To Save the World 6
2 weeks later:
We've done nothing but work, the LG haven't found any other e-mails between Kersh and another person from the shadow government. Charlie's added two more people to his list of those who are going to help him with releasing the antidote, and Bill's added 1. Im not sure if Jimmy's added anybody recently though, we haven't heard from him in a couple of days…which is understandable, he has to keep contact down to a minimum. We can't take the chance somebody's reading over his e-mails.
We've got a lot more of the antidotes made, im not sure how many places we can release it in, but it's got to be a few. Will has a cold, it's not serious but by the way he's acting you'd think he was dying. But he's just a little boy, he's going to exaggerate everything.
"Dana." Monica calls from the other couch.
"Yeah?" I say coming back to reality, "what is it?"
"The movies over, are we just going to sit here in front of a blank screen?"
"Oh, im sorry. I wasn't paying attention to it."
"I got that much. What'cha thinking about?"
"Work, what else."
"Yeah, guess I didn't really need to ask did I?"
"Guess not. What time is it?"
"12:32, everybody's already gone to bed."
"Even Mulder?"
"No, he's in the kitchen."
"There's a big surprise." I get off the couch to go into the kitchen and find him, "Mulder. Why are you making something to eat at 12 in the morning?"
"Ever heard of a midnight snack Scully?"
"Well, you don't need one. It's late, im going to bed. Weather you come with me or not."
He sighed and put whatever he had back into the fridge, and walked behind me into the bedroom. I changed out of my clothes and into one of Mulder's oversized t-shirts.
"You know what Scully, it's at times like these when you look sexiest."
"I'll take that into consideration, why times like these?"
"Because you're not trying to be. It's natural, and the fact your carrying my child doesn't hurt anything…I love the way you look when your pregnant."
I climbed into the bed next to him, "well, thank you…im glad I look sexy. Night Mulder."
He chuckles, "sweet dreams Scully."
The next morning:
I woke up with Mulder's arms still wrapped around me, but nature was calling so I had to slip from under his embrace and out of the warmth of the covers. I walked quietly to the bathroom because I hadn't looked at the clock and didn't know what time it was exactly. When I got back into the bedroom Mulder was awake and sitting up on the bed. I looked at the clock, 7:32.
"Your awake." I stated.
"Yeah, I felt you getting out of bed, it woke me up."
"Sorry."
"Don't be. It's time to get up anyway. Im surprised I slept so long." He slides out of bed, "guess it's time to get to work isn't it?"
"After showering and breakfast, yeah."
"I showered last night, I guess I'll eat and go on down…I'll see you when you get done getting ready and eating I guess." He changed out of his nightclothes and into some jeans and a dark blue cotton tee. He kissed me before walking out the door.
I grabbed something to wear and went ahead with my shower, 15 minutes later I was sitting in front of the breakfast table eating an bacon, egg, and cheese bagel that Mulder had left out for me. After I ate I went on underground to the bunker and found Mulder in his office. "You waiting for me?"
"Yeah, I wanted to check some things out. See if there was any sightings."
"Is there?"
"A few around Tennessee, the tri-city area."
"Tri-cities?"
"Johnson City, Bristol, and Kingsport."
"Ah…ok. Is that all?"
"There's a few others scattered around, but none with more than two or three. In the tri-city area there's about 10."
"Well, right now that's not as important as what you should be doing. Come on, we need to make some more antidote, Charlie is expecting the first load by next week. And Bill by next month. So, we've got to work, work, work."
"Oh, fun, fun, fun."
"Don't get sarcastic with me Mulder."
"Just kidding, ok Scully."
"You know im pregnant, you can't kid, with the hormones everything sounds hostile."
"Yeah, I know. Lets get to it then."
We worked without interruption until lunch and when we made it topside Vikki and Diane were eating on the patio.
"Where have you guys been working?"
"Room 7. Next to Monica and John, they're still down there though. I think they're going to come up soon. Tru and Nathan were looking for you two, something about Missy."
"Is there something wrong with her?"
"No, I don't think there was anything wrong."
