The plane ride and landing went smoothly, with Scully only having to grip Mulder's hand a little. When they were finally through customs and had their luggage it was almost ten at night. The group hailed a taxi outisde of the airport doors and decided to just get a hotel for the night.
When they pulled up to the hotel Clarice had pre-booked for the night Mulder was sent to go check in while Scully and Clarice paye dthe taxi driver and took the luggage out of the trunk.
"Okay, we're in room 212, so second floor." Mulder said as the girls walked into the lobby and he took some of the luggage from them.
"Great, let's just get up their and go to bed. I'm tired and we're starting out early tomorrow." Scully said as she led the way to the elevator. The ride was short and silent, aside from the ding right before the doors opened. After a minute or two of searching they found their room and threw the luggage on the floor before trying to find the beds.
"Mom, there are two beds. One twin and one queen it looks like." Clarice said walking back into the 'living room' that the hotel boasted about.
"Okay baby. Do you want the twin?" Scully asked as she sat on the couch.
"What about you and Mulder? Where are you going to sleep?" Clarice asked slyly.
Scully sighed, "We are mature adults Clarice, we can sleep in the same bed." she explained.
Clarice snickered, "Sure, sleep. Okay mom, I'm going to bed. See you two lovebirds in the morning." Clarice disappeared into her room before her mother could retort to her 'sleep' comment.
Mulder collapsed next to Scully on the couch with a slight chuckle, "You know," he started saying, "We might as well tell her about recent...developments. She's gonna find out sooner or later."
Mulder looked over at her and noticed Scully had her head leaning against the back of the couch with her eyes closed. He couldn't help observing how beautiful she was. Her face seemed slightly calmer then usual. Her lips curved into a small smile. Her jaw led down to her neck, which in the position she was currently sitting in was completely exposed. Her neck led down to the small amount of clevage the shirt she was wearing showed. below that was her toned stomache which led to her shapely runners legs. He just had to stare at her.
"I'd prefer she didn't truely find out until after we get Emily and get back to the states. We don't need to over load her systems with too much change to soon." Scully responded.
"Mmm, okay." Mulder said dragging his eyes back up her body. Suddenly she turned to face him and her eyes opened. Their eyes were locked, staring into each others souls. Mulder grabbed the hand that was laying on a cushion in between them and squeezed it tenderly.
Scully couldn't help it anymore and leaned over to kiss him, their first real kiss. Her lips brushed against his tenderly until Mulder pressed his more firmly against hers. The kiss quickly grew heated, lips tongues and teeth clashing. Once air became a necesity they pulled back, both gasping for breathe. Scully looked up at him, her eyes full of love and desire.
"Mulder, you don't think we're taking things to fast, do you?" she asked hesitantly
"God no Scully," he whispered as his hand came up to cup her face. She leaned into his hand, gently placing a kiss on his palm, "I have been waiting years for this, for us to be this happy. I don't think we should waste anymore time."
"I don't think we should either." She whispered. She gave him a very chaste kiss before standing up, "Come on Mulder, let's go to bed."
Clarice had gone to bed that night expecting more answeres from Emily about her where abouts. She fell alseep quickly, wanting to talk to her little sister.
Clarice threw the door to the house open, but saw nobody. She stood for a minute, thinking the Emily was probably just falling asleep so she'd be there soon. After a while she did not show up, so Clarice started searching the house.
"Emily! Emily, are you here?" she called out before searching all the rooms downstairs.
"Claire!" she heard yelled from somewhere upstairs. Clarice quickly ran up the stairs just to hear, "Claire!" Yelled again. It was William calling out to her. She went from room to room until she found his nursery about halfway down the hallway. "Claire!" The boy yelled excitedly climbing off the rocking chair in the room and running at her.
"Hey their bud." Clarice smiled as she picked him up. She twirled him around a little and listened to him giggle. "What's up?" she asked, still smiling.
"I wanna go to da beach!" he announced excitedly.
"I don't think you can William. Not yet." she said with a small frown.
