From: Nicole M Roberts Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 12:21:42 -0700 Subject: What Happens Next by Nicole Roberts Source: direct Title: What Happens Next? Author: Nicole Roberts E-Mail: uber-scully@juno.com Feedback: Oh pretty please! This is my first fanfic, and I'd really like to know how I'm doing, good or bad. Archive: Yes, but e-mail me and tell me where it's going so if it calls and asks for money, I know where to send it. Rating: G Category: VR Spoilers: "Biogenesis" and "Arcadia" Keywords: Mulder/Scully UST Summary: Scully waxes poetic on her relationship with Mulder. (All right, so it's really not waxing poetic. It's more like musing.) Disclaimer: Unfortunately Mulder and Scully don't belong to me; they belong to Chris Carter, etc. Thanks to Carter for thinking up the most wonderful characters, and Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny for making them so perfect that I fell in love with them. And now for the story . . . What Happens Next? By Meredith Chandler, um I mean Nicole Roberts What would happen next? That question has been plaguing my mind since I saw the craft in Africa. With the startling events of the last week pressing my mind, I fight to sort it all out. Not how to scientifically explain the tablets, much less the craft. Not how to return Mulder to sanity. But how to admit to my feelings. Mulder all ready fessed up and told me he loved me. At the time I passed it of as delirium, but since then have come to realize that it was real. That he truly loved me. And I loved him. But how to tell him? And what after that? Once it gets out in the open, what do we do? All right, we love each other, now what? Do we start dating? Sleep with each other? Get married? Or do we just stay partners? Oh we could date, but it wouldn't feel right. We've gotten to know each other too well for that. It'd be trite. If we had met earlier, before the X-Files, I could see us dating, progressing through a normal relationship, and, who knows?, maybe even getting married. But not now. And sex? Don't get me wrong, that man is gorgeous, but I just can't see us doing that. I know how wonderful the closeness that comes with that can be, but I feel that everyday. Every time we touch I feel the same wonderful feeling that normally accompanies sex. I feel like we've all ready passed that point, that we all ready share that kind of intimacy. And marriage? Hah, married to Mulder. The very idea conjures hilarious images in my head, like that time at the Falls at Arcadia. Besides that, being husband and wife would mean no longer being partners, which would mean no X-Files, at least for one of us. And without the other, neither of us could continue on with it. So, do we stay partners? It's worked this far, hasn't it? But do we need something more? What will happen next?