Mulder and I went looking for Tru and Nathan, and found them in the living room. "What's up guys?"
"Missy's been trying to say something all day, hasn't yet but I think she's coming really close. Maybe you guys should take the day off, just in case she does. Don't want to miss her first words."
"Ok, I guess we could. Haven't taken a day off yet, so."
We ate lunch and then spent the rest of the day playing with Missy and Will…at around 4:30 Mulder was bouncing Missy on his knee when she laughed and blurted out dada. He stopped bouncing and looked at her with his mouth hanging open, then he looked at me. "Did you hear that?"
I smiled widely, "she just said her first word."
"She said dada." He beamed then kissed her on the forehead. She giggled and smiled a toothless grin. Then he went back to bouncing her on his knee, and she went back to laughing. I don't think he put her down for the rest of the day, not that I minded. I was the exact same way when Will said mama, he said it twice that day. Today Missy said dada three times.
Hopefully soon she'll say another word, or it's all I'll hear out of Mulder. After he put her down to sleep and we read Will his bedtime story we went into our room and sat in bed talking about the events of the day.
"Will's first word was mama wasn't it?"
"Yeah."
"What was his second word?"
"No."
"No was his second word."
"Yeah, no was his second word. He'd say it over and over again, no, no, no, no…it got pretty annoying. But it was so cute."
"I wish I could've been there." He says frowning.
"I wish you could've been there too, but you had to leave Mulder…I understand that. Im just happy that you'll be here for Missy and the baby, and im glad that Missy's first word was dada. You deserve that, I couldn't ask you to be a better father."
"It scares the hell out of me."
"What, being a father?"
"Yeah. I hate that im responsible for their lives, I don't want to make a mistake. And, when they're older, especially Missy, I know they're going to hate how protective im going to be over them…but with all I know I don't know how I won't be."
"I think that they'll understand Mulder, we've seen a lot of crazy people in our times and a lot of monsters as well. And then with the syndicate, it just makes it worse. Face it Mulder, we're paranoid people…and we probably always will be. Im sure our children will inherit that trait."
"Yeah, I guess it's inevitable."
I smiled, "and Mulder…being a mother scares the hell out of me. It comes with the territory."
"You've always got this way of making me feel better."
"It's a gift."
I kissed him gently on the lips, "night Mulder. I love you."
"I love you too Scully."
1 week later
"We've got to get this to my brother, when is Ken going to get here?"
"Chill Dana, he'll be here soon." John assured me, "just be patient."
"I can't, this is to important not to be nervous."
Mulder wrapped his arms around me, "Scully, don't be so apprehensive, this is going to work. I promise."
"Oh, I know. But Ken is almost 30 minutes late."
"He probably ran into traffic, don't worry." Monica says holding John Jr.
Sure enough 10 minutes later Ken and Becky arrive, we load the cans of the antidote air into the back of the UHAL they rented and they took off for the meeting place for them and one of Charlie's guys. After they left I began to pace from the living room to the bathroom and back to the living room.
"Dana, I wish you'd stop that. You're making me nervous." Diane says.
"Im sorry, I can't help it. What if it doesn't work? What if somebody knows? What if they intercept the antidote."
"And what if they don't?" Mulder says, "Dana you worry to much. Just don't let it get to you, try and calm down."
I sat down on the couch and tapped my foot on the floor, "I can't do that. It doesn't work that way. I can't just shut off nervousness."
"We'll it's not good for the baby."
I took a deep breath, "I know, I know. Trust me if I could, I wouldn't be this nervous, but I just feel so helpless. All we can do is wait."
And that's all we did, wait. Since the location they were going to was three hours away we waited for what seemed like years. 4 hours after they took off we got a phone call from Becky saying that they had hit a bit of traffic but they had made it ok, and Charlie's guy had just took off. That took a bit of the uneasiness away, but not much. I finally went down to the bunker and began to work to try and take my mind off of things.
A few hours later Mulder came down, "Dana…you going to stay here all day? Will's asking where you are."
