Title: Happily Ever After: Never give up on a miracle Author: XfileySR Category: MSR Series Spoilers: Per Manum, but not really, cause this isn't gonna follow that plot line. But I used that line, so I put it in there! Summary: After finding out the news that Scully's not pregnant, she makes a very awesome realization, she's in love... with Mulder. Disclaimer: I don't own Mulder and Scully, or that whole universe...I really wish I did, but I don't. Sad day for me! But anyways... don't sue me PLEEEASE? Feedback: Send feedback, PLEASE!!! I'm new to this whole fanfic thing, and I want to know where y'all want this to go, kay? I also want to know if I'm doing it okay. Reading fanfic every night is totally different from writing it!!!! DANA SCULLY'S APARTMENT "Never give up on a miracle." His words hit me hard and sobbing racked through my body as his t-shirt became wet with my tears. All I want to do is give up Mulder, can't you see that? I will never hold my baby... our baby in my arms... and I'm not ready to accept that. Can't you see Mulder? He held me to his chest tightly, and my head was screaming too many thoughts at once. His hand rubbed gentle rhythmic circles on my back as my crying began to subside. He repeated the words again. "Never give up on a miracle." I felt such sincerity in his soft monotone voice, and in my heart grew a light of hope. Baby or no baby, hope was not lost in all things. I can't give up. I need to be with him... I love him... Oh my god... I do... I love him... A smile spread on my lips as I admitted to myself what I should have years ago. New tears begin racing down my reddened cheeks. Hope was back, with something else beside it... love. He knew it. He sensed it. I looked up to his deep hazel eyes. They were questioning the smile dancing on my lips. "Scully...?" I silence him with a barely there touch to his lips with my finger. "Mulder...I won't give up... not as long as you're here." "Scully..." I repeat my previous action as his eyes search mine for answers about to be revealed to him. "Mulder...I...I want to believe...not in flying saucers and aliens...Mulder I want to believe in us. It's been staring me in the face for so many years. I just forgot it was there because I've pushed the thought back so far. It has always been there...a ghost in the closet. Mulder, this wasn't my baby that I wanted...it was ours. As weird as this sounds, I wanted it for us, not me." "Scully...what are you-" "Mulder, I need you. I love you. I have for so long...but...I...Mulder all the risks." "I know Scully." "You know?" "I know the risks because I've thought about them since... I don't even know anymore... the beginning." "Mulder?" "Scully...more than anything else on this earth, I need you by my side. Not as just a partner in the FBI, but in life. Scully, I love you so much. You walk into the room and my heart quickens. You smile and my day is made. You let me guide you through a doorway, and it's heaven for me. Scully, you're my everything." The tears of joy and adoration flow freely down my face. He places his hand on my cheek, and wipes a runaway tear with his thumb. He pulls me to him and our mouths meet. I am home. Safe. In love. He is surrounding me. The scent and taste of him are assaulting me all at once. It feels right. Natural. Fitting. A smile spreads across his swollen pout and remembering a moment past, I tell him my thoughts. "The world didn't end." "I sure as hell hope it didn't." he tells me laughingly. "Oh, and why is that?" I counter, matching his tone while grabbing his hand in mine. "Because I plan on doing a LOT more of that in my lifetime." I laugh lightly as I pull him up to stand beside me. I touch his cheek with my free hand and ask him something probing my mind. "Mulder? Are you real...Is this real?" Grabbing the hand on his cheek and turning into it, he kisses my palm, and reassuringly says "yes... more real than anything else in this world Scully." I pull him down to my mouth and we stand in my living room kissing until our need for oxygen takes precedent over our desires. "Mulder?" "yes..." "Will you do something for me?" "Anything in the world... Anything." "Mulder, make love to me" I command only a fraction above a whisper. ======= The sun is floating through the window in my bedroom, hitting me in just the right place to wake me up and not allow me to go back to sleep. More time to gaze... Our hands are intertwined on his chest, and our legs mingle with each other. There is no beginning and no end, tangled underneath the covers. His face is relaxed, and his lips pouting as he seems to dream happy dreams. I listen to his slow breathing for awhile, taking note also of the heart that beats below me. He's right...it was more real than anything in the world. It was breathtaking...beautiful... I've never loved like I love this man that sleeps beside me right now, and he knows...finally... I inwardly chuckle at the fact that I kept it inside me all this time, and now, as my eyes grow heavy again while listening to his steady breathing, I realize that I am happy. ====== I'm startled awake by a shrill sound coming from the other side of the bed. Knowing that Mulder doesn't ring, I deduce that it is that of my phone. I remain in my spot, not wanting to pick it up, and then hear it stop, and Mulder say "Hello?" Still content, I burrow more into Mulder's