybody here im Dana Mulder, only to Mulder am I Scully."
"Gotcha. Now why are we down here again?"
"Them." I say pointing to the corner where Missy's second crib and Will's second bed are. I lead her over to them and smile upon my little ones. "Marita. I'd like you to meet William, who's around 20 months, and Missy who's just over 2. They're mine and Mulder's children."
"Thank God they have your nose."
"That's what Mulder said." I point to where John Jr. lay. "That is John Richard Dogett. Monica and John got married just before we went into hiding. Their one year anniversary was a few days ago. Johnny is around 3 months. And this over here…" I say taking here to Kathy, "Is Katherine Marie Beyers. Kim and Beyers little girl. She's just over a month. And now Monica is once again with child."
"Great, so im standing on the breeding grounds for the children of whack jobs."
"Your just as crazy--if not more so--than any of us here. And you know it. Now that your introduced to the little ones we should introduce you to everybody else." I turn around to face Nathan and Tru, "these two are Nathan and Tru, they're 17 year old twins. Upstairs is Ryan and Vikki, their parents, Alan and Hannah, the people who adopted Will, and Alan's sister Diane. Then you know everybody else, oh, besides my mom. Margaret Scully, soon to be Margaret Skinner. And Dr. Smalls, he's the resident pediatrician."
"After hearing about all these marriages and kids im not so sure that I want to stay here." She laughs.
Everybody else walks into the room and introduces themselves to Marita. After they're all done I take her aside and get down to business, "so. Where's the antidote?"
1 week later:
Work. Work. Work. That's all we've been doing this past week. Work. Im trying to find a way to break down the components of this antidote so that I can do the same thing with it that I did with magnite. So far to no avail but I didn't expect fireworks right away. It'll come with time. Im can feel it.
Marita's doing nicely here, she's been a huge help when it comes to work. With her, Dr. Smalls, Monica, Hanna, and Vikki helping me im sure we'll have the airborne antidote within months. Hannah and Vikki really don't help much, but I think they like it that they're needed. They feel like add ons to our quest. Sort of the way I felt when I was assigned to the x-files all those years ago. God, it seems more like yesterday than over 10 years.
If somebody had told me then that it would end up with Mulder and I having two miracle children I would have told them that they were crazier than Mulder was. But then again if you had told me when I was in Med School I would end up in the FBI I would have had them committed.
Gibson moved his room downstairs so we could put Will and Missy in a separate room, which Mulder and I have taken full advantage of. And their room is right across the hall so if Will ever needs mommy and daddy were right there. Only a locked door separates us from them, a locked door that will stay locked. That's what baby monitors are for.
Right now we are eating dinner, it's pretty late so only those of us who have been working downstairs are eating at the moment. Im thinking that Dr. Smalls and Marita are involved, well close to it at least. They share glances every so often. I think I'll have to ask Marita about this.
When I climb into bed Mulder wakes up, "hey Scully, what took you so long?"
"Looks like for once the tables are turned and im the one who obsesses over work. Ironic no?"
He laughs, "well, Scully, that's what saving the world does to you."
I kiss him deeply and break apart with a smile, "so Mulder. Tell me, it's our first night without the kids, what do you suppose we do?"
"Make another?" He says before kissing be back. "Or just enjoy the process."
"I like both choices." I smile.
Im going to like having my own room again.
3 months later:
Nothing has happened. Absolutely nothing. And its really starting to piss me off. And to top it all of I've been getting sick…a lot. And im no fool, I've had two kids before, I know the signs. I my friends am having another child. I just have to tell Mulder.
When I find him he's got Missy in his arms, and she's desperately trying to reach his hair. "What's up Scully?"
"Well. Mulder. Hypothetically speaking. Would you be happy if we had another child?" I say, trying to make it sound just in theory.
"Of course I would, Scully, why do you ask?"
"Well. Mulder. Im pregnant."
He almost jumps out of his seat but remembers that Missy is still in his arms, he quickly puts her into her play pen and collects me in his arms, "Scully, that's great." He lets me go and then looks at me in all seriousness, "did you think I wouldn't want another child Scully?"
