Title: A Day in the Life, part 23, Teeth Author: Girlie_girl7 Email: Girlie_girl74@yahoo.com Rating: G Category: Family Fic Spoilers: Existence then AU Date: 04-20-04 Archive: Anywhere Disclaimer: Fox owns 'em. Summary: William goes to the dentist and opens his mouth. ~ Teeth ~ The dentist office is crowded and Dr. Scott is running behind, off in the corner sitting beside a decorative palm tree is Dana Scully and her son William. They've been here nearly half an hour already. Scully looks at her watch and sighs, she has left Katherine with her mom so she can take Will to his first dental appointment. She is growing uncomfortable sitting on the hard wooden bench while Will has been entertaining himself by playing with the bag of toys that she thought to bring along. He's crawling around in front of her playing with a toy tractor while dressed in blue jeans, a long sleeved, striped tee shirt, and red sneakers. He stands up and runs his tractor down the length of the bench while Scully reads a medical journal then he pats her leg, "Mom." "What William?" "Ah wanna go home," he says laying his head on her lap and turning on the Mulder charm. Scully rubs his back and smiles; "It won't be long." "But how wong is wong?" William questions. Scully picks Will up and sets him on her lap. "The dentist needs to see your teeth." Will bares his teeth. "You can yook at dem." Scully laughs, "But I'm not a dentist." Will pats Scully's cheeks and grins. "Ah yike you." "I'm glad," Scully laughs trying to avoid his little hands, "I like you too." Will runs his tongue around the side of his mouth and loops his arms around his mother's neck. Scully grabs him around the waist as he attempts to stand up on her lap. "Mom, Ah hun-gee!" He demands. "You can't eat until after the dentist looks at your teeth. Why don't you go look at the fish in the aquarium," Scully suggests nodding toward the large tank. "Okay," Will agrees and crawls off her lap and walks to the other side of the room. He barely comes up to the bottom of the tank that is sitting on a stand but he's still mesmerized by what he sees. He follows the antics of a large angelfish as it swims among the other smaller fish. Scully joins him and stoops down next to him. "Those are pretty," she comments. "Um hum," Will replies, too enthralled with the fish to respond. He points to the angelfish that is swimming near. "Ah yike dis one." "He's very colorful," Scully says. "He's big!" William exclaims. "Ah wanna take him home for da-dee." Scully laughs, "They don't sell their fish and besides he's too big for your dads small tank." "We can buy him a biggor one," Will grins. "But these are special fish that live in salt water." Will looks at his mother with the large, blue eyes he inherited from her and says, "We gots sawt and peppa too!" Scully laughs. "I don't think we should put salt and pepper into our fish tank." Will points to something hiding among the reeds, "Wuz dat mom?" Scully stretches her neck to look back into the corner of the tank. "That's a seahorse." Will looks at his mother and grins, "Ah yike howses." Scully smile, "Well, this fish is called a seahorse but he's really not a horse." Will seems to accept what his mother is telling him. He spots a skin diver bobbing up and down in the back of the tank and laughs, "Yook mom, da mans jumpin' awound." "He sure is, he's a diver. He works under the water." Will stares at the man for a few moments. "Ah don' yike dat, I wanna wide a howse." Scully smiles at her son, "When you grow up you could be a policeman who rides a horse." She now has William's full attention. "Or you could work on a ranch, they ride horses too." "Ah yike howses," Will smiles. He tires of watching the fish and begins to walk around the room. He crawls up on the cushioned couch and checks it out by laying down. Scully returns to her bench keeping Will in her line of sight. By now the room has thinned out and William is getting antsy, he walks over and tugs on his mother's hand and whines, "Ah wanna go home." "I know William but it won't be much longer." "But how wong is wong?" Will asks once again. Scully looks at her watch and sighs. She picks up Will and sets him next to her then pulls a small book out of her bag. "Want me to read to you?" She asks her son. "Okay," he readily agrees, anything to relieve the boredom. Scully begins, "The... What is this word?" She asks Will. "Dawg," Will replies. "The dog ran across the yard to chase the...?" "Cat," Will says, then a thought hits him, "Know wha!" "What?" Scully asks. "Bwian can wide a bike all by himsewf!" Will's eyes snap as he tells Scully the news. "He can!" Scully says acting surprised. "Yup." William sits beside his mother with his hands tucked between his legs and his shoulder's hunched. "Ah wanna a bike too." Scully brushes back the hair from his forehead. "Well, you do have a birthday next month, I'll talk to dad about it." "Kat-run wanz a bike too!" Will smiles at his mom. "Your sister needs to learn how to walk first then she can ride a bike." "'Kay," William agrees. "William Mulder," a nurse calls out. Scully and Will get off the bench, she gathers up her purse and coat along with William's toys. The nurse looks down at the little boy standing before her; "You must be William?" Will hides behind his mother's dress slacks. "Yes, this is William," Scully