From: XFilesFMDS@aol.com
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 22:29:43 EDT
Subject: "The Past The Present The Future" (Part 1) by Mel X Lady
Source: direct

TITLE: The Past, The Present The Future

AUTHOR: Mel X Lady

RATING: R 

CATEGORY: MSR

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SPOILERS: None

SUMMARY: Mulder and Scully find themselves in 1912.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Mulder or Scully. In fact, I own nothing that was 
mentioned in this story, so please don't sue me.

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"No Mulder, It doesn't work like that" Scully cried back as Mulder stood next 
to her, 
tears flowing in his eyes as Scully fought for their "truth".
"Scully, I can't... I won't"
"You won't what?" She yelled, now angry. Angry at him, 
angry at herself, angry at the world that she had forgotten 
existed outside the little world they held for such a brief moment in time.
"Scully, I didn't kiss her, she kissed me and I couldn't very well push her 
away, not 
in that situation"
"Then what were you doing IN that situation Mulder?" Scully screamed back at 
him.
"With *her*?"

Mulder stood silently, knowing that this is the moment of truth, 
where what he said right now would either destroy the only thing he's 
ever held so dear in his whole life, or save it, and rebuild it.


**************************************************************

That night Fox Mulder laid his head down on his pillow and thought about the 
horrible day he had.
He began thinking back on the week before, when all this had started.
"It's so simple" he muttered to himself
"Skinner had a F.B.I. trainie down there, her name was Monica, and she was 
learning about how to be an agent, and she needed to see ALL of the F.B.I., 
including the X-Files.  She had been waiting down there, I went down there 
before Scully, I saw Scully getting some coffee from the vending machine 
upstairs, why didn't I stop and say good morning?  If I had stopped, then I 
would have never met Monica, and she would have never had kissed me, Scully 
would have never seen that, and I would be with her right now."
"Damn it, why did I ever go down without Scully?"
Why he questioned as he fell off to a land of dreams, hoping he would take a 
turn into sweeter dreams.

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Mulder quickly realized where he was, he was standing out in the middle of 
Skinner's office, he noticed the clock said it was 11:21pm on October 13th.
Figures he thought to himself, seems like that's when everything happens.
Quckly Mulder turned around to see a Scully, in a sleek red dress, a change 
from her normal, daily attire.
Then he quickly saw the other half, the half he couldn't believe.  There was 
another man wrapped around her arms. Mulder quickly tried to acess the 
situation.
He quickly then realized who Scully had her arms wrapped around, who she was 
giving up all her love to, It was Assistant Director Skinner.

"Skinner! You son of a..."
"Temper Temper Temper, Mulder" Scully replied with her lipstick smeared and 
beads of sweat beginning to form on her forehead. 
"Scully, what are you doing here?" Mulder quickly demanded, his voice now 
both quivering and angrier then he had ever been in his whole life.

Scully quickly slid off of Skinner's desk and walked in front of Mulder.
"Mulder, Fox Mulder" She said, now twisting his tie teasingly, "I had no idea 
you even cared."
"Scully!" Mulder cried out loud.
" I love you!, Of corse I care, I mean, I've never loved anyone so much in my 
life, please don't do this to me, to us, to our future!"
"Our future, Mr. Mulder, I thought we gave that up."
"No, of corse not, Please Scully I "
"need you on this, blah blah blah, Sure...Fine...Whatever, Mulder, I hear 
that line daily.  Walter here, well, no lines, no stories, just love." She 
taunted him as she walked over, and played with the tie that was still around 
Skinner's neck. "So if you'll excuse us Mr. Mulder, we'd like our privicy" 
With that, Scully sat in Skinner's lap and spun the chair around, so the only 
thing Mulder could see was the back of the chair, and a red shoe land to the 
ground.

"SCULLY!" Mulder screamed and darted for the chair, but suddenly, he woke up 
on the ground, next to his couch.  Breathing heavely, he gasped for air as he 
feared that what he had seen was possibly true.
He quickly got up off the ground and tried to find a clock.  "2:23 am, April 
10th"
Mulder didn't sleep another wink that night.

