A/N: I ended up re-writing this chapter like four times. Too many good ideas. I won't update again, till later this week, cause I have a funeral to attend and my friend needs me right now. But I wanted to post, cause it's been awhile. If you like this, go read and review God Love Her, the DRR companion to this story.
dedication: Teliko.X3 for her seventeenth birthday.
disclaimer: NAHT MINE. but they belong to my uncle's cousin's brother, twice removed. [ok, so maybe I am pushing the fact that CC and I share the same last name]
It was two o'clock on Friday afternoon and Jasper Hollow teenagers found themselves stuck in seventh period. Dana Scully sat tapping her mechanical pencil against the edge of her notebook. Her converse clad foot almost convulsing against the leg of her chair, she was anxious, dying to escape these suffocating halls. Normally Dana loved school and her Brit Lit class was one of her favorites, but the only thing on her mind at the moment was Fox Mulder. She glanced outside, ice pellets fell to the ground, Great, I am so going to fall on that. Maybe I can get Mulder to carry me.
"Dana...Dana.....Dana Scully." Mrs. Hale said, raising her voice in front of the class. A few of her classmates snickered, but she didn't even notice, "Dana could you give us the answer?"
"What?" Dana asked as her head jerked up.
"The question, do you have the answer?" Mrs. Hale asked.
"I'm sorry ma'am, what was the question?" Scully asked softly.
"The theme to Wuthering Heights, what is it?"
"Uhm.." Scully said and stalled for time, "Healing?"
"Is that an answer or a question?"
"An answer." Scully said firmly.
The bell rang and Scully breathed a deep sigh of relief. Shoving her notebook and books into her bag and racing for the door. She weaved her way through the crowded hallways, making her way upstairs, preparing herself for the UFC fight for her locker.
"Open up goddaammit." She groaned as she kicked her locker, grabbing the handle and yanking on it, "Oooopen!"
"Want some help?" Mulder asked, coming up behind Scully and wrapping his arms around her waist. She relaxed into his arms, resting her head against his chest.
"This thing hates me." Scully said, pouting slightly.
"Suuure, get your books and lets get out of here. Coach cancelled practice cause of the storm." Mulder explained and Scully smiled, grateful she wouldn't have to sit through Mulder's basketball practice. Mulder opened the locker and Scully grabbed her Geometry book and slid it into her bag, grabbing Mulder's leather jacket, she kicked the door shut. After Scully pulled on the coat, Mulder wrapped a protective arm around her shoulder and guided their way through the still densely packed hallways. They stepped outside and Mulder turned to Scully, "Hop on." He said and Scully grinned, jumping onto his back.
"Thank you." She whispered in his ear.
"Well I don't think your parents would like it to much if I actually let you break your ankle." Mulder said with a chuckle as Scully's hand connected with the back of his head.
"Shut up." Scully said as Mulder made his way across the icy street to the junior parking lot.
"Hand me the scraper." Mulder said as he opened her door and helped her up and in. Scully grabbed the scraper from the windowsill. Mulder took it and spent the next five minutes, slipping on the ice as he cleaned the windows off. Climbing in the truck shaking, he pulled out of the parking space and Scully turned the heat up as high as it would go.
3OH!3 played and Scully pulled her phone out of her pocket, "Hello?" Scully said, "Oh hey Mom. Your stuck where. Oh...okay. Yeah. Nah, I'll be fine. Okay be safe. Love you too." Scully said and closed her phone, turning to face Mulder, "That was my mom, she is stuck with Charlie's class in Sandusky. So I guess I have the house to myself tonight."
"Oh. You want me to stay?" Mulder asked, unsure of what the protocol was now. Before they began dating it would of been a no brainer, if Dana was home alone, Mulder stayed over.
"If..if you wanna." Scully said and bit the inside of her lip.
"I'll stay. This storm is too nasty to try to make it down the hill." Mulder said as he inched across the town and slammed on his breaks as a van slid through the intersection. Scully gripped Mulder's arm as they drove, her eyes clinched shut.
Mulder parked in front of the Scully house and turned off the truck, "Want me to carry you?"
"Nah, just hold me up, okay?" Scully asked and Mulder nodded, climbing out of the cab, he rounded the vehicle and helped Scully out, carrying their bags on one arm and holding her up with the other.
