Agent Baines

Scully looked out of her window and saw the streetlamps shining bright in the misty sky. Light rain started to fall and glisten in the moonlight and she saw a group of leaves blow across the street to the side walk on the other side as a breeze shifted through her open window and pushed the bottom of her black shirt where it flapped after the buttons up so that her lower stomach was exposed for a few seconds. Scully felt the wind touch her skin and she shivered suddenly and went to close the window as a car sped past spurting up rainwater from the road.

She hadn't watched as Skinner had taken Vladimir away from her house half an hour ago, she didn't want to see that man ever again. She had helped Skinner to ease Mulder's pain with what Vladimir had told them, and had hopefully made his breathing softer for him.

Scully couldn't believe that she had forced the horrific memory out of her head for so long and sighed heavily as she closed her eyes in sadness as she remembered the force of him on her. Scully felt herself fall to her bed and she sat down on the edge of it with ease and hung her head to one side in despair as she sniffed a tear away and felt her face tighten with tears which were ready to come out of her at any moment. She felt them break through in annoyance and she let out a small sob and threw her hands to her face to hide it. Scully felt her whole body shake in sadness as she let out sobs which sounded heart wrenching as she remembered her ordeal properly for the first time and also felt her fear and love for Mulder break her heart into a million pieces.

Scully's thoughts then rushed to the night which she had also forgotten for a while, when they had been alone in the forest in Russia and they had shared a passionate kiss. Scully's tears started to dry out as she felt her heart warm with love as she remembered the moment clearly with happiness. But the thought of losing Mulder came crashing back too fast and she felt her slight smile turn to a bitter frown and she was lost in another sob.

After a few minutes of desperate despair, Scully looked up in shock as she heard a sound of a footstep in front of her and the door creaking. She expected Vladimir, or Skinner, or even another murderer who was ready to finish off this awful time of her life, but she gasped in concern and shock as she saw Mulder standing in the door way, looking at her weakly but with eyes of great compassion and concern.

Seeing him standing up made Scully rush towards him in worry and take him into her arms embedding her face in his weak chest. Mulder gratefully embraced her slowly and took a deep breath, and Scully was pleased to hear that it was much less chesty. Scully pulled away from him after a few moments and led him carefully to the bed and sat him down. Mulder seemed relieved for her help and took a few deep breaths. Scully frowned with concern and checked his temperature and pulse quickly. Mulder let her do it as he knew that he wouldn't be able to persuade her not to. He let out a small smile as he smelt her hair and caught a waft of her fruity shampoo. He sighed and took her hand quickly and firmly. Scully gasped in shock and looked at him in surprise and then stopped checking on him as she met his firm gaze from his imploring eyes.

Scully felt her heart race with excitement as Mulder locked her into his dreamy gaze. Scully couldn't look away from him, it was impossible. She felt her temperature rise and she swallowed nervously as Mulder seemed to look right into her, into her soul and deeper…

'Mulder… what is it?' She asked in a whisper. Mulder continued to stare into her eyes with great compassion and slowly he pulled her closer to him. Scully frowned in emotion as she fell into his arms and then she put an arm around him and pulled his body into her embrace and cradled him lovingly. Mulder felt very weak in her arms, but she felt a passion from him which was so strong.

'Mulder, I'm going to go to Brazil to find a way to cure you.' She said quietly and softly and stroked his hair. 'I promise I'll find a cure. I promise you Mulder.' She said, her voice wavering with emotion and sadness. Scully bit her lower lip and kissed Mulder's hair and he looked up at her weakly.

'Brazil?' He asked in a confused manner. Scully nodded. 'Scully…' He said in a weak voice. 'I walked… I walked to your room…'

'Yes!' Scully said, bursting into relieved laughter. 'You did, and you're going to be all right.' She said softly and felt her lip tremble with tears.

'Scully… please don't cry all the time.' Mulder said softly and Scully was caught off guard. She frowned in confusion as she didn't realise that he had noticed it.

'What?' She asked.

'You were… you were crying when I came in. Don't cry.' Mulder said weakly and raised a hand to stoke her cheek. 'I don't want you to cry and be unhappy just over stupid old me.' He said with a smirk and Scully let out a laugh of relief and annoyance as she felt his normal and adorable sense of humour shine through even when he was so weak. She quickly lowered her head as her mind filled with fear of not being able to find the cure, and not hearing Mulder speak like this again…

'Scully…' Mulder said, now he had moved to her side and was putting an arm around her. Scully blinked as she realised she hadn't noticed he had moved. 'Scully… come on.' He said softly and kissed her hair. Scully gasped as she felt his passion for her run through her like an electric surge and she took a deep breath and let herself fall into his chest.