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"Good Morning Mulder"  Scully said as a sleepy Mulder stumbled into the 
office.  Usually Mulder had time to get a cup of coffee in the morning, but 
he had spent an extra long time that morning forcing himself to go to work 
and be able to eye Scully without crying and Skinner without jumping ontop of 
him and screaming for his heart, which he was convinced Scully had taken and 
given to Skinner as a trophey.
"Good Morning Dana" Mulder said without thinking.
"Dana...Mulder, we decided." She started
"I know Scully, I'm sorry, I slipped"
"It's alright, How did you sleep?" She questioned him, the question almost 
knocked Mulder backward, I guess I'll have to lie to her, although I thought 
I would never have to again. Mulder thought to himself
"Pretty well,  I guess" he lied to her, 
It would be better if I had you to hold tight, feel your warmth, smell your 
hair, kiss your lips, stroke your cheek, make the whole world melt away, 
where only you and me would live, happily, forever.
"Mulder, Skinner wanted to see us up in his office, as soon as you came in." 
Scully said as Mulder began to check his e-mail.
"Did he come down here to say that or did he send one of his minions to say 
that." Mulder said as he began to get angrier with the thought of the Bastard 
touching his Scully.
"He sent an e-mail, Mulder, now is NOT the time to get touchy around Skinner. 
 He's supporting us, Mulder, remember?" 
"I remember Scully, I remember everything he's done for us." Mulder replied, 
trying to forget the horrible dream that had haunted him.

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"Good Morning Agents" Skinner started as Mulder and Scully entered the room.
Mulder began to remember everything, about where he had been standing, where 
he had first seen Skinner and Scully, a shudder ran down his spine, the 
thought of another man kissing his Scully, but, she wasn't 'his' anymore, no, 
he had given that up, the stupidest way he knew how.  Scully had walked into 
their office like any normal day, but that day, Monica, she was down there, 
and she had impulsivly kissed Mulder, he had no idea why, but she had just 
thrown herself on him, and Mulder couldn't get her off without hurting her.
"You are probably wondering why I called you two up here" Skinner said as he 
tilted himself back a little in his chair.
"Yes, Sir, I was accually currious of that myself" Scully said, looking over 
at Mulder, who was obviously listening, but not completely in tune. 
"Well Agents, I have a case, it's so bizarre, I couldn't even send it on 
down, I'm intrigued by it accually.
Are you both familar with the Titanic sinking of 1912?" 
"Does it include a heart of the Ocean and a 100 year old woman who has a 3 
day flash back?" Mulder scarcasticly replied with a grin on his face.
"Agent Mulder" Skinner started, and then continued "I need you both to go out 
to the research ship, it's out where the ship sunk."
"And why would we are we going out there, Sir?" Mulder asked, trying to keep 
all scarcasim at a low.
"Well, they believe they have found something in the remains, but they're not 
sure what to make of it." Skinner read from the report.
"Well be out there by night fall." Scully said as she stood up and began to 
head toward the door.
Mulder took the case file and followed Scully out the door.

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"And this will be your quarters, Agent Scully" a tall man with blue eyes and 
a dark smile said as he led her to the room where she would be staying.
"Thank you." Agent Scully said, she wasn't sure of his name since the captain 
of the group had called two men to help the agents, so he was either Smith or 
Brown.  Mulder had been taken down another hallway, She'd have to find it 
later, after she was settled in.
"If you'll excuse me, I'm needed up deck" the man she decided was probably 
Brown said.
Scully walked into the smaller room, it was fairly nice, it had a bed, a 
chest of drawers, a bathroom, and a painting of the Titanic hanging on the 
wall. 
That can't be the Titanic, Scully thought to herself, if only has 3 smoke 
stacks.  She leaned in for a closer looked and saw the gold plate with the 
title of the painting in it. 
"The Queen Anne" Scully murmered outloud, "Of corse, I'm not gonna doubt THAT"
While she finished unpacking, a suddle knock came to her door.
"Come in" Scully called out as she placed a folded white shirt ontop of a 
grayish one in her drawers
"Miss Scully, a deeper voice said, deeper then Mulder's, but not as deep as 
the man she had decided was Brown.
"Yes?" She asked as she turned around but then she quickly hit the ground and 
saw bright flashes of lights.

