It was later the next morning that Scully woke up to a small rapping at the door. She rolled over onto her stomach and listened as Danni's feet echoed her run to the front door. Tiredly Scully looked to the clock at her side and was surprised to see it was almost ten. Her eyes widened as she realized that for the first time in a long time she had actually slept in. she soon relaxed again and smiled to herself recalling her dream during the night, her and Mulder, she knew why she had slept for so long and so well. A small knock came at her bedroom door and she gave a soft moan that begged to be left alone, however, her call went unheard as the door was opened and Danni stood there smiling.
"Dana, Mulder is here to see you." she said moving out of the way to see the one person she really wanted to see.
"Hey, Scully." he said looking at her oddly. She had refused to move from her current position on the bed just to sat hi, so instead she mumbled her response from under the covers, not caring if how he saw her.
"morning." she mumbled, her voice barely coherent from the comforter.
"Is something wrong?" he asked moving closer to the bed.
"no, why?" she asked lifting her head above the blankets so he could understand her better. A small smile made it's way across her face.
"It's just you're in bed at ten in the morning and don't really seem to care that I'm here looking at you." he explained wondering if it was really her, and not some alien clone impersonating his partner.
"Close the door." she demanded rolling onto her side to get a better view of him. She he closed the door she saw Danni trying top peak in before the door was finally closed and locked. "sorry, it locked on it's own." he said trying to unlock it.
"leave it." she said patting the empty space where she laid. He shyly made his way over to her side, wondering what was up with her, and carefully sat at her side. There was a few moments of silence until it was broken by Danni knocking on her bedroom door again.
"Dana, I was just going to the store, do you want anything?" she asked from the other side of the closed door.
"Ice cream! Chocolate!" she yelled from her bed, then listened until she knew her cousin was out of the apartment.
"so are you going to tell me what's bugging you?" Mulder asked allowing himself to relax as she sat up in the bed next to him.
"nothing is wrong, I'm just relaxing." she said taking his hand in hers.
"why this late in the day?" he pushed.
"I over slept." she said, moving closer to him, praying he wouldn't move away. She didn't know why, but part of her needed to be close to him, just to know he was real, that everything that had happened the night before was real.
"Are you hungry?" he asked gently wrapping his right arm behind her and around her waist to pull her closer to him and allowing better access for her head to rest on his chest. She gave a slight nod and smiled, thanking god he didn't push her away. "ok than, how about you get changed and when you're done I'll take you out to breakfast. Sound good?"
"Extremely." she said rushing out of the bed and went straight for the bathroom. Mulder got out of the bed once the bathroom door was closed and began to make it, knowing that by helping her they could be out of there faster.
A few minutes later Scully emerged from her bathroom in a towel, Mulder immediately left the room in order for her to change and once ready they left the apartment and headed for his parked car. The drive to Denny's was quiet, but it was only normal between the two. As they arrived and parked the car, Mulder walked with Scully to the front of the place his hand on her lower back the whole time. He opened the door for her and walked over to one of the waitresses and gave his name and the number of his party, she kindly told him it would be a few minutes and Mulder made his way over to where Scully stood looking into the clear box that was the crane machine.
"See anything you like?" he asked as he watched her stare over the stuffed animals.
"The little green alien in the back there." she said smiling at him while pointing to the object. There it sat a small little green object with big black eyes, a black smiling face and an orange stomach.
"Do you want it?" he asked pulling out his wallet.
"Mulder, it's impossible to win at these things." she said turning away from the machine and took a seat on a small chair.
"if you want it, I'll get it for you." he said placing the dollar into the small slot and awaited until the crane started to move. He slowly and carefully moved the crane until it rested above the little green man and he pushed the red button that triggered the crane to drop. Scully watched intrigued as the crane closed and lifted up, carrying nothing in it's possession. It then made its way over to the opening and opened itself. Again Mulder tried to move the claw over to the alien and dropped again, only this time in a different position and again the crane fell and rose carrying nothing. Mulder quickly shoved another dollar into the machine and watched as the crane fell this time grasping onto the aliens head, but it slipped from the small grip as it hit the top. Another try failed and Mulder was off again, determined to catch the little devil. Finally on his eighth try Mulder grasped onto the little man and smiled in victory as it was dropped down the slot and into the compartment where he reached into with waiting hands. Scully sat up from her chair and watched as Mulder turned to face her carrying the alien she had been looking at. A smile spread across her face as he handed it to her and she looked upon it as if he had just given her the key to life.
"Thank you, Mulder." she said getting up to embrace him in a hug. "I saw it, but I can't believe you won." she said placing a gentle kiss on his cheek.
"What are you going to name him?" he asked smiling from seeing her happy and the kiss she gave him.
"I'm going to name him after you." she stated looking to her side as the waitress walked them to their table. "His name is Spooky." they both laughed lightly at that and sat down, Spooky sat in the corner of the table watching over the both of them.
"You think if I take him into work, Skinner will believe the truth about aliens?" he asked getting a smile from her and a head shake.
"I don't think stuffed objects count as alien life forms." she joked. A few minutes later they had ordered their meals and talked while waiting for it to be prepared.
"So, it's Saturday, so you have anything planned?" he asked watching as she held the stuffed alien in her hands.
"Well unless I can find something to get out of it, I'm forced to spend some quality time with Danni." she explained, hoping to find any excuse to get away from her horrible cousin.
"Why don't you tell her we have some plans? You forgot we had things to do together this weekend and won't be able to spend the day with her." he offered knowing she would take jumping off of a bridge instead of shopping with Danni.
"I guess I could give it a shot, but it may seem kind of odd, I mean she came down to visit me and all I'm doing is making up excuses to be away from her." she gave a small sigh before speaking again, this time in a hushed voice. "I'll just be happy when she leaves."
The rest of the time was spent over talking about anything, mostly nothing, just random things, they ate and talked and afterwards headed towards his apartment where they were to spend the rest of the day just watching movies and enjoying the others company. An hour after arriving Scully had called Danni and told her she wouldn't be home until later and not to worry. She fake apologized for breaking their shopping spree and made a false promise to make it up. Fortunately, Danni had bought it and explained she had her own things to do. After hanging up with her cousin, Scully went back to watching 'War Of The Worlds' with Mulder and Spooky, who sat in her lap and she rested her head on his chest.
Danni hung up the phone and smiled to herself, knowing that the alone time would give her plenty of time to do the most appropriate shopping for her plan to work. By the end of the week she would have Mulder eating out of her hand and Dana running home and crying to her mom.
"step number one, find something seductive." she mumbled to herself leaving the apartment and heading for the shops.
Well that was that, my next chapter should be up soon, please review. Oh by the way, Spooky is real. He's just as described and he's my little alien baby. Ha-ha I won him in a crane machine the other day and I just love him to death.