"So... homework?" Mulder asked awkwardly when they were inside the house. They slipped off their shoes and hung up their coats.
"Uhm sure." Scully said and grabbed a couple cans of soda for them, she tossed him one and gave him a reassuring smile. Grabbing her bag, she sat at the kitchen table and Mulder grabbed the bag of pretzels from the counter, sitting next to her.
"So what's Charlie's class in Sandusky for?" Mulder asked her as he popped a pretzel in his mouth and cracked open his Dr. Pepper.
"Oh, they were at Sauder Village and I guess they are crashing at an Elementary school in Sandusky for the night."
"Fun." Mulder said dryly as he pulled out his APUSH book.
"Oh yeah, I am sure the parents love being stuck with a hundred and sixty nine year olds." Scully chuckled as she grabbed a handful of pretzels and opened up Wuthering Heights, she needed to get caught up on her chapters. She had read Wuthering Heights before and she loved the story of Heathcliff and Catherine but as of lately, she had been enraptured by the love story that was her life.
"We need tunes." Mulder said and turned on the radio softly, 'Jack and Diane' by John Mellencamp played and Mulder grinned, he was a huge Mellencamp fan, "A little ditty about Jack and Diane, two American kids growin' up in the heartland.." Mulder mumbled along with the song as he answered the questions in his cliffs book.
"Good song." Scully mentioned off-handedly as she turned the page in her book. Mulder laughed and Scully looked up, "What?"
"We sound like your parents. Remember on Saturdays when we were younger and your Dad would have the radio on and they'd share the paper and exchange small talk." Mulder said and was grinning hard.
"Well I don't have a problem being compared to that."
"Me either. It's far better than being my parents."
"No offense, but I am gonna agree with you there." Scully said and Mulder tossed a pretzel at her, "MULDER!" She squealed.
"SCULLAY." Mulder countered and she chucked a pretzel back at him, "This is war" Mulder stood up and walked around the table.
"Mulder...No." Scully said and backed up a little, Mulder reached for her and she got up, sprinting around the table and up the stairs. Mulder hot on her heels, he cornered her in the bathroom, grabbing her by the waist, he picked her up. Scully grabbed the shaving cream off the counter and held it over her shoulder, spraying it.
"HEY!" Mulder said and then gagged as he got a mouthful.
Several minutes and a can of shaving cream later Mulder and Scully laid on the floor of the bathroom gasping for air.
"I love you." Mulder said as he hooked an arm around Scully and pulling her close. Scully cuddled her head into his chest.
"I love you too." Scully smiled and looked at him, "Stay right there." She said and hopped up, racing to her room she grabbed her camera, coming back to the bathroom, "Smile pretty."
"Dana Katherine." He said in a warning tones.
"Fox William.." Scully smiled, "Come on I need pictures of you as my boyfriend. We don't have any." She pouted.
Mulder stood up and took the camera from her, he lowered his head to hers and kissed her lightly, holding the camera out, he snapped a picture and pulled away, "Happy?"
"Your mouth tastes like Barbasol." Scully giggled and Mulder laughed.
"Let's clean up and I'll brush my teeth and then we can take all the pictures you want, okay?" Mulder asked and Scully nodded, "Alright, go grab your pajamas and take a shower. I am gonna get my stuff from the closet."
Scully went to her room and grabbed a pair of pajama pants and her long sleeve Jasper Hollow High shirt. She took a steaming hot shower and was getting dressed when Mulder knocked on the door, "I ordered a pizza. Should be here soon."
"Okay." Scully called back. Pulling her damp hair up into a bun on her head, she smiled into the mirror, "Who is this girl?" She asked, "I like her." Scully exited the bathroom, "Showers free."
"Thank ya baby." Mulder pressed a kiss to her lips and entered the bathroom, "Money for the pizza is on the counter." He told her.
Fifteen minutes later, Mulder came down the stairs, "Oh that smells good." Mulder entered the living room, collapsing on the couch next to Scully, "Gimme that camera of yours, before my mouth gets all disgusting again."
Scully laughed and handed it to him, she laid back on the couch and pulled Mulder with her, "Kiss me." She whispered and Mulder obliged, snapping a photo while doing so.
