Now this is my first attempt at MSR fanfic. So when you read it keep that in mind. I promise that I will only get better with time.
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Scully's Apt
Annapolis, MD
11:21pm
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Dana Scully waled slowly into her apartment. It was 11:21 and she and Mulder had been on a case out of town for a week. She took her luggage into her room and began to unpack her clothes. She took her dirty clothes to the washer then went to put her cell phone in its charger. She looked all through her suitcase, purse and briefcase , but found no trace of the phone. {Great now what am I going to do? Mulder was going out of town,again, later tonight. Maybe I can catch him before he goes.} With that she reached across the bed picked up her portable phone and pushed 1 on her speedial, and waited for her partner to pick up the phone. After two rings the answering machine picked up. {Great, now when am I going to get my phone back}. She was about to hang up the phone when some one answered.
"Hello?" It was a woman that answered Mulder's phone.
"Oh, I must have dialed the wrong number. I'm sorry." Scully said this slowly then she clicked her phone off.
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Mulder's Apt.
Alexandria, Va
11:33pm
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"Who was on the phone?" Fox Mulder asked this from his bedroom.
"It was some woman, but she said it was a wrong number."
"Was the machine on when you answered the phone?" He asked as he walked into the room barefoot in jeans running a hand through his still damp hair.
"Yes, it was. Why Fox?" The woman asked him as she pushed play on the machine.
" "Damnit!"
"Fox William Mulder! What is the matter?"
"Did you see how she hung up? She knew all the while it was my number."
Mulder began to pace around his apartment mumbling to himself. {Why did she
hang up?}
Continuing to pace around his living room some, when he spied the pile of
things he had brought in from his car. Along with his things he saw Scully's cell
phone and her glasses. Looking at them he got a strange feeling in his heart.
Quickly he shook his head. {Stop it Fox. She's my partner. I can't allow myself
to think of her that way.} Picking up her things, he turned them over in his
hands, just looking at them. Then thinking of the message on the machine he let
his thoughts stray again. {But, maybe she feels the same way.}
"Play that message again, will you?" He listened to her voice over the
machine, noticing the way her voice got quiet and her speech slowed. {Maybe
she does feel the same way. Should I take the chance?} Pacing again he held her
things in his hands. {I know what I'll do...I'll just bring her things to her, and
then if things progress I can take it one step at a time.} Determined to go
through with it he threw on a shirt and shoes, then grabbed his keys.
"Where are you going, Fox? You just got back home." The woman asked
Mulder as he was walking out the door.
"That was Scully,Mom. Don't wait up." With that he left his apartment.
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Scully's Apt
11:30pm
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{Who was that woman?} Scully sounded jealous in her own head, so she
mentally shook herself. {Why do I care? He's my partner, not my boyfriend.}
Convincing her head that she was not jealous took all of five minutes, her heart
was something she didn't know she had to convince. Scully walked into the
bathroom to start the shower, then walked into her room to grab some clothes to
change into. She turned on the bathroom radio when she walked back in and
found a song that she knew. Stripping her clothes off ,she turned up the sound
then stepped into the shower. While washing her hair she heard a song that
triggered something deep in her heart. She paused and listened to the words of
the song.
{No! It does not.} She fooleshly tried to convince her heart otherwise. {Oh, My God!} Quickly she rinsed out her hair. {Why deny it? I really do love
him! But what about that other woman? Is she a new girlfriend that I don't know
about?} Upset over the realization that Mulder might not love her, she sat in the
bottom of the tub and turned off the water, then began to cry. Between the radio
and her crying, she didn't hear the knocking at her front door.
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Scully's Apt
Midnight
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{I know she's home. Why doesn't she answer the door?} Mulder
impatiently pounded on her door again. {I guess I'll have to use my key.}
Mulder dug into his pocket and took out his keyring. He flipped through the keys
until he came to hers. He unlocked the doo and quietly strpped inside. From the
bathroom he could hear the radio, and what sounded like some one crying.
