From: Char Priolo Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:31:22 -0700 Subject: New: To Make you feel my love (1/1) Title: To make you feel my love Author -Char Priolo & Tracey Reichert E-Mail address: Char = Marajsky@snip.net and Tracey = dkscully@bigplanet.com Archive: Anywhere and everywhere Rating -PG Category - V, S, MSR (Is there anything else?) Spoilers -US5 including THE movie. Disclaimers: None of these characters belong to me. I'm just borrowing them and I promise to return them in good or excellent condition to their original owners. Summary - Mulder does something special for his partner's birthday Notes: Please be gentle to Tracey, this is her first XF story she has written! This is my fifth or sixth XF story (I lost count already!!) To make you feel my love By: Char Priolo & Tracey Reichert 02/23/99 7:30am Mulder arrived early that morning with his partner's birthday present under his arm, knowing she would not be there this early. He placed the small box wrapped in Star Wars wrapping paper on her desk (yes she has one now!). He hoped she did not have plans for her birthday tonight, it took him weeks and $300 a pop for these Garth Brooks tickets. Front row center, how could she not love him! Mulder knew Dana was a newbe to country music, but he knew she loved Garth. He even bought his new CD "Double Live" so he would know most of the songs. There were even a few that reminded him of his love for her. "To make you feel my love" an old Bob Dylan song that Garth does on this CD was his favorite. This will be the song he would dedicate to her if he could. "I will get back stage and ask Mr. Brooks if he would sing it from me to her." He thought to himself. 9:02am Dana walked into their office bright eyed. "Good morning Mulder! Coffee?" She asked as she hung up her coat and placed her bag in the bottom drawer of her desk. "No thanks, I had my five cups already." "Wow! What time did you come in today?" She asked as she grabbed her coffee cup from her desk (a Cathy cup!) not noticing the box. "7:30. Since we got the files back I have a lot of cleaning up." He said as he read his file. "Ok, I'll be right back." She said as she left the office in search of coffee (they still haven't got a new maker.) 9:35am "Sometimes I really hate birthdays!" Dana said as she came back to their office. "What happened?" Mulder asked as stopped reading the file he had in his hand. "Everyone had to stop me and say Happy Birthday, I'm on my third cup of coffee already!" She said as she sat down at her desk and noticed for the first time the present. "What's this?" She asked as she ripped the paper off the box. "Just a little something for your birthday." He answered as she opened the box. "Oh my God!! Mulder how did you get these? This concert has been sold out for weeks!" She said as the tears threating to spill. "I have my ways. Anyway, do you want to go to the Garth Brooks concert with me tonight?" "Of course, I would love to. Oh Mulder this is the best present you ever gave me, except for the second chip and going to the ends of the earth to save me." She said as a tear ran down her cheek. As she walked over to him and hugged him. "Thank you Mulder, for not just the tickets, but for everything you have done for me." 6:00pm "Coming." Dana yelled as she walked/hoped to the door while trying to put her other shoe on at the same time. "Mulder, how did I know you would be an half an hour early?" "I aim to please! Anyway, I have something to do before the concert." Mulder said as Dana grabbed her coat as the walked out of her apartment. "What are you going to do there Mulder?" Dana asked as he place his hand at the small of her back gilding her to his car. "Nothing, I swear!" He said as he crossed his fingers that were behind her back. 6:30pm As he paid for the parking lot at the concert hall, Dana waited for him in the lounge. But paying for parking was not the only thing he was doing. 6:35pm "Can I help you sir?" The big security guard asked Mulder. Mulder flashed him his FBI ID and said. "I need to talk with Mr. Brooks about a case I'm investigating. It's urgent I talk to him ASAP. Now will you please let me pass and let me do my job, or do I have to arrest you?" He threatened the guard, who just stepped aside. Mulder knocked on the dressing room door. He heard a southern male voice saying, "Come in." Mulder walked in to find Garth Brooks sitting on a couch while people were whizzing by. "Can I help you, Mr. ---" Garth asked Mulder. "Um. .. Agent Mulder I'm from the FBI, can I talk to you alone, sir? It's important." Mulder stumbled nervously, showing Garth Brooks his FBI ID. "Sure, ok people take 10, out, come on." Garth clapped his hands as everyone left the room. "Ok Agent Mulder, now how can I help you?" "Um.. It's a personal favor." Mulder said as he looked at his shoes. Garth looked at him with a puzzled look. "Ok, what can I do for you?" "Well.. Today is my partner's birthday. She has been through so much in the past few years. I wanted to tell her how I feel, but every time I do, she seems to think I'm drugged up or spooky. Can you sing "To make you feel my love" to her from me? Please Mr. Brooks I need your help. I'm sorry I scared you with the way I came in here, but I'm at a lost. I'm desperate for your help." Mulder finished as he slide down the wall he was leaning up against. "Well Agent Mulder, most people who come barging in like you I would had removed, but you look like you need help. I will do what you ask and maybe a few of my own suprises. Where will you be sitting?" "Front row center." "Ok, it's a plan. Now if you don't mind I need to get ready." Garth Brooks stood slowly to show Mulder to the door. "By the way, what's your partner's name?" "Dana Scully." "Ok, I'll see you and Dana later tonight. And have a good time." Garth said as he closed the door and let out a heavy sigh. 7:00pm Lounge Mulder sneaked up on Dana and hugged her from behind. "Guess who?" He whispers in her ear, as she jumped. "Mulder, you scared me. Where were you? I know it doesn't take 30 minutes to pay for parking." "Sorry, I got lost in this place, I couldn't find the lounge. I'm here now! Let's get to our seats, the show starts in 1/2 hour." He said as he placed his hand at the small of her back, guiding her out of the lounge. 