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(part two)

Healed by xenoprobe

The room was dimly lit and warm. Not just a warm temperature but a warm atmosphere that welcomed Mulder home. He stared at his partner who stood, bedside, and smiled at him as she outstretched her arms. Mulder moved to her, enveloping her as her arms strained to encompass him also. He buried his nose in her hair and inhaled the scent that he'd longed to get nearer to all these years. She smelled of fresh rain and baby powder, Mulder pulled away just enough to lace his long fingers into the fire streaked strands and gather them to his face, inhaling her again.

Scully's fingers traced designs over her partners back as she savoured the feeling of him nuzzled so close. They stood, intertwined for a long moment, expressing their feelings in silent languid movements, stoking her cheeks, running fingers through his hair, crushing themselves into each other's grasp.

Scully stepped away and looked at this man before her, a man she knew all too well yet not well enough to satisfy her racing mind. His chest was smooth with a minimal amount of hair covering small patches around his nipples. Unconsciously, her tongue darted out and licked her kiss-bruised lips as she took in the sight of Mulder's torso. She drew in near and without warning closed her full lips around his left nipple, tongue swirling. Mulder's body went rigid at the sensation and he could feel his erection throbbing against her thigh.

"Scu-" He could not speak as his arousal swam over him. He placed both hands to her small frame and pushed her back, her mouth still open and wet from her ministrations. He grabbed her face and devoured her mouth with his own, thrusting against her body and probing her mouth without restrictions. Scully arched into his hold, grinding her hips against his desperately. She carefully guided their bodies to turn and she soon felt the edge of her bed pressed to her calves. Their embrace broke again leaving them breathless and hungered by this renewed contact. Scully fell to the sheets and smiled widely up at Mulder.

"You- you're beautiful Scully." His eyes seemed to sparkle with his words. He bent down and placed reverent kisses across her belly before slipping his hands into the waist of her pajama bottoms. He tugged at them slowly, inching the silk fabric, along with her cotton panties, over the swell of her hips, down the curve of her thighs and off her tiny, perfect feet. Scully tensed for a moment, realizing she was laid out on her bed, totally nude and aroused by the man she'd only ever dreamed would ever see her like this. She relaxed immediately when Mulder pulled away his last items of clothing and joined her in their nakedness.

He picked up her right foot and kissed her instep, kissed her heel, bathed her calf in tiny pecks and nipped her inner thigh. He placed her leg down and performed the same ritual on the other. Scully shivered through the ticklish moments and squirmed through the rest, feeling her need for him swell at her very core. Mulder lay down beside her at long last and let his large hands smooth over her polished body. Her stomach was strong and just slightly rounded, her breasts full and firm, her shoulders milky-white and sculpted, he wanted to kiss and taste it all. Scully's hands snaked around his neck and pulled him down to her mouth and into another spinning kiss. His hot skin pressed along the length of her body felt luxurious and electrifying. She moaned into his open kiss as he drew her breath into his mouth. Their hands catalogued each other's bodies, each response to touch, taste, and scent, carefully locked into their memories for future pleasures.

Mulder caressed her face as the embraced deepened even more. What had been a kiss of peaked passion was now near-blinding. Scully could feel her head spinning as her oxygen dwindled and they both pulled away, breathless.

"Mulderrr..." Her voice was low and soothing. Mulder could see the piercing blue of her eyes grow darker as they dilated with arousal. It left him thirsty for her skin. His mouth plunged into her neck, splashing kisses all over her collarbone and down to the mounds of her breasts. Scully turned, pressing into his mouth, aching from the fire-like trail his lips left on her flesh. His tongue darted out over one nipple, then quickly over the other, sending sparks throughout her body. He then settled down to suckle her breasts, hungrily.

Her body writhed beneath his lips and Scully thought she might reach orgasm just by how wonderful his mouth felt to her breasts. Mulder let her nipple slip from his mouth and his tongue slid sensuously over her stomach, darting into her navel briefly before continuing its downward path. Mulder buried his nose into her dampened curls and breathed in her scent. She smelled wonderful to him, like spices and musk and wine. He was drunk on her. He parted her legs and nuzzled into her curls again, pulling her apart with his fingers carefully.

She was wet. Mulder grinned to himself, like he'd accomplished something unbelievable. Slowly, his mouth enclosed over her clitoris, kissing and pulling lightly at first. Scully let out a long groan and her fingers tangled into his hair. She was hard and was grinding her hips slightly, begging with her body for more of his attentions. The pleasure was incredible and Scully could feel the quickening of her arousal immediately. Mulder's tongue traced the length of her folds, saliva swirling with the musky wetness of her liquids. She tasted wonderful and Mulder seriously thought he could live there forever. Her hips moved in slow upward circles, jerking slightly each time his mouth came back to tease her clit, she was desperate for him to stay there, stroking his fine sandpaper tongue across the bundle of nerves.

As if hearing her thoughts, Mulder fixated on the peak of her rosy clit. She was nearly bucking right off the mattress as he sped up the pace, his mouth sucking hungrily at the hood and his tongue flicking desperately. Just as Scully thought she could bear no more, Mulder thrust two long fingers into her.

