AN: This is the last chapter of this story – I hope you enjoyed it. I have Ghost Files 5 – a short story ready to go and I will post it in a couple of weeks. I plan to do GF 6 as well but that is at least a year away as I have to write it! I expect it will be novel length and the same kind of story tone as Ghost Files 1. Thanks for reading!

Chapter 12

Five months later

The ship, the Luck of the Irish docked in Schooner Bay on a beautiful sunny fall day. Scully, Mulder and William were on hand to meet Carolyn and Daniel and drive them back to Gull Cottage. With Mulder's help Scully, now six months pregnant, made her way down to the dock where she could see her friends disembark. The ship was tied off to its moorings by the small crew, and then members of the crew began to bring out the luggage of their Captain and his wife.

They heard his voice before they saw him. The Captain stood proudly on the foredeck of his ship, seeming like a figure from a bygone age and larger than life. His rigid pose was broken by the melodic sound of Carolyn's voice from nearby. They watched as she came up from behind him and hugged him. He turned in her arms and kissed her warmly, not caring who saw him.

"Look at that!" Scully poked Mulder. "He was never that open before."

"It seems that he's solved his problems."

Captain! Carolyn!" Scully called.

"Danny! Carolyn!" echoed Mulder.

Wasting less time than his parents, William launched himself up the gangplank and into first the Captain's arms, and then Carolyn's.

"So glad you're back! I missed you!" William said, hugging them tightly.

They looked over to see his parents making their way onto the deck more slowly, and Carolyn gasped as Scully's obvious state. "Dana!"

"I know, I'm huge! Blame it on him. And I still have three months to go."

"Are you all right? Is everything good with you?" Carolyn hugged her friend.

"Well, except for the fact that I'm waddling already, I'm fine."

"Just one?"

"Oh, thank God, yes. Just one. One very large baby." She smacked Mulder. "His fault."

"Hey! You were there too."

Scully suddenly paused, her eyes opening wide in surprise as she released Carolyn from her hug. "Am I imagining things?"

"No." Carolyn smiled happily and held her arm out to Daniel who took it and kissed it with great ardor.

"Danny?" Fox queried. "You look like the fox in the hen house. What's going on?"

"Mulder, it seems our child is going to have a cousin of sorts."

"A cousin? What?" He wrinkled his brow for a moment until Scully's meaning set in and he looked at the Gregg's in surprise. "Carolyn? Danny? Are you…"

"Yes, I'm pregnant," she announced, beaming like a lighthouse beacon. "It didn't take him long once he embraced being human again."

"Quite." Daniel stood proudly, quite pleased with himself.

"You've been gone five months. How long?" Scully asked.

Carolyn and Daniel grinned at each other. "I'm four months along. And I needed to come home. Have you ever had morning sickness on a moving ship? I don't recommend it," she blanched at the thought.

"Tell them the rest of it," Daniel stroked his chin, entirely too full of himself.

"Ignore him, he's far too pleased with himself about this."

"And why shouldn't I be? I will be around the entire time to be with you throughout the pregnancy and to see my children born."

Fox was sure his hearing was good, but he asked anyway. "Children? As in more than one?"

Carolyn nodded, almost giddy with happiness. "Twins. We're having twins."

She entwined her hand with the Captain's again and they kissed.

"Too many babies," William commented with a scowl. "Can we please go home now?"

The adults laughed and they all made their way back to the car. It was indeed time to take their growing families back home.

THE END

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AN: This is the end of this story but one more to be posted soon. Thank you for reading.