says. "He's a little shy today." Will peeks around at the nurse and grins. "My name is Nancy," the nurse says. "Can I take your hand William?" Will gently offers the nurse his hand and they walk back into the office with Scully following close behind. "Dr. Scott," the nurse says to a man dressed in a white lab coat with his back to the group, "this is William Mulder, he's here to have his teeth checked." The doctor turns around, "Well William, I understand that this is your first time. Don't be afraid, I'm just going to look in your mouth and see your pretty teeth." Scully leans over to talk to her son. "Nancy will sit you in the chair so that Dr. Scott can look at your teeth, okay?" Will nods his head yes, and Nancy lifts him up to sit in the chair. He doesn't seem to be afraid but Scully stands nearby just in case he should choose to bolt. Dr. Scott sits down on the stool next to William and begins to raise the chair. Will looks around but seems to enjoy the ride. "So William, can you tell me how old you are?" Dr. Scott asks. "Ah be fee," Will says holding up three fingers. "His birthday is next month," Scully smiles. "Wow, you're getting to be a big boy! I remember your father right after you were born, he went on and on about you," the doctor laughs. "I had a hard time keeping him silent long enough to clean his teeth." Scully is moved by this revelation. She has never heard this story before. "Ma da-dee gots big teef," Will offers. "Your daddy has beautiful teeth," Dr. Scott says. Suddenly Scully's cell phone rings. She excuses herself to answer it in the waiting room. The doctor arranges his tools while William is looking around the room. "Ma da-dee say vampiors gots big teef and days shawp too!" The doctor and his nurse both stare at William. "So dad watches movies on TV does he?" Dr. Scott smiles. "Nope," Will replies, "he chased 'em." The nurse nervously glances at her boss. "Dad's quite a story teller." Will doesn't understands the doctor's comment so he just shrugs his shoulders. He is asked to open his mouth and the little boy complies. Dr. Scott looks at his top teeth and pulls back the mirror to wipe it off. "Da-dee wikes to catch vampiors," Will says nonplused. The doctor looks at Will's bottom teeth as he says, "We don't have vampires here William." "I know!" Will exclaims. "Day wiv in Te'tus." This time the doctor looks at his nurse. "Da-dee say mom hot for da vampior." The doctor chuckles, "That's quite an imagination you've got there William." "I know!" Will says as he pulls the chair arm up and down. The doctor smiles at his young patient. "Now William, I'm going to put this piece of paper in your mouth and I want you to bite down on it and do this." Dr. Scott demonstrates how he wants Will to grind his teeth down on the paper. Will opens his mouth and bites down on the paper. Dr. Scott has him open up again so he can move the paper to the other side of his mouth. Will once more is asked to bite down. "Allie-ga'ors gots big teef too!" William tells Dr. Scott. "Yes, they do." "A allie-ga'or ate ma moms dawg." "What?" "Ma mom's daw-gee gots eat by a allie-ga'or an' she cwied." The nurse grows wide-eyed and looks from Will to the doctor. "Did you say an alligator ate your dog?" "Nope," Will says as the doctor sighs in relief. "It ate ma mom's dawg, Ah don' have a daw-gee but Ah wan' one," William smiles and continues to play with the chair arm, "A dea man gabe it to hewr." "A dead man gave your mother an alligator?" The doctor frowns. "No!" William laughs. "Da dea man gabe hew a daw-gee." Dr. Scott sits down on his stool trying to recover from what he's just heard. "Doctor, are you going to check William's bite?" The nurse looks down at her boss trying to get his attention. "What," the doctor says with a blank look on his face, "yes of course." He gets off his stool and hovers over his small patient. "Open up once more William." Will does as he is asked and Dr. Scott checks out his bite pattern. "That's fine William." Will plays with the paper bib that has been draped around his neck. "One time a dawg twied to bite ma da-dee. Dawgs gots big teef too!" "A dog tried to bite your father?" The dentist asks as he checks William's gums. "Yup," Will answers, "it had wooms in its eaw." "The dog did?" The doctor frowns. "Yup, but it gots bedder." "How did a worm get into the dogs ear?" "Mom pud it der so da daw-gee gots aw bedder!" Will says as he turns his hands palm up. "I see," the doctor says shaking his head. "Sakes gots big teef too! Some sakes bite ma da-dee an' it hewt. He gots sick and mom cwied." "How on earth did your dad get bitten by snakes?" The doctor blinks and frowns. "Dunno know, but he don' yike sakes no mo'." Scully finally reappears. "Sorry that took so long, it was the Bureau." Scully can tell by the expression on Dr. Scott's face that something is up. -- "Mulder it's me," Scully sighs into her cell phone as she drives toward their home with Will happily chewing on a free sucker. "Hey Scully, how did the Will's visit to the dentist go?" "Not so good I'm afraid." "Why, what happened? Wouldn't Will open his mouth?" "Oh he did that alright," Scully huffs. "Mulder, we need to stop discussing old cases in front of the kids." There is a long pause at the other end of the phone then Mulder finally asks, "What did he say?" ~ The End ~