Last Dance (6/7)

Scully walked Through the Hallways Aimlessly. She didn't know where she was, but it was bright white and there was soft music paying, like the intro to a song. She was walking so easily that she was almost floating. Her once sweats and a T-shirt had changed into a white sleeveless dress with thick straps and a flowing white fabric skirt. The waist hugged her petite curves perfectly, but she couldn't figure out how it had gotten there. She didn't remember changing.
She walked on. Then she could see something. There was she and mulder; they seemed to appear out of the white. She was dressed in a white gown that looked like it was made out of a spiderweb. It had short sleeves and it was pure white, so that it hurt her eyes. She had matching gloves on. Mulder Was wearing a Tux as black as the night with a blood red bowtie and buttons that looked like drops of dew from a mountaintop. Then the other mulder placed his hands on the other Scullys hips and they began to dance as the soft music flooded into words.

Fly, Fly little wing
Fly beyond imagining.
The softest cloud, the whitest dove,
Upon the wings of Heavens love.
Past the planets and the stars,
Leave this lonely world of ours.
Escape the sorrow and the pain,
And Fly again.

Fly, Fly precious one
Your endless journey has begun.
Take your gentle happiness,
Far too beutiful for this.
Cross over to the other shore,
There is peace forevermore.
But hold this memory bittersweet
Until we meet.

The song was very different, but nice. She didn't know what it had to do with what was happening.
Until the images began to change.

She watched as the two dancing Agents danced, her dress flowed like water, and mulder looked so good in a tux, she could watch them forever.
Then mulder tripped sending them both to the floor, mulder landing on scully. They looked at each other for a minute and burst into laughter.

Scully smiled the perfect image.

Then suddenly it changed. Mulders tux faded into his usual gray suit, her dress faded into a red skirt and white blouse, but it wasn't her lying under him, it was Robyn. Then she disappeared and mulder was on his back. His bowtie melted from blood red to real blood, flowing openly onto his shirt. And that dammed song kept playing..

Fly, Fly do not fear
Don't waste a breath, don't shed a tear.
Your heart is pure, your soul is free.
Be on your way, don't wait for me.
Above the universe you'll climb,
On beyond the hands of time.
The moon will rise the sun will set,
But I won't forget.

Christ, she knew where this was going.
She could see a different image now. It was fuzzy, she couldn't make out any features, but it was someone in a hospital bed, someone beside it. She turned away from the image to face Robyn.
" How long have you been here?"
To which Robyn replied,
" We're always right beside you."
She looked down at Robyn's hand and was surprised to see Emily there. And then they were gone faded into a black hole as the song finished.

Fly, Fly little wing,
Fly where only angels sing.
Fly away the time is right,
Go now, find the light.

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He was walking through a red place, there were no actual appointed rooms that he could see, but he seemed to know where to go. Then he saw her.
Melissa was wearing a bright red dress, tight, with that black velvet thing that she always wore. She stood there for a minute, but then her red stained lips curled into a smile. He himself was wearing a black tux with a red bowtie. Melissa walked over and seemed to grab a piece to the red and tear it back to reveal a white hole, which he walked through. He saw Him and scully dancing. Scully was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. She was wearing this incredible white dress which shaped her body perfectly and was topped off with white gloves. A delicate string of pearls was fastened around her throat and matching pearl drops glistened in her ears. Her hair was teased do it was shorter, so it cut off under her ears, It was pushed back behind her ears and had a simple pearl in front of one. He gazed for a minute before he felt something wet under his feet; he looked down to discover blood. Then he was back in the red with Melissa. She smiled again end placed something in his hand before disappearing. He looked down, it was a simple band of silver with an alien charm on it, and he looked up again to see Robyn.

He sat up straight.
What a dream. He looked back down to his hand; a ring was there. He put it back in his box and lingered for a minute.... Yes, he would. He grabbed his coat and ran to his car.


Scully slowly became aware of her surroundings. She was laying on a couch in sweats and a T-shirt. She felt strange, like someone was watching her. She lifted he head and looked around, someone was.
She sniffed, trying to clear the sleep from her system. " How long have you been here?"

" 'Bout half an hour." Mulder replied.
" What have you been doing?" she said raising her eyebrows.
" Watching you." Mulder put on a sly smile and she felt her heartstrings tug.

"What are you doing here." She asked as he said
" How long have been asleep." They both smiled and laughed at the irony.
" I had dream." they said yet again together.
They laughed. It sounded so good together.
Mulder began and scully listened.