7:30pm As they settled in their seats, the lights dimmed in the arena and then went out completely. The roar of the crowd began then and became deafening as a solitary figure in blackwith a cowboy hat rose up from beneath the stage. Scully was on the edge of her seat, her face flushed with excitement at the scene unfolding before her. Garth was as wonderful as she expected, and he sang her every favorite song of his. An hour into the show, Garth said "I have a very special surprise for someone here tonight. There's a really lovely lady here who had some lucky guy come backstage to request that she be wished a happy birthday. Where is Dana Scully?" He asked, smiling. Scully looked up at Mulder, who was grinning like a Chesire cat. "Oh my God! Mulder I don't believe you went back and asked Garth to wish me a Happy Birthday. How did you arrange this?" she asked excitedly. But before Mulder could answer, Garth had a security guard escort Scully to the stage and Garth helped her to the chair waiting for her. "This was something your partner, Fox, wanted to have arranged for your birthday. Since he knows how much this song means to you, it is going out to you from him. If I may say so, it sure seems like you are very special to him. And with that he began, "When the rains' blowin' in your face And the whole world is on your case I would offer you a warm embrace To make you feel my love" Scully could not move or speak; she was so overcome with emotions she didn't even understand. For all these years, he had been a friend, confidante, mentor, and the one person she could open her heart to and trust completely. But now looking down at him, with tears in his eyes, she knew they had come to a turning point in their relationship. In his eyes, she saw and fought the love and concern that he could no longer keep hidden. She couldn't contain the pent-up feelings she tried to conceal as Garth continued, "There ain't nothin that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you Make you happy make your dreams come true To make you feel my love" Scully began sobbing quietly into her hands, thinking back to when Mulder traveled to Antarctica with the cure for the virus she was infected with. Garth looked over when he was done, and when he saw her still crying, he said, "Now, Dana I wasn't that bad was I?" and he laughed as he gently touched her shoulder. "O.K., Mulder, front and center." Next thing she knew, Mulder was on the stage and Garth handed him the mike. "Don't worry folks, I am not gonna sing." as the crowd began to laugh. He said, "I have some unfinished business to take care of right now." And as he said that, he pulled Scully gently to him and kissed her with all the intensity and passion his soul was yearning to show her. He bent down on one knee, and the crowd enthusiastically cheered him on. He said quietly, and with a voice unsteady and choked with emotion, "Dana, you and I have been through so much together. I have not thought that anyone would stick by me after all that has happened, good times and the bad. And I realize that I have been the reason for the bad. Without me, you never would have had to face Pfaster, Tooms, Barry and most of all your illness. And you would be able to be a mother again." At that point, Scully grabbed his hand, pausing to wipe away the solitary tear flowing down his cheek. "I may not deserve you, Dana Katherine, but I would be honored if you would be my wife" and he pulled out the most exquisite two carat emerald cut diamond ring and waited patiently for her to respond. "Mulder-r-r-r-r-r... I... I... Yes, Yes" and she kissed him again, assuring him of her decision. Garth led the applause and congratulated the newly engaged couple standing there with him. "Well, I guess it's time I should make them dance, so here goes." And with that, he began singing "The Dance" TO BE CONT. To Make You Feel My Love (Bob Dylan) When the rain is blowing in your face And the whole world is on your case I could offer you a warmer embrace To make you feel my love When evening shadows and the stars appear And there is no one to dry your tears I could hold you for a million years To make you feel my love I know you haven't made your mind up yet But I would never do you wrong I've known it from the moment that we met There's no doubt in my mind where you belong I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue I'd go crawling down the avenue There ain't nothing' that I wouldn't do To make you feel my love The storms are raging on a rolling sea And on the highway of regret The winds of change are blowing wild and free You ain't see nothin' like me yet There ain't nothin' that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you Make you happy make your dreams come true To make you feel me love Harmony: Garth Brooks The Dance (Tony Arata) Looking back on the memory of The dance we shared 'neath the stars alone For a moment all the world was right How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye And now I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd of had to miss the dance Holding you I held everything For a moment wasn't I a king But if I'd only known how the king would fall Hey who's to say you know I might have chanced it all And now I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd of had to miss the dance Yes my life is better left to chance I could have missed the pain but I'd of had to miss the dance Thanks!! Char Priolo (Marajsky@snip.net or cpriolo@tnb.com) To read my stories go to: http://users.snip.net/~marajsky/home.htm ================================================== "Mmmm.... Hey, Scully." "Yes?" "...I love you." "Oh, brother." ~Mulder and Scully, TXF: "Triangle" ================================================== ~*To Be A Shipper Is to Know the Truth*~