From: ScullyMulder8987@aol.com
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:17:40 EDT
Subject: Joys of Married Life, The by ScullyLeigh
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Joys of Married Life, The 
Author: ScullyLeigh  
e-mail address: ScullyMulder8987@aol.com
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Spoilers: Existence
Rating: PG
Category: MSR
Summary: Mulder awakes one morning and reflects on how full his life now is 
with a wife (Scully) and son (William.) 

      Little William Scully-Mulder was getting to be quite a handful. Already 
two years old, he was now walking around the house, knocking over vases and 
coffee tables and wrecking havoc on the house of his very stressed-out 
parents. But they loved him dearly still, for he was their miracle baby, the 
baby that wasn't supposed to be but who had come into their lives at a time 
when they needed him the most.
      Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, former partners in the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, had been married for a little over a year and a half now. They 
lived in a spacious house in Annapolis, looking out over the bay. Dana still 
worked at the FBI, investigating X-Files with Agents Doggett and Reyes. As 
division head, she was allowed days off, and spent three days a week at home 
with William. Fox was a physiologist, and he set his own office hours. The 
couple had lots of time to be at home with their son - and each other.
      "Good morning, Mrs. Mulder," Mulder said quietly as he woke, kissing 
his wife softly. She giggled. "Good morning, Mr. Mulder." Dana had kept her 
maiden name - Dana Scully - as her professional title, but she used Dana 
Mulder in her personal life. They spooned up, looking out the huge bay window 
that looked over a wooded meadow and, a little further away, the ocean. It 
was foggy out, and cool-looking, a nice morning to be curled up in bed in a 
nice cozy house with the woman you loved, Mulder thought.
      At that moment, they heard a door open, and Scully turned in his arms. 
At the door stood their son, his dark hair tousled from sleep and his blue 
eyes half-closed. He was wearing pajamas with little green aliens on them and 
held his most prized possession, a stuffed bear named Alex who was missing 
one eye. "Hi, sweetheart," Scully said, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. 
She held out her arms to him and William flew into them, curling up against 
his parents and closing his eyes once more. Scully wrapped her arms 
protectively around her son and laid her chin on top of his head. Mulder 
folded them both into his arms so that William and Dana rested on and against 
his bare chest, and he sighed in contentment.
      "I love you, Dana Scully," he whispered, burying his face in her hair. 
"Oh, Fox," she murmured. "I love you, too." And the family slept, except for 
Mulder. He'd started out on a quest for the truth. And he'd found it - in 
Scully.