The Party
Saturday Evening
5:00PM

Scully was already exhausted and the party had just begun. Scully held onto Mulder's left arm as they stood closely together off to the side in the backyard watching relatives of Scully's laughing and already having a good time.

"Dana honey!" Margaret called out.

Margaret grabbed her and Mulder's attention and the two walked over to her mom.

"This is Dana's partner Fox Mulder, they're dating now," her mom announced to a few of the relatives.

Scully's aunt piped up with excitement and clapped her hands together.

"Oh how wonderful, it's about time you got a man Dana," her aunt smiled.

She then looked to Mulder.

"You're a very lucky guy and I have heard about you before…I think you two are very lucky to have one another," she explained.

"Alright," Margaret smiled.

Margaret then spotted Bill's ex-girlfriend.

"Oh Dana, Bill invited his ex-girlfriend Sarah, do you remember her?" her mom asked.

Scully raised her eyebrow confused of why Bill had brought his ex-girlfriend, especially Sarah, not to mention the fact that the two don't even really ever talk anymore or so she thought.

"Hi Dana!" Sarah yelled excitedly.

Sarah threw herself on Scully for a big hug.

"Hi Sarah…" Scully trailed off.

Mulder stood there a bit surprised by the random excited outburst by this woman he has never met.

"Oh you must be Fox Mulder!" Sarah yelled.

Mulder chuckle a bit and nodded.

"Why….I think I am…honey am I?" Mulder asked Scully.

Scully giggled as Sarah busted into laughter.

"Oh you are a very funny guy…." Sarah trailed off while pointing her finger at Mulder then looked to Scully, "How long have you two been together?"

"Um…" Scully trailed off looking to Mulder as he drew Scully against him.

"Quite some time," Mulder smiled.

"You two don't even know how long it's been? That's important…"

"No we do we just don't like to flaunt it," Scully snapped.

Sarah replied with a quiet "Oh."

"Excuse us," Scully replied.

Scully then took Mulder's hand and walked away from Sarah with him.

"Bye," Mulder waved back to her, "talk to you later."

She waved with a giggle and walked off over to Bill.

"What?" Mulder asked.

They stood off to the side now to be alone.

"Nothing…I just don't trust her that's all…" she trailed off and eyed her and Bill.

"Oh lighten up Scully have a little fun; I'll go get us some drinks…"

"Mulder no…I don't think you should be drinking…Mulder!" Scully yelled at him as he walked off to the small bar of drinks anyway.

Scully rolled her eyes with a sigh and Mulder walked back with a bottled of beer in his left hand and handed the second to Scully.

"Come on honey….when was the last time we drank at a party?" he asked.

She stared at him.

"You better not get wasted I'll kill you," Scully warned him quietly.

He snapped the cap off for her then snapped his off and threw the caps in a nearby garbage can with amusement.

"You're so cute when you threaten me you know that?" Mulder asked.

He then took a long gulp now from his opened beer as Scully stared at him dangerously.

"Mulder I mean it…"

"I mean it to…have I told you that I loved you yet today?" He asked interrupting her.

He then pulled her into him and moved his lips to hers, locking lips with her passionately but she then pushed him back, breaking their kiss.

"Mulder not here…" she trailed off.

But he interrupted her with another small kiss as he arched down a little bit to be closer to her and to block of their view that they were kissing.

"You know that I'm very tall and my back is facing all to your relatives…so how could they notice?" he asked.

He then brought his lips to hers again and kissed her passionately but she pulled back again.

"Mulder….please not now," she begged, "and I really do mean it you better not get drunk…I know how you are when you're drunk and it's not pleasant."

"I think it's rather funny….or at least the lone gunmen find it funny," he smiled, "you know you're quite cute as well when you're drunk," Mulder pointed out.

He started planting kisses on her neck now.

"Hey you two don't be gettin' to frisky over there now!" One of Scully's cousins yelled with laughter.

Mulder turned to face them and laughed.

"Oh but I can hardly resist kissing my beautiful girlfriend," Mulder replied.

Mulder then locked lips with Scully in front of some of her nearby family members. Her hands clutched his shirt gently, surprised by the kiss and actually kind of enjoying this side of him even more.

"Ow ow!" they all shouted.

But Scully pulled back quickly, stopping him from kissing her again.