" Had a Dream scully, It got me thinking......"
H4 paused, trying to figure out how NOT to sound stupid. " Ever wonder what you're going to do with the rest of your life?"
She smiled. " Well after the events today I have no idea. You came here to ask me that?"
" No, this. Can I have this dance?" he noticed a great song on the radio which was playing and he could only think of one thing to do, but to his delight she held up her hand daintily.

He swept her up to her feet and led her to the middle of the room. She fell into his arms and he held her as he began to dance. It was an instrumental piece they were dancing to, By Sarah McLachlan. She tried to think of only being in his arms, of his smell. She closed her eyes and moved in time.

Mulder let his chin rest on Scullys head, slowly swaying his body in time to hers. He slowly lifted her out and twirled her once and back, and then he picked her up and swirled her around.

Scully flew in his arms, twirling and swinging, she felt like and angel. He whispered in her ear, his lips brushing soft on her earlobe. " What's this song called scully?"
"I think its called Last Dance." She whispered back.
" But Scully," He said with a playful tone." This is our first dance. We have our whole life to do our last; you don't want to sit out on that, do you? "
Scully smiled but a chill ran down her spine. She just sank deeper into his arms. This ultimately sent him off balance, tripping him. He fell on top of her. They each looked into each other's eyes for a moment, losing themselves in a pool of colour. The he giggled, and they both started laughing.

Her laughter tinkled like a beautiful bell, her eyes like pools of water. And as he leaned down and put his mouth on her smiling one their dreams were the last thing from both their minds. And as they kissed through smiles, she started to laugh, and the walls between them came crashing down.

As they drew for breath, He smiled at her, " God scully, you must be numb from the waist down."
She wriggled out as he got up. He stayed on one knee as he pulled something out of his pocket. He stood up, a little velvet box in his hand.
He opened it to reveal a gold ring. The middle was entwined in something that looked like a sideways 8.
He handed it to her and sat her down on the couch, holding one of her hands.
" Scully, this symbol means eternity, affinity, forever, whatever. " He took it out of the box and slipped it onto her finger. " Scully, Dana, Partner, Baby, Mommy, Love, Starbuck, Friend, I want to be yours forever and beyond, will you marry me?"
A tear of joy rolled from Scullys eye, this was happening, it wasn't a dream, it wasn't a fantasy, it was reality and she loved it.
" Yes mulder, of course I will."

Robyn leaned back behind the wall, wiping a tear from her own eye. That was better than any movie she could remember. She knew from the moment she saw them that they belonged together, She didn't even need her powers, It was obvious.
She tiptoed back to her room thinking about her powers, as she called them. They had come after the accident. She could know things about people just by touching them or looking at their picture. She could pass any IQ test in the world and move things with her mind. She could heal someone with the palm of her hand or kill someone with a look. I came and went everyday though. She had it today, but she didn't the day before. That's how it went, dayin, and dayout. But they didn't know that, that's why the government wanted her. She had found out about the agents today, she went to the mantelpiece, and found out that scully had been recruited in 1990, assigned to the x-files in 1992, She had fallen in love at the graveyard, the one where they stood in the rain. She was also her mother. She was glad, she didn't remember her old mother, but she knew she'd been created in a lab, her false mother had told her that.
Mulders sister had been abducted when he was 12, Its had torn his family apart. He had found the x-files in 1991 with Diana Fowely.He had fallen in love the moment she walked into his office, romanced by her beauty and intelligence and inspired by her strong belief in science. He was her father. When she had touched both, she had seen images, snippets.
Of an orange X on the road, of Scully in her undies, mulder examining her lower back.
Of A hostage for Mulders life, a little boy, Mulder crying in a church, Them screaming at each other with guns in the arctic, Green bugs, tanks with people, a man being shot for mulder, a liver eating monster, mulder in Mexico, Scully in a car trunk, Mulder crying because scully was going to die, superstars of the superbowl, a fat sucking vampire, scully with cancer, three losers, an oroborus tattoo, scully, gaunt and wasted away, and a little girl, her sister, Emily.
She knew the government wanted her for her powers of healing, but she also knew that both agents had sworn a silent oath to protect her at all costs,
Even Death.
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Disclaimers, part 1