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"Miss Scully!" a voice cried out as she lay on the ground, her head splitting 
a little but it wasn't much.
Quickly a set of hands wrapped around her and helped her up onto her own 
feet. 
"There ya go ma'am, When I saw you fall, I almost thought it was my fault, 
startling you and all."
Scully quickly accessed the situation, There was the same man who had helped 
her into her room, but now he was wearing a white star line suit and was 
treating Scully as if she where royality.
"I'm sorry, it was my fault, I must have tripped over the rug or 
something..." Scully had trouble finishing her sentence because of what she 
now saw, she almost fell down again.  Her once simple room, with the bed and 
drawers and Queen Anne painting, well, they where now red walls with a mirror 
and furniture.
"Which room am I in" Scully asked the attendent, who was still standing 
there, studying the room too.
"You're in the sitting room, miss Scully, You're bed room is along that door 
way, and another exit is along that hallway" he said as pointing along to 
different sides of the room.
"Oh, Okay, Thank you" she said, as she began to wander the room, but that's 
when she noticed her legs wouldn't move as freely as they normally would. She 
looked down and noticed she had on an eligent dress, alot like the kinds she 
had seen in Titanic.  She and Mulder had gone to see that together, not as a 
date, but as a chance meeting.  He was there with the Lone Gunmen, they where 
busy pointing out the people who would later make history and Mulder was busy 
paying too much attention to Kate Winslet.
Scully then decided it was time to check out the rest of the ship, and hoped 
to run into Mulder, and see if they could make some sense out of this. 
Scully checked herself out in the mirror, she looked like she was in a 
picture that she had seen in her High School History books.
With that she left the room and prayed silently that she would find Mulder, 
and that they could fix this.

*******************************************************

Mulder was busy walking around the ship, he couldn't help it, he had always 
been fascinated with the ship and the people on this ship.  He had gone with 
Scully to see the movie, of corse it wasn't a date, the Lone Gunmen had come 
with Mulder, while they pointed out the potential criminals of the upcoming 
20th Centuary, he had imagined he was Jack, and Scully was Rose.  Of corse if 
he had his way, Jack wouldn't have froze to death and Celine Dion would have 
really been on the ship, so of corse, he could show Scully he loved her more 
then a Diva. 
"Good evening, Sir" a strong voice with a hint of a british accent said 
outloud as he passed by the deck.
"Good Evening" Mulder replied, grinning, he had always wanted to be respected 
by his peers.  It was a secret ambition he had held at heart.
"I'm afraid we haven't met" The gentlemen said "I'm Jaccob Astor"
"Well hello Jaccob Astor, I'm Fox Mulder" Mulder said with a now stern face.
"Fox... That's a very interesting name, where you named after the animal?"
"I'm not truely sure, I think either that or it was a name somewhere back in 
my family."
"That's very interesting, if you'll excuse me" Jaccob said as he walked off 
to a woman, probably his wife.
Mulder began walking around again, he was trying to find Scully, so they 
could find what caused this and try to reverse it, Mulder wanted to go home, 
before April 14th at least.

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Scully walked along the deck.  It was getting late, almost 11:00 there, 
sometime in the afternoon in D.C., well, her DC was 88 years away.  88 years 
of change, 88 years of love, loss, anger, forgiveness, technology, surprises 
and huge steps forward in human development. Except there was something that 
human's have never been able to overcome, Jelously.  Scully thought she had 
overcome that.  She believed Mulder loved her and she loved Mulder. 
"I still love Mulder, he's so good to me" she murmered outloud as she 
realized she was on the Bow of the ship. She carefully stepped over the 
anchor and chains that alligned the deck. She remembered seeing them in the 
movie.
"Now, where's my Jack?" She asked out loud as she began to lean over the 
railing at the front of the ship.
A gentle tear slipped from her eye as she realized she was alone on the ship. 
 Mulder was 88 years away, by the time she hit 2000, she would be long gone. 
She would be long gone before Monday. She knew she probably wouldn't take a 
life boat. She didn't want to upset time. She didn't want to take the seat of 
someone who influenced the President of the United States or someone who 
would help invent the computer. Scully then looked out into the darkness, 
wondering what would become of her future.  Wondering of the 2000 Scully was 
still in D.C., or on assignment with Mulder a day along. It was Saturday 
night now. Scully had investigated the ship. She'd met the captain, he was 
very handsome and intelegent. Suddenly she closed her eyes and pulled herself 
up on the bars. She had checked all over. She couldn't find Mulder, he wasn't 
there. She couldn't kid herself any longer. The ship had reached the point of 
no return. She would have to end her's right here and now, so she couldn't 
end someone elses or be perseuded to change her mind.  She quickly sat down 
on the bar and looked over the ship, she realized by falling she would be 
killed instantly.  
"No pain" she replied outloud.
She quickly said a prayer.
"Dear Lord, I'm sorry I have to do this, but this is for the good of 
thousands of people to come, please forgive me. Amen"
"Scully?" A voice quickly came out of no where.
She quickly looked back. Only one person had called her Scully.
"Mulder?" she cried back, tears now running down her cheeks.
"Scully!" the voice cried out louder then before and he took off toward the 
Bow, toward Scully.
"Mulder!" she said as she began to pull her legs back over the bar. By the 
time she got both legs back over, Mulder was practicly picking her up. Mulder 
picked her up and grasped her so tightly, but she didn't mind, she was 
greatful he had come then, and not 2 seconds later.
"Oh Mulder, I thought I'd never see you again." 
"Scully, I."
"Dana, Mulder, I'd like you to call me Dana here"
"Dana" he said with a somewhat confused look on his face.
She quickly reached in and kissed his lips with gentle force.  She breathed 
in and out quickly, hoping that this would be a clear sign to him on what she 
wanted.  He quickly pulled her off the bar where she was still sitting and he 
held her back so that her breast where firmly against his chest.  Pulling 
away for enough time and breathe to ask, Mulder quickly breathed through his 
mouth,
"Dana, we've got to do something."
"Mulder, I know, The ship is going to sink in 24 hours, and we have got to 
make it where we don't exist, what if I was forced to take someone's seat, 
someone who could influence something else, that could alter reality as we 
know...knew it."
"We can't take that risk." Mulder said as he kissed her lips again, he then 
reached for her hand and they ran back inside to Mulder's suite.

