From: MsChatKat@aol.com Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:54:53 EST Subject: (no subject) Source: direct Title: The Bunny Author: Nikki aka NiksAlien Category: S, H, UST Rating: PG Summary: They find The Truth...kinda Disclaimer: Yeah I own them. Thats it. And I own you too....muhahahaha! No way jose, their all CC's. Dur Authors Note: My first fanfic EVER! Be kind. And ignore all scientific boo boos...I'm sorry! I'm just not smart! Reading it ova I had no idea what I was even trying to say. It was actually a short story first but my sister wanted me to turn it into a 'Mulder and Scully' story. this was WAY before I had even heard about fanfics. Dedication: To my twinny girly Stephy. Double Trouble all the way baby! And away we go... December 20 FBI Building 5:13 PM (Scully sits in her cubicle typing furiously. She hits a key, and we hear a printer start. Just then, Mulder walks in, with an excited look on his face. Scully rolls her eyes, she knows something is up.) Mulder: Hey Scully, up for some star gazing tonight? There's supposed to be some meteor showers. Scully: (Edging out away from her desk.....) You know what? I don't think I can make it tonight Mulder..I got so much stuff going on..... Mulder: That's okay. I already took care of it. I asked Kersh to give you an extension on that report on the "situation" down at area 51. Scully: (rolling her eyes) Well, gee with an offer like that how can I refuse? But next time why don't you......... Mulder: (interrupting) Great! See you tonight. (Mulder walks out of the room, and Scully sighs then takes her papers from the printer. We see the words 'Area 51' on the front page. Cut to: Mulder's apartment, 8:12 PM A telescope is set up at the window. Mulder hears a knock at the door and looks out the peephole and Scully stands there impatiently. Mulder opens the door and Scully walks in briskly) Scully: Let's get this over with.....I have to get home. Mulder: Why, you got a date? Scully: Don't even go there, I remember what happened after you asked me that before. I almost ended up in a furnace with a guy that had a homicidal tattoo. Mulder: (walking over to the telescope, dismissing Scully's comment) Take a look at this, the showers started at 8:00. Some of them are really close. Scully: (peering through the telescope) Beautiful. (sarcastically) But not something I haven't seen......I did take Earth science in high school you know...(starting) Okay, that was odd. (Lets Mulder look through the telescope) Mulder: What? I don't see anything. Scully: Nothing, just I saw something that looked a little weird. It was just for a second but I could've sworn that I saw the meteorite, and it had a light coming from it........ Mulder: What?! Scully: Well, you know that the meteor is the light caused by a meteorite, a rock left over from the creation of the universe, burning up in the atmosphere. Mulder: Well, yeah (seeming embarrassed about not knowing) but how does that explain what you're talking about. Scully: (As if talking to a three year old) It means, I saw a rock, or at least, I think I saw a rock, not just a light which is all you can normally observe through a telescope of this weak frame. Mulder: (Pushing aside the telescope, talking in that excited voice he gets when he is on the verge of something [or what he thinks something] big) What, what if a rock, survived the atmosphere, and what you saw was the meteorite? That is plausible. Scully: Plausible, but extremely doubtful. The chances of a meteorite staying intact throughout its journey through the atmosphere is very slim. Even with our advanced technology it takes thousand of gallons of fuel to launch one spacecraft through the atmosphere and that is with shielding. An ordinary space rock surviving without any protection hardly ever happens and even if it did the rock with have to be so enormous that we would have experienced effects almost immediately. Mulder: (pausing, as if contemplating her speech. He is not though by the next question) What kind of light did you see? Scully: What? Mulder: You said you saw a rock, with a light. What kind of light was it? Scully: (sighs, but answers) It was bright, and uh white. It was like a funnel, it got wider, like you would see headlights on a car do...