From: "Jerry Rowe" Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 21:30:52 -0500 Subject: Never The Same 04 Source: direct Never The Same IV By: Foxy11814 Category: SRA Keywords: Mulder/Scully Romance Archive: At Gossamer, anywhere else let me know. I'd prefer that you read the first three stories before this one, but I believe it could most likely stand on it's own. You can catch on fast. I believe that I'm turning this into a story series. I'm not sure as of yet, but I'm truly committed to this story line. I hope you enjoy reading these stories as much as I do writing them. Thanks! ............................... Mulder couldn't wait to get me back to Arlington. I missed him so much, and he seemed as if he missed me just as much. After I had got through e-mailing Frohike, Mulder came into my room and started packing for me. He told me he had arranged for us to be back in Washington by tomorrow morning. ............................. I'm excited about being back home as Fox Mulder's fiance. Everything in Arlington and in the surrounding areas seems different. It's almost as if the world knows I'm happy and that it's obliged to make the rest of the world as happy as I am. Mulder is whistling. He's pulling up to his apartment building and he parked the car. Then he turned to me and said, "Welcome home, Scully." I just grinned. I can hardly believe that Mulder followed me to Georgia. He travelled all that way to get me back into his life. I also think that I never really left it. Maybe I knew all along that he was going to come and get me. But in either case, I'm just glad that he loves me. We walked into his apartment building and got on the elevator. Once in there, Mulder turned to me. "Scully, I don't know how to express how glad I am that you came back with me. I will never let you feel unwanted again. I will never hurt you again. I promise you. I love you." I felt tears spring to my eyes as he grabbed my hand and led me into the familiar hallway, outside his apartment door. All of a sudden, he stopped and turned around to face me. I looked at him confused, but Mulder smiled and said, "I just want a chance to finish what I started at this very spot." I knew what he was talking about. He brought me close and touched my face like he did the last time we were in the hallway facing each other like this. He looked at me as he did then. So vulnerable...it was as if he was saying that if I left him, he'd die. I leaned into his arms and tilted my head up to give him better access. Just as his lips were about to graze mine, he took his hand and felt behind my neck. I smiled. He was making sure there wasn't any bees there. As soon as he was sure, he finally kissed me. We kissed for what seemed like hours until I felt a tapping on my shoulder. "Excuse Miss and Mr. Mulder. I don't mean to interrupt you, but your neighbors are complaining." Mulder sighed. "Well, I guess my neighbors don't have anything better to do than to stand at there doors and spy on each other. No wonder I'm going crazy!" Then he turned to me. "That was there plan all along, Scully. The government is using my neighbors to drive me crazy or to get me so paranoid that I won't even know what to do with myself." I laughed. "Maybe they succeeded." Mulder just smiled. He took my hand and led me to his apartment door. He got out his keys and stepped inside. I followed him in to find the apartment looking quite romantic. I had to hand it to The Lone Gunmen. They sure know their stuff. Just then, Diana Fowley walked out of Mulder's bedroom wearing nothing but her underwear. She came right up to Mulder and kissed him. I felt very queasy. It's obvious Mulder lied to me. He got me to come back to Washington to make me look like a fool. I gave up David for this!? I turned and ran out of Mulder's apartment. I had to get back to Georgia and explain to David that he was right and that I know he couldn't take me back right away, but I would like him to help me get my life back. As I got to the elevator, I felt Mulder's arm wrap around my waist. I screamed. "Mulder! Let me go! How could you lie to me?! I left David for you, and you don't even want me. How could you bring me here if you were still dating Diana? I can never forgive you for this." "Scully, I don't know what you are talking about. I did not expect her to be in my apartment. I certainly didn't want her to kiss me. I told her to get out. Come back in Scully." Mulder looked at me as if he was about to cry. How could leave him when he looked like that? "Okay, Mulder." I walked back in and Diana was leaving. I smiled at her. I couldn't help it. As Mulder walked into the kitchen I stuck my head outside the apartment door and yelled, "Diana! I just wanted to say that I guess the better woman did win. Good-bye." Diana looked at me with eyes that could kill, but I gave her the same look right back. She, then, came back up to me and said the only thing she could. "Maybe you have won for now, but we have a past together, and incase you haven't noticed...he always comes back to me. He'll leave you and I will have him again, so we'll see who the best woman