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"Did I miss something?" Mulder said as he entered the room six hours later to relieve Scully, he could feel the tension in the room. "We were just having a little heart to heart." Candace said as Scully wordlessly left the room. "She looked pretty upset." Mulder said as he gave the adjoining door a worried glance. "Sometimes, confronting the truth of ones own deepest feelings can be hard. But I won't break our confidence, when she's ready, she'll tell you. But will you be ready to hear them?" Candace replied. "Tell me what?" "On some level, you know, you've known for years. But the level if dedication & intimacy that acting on your feelings would require scares you, not because you're not ready, but because you're afraid you'll let her down some how." Mulder ran his hand down his face & squirmed a little. "You need to let go of all this fear & insecurity, it's keeping you from being truly happy with the one person that fate has chosen for you, the two of you didn't just meet by chance, you know… nothing happens by chance in this universe. You know most people would kill to have what the two of you have, what you are to each other." "I know what we are to each other, it's just she's gone though so much for me, & for a cause that isn't hers. It would be selfish if me to burden her with my feelings." "It would be selfish of you if you didn't you're leaving her without knowing." Candace replied. Mulder rubbed his face & grinned at her in defeat. "You're right, you're right about everything." "Hey, I'm just trying to help, I didn't ever get a chance to experience what you two have, I just don't want to see you waste it because of petty fears." She said as Mulder suddenly stood. "Where are you going?" "To do what I should have done years ago." He said with finality in his voice as he walked through the adjoining door. Candace smiled to herself as she laid back & put a set of head phones over her ears, & left the moment to them.
"Mulder… what are you doing? Scully slurred sleepily as she awoke to see Mulder sitting on the foot of her bed. "Scully I have something to tell you." Mulder said as she sat up, she noticed that he was uncharacteristically nervous & wringing his hand endlessly. "Mulder, what's wrong?" Scully said as she moved to sit next to him. "Scully, I want you to know something… I'm… I love you; I have for a long time." He paused while she absorbed this; she took in a sharp breath & exhaled it slowly as she looked at the floor. "How long have you felt this way?" She asked, her voice was barely above a whisper. "Longer then I can clearly remember, practically since the first time we met." He said with a slightly bashful expression. "I… I… don't know what to say to that, I've spend so many nights lying in bed, thinking what I would say if this situation were ever to rouse itself, now here it is & I don't know the first thing to say. We're so different in our beliefs, Mulder. To be honest, I always saw you with someone more like… more like Diana Fowley." She said as she continued to look at the ground. "For a while in my life, I did too. But I was stupid; she wasn't there for me like you were, she walked out on the X-files while you never did. When I was partnered with her, I never had to strive, to work for her approval & her belief in my projects. It's your skepticism & your disbelief that's kept me driving forward, even when everything seemed hopeless. I meant it when I said that you were my constant, & my touchtone." He said as he placed his hand on hers, Scully opened her mouth to reply when they heard screams & a commotion in the adjoining room.