warmth, relishing it, loving it...enjoying it... until I hear four words come out of the mouth of my newfound lover. "Oh, Hi Mrs. Scully!!" Shit. I'm caught. I'm going to get an earful now. "Yeah, she's right here. Hold on." I take the phone from him, and notice that he's far from worried about my mother's thoughts as he lays back into the sheets comfortably. "Dana?...Dana?" "Yeah, Mom, I'm here." "So... did you have a nice night?" she toys, knowing what transpired the night before. "Yes Mom, I did." "Well, I'm glad...You've loved him for so long, and the feeling has been mutual since the beginning." "How? -" "Dana Katherine, Mothers know when their daughters are in love." "And what about Mulder?" "Oh Dana... Fox has been in love with you even before you disappeared...I could feel it." "And why-" "Didn't I tell you?" "Yes, why not?" "Because I knew you'd figure it out eventually." "Thanks." "Anyways...you and Fox are coming to brunch this afternoon, okay?" "Oh mom, I don't know..." "I know that the two of you are planning on doing nothing today that involves clothing or getting out of bed, but I would love to have the both of you." "Why do you think that's what would happen?" "Honey, seven years, of love unspoken is grounds for a lot of sex." "MOM!" "Oh Dana, be quiet. You and Fox are to be here in three hours, all right?" "Yes m'am" "Okay, now let me say something to Fox please..." I poke him with the antennae and he puts the receiver to his ear. "Yeah, Mrs. Scully?" Pause. "Sure mom" My heart fluttered a bit at the mention of calling my mother mom. She has always loved Mulder, and apparently always knew the love we have for each other. Pause. "I know...I know..." Pause. "Soon." Pause. "Pretty soon." Pause. "Like today soon." Pause. "See you in three hours then." Pause. "Bye." He hangs up the phone and looks up to meet I'm sure what appears to be a very questioning glance. "You better get dressed Scully, we still have to go to my apartment before we go to your mom's." "You've got some jeans here Mulder, we've got plenty of time to waste doing..." As I tackle him to the bed he laughs, and then in a whirlwind, I find myself beneath him. "You have NO idea exactly how unbelievably tempting this offer is, but we still have to go to the apartment." "Muuuulllddeeeerrrr..." I whine. "Nobody likes a whiner Scully." "Come OOOooonnnnnn!" I say to tease him. I find myself cut short when his mouth closes over mine. We both got our wish that morning. We started off to his apartment... an hour later. ==== We got into the car and began making our way to his apartment. Both of us were beaming uncontrollably. Every chance we got we glanced at each other, and a few times shared a short kiss. Well... Mental note: don't make out at a stoplight unless you have the parking brake on. Hand in hand, we got to his apartment quickly, and accident free. ===== FOX MULDER'S APARTMENT "Mulder, I don't see what's wrong with what you've got on now" "Well, I just want to look nice for your mom." "She loves you just the same Mulder!" I yell from the couch, as I impatiently wait for him to immerge from the bedroom. I hear his shoes against the floor and glance up to see him clad in the exact same clothes that he had on when we left my apartment. He steps to me, and I open my mouth to ask him why he didn't change, but I'm silenced with a finger to my lips as he kneels on the floor by the couch. "Scully... you got your chance to do that last night, and now it's my turn." Keeping one hand behind his back, he grabs one of my hands and starts his speech. "I know that I said this so many times last night, but it's not enough. I love you... I won't be able to say that enough to really express what I'm feeling, so I hope you'll forgive me for that. Scully, I don't know when it happened... but I fell in love with you. I fell hard for you. Maybe it was that first day when you shook my hand in our office... maybe it was all those times that you rushed to my side when I screwed up... I don't know, but I know it happened. When you told me last night how much you love me, I thought I was dead... I thought that I was in heaven, but I wasn't. It was real Scully." He shakes his head in disbelief. "Last night and this morning was real... what I've felt for you all these years is a real as it gets, and I can't believe that I can finally do this..." His other hand appears, holding a small velvet box. I meet his eyes with tears falling down my cheeks. He opens the box to reveal a golden band adorned with three diamonds. "Mulder... It's gorgeous..." "Do you know what the three diamonds represent?" I shake my head slowly as the tears still fall down my cheeks. "Three years together." I laugh. "Mulder we've worked together for... Mulder?" "I know Scully." "Four years ago?" "I told you that I've loved you all these years, you didn't believe me?" "I can't be..." "Don't worry about that now Scully, I have to ask you a really important question." "Scully?" "Yes?" "Do you believe in the existence of extraterrestrials?" "Mulder...I'm warning you..." He laughs and takes my hand in his. "Scully, will you marry me?" "I don't know Mulder, I want to believe that..." "I'm warnin' you..." "Yes! Yes! Of course I'll marry you!" I grabbed him, and our mouths wrestle for an eternity together before finally breaking apart. We were an hour late to my mothers.