From: Voet Date: 10 Apr 2000 10:29:45 -0700 Subject: New: That first kiss (1/1) Title: That first kiss (1/1) Author: Tanja E-mail: voet@tanja-myrna.demon.nl or xfshippers@writeme.com Rating: PG-13 Keywords: MSR, pure fluff Summary: A girl asks her mother about her first kiss. Archive: Gossamer Archive + Souls Entwined Archive always! Anywhere else, sure, but please ask me first ? Disclaimer: They're not mine. They belong to CC, 1013 and Fox Network. I know they're not real, I'm just a little nuts by doing this ? Please don't sue me, you wouldn't get much money out of it anyway! Joey, thanks for beta-reading! That first kiss (1/1) "Mom?" "Yes?" Dana Scully looked up from the magazine she was reading, when her daughter walked into the living room. She smiled at her, even after 16 years it kept amazing her how much Kat looked like her father. The same hair color, the hazel eyes that she knew so well. The same half- smile when she was thinking about something she didn't want to tell them yet and as stubborn as her dad could be sometimes. She had been lucky (as her father had told her many times) to get her mother's nose. Except her mother's nose, she had also inherited her mother's temper. Scully women didn't get easily, but when they did, it was better to stay as far away as possible, until the storm had calmed down. Katherine sat down on the ground, leaning against the couch, where her mother was sitting. "Can I ask you something?" "Sure." Dana put her book away, ready for whatever question her daughter was going to ask. "What was your first kiss like?" "My first kiss?" Her mother looked a little surprised, but recovering quickly she smiled, when she thought of the time she got her first kiss. Or maybe it was better to say, the kiss that she thought of as her first kiss. Of course she had been kissed before that, many times. But it had all been nothing, compared to that one kiss. Until that time, she had always thought that a kiss was just a kiss. Nice, nothing too earth shocking, kisses from her ex-boyfriends (not that she had had tons of them, only a few) had been like that, nothing more than just a kiss. That first kiss however had been different. Maybe because she had been waiting for it for years, maybe because she had been in love with him longer than she could remember. Everything had been different with him. She had always told herself, that love at first sight didn't exist and yet she had fallen in love with him, the moment she looked into his eyes. She had always been one to follow the rules, but with him it had been different. She couldn't even count all the rules she had broken with him around. Or all the times their boss had called them into his office, for one of his famous "are the two of you out of your mind?-speeches" Funny, how things had changed with time. Through the years, their boss had become more than their superior. A friend, the man who had given her away on her wedding day. A grandfather to their daughter, after his marriage to her mother, Kat's grandmother. A man she now saw as her own father, her own family. And her partner had become her husband. There had been a lot of first times with her husband and she remembered them clearly one-by-one. The first kiss, the first house they had bought together, the time he had carried her over the threshold of that same house. The first day home from the hospital, after Kat had been born. And she could go on for a long time. All those times were special to her and they had a special place in her heart, but none had been as special as that first kiss. She hadn't seen it coming. After 7 long years, she had given up the hope that it was ever going to happen. And suddenly it had, it had been a normal day like all others, she had been working on a report, when he had walked into their office. A determined look on his face, he had walked straight to her. Without saying a word, he had pulled her out of her chair and into his arms, leaning down to kiss her for the first time. It had been sweet, tender, loving and passionate at the same time. Everything she had been waiting for. In one moment, he had turned her world upside down and back again. Hours later, back in her apartment, lying in his arms, she had asked him what had made him kiss her all of a sudden. He had simply said that he had been tired of waiting and pretending any longer. Maybe, if he had thought about it longer, he would have lost the courage again, like he had many times before, but this time he hadn't. She was still thankful he hadn't. "Mom?" Kat waved her hand in front of her mother's face. Getting out of her reveries, Dana looked at her daughter. "Huh? Kat?" "Yes? Mom, where were you with your thoughts?" "The first time your father kissed me." She smiled dreamily. "He was the first who ever kissed you? I thought you said it took him 7 years to do that?" Her daughter frowned. "Not the first man to kiss me, but yes, he gave me my first kiss." "I don't get it, how is that possible? Somebody kissed you before and he gave you your first kiss?" Kat was a little lost by her mother's story. "I know you probably don't understand right now, but you will later." Her mother promised her. "When will that be?" "You will know, when the time is there." Was the last thing her mother said with a secret smile on her face. She was convinced that Kat would find it one day. Maybe not tomorrow, or the day after, but maybe next week or maybe it would be years, but someday she would. And when that day came, she would realize what her mother had meant. Because a kiss wasn't just a kiss. The end