"Im just trying to do something, anything, to keep me from worrying. This is helping a little bit, I guess I could go upstairs and play with Will, that might take it off my mind."
"Playing with Will's always been my favorite remedy. Works the best too."
I cleaned up a bit and then we went upstairs where Will came running towards me with open arms, I picked him up getting my fill in before I was so far along I wouldn't be able to lift a piece of clothing. I hugged him close to me and he wrapped his arms around my neck.
"Where mommy be?"
"Downstairs honey, mommy was working."
"I miss you."
"I missed you too honey, but I was only gone for a little while."
"I know, but I still miss you."
"We'll you've got me now don't you. So, what do you want to do?"
He thought about it for a moment before answering, "hide n seek."
I should've known. Hide and seek is Will's favorite game. "Ok, you go on and hide, I'll count to twenty and come after you." I put him down and he ran off, I started counting and when I reached twenty I looked around as if I didn't already know where he was. Every time we play hide and seek he goes into Mulder and my room and hides under the bed.
I finally shouted that I gave up and he emerged from the bedroom wearing a huge smile. "I win gain!" he declared.
"Yeah, looks like you do. You always win Will, you're the hide and seek champion."
I sit on the couch Indian style and he comes and sits on my lap. Kim and Byers come downstairs, Kim holding Kathy in her arms. They sit on the couch opposite mine and Byers turns on the television. We watch Law & Order for awhile before I go off to put Will to bed, Mulder's already in their room rocking Missy to sleep, singing her a lullaby. I smile at them when we enter the room.
Will climbs into bed and I read him his bedtime story, by the time im done Missy is in her crib and Will is snoring. I put the book on the nightstand and we go on to our room and climb into bed as well.
It's not long before im asleep.
4:54 am
The ringing of the phone next to the bed wakes me up and I pick it up. "Hello?" I say groggily into the phone.
"Dana. It's Charlie. I wanted to call you and let you know that it's arrived."
"Really? Good. Do you know what time it is Charlie?"
"7 am…oh, we're two hours ahead, im sorry sis. Go back to bed, I'll call later on in the day."
"Alright Charlie. Call in about three hours. Talk to you then."
"Ok sis, bye. Love you."
"Yeah, love you too." I hung up the phone and cuddled back against Mulder.
"Who was that?"
"Charlie, the antidotes arrived."
He yawns, "ok. Night."
I closed my eyes and fell back asleep instantly.
8:05 am
The telephone rings and Ryan picks it up, "yeah."
He pauses for a second before handing me the phone, "Scully." I say into the receiver on instinct.
"Dana, it's Charlie. I told you I'd call back. How have you been?"
"Getting fatter and fatter every day, but other than that, good. What about you?"
"We'll I've got another one on the way too. And other than stressing over this antidote business I've been doing great. You don't know how relived I was when the UHAL arrived this morning. Im sorry about calling you so early, I wasn't thinking."
"No, that's fine. I was just as worried about the whole ordeal as you. You can ask anybody else here, they were all getting upset by how much I was pacing. I guess I was making them nervous with being nervous."
"I know what you mean. Well sis, I'd better let you go. I'll e-mail you later with more details. Love you."
"Love you too Charlie. Keep safe."
"Back at you sis."
I hung up the phone and informed everybody that he had called again. Then Monica, Marita, and I went downstairs and began to work. A little while later Mulder, Dr. Smalls, and John came down and joined us in working. We worked until 6:30, and we only stopped because Diane and Ryan came down and fussed at us. They had stopped working around 5:30.
The rest of the day went accordingly, and I went to bed early. Pregnancy was starting to take its toll on me, I was fatigued. Mulder came to bed sometime after that, I know because I felt him wrap his arms around me. The baby kicked in my stomach and I smiled, then closed my eyes and fell asleep.
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a/n: It took me a long time to get this chapter out, and it's short no less. Damn writers block. Anyway, I will try and make the next chapter a longer one, but hey…I might just keep the chapters short. It's easier, and that way I can get chapters out in a shorter amount of time. And that's always a good thing. Anyway, thanks to everybody who's reviewed. Please keep reviewing.
