Looking at her with disbelief, "Scully, what are you asking me? You want …" interrupting him, "Mulder, I want you to…I mean, I want us to…"taking a deep breath, looking deep into his eyes, "Mulder, make love to me." Looking at her letting his jaw drop open at the words that he has only heard in his fantasies. "Scully, are you sure? I mean…" thinking quickly, realizing that he is at a loss for words, she interrupts him again. "Mulder, I am sure, I have thought about it a lot, I want you to make love to me," she says, pulling the big comforter off the bed and onto the floor into a pile. Looking at her, taking her head in his hands, he starts kissing her lips, then slowly kissing down her neck, as she trembles at his touch. He continues kissing down her neck to where her robe forms a V, he slowly pulls the robe down, over hear breasts, opening it down the front, exposing her stomach, past her hips, down her thighs, and lets it fall open on each side of her. He slides one arm under her soft back, lifting her up a little to pull the robe from under her, where she will be more comfortable, she arches her back a little to help him. Then lifting herself off the bed a little, she helps him pull the robe from under her and it joins the comforter already in the floor beside the bed. He continues kissing her starting at her neck, and down to her breasts, his entire body shaking now, due to the fact that he is a little nervous, I mean, this isn't just another woman. This is Scully, and everything has to be perfect. Continuing down to her stomach, noticing she has her belly button pierced, looking up at her, "Scully, I never knew you had a piercing, I think it looks very sexy on you," he says with a smile, continuing to kiss her stomach. Blushing a little, she says, "thanks, Mulder, I just recently got it, I thought t would make a cute addition to my tattoo, and Mulder, please, call me Dana, I like it when you call me Dana, I feel closer to you," she says, as a slight chill runs up her body, and a smile of pleasure crosses her face as his lips touch her soft skin. "About that tattoo, I do love it, I am sorry for the way that I acted when I found out about it, I was just a little jealous at the thought of another man seeing your back and being with you, if you guys were actually together, but that doesn't matter now. I love you , Dana, and I have been waiting for a long, long time to make love to you , and I want you to call me anything that you want, including Fox, though I hate it, I will love it coming from your lips," he says, kissing her softly above her left hip. As he continues down her left thigh, kissing her softly, down to her knee, her shin, and calf. Pausing a second at her ankle, letting his lips hover over her skin, just enough to brush her ankle softly, he kisses the top of her foot and starts on the other foot. Kissing his way up her leg, first ankle, then calf, shin, knee, thigh, back up to her right hip. Continuing up to her soft stomach, up to her breasts, back up her neck to her lips. After another long, passionate kiss, her raises up a little to look into her eyes. "Scully, are you sure you want to do this?" Looking at him a little concerned, "Mulder, if you don't want to I understand," she says, feeling a little rejected and hurt but hoping that he doesn't notice. "No, no, I want to do this, I have for a long time, I just don't want it to be something you regret in the morning," he says, with assurance. "I promise you, I will not regret it in the morning, and I will still respect you in the morning too," she says to him with a little grin. After making love for hours, rolling over on her side to be face to face with him, "Fox, I do love you, I don't want you to think that I don't, I have loved you since the beginning, and my love for you grows more and more every day." Looking at her and smiling, leaning toward her until his lips meet hers for a long, passionate kiss, telling her the same thing without saying a single word. She rolls over and lays her head on his chest, falling asleep together; they both sleep better than they have in a long, long time.
6:00 A.M.
Scully's Bedroom
The sound of an alarm wakes Scully, after yawning, and looking a little surprised to find herself naked, lying across Mulder's bare chest, then she remembers last night. With a big smile, she leans over and kisses his lips to wake him, with a soft kiss back, eh opens his eyes to his beautiful partner, laying over him. "Fox, its time to get up for work, I will make the coffee," she says, looking more content than he has ever seen her, not to mention, more rested and full of love for him. Thinking about the events of the night before, he lets the night cross his mine over and over, thinking to himself, what have I done, what if it isn't her that regrets this, what if it is me. Getting out of bed, he grabs his bag and walks into the bathroom, when he hears Scully fumbling around in the kitchen with the coffee maker. After taking a shower and getting dressed for work, he walks into the kitchen to see her in her robe with her coffee at the table, an extra cup waiting for him. Walking past the sofa, he tosses his bag onto the corner of the sofa and continues walking to the table, thinking to himself, "What am I going to say?" Sitting at the table, he picks up his cup and takes a sip, this is the best coffee he has had in a long time. "Good morning Dana, I…uh, what are we going to tell Skinner, I am staring to wonder if we did the right thing here, I mean, we could get into real trouble here, not to mention, you could lose your job and credentials because of me," he says quietly. Looking at him with confusion, "I thought you were worried about me regretting it, I didn't know you were having second thoughts, Fox, if I had known you were having second thoughts, I never would have made love to you, I…don't know what to say, I…" she replies, looking down at her cup of coffee. "Look, I didn't say I regret it, I just said that if we are going to continue with this, we are going to have to get our stories straight, we are going into work in a little while an we need to be prepared in case we are asked any questions, that is all, I just want to cover our butts," he says, looking a little worried. "Your know what Mulder," she says with a sharpness in her voice, "you are right, I do regret it, I am sorry, we shouldn't have made love, we are partners and that is a line that should not have been crossed, so lets just go to work as usual and pretend nothing ever happened," she says, getting up and throwing her coffee cup down into the sink, and walking away. Thinking to himself, "wow, that hurt, she called me Mulder, after calling me Fox all night and this morning, she reverts to Mulder. I didn't mean to upset her, I just don't want anything to happen to her because of me. "Dana, Dana, wait…I just want to tell you that I am sorry, I didn't mean to upset you in any way, I…I love you," he says, walking down the hall in the direction she was headed. "No, Mulder, don't, don't tell me you love me because it isn't going to work, and don't call me Dana, we are partners, not lovers, you call me Scully and I will call you Mulder and we'll will go back to things the way they were, you are right, it was a mistake, and I think you should go on to work, I will be in later, I will see you then, I need some time to think things over," she says, walking away from him. Not wanting to upset her any more than he has already don't, he goes back into the living room, grabs his bag from the sofa and walks out the door, locking and closing it behind him. Walking into the bedroom, she flops onto the bed, with a big sigh, a single tear rolls down her cheek, she knows she doesn't regret it and would do it again if given the chance, she finally lets him in after six years and then he decides that it isn't what he wants, he doesn't want her, he never did, he just charmed her to get her into be, but it wasn't even that so much as it was the fact that she loved him, really loved him and he, in return didn't love her. She picks up the telephone and calls AD Skinner, "Sir, I won't be in today, I am not feeling well, ok, thanks, bye," she says, hanging up the phone.
