From: PulledAScully@aol.com Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:16:41 EST Subject: "Disaster" by Angel-Wings Gaskins Source: direct Title: Disaster Author: Angel-Wings Gaskins Rating: PG Cater.: SRH Keywords: MSR, Mulder/Scully married Spoilers: none Summary: How bad *was* the wedding? Archive: Pretty please? With bacon on top? Just send me a link Feedback: I'll beg like a dog, stick out my tongue, and wag my tush, but you don't really wanna see that, do you? Wrong answer. PulledAScully@aol.com Disclaimer: Not mine, never were, can't hope they will be. Notes: I was just in a silly mood. Just grin and giggle...lol "Disaster" by Angel-Wings Gaskins @##@##@##@##@##@##@##@ Mulder flicked on the camera than hurried back to sit with his wife. She smiled and snuggled up next to him. Both looked into the camera, trying to get comfortable and open up to it. Scully just sighed. "Mulder, I can't--" "Sure you can, Scully. Just think of everyone's faces when they hear our stories of how crazy the wedding was." He grinned at her and she just rolled her eyes. "Mulder, I thought we were doing this to explain to our families why we went off and eloped in Hawaii." "We are, Scully. I was just teasing." He kissed her lightly and she focused on the camera. "OK, so we eloped. Sorry, but it was just..." "Too much pressure." "Thank you, Mulder." Mulder nodded and she continued. "Anyway, it started the day Mulder asked me to marry him. He gave me the beautiful ring in front of my family at some fancy restaurant--" "Tibesto's." Scully shot him a warning glance and he smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, Scully." "ANYway, Mulder gave me the cubic zirconia ring--" "Wait, wait, wait a second! You *knew* it wasn't a diamond?!" Scully stared at her hand. "How'd you know?!" "Frohike told me." "FROHIKE TOLD--" "Mulder, it doesn't matter! It was the thought that counted, and it was really a beautiful." She kissed him and smiled. "Where was I... oh yeah, so Mulder gave me this *gorgeous* ring, and, of course, my Mom went ballistic." Mulder whistled at the memory and Scully elbowed him in the ribs. "Ow, Scully." "So, she went crazy and started making wedding plans right then. By the time dinner was over, she had the whole thing planned- the place, time, even the kind of napkins." "Can I talk now, Scully?" "Fine, Mulder." "Thank you. Ok, so we were getting along pretty well, everything was going great the next few weeks, noone was worried, everything was smooth. We hadn't even thought about wedding plans, we were just kinda going with the flow. Until our six month engagement anniversary." "Oh, I forgot about that." "You were lucky, Scully. Maggie came over, *insisting* we start making plans, showing us the ones she had made, basicly shoving a pre-planned wedding in our faces." "She wasn't shoving it, Mulder, she was just... suggesting." Mulder rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say, Scully. So Mrs. Scully 'suggested' our wedding. I got mad, of course. I wanted this to be *our* wedding, so I figured we should make the plans." "Bad idea." "I know. Scully's mom didn't take it too well, and she ended up not talking to us for a month. Meanwhile, Scully and I were setting a date." "It's a lot harder than it seems. Deciding which season, what the weather will be like, how it'll all--" "Scully!" "What?" "It was my turn." "Oh, sorry, go on, Mulder." "Thank you. So, we got the date set, after slaving and fighting over and over again. March 23rd. I liked it 'cause Scully looks so beautiful in springtime." "Plus, it gave us three months to plan, which we thought was enough." "Which apparently wasn't. Wanna take over now, Scully?" "I guess I have to... Then Mulder and I had to choose bridesmaids. We started by writing down ever girl in both our families that would make a good bridesmaid." "Got rid of that idea quick." "Uh-huh. We ended up settling for my best friend, Kate--" "But I thought I was your best friend, Scully?" "You are, Mulder. But will you please let me finish? Thank you. So, Kate was the made of honour, and Mulder's cousin and Tara, Bill's wife, were the bridesmaids. Mulder's OTHER cousin found out, they got into a big fight, and that's all she wrote. So, we were short a bridesmaid." "I still don't get why you had to have *two* bridesmaids *and* a made of honour. I just don't get it." "Mulder, I told you, it's a tradit--" "I know, Scully, tradition. I get it. Well, at the same time we were picking grooms." "This is where it gets *really* sticky." "Yeah. Of course, I wanted just the Gunmen, but Frohike and Langley would look goofy in tuxes, so Scully said 'no'. That still left Byers as my best man, which was fine. But Scully and her tradition said I *had* to have two groomsmen." "So I said my brothers." "Problem was, Bill and I don't get along too well. And I didn't even know if Charlie existed. So, Bill got pissed when I asked and didn't talk to us for a month, just like Maggy. Things weren't looking too good." "Planning a wedding is hard." "Uh-huh." "Then, we had to get a place. Everything was booked in the spring." "EVERYthing." "So, we settled for a huge, expensive chapel, turning our tiny wedding into a giant disaster." "Oh, then came the guest list, Scully." "Don't even remind me of the guest list." "243 people, Scully. How the hell did we invite that many?" "Beats me, Mulder." "Then, the catering we had asked about completely screwed up every order, even though we called two months in advance. A month before the wedding we went to check out the cake and it was a giant, three tier carrot cake." "With chocolate sprinkles." "Yep, with chocolate sprinkles." "Then the dresses, Scully. We had picked out the dresses to wear, but your best friend didn't like hunter green, so everyone fought about that." "And we were still short a bridesmaid." "That too. That's when we started fighting." "It was just so stressful, everything was going wrong, we started taking it out on each other. It got pretty bad. At one point we even called off the engagement." "I'm glad it wasn't permanent, though." "Me, too. Anyway, Mom had started talking to us again, but we weren't really talking to each other. Than Bill got pissed at Mulder for that, saying it was his fault..." "What's with him, anyway?" "Mulder, he's gonna see this." "Oh yeah, sorry Bill." "It got to the point where I kicked Mulder out." "It wasn't that bad, Scully. We just needed some time." "Trust me, Mulder, it was that bad. That was three days before the wedding. No matter how much Mulder annoys me and drives me crazy, I can't live without him knowing he's lonely, because I'm lonely too." "Ah, Scully... It was just as bad for me, too." "So, that's when we decided it was too much. Instead of our wedding bringing us together, it was literally ripping us apart." "That's where Mrs. Scully's honeymoon present comes in handy." "Thanks for the trip to Hawaii, Mom. It really is nice here. And don't worry, we've got the *whole* little, itty, bitty sunny wedding on tape." "Yep, even Scully in that little, itty, bitty wedding dress. Did I tell you how good you looked in that, Scully?" "Yes, Mulder, several times." "Well, let me tell you again, you looked positively *delicious*." "You didn't look so bad yourself, Mulder." "Why, Agent Scully, if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were coming on to me." "Mulder?" "Hmm?" "Go turn off the camera." "Good idea." @##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@##@ Did you like it? I was watching 'Boy Meets World', and they were telling their families why they wanted a small wedding. I just took it up a notch. Feedback is appreciated and loved, so pretty please? 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