From: Mary Kathryn MK Date: 26 Nov 2001 13:40:37 -0800 Subject: NEW: Redlum and Yllucs Source: atxc TITLE: Redlum and Yllucs AUTHOR: Mary Kathryn E-MAIL: Miracle52001@aol.com FEEDBACK: Is much loved! SPOILERS: None, really. KEYWORDS: MSR, RST SUMMARY: One night, Mulder and Scully look at the stars. NOTES: This takes place...probably season...five, maybe. It takes place whenever you want it to! ARCHIVE: Anywhere, take it!! But I want to know where! DISCLAIMER: Mulder and Scully don't belong to me. It was a gorgeous night, balmy and warm, and so he sat on the hood of his car, his jacket and tie removed, shirt sleeves rolled up, staring at the clear, starry sky. A small, fair figure approached the car. "Mulder? What're you doing?" she asked lightly. "C'mere, Scully," he said, glancing briefly over his shoulder. She walked around the car and stood beside it. He patted a space next to him on the hood, and beckoned her to join him. She scrambled up beside him. "I was just checking on a detail in the file on the murder victim. I went to your room, but you weren't there-" "I'm sorry, Scully, but can we not talk about the case right this second?" A flash of surprise crossed her face. "Sure." They sat there in silence for a few minutes. "So, what are you doing?" she asked. He kept his gaze trained at the sky. "Looking at the stars. Have you ever just sat back and done that, Scully?" She shrugged. "Sure I have, Mulder. It's so beautiful." A smile passed over his face. "When I was little, before Samantha was taken, I'd look up at the night sky, at the stars, and I'd pick one. I'd pretend I could see a planet next to it, and I'd look at it and imagine...I'd imagine what if there were people on that planet. People like us. I'd think, wouldn't it be neat if the people were exactly like us, that everyone here had a sort of twin living on that planet. It would be a sort of parallel universe sort of thing. There'd be someone just like me, who would understand me. He would like the same things I would like, he would think the things I think. In fact, at the very same moment I was looking up at him, he was looking up at me." "That's so...nice, Mulder." She smiled at him. "Are you being sarcastic?" "No! Really, I think it's a nice idea. Impossible of course, but..." "I know it's probably not true. It's just fun to think, you know?" He shrugged, and looked up at the sky again. "Hey, you know what that means! There'd be someone on that planet just like you, too." She laughed. "Yeah, I guess there would." "Her name would be Yllucs," he said thoughtfully. "Yllucs? Why Yllucs?" she asked. "Because that's Scully backwards. The poor guy like me would be named Redlum." She laughed again. "I wonder what they're doing right now," she said playfully. "Well, they're doing what we're doing, of course. They look the same we do, they do the same things, they think the same things..." After a few moments, she asked, "So, what would Redlum be thinking right now?" "Well, Redlum would be sitting on the hood of his car, next to his partner, looking at the sky and wondering why he can't see the truth, wondering why he can't find his sister." After a few more moments, she said, "Well, Yllucs wishes very much that she and Redlum could find the truth. In fact, she'll do anything to help him find it. And even though Redlum may act a little...crazy sometimes, Yllucs will stick by his side. No matter what." Mulder peered earnestly into Scully's eyes. "Redlum also is thinking how lucky he is to have someone like Yllucs. For years he was by himself with nobody to help him. No one else has ever respected and helped him like she has...he's never trusted anyone like he trusts Yllucs. He's never felt the way..he's never..." His words trailed off into silence. "Yllucs is very...grateful to have Redlum, too. She hopes he knows how much he means to her." "He-he thinks he knows. But even if he didn't mean as much to her as she does to him, he would still respect her, he would still need her, he would still love her, he would-" He realized just a second too late what he had said, and snapped his mouth shut. She wheeled around to face him, eyes shining, a smile playing at the corners of her mouth. "You-Redlum...Redlum loves Yllucs?" He had already said it, it was already out in the open, and there was nothing he could do about it. "Yes...yes he does." Scully smiled then, a whole-out, gums and teeth and everything smile, and whispered softly, lightly, "She loves him, too." No more words were spoken. Slowly, he brought his hand up to her cheek and traced her jaw. The smiles were gone from their faces, replaced with sheer anticipation. Slowly, achingly slowly, their faces inched together and their eyelids fluttered closed. Soft lips met soft lips and their silky tongues finally tangled in the most exquisitely sensual of kisses. Within seconds their first kiss was over, and they had had their second and third as well. Then came the fourth and fifth and sixth, until all the kisses blended into one. After a few minutes, they silently agreed that it would be best to move their activities into a motel room for the night. So while Mulder and Scully held hands and ran towards the building, somewhere very far away, two people named Redlum and Yllucs were doing the same. ~~ The End May the Ship Be With You Feedback is much appreciated!! Miracle52001@aol.com