Last Dance 7/7



Scully pulled the brush through her silken mane. She had teased her hair up so it was shorter than normal, yet it didn't look frizzy. She Painted her lips with an almost - clear, slightly pink gloss and Pushed two white pins through her earlobes. She smoothed her dress, remembering earlier that night when mulder had presented it to her. " It was my mothers," he had said, " I want you to wear it." As she had picked up the garment she and felt a slight chill,
It was the dress from her dream.
But she had pushed it aside. The dream was obviously her guilty rational side coming out and telling her that when skinner found out he would have a stroke.
The dress was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen. Unlike most dresses, there wasn't a shred of harsh lace on it, Nothing scratching her legs, nothing ruining the softness of it. I was, instead, Silk with a hint of velvet, she felt like she was wearing a cloud. It looked like a spider web. The veil looked like a fairy had planted drops of dew into a lacy trail and it had fresh white roses on top. The sleeves were short so they only covered the very top part of her arm, and she was wearing gloves of pure white. Her make - up was a perfect ensemble of pale, natural colors. In her hands she would carry a bouquet of fresh roses, red as rubies, Plump and dewy. She smiled at her image in the mirror. Her hair was tucked carefully behind her ears and the veil pas on top, covering her face in a white mist. She lifted the veil and folded it up so she could see and walked down the hall to Robyn's room. Robyn was wearing a white sleeveless dress with thick straps and a full circle skirt. They smiled at each other and left the apartment to get to the FBI. Robyn had a gold necklace around her neck and white shoes.
Mulder and Scully were being married in their office. They had set it up that afternoon, careful to evade skinner coming there. Mulder had called a justice of the peace and he was coming to merry them that night at midnight. Mulder hadn't let scully look at the office after it was prepared; He wanted to surprise her. She just hoped he hadn't made a Jacket out of alien implants and lined the walls with Erlenmeyer flasks.
Robin's hair actually was red; its copper color had come out after a shower. It was held back with a white headband. The necklace around her neck was a fine gold chain; it went about halfway before it dipped under her gown. Her face was rounded and her skin milk white with rosy, natural cheeks. Her eyes were sharp and intelligent, hazel like mulders, With long soft eyelashes that rested on her cheekbones when she closed them. He lips turned to a smile; " I still don't believe that ring you're giving him..."

Scully smiled back. The eternity ring was her wedding ring. For his wedding ring was a silver band with an alien head on it. The alien was silver with emerald eyes. Just like him she thought as she turned into the parking lot.

Mulder waited nervously, checking his tux bowtie, looking around the office to make sure everything was perfect., chatting nervously with the justice.
Then the music started up, the theme to awakenings, indecent proposal, and a few other movies. It was beautiful. He tuned in his spot to see Robyn scurrying up the isle, and then she was there. Her image was like a dream from the clear glass shoes to the red roses she was carrying. She was erethral, with a glowing auora,
Like an angel.


The office was like never before. All the junk had been cleared away and there was a white carpet ran up the middle. There were two desks by the altar, Behind mulder was his desk, and behind scully was her very own beautiful mahogany desk with a glistening gold name plate that read: DR. DANA SCULLY.
And there was the most beautiful sight of all. Standing by the flower woven garden doorway was mulder, Blood red bowtie, black Tux, His mouth hanging open slightly as he took in her image. So she walked, every step signifying her life, and how beautiful life was, to give it, to take it away,
To Live.

" Hold hands please"

Mulder turned to face the angel as the justice recited the special speech mulder had given him.

" We are gathered here at the stroke of midnight to celebrate the fall of walls, of barriers that have stopped everything. People can give things to take them away, they can conspire to destroy things that never truly lived, but they cannot touch one thing, and that is love. Love rises beyond all barriers, beyond hope, peace and life. And love continues, even after death, to inspire and be the cause to carry on."

Mulder had not really heard any of it; He was drunk on the sweet smell of Scullys roses.


Scully felt funny. She just knew mulder would write something like that.

" Does the witness have the rings?"

Robyn stepped forward. " Right here" she said, giving one to each of them.

The justice turned to mulder. " Do you, Fox Mulder, promise to love, to cherish, to have and to hold, In sickness and in health, Till Death do you part?"
" Till Death do us part." Mulder said in a voice not much more than a whisper.

" And Do you, Dana Scully, Promise to Love, Honor, Cherish, Hold, and Love Fox William Mulder?

" Forever and beyond." Scully said, feeling like she had just exchanges half her soul for a little slice of heaven.

" The rings."

Mulder and Scully each slid a ring on each other's finger.

" By the power Invested in my by the state of Washington I pronounce you Believer and Skeptic." The Judge pronounced. " You may kiss the bride."