is." Just then, Mulder walked behind me and said,"Diana, Dana is the best woman. I made the mistake of coming back to you too many times now. I'm not going to make that mistake ever again. I'm over you. Scully has made sure of that. I love her, and you mean nothing to me in that sense anymore. I can't trust you. What makes you think I would want to be your lover after you betrayed me like that?" "Well, Mulder. I had to try. After all, you betrayed Scully, and it seems like she wants to be your lover." Mulder then grinned at me and said, "No, Diana, you're wrong. Scully doesn't want to be my lover. She's going to be my wife." Diana then shook her head. "That's just it." Then she turned to me. "I've been here before, Agent Scully, in this very situation, but in your shoes. He will marry you, but he will leave you because the X-Files is his life. He'll never rest until Samantha is found and that will drive the two of you apart. He will never love you completely. He'll never treat you the way you deserve. I can live with that, because I understand him. I'm like him. You on the other hand, are his opposite. You can't possibly understand him. And, what are you going to do when your marriage is on the line and he chooses Samantha and the X-Files over you. It will happen. It happened to me. I guess you'll have to learn the hard way." I looked very nervous. Some of what she said scared me. What if she was right? Maybe I'm so inlove with Mulder that I can't see what is truly happening. Maybe Mulder does love me, but I know our relationship will cause problems for the X-Files. I won't be able to transfer back into the X-Files division. But I can't bare him doing it alone. But then I remembered something. "Diana, I know you might not be aware of this, but Mulder has chose me over the X-Files more times than I can count. He has proved his love to me again and again. I'm not you, and I think Mulder and I can make this work." Diana looked at me as if I was an innocent child that didn't understand the real world. "But what about Samantha?" "There was a clone of Samantha, that Mulder had found once. We actually thought it was her, and Mulder traded her for me. He tried to save us both, but he still risked who he thought was his sister to rescue me. But that doesn't matter. I would never make Mulder choose between me and his sister. I guess that you made him choose and that was your mistake. Now, it's my turn to show Mulder that I love him for who he is and who is will be...not for who he can be." Mulder turned and smiled at me. Then he spoke, "That's right, Diana. That's why Scully and I will make it work between us. We really do love each other and I may not understand her all the time, but at least we try and at least we know what is important to one another. We would never use that against each other. And, we would never try to change one another." Diana just shook her head and left. I could barely contain myself. I kissed Mulder and then went to shut his door. "Diana did all of this. God, how could she even think that I would take her back?" Mulder asked, looking at his apartment. "I don't think Diana did this. I told the Gunmen to set something romantic up. I guess she just wanted to take credit for it." "Oh. Well, thank you. Now I feel touched about this." I laughed. "Oh, Mulder. I was honestly scared when I seen her. I thought you were going to choose her over me again." "Scully you should know better than that. I love you and only you. I realize that maybe you feel this way because I got to earn your trust again, but that will be done. You don't ever have to doubt my feelings toward you. I will never leave you, and I will never allow you to leave me. You are my life and I can't wait to make you Mrs. Fox Mulder." I had tears in my eyes. Mulder seemed to always know what to say. I can't wait to marry him either. The things in the car that need to be taken up can wait until tomorrow. For right now, I just want to cuddle with the man I love and dream about spending the rest of lives together. .................................... Outside Mulder's Apartment Building "They're together.....yes, I'm sure.......I'm not going to lose him that easily.....I think we need to call David.... Yes, David Castle, Scully's ex-boyfriend in Georgia... he could prove to be very useful....He still loves Scully .....He'll help us. He wants her back. He'll be a fool not to help us......If you want to bust them up, you'll call him....I believe that if they can be torn apart that the only two people that can do it would be me and David..... I'm sure of it....Of course, I don't really want him. It's just the point of the matter.......I don't lose what's mine to anybody....*BEEP* As Diana put her cell phone back into her pocket, she looked wickedly up at Mulder's apartment and laughed. She couldn't wait to get David into town. Together, they will make sure that Mulder and Scully will never see their wedding day to each other. ..................................... To Be Continued. "Never The Same V" coming soon! Other fanfic: http://sites.netscape.net/foxy11814/ Feedback at foxy11814@xfilesfan.com