"I…no…its just…when Monica said that she was pregnant you didn't look to happy about having another baby in the household. I don't know, I was just apprehensive I guess." I look down at the floor away from his eyes though I can still feel him watching me.
He moves my face to where my eyes meet his, "Scully, of course I want another child. Why wouldn't I? I was just joking around with Monica when I said that. Believe you me, I want this child, hell if you have 5 more I'll want them too. You have nothing to be nervous about, trust me."
"5 more Mulder? I wouldn't go that far. But I feel a lot better knowing that you want this as much as I do."
"How could I not?" He says before hugging me once again. "I must be a miracle worker Scully, seeing as we now have 3 little ones that were never thought possible. I must be doing something right."
"Hmm…you can say that again."
Missy starts making her I-want-to-be-held noises, and I break out of Mulder's embrace to pick her up. When she's safely in mommy's arms she reaches up to grab my hair and pulls with more force than a baby that's almost 6 months should have. I wince and lightly take her hand a pull it until she releases her grip on my hair. Mulder chuckles behind me and I turn to shoot him an evil look. He gets the hint and stops his laughter.
Will comes bouncing out of the room with Papaw Walter chasing after him. Will runs up to his daddy and lifts his hands up demanding to be held. Mulder picks him up, throws him into the air, and catches him as he comes down.
"Gain! Gain!" Will squeals, "do gain."
He throws him up once again and catches him mid-air. After throwing him a look that says stop-that-right-now he puts Will back down onto the floor, and Will goes running up to his papaw.
"Papaw, papaw, hide n seek."
"Ok. Ok. Go hide, I'll find you." Skinner states and Will goes running off down the hallway. Skinner looks at me, "that kids a handful."
"But he adores his papaw Walter. You got to admit, at the end of the day its all worth it. And chasing him around makes for good exercise." I laugh. "Hey dad, I got a confession to make."
"What is it?"
"Your going to be a grandpa of 3."
He smiles a toothy grin, "that's great Dana--"
"Papaw! I redy!" Will's small voice comes somewhere in the back of the house.
Skinner smiles at me and goes running off to find Will, "you better go tell your mother. She'll be pissed if she finds out your pregnant and didn't tell her first." He calls while running down the hallway.
Mulder looks at me with a smile, "he's right. We better go find her."
With Missy still clinging onto my shirt and trying desperately to pull a lock of my hair out of my head we go in search of mom, when we find her she's sitting next to Hannah outside and reading a book. She looks over the rim of her paperback novel when she hears the door open and smiles when she sees us. She outstretches her hands her look saying you-better-hand-over-my-granddaughter and I reluctantly let my baby girl go.
Missy coos at the prospect of new hair and reaches her short stubby fingers to pull. Mom grabs her hand gently and says 'no Missy' then looks back up at me. "What is it Dana?"
"Well, mom, I found something out today."
She glances between Mulder's goofy grin and my own and motherly instinct instantly takes over, she smiles her own toothy grin, "your pregnant!" she squeals, "oh Dana, that's wonderful." About that time Missy pull hard on her hair, she winces and looks up at me, "just don't have another puller. Ok?"
"I can't control that mom, but I'll try." I laugh. "You want to watch Missy while we go and tell the others?"
"Go ahead, its fine. By the way do you know where Walter went off to?"
"Him and Will are playing hide and seek…they could be anywhere."
She smiles and waves us off. "Ok. If you see him tell him where I am."
2 hours and many hugs later everybody in the house knew about our newest miracle and I was spilling my guts in the nearest toilet while Mulder held back my hair with one hand and rubbed my back with the other.
Ah, the joys of pregnancy.
10 days later:
Im in the office working when Marita and Monica walk in.
"You need any help?" Marita asks.
"Yeah, could one of you get me one of the vials? I've got an idea…what if we don't release this into the air but say that there's a deadly virus going around that can be spread by simply breathing the same air as somebody who has it?"
"Sure, but what would we call it. And how would we get it to all the 3rd world countries? We would have to make a hell of a lot of antidote."
