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'ALWAYS,
MULDER, ALWAYS'
By: Pattie
TWO DAYS AFTER
ESCAPE FROM MOUNT WEATHER MILTARY PRISON
ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
"Well, I guess you're sorry you ever asked me to be a
father, let alone agree to work with me for so long."
"Where'd that come from, Mulder? Here we are, away from
harm, at least for now, your neck still intact, and you're not
jumping for joy? I told you, I'd do it all over again. And I
never once... never once regretted that you fathered William.
There was certainly no regret that we, yes Mulder, WE, created
our son the normal way. I had no regrets, you had no regrets. I
only regretted not telling you much sooner than I did how I felt.
I guess in some ways I was afraid to open myself to you, afraid
you didn't feel the same way, even afraid that a love
relationship would hinder your quest for the truth."
"I don't know that it would have hindered anything, Scully.
Maybe if I'd known how you felt much earlier, we could have saved
the world by now. As I see it, all waiting got us was a hot motel
room in the middle of "Anonymousville", afraid to show
our heads. All it got us was the grief of William not being able
to share in our lives right now. All my quest got you was an
abduction, experimentation, pain, despair, the death of your
sister and countless bumps, bruises, contusions... not to mention
the cancer. Oh, and that fruitless road trip with Old Smokey.
Awesomely normal life. Eat your eggs."
"I'll eat my breakfast at a leisurely pace, thank you very
much. I have nowhere else to be this morning. You, you haven't
touched your breakfast."
"Guess I'm not hungry."
"You've been busy obsessing and hitting yourself over the
head. You'll need your strength for the days ahead."
"You talking dirty to me, Scully?"
"You never know, Mulder. But for now, I think you need
food."
"I think we need a plan. We need resources, we need leads,
we need new identities... "
"Shut up, Mulder... "
"Why?"
"Because you're being too practical at a time when you
should be recouping your strength. And, you should be happy. Yes,
happy. Before you say another WORD, think about it! You're alive,
we have no restrictions, we still have the truth, and we still
have each other. Have a piece of toast."
"Not bad, considering it's whole wheat. Look, I don't know
what you ever saw in me."
"Well, I don't know what you ever saw in me, because I was
so emotionally in need of prune juice, absolutely solidly full of
pragmatism, of science and petrie dish proofs... "
"And I was so chauvanistic, married to my work, stubborn,
spooky and paternal. Also, controlling, patronizing,
overly-protective... "
"And I loved you for that."
"When did you know, Scully?"
"That night in Bellefleur, first case. How about you?"
"That day in The Office of the F.B.I.'s most wanted."
"All those years wasted, Mulder."
"But I still wouldn't have traded them for anything. Well,
no. Maybe we just should have taken the train directly to Niagara
Falls."
"Eat up, Mulder. I'm not going to let you erase your
successes."
"You mean that?"
"Always, Mulder. Always."
THE END
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