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Title: Devotion 8: Come Little Children
Author: Quetzel
Disclaimer: All characters and ideas from The X-Files belong to Chris 
Carter, FOX, and Ten
Thirteen Productions. Ethan, Anna, Elliot, and Joy are MY creations 
thanks very much!
Category: MSR, S
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No spoilers, but read the first 7 Devotions.
Summary: Scully lets Mulder in on her secret.

ROMANCE ~ MSR
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            Samantha had been arranging flowers when Joy rushed into the 
living room, "Aunt
Sammy, Mommy is crying." She informed her.
Samantha's eyes went wide, "What?"
Quickly, she followed Joy into the master bedroom bathroom, where Dana 
Scully was sitting
at the edge of the tub, sobbing into her hands.
Samantha sat beside her, putting her arm around her shoulders, "What's 
wrong, Dana?"
Scully had been feeling very sick lately, throwing up often and some 
days she wouldn't get
out of bed.
Scully looked up, "I-... I'm pregnant."
Joy was now also crying, "What pregnant?"
Scully laugehd through her rain of tears, "Sweetie, it's fine."
Samantha was in shock, "Oh my God! I can't belive this! Dana, why are 
you crying?"
She shrugged, "I DON'T EVEN KNOW!" 
Joy was sitting on the bath met, her little legs crossed and crying 
along with them. Scully
wiped her face, "Joy, why are you crying?"
Joy reached her arms out, "Mommy crying."
Scully hugged her tight, "Angel, I have to tell Daddy soon."
"Am I the first to know?" Samantha questioned.
"After me and my doctor, yeah."
She jumped up, "This is amazing news Dana, a baby in the house!"
"I am baby." Joy insisted.
Samantha put her hands on her hips, a position that reminded Scully of 
Mulder in his
thinking mode. They were so much alike! "Dana, is this a good thing or 
bad thing?"
"Depends what Fox thinks." She said, her voice low.
"He'll be delighted, trust me."
"Did he ever talk to you about wanting kids?"
"He says Joy is his baby."
"I am baby." Joy said again.
Scully took Joy's hand, leading her into the bedroom. "Don't you breath 
a word, Samantha,
please!"
A grin was on Samantha's face, "I won't. Trust me. Joy won't either, 
right Joy?"
"What pregnant?" Joy asked again.
Scully took a breath, "I guess I should tell him ASAP, before Joy spills 
the beans."
"How about this, when he gets home, Elliot and I can take Joy for ice 
cream or something.
So you can be alone."
            Mulder entered the apartment, inhaling the smell of lasagna. 
When Joy didn't come
runing to him as she usually did, he was a bit concerned. "Honey, I'm 
home!" He loved
saying that, it was his new favorite phrase.
"In the dining room, Mulder."  Scully called out.
Samantha and Joy were no where in site, "Scully, where is everybody?"
"Sam and Elliot took Joy for ice cream."
"Elliot?! Why?"
"They felt like it. I said it was okay, Mulder."
"I don't feel comfertable about her spending so much time with him. I 
just got her back!
She's never had a boyfriend before, she doesn't know what dirt bags men 
are!"
"Fox, just stop it. I trust Elliot, he's wonderful. Joy even likes him. 
It's just us tonight." She
gave him a hug and a peck on his nose.
He ran his hands down her back, "Good. I missed you today."
She quickly pulled away and pushed him into a chair. "Go ahead and dig 
in, I'll be back
with some drinks."
Mulder took the wine, and she took juice. "I thought you loved red 
wine." Mulder tried to
pour her a glass.
She pulled his hand away, "I do, but not tonight."
"Scully, you've been sick lately, and I know you went to the doctors. 
Has he called back to
tell you what's wrong?"
Scully was sitting across from him at the square table, "Actually, my 
doctor did call back."
"WHat is it?" He was working the muscles in his jaw.
She closed her eyes for a second, making his heart beat faster with 
anticipation. "Well? Is it
bad?"
"It all depends on how you take it, Fox." She used his first name.
It felt like an iron hand was crushing his heart, "What does that mean?"
"I'm pregnant, four weeks." She blurted out, not able to contain the 
information to herself
any more.
The room was dead silent for a minuite. "Fox? I'm sorry if-"
He pulled himself out of his chair and rushed to her side, falling to 
his knees, "Are you sure?
Are you positive?"
She nodded, "We're sure." 
She actually saw a tear run down his cheek, "I can't belive this." He 
hugged her hard
enough to crush her.
"I-" He wouldn't let her get a word in!
"This is amazing news! God, we'll have to get a house now...."
Scully clamped a hand over his mouth to shut him up, "You're okay with 
all this?"
"HOW COULD I NOT BE? Scully, we're going to have a baby! Joy will have a 
brother or
a little sister! Scully, when he first started working together, I never 
even thought of kids!
But now they're all I want! And you're the mother of my baby, there is 
no way for me to
express how happy that makes me!" He took her head in his hands and 
kissed her hard.
She wiped his tears with her hands, a deep breath escaped her lips, 
"You're right, we will
have to look for a new house."
"Scully, marry me." He said instantly.
She looked up at the ceiling, "Fox... we've been doing great without 
being married. Never
once did we talk about getting married... and I belive you're asking me 
just because I'm
pregnant."
He shook his head, "I want to do this all right, and I want to marry 
you." He stood up and
vanished into Samantha's bedroom, where he had hidden the ring on the 
top shelf of her
closet. Mulder once again fell to his knews, "Marry me, Scully. 
Please...."

