MULDER'S RESIDENCE
He picks up the phone once more and starts dialing, then he decides, maybe she just needs some time to take it all in, so he hangs up the phone and walks to the sofa. Lying down on the sofa, he starts going over all of the episodes that just happened and he falls asleep. Tossing and turning all night, he awakes to a phone call. "Hello," he says still half asleep… "Mulder, it is 8:15, where are you?" "Dammit! I fell asleep on the sofa and didn't set my alarm, I am on my way," hanging up the phone, grabbing his jacket, he runs out the door. He gets into his car, not caring that he has on the same pair of jeans and t shirt that he had on from the night before, he speeds out onto the road. The drive to work was excruciatingly long, he finally pulls into the parking lot and finds a spot to park in. After parking the car and locking it up, he goes into the elevator and heads up, not knowing what to expect when he arrives. As he exit's the elevator, he heads down to his office. He opens the door quietly to see Scully sitting at the desk going over some files. He looks at her and smiles. She looks at him and smiles back. He walks in the door and as he is approaching the desk he can feel the tension building. "Mulder, about last night, " interrupting her, "Scully, you don't have to explain anything to me, I just want to know that you don't hate me and then we will pretend this never happened." "No, Mulder, because it did happen and I am glad that it did. I have a lot of things I would like to discuss with you but now is not the time or place so what do you say to dinner at my place, to make up for the way I acted last night?" With a sigh of relief, "yes," he says. Looking at him strangely, "and what exactly is that you are wearing," she asks him, grinning. "Well, I decided to go with the casual look today," he says, smiling at her. "Looks like its 2 day old casuals," she says with a look of disapproval. Looking at her with that "pity me" face that nobody can pass up, "I'll try better next time," he says with a grin. Smiling back at him, "ok, so let's go over this case. Skinner just brought this down and he asked where you were, I told him you were getting coffee, so you may want to check in to see if he really needs something or if he is just being Skinner." Walking around the desk, Mulder reaches over Scully and picks up the phone, dialing Skinner's extension. Scully gets up and lets Mulder sit down to use the phone. After his conversation with Skinner, they go over daily files, each one thinking about what would be said at dinner tonight. They exchange a few thoughts and opinions about cases and there is a knock. They look up to see Maggie at the door. "Dana, honey, are you ready?" Looking surprised, "oh, yeah mom, I forgot, we have a lot of new things surfacing here and my mind sort of slipped. Let me grab a few things and I will be ready." "Sure honey, no hurry." Looking at Mulder, "Hello Fox, how re you today?" Looking down boyishly, "Hello Mrs. Scully, I am fine, thanks…how about you?" "I am fine, thanks for asking." Scully hands Mulder the files and she walks out, "see you in a a bit." Smiling and waving as they head out, "have a nice lunch, ladies." While Scully is at lunch, Mulder goes through files and eats a sub sandwich. Scully returns after what was only 45 minutes but seems like hours to Mulder. "Hey, how was lunch," he asks. "It was nice, thanks, how was yours?" "Oh, same old thing, files and a sub." Smiling at him, she takes her stuff and sits it down behind the desk. They finish the day as if the night before never happened. At the end of the day, she and Mulder at getting their things together and she says, "so, how is 7:30?" Looking a bit surprised that she didn't pass it off like the night before, "sure, 7:30, I'll be there." Handing him his coffee cup, "see you then," and with that she was gone.