Mulder pulled his arms around her and felt Scully's deep breaths. He sighed with sadness for her and felt her weight on his chest make his breathing a little uneasy, but it wasn't much weight. She was so small and beautiful, she was so precious and she clearly cared about him so much. Mulder was overwhelmed by her commitment and love for him. He closed his eyes and held her for a few moments.

After a few minutes Scully raised her head and looked into his eyes.

'Are you ok?' She asked him with concern.

'I'm all right.' Mulder said softly and took another deep breath to try and fill his lungs. Scully frowned in concern and put a hand on his cheek. She gazed into his eyes and felt her body warm up with love and passion and suddenly she felt the urge to kiss him again, knowing that this may be the last chance.

'I may never see you again after tonight.' She gushed and blinked a tear away, her voice wavering with emotion and changing pitch. Mulder let out a sigh and shook his head.

'Don't say that… I'll see you-' He said slowly, but he was cut short by Scully pulling him into a kiss, soft and loving, considering Mulder's condition. They felt each others bodies fit into each other and felt their passion and love for one another spark between them blissfully.

After a while they pulled away from each other and embraced again. Mulder frowned with emotion as he held her tightly and wished away her worries for him. As the clock in the lounge announced it was nine o'clock, Mulder sighed and felt the words arise inside of him like an uncontrollable surge. Scully was looking right at him, with her beautiful eyes.

'Mulder--I'm so scared…' she started, but her tears caught her half way and she lowered her head. Mulder kissed her on the forehead as he felt concern well inside him and held her close. He lifted her head to look at him again and this him he pulled her into another kiss, passionate and gentle and he felt Scully's hands caress his back and his strong arms. He lifted a weak arm to her hair and brushed it back from her face as he kissed her harder and with all the strength he had. They kissed for a while and then pulled away gently for air. Mulder took a deep breath and Scully rested her forehead on his. She sighed with emotion and caressed his back softly and he felt his body tingle. Mulder then had a thought, he couldn't stop it anymore, and he didn't care what happened when he said it. He just knew that he had to, that it was right.

'Scully-' He said tenderly into her ear in a whisper.

'Yes?' Scully asked in an emotional whisper.

Mulder hesitated for a second as she took a breath, then carried on.

'--I love you…'

The airport was bustling with loud families and vast numbers of people. The announcements overhead echoed over the vast space and made an older man get up from his seat in surprise and run towards a gate.

Agent Scully's eyes crossed the pedestrian airport and she saw the scene of a normal life in front of her, with a family and friends, in not immediate danger. She felt a longing for that life as she saw a young boy run across the airport to the right of her, but then her thoughts stopped dead about what she was going to do, she was going to save her friends life, and that was it.

Scully's thoughts had been clouded with Mulder's words for a few hours now. After he had told her that he loved her she had smiled and stood up and left, confused at what to say. His eyes had been so sincere and loving, everything had been perfect, but she didn't know quite how to handle it right now and carried on walking towards the private air hangar with the other team.

One of the Agents who had come along to help was Agent Baines, a young woman from Ohio originally and a new member of the Military, but very bright and enthusiastic. Scully had clicked with her straight away, and Baines' sincerity in keeping Scully's confidence was very clear. She didn't ask many questions and didn't wonder. She was actually one of the first government agents she had met that had not passed her off as 'Mrs Spooky.'

'So, Dana-' Baines started as they neared the air field and the night air lingered with damp condensation. 'My plan is that we get to the coordinates and ram the door, pursue as a raid.' She said forcefully. Scully admired her bravery and military like way of doing things. All the other agents were male and held firearms which were big and macho; however Baines seemed to be stronger than all of them.

'Well, I…' Scully started.

'This is important to you right?' She asked quickly as she saw Scully's hesitation.

'Yes of course.' Scully said with a frown.

'Then we're going to have to use force and get the information out of this man as fast as possible. We have to take every measure.

'All right. I understand, if you feel this is the best thing to do.' Scully said with a nod as they neared the small but sturdy military plane.

'I'm sorry if my measures seem a little.. tough Agent Scully, however this is my way of doing things, and my team will execute what I want them to do.' Baines said with a frown of reassurance to Scully. Scully blinked and looked back at the men who were climbing into the plane. She hadn't realised that Baines was in charge before.

'I… I just want to save my partner. I want to save him more than anything in the world.' Scully said with a sigh and bit her lip as tears threatened to fall. Baines nodded and let a small smile escape her lips.

'All right, I'll do my best to help you in every way I can. I promise.' Baines said with a reassuring pat on Scully's shoulder. Scully nodded and looked to the plane.

'I haven't really done much military style work before, I am usually on my own in this type of situation. I hope I don't prove a liability.' She said as they moved towards the large doors and stepped up the large steps.