            When Samantha and Joy came back from Baskin Robins, they 
found Mulder and
Scully curled up, sleeping on the couch soundly. Samantha had no way of 
knowing if she
had told him about the baby, but then her eyes feel on the empty velvet 
box that rested on the
dining room table. She quickly looked back at Scully's finger, <He 
proposed! Finally!> 
Shortly after Samantha had come to live with them, Mulder had asked her 
to hide the ring he
bought Scully. "I'm waiting for the right time." He had said.
Samantha had been kept with the secret for weeks, and found she was 
having a hard time
keeping her mouth shut. <Good thing he did, I was about to explode!>
Mulder stirred on the sofa, "Sam?" He said in a whisper.
Joy came up to him, trying to crawl onto the sofa beside them. "Daddy!"
He pulled himself up, trying not to disturb Scully. "She finally fell 
asleep, Joy, have you had
dinner?"
Samantha cut in, "I'll make sure she gets fed, don't worry about it."
"Thanks, Sam." Mulder lifted  Scully's sleepingl frame into his arms and 
carried her into the
bedroom. Very gently, he laid her down on the bed, "Humm?" She mumbled 
through her
half sleep state.
Mulder laid down beside, her, brushing the red strands away, "Scully?"
"Huh?" Came her half asleep responce.
"I love you so much." He rested his hand on her abdomen, where there 
baby was growing
inside of her.
She covered his hand with hers, "I love you, too."
Mulder put his head next to hers, watching her asleep until finally 
sleep captured him also.