"I know, I know. There's a lot of things to work out with that theory. Im just not sure if I'll be able to do the same with this that I did with the antidote."
"What about putting it in the water supply?" Monica muses. "I don't think it will taste like anything, and it would be a lot easier to get around to everybody than doing shots. Although I still think the airborne way is the best way to go."
"Your right, the water supply is a good idea but the airborne would be the easiest. I just wish it didn't take this long."
"Your being impatient Dana," Marita laughs, "from what Monica tells me it took a little bit longer to find out a way to do the magnite, and if you figured out a way to do that then im sure you can figure out a way to do anything."
"Thanks Marita." I smile, "can I ask you something personal?"
"Sure."
"Where you and Krycheck involved?"
She exhales profoundly, "that's a personal question if I ever heard one. But yes, for a time there we were…although it was more of me using him at first."
I nod slightly and turn back around, "thanks for being honest. I was wondering why he would send you the antidote. How did you know how to find us anyway?"
"Well, I knew that you would bring those 3 guys…the Lone Gunmen…with you when you went into hiding, so I went to where they use to live and saw that younger couple there. I followed them for awhile, found out their names, and sent the video to them, its all relatively easy if you know who to look for. I don't think Kersh is that smart though, so you probably don't have much to worry about."
"About Kersh, what all do you know about him? What's going on." Monica asks. "That's what's blowing my mind."
"Kersh is the new leader of the syndicate. After the CSM died Kersh took it in his hands to run the project, arrogant ass…I never did like him. Before he died the CSM kept in touch with Kersh, kept him up to date with everything dealing with the project. So Kersh knows everything CSM knew, but I doubt he's as smart as CSM was."
"Even so, this is more complicated than any of us ever dreamed."
4 days later:
Kim comes downstairs with Kathy in her arms signing her a lullaby, she looks at me holding Missy and smiles, "your up early."
"Missy woke us up around 15 minutes ago, it was my turn. What about you?"
"Same thing, joys of motherhood right."
"Well, at least you only have one, and none in the oven." I laugh, "3 is going to be a handful. And then Monica's two."
"Well, im hoping that in maybe a year I'll have one in the oven, I don't want Kathy to be an only child, I know how much I hated it."
"Well, even if you don't have anymore she'll never be lonely, that's a promise. With the 4 kids we have already and the 2 that are on the way, I'd say she might wish she was an only child. Nonetheless I hope you get your wish, I surely did get mine, threefold. I could say be careful what you wish for but that would implicate that im not happy with my wishes comes true. If somebody had told me 3 years ago I would have 3 children I probably would have sent you to the psych ward."
She laughs and sits on the couch next to me and rocks Kathy back and forth. "You know how people always talk about the perfect life, you know a house with a white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a golden retriever named buddy running around in the back yard, well I think that this life is better, you know besides the running from the shadow government. We're saving the world Dana, that means more than a white picket fence ever could."
"To save the World, it'd be a great book. I think your right Kim, this life is much better than any other life could be. Even when I worked on the x-files I knew that if I had that picturesque life in the suburbs I'd be bored out of my ever loving mind. I guess falling in love with a conspiracy nut does that to you."
"Ain't that the truth."
Missy yawns in my arms and her heavy eyelids droop and then close. She yawns and turns in my arms, I look over at Kim who is once again rocking Kathy back in forth.
"Go ahead upstairs Dana, its still early, you can still get a few more hours of sleep if you try. I'll see you in the morning."
I nod at her and silently make my way upstairs, after putting Missy in her crib, kissing Will on the forehead and tucking him in, I go to mine and Mulder's bedroom and slip under the covers. He stirs in his sleep and mumbles something before scooting closer to me and draping his arm over my side. I smile and close my eyes, before I know it im sleeping once again.
a/n: sorry it took so long to get this out, it would've been out a lot later but we had a day off of school thanks to the snow we didn't even get. I have no clue how many more chapters im going to have, im still not sure how im going to end this, but there will be at least 2 more I think. Please review
