From: DnRdl@aol.com
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:36:19 EDT
Subject: new: Domestic Heaven (1/1) by Daniela Riedel
Source: direct

Title: Domestic Heaven
Rating: G... I think
Category: story/romance/Mulder-POV
Classification: MSR/ 
Spoilers: FTF, Existence
Summary: Mulder drives home from work and starts thinking about what 
he had in the past and what he has now
Disclaimer: CC created those wonderful characters of Fox Mulder, Dana 
Scully and all the others... we authors create the romance around it.
Dedication: To Tanja... good to know you're back, it was quite boring 
without you being around:)

~Domestic heaven~
WARNING! This is so much fluff, it's literally dripping!

There was a time in my life when I didn't really want to come 
home at night. What was waiting for me there except 
nothing? A dark, cold, lonely apartment with just a few fish 
swimming around in their aquarium. For so many years I 
came home to this apartment depressing myself with 
thoughts of another life I would never have. I can honestly 
say that I was never really happy there. Okay, maybe it was 
not only the apartment but my whole life - it was just a cloud 
of darkness threatening to swallow me whole. 
Fortunately, an angel was send to save me, me and my lost 
soul. When Scully came into my life years ago she brought 
the first rays of light into my darkness and bit by bit she 
alluminated it all. And what do I have now? A completely 
different life, one I wouldn't change or give away for anything 
in the world. I'm on my way home now and today just like 
any other day for the past 5 months I'm looking forward to 
coming home.

Scully and William are my life. I have loved Scully with all 
my heart for so many years already but I never found the 
courage to say anything too scared that this would change 
everything. Then, as I stood there in her bedroom holding 
our son and seeing Scully smile at the picture before her, I 
had made my decission. I couldn't and wouldn't let them go. 
I just couldn't live without them. I kissed Scully then (for 
real, this time) and finally told her how much I love her. 
Later that night she told me that she had been waiting for me 
to say something ever since this near-kiss in my hallway one 
summer... damn bee!
From that day on we were inseperable. Together we 
discovered the wonders of parenthood from midnight 
feedings and diaper changes to adorable baby smiles. I 
practically moved in with them that same day, never wanting 
to seperate from my new family for too long. Scully and I 
managed to talk about many things from the past clearing 
stupid misunderstandings and things that went extremely 
wrong then. I began to enjoy spending some quite time with 
Scully, something I had to learn since I never had that kind 
of relationship before. Scully was as understanding as ever 
and helped me where ever she could. We both discovered the 
sweetness of simply cuddling together in the evenings and 
late at night. We had never guessed how perfect it could be 
this way - with us finally being together as a couple and Will 
being the happiest (and most spoiled) baby imaginabe.

There's this one day that immediately pops into my mind 
when thinking of us as a family... Actually, this day wasn't 
too extraordinary but for some reason I always remember it. 

When I opened my eyes that morning the first thing I saw 
was Scully and our son smiling down at me. That in and of 
itself was worth waking up already... 

"Look Will, daddy's awake," she whispered to Will but I 
heard it, too.

"Good morning, gourgeous," I said, sleepy but happy.

"Morning handsome," she answered. We just love to shower 
each other with these endearments. I sat up in bed and kissed 
them both. 
When I got up then and went into the kitchen I saw 
breakfast already waiting for me.

"Scully, what are you up to?" I asked her sensing she had 
something in mind. Sure, we ate together every day but she 
had never decorated the table like she had that morning.

"Nothing, why do you ask," she said innocently.
Nevertheless we ate our breakfast together and, since it was 
such a beautiful day outside, went for walk afterwards. Ever 
since we revealed our feelings to one another we were quite 
open with our affection and never made a secret of our 
relationship though we both knew it could be dangerous that 
way. We strolled along the sidewalk, our hands entwined or 
alternately our arms around each other while pushing Will's 
baby carriage in front of us. We are young, we are happy and 
we are in love... that's what we felt (and still feel) and that's 
what we obviously looked like to other people passing us, 
judging from the smiles we got.

When we returned back home Scully had to nurse Will 
which I will never tire of watching (though I probably have 
to, eventually). I always thought that Scully would be a 
wonderful mother but seeing her nursing is so amazing for 
me. We put him down for his nap afterwards just in time 
because Skinner had called us the day before to ask if he 
could pay us a visit. He arrived just a few minutes later.  
Meeting up with Skinner does and always will remind me of 
all those work meetings the three of us had over the years but 
now everything is different. Now he comes to visit us at home 
instead of us coming to his office, we are sitting on the couch 
in the living room instead of office chairs in front of a desk 
and the most obvious difference, Scully and I are sitting close 
together touching and smiling constantly instead of sitting 
several feet apart with a professional indifferent expression 
on both our faces. And of course also the topics are different, 
while we always discussed cases in the past we now discussed 
how Will is doing, how my new job is, our present life 
situation... and Skinner seems happy for us. Actually he was 
one of the first persons to say that it was about time the two 
of us got together... right after Maggie, of course. 
In between the talk with Skinner Will woke up again so that 
our former boss had the chance to see him as well, he really 
is a different person when you put a baby into his arms but 
that's probably also true for me.

Later that day, I offered Scully to handle dinner so that she 
could take care of Will and also take a nap. While she could 
work through the nights in the past Scully now needed 
surprisingly much sleep, effort of a difficult pregnancy and 
giving birth I guess. So I let her sleep taking as much worries 
from her as possible. Out of no reason I decided to put a 
little more effort into decorating the table just as she had 
done that morning. I prepared pasta for us (the only thing I 
can cook without people choking afterwards). 

A smile spread on my face when I came into the bedroom 
later. Scully lay curled up on the bed having a tight grip on 
what has become my pillow in the past weeks. I checked on 
Will who was still sound asleep. He surely is a nice baby, 
never crying too much, if only he wouldn't produce those 
awefully smelling diapers. 
I know Scully loves my ways of waking her up that's why I 
slowly sit down on the side of the bed and began my 
procedure. First I use one of my hands to tuck a lose strand 
of hair behind her ear, then I bent down and began 
showering her face with small butterfly kisses just the way she 
likes it. It had the desired effect for I saw a smile spreading 
across her features. But she refused to open her eyes wanting 
more. Going in for the kill, I worked my way to her earlobe 
and started tugging on it with my lips. She immediately 
shrieked and put her hands to my face in order to pull me 
away from her ear. I moved back a little bit and smiled down 
at her. She eventually opened her eyes then. 

"Come back down here," she sayed and just when I was near 
enough to touch her lips again we both heard our lovely son 
starting to cry in his crib.

"Later," she sighed and we got up.

As always Scully sticked to her promises so that after taking 
care of Will together by feeding, bathing, cuddling with and 
changing him and also having a delicious dinner ourself we 
finally sat down on the couch together and got back to the 
kissing we started earlier. 
What began as a perfect day for me with my family waking 
me up also ended that way with Scully and I making love - 
and this time there were no desasters, emergencies or any 
other interruptions of that kind. It was just a beautiful day for 
me and my family.

Now, as I put the key into the lock of our recently bought 
house, I  couldn't imagine to go anywhere else after work 
anymore. Within a short period of time I got so used to this 
though never forgetting how lucky I am to have all of this - a 
new job (which I really enjoy though it has nothing to do 
with UFOs or extra-terrestrial phenomena), a nice home, 
financial security (thanks to inheritance from my parents) and 
not to forget the two most important persons in my life: an 
adorable baby son and the most gourgeous, caring, 
understanding, beautiful, intelligent woman on earth. 
Am I lucky or what? With those thoughts on my mind I 
enter the house.

"Angel, I'm home!"

END