From: Mezzo4@aol.com Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:27:38 EDT Subject: Desideratum III: After (1/5) R.Anton & L.Blaurosen TITLE: Desideratum III: After (1/5) AUTHORS: Rachel Anton and Laura Blaurosen E-MAIL: RaValliano@aol.com and Mezzo4@aol.com RATING: NC-17 CATEGORY: S, A, R KEYWORDS: MSR, angstfest SPOILERS: Let's be safe and say US season 5 and FTF DISTRIBUTION: Anywhere as long as our names and e-mail addys go with it DISCLAIMER: We don't own Mulder, Scully, Skinner, Bill and Maggie Scully, or the concept of Charles Scully. All the other characters are ours though :) SUMMARY: How far is too far to go in the name of love? All other items in part one. Desideratum III: After by Rachel Anton and Laura Blaurosen part 1/5 Thursday 3:30 p.m. Mulder took out his own key to Scully's apartment without even first asking for hers. He was holding all of her bags and the what seemed to Mulder like $1500 dollars in miscellaneous get well cards and presents. He hadn't realized just how many people Scully knew. He had a tendency to assume that the only people in her life were her family and him. Most of the time he assumed he was the only person in her life. After juggling all of the boxes and bags and still not succeeding in opening the door, he heard a familiar chuckle and a jingling next to him. "You don't need to prove anything to me, Mulder," Scully said as she opened her second new door, using her right hand to do it. She had her cast removed this morning and doctor was completely bowled over by the fact that it seemed to have completely healed itself already. He even checked the original x-rays again to be sure that they had been given the right photos from the start. But that had been her injury, her breaks, and they had seemed to have all completely mended themselves in record time. He saw no reason after this morning to keep her in the hospital. Mulder would have loved more than anything to attribute her miraculous recovery to their lovemaking, but of course he couldn't. The humiliating event of four nights ago came crashing back to him for the millionth time. He squinted and relaxed his face once. He wanted so much to be able to just put it out of his mind completely, to forget what a pathetic loser of a lover he had been for her. If it wasn't for the other images of Scully that had come out of that night, he'd have vowed to never think about it again. Once she had the door open, Mulder dropped all of her things on the floor of her living room, sending the suitcases tumbling into the couch table and consequently knocking over the lamp and the candlesticks that were there. "Oh, jeez, Scully, I'm sorry!" What an oaf he was. Not two seconds here and he was already destroying her home. Thankfully nothing broke. She laughed at him and shook her head. He went to catch one of the candlesticks that had decided to roll off the table and his foot caught on the cord of the lamp that had knocked over. He lost his balance and fell into the table, losing the candlestick completely. Time to get out of there. Fast. Before he a chance to find out if it was in fact possible to die from humiliation. He gathered himself and bent down carefully to pick up the candlestick. He turned to her shyly and held out the object. "Sorry. I don't think," he turned it over once in his hand. "I think it's okay." He lifted his eyes to her and saw that she had her lips sucked inward, most likely trying not to laugh out loud at him. "Mulder," she said, shaking her head yet again at him, "Mulder, relax." She took the candlestick out of his hand and then covered his empty hand with her free one, squeezing just a little. She may as well have taken his dick and squeezed it, because it was having the same reaction anyway. Definitely time to go home. As he was concentrating on keeping his hard on to a minimum level, he hadn't noticed that she'd picked up his mess and was running around the place like she'd just gotten back from a vacation. Some vacation it had been. "I'm home I'm home I'm home!" She called from the bathroom. "Oh God, Mulder it feels SO good to be home, you know that?" "What?" He couldn't remember exactly what it was she had just said. All he'd heard was "Oh God, Mulder, it feels so good." "Ah! My tub and my shower and my sink..." Oh, home. She was happy to be home. Her home. He realized it was probably time for him to leave her alone. She probably could use the respite from him anyway. Time to enjoy being home. Home doing whatever it was she did when she was alone. Needing to refocus. Relax. On her couch or curled up in bed... "Uh, so I guess I'll see you around, then Scully?" See you around. I think we've got 5th period together next semester. What the fuck was that? But it didn't matter because he needed to get out of there and soon, otherwise she might have a repeat performance of four nights ago without even needing to touch him. "Mulder," she called