"Beach!" he demanded again, "Play on beach!"
"Okay Will, we can try okay?" she asked trying to placate him.
"Okay Claire." he said with a huge smile on his face.
"Hey Will, do you know where Emily is?" she asked as she walked out of the bedroom.
The smile instantly fell off his face, "She not here." he said sadly.
Clarice nodded her head. She had been expecting that answer, "It's okay bud, she'll be here later." Clarice soothed. She walked down the stairs with William in her arms but stopped right before they reached the door out to the ocean, "William don't be upset if we can't go out okay? Just remember we tried." she said calmly.
"Okay Claire." he said. As Clarice opened the door William yelled, "Beach!" and started squirming with excitement.
"Hey little man, calm down. We aren't even out the door yet!" Clarice said with a giggle.
"Come on Claire! Beach!" he yelled as she set him down. Clarice was hoping he wouldn't be too disappointed when he couldn't leave the house, but Emily had said that William couldn't go to the beach until her mother was pregnant. She was in complete shock when he ran straight out the door and onto the beach.
"William!" she called after him running out after the little boy. he was halfway down the beach when she caught up with him. Clarice picked him up from behind and spun him around in a circle. The two siblings started playing on the beach for a while, before deciding to build a sand castle. William quickly took over and started instructing Clarice on how to build it perfectly.
After a little while William suddenly stood up and turned to face the direction that she and Emily always came from. Clarice saw someone walking and was grateful that Emily had finally come so she could tell her little sister about their parents.
As Emily approached Clarice thought she looked different, shorter and with slightly longer hair. Maybe it was just the fact that the sun was behind her but her hair looked a different color. "Emily?" Clarice asked rounding the sand castle that she and William had built. The girl did not respond, "Emily, where have you been?" Clarice asked as she started walking towards her sister. They got closer and Clarice stopped in her tracks, "You aren't Emily..."
The little girl looked up at her before responding, "No. I'm Melissa, Williams twin sister."
Clarice gasped as she sat straight up in the bed, "Oh my God. Holy shit. Oh my God. This is crazy." she muttered to herself over and over again. Clarice noticed the sun hadn't even come up yet so she hoped the adults weren't awake. She needed to sort through her emotions before she saw either of them. She opened her bedroom door a crack and noticed they weren't there so she crept out quietly. She decided to check their room just in case they had gone to get breakfast. She tip-toed to the door and opened it just enough so she could see. Laying on the bed was her mother and Mulder, cuddled together, and from what she could see they weren't wearing any clothes. She closed the door as quickly and quietly as possible before leaning against it and taking a deep breathe, "Holy shit." she muttered as she buried her face in her hands.
A few miles away Emily awoke from the first dreamless sleep she had ever had. Right before she fell asleep her grandfather had given her a drink, which she now suspected contained some type of drug. She woke up in unfamiliar settings. She was in a large bed with a random comforter she had never seen before, in fact she had never seen almost everything that was in the room. Emily stood up and observed the whole room. There were three closed doors, and she decided it was best to investigate. The first door was a bathroom, the second a closet, but the third would not open no matter how hard she pulled on it. Emily went back to sit on the bed and decided she would just have to wait.
After about half an hour the door opened and her grandfather walked in. He had a bag in his hand that she assumed was food. "I see you are awake." he said as he placed the bag on the end of the bed.
"Did you drug me?" Emily asked crossing her arms and raising her eyebrow. the man realised how much she looked like her mother.
Hje sighed before answering, "I simply added some sleeping pills. I knew we would be traveling and I though that it would be better if you slept through it all. It was nothing harmful if that's what you were asking."
Emily lowered her eyebrow but kept her arms crossed, "Well I don't appreciate it and I would prefer if it wouldn't happen again." she demanded very matter-of-factly.
"Of course sweetheart. Now let's eat okay?" the man asked handing her a container.
"When are my parents going to be here?" she asked timidly.
"Probably later tonight. Soon though." he told her as he passed her some silver ware, "Now eat."