(Mulder is no longer listening) and there were purple cows floating in it. Mulder: What happened to it, the rock and the light? Scully: You know, I only saw it for a second.....but it just disappeared behind the treeline. Mulder: Grab your keys. Scully: Mulder, why am I always dragged onto your quests? It was nothing, just the reflection of the moon on the clouds or..... (Mulder is already at the door. Scully stops going on and grabs her keys. Mulder reaches for them) No way Mulder. If I'm acompyning you, then I'm at least driving. (Shrugging, Mulder walks out the door. Scully follows, shutting the door to his apartment behind her. Cut to: inside car, driving through the woods on an old trail. Scully is driving while Mulder fiddles with the radio dials. He stops at a station where "Its all been Done" is playing.) Scully: Do you want to tell me where we're going Mulder? Mulder: Take a right here. Scully: You know I am so sick of this. Mulder: Sick of what? Scully: You! Every time some crazy notion jumps into your head you act on it. You don't think of the consequences, or how it will affect anyone else. You never tell me what you're thinking and I always assume the worst, which it usually is and- oh my God! (Scully hits the brakes-hard-and gasps. They have pulled into a clearing. A very large, metallic boulder is sitting there, almost 8 feet in diameter, steam billowing out from it. There are codes encrypted into the surface and a light is shining into the opposite direction as where they arrived from. Mulder is already jumping out of the car. Scully follows, a little bit slower her heels catching on the door frame. Mulder surveys the rock, feeling the surface with his hand. As he traces the symbols wonderingly, a loud alarm goes off. Scully shouts to be heard) Scully: What the hell is this! Mulder: My guess is- Scully: Your guess is always something paranormal. In this case you think it is, or at least you want it to be, a spacecraft from another galaxy carrying extraterrestrial life. Am I right? Mulder: (admiringly) Six years together and you finally get it Scully. I'm impressed. (Suddenly, the alarm stops. Mulder and Scully look over to the rock, where a hatch is opening. All of a sudden, a head pokes out. It is a rabbit! But this is no ordinary rabbit, from the size of its head, it must be at least Mulder's height. Its fur is gray with gold specks. The eyes appear intelligent, and look over Mulder and Scully carefully before ducking back into the rock/spacecraft. Scully cannot help herself and bursts of laughing, with Mulder looking on in bewilderment. Scully composes herself with only a lingering grin left.) Scully: Six years Mulder! Six years of tedious, mind boggling labor, searching for the truth and we get bunnies! Bunnies Mulder. I had a pet bunny! Mulder: I wonder if it is capable of communicating. Scully: Mulder? Mulder: Huh? Scully: Shut-up. Mulder: Well, you saw the, the uh bunny.(He has problems saying the word 'bunny' and 'bunnies' even to him it sounds stupid) It appeared to have some knowledge, and you said so yourself that nothing could make it through the atmosphere without any protection. And even with us humans it took us years of tedious mind boggling labor to figure out how. But how long did it take the uh, bunnies? They have already landed on a planet not their own. Imagine what this could mean. I'm going to check it out. Scully: (All traces of a smile vanished now) Are you crazy? You have no idea what this creature is like, it could be dangerous. Mulder: (reaching for his gun) I came prepared Scully: I don't even want to know what you were 'preparing' for. (She watches as he heads towards the craft. Mulder and Scully are both startled as he head pokes out again, but Mulder regains his composure and levels the gun at the bunny) Mulder: Hold it Bunny! FBI. Bunny: Federal Breau of Investigation, hmm? What would your name be? (Mulder and Scully carry the same shocked expressions on their faces but Mulder answers the question, lowering the gun. Mulder: Special Agent Fox Mulder. Bunny: And this (looking at Scully) must be Special Agent Dana Scully, yes? Scully: (Finally regaining her composure) How did you know who we were? Bunny: Oh, many do. You two investigate the X-files, files on unsolved cases, cases you, Mulder, believe to be paranormal. Now I am sure I will become one of these cases, a statistic. But I come here not on purpose, quite the opposite in fact. You see, my "spacecraft" as you would call it, ran out of fuel and I had to crash land here on planet Earth for fear that I would not survive to my home planet, you know the one, you call it "Comet Haley". But I have a problem. My species is unable to breathe oxygen very well, so I must leave. But as I said before, I have little fuel. Luckily, my shielding devices allowed me to go undetected by radar. Except for you. Scully: Okay Mulder, this is your life dream, to communicate with a setinent extraterrestrial. So why don't you two chat while I go take an