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Scully was Happy.

She looked up at her new husband, her beautiful daughter. This was perfect. The bonds of marriage officially joined them now. They would grow old together, watch their Daughter grow up and become something, Go to the beach and walk in the waves after dark. Perfect.
She dragged her eyes away from them long enough to see her surroundings.
She spotted the coke machine and suddenly realized that her mouth felt like sandpaper. The front of the machine featured a bottle of the brown liquid, nestled carefully in Ice, perfect drops of condensation formed on the surface.
She had to have one.

" Mulder, Robyn, you want a coke?"

They looked at each other and nodded. " Just grab us two, an we'll see you down at the car."

She smiled and nodded. They needed a chance to be alone.


Still smiling, She turned and went back up the stairs.


As she put the coins in the machine.
Dana Mulder.
Dana Katherine Mulder.
Dana Katherine Scully - Mulder.
Yes, that's how it would have to go.
She pressed the coke button, she pushed it again. Didn't anything work in this bloody building?


He snapped and twisted the last bit of it together. Done. Thank god, This security station was so hot he thought he might've died of dehydration. He moved to the window, feeling the cool January air seeping in as he pushed it out. He grabbed the other end and looked through the scope, watching and waiting.


They stepped out side.

"God!" whispered Robyn, " I forgot it was January!"

"Here" mulder gave her his jacket. She pulled it on and smiled appreciatively.

" Great speech."

" Yeah I made it up myself."

Mulder surveyed the parking lot, and saw the glint. It was small, but it was there. " Stay here " He told Robyn as he stepped forward to get a closer look, and he saw what it was.

Alex Krycheck. With a Gun.

Pointed at Robyn.


Scully kicked the machine hard with her glass-toed shoe, consequently ripping a hole in it. She looked around; making sure nobody had seen her.
There was a machine selling cokes on skinners floor selling cokes, she would go up there.
She went to the elevator.





Things seemed to go in slow motion. He called Robyn's name. Robyn turned around and he lunged for her. Knocking her to the ground.
He felt the two bullets rip through him, big ones, and right through his back. He landed on Robyn, her mouth slightly open. He looked at her face, drinking in her features. She had his eyes, Scullys exquisite cheekbones, Red hair. This was his Daughter, Flesh of his Flesh. And as he felt his eyes fogging over, He felt Pride. His Daughter, Robyn Mulder scully. Nothing needed to be said, He told her with his eyes. And suddenly he was holding his sister in his arms, Family and friends gathered around, And the Pain went away…………………

'till Death do us part Scully.



Scully got in the elevator and pressed a button, three coke cans in her arms. The elevator suddenly convulsed, then stopped.
Oh great, It's stuck. She thought begrudgingly and sank down to the floor, waiting for it to start.







Robyn opened her eyes to meet Mulders.


She quickly pushed away from under him with her feet and turned him over. Blood had spilled on her pure dress. She loosened his tie, trying to give him some air. She closed her eyes, trying to feel a presence inside, and it was there. She summoned the force inside her, moving it to her hand. She slowly moved her hand over mulders chest.
It brushed it, and then someone grabbed her wrist and twisted her arms behind her, shoving her face into the ground.
Then she felt a gun at her neck.


She summoned the power again.


" Your Name is Alex Krycheck. You don't wanted to kill me,Now you just want to lock me up. She opened her eyes.

" Well I have news for you Mr. Krycheck. Kill me here, I'm not going back there."

" Shut up." Krycheck told her, tying a blindfold around her eyes. "I know your tricks, they won't work on me."

And he was right. She couldn't do anything. They were going to take her back to the orphanage and put her with the one that smoked too much. Krycheck, after tying her, left for a minute to get his bigger gun and talk on his phone. She scooted over and pressed her face against Mulders hand, His spirit was barely with him. She heard something though, He was proud of her, He loved her. She closed her eyes. She would not give up, As long as two people in the world Cared for her, that was all theta mattered, It was reason enough to move on. Krycheck grabbed a 9mm pistol with a silencer and walked over to mulder.
She knew what he would do.

She screamed out a muffled "NO!" As he put it to the base of mulders neck and pulled the trigger, sending the cartridge deep into his body.
He Turned and looked at her, " Sorry kid, Orders are orders."
She just sobbed. Her Mother! How could he do this to her poor poor mother. How could they do this to her? She was a person! Like his Mother, his sister, his friends, himself!
They were People! All they wanted was Happiness! How could he take it away?
As Krychek roughly stood her up, she felt something slip off her neck, her necklace, the one from before the accident, She heard it fall into the pool of her father's blood and she knew;

She could not get out this time.


