Scully tried to hide out in a cubicle outside their office all day, but Mulder found her.
"Scully what are you doing back here? I was beginning to think you were trying to avoid me. I brought you a fruit salad for lunch, even though you said you weren't hungry."
"Just getting this report done." She said as she pushed print.
He eyed her wondering what was really up. "Well do you want me to bring you your salad?"
"I'll come with you now." She said getting up. "I need some more files if we are going to get this paper work done today. It would be easier if I had a space to work in that office of yours."
"Yea maybe, but we've managed this long without one. Anyway, this is as much my office as it is yours." He pressed the door open and walked over to the three piles of paperwork on his desk and sat another stack on the shortest pile.
She glared at him. "This isn't my office, Mulder. Never has been. I have no desk. Not place to hang my coat. Nothing in this office is mine."
His eyes narrowed a bit, trying to determine what was really bothering her. Maybe it was her leg still. She was never one for pain. "How'd the leg?"
She picked up a stack of files and stomped from the room. He sat down in his chair and dropped his head in his hands which were resting on the desk. It dawned on him that maybe it was something less obvious then her leg. He got up and grabbed the fruit salad following her back to her hide out.
"Just leave me alone okay." She said when he propped on her desk.
"You know you can always hang your coat on my coat hanger, you can always sit at my desk or just ask me to move." He said ignoring her standoffishness and opening her fruit salad popping a grape into his mouth.
She stood up and looked him eyeball to eyeball. "Don't you get it? I just want to be your equal. I work just as hard as you do. Don't I deserve some respect...from you of all people?" Her tone was harsh, her voice rose. She took a step closer to him. "Or don't you have the..." She grabbed him on the crotch and squeezed gently, "to admit that I work as hard as you?"
"But you are... I thought I did..."He dropped the fruit in his hand and it rolled on to the desk top. He looked at her with bafflement, panic, almost fright in his eyes. Where was all this coming from? He grabbed her arms firmly but carefully, staring her back just as fierce.
She got her bearings again and shook her head. "Mulder, I'm sorry...I don't know what is wrong with me."
"Scully close your eyes."
She did as he told her too. He reached down and picked up a strawberry and brought it to her mouth running it softly around her lips. She opened her mouth. She took a small bite and the juice ran down her chin.
He ate the rest if the strawberry while wiping the juice that was running down her chin with his thumb, then he picked up a piece of melon doing the same thing he did with the strawberry.
She opened her mouth to take the melon then she remembered where they were. "How about we take this somewhere...more private?"
"Shhh...No one is going to catch us down here. Are you scared?"
She took his hand and pulled him back to his desk. She then pushed him down in his chair before walking over to the door and locking it. "A more accurate question would be...are you scared?"
"Agent Scully are you asking if I'm willing to consort with my F.B.I partner?" He asked standing up and grabbing her by the waist, pulling her to him. "I don't believe you finished your lunch yet."
"I thought I'd skip to dessert." Her voice was low.
"My thoughts exactly." He directed her hand to the fruit bowl and enticed her to feed him.
"I know where I want to begin."
She couldn't hide the desire in her eyes any longer. She held the grape to his lips.
He took the grape into his mouth with a flick of his tongue. He reached up and grabbed her wrist bring her finger to his, sliding it into his mouth.
"Mulder..." Her voice shook.
He let her fingers slip from his mouth. Letting go of her he moved away gathering his stuff.
"Time to go. It's something to 5."
He headed toward the door before turning around one last time.
"See you tomorrow morning Scully. Goodnight."
Goodnight? This is going to be one hell of a night. She thought to herself.