When the photo/make out session was over, they ate their pizza, Scully put in a movie.
"Titanic, again?" Mulder asked.
"Shut up. I love this movie. It's like, totally amazing." Scully said, resting her feet on the coffee table and taking a bite out of her slice of pizza.
When the credits on the movie rolled, Scully sniffled, "That's how I want to die."
"On a sinking boat, in freezing cold water?"
"No. Kissing you." Scully smiled.
"Doesn't seem like a bad way to go to me."
"Sure doesn't." Scully stood up, stretching her arms over her head and her shirt rode up, exposing her stomach. Mulder reached forward, placing hand on her exposed skin and pulled her foreword till she fell into his lap, "Mulder, I need to get out the DVD." She whispered.
"Nope." Mulder said and silenced her with a kiss on the lips, undoing her bun and letting her hair fall down, "I love you." Mulder whispered against her lips as he ran his hands through her hair.
"I love you too." Scully said and wrapped her arms around his neck, kissing him lightly. Mulder slid his hands down her back, gripping her waist, pulling her as close as humanly possible, even that wasn't close enough.
"I want you." Mulder breathed against her neck as he nuzzled the crook of her shoulder.
"Mulder, Mulder stop." Scully said as his hands snaked under her shirt.
"What?" Mulder pulled back.
"I'm, I'm not ready. Not yet." Scully said, "I don't want the first time we have sex to be, to be a crime of opportunity."
"Scully, I love you and I would never take advantage of you like that, but if you want to wait, then I'll wait from now till kingdom come." Mulder promised her.
"I feel like such an idiot." Scully said and hot tears pooled in her eyes.
"Hey." Mulder cupped her chin with his hand, "Listen to me. I don't care if we have sex or not. I'm perfectly fine sitting here with you. Holding you. Cause the only thing that matters to me in this world... is you."
Scully smiled and chuckled lightly, "You should write for Hallmark."
"I'm a man of many talents. I meant what I said though, Scully, I'll wait. It doesn't matter to me. You matter to me." Mulder said and kissed her nose.
"Thank you." Scully said and buried her head in his chest. Mulder wrapped his arms around her and pulled her close.
"I love you, don't you know that?"
"I love you too Fox Mulder, more than you could ever imagine." Scully said.
"Alright." Mulder stood up and helped Scully up, "Go grab your sleeping bag and that big comforter." Mulder told her as he grabbed the cushions and the pillows off the couch.
"Mulder?" Scully raised her eye brow.
"Trust me." Mulder said and Scully laughed, running upstairs to grab the requested items.
They formed a big bed out of their supplies and laid on the makeshift bed as they listened to the radio and the rain on the roof.
"Mulder?"
"Yeah?" Mulder asked as he traced circles over Scully's shoulder.
"What do you see in the future?"
"For us?"
"Yeah." Scully said as she turned on her side to look at him.
Mulder brushed the hair from her face, "You."
"Mulder." Scully rolled her eyes, "Be serious."
"I am Scully. I don't care if I spend the rest of my life flippin' burgers at McDonalds in this God forsaken town or if I am living in New York City, working as a bigwig for a Corporate office. All that matters is that I have you."
Scully bit her lip and smiled, "Your perfect."
"If I am anything close to perfect, it's because I have you." Mulder whispered.
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Scully awoke the next morning to the sound of her house door shutting. It took her a second to realize that she was on the living room floor, in her boy friend's arms.
"Mulder wake up." She muttered and elbowed him.
"Wha?" Mulder sat up and rubbed his eyes.
"Morning you two." Mrs. Scully stood behind the couch, a sleeping Charlie in her arms.
"Oh Mrs. Scully." Mulder jumped up, rushing over to her, "Let me take Charlie upstairs for you."
"Thank you Fox." Mrs. Scully smiled and handed off the sleeping boy.
"Hi Mom." Scully said sheepishly.
"Dana Katherine." Mrs. Scully said and chuckled softly and removed her gloves and hat.
A/N: Alright, I am fairly certain it sucks. I wouldn't blame Brittney if she hated it. Okay, self deprecation over, lemme know if you like it or not, okay!?