2 weeks later:
We've done nothing but work, the LG haven't found any other e-mails between Kersh and another person from the shadow government. Charlie's added two more people to his list of those who are going to help him with releasing the antidote, and Bill's added 1. Im not sure if Jimmy's added anybody recently though, we haven't heard from him in a couple of days…which is understandable, he has to keep contact down to a minimum. We can't take the chance somebody's reading over his e-mails.
We've got a lot more of the antidotes made, im not sure how many places we can release it in, but it's got to be a few. Will has a cold, it's not serious but by the way he's acting you'd think he was dying. But he's just a little boy, he's going to exaggerate everything.
"Dana." Monica calls from the other couch.
"Yeah?" I say coming back to reality, "what is it?"
"The movies over, are we just going to sit here in front of a blank screen?"
"Oh, im sorry. I wasn't paying attention to it."
"I got that much. What'cha thinking about?"
"Work, what else."
"Yeah, guess I didn't really need to ask did I?"
"Guess not. What time is it?"
"12:32, everybody's already gone to bed."
"Even Mulder?"
"No, he's in the kitchen."
"There's a big surprise." I get off the couch to go into the kitchen and find him, "Mulder. Why are you making something to eat at 12 in the morning?"
"Ever heard of a midnight snack Scully?"
"Well, you don't need one. It's late, im going to bed. Weather you come with me or not."
He sighed and put whatever he had back into the fridge, and walked behind me into the bedroom. I changed out of my clothes and into one of Mulder's oversized t-shirts.
"You know what Scully, it's at times like these when you look sexiest."
"I'll take that into consideration, why times like these?"
"Because you're not trying to be. It's natural, and the fact your carrying my child doesn't hurt anything…I love the way you look when your pregnant."
I climbed into the bed next to him, "well, thank you…im glad I look sexy. Night Mulder."
He chuckles, "sweet dreams Scully."
The next morning:
I woke up with Mulder's arms still wrapped around me, but nature was calling so I had to slip from under his embrace and out of the warmth of the covers. I walked quietly to the bathroom because I hadn't looked at the clock and didn't know what time it was exactly. When I got back into the bedroom Mulder was awake and sitting up on the bed. I looked at the clock, 7:32.
"Your awake." I stated.
"Yeah, I felt you getting out of bed, it woke me up."
"Sorry."
"Don't be. It's time to get up anyway. Im surprised I slept so long." He slides out of bed, "guess it's time to get to work isn't it?"
"After showering and breakfast, yeah."
"I showered last night, I guess I'll eat and go on down…I'll see you when you get done getting ready and eating I guess." He changed out of his nightclothes and into some jeans and a dark blue cotton tee. He kissed me before walking out the door.
I grabbed something to wear and went ahead with my shower, 15 minutes later I was sitting in front of the breakfast table eating an bacon, egg, and cheese bagel that Mulder had left out for me. After I ate I went on underground to the bunker and found Mulder in his office. "You waiting for me?"
"Yeah, I wanted to check some things out. See if there was any sightings."
"Is there?"
"A few around Tennessee, the tri-city area."
"Tri-cities?"
"Johnson City, Bristol, and Kingsport."
"Ah…ok. Is that all?"
"There's a few others scattered around, but none with more than two or three. In the tri-city area there's about 10."
"Well, right now that's not as important as what you should be doing. Come on, we need to make some more antidote, Charlie is expecting the first load by next week. And Bill by next month. So, we've got to work, work, work."
"Oh, fun, fun, fun."
"Don't get sarcastic with me Mulder."
"Just kidding, ok Scully."
"You know im pregnant, you can't kid, with the hormones everything sounds hostile."
"Yeah, I know. Lets get to it then."
We worked without interruption until lunch and when we made it topside Vikki and Diane were eating on the patio.
"Where have you guys been working?"
"Room 7. Next to Monica and John, they're still down there though. I think they're going to come up soon. Tru and Nathan were looking for you two, something about Missy."
"Is there something wrong with her?"
"No, I don't think there was anything wrong."