*****************************************

Mulder opened the door for Scully.  She walked in before he did into his 
suite.  They where unsure of what would happen next, but a night of passion 
was uncalled for.  They had to think of a way to get off the ship, and back 
into 2000.
"Alright, Dana, we've already ruled that we can't save the ship." Mulder said 
after he took off his jacket and her shaw.
"Okay, Mulder, how did we get here in the first place?"
"There where streams of light and a sudden but painless shock, I wound up on 
the ground, and in here."
Scully stood up and began to walk around the room.  It was like her's, except 
it was on the opposite of the ship.
"Dana, I have two theories, and no way to prove either one."
"Which would be..." she said, leaving him with an open floor so he could 
explain his ideas to her.
"Well, I remember a case where I went back in time, to the Queen Anne" 
Scully's eyes lit up, while that case, Mulder had said he loved her for the 
first time. "I jumped into the water and you and the Lone Gunmen found me, 
near death, but you found me."
"Mulder, that was different though, that was in warmer water, this water is 
freezing, we could die if we jumped into the water." Scully said, her eyes 
starting to die down. She missed her mom, and she missed her life back in 
D.C.  She didn't want to hang around to see World War One , it would be scary 
to know what will happen, for 88 years of knowing what would happen.
"My other plan" mulder began "is where we stay in our suites and try to stay 
there for the whole time.  That way, when the ship goes down, we might see 
those flashes again, and wind up back on the recovery ship."
"Mulder, what if we don't see the flashes."
"We'll die..."
Their eyes quickly lowered to the ground, her mouth opened slightly and air 
gently slipped between her lips, In and out, in and out, in and out.  Mulder 
began to nibble on his lower lip.
"Mulder, I think I have the only solution to the problem."
A gentle tear slipped out of his eye and rolled down his cheek.
"Mulder, I'll jump into the Atlantic, You stay in your suite."
"No!" Mulder accidently let that jump out of his throat.
"My body is stronger, I'll jump, you stay."
"I can't fight, okay, we'll assume our positions at 11:40 tomorrow night."
Mulder quickly leaned in and kissed Scully, his Scully. He had worked so hard 
to win her over in the first place, and he was not going to loose her 81 
years before he was suppose to meet her. 

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Scully quickly walked to her room.  It was Sunday night, 10:50 to be exact.  
Mulder was going to start walking along the decks in 40 minuets.  Scully then 
turned a corner and ran into a man.  I'm sorry, I didn't see you..." Scully 
could hardly finish her sentence.  It was the Cigarette Smoking Man, but he 
wasn't dressed in the traditional clothes of the 1910's.  No, he was wearing 
clothes from 2000.
"How did you get here?" She said with a snarl on her face.  She didn't like 
him, he had led Mulder and herself on for years, but of corse, he had always 
known the truth.  The Bastard had always known the truth.
"Miss Scully" he said with a smile on his face, he lit a Morley.
"I never expected to find you here, of corse, you never thought you'd see me 
either."
"How did you get here?" she asked, leading him into a darker corner of the 
hall way, she couldn't let anyone see him, see her conversing with him.
"I figured, you'd like a way to get home." he said, his teeth yellow with the 
tobacco he wasn't suppose to start smoking for 54 years.
"Perhaps, First, how did you get here?" she said, now whispering. He tapped 
the ashes from his Cigarette,
"Same way you did Agent Scully, and Agent Mulder too, it's also the same way 
you can get home."
"Why should I trust you?" She asked, now snarling again at him, she didn't 
like him, but she was helpless, they had only one chance to get home, and two 
ways to do it.  Suddenly, CJB Spender reached out, grabbed Scully's back, 
brought her to him and kissed her. His mouth tasted like an ash tray.  She 
quickly pulled away, but he was stronger then he looked.  She put her hands 
on his face and pulled him away.  After about 20 seconds of trying, she 
managed to push him away.  She quickly backed off and felt nausious.
"Now tell me, how do I go home?" she screamed, discusted that his lips had 
touched her.  
"The same way you got here." he said, a pleasured look on his face.  Scully 
quickly looked at Mulder's pocket watch, "11:35!" she screamed, how did time 
move so fast?
"Go Agent Scully." He said as he shiffted off into the shadows.  She didn't 
follow him as she began to run to the deck, she had to stop Mulder.

