CHAPTER TWO
June 1995
7 PM, somewhere in Richmond
"I don't want to go to bed now, it's still bright outside and I haven't said goodnight to Floyd, and you haven't told me a story, and and…" whined Kim.
"Don't try bossing me around Kimmy, I'm the grown-up here in the house and you are the child so please follow my orders and stop snivelling. We made a deal, have you forgotten? I authorized you to play outside longer than usual because the weather was so lovely, but now you have to carry out your part of the arrangement, which is …?" asked Quistis defiantly, looking Kim straight in the eye.
"Going straight to bed without moaning…"answered Kim sadly and started sulking.
"Perfect, see how easy it works when you're not constantly complaining?" said Quistis and pushed Kim towards the bathroom.
Once she had put Kim into bed, Quistis went down to the living room in order to keep Paula some company.
Paula was sitting on the sofa, holding a picture frame with a drawing of her parents, one of the rare pictures of them together.
"Oh that one was made at the marketplace in Puerto Banus in the South of Spain, December 1986 I think, it's really gorgeous isn't it?." asked Quistis while taking place on the couch.
"Yeah it is, I like it a lot." replied Paula and got up to put the frame back on the bookshelf next to a picture of her and Kim playing in the garden with Floyd, their husky.
"I have a question" said Paula sitting down next to Quistis. "Dad's got grey-green eyes, mum had hazel eyes and none of my grandparents had blue eyes, so where do Kim's and my dark blue eyes come from?"
"Hmm…interesting question, that's you're father's favourite X-file, he calls it The Blue Eyes Mystery." said Quistis smiling.
However I really don't think that this one's an X-file, you have to know that some physical characteristics can skip 2, 3 maybe even 4 generations. So I rather think that Kim and you got the eyes of your great-great-grandmother than that they are a part of some governmental or even extraterrestrial conspiracy."
"You're probably right; daddy would manage to find an X-file anywhere…" said Paula quietly.
"Hey, why are you looking so sad?" asked Quistis and gave Paula a sign to come and sit on her lap.
"I wish he could spend more time with us" said Paula.
"I know, but he has a lot of work to do and his timetable's not what you could call regular. He's here every weekend and I'm sure that if he had more time, he would spend it with you." explained Quistis.
"I went to see him when we were visiting the Headquarters with our school. I deliberately separated from our group and then later pretended to have gotten lost. I wanted to see him so badly, but he wasn't in his office. Another agent was there, a tall woman with dark hair" said Paula.
"Her name's Diana Fowley, she's one of your dad's work partners" explained Quistis.
Same time, Annapolis, Scully's apartment
"Have you thought about what I told you?" asked Monica.
"Yes I have…"
"So you're going to tell him?"
"You're talking about it as if it were something easy to announce… I was serious when I said I needed some more time to think about it"
"But you love him…"
"Of course I love him, but we've only been dating for a few months now and everything is still so chaotic in our lives. He doesn't want me to tell anyone that we are lovers. My mum doesn't know, you're supposed not to know… I just feel that now is not the right time for a baby…" explained Scully.
"Well even if you should decide not to keep it, I really think you should talk with him Dana, it' also his baby" said Monica.
"We have not even talked about moving together yet"
"Maybe this baby is the turning point he was waiting for to make your affair official and take the next step. A relationship between partners is never welcome at the bureau. Maybe he's afraid that Skinner might not allow you to stay partners and decide to transfer you back at Quantico" explained Monica.
"There's something I haven't told you... I thrust him with my life, but there are some things about Mulder that keep disturbing me. We see each other almost every day after work and he often stays at my place during the week, but he never has time to see me on the weekends, he says that he's out of town with the Lone gunmen, or visiting his mother. But I know that he's not telling the truth. Two weeks ago, I tried to contact him because he had forgotten his badge. I called his mobile phone but it was turned off, so I first called the guys, then his mother but he wasn't with any of them. When I questioned him on Monday, he pretended to have been out with Frohike. Monica, he lied to me, why should I tell him?"
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