VIII
Four days later she woke with sniffles, which soon developed into a full-blown, miserable summer cold. Of course Mulder picked it up from her and got it even worse, missing three days at work. The day he returned she wondered out loud if God didn't want them to do this, and he replied that an omnipotent deity should have better things to worry about than their sex lives. This developed into a heated discussion that ended up a bitter argument by the end of the day and they didn't speak to each other all weekend. By the time they made up on Monday morning both colds were past, as was her cycle, and tentative plans were made for the following Friday barring any other disasters real or imagined.