Chapter 3: Scullys Theory

Alexandria

Mulder's Apartment

9:14 pm

"Hey Scully, come on in," Mulder said around his toothbrush.

She took one giant step in, "did I come at a bad time?"

"No," he mumbled and held up a single finger, then using it to point toward the bathroom. Scully nodded and plopped down on the sofa to wait for him.

Scully had already packed her things ready to go she just thought it would be best if she checked on Mulder an hour earlier than planed.

A few moments later, he returned to the living room and sat down dangerously close to his partner. "So, how about it?"

"How about what?"

"You, me, Vegas. Take in a couple of lounge acts, hit a casino or two, stop by a wedding chapel for one of those quick fifty dollar weddings, and spend the rest of our vacation having the honeymoon of a lifetime."

"As tempting as all of that sounds, I don't think so."

"But your mother gave us permission on no endless accounts"

Scully put a finger to Mulder's lips to silence him. "I don't always do what my mother suggests."

"Well, you can't blame a guy for trying."

Scully gave him a half smile, "besides, I have a feeling you were making up the phone conversation."

A week ago Scully accidentally grabbed Mulder's phone instead of hers and apparently her mother rung him up and they had a very lengthy conversation about marriage and such and when she finally got her phone back and rung up her mum she wouldn't talk about it.

"Just the part where I told her we were flying off to Vegas for the week."

"Oh God," she groaned. "Mulder, I don't know where she gets the idea that we should be getting married."

"Yeah, I bet you don't," he teased. "I thought it was a perfectly logical question myself. But I did tell her she would have to take that up with you." Mulder couldn't help but grin when he saw that he had actually made Scully blush.

"Well, I have the perfect answer for her."

"You do?"

"Yes. I can honestly tell her that the proposals I keep getting no woman in her right mind would accept."

Mulder harrumphed and straightened on the couch so he wasn't sitting so close to Scully. He pretended to pout and asked as seriously as he could, "what's wrong with the way I propose?"

"You can't be serious! Cheap, quickie weddings in Vegas, a stop off at the justice of the peace on our lunch hour, and my favorite of them all was the time you suggested we find a drive-thru wedding chapel!"

"Anyway it doesn't matter at this moment in time because we have a case to do, do you still have the ring"

"Yes" Mulder pouted

"Are you ready" Scully raised her eyebrow at this.

"Yep" stated Mulder innocently

"Really so where's your luggage" Scully raised the eyebrow again

"On my bed I'll go and get it"with that Mulder jumped off the sofa and into his room shutting the door quickly behind him.

'I knew it' thought Scully he hasn't packed as she pounded on the door shouting for Mulder to get his butt out here.

"I'll give you too the count of three...1…..2…..3 " with that she quickly elbow barges the door which gives way too quickly she falls through the room and lands on the bed.

"I knew you couldn't keep off my bed Scully" he comments at the same time as waggling his eyebrows.

She got up quickly, hit him across the head and shouted at him to move his butt its time to go.

Hope its ok

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