aspirin. (Mulder nods, and Scully walks towards the car. She gets in and rummages through the glove box, unable to comprehend what is going on. Mulder turns to the bunny, the screen fades out then back in with Mulder walking towards the car where Scully sits, her head on the wheel. The time is now 9:31) Mulder: Okay, lets go. (Scully nods, obvisouly tired, and pulls away, not looking back, unlike Mulder, who keeps glancing at the space craft which now just appears to be a large boulder.) Scully: So? What the hell is this? Mulder: Well, its a rabbit. Turns out there are lots more of them too, this one was just unlucky and landed on Earth. Somehow, they knew other life existed how I do not know. But, this bunny species lives in the coma of comets, consuming the products that form the tail which is why the comets appear to lessen as time goes by. Scully: They eat rocks and rock dust formed by solar wind? Mulder: Yeah. Scully: Yet, if they consume the tail why does the same comet appear every 75 years? Mulder: Solar wind remember. Turns out these rabbits are much more advanced then us, technology wise. The have found a way to speed up the process of solar wind so us humans don't notice anything. (Scully nods, and Mulder continues) Anyway, this bunny needs our help. Scully: (Shocked out of her stupor) Our help? With what? Mulder: Getting back to Haleycomet . He can't breathe oxygen for very long. Luckily, he has a rationed supply of his native air in his ship, but it can only last so long. We need to get this guy fuel for his ship. Luckily, it's the same type NASA uses. Scully: (pulling up to Mulder's apartment, they step out and continue their conversation.) Luckily? The nearest NASA site is in Houston, Texas. Mulder: I know. Scully: You know? You're not suggesting.... Mulder: The rabbit hacked into the airline computers. There isn't a free flight for 2 days, but I have connections at NASA so it wouldn't be hard to get the fuel.. Scully: (Stopping Mulder at the door to his apartment) Mulder, are you crazy? First off, someone is bound to go into the clearing, Mulder: Force field, repels people away mentally. Scully: Second off, how do we know this is not just a hoax? Mulder: A hoax? listen I saw that rabbit type thing and it was not a hoax, you saw it too. How could, the government, or whatever pull off such an elaborate trick, and second, why would they want to? Scully: I don't know Mulder. All I know is I'm tired, have a headache, and totally at loss for an explanation. Mulder: (Wryly) In other words, you believe this is an actual extraterrestrial. Scully: G'night Mulder. Mulder: 'Night. (He watches Scully back retreat down the hall, then lets himself into his apartment. Fade to black. Fade in on plane Dec. 22, 9:13 AM on the way to Houston. Scully is dozing, her head on Mulder's shoulder. The plane bumps and Scully awakens. Mulder smiles at her as the plane descends. 10:13, Mulder and Scully are let into NASA space station after showing their ID to a guard. They walk briskly down the hall, ignoring the hub-bub of the space station. Mulder walks up to a man, and gestures quietly. We can not hear his words however because of all the voices. Off in the corner, we see Cigarette Smoking Man puffing away. As the man Mulder was talking to walks away, CSM approaches him as Mulder leads Scully away down the halls.) CSM: Where did you direct them. NASA worker: Where I was told to sir. CSM: Good. (CSM walks in the same direction that Mulder and Scully left in. We see Mulder and Scully enter a room that is deserted and filled with tanks labeled Fuel550. The door shuts behind them. Scully whips around, just in time to hear the lock click.) Scully: Not a hoax huh? How do you explain this? Mulder: They're involved in NASA? It makes no sense. My informant....... Scully: Have you noticed how your informants always die Mulder? And as for being involved in NASA isn't that a given? How do you think they cover up all the evidence you've been collecting with UFO sightings and such? If the records are there, the UFO's aren't. Mulder: Why do you always notice these things Scully? Scully: You mean like the window behind you that's unlocked? Mulder: (Turning around) Yeah. Scully: Okay, grab the fuel let's go. Oh and Mulder? Mulder: Hmm? Scully: DUCK! (Mulder ducks, just as the window behind him explodes as the force of body comes crashing through. Scully fires off three rounds, and the body lies still. Footsteps are heard pounding down the hall. Scully: Get out Mulder! (Mulder heads towards the window but turns back) Mulder: The fuel! (Scully rolls her eyes, but grabs two cans and tosses them out the window after Mulder. He helps her through just as the door busts open, with CSM standing at the head of the NASA workers, carrying automatic rifles) CSM: Damn. (Mulder and Scully run to the car, each carrying a can of fuel. Mulder collapses at the wheel, but hurriedly pulls away, ignoring the shouts of the guard. 