           The next day Samantha entered the room, clearing her throat, 
"Problem, guys."
Mulder finished combing his hair, "What?"
"Joy wants to know what pregnant means and I thought YOU should explain 
the whole
thing to her."
Scully was still in the bed. Mulder had heard that pregnant women needed 
lots of rest, so he
didn't want make her get up. "I'll talk to her."
Scully shook her head, "We'll BOTH talk with her. Just let me get my 
robe."
Mulder called Joy into their room, she came in wearing her green shirt 
and blue jeans.
Samantha had dressed her that morning. "Morning, Daddy!" She said 
cheerfully.
He took her hand, pulling her onto the bed. "Morning, angel. Aunt Sam 
said you asked a
question."
"What is question?"
"When you don't know something and ask about it. You want to know what 
pregnant
means?"
She nodded her head, her red curls swaying.
Scully sighed, "Joy, ladies get pregnant."
"Is it like sick?"
Scully chuckled, "Not really. We don't get sick, Joy, when a lady is 
pregnant, she's going to
have a baby."
Joy raised her eye brow, a mirror image of what Mulder called 'The 
Scully Look.' "How?"
she asked.
Mulder cleared his throat, "Well..."
"Mulder, we don't want to get into S-E-X right now." She spelled out the 
word so Joy
wouldn't go repeating it any where.
"Scully-"
"Joy, the baby is inside of me.  Here." She put her hand on her on her 
stomach.
Joy approached her, putting her hand where Scully's was, "Baby in 
tummy?"
"Yes."
"Mommy eat baby?" Joy asked.
Mulder tried not to laugh, but Scully had a serious look on her face, 
"No angel, it was born
there, it's growing inside of me."
"Who put it there?"
"Daddy and I did." Scully said, her face turning slightly red.
"Why? Don't you like me?" Her little mouth turned into a pout.
"Joy, we love you so much! We wanted to give you a brother or sister to 
play with! You can
have a friend."
Joy seemed to be satisfied with the answer, happy that she wasn't be 
replaced, Joy asked to
be dismissed and raced to play in her room. Mulder laughed, "That was 
interesting."
Scully frowned at him, "If I had let you do that alone, she would be 
suffering from the
trauma for the rest of her life!"
Mulder wrapped his arms around Scully, "You did great, Mom."
She sighed softly, "I wish I had read all those parenting books my 
mother got me."
Mulder hugged her, "I think this is okay. There are other things we need 
to deal with, by the
way."
"Like?" 
"Telling MY mother, telling YOUR mother, getting a house, getting things 
for the baby and
informing the whole world that we're getting married."
She burried her face in his shoulder, "Humm.. you're right. Small 
wedding or big wedding?"
"Anything you want Scully, I will give you." He whispered.
"Mulder, all this is going to cost us a fortune." She realized out loud. 
"A house, a family is
very costly, all the medical hassel-"
"I don't think you understand that my father left me a very rich man, 
Scully. Everything is
covered. All you have to do is take care of yourself and our baby. You 
won't even have to
work!"
"Mulder! We don't have the money for me to not work!"
He shook his head, "We're rich, I swear it. I dumped all the cash in an 
account and didn't
want to touch it until there was an emergency."
"You're telling me that you have been working for the government when 
you could have
just kicked back and relaxed?"
He kissed her neck, "I loved my work back then, Scully. I'm not a man 
who wants to stay
home and do nothing. This time, I got a safe job teaching and it's my 
favorite subject, too."
"Psychology. Mulder, you need your head checked, why didn't you tell 
me?"
"It didn't matter then. It didn't matter two days ago, I didn't know we 
had a baby coming.
Scully, I was saving it for the children I wanted to have with you, but 
I didn't want to push
you. You had so much to worry about already."
She took a deep breath, "God, Mulder." She hugged him tightly, the tears 
escaping from her
lashes.
"I want to give you everything, Scully. You want it, you got it."
"I just want you, Mulder... and our family."

            Margaret Scully had screamed when she learned the good news. 
"Dana! That's
wonderful!" The hug SCully recived from her mom almost knocked her over. 
"Fox,
congradulations!" She hugged Mulder also.
"We're getting married, Mom." Scully said quickly.
Margaret nodded, "I knew you would. Might as well make the whole thing 
official, hum?
What does Joy think?"
"There is no way to know if she really understands the whole thing." 
Mulder said.
Margaret laughed, "Yes, little children are difficult to explain to. 
Dana, Fox, have you
picked a date?"
"Soon, Mom. We want this small. What do you think?"
"How soon?" Margaret asked cautiously.
"Next month." Mulder answered her.
She moaned, "I guess I can understand. There is a baby on the way. All 
right then, March
29?"
Dana grinned, "Sounds good."
"Who are we inviting?" Margaret took out a pen and paper, making notes.
"You, Samantha, Charlie, Bill, Melissa, Anna King,  Ethan, Walter 
Skinner, Byers, Langley
and Frohike... and also Elliot Waters."
Mulder frowned, "I don't know-"
"Samantha would bring him anyway, so we might as well!" Scully scolded 
him.
He fell silent and listen to Scully ramble off some more names. When she 
and Margaret had
gone through the main deals, she stood up. "It's getting late, we still 
have to inform Mrs.
Mulder."
Margaret hugged her daughter again, "Take good care of yourself, sweet 
heart. Fox, make
sure she's taken care of."
He grinned, "Got it."
Together, hand in hand, they left Margaret's house. "Scully?"
"Mulder?"
He squeezed her hand, "I'm glad those bastards sent you to spy on me."
She laughed, "Me, too."
"If they hadn't, I would have lost it a long time ago."
She smiled at him, "I'm always here, Mulder."
"Scully?"
"Yes?"
"Thanks for making me a Daddy. Thanks for Joy and this little one on the 
way."
"You deserved to be Joy's Daddy, and you're the one who put this little 
one where he is
now!"
They laughed and he kissed her cheek, "Come on, we have to inform my mom 
she's gonna
be a grandma."