{She's not crying over me...Is she?} He walked to the door of the bathroom ,and
knocked quietly.
"Scully, it's me?"
"Mulder?"
"How many other men has the key to your house?" He grinned a little.
She sniffed a little before she spoke. "Go on to the living room, Mulder.
I'll be out in a little bit. I need to put some clothes on."
Mulder groaned inwardly at the thought of Scully wearing nothing made
his heart lurch, not to mention other parts of his anatomy. Finally he responded.
"I'll be right there waiting."
Ten minutes later she waled out of the bathroom wearing the T-Shirt that
he had gotten her her two weeks ago, and a pair of his boxer shorts she had
confiscated from his suitcase on one of their recent assignments. Her hair was
still wet, but she was towle drying it, so it had a slightly wild look to it. "So, Mulder. What happened for you to make a visit here so soon after
dropping me off? Oh, I know, you found another unsolved case just like the one
we just finished. Because if you did, then your going solo on it. I'm still trying to
get the smell out of my hair and clothes." She said this and smiled, then curled
up in the chair across from the couch he was sitting on.
"Actually, I...uh...I found your cell phone and glasses with my things, but
now since I found my missing boxer's I think I might just keep one of your things
in an even trade."
"Well if you want them back that damn badly, I can change into one of
your other pairs to change into....." She smiled as he gave her a mock scowel. {I
wonder if he'll ever tell me who the woman on the phone was.}
"Scully, can I ask you a question?" His voice suddenly took a serious tone.
{Great...Here it comes} "Uh..Sure." Her voice sounded a little high to her
own ears, but Mulder didn't seem to notice.
"Why did you hang up?"
"I have never hung up on you before." Scully responded, confused now. "When my mother answered the phone, you said that you had the wrong
number, and then you hung up. Why? Did you think she was a girlfriend?" As
he was speaking he kneeled down in front of the chair that she was sitting on ,and
then her took her hands in his.
"No, Mulder. Don't be silly. It really was a wrong number. I meant to call
some one else." Saying this she avoided looking him in the eyes.
"Who were you trying to call? Frohike?" She laughed a little at this, then
he continued. "Scully....Be honest with me. You know you can trust me." He
placed one hand on her cheek and turned her face to his, so she was looking into
his eyes.
"You're exactly right, Mulder. If you can't trust your partner, who can you
trust?" She smiled a little morewhen she saw the concern on his face.
"Then tell me Dana, why did you hang up?" He asked her this so quietly
she had to strain to hear him.
"Mulder, I trust you so much that it scares me!" She admitted to him with
a single tear running down her cheek.
Mulder wiped the tear away with his thumb, and looked deep into her eyes
before speaking. "What are you scared of?"
"You Mulder! I was scared that I trusted you too much, and yesI was
scared that she was a girlfriend. Because if she was...Then I knew that there was
something of mine that I just couldn't trust you with." Tears were running freely
down her face now.
"What were you afraid you couldn't trust me with?" {Please let it be what I
think it is.}
"I was afraid that I couldn't trust you with my heart....and my love." "Do you mean that Scully?" He asked almost afraid to believe that it was
true. "Yes, Mulder, I meant what I just said. I love you. I guess I always have." "You have no idea how much I needed to hear you say that. Now I just
have one request of you."
{Uh-Oh. Here it comes.}
"Just tell me you love me, again."
"I love you, Mulder."
"Fox...."
"Ok... I love you, Fox. You know, Mulder, I've never called you that
before."
When she finished saying that he tooke her face in his hands and brought
her lips to his in a passionate kiss unlike either of them had ever expierienced
before.
When they finally broke the kiss off, Mulder smiled at Scully then leaned
close to her ear and whispered:
"Now....How many pairs of MY boxer's do you have?"
Scully laughed then whispered in his ear:
"Why don't we just go and find out?"
Mulder smiled at her as she took his hand then led him to the bedroom
with Mulder closing the door behind him.
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