"Muh- Oh God... Mulder, oh God." He could feel her muscles tightening around his digits as he pumped into her, his tongue still lapping. With a low, animal growl her body stiffened and rose from the bed as she came in piercing waves. Mulder pulled away slowly, already missing her flavour. He watched her flushed face as the end of her orgasm slipped away.

"God Scully." He breathed; "you are so- so beautiful like this..." He climbed his way up her body, smoothing his large palms over her sensitive flesh. He breathed ragged breaths into her mouth just as he seized her lips again. The kiss was powerful, his weight pinning her to the sheets, as she tasted her essence from his probing tongue. Hot, so very hot.

Scully reached between them clasping her small hand around Mulder throbbing cock. He tensed and his eyes fluttered shut as she stroked him-slowly, deliberately at first then in strong up and down pounding movements. She was relentless and her force was a little surprising from someone usually so reserved.

"Scully. Scully you should- Ooohhhhhhh... you should stop. Oh Scuhlleee..." She sucked his moans into her mouth, kissing him loosely. She pulled away, his penis bobbing and twitching for more attention. They spent a long moment just looking into each other then.

This was happening, this was really happening. It may have taken yet another scrape to his flesh, more scars for the count, but it was really going to happen. His face became a twist of desire and earnest as he took in the beautiful sight of this woman beneath him. Her eyes were clear lakes of blue but a hint of tears threatened the still pools.

"Scully, I really do love you, you know. Always have. Can't remember a time when I didn't." His voice was low and meaningful.

"Shhh... I know, I know." She kissed his forehead and guided his lean body over hers, positioning him between her thighs. "I love you too Mulder. We don't need to be afraid anymore. No need to be afraid of this." Her hand snaked between them again as she guided his starving erection to the opening of her very core. It was hot there, steamy and moist and a million other sensations that Mulder could not keep track of as he slowly pushed her apart. They both let out long approving groans as he buried himself into her.

Moving in slow thrusts, their bodies began to dance, finding a rhythm in their heartbeats and kisses. It was exquisite. Mulder could not believe the unique and dizzying pleasure of feeling Scully wrapped around him. She was all the things that had eluded him for so long. This union, his body locked with hers was all the truth he needed and it brought tears to his eyes. Scully was lost in her own truth as well, the reality of being loved and filled by this man, her partner now lover. She too could not bite back the well of emotions as the pace picked up and he deepened his thrusts.

"Mulder- more, oh God more..." she begged as her head thrashed from side to side. Their bodies rose against each other as he buried himself to the hilt. She cried out his name in an endless stream 'muldermuldermulder'. Hearing her was enough to toss him clear over the edge. He was chanting for her too, kissing her breasts reverently and licking the sweat from the hollow of her neck.

"Look at me Scully." Her eyes squeezed tighter still. She could feel her orgasm in the not-so distant future. She could feel the walls of her vagina constricting and releasing in tiny bursts as a white flash of heat took over her body. "Scully- look at me, please." Her piercing blue eyes sent a wave of intensity through his entire body. He was close, so close. He could feel her too; she was already making breathy keening sounds, driving him wild as her tongue darted out to moisten her pouty lips.

"Oh God Scully- wanna see you- wanna see you come." He was straining, trying to hold back for her. Her eyes were still locked with his as the beads of sweat rolled from his brow, raining on her. "Come for me Scully. Oh God- I. Love. You."

"Mulder. Oh. Mulder- coming, I'm coming. Ohgodohgodohgod... Mullllderrrr." Scully's body went rigid as she felt her climax consume her. It was unbelievable, enough to reduce her to jelly in the brain. Love, it was love she felt spreading through her, ripping into her as Mulder's body began to shudder with his orgasm.

"Scuhlleee- oohhh... loveyouloveyouloveyou..." he panted the mantra, staring into her as his face contorted in ecstasy, emptying himself into her in relentless bursts. He collapsed onto her, Scully's tiny exhausted frame disappearing under his long body. Neither had the strength to pull away just yet. Soon, Mulder propped himself up again, unwilling to leave his new home, his Scully. He ran the back of his right hand down the silk of her face.

"Real." He whispered. "You're real."

"Yes Mulder. We're real." Then she smiled- a broad toothy smile full of warmth and happiness. For all the utter pleasure it had been making love with her, this smile was enough food for Mulder's soul. If he could see that smile everyday for the rest of his sorry life, he'd never want for anything else, like a secret promise.

"Mulder?"

"Mmm-Scully?"

"This never ends." He slipped from her and lay down at her side. He brushed his lips to her cheek to chase a solitary tear from her skin before wrapping her in his arms. As if knowing exactly what she meant, he nodded.

"It never ends Scully. I have faith in that."

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Scully woke briefly in the night to find Mulder's face tucked tightly below her breasts, arms hugged low around her hips and his legs tossed across hers. "I love you Mulder." She whispered into the darkness as her eyes closed again.

"love you more." Returned his voice from the shadows.

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