After some loading, a large gust of wind flew up towards them as the plane doors closed and Scully felt her coat lapels float around her thighs and then the door was shut. She sat down near a window so she could watch the world disappear beneath her. Baines sat down a little further away and started talking to her troops. Scully sighed heavily and laid her head back in her seat and closed her eyes as the plane's engines started. This moment of comfort and peace made her remember the taste of Mulder's lips on hers and the great harmony she had felt when kissing him and embracing him close. She breathed a sigh of emotion as she remembered feeling him with her and she turned her head to one side as the relived the beautiful moment. Her tenses her tingling and her heart was beating so fast. She could almost feel it pounding in her head….

Suddenly there was a huge crash. Scully gasped in shock and opened her eyes wide in fear.

'Help!' A scream was heard from the other end of the plane. Scully raised her eyebrows in surprise and fear as her bearings came to her. She suddenly remembered where she was and what she was doing. She looked around her and saw that the plane looked different to what it had looked like when she had taken off. It was shaking- violently. Scully gasped in horror as she realised that the plane was beeping a loud siren which sounded like it was alerting an emergency. She frowned and looked down at her watched as her heart sped fast with terror as she tried to figure out what was happening. She saw that it was 5am in the morning. They'd been flying for about seven hours. What, had she been asleep?

Scully stood up quickly and carefully although the sirens were flashing the fasten seat belt signs. She heard another cry for help from the back of the plane and she opened her eyes wide with fear and it hit her for the first time. The plane was in trouble.

It rocked violently from side to side and then dropped a good 50 metres- or it felt like it. Scully cried out as she fell to the floor of the walkway in the middle of the plane onto her front. She scrambled for something to help pull her up and she wriggled her way along, her ribs aching from the impact. She blinked back painful tears and heard various shouts of fear and shouts for help from the end of the craft. She made her way to the back and turned to see Agent Baines sitting on the floor and holding her stomach in pain. Scully hurried towards her and slipped as the plane dipped again. The sirens were now deafening and ran around her head over and over.

'Agent Baines!' Scully cried out and make her way towards her. She took her arm and tried to get her to look at her, but Scully saw that she was very weak and that she was bleeding heavily.

'D…Dana- Venezuela…we're over it. If you survive, you'll be able to get to Brazil… I.. I can't… feel my body… ' She rasped. Scully looked in disbelief and horror as the bleeding was too heavy to stop.

'What happened!' She shouted over the racket and saw a man running around the side of the plane and towards them. Scully turned in shock and fear to look up to the solider.

'I'M GOING TO CHECK THE COCKPIT!' The man shouted over the noise and Scully nodded, her whole body shaking in shock and her eyes wide with fear. She felt Baines' hold on her arm and it was so strong that it hurt. Scully looked back at her quickly.

'Dana… there's an intruder on board… he's… he's bringing the plane down… he stabbed me.' She said weakly between breaths. Scully shook her head in disbelief and breathed heavily and irregularly as the fear inside her engulfed her body. She was sure she was going to die.

'I'm so sorry Agent Baines… I'm so sorry…' Scully said emotionally as she felt Baines' grasp on her start to loosen, until she took her last breath and let go slowly.

Scully shouted out in fury and fear and got to her feet. She looked around at the horrific and mad scene all around her. Baines' men were lying, some dead, and others bracing for impact and calling to her for help and for her to get down. She felt tears sting her eyes as she couldn't believe what was happening. One thing was sure, the man who had caused this was there because of her.

Scully went to the back of the plane and rummaged inside for some parachutes.

'There aren't any! That bastard threw them out of the damn door!' A man said from behind her making her jump. Scully cried out in fear and turned to face him. She saw that he had a large gash on his head.

'We're all going to die… we're all going to die…' He said, trembling. Scully shook her head in and blinked away terrified tears.

'No…' She said in horror and felt a sob engulf her throat. Closing her eyes in defeat she felt the plane lunge forward violently. Scully cried out and was forced back against the wall and shelving she had been rummaging in and hit her arm hard. Scully heard the horrible sound of a bone cracking.

'We're going to crash people!' One of the men called from the other side of the plane. Scully's vision was swaying as the blinding pain in her arm made her loose her footing.

Someone grabbed her and pulled her down to the floor and she had the notion that this person was trying to help her, however she didn't really know what was going on anymore. The sound of the plane's sirens and the horrific noises of the plane falling apart were now disappearing to her.

Suddenly and finally, she heard distant shouts and screams and the plane tilt forwards dramatically so that she slid forwards, but was grabbed by someone behind her. She was pushed forward into a brace position and then, she closed her mind and pictured seeing her father and sister once again as the plane crashed.