From: Sara Bowen <sabo727@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: 2 Mar 2006 17:38:26 -0800
Subject: [all-xf] New: Wake Up Call; or Agent Doggett Has Something To Say
Source: atxc

Title: Wake Up Call; or Agent Doggett Has Something To Say
Author: Sara B.
E-mail: sabo727@tampabay.rr.com
URL: http://sabo727.tripod.com/
Rating: Okay for everyone
Category: Mulder angst, MSR 
Spoilers: Requiem, Within, Without, Roadrunners, Per Manum and
Empedocles
Feedback:  You want to do it, I know you do.  Come on it is so easy!
Summary:  What prompted Mulder to give that doll to Scully?  Doggett
gives Mulder a verbal kick in the behind. 
Archive: I would be honored, just let me know. 
Disclaimer:  The recognized characters are used Without Prejudice and
are the property of C. Carter, Fox and the wonderful actors who breathed
life into written words, most notably G. Anderson and D. Duchovny who
were able to make us believe in the improbable.  No Infringements of
these copyrights are intended, and are used here without permission.
The story and before unknown characters belongs to me.
Gratitude: To Kim Knight, beta, friend, new doggie mommy and most
talented singer - thank you.  To my Dennis, enough said.  To CC and
Company, who created the X-Files.  Lastly, but my no means least, to the
readers, you make this hobby of mine have meaning. 
Author's Notes:  This poor orphaned story languished without a title for
months then I foisted this lame one on it.  
 
Wake Up Call; or Agent Doggett Has Something To Say
Sara B. 01/06 
 
Mulder answered the knock on his door only to find Agent John Doggett
standing there.  
 
"Can we talk, Agent Mulder?"
 
"Just Mulder, remember?"
 
"Sorry, but I still want to talk with you.  May I come in?"
 
Mulder turned and retreated back into his apartment, Doggett followed
after closing the door.  Mulder fell onto his couch and put his feet up;
his look challenged Doggett to do the same.  John walked to the leather
chair on the other side of the room, removed his coat and sat down
slowly.  Mulder expected the man to tell him why he was here but Doggett
just sat staring at his hands.  Finally Mulder's patience broke.  "Well
this has been real.  You can let yourself out, right?"
 
Doggett was undaunted by Mulder's rudeness; he expected nothing less.
In his experience with this man he couldn't understand how a woman like
Dana Scully had attached herself to him.  Mulder was sullen, rude and he
never seemed to put Dana's concerns first.  Hell, he seemed to do his
best to ignore that she was pregnant; pregnant with his child.  
 
Doggett's eyes rose and pierced Mulder's.  "I came here to ask you what
the hell is wrong with you?  I mean Dana Scully is carrying your child
yet you act like it's nothing; like you don't care."
 
"I don't think I need to discuss this with you. . ."
 
"Well you damned well better talk to someone."  Doggett stopped to reign
himself in.  "Mulder, do you have any idea what most of us would do to
have a woman like her in our lives?  I know that you have been through
something that no one can fully understand but have you thought about
what Dana has been through?"
 
Mulder's look went from petulance to full blown insolence.  "You seem to
want to tell me." 
 
Doggett sat back in the chair.  "Do you know when Dana found out she was
pregnant?"  He didn't wait for Mulder's answer.  "Just before she found
out you were missing.  Oh, and you may be interested in knowing she was
in the hospital at the time.  She passed out and those friends of yours
took her in.  She had just figured out that it was you who was in danger
and not her.  She begged the guys to contact you but they weren't able
to reach you."  Doggett paused and looked at his hands.  "Can you
imagine?  There she was being taken to the hospital because she's having
fainting spells and her only thought is 'contact Mulder and warn him.'"
Doggett shook his head and looked at Mulder.  "Then she hears the news
she never thought possible," he heard Mulder's harsh intake of air.
"Yeah, I know all about it.  Believe it or not, Mulder, I did read
through the X-Files," he sneered.  
"I take my assignment seriously.
 
"Can you picture it; she's lying in a hospital bed, waiting to tell you
about the pregnancy and the next thing she knows Skinner is telling her
that you have gone missing.  Her joy is ripped from her before it even
had time to settle in."
 
Doggett stood and walked toward the shaded window and lifted a slat to
look out.  "The first time I met her she threw a cup of water in my
face."  He heard Mulder chuckle behind him and turned.  There was a
gentle far away look on Mulder's face and a small smile played on his
lips.  It was the nicest Doggett had ever seen him, he smiled too.
"Yeah, I was told not to play all my cards so I didn't tell her who I
was.  I engaged her in some conversation and alluded to you telling
other women that you didn't trust her.  She knew right off it was a load
and threw her water at me; she was that sure of you.  I never told her
anything but the full truth from then on."
 
Mulder sat up; he was really interested in hearing how Scully acted
while he was gone.  Doggett continued, "We tracked you, or what we
thought was you, to the desert southwest.  Somehow she and Skinner got
there at the same time as my team.
There was what I now know was a, God I can't believe I'm saying this, a
shape shifter; an alien shape shifter. 
 
"We tracked you; I mean 'it' to a school for the deaf.  Gibson Praise
was hiding out there.  It tried to snatch the kid but we stopped it.  He
attacked a couple agents, long story short, that thing threw Dana across
a room and she ended up in the hospital."
Doggett watched his audience of one and knew Mulder was really
interested.  "A few weeks after I was assigned to the X-Files she
ditched me and got abducted by some cult that placed their messiah in
her back.  I located her and she had me cut the creature out.  Those
weren't her only trips to the hospital either. 
 
"Did she tell you about her amnio procedure?"  Mulder shook his head.
Doggett debated for a moment, "ask her about it; that is one story you
need to hear from her.  What I'm trying to make you understand is that
she could have lost that baby a number of times.  She never stopped
looking for you.  
 
"When we found your body we were all afraid for her.  She just, I can't
describe it.  She was lost.  That wonderful spirit that she has was
gone.  We didn't know if she was going to make it.  Skinner was afraid
that once she gave birth she would just give in."
 
Mulder stood up and started pacing and shaking his head.  "She came back
to life when you did."  Doggett walked over to Mulder and placed a hand
on his shoulder.  "I can't understand it but Dana Scully lives for you
and she loves you.  Don't you think it is well past time that you let
her know you feel the same?"  Doggett grabbed his coat and started to
leave.  He stopped before opening the door.  "Maybe you should ask why
even after you were confirmed dead she still kept this apartment and all
your things?"
 
Doggett left and Mulder fell back to his couch trying to take in
everything the man had told him.  Suddenly he got up and went into the
bedroom and started looking for something.  He found it in a box on the
top shelf of his closet.  Mulder held the doll reverently.  It was a
family heirloom handed down from generation to generation.  He placed it
back in the box and closed the cover.  Now it was his turn to pass it to
the next generation.
 
End