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Mulder stared into the deep blue ocean.  It was georgeous and undisturbed.  
He took a deep breath.  He quickly looked at a pocket watch he'd picked up 
some where, he had given his to Scully. Mulder looked back to the Ocean.  He 
decided to go ahead and climb on the bar.  He figured he'd might as well 
prepare to jump.
"Well, here goes nothing." he said as he pulled himself over and began to 
slip off the rail.
"Mulder!" Scully screamed so loud that he almost lost his ballance.
"Scully?" he said as he turned his head back.
"Don't Jump!, I figured it out, but we only have a few minuets. Comeon!" she 
was pulling on his arm now.
"Dana, we decided not to do this, we would try..." 
"No, see, when we go to our rooms, we'll wind up where we're suppose to, back 
in 2000!"  Scully bearly finished as they both looked up and saw the 
silhouete of a large item looming out in the front of the ship.
"Oh my God." Mulder murmered as he began to pull himself and Scully back from 
the railing.  They both quickly began to run, but Scully stopped Mulder and 
she turned her head back.  The iceberg was huge, and she was stuck, she could 
only stare, stare at the ice berg and what it ment, she could also only hear 
the cries of the crewmen screaming about the iceberg.  Suddenly everything 
started to go light around her, she held Mulder's hand still, as everything 
spun up around them.  What only seemed like seconds later, the ship stopped 
after a huge start. Then the people started running by, not noticing Mulder 
or Scully.  People started to become hysterical, screaming and pushing.  
Finally, the lights went out and the ship began to go under.  Mulder and 
Scully staired into eachothers eyes as the ship began to go under and 
everything went White.

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Scully was awaken by the yells of men.  She quickly pulled her head up as she 
looked around.  There they where, they were back in 2000, on the rescue ship, 
they made it.  Scully smiled as she reached over and began to shake Mulder.
"Mulder, wake up, we're home." she said, smiling as she looked at what the 
men where yelling at.  They were lowering another sub into the sea to look at 
the Titanic.  Scully looked back at Mulder, who was still peacefully asleep. 
The wind gently blew, it was gentle, but cold enough to send shivers down her 
spine.  She reached over and shook Mulder again, but still no response.
"Oh God, Mulder?!" she tried to yell, but it came out as a whisper.
"Oh my God, Mulder!" she yelled louder this time, as tears began to fall from 
her eyes.
"No Mulder, not now, not after all we've been through, not after that, not 
after the last 7 years, please don't leave! I need you, I'm sorry I was so 
wrong, I want to be with you, I can't live without you, please."
She reached over and turned him over face up on her lap.  She realized he 
didn't have a pulse.  She forgot all her medical training and broke further 
into tears.  5 Men walked over to where the agents sat.  1 took Scully in for 
coffee and to warm her up.
The other 4 took Mulder in to see the ship's docotor, to make sure there was 
nothing he could do.  That night, Scully made the call to A.D. Skinner, to 
tell him that Agent Mulder had died.  She would wait until she was back in 
D.C. to explain the Time Traveling and the theory that Mulder's body had made 
it back to 2000 okay, but his soul was somewhere else in time.
"I'm very sorry for the loss Agent Scully, I'd like it if you took some time 
off."  Skinner replied over the phone.
That night, she sat on her bed, still in a daze of what happened.
"Do you need anything, anything at all?" a gentlemen asked from the door way.
"No, I'll be fine, thank you." she reliped, her tone never changing as she 
cried while he shut the door.
Scully then reached into her pocket and felt something round, she then pulled 
it out, it was the pocketwatch she had borrowed from Mulder. The thought made 
her break into sobing again, but she then stopped.  She knew what she had to 
do.  She placed the pocketwatch on the bed and left the cabin.