again from the bathroom. "You aren't going now, are you?" She peeked out from the hallway door and Mulder thought he could faint. Her hair was a disaster, all mussed and flying every which way. It was fucking unbelievably gorgeous. "Uh...hummm...yeah." He swallowed hard. "I mean, don't you wanna be alone tonight? I was just gonna let you be alone tonight, I thought that's what you'd want, to be alone. Here by yourself. To do whatever...whatever you wanted...to do...alone..." Shut up you babbling idiot. You really oughtta be shot for being such a moron. He looked over at her again and her face was dead serious. "I don't wanna do anything alone, Mulder," was all she said and she disappeared into the bathroom again. God, it was fucking hot in here. Where the hell was her thermostat? He started looking around the walls in the living room for it. He didn't see it anywhere. Probably on the wall in her bedroom and there wasn't any way in hell he was wandering into there now. As he was looking around, he bumped into that damn table behind the couch again. Rather than the candlesticks knocking over this time, a little glass object rocked precariously back and forth on the edge. His reaction time wasn't quick enough and it fell, breaking in two pieces on as it hit the hardwood floor. God, how much furniture did she need in this place, anyway? It was no wonder he knocked into the table, there was so much stuff in this place there was hardly room for a person to walk around. Well, there was probably enough room for a little Scully to maneuver around, just not Special Agent Klutz. He squatted down to gage the salvageability of the probably priceless, most heavily insured object of her entire home. Fuck. He picked up larger piece first and saw that it was the bottom half of a costumed body, the smaller piece the head of a clown with the ugliest face he'd ever seen in his life. It was frowning and there were two tears on either side of it's shiny ceramic face. Not that he was any kind of aesthetics expert, but it was horrible. And it was something he never imagined Scully owning. He stayed hidden behind the couch with the two pieces in his hand, half considering stuffing it underneath the couch. He waited for her to come out of the bathroom to ask what the hell he'd knocked over this time, but she never did. The adult in him won out and he decided against shoving it under the couch. He couldn't take the chance she'd dust it for fingerprints to see who'd broken the family heirloom, surely worth millions of dollars. "Lost your head, too, buddy?" he asked the inanimate object. It just stared back at him with the pathetic frown he imagined he'd had the night he'd blown it. The night he'd finally had the opportunity to do the one thing he had been imagining, planning out for what seemed like his entire life and he couldn't make it last more than one stroke. No wonder she'd been laughing so much more lately. He'd certainly given her enough to laugh at. They hadn't done much more than kiss since that night, and Mulder only allowed himself that indulgence for Scully's sake alone. Because she'd look at him in that way if he tried to refuse her. At least he knew he couldn't let her down kissing her. She always seemed to enjoy that, she made plenty of noise when they kissed that's for sure. But he wasn't sure he would ever be able to make love to her again. Or if she even wanted that again. "You say something to me, Mulder?" Shit. Well obviously she hadn't heard the treasure break. Maybe if he could just set it up there, set the head back on top she wouldn't notice... He rose slowly up and was please to find this little bit of stress had alleviated the erection he'd been working on before. "So, uh, what do you wanna do then, Scully?" He asked her while wiping off the object with a handkerchief, realizing at the same time how ridiculous what he was doing was. "You wanna go out?" He set the clown's bottom half on the table and tried to merely set the head on top casually. It fell immediately and almost ended up on the floor again. "You wanna get something to eat or something?" He looked around the room quickly and tried to decide where Scully kept glue. "Oh, I thought we could just stay here tonight." Stay here. Great. Maybe he could just shove the thing in the back of this drawer, he thought as he fished through the drawer in Scully's desk for adhesive of some form. "Okay, so um...you wanna get Chinese then?" Shit, not Chinese, dumbass. "Or pizza, we could get pizza instead." "Maybe later, Mulder, I'm not all that hungry for food right now." He was still rifling through the desk drawer. No fucking glue? Not even a roll of scotch tape? Where the hell would she keep stuff like that? He turned around with the intention of heading for the kitchen drawers, but stopped himself dead. She was in the room. He thought her voice seemed a little louder. His mind kicked into the alibi mode