Ok so this is my first one writing other characters in...I hope I did ok. This one came to mind and just made me laugh.
Coming Clean
"John we've got to clean this office, it's driving me crazy, Feng Shui is not working for me." It had been awhile since they had gotten around to cleaning and Monica was done with it, all focus had gone out the tiny basement windows long ago.
John sighed and looked around; it had been a long time since there was a good cleaning. He flashed back to a day when Scully came by and cleared out most of her and Mulder's things but there were stray papers in random places, who knew how much actually was trash.
"Yeah I guess Mulder liked basketball but wasn't very good at the 'office' version." John tried to crack a joke and it got Monica to laugh.
"I just can't get anything done if it's this messy. Not like you are much better John, I've seen your house as well. Maybe you are more like Mulder than you think."
"Maybe just the 'guy' aspect." He agreed for once him and Mulder were the same.
Monica sifted through a few of the papers around the floor, kicking the little paper balls towards the trash. Literally just a lot of garbage. John did the same on the other side of the office, picking up all the little paper balls and hurling them towards the trash.
"I think Mulder had a point, this is kind of fun, gets your mind out of office work if you can have fun with it." He smiled as he shot three in a row into the trash can.
Monica found a shelf that had looked to be cleared out, having sheen of dust on it mostly and a few stray books and papers and seemingly unimportant files on it. She went to work clearing them up, "You know if we clear this off we can just get rid of it…it's just taking up space." Grabbing the files and papers and looking through them quickly making sure they weren't important, Monica reached the bottom shelf and squatted down, making sure nothing was missed before they moved it. She saw something and reached for it and almost was taken aback when she grasped something soft and silky. Holding the ball in her hand she stood up and looked at the panties she now held in her hand. Purple, silky and soft, Monica couldn't help but laugh, catching Doggett's attention quickly.
"What's so funny?" he was curious if she found something interesting and she held out the panties for him to see. His face flushed a little thinking about who they might have belonged or belong to, "Well I—I guess that clears up that rumor." He grinned at Monica and she couldn't help but smile back at him. She bit her lip and wondered what she should do with them…they were obviously worn. She tried to imagine the day that that happened and how Scully would feel without her underwear the rest of the day. Were they rushed or was in frenzied frustration? Inquiring minds want to know!
"Do you think she wants them back?" She raised her brows at Doggett, not really sure what to do with them.
"I'd toss them…or try to find Mulder and send them to him." He laughed slightly at his joke.
"Maybe we can put them in an evidence bag and give them back to her." She raised her brows and laughed.
"Now that's funny!" Doggett laughed thinking about how humiliating it would be for Scully to find that someone had found her and Mulder out in the office. Monica scrounged up an evidence bag and put the garment in it and set it to the side, they continued to clean, rearranging a few things as they went. After about an hour Monica stood at the door and looked in.
"Much better! I might be able to work down here now. Everything is much more fluid." She beamed at their job well done and wandered back to her desk, breathing in her new surroundings.
"Well can we get back to work now?" Doggett was tired of cleaning and would have just rather get back to work on the files they were investigating, more missing persons under suspicious circumstances.
"Wow…looks like you guys cleaned up a bit…and rearranged." Scully stood in the door way, inspecting their work. Doggett and Reyes looked at each other and smirked not sure how to approach the subject.
"Hey Agent Scully, what brings you down to the basement?" Doggett was casual; it was obvious he was leaving it up to Monica to approach the underwear. He glanced her direction as a subtle reminder.
"Well, I took an extended break and thought I'd wander over and see how you guys are getting on over here." Scully was in an exceptionally good mood today, nothing in particular just feeling good, which was a great improvement to how she had been feeling, everyone knew she hadn't heard from Mulder in awhile so it was a perfect day in the world when she was this peppy.
"Well yeah, the uhh Feng Shui in the office wasn't suiting my work style, I had to do something, it flows better now I think." Monica smiled at Scully oddly and caught her off guard not sure what the look meant.
"You have some news Agent Reyes?" Scully raised her eyebrow, curious as to what was going on down in the basement. She remembered these days full of tension between her and Mulder and felt like this was the same. "Did I interrupt something? I can go."
"No, no, no…" Doggett and Reyes said in unison.
"I'm going to—I'm going to get something to eat myself, Monica you want anything?" He was excusing himself to leave the women alone to chat.
"I'm ok, thanks John." She smiled at him and he left the office.
"You guys ok?" Scully inquired, it seemed strange that Doggett would just leave in the middle of a visit. Monica made her way over to where she stored the evidence bag and grabbed it. Scully eyed her curiously, not really sure what was going on. Monica handed her the bag and bit her lip to refrain from laughing.
"We umm-I umm—I found these while cleaning up a shelf." She couldn't help but break into a full on grin when she saw the realization in Scully's face, she looked at them closely, before Monica spoke again, "So the uhh, the rumors were true?"
Scully cleared her throat and flushed a deep shade of red, bundling up the bag in her hand and staring at the floor.
"Sorry, Dana, I didn't mean—"she felt bad for bringing this on her.
"Yes. There might have been a couple times we 'used' the office…." She was quiet and vague and Monica smiled at her and the two women met eyes, gleaming at each other at the thoughts of sex in the office.
"So, how was it?" Monica pushed her and Scully wasn't even going to get started.
"Here's all you need to know, some nights we were here late working and things started getting heated so we just did it…"
"Frenzied? I mean come on they were bundled in the cubby of the shelf…" Monica was still confused at the location more than anything else.
"This particular time," she held up the bag, "it was quick and frenzied yes…we uhh—we were supposed to go for a meeting with Skinner but got distracted—"she sighed at the thought and out of embarrassment.
"I get it. I mean after 6 years who could blame you." Monica smiled at her; "I'm having a hard enough time as it is…" she smiled a little wider thinking about John.
"So you guys…?"
"No, not officially, I'm not so sure how much longer I can hold out though." Monica was blunt in her response, Scully knew she was always like this; Monica was a strong woman who didn't have a problem speaking her mind and whatever was on it. The women stood silently for several moments and Scully eyed the office looking around, walking over to behind the desk she took the step stool and climbed up onto it, peering onto the shelves, glancing around and reaching up to the top shelf she grabbed something.
"I guess I better take these too, before you guys decide to do any more cleaning," dangling the pair of boxers on her finger tip, showing Monica before bundling them up as well and climbing down the steep stool. She remembered throwing a pair of boxers up to the top shelf one day as a challenge to Mulder, going commando at work wasn't his favorite thing to do but it was the only way she had agreed to have sex with him in the office.
Monica's jaw dropped and Scully bit her lip just as John came back from the cafeteria.
"Did I miss anything?" John talked with a bite of sandwich in his mouth. The women laughed and Scully closed the bag in her hand tightly and walked towards the door.
"I'll uhh—I'll see you guys later." She smiled and flashed Monica an eyebrow and left.
