Chapter 4
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They all began to trudge through in one clustered group half way through, Mulder froze. "I think I just felt something brush up against my leg." Mulder whispered shakily as they all looked down as a terrible silence swept across the jungle, as if the animals could foresee what the humans could not. "No one move, no one panic or make a sound." Cody said under his breath as his hand went to the machete that was hooked into his belt. At that very moment, the huge snake rocketed itself out of the water.
"Watch out!" Mulder yelled as he pushed Scully out of the snake's deadly reach, the serpent's massive jaws closed around Mulder's shoulder, barely missing his jugular vein. Mulder had no time to prepare before the serpent's deadly coils were around him, binding him, squeezing the life out of him with every breath he exhaled. "Scully raced forward with her gun cocked & ready to fire, but Jaci grabbed her hand & wrestled it down. "What in the hell is the matter with you! Let me go!" Scully cried as she desperately tried to free herself from the woman's surprisingly strong grasp. "If you fire that weapon, the bullet will go right through the snake into your partner, killing him; you will be doing the snake's work for it." She said as she took aim with one of her arrows as Cody held Scully back. "Scully settle down, she knows what she's doing!" Cody said as he struggled against Scully's surprising show of strength as she fought against him. Jaci took aim with her arrow & fired right into the snake's spine, with an almighty hiss, the snake recoiled from the seemingly lifeless form of Mulder & turned on Jaci, who calmlyfired another arrow, this one pierced the snake through its skull, killing it.
Mulder came to on the way back to the village, he was being carried by Cody & another tribesmen. "There going to have a chopper meet us at the village." Scully said worriedly as she checked his pulse. The whipping blades of the helicopter were never a more welcome sight to Scully s the forest cleared to reveal the massive life-saving machine. "Oh my god, what in the hell happened?" The flight nurse said as he looked Mulder over. "Snake attack." Scully replied.
"Well, Ahab. You got your proof; you succeeded in throwing the scientific community on its head with the finding of the legendary one hundred-foot anaconda." Scully said as she took a seat beside Mulder's bed & took hold of his hand. "I hate it when you do this to me, Mulder." "Do what, save your life? Why does that still continue to surprise you?" "It doesn't it… I just…" Scully trailed off as she put her face in her hands, Mulder sat up & pulled her to him. "Scully when you were abducted all those years ago, I wasn't there to save you. When you mysteriously reappeared in the hospital that day & I saw you lying there, so fragile & exposed, I vowed never to leave you like that again.
I made a promise to myself to always protect you, even if that meant giving up my own life." He said into her ear as he held her close, Scully let out a tearful chuckle. "That's funny; I promised myself the exact same thing when I found you in that field after the aliens were done with you." Mulder laughed. "Well, this is an interesting dilemma to have, isn't it?" Mulder said, as he pulled back to gaze at her, a playful look in his eyes. Scully sighed as she placed her hand on Mulder's cheek. "What am I going to do with you?" She said exasperatedly. "Well, I have something in mind." Mulder said suggestively as he pulled her into a kiss. Scully couldn't believe it, the moment she had thought about over & over again was finally happening & all she could think about was 'It's about time.'