A/N: This one takes place after The Amazing Maleeni and Signs and Wonders.
Closer
Everything went back to normal, Scully did not know if she should be relieved or not. Part of her was. She knew how to deal with a friendly Mulder. So it was a good thing somehow that everything went back to normal.
Scully was about to prepare dinner when her musing was stopped by her bell ringing. She knew who that was. Everything went back to normal except for the fact that Mulder felt the need to spend more time with her outside of work lately, inviting himself to dinner and old movies or taking her to impromptu lunches on light days at the office. He did not try to kiss her again though. He was his old safe, even if she caught a couple of glimpses. He just slowly made himself more present in her life outside of work. A part of her was annoyed by, what seemed to be, the apparent reason.
After all, Pfaster was just a (bad) memory now, they even investigated two new cases since then, but he still was apparently worried. She even caught him, a couple of times, looking at her as if she was a time bomb. She found it unnerving. Another part of her told her to not think about the reason and to just enjoy it.
So Scully just yelled at the door for him to enter and went to find some wine. And surely, here he was, as she took two glasses from a cupboard after putting a bottle of wine on the kitchen table. He brought pizza.
- "Hey! I thought we could buy ourselves a treat after this boring day."
- "Sure, thanks."
Mulder then took out two plates from another cupboard, before going to find a corkscrew, walking around her kitchen as if he always lived here. It was perhaps what pushed Scully to finally break the silence.
- "I'm fine Mulder, you know. I really am."
- "Yeah, I know." He seemed a little startled by her intervention. "But common, don't tell me you won't be even better after this" he said, opening the pizza box which filled the air with a nice smell.
He smiled and she could not help but smiling too. The pizza did look good. So here they were, on her living room, watching old movies, while drinking wine and eating pizza. Again.