that he didn't think he'd used since he lived at home. Well you see, Scully, there was this big breeze, and a truck and a plane went by, and... He lifted his head to break the news to her. "Scully, I..." In the back of his mind, he was sure he'd heard a crash. Broken glass it sounded like. But he wasn't sure, for standing before him in the hallway door was a very thoroughly naked Scully. She looked exquisite. A perfect, beautiful creature of light. He was dumbstruck and nearly overcome with the need to run to her and bury his face between her breasts. "God, Mulder, what was that? Careful, there's glass everywhere, I'm sure." Glass? Scully, you're the one that's fucking naked. Oh shit she's fucking naked. As in ready to fuck. Ready to be fucked. Oh fuck. When she was nearer to him and bending down to the floor Mulder realized that he'd just broke, again, the Scully family treasure. This time in thousands of tiny shards all over her living room floor. He felt like crying and throwing up the lunch he and Scully had eaten just a few hours ago. "Scully, I am SO sorry. I didn't mean...it just broke, I was...and it fell...and, God I'm so sorry. Whatever it cost, just let me know, I'll give you the money for it. I'm just sorry, sorry, I'm sorry." She stayed squatted on the floor, just looking at the broken pile and began to shake. Great. She was crying. Naked and crying. And he was standing there, the idiot klutz, working on another Scully-induced hard-on. He couldn't decide whether or not to join her on the floor to comfort her. First because he felt like such an ass and second, she was fucking naked. Then she made a noise. The strangest noise he could ever remember her making, aside from the ones she'd made when he brought her to orgasm in the hospital. It was like an inhaled scream that got caught in her chest. Kind of like the noise a horse makes or maybe even a...donkey? She did it again. And again. And then Mulder realized she wasn't crying at all. She was laughing. She started to lose her balance and held out her arms to keep from falling forward into the pile of broken pieces. She rocked back and forth for a second and ended up falling backwards on her ass. It surprised her a second and she looked up at Mulder, still standing there in absolute confusion. Then she let in to a full bodied, full-voiced laughing fit. Her face turned red and her eyes teared. "Oh, Muld-" She couldn't talk she was so out of control. Mulder smiled uncomfortably and shifted back and forth on his feet, still confused and trying to appear casual about the fact that his dick was trying to rip a hole through his jeans. He'd made Scully laugh. Whatever the hell he'd done, he'd made her laugh. And it was the biggest turn on in the world for him. "So," he said when it looked like she'd calmed down a bit, "You're not, you're not upset?" She showed him her red, teary eyes and shook her head. "Do you know how long I've been trying to get rid of that ugly thing?" "Why do you have it?" "My aunt, my mom's sister, she gave it to me when I graduated from Quantico. She was the only person I got a present from for that graduation. I mean, I'd had a party once every four years three times already, there was no point to having one for that but she thought I needed to get something for it. So she made me that. That ugly-assed John Wayne Gasey freak me out of my mind clown!" She laughed again. "I've been trying to bring myself to feel good about getting rid of it." "So you're not upset then? You're sure?" "No, I'm glad. I hated that thing. Gave me the creeps. I just had it out because she and my mom had been over together the other day." "You should have told me sooner, Scully, I could have broken it a long time ago." He stood there several minutes with the same silly grin on his face, hypnotized by the way her breasts bounced as she fell into a quiet giggling fit again. He was almost wanted to ask her if she'd just laugh for him when ever he wanted to, it was so fucking hot to him. Worlds sexier than any naked dancer in a bar he'd ever seen. It occurred to him then that she should probably get off the floor before she ended up with glass in that perfect, milky-white, smooth as satin skin. He cleared his throat and offered his hand, having to consciously keep himself from dropping to the floor and groping her like a maniac. "You'd better get up before you get cut." She took his hand and instead of letting him help her up, she pulled him closer to her. Holding his head with her hands, she kissed him, not letting him pull away for several moments. When she was finally through with him, she moved his head back and whispered, "I wanna take a bath." "Bath? Oh, okay, I'll uh, I'll just watch TV or something, I can order food while you're in there and it'll be here when you're done." "Mulder," she whispered low in her chest. "I don't want food." She stood up and headed for the bathroom. "And besides, I'm