"Mulder cut it out," Scully pleaded.

Mulder laughed making Scully roll her eyes.

"Oh give your man a kiss! He wants you!" Her second nearby cousin shouted in giggles.

Scully turned scarlet red.

"How 'bout not Carissa," Scully answered.

Margaret smiled with giggles, watching her family tease Scully and Mulder as Mulder sat down, sipping his beer while looking at Scully with amusement.

"You going to join me Ms. Dana Scully?" He asked, making her cousins laugh some more.

She sighed and slipped into his lap.

Hours later into the party have passed and Scully was getting quite giggly from a little too much wine and beer which made her mother watch her even more closely. Scully held onto one of her cousin's while laughing hard with them about some childish things they have done when growing up while Scully was looking around for Mulder because he was nowhere to be found and she hasn't seen him in awhile.

"Where's Mulder?" Scully asked.

"Your man has disappeared!" The girls shrieked into high pitch laughter.

Scully laughed some more from her cousins and then slowly wandered off trying to find him and slightly stumbling all over the place which concerned Margaret and looked over to Bill suspiciously who was sitting off to the side with some of his male cousins while sipping his beer quietly and looking to his mother who then walked over to him.

"Where's Mulder?" Margaret asked.

Bill shrugged.

In the meantime, Scully slowly made her way around the house when she was passing by a bedroom hearing Mulder groaning.

"Mulder?" Scully asked.

Scully slowly pushed the door open finding his hands on Sarah's waist while she was on top of him, kissing him and planting kisses on him while laughing with him. Scully froze and Mulder looked with Sarah seeing her standing here as Sarah whipped off of him still in a giggle fit.

"Oh hi honey," Mulder greeted her sitting up in bed.

"I ah…we…" he trailed off.

"Bye Fox…" Sarah smiled.

She waved at him and walked off slowly past Scully who watched her walk all the way out by herself. Scully then slammed the door after her and looked to Mulder who gulped.

"How much have you had to drink?" Scully asked.

"Uh…I dunno…I can't remember," he answered, "honey I didn't mean to…."

"You didn't mean to?" she slowly asked in anger.

"She pushed me down and climbed on top…"

"Oh she's about my size and you couldn't possibly use all your strength to push her off considering you're my fucking boyfriend and you're a trained FBI Agent?" Scully asked in anger, interrupting him.

"Scully…" Mulder trailed off.

She walked off and he ran after her, grabbing her gently.

"Honey stop…" he trailed off.

She pushed him away and nearly stumbled as Mulder stood there hurt while watching her storm out to the backyard and shove Bill hard.

"You asshole!" Scully screamed, startling the family.

"What the hell…"

"Don't you even try to get past this Bill," Scully snarled, "I should have known why you brought Sarah here! You wanted her to sleep with Mulder I just caught them alone in a bedroom making out!" Scully screamed, "This was your plan…you want Mulder and I to break up because you can't accept our relationship so you want to try to have everything your way! Well just to let you know your ignorant plan has worked you asshole," Scully snarled with tears now.

Everyone stood around frozen and in shock hearing Scully snapping on Bill as everyone looked at Mulder now who stood there embarrassed and then watched Scully walk off and disappear off inside the house as Mulder followed.

"Honey…" Mulder trailed off.

"Stop! I'm not honey anymore to you I am Agent Scully!" she screamed at him.

She tried walking up the stairs now but kept nearly falling over. Mulder grabbed her quickly so she wouldn't fall and hurt herself but she shoved him away and just collapsed onto the stairs, crying. Mulder stood there watching her crying to herself and helplessly trying to get up the stairs that she gave up on trying to achieve. He wanted to do something for her but couldn't because she didn't want to have anything to do with him.

She finally gave more effort and made her way to the top of the stairs and walked down to her bedroom, slammed her bedroom door and left Mulder standing at the bottom of the stairs. He rubbed the back of his neck hurt and confused and slowly made his way back into his own room, packed his bag and then walked over to Scully's room before leaving and knocked on her door.

"If it's you Mulder leave me alone…" Scully replied.

"Honey…I mean…Scully…I just want you to know that I still love you," Mulder said sadly.

He listened and could hear her crying still as she was sitting on her bed inside with her knees pulled tightly against her chest. Mulder sighed and left her alone then made his way out of the house and went home.

To be continued…