Mulder and I went looking for Tru and Nathan, and found them in the living room. "What's up guys?"
"Missy's been trying to say something all day, hasn't yet but I think she's coming really close. Maybe you guys should take the day off, just in case she does. Don't want to miss her first words."
"Ok, I guess we could. Haven't taken a day off yet, so."
We ate lunch and then spent the rest of the day playing with Missy and Will…at around 4:30 Mulder was bouncing Missy on his knee when she laughed and blurted out dada. He stopped bouncing and looked at her with his mouth hanging open, then he looked at me. "Did you hear that?"
I smiled widely, "she just said her first word."
"She said dada." He beamed then kissed her on the forehead. She giggled and smiled a toothless grin. Then he went back to bouncing her on his knee, and she went back to laughing. I don't think he put her down for the rest of the day, not that I minded. I was the exact same way when Will said mama, he said it twice that day. Today Missy said dada three times.
Hopefully soon she'll say another word, or it's all I'll hear out of Mulder. After he put her down to sleep and we read Will his bedtime story we went into our room and sat in bed talking about the events of the day.
"Will's first word was mama wasn't it?"
"Yeah."
"What was his second word?"
"No."
"No was his second word."
"Yeah, no was his second word. He'd say it over and over again, no, no, no, no…it got pretty annoying. But it was so cute."
"I wish I could've been there." He says frowning.
"I wish you could've been there too, but you had to leave Mulder…I understand that. Im just happy that you'll be here for Missy and the baby, and im glad that Missy's first word was dada. You deserve that, I couldn't ask you to be a better father."
"It scares the hell out of me."
"What, being a father?"
"Yeah. I hate that im responsible for their lives, I don't want to make a mistake. And, when they're older, especially Missy, I know they're going to hate how protective im going to be over them…but with all I know I don't know how I won't be."
"I think that they'll understand Mulder, we've seen a lot of crazy people in our times and a lot of monsters as well. And then with the syndicate, it just makes it worse. Face it Mulder, we're paranoid people…and we probably always will be. Im sure our children will inherit that trait."
"Yeah, I guess it's inevitable."
I smiled, "and Mulder…being a mother scares the hell out of me. It comes with the territory."
"You've always got this way of making me feel better."
"It's a gift."
I kissed him gently on the lips, "night Mulder. I love you."
"I love you too Scully."
1 week later
"We've got to get this to my brother, when is Ken going to get here?"
"Chill Dana, he'll be here soon." John assured me, "just be patient."
"I can't, this is to important not to be nervous."
Mulder wrapped his arms around me, "Scully, don't be so apprehensive, this is going to work. I promise."
"Oh, I know. But Ken is almost 30 minutes late."
"He probably ran into traffic, don't worry." Monica says holding John Jr.
Sure enough 10 minutes later Ken and Becky arrive, we load the cans of the antidote air into the back of the UHAL they rented and they took off for the meeting place for them and one of Charlie's guys. After they left I began to pace from the living room to the bathroom and back to the living room.
"Dana, I wish you'd stop that. You're making me nervous." Diane says.
"Im sorry, I can't help it. What if it doesn't work? What if somebody knows? What if they intercept the antidote."
"And what if they don't?" Mulder says, "Dana you worry to much. Just don't let it get to you, try and calm down."
I sat down on the couch and tapped my foot on the floor, "I can't do that. It doesn't work that way. I can't just shut off nervousness."
"We'll it's not good for the baby."
I took a deep breath, "I know, I know. Trust me if I could, I wouldn't be this nervous, but I just feel so helpless. All we can do is wait."
And that's all we did, wait. Since the location they were going to was three hours away we waited for what seemed like years. 4 hours after they took off we got a phone call from Becky saying that they had hit a bit of traffic but they had made it ok, and Charlie's guy had just took off. That took a bit of the uneasiness away, but not much. I finally went down to the bunker and began to work to try and take my mind off of things.
A few hours later Mulder came down, "Dana…you going to stay here all day? Will's asking where you are."
