From: AmandaKatheryn@webtv.net Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 01:47:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: xfc: FF: What We Believe In 1/1 Source: xfc Title: What We Believe In Author: Amanda Katherine Rating: Fluffy PG-13 (for references) Spoilers: MAJOR REQUIEM SPOILER STORY post eps usually are! Archiving: Anywhere - Gossamer, just let me know! I wanna visit this one! Disclaimer: I wish they belonged to me! He would be at her side if they did. Of course, they would also have a couple of kids by now. Also, the song is on Jim Brickman's "Destiny" CD. As always, not trying to interfere with anyone's intellectual or copyrighted property. Summary: Yeah, it's that long... LOL Notes: Thanks for waiting on me to find an XF ep that inspired me this much! Thanks to DD and GA for the work they do and for once, thanks to CC for letting them get close. Shippers Rule!!!!!!! Feedback: YES! Please! AmandaKatherine@webtv.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Prologue - at a hospital in Washington, DC Special Agent Dana Scully was in tears as she looked at the man standing so distraught in front of her hospital bed. "We will find him," she paused for a moment. "I have to." As he turned to leave, she called out to the man, Assistant Director Walter Skinner... "Sir, um..." she said, stumbling over the words. "There's something else I need to tell you. Something that I need for you to keep to yourself." Scully took a breath, the sudden warm glow on her face a surprise to Skinner, as was the beginning smile. He nodded his agreement, and she continued, her smile growing... "I'm having a hard time explaining it... or believing it, but, ummmmm.........." She paused for a moment, smiling a beautiful smile, and with a voice full of emotion said, "I'm pregnant." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ **Six months later A very pregnant Dana Scully nudged the door to the apartment open, her hands full of mail and a small bag of groceries. She tossed the mail on the coffee table and put away the few things that needed refrigeration before kicking off her shoes and lowering herself to the sofa. Glancing over, she saw the fish swimming happily in the tank, uncaring that their true owner, Fox Mulder had been missing for six months. But she cared, she cared very much. So much, in fact that she had taken up residence in his apartment, having her mail and calls forwarded in case he tried to contact her. This was where they had spent their most personal time together, where she felt closest to him, and as hard as it was to be here without him, she felt it was the one place she belonged. Turning on the stereo for some company, she quietly sorted the mail as the soft music drifted through the room. Exhaustion soon overtook her, and she stretched out on the sofa, the bed was just too soft to offer her back the support it needed this far along in her pregnancy. As she pulled the quilt over her and she felt his scent envelope her, a song on the stereo caught her attention... :Funny, just the other day, I was walking down the street, :Stopped into that place, you know, the one where we used to meet. :Thought I heard you call my name in a whisper on the wind, :Then I remembered you were gone and never coming back again.... Scully's eyes began to tear. "He will come back to us, he HAS to," she whispered softly, resting her hand on the gentle swell of her stomach. :But if love is what we believe in, :I see you - in Heaven's first bright star. :If seeing is believing, :I look into the skies - and there you are :You're not that far :Cause love is what we believe in. Her eyes drifted to the window and saw a bright star just above the horizon. :Looking through some photographs of not so long ago :Right now, I'd give anything if I had only known :I would never touch you, hold you or kiss your face :Feel your arms around me or fall in your embrace Closing her eyes, she remembers the last time they were alone together... "Here," Scully said, holding out the delicate chain that held one of her most treasured belongings, her small gold cross... Mulder simply stared at it for a moment, touched beyond words by the love and trust behind her action. As he finally took it in his hand, he smiled at her. "I will come back, Scully. I promise." She looked down, less sure of his words than he. "I know, just don't be gone long." Tilting her face up, he lowered his lips to hers as he whispered, "I won't. I love you too much.." :But if love is what we believe in, :I'll see you - in Heaven's first bright star :And if seeing is believing, :I'll look into the skies - and there you are, :You're not that far :Cause love is what we believe in... As the song continued, Scully drifted off to sleep, her heart crying out for its other half... :Now love can break your heart, :When you say goodbye... :But love is worth the pain, and all the tears you cry... The door softly opened then, and seeing the small figure sleeping on the sofa, a figure approached and knelt beside it.... :And you are in my heart :And our love is what I believe in....... As the figure reached out to brush an errand strand of hair from her face, Scully's eyes burst open... "Oh my God.... Mulder!?!?" she cried, her voice breaking with emotion. Mulder grinned slightly as he said, "Hi honey, I'm home... What's for dinner?" Scully laughed then, the joy in her soul too strong to be contained a moment longer. As she reached up to take him in her arms, the quilt slipped gently past her rounded abdomen, a movement not missed by Mulder. "Scully?" he asked incredulously, his hand hovering over her stomach, as if afraid to harm her by even the slightest touch... "Yes," was her only answer as she took his hand and gently pressed it to her, a small movement below their joined hands a sign their child knew something extraordinary had occurred. "Yes sweetheart," she said in response to the slight kick the baby had given her. "Daddy's home." As Mulder picked Scully up and carried her to the bedroom, he kissed her again. They both knew there were questions to be answered, problems to be solved. But they also knew that, right here, right now, some miracles didn't need to be explained... END :o) Amanda Katherine 5-22-2000