About ten minutes later, she stepped out of the elevator, The sodas turning warm beneath her gloves. Gliding out of the grungy steel doors, she found a nightmare that she was late walking in on.

The first thing she saw was red. In a pool under him and also soaking into his shirt.
Red, Freely flowing from his nose and staining his teeth and lips. And two Gaping black holes in his chest that made him look like a golf course.
Fear and panic rose in her throat as she dropped the cans, coke spraying everywhere.
She pulled out her cell phone, called 911 and screamed into it:
" Officer Down, Officer down! FBI building Ground floor carpark! HURRY!!

Then she knelt by his side, staining her dress with his Life Fluid. After feeling his neck, Her skilled precisioned hands slammed down on his chest, pumping his Heart, desperately trying to make it work, Like a child who had just broken her mothers clock. She gave him his second kiss, spitting blood out of her mouth when she was done.
She didn't know how long she did it, she was on automatic. She didn't even notice she had company until two strong arms gently but firmly lifting her away. She shook them off, but then they went under her arms, lifting her from her kneeling position and holding her back as two paramedics swarmed on him. They felt for a pulse, but shook their heads.

He was Dead.

She absorbed the words. And it was then that she realized that she had known it for a while.
Half her soul was missing, gone, Dead.

She turned into the arms that had now gone limp. She looked up at the face, barley recognizing the bald head and glasses. The arms encircled her in a fierce hug. And she finally let go, breaking down her wall of dignity. She sobbed into his shirt, feeling a pain worse than any cancer or injury. She stayed like that for minutes before she realized that tears were soaking into her hair too, and that the body to which she so firmly clung was softly convulsing with sobs.

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She sat in the room, numb.

The Muzak was tuned into the 50's station and yet again was playing an appropriate song:

" Now that you're gone, all that's left is a band of gold.
All that's left of the dreams I hold, is a band of gold.
And the Dream of what love could be,
If you were still here with me……"

Skinner had been down the street getting groceries when he had seen the ambulance tearing into the carpark. He was really shaken up; He had known Mulder for six years. He had gone home to sleep; scully couldn't have slept if she'd wanted to.


The Morgue had given her a pair of scrubs to wear and had sat her in here while they gave her the details.
He had died of a gunshot wound to the back of the neck, killing him instantly.
Within Minutes, He would've died of internal bleeding due to two gunshot wounds to the chest.
One severing his left Ventricle, the other hitting him in the solar plexus.
He didn't suffer, that was all the comfort that came out of this.
Robyn was gone, presumed dead. She wasn't though, Scully could feel it.
She was alive, though she may have been better off dead. All they had found at the scene were Scullys coke cans and gold cross Necklace, Identical to Scullys. The government had feared her, as they did with any good thing.
It just wasn't fair.
It shouldn't have happened this way! He was meant to go out in a blaze of glory, not with a whimper, but a bang. He was meant to be old, surrounded by family and friends with the knowlage of the truth he so desperately seeked in his head and his hand in hers. They were meant to wake every morning and face the day together. Not alone.

" I wait in the darkness of this lonely room.
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom.
Hoping soon,
That you'd walk right through that door.
And love me, like you tried before….."

The Muzac was driving her crazy. She stepped from the room, out the back door.
Sitting against the wall, she saw a man coming towards her.
Her heart glimmered with hope, her eyes widened.
His hair was combed over, his face shadowed in the dark.
" Mulder?" she called out, a catch in her voice.
" Sorry?" the man said coming closer, " Do you need help miss?"
A doctor. He was a Doctor. Dressed in a lab coat, throwing a cigarette on the ground.
She managed to shake her head slowly. He regarded her one more time and then stepped through the door, letting out the sickly sweet smell she had come to associate with the morgue.
Mulder was in the morgue now. His skin the waxy colors of death, his limbs stiff with rigor mortis.
She opened her hand, revealing a golden chain and a ring. A band of gold. She closed her eyes and saw a shadow of him, smiling. Quickly she opened them.
She pulled her knees to her chin and sunk into them, tears flowed from her eyes, soaking the paper pants.

<" But Scully, This is our first dance. We have our whole life to do our last; you don't want to sit out on that, do you? ">

The sun was rising over the skyscrapers



Finis!
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