            "What if it's a boy?" Scully asked, flipping through the 
pages of the baby name
books.
"William sounds good. Both of your fathers and it's Fox's middle name." 
Samantha
suggested.
Mulder shook his head, "No."
"Fox William Mulder, Jr?" Scully grinned.
"There will be no more Fox Mulder's as long as I have breath in my 
body." He said
seriously.
Samantha shrugged her shoulders, "Too bad, how about Wolf?"
"Why don't we just call him Beaver!" Mulder said sarcastically.
"It could even be a girl." Samantha reminded them.
Scully shook her head, "I have a feeling it'll be a boy." She laid back 
on the bed, sighing.
Mulder and Scully were on the bed while Samantha and Joy had made 
themselves
comfertable on the over stuffed chair. "Joy, what do you want to name 
him?" Mulder asked.
"Elmo!" She said proudly.
Scully laughed, "Nice thought, but I don't think so. Christopher?"
"Marcus?"
"Walter?"
"Alexander?:"
"Ethan?"
"Evan?"
"Daniel?"
"Cyrus?" Mulder suggested.
"CYRUS?" Scully and Samantha chorused. 
"It means Sun in Persian." He said.
Scully shook her head, "We'll think about it. Give it time."
Samantha looked through a book, "How does Elliot sound?"
"No!" Mulder said imediately.
"Fox, why don't you like him?"
"Why should I?"
"Well, you tell me?"
"Sam, do you know what his motives are?"
"He and I happen to like each other! Fox, why don't you understand?"
Mulder was starting to wonder why Scully hadn't said anything, and when 
he looked back at
her, she was sound asleep with Joy beside her.
Mulder sighed, "I worry about you, Sam, I don't want you getting in over 
your head."
She smiled at him, "Do you expect me to stay here with you guys for the 
rest of my life?
Don't I get a chance at my own life?"
Mulder looked down at his hands, "I can't help but worry about you, Sam. 
I've worried
about you every day of your life, especially the days that you were 
missing. I searched so
hard for you and I feel like you'd rather spend time with Elliot than 
me."
Samantha actually hugged him, "Fox, that is no reason to hate Elliot. 
He's a good man,
belive me, I've spent enough time with bad men to know a good one."
"Just don't go too fast." He said.
She noddded, "Deal. I'd like to stay around with you guys and help Dana 
with the new
baby. He will be my nephew... or she'll be my niece."
"Dana is convinced it's going to be a boy." Mulder led her to the 
kitchen.
"It doesn't matter to me, I'll still be here."

            Scully watched as Mulder carried their son back and forth in 
the nurserey. The baby
was crying, he wouldn't calm down. "Scully... go back to bed, I got 
him."
He looked so handsome, wearing only his sweat pants and resting the 
child against his bare
chest. "Shh, don't cry, Daddy's here, don't cry."
Scully closed her eyes and thanked God for giving her Fox Mulder and her 
beautiful family.
She was so blessed...

             "Mommy, wake up!" Joy bounced up and down on the bed.
She sat up, a dream... the baby wasn't here yet... just a dream. "Joy!" 
Mulder scolded,
pulling her off the bed, "Mommy was sleeping."
She pouted, "But I want mommy to play with me!"
"Joy, you have to understand that mommy needs lots of rest now. Come on, 
Aunt Sam will
play with you."
When Joy had left the room, Mulder looked back at Scully, "Sorry."
"It's okay. Come here, Fox." She held her arms out to him.
He came to her, resting his head on her chest, "Dana, are you feeling 
all right?"
"Just fine, Fox." She kissed the top of his head.
He put his hand where the baby was again, "It's true what everyone says, 
it is a miracle."
She laughed, "I know. Thanks, Fox."
"For what?" He looked up at her.
"When Joy was born, Ray left me with nothing and no one. You took care 
of me then,
Mulder, and you're still taking care of me."
"I'm always going to take care of you, and our babies." He whispered.

THE END.

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