"Im just trying to do something, anything, to keep me from worrying. This is helping a little bit, I guess I could go upstairs and play with Will, that might take it off my mind."
"Playing with Will's always been my favorite remedy. Works the best too."
I cleaned up a bit and then we went upstairs where Will came running towards me with open arms, I picked him up getting my fill in before I was so far along I wouldn't be able to lift a piece of clothing. I hugged him close to me and he wrapped his arms around my neck.
"Where mommy be?"
"Downstairs honey, mommy was working."
"I miss you."
"I missed you too honey, but I was only gone for a little while."
"I know, but I still miss you."
"We'll you've got me now don't you. So, what do you want to do?"
He thought about it for a moment before answering, "hide n seek."
I should've known. Hide and seek is Will's favorite game. "Ok, you go on and hide, I'll count to twenty and come after you." I put him down and he ran off, I started counting and when I reached twenty I looked around as if I didn't already know where he was. Every time we play hide and seek he goes into Mulder and my room and hides under the bed.
I finally shouted that I gave up and he emerged from the bedroom wearing a huge smile. "I win gain!" he declared.
"Yeah, looks like you do. You always win Will, you're the hide and seek champion."
I sit on the couch Indian style and he comes and sits on my lap. Kim and Byers come downstairs, Kim holding Kathy in her arms. They sit on the couch opposite mine and Byers turns on the television. We watch Law & Order for awhile before I go off to put Will to bed, Mulder's already in their room rocking Missy to sleep, singing her a lullaby. I smile at them when we enter the room.
Will climbs into bed and I read him his bedtime story, by the time im done Missy is in her crib and Will is snoring. I put the book on the nightstand and we go on to our room and climb into bed as well.
It's not long before im asleep.
4:54 am
The ringing of the phone next to the bed wakes me up and I pick it up. "Hello?" I say groggily into the phone.
"Dana. It's Charlie. I wanted to call you and let you know that it's arrived."
"Really? Good. Do you know what time it is Charlie?"
"7 am…oh, we're two hours ahead, im sorry sis. Go back to bed, I'll call later on in the day."
"Alright Charlie. Call in about three hours. Talk to you then."
"Ok sis, bye. Love you."
"Yeah, love you too." I hung up the phone and cuddled back against Mulder.
"Who was that?"
"Charlie, the antidotes arrived."
He yawns, "ok. Night."
I closed my eyes and fell back asleep instantly.
8:05 am
The telephone rings and Ryan picks it up, "yeah."
He pauses for a second before handing me the phone, "Scully." I say into the receiver on instinct.
"Dana, it's Charlie. I told you I'd call back. How have you been?"
"Getting fatter and fatter every day, but other than that, good. What about you?"
"We'll I've got another one on the way too. And other than stressing over this antidote business I've been doing great. You don't know how relived I was when the UHAL arrived this morning. Im sorry about calling you so early, I wasn't thinking."
"No, that's fine. I was just as worried about the whole ordeal as you. You can ask anybody else here, they were all getting upset by how much I was pacing. I guess I was making them nervous with being nervous."
"I know what you mean. Well sis, I'd better let you go. I'll e-mail you later with more details. Love you."
"Love you too Charlie. Keep safe."
"Back at you sis."
I hung up the phone and informed everybody that he had called again. Then Monica, Marita, and I went downstairs and began to work. A little while later Mulder, Dr. Smalls, and John came down and joined us in working. We worked until 6:30, and we only stopped because Diane and Ryan came down and fussed at us. They had stopped working around 5:30.
The rest of the day went accordingly, and I went to bed early. Pregnancy was starting to take its toll on me, I was fatigued. Mulder came to bed sometime after that, I know because I felt him wrap his arms around me. The baby kicked in my stomach and I smiled, then closed my eyes and fell asleep.
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a/n: It took me a long time to get this chapter out, and it's short no less. Damn writers block. Anyway, I will try and make the next chapter a longer one, but hey…I might just keep the chapters short. It's easier, and that way I can get chapters out in a shorter amount of time. And that's always a good thing. Anyway, thanks to everybody who's reviewed. Please keep reviewing.
