Title: The Lost and Forgotten
Authors: Shadow's Echo (also known as Cindy from CindyandSandy)
Rating: PG-13 (some swearing!)
Disclaimer: I don't own Mulder, Scully, or any of that happy crap…but I do own Amelia and other such characters. Yadda yadda yadda. We've been over this, have we not?
Chapter 17 – No Regrets
As Mulder and Scully drove to the school, Mulder felt full of regret. What had he stopped her? He had asked himself that so many times, but he knew the answer. He didn't want to treat her like the others. She wasn't like the others, she deserved so much more. Though he was afraid to say it, he loved her. All the women he had slept with in the past, he had left. They had meant nothing. He had never been that great at combining a real relationship with sex. Once he got sex that's all he wanted. He needed it. But now it would wait. Wait until it was the right thing.
His regret soon returned to belief that it was the right choice. He was sure of it now. His body said he was wrong, but he knew he was right. He would just have to be patient. He didn't want to lose her over something stupid.
He knew she wondered why he had stopped her. She had wanted him. Didn't she consider the same things? She knew of most of his past failed "relationships", if that's even what you can call them. Most were just flings. One-nighters. Maybe two if he really liked them. He figured she thought this would be different. Or worse. Maybe she had only wanted sex. Maybe she felt all the sexual tension between them, and she just wanted to get it over with and rid herself of it. He hoped not. He wanted her to love him. He wanted her to be his for eternity. In life and death. Forever.
It was by no means an obsession. He was no stalker. He just loved her so strongly. He hadn't felt it with any other woman before. Only her. He needed her.
As he pulled into the school's parking lot, Scully turned towards him. The look on her face told him she knew he was thinking. And he felt she knew exactly what he was thinking about. She smiled and got out of the car.
"Ready?" She asked.
"Ready as I'll ever be," He said. Possibly one of the worst clichés he had ever heard, but relevant nonetheless. "Let's go."
A/N: Well I hope that entertained you for a short time...I still have some to go obviously...I am also obviously a little stuck. But you all want it so I keep giving...Even if just in little doses. I hope this works for a while. R&R!