1:37 PM, back at the clearing. Mulder gets out, but Scully remains seated, looking dead to the world) Mulder: You coming Scully? Scully: Uh-uh. (Mulder gets back into the car and turns towards Scully) Mulder: Scully? Scully: Huh? Mulder: I um, just wanted to say thanks. You know for at the NASA space station. I owe you one. Scully: (Looking towards him) You bet your extraterrestrial ass you do. Don't worry, I'll think of something. Mulder: Yeah, okay. (Mulder walks over to the boulder and waits with the cans of fuel by his side. The bunny pokes his head out, and Mulder gestures towards the fuel.) Mulder: Here's the fuel. I only hope it's enough to get you home. Bunny: I thank you deeply. I thank your partner also. She was very brave. Mulder: Yeah. Well, I guess you better be going. Bunny: Yes. Once again I thank you. (The bunny grabs the fuel and ducks into it's craft) Mulder: Wait! (The bunny's head reappears) What's your name? Bunny: I have no name but you may call me Haley in your field report. Mulder: (Somewhat confused) I wasn't going to write a field report. Bunny: How else are you going to explain your travel costs? (With that, Haley once again lowers himself into the ship. Silently, the ship takes off, hovering over the ground for only a few seconds. Even Scully steps out of the car and watches in wonderment. Then the ship zooms off into the afternoon sky so fast there is only a blur. Scully walks over to Mulder who is still staring at the sky.) Mulder: Funny. I've been dreaming about this for so long, and when it happens, even though not like I expected, I don't feel any regret for just letting him leave without any real questioning, that I let my golden opportunity pass without even blinking. Scully: Who knows? Maybe more uh bunnies will be back and you can prove to the world that we are not alone. Mulder: Maybe I'll prove it to you? Scully: (wryly) Maybe. (Abruptly) Well, I've figured out how you can pay me back. Mulder: I wasn't serious you know. Scully: I know. Mulder: (sighing) What is it. Scully: You're not going to like it..... (Cut to: Outside of FBI building, December 24, 8:35pm. Mulder and Scully stand outside the door, Scully looking amused, Mulder a mix between horrified, angry, and amusement) Mulder: A Christmas party?! Of all the- Scully: You will go Mulder. If you even think about complaining, I will show your mom your video collection. Besides you need a life, you can't spend your whole career chasing after mutant bunnies. (With a totally fake smile, Mulder follows Scully inside and they walk towards voices. They enter a room filled with FBI people, the room and workers all decked out for the holidays. "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" is playing in the background. Scully is about to walk into the room when an anonymous worker calls out.) FBI Person: Hey Agent Scully, look up! (Both Scully and Mulder look up and what do you know; mistletoe! Scully rolls her eyes and begins to walk away but Mulder refrains her by grabbing her arm, while Scully looks at him with questioning eyes.) Mulder: You're right Scully, it is about time I got a life. (With that, Mulder pulls Scully close and gives her a very dramatic kiss on the lips. The room erupts into whoops and catcalls as Scully finds herself responding and Mulder dips her close to the floor. Just as they are disentangling themselves, Diana Fowley appears from the back of the room. Her eyes grow wide with shock at the scene before her. Scully catches her eye, and flashes her a huge cat-who-ate-the-canary before realizing the whole room is staring at them [Mulder and Scully, not Scully and Fowley. Well, Mulder's only grinning at Scully] with huge smiles. Scully walk away beet red with Mulder hurrying after her, reaching for her arm. When they are somewhat separated from the crowd who has resumed their cheerful chattering, Scully turns to face Mulder who is still holding her arm, embarrassment, anger, and amusement all on her face. Mulder quickly drops her arm like a hot potato, a little embarrassed himself, but also happy.) Scully: I can't believe you just did that! It was so embarrassing! Mulder: Me?! You started it. Scully: I did not! Mulder: Yes, you did. Scully: Did not! Mulder: Did too! (fade to black as Mulder and Scully continue their good-natured bickering in front of everyone.)