From: "*/Sarah\\*" Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:57:39 +0000 Subject: From Pendrell, With Love 5: Cupid's Dance (2/3) fanfic Title: From Pendrell, With Love 5: Cupid's Dance (2/3) Author: Sarah Aanderud E-mail: aanderud@earthlink.net Rating: PG-13 Category: A, R, and H Spoilers: none Keywords: Angel/Pendrell UST, Scully/Mulder UST Summary: Mulder and Scully question their partnership, while Angel and Pendrell discuss their friendship. Disclaimers: Pendrell, Scully, Mulder, and Kersh all belong to Chris Carter and 1013 productions. Angel is mine, and Cloud 9 apartments are too. Dr. O'Neil is one of my classmates, and he was featured in my third Pendrell fanfic, Seven Minutes in Heaven. Agents Poppy and Brandi are two of my friends, I gave Rhia another chance to be a nice agent, because I killed off her character. Also Brandon gets another chance too, because Rhia asked me to. This is my first Mulder and Scully shipper story, so if you're a non-shipper, you better stop reading this. I just felt shippy one day and thought up the plot to this fanfic. This continues off from the 4th Pendrell fic, The Bachelor Pad. Angel walked into Pendrell's apartment and groaned. He turned the heat up too far. No wonder he had boxers on. Angel stumbled around the living room to find the thermostat and turned it down. Pendrell entered the living room in a ratty T-shirt and cargo shorts. "Geez Pendrell, do you have to turn it up so high? It's like a jungle in here, and you look ready to hack at some plants and talk with the monkeys." exclaimed Angel. Pendrell looked down at his outfit. "Is there something wrong with the way I dress? It was absolutely freezing in here so I turned up the heat." answered Pendrell. "Oh come on, you live like a lab rat under a heating lamp. I turned down the heat to a moderate level." "Ok, why are you over here?" "Talky, talky?" "Ok, sure." Pendrell sat down on the couch, and Angel dropped herself in Pendrell's easy chair. "I never knew you had cargo shorts. They make your legs look good." Pendrell looked down at his legs. "Really?" "Yeah. But it's winter, and you wear shorts!" "I do, it's a little flaw." "Flaw, no, fetish, yes." "No, nuh uh." "I'm kidding." Pendrell laughed. Scully tapped her pencil on her chair. She was trying to untangle the mess of the files and information from last month's train bombing. Her scars healed better than Dr. O'Neil thought they would. Agents Poppy and Brandi came over to help her. Poppy and Brandi were very weird women. They were partners, but they had the hots for each other. Scully kicked them out because they sort of scared her. "This is so stupid." Said Scully. The threw the files in a heap on the coffee table and went to the bathroom to splash water on her face. She kept falling asleep. While she was drying off her face, there was a knock at her door. She put the towel down and answered the front door. It was Mulder, but she half expected Pendrell. He looked as tired as she was. He had a few files in his hands. "Hey Mulder, why are you here?" Scully asked. "Kersh sent me over to go over the train bombing case with you." answered Mulder. "Ok, why don't you come in." Scully held the door open as Mulder walked in. He dropped the files on the coffee table near the ones Scully had. He plopped down at the far end of the couch and Scully took the other end. The files were spread out between them. After a few hours, Mulder and Scully finally untangled the files. It still didn't make any sense. Scully sat back and sighed. Mulder got up and stretched. "This doesn't make any sense. Why send 10 agents and blow them up?" said Scully. Mulder sat back down. He took her hand. "Scully, just forget about the case. I have to talk to you." said Mulder. "No really. Why us?" said Pendrell. He toyed with his hair. Angel crossed her legs on the coffee table, she had changed to shorts. "No idea. We're almost alike. Maybe it's supposed to happen." said Angel. "You've been a really great friend to me." "Yeah, we're useful to each other, you can mooch cookies off of me." Pendrell laughed. "Remember what I taught you to do?" "Yeah, all those things that I still remember. I taught you things too." "Let's see, what did you teach me? You taught me how to fight." "And you split my lip open. I learned how to fight growing up with a house full of brothers." "You taught me how to play poker." "I remember that, we lost everything, then got it all back in the next hour." "I taught you how to kiss." "Yeah it paid off." "I also taught you how to do the waltz before the senior prom." "Oh yeah." "We know each other too much." "I know. There's nothing we haven't done together, except for having a relationship." "If we did get together, it would just spoil our friendship if we broke up." "Yeah, have you even thought about it sometimes?" "Sometimes." "You want to know something you've never known about me?" "What?" "I did massages in college at the place down the street." "Cool, can you massage me? My bones are stiff." "Sure, we're half alive anyway. You'll have to get naked and put on a towel." "Uh why?" "You're supposed to. It's a rule." Pendrell headed to the bathroom. Scully laughed once again. She shook her head at Mulder. "No, that was so fake." Scully giggled. "It was? Man I hate those chicken people." groaned Mulder. "Backing up all your wild theories with science is pretty hard you know. Put yourself in my shoes." "Your shoes are tight and pointy, I can't run in those things." Scully laughed again. Mulder liked her laugh, he never hears it often. Pendrell was back fully clothed on the couch. Angel sat on the coffee table in front of him, listening to him talk about his annoying coworkers. Angel's mind was wandering off to what makes Pendrell sweat. Scully, me, and hot tea on a window still. He fidgets too much. Angel scooted a little towards Pendrell and put her feet next to Pendrell's. She brushed her leg up to his. He still rambled on about that guy who kept going yay when another agent fired a gun. She put her other foot around his leg. He started to notice. "What are you doing?" he asked. "Stuff. I know the three things that make you sweat. Scully, me, and hot tea on a window still." answered Angel. "Oh, so anyway......" Pendrell continued where he left off. She moved her legs farther up his. He clenched his hands together on his lap. "Am I bothering you?" asked Angel with a sly grin. Pendrell bit his lip. "Um, no." he answered. He leaned towards Angel and kissed her. "Hey I didn't know that you had an tattoo." Said Mulder admiring the tattoo on Scully's ankle. Scully felt Mulder's hand run across her ankle. His touch felt tingly. "Yeah I do." said Scully. Mulder looked up at her. Scully touched his face and kissed him. Pendrell woke up and yawned. He looked over at his alarm clock, it was 10 AM. he wondered. There was an arm slung across his chest. He looked at the female next to him and gasped. To be continued...............