gonna probably need your help in there." "My...my hel-" He twitched and had to stop himself from moving his hand to his crotch as he straightened up again. "My help?" She turned back toward him and nodded, taking him by the wrists and leading him into her bathroom. Mulder was suddenly very nervous. He'd never given a woman a bath before, what the did hell he knew about helping a woman bathe? Was there something special he needed to know? Would he look like a total idiot standing in there, clueless as to what to do? Besides she was naked, what if he...again... He willed himself in his brain to tell his dick to just forget about it, that it'd just have to work it out with his balls what they thought they were going to do about the situation, because he refused to be humiliated like that again. There would be no incidents like that again, not in front of her. Right now she just wanted a bath. xxxxxx "Uh, Scully, I have to tell you something." What was it now, Mulder? Had he broken something else in her home, something decidedly more important? Was he going to tell her yet again that he had to go home, even though he had yet another tremendous erection? She turned slowly from the bath and gave him a cautious, "Yes?" He looked straight at her breasts and Scully felt a warm surge pass through her and settle between legs. She watched his eyes drift lower and then quickly away. He picked up a bottle of her bath oil and studied it as he said, "I don't...I don't really know how to do this." "Do what?" He stood there staring at the bottle in his hand and said nothing. "Mulder, what the hell are you talking about? What do you mean you don't know how to do this?" He still said nothing. He seemed to be really avoiding looking her straight on and Scully wondered if the fact that she was naked was what was making him so uncomfortable. But that didn't make any sense given the other night. How could he still be so shy? After what all he'd done to her, after the way he'd made her feel. She knew though that it was his little misfortune that was still bothering him, making him feel inadequate. Even though she'd adamantly insisted that it was fine, that he'd been a wonderful lover, she knew he wouldn't feel good about it until he had an opportunity to redeem himself. She decided she would give him that tonight. He still hadn't answered her, though. "Mulder?" He extended the hand with the bath oil and pointed toward the bath. "This. The bath, your bath. I don't really know what I'm doing?" A laugh crept up on her before she was able to swallow it down. "My bath? That's what you're worried about?" As though she wanted to get clean. He raised his face to her finally and gave her what she thought must be his singlemost pathetic look. She felt heat creeping up through her neck, a throbbing in her nipples. It was incredibly sexy. "Well, Mulder," she said quietly, "First of all, the oil won't get me clean." She sauntered over to him and took the bottle from him. Opening it, she passed the bottle under his nose. He shut his eyes and smiled. "But it will," she took his hand and put a drop of the oil in his palm, "Make my skin soft." "It is soft," he said almost audibly. It thrilled her to hear him tell her that, made her need to be touched more urgent. She took his hand by the wrist and placed it on her breast. "Well, then, softer." A little hissing sound came from Mulder's open mouth and his eyes shot open to see what his hand was doing. He massaged her breast with increasing pressure and Scully could feel the oil dripping between them, down her belly. Her own eyes drifted shut to concentrate on the incredible pleasure of it. She hummed and sighed and then felt more moisture dripping, this time on her other breast. She opened her eyes to see Mulder, the most intense concentration on his face, pouring more oil on her body. This time he used both hands, one on each breast, to spread the oil all over them, carefully covering the entire area. Starting at the sides, he used three fingers, making tiny circles, moving closer and closer to the nipples. Then he would stop just short of there and move back. He repeated the motion, never touching her nipples until finally Scully felt her body pushing toward him. But instead he took his hands completely away and she couldn't help but bite back a whimper. She looked at his face again to see a small smile amid the concentration. He was pouring yet more oil on his hands, much more than was even necessary. Scully felt something dripping down her legs and she wondered idly if it was her or the oil. It didn't matter, though. His hand were back on her breasts again, palms flat, spreading the oil all over as though he were slathering some kind of plaster casting on her. He moved his hands around to her back and made circles down to the curve of her ass. He stopped there. "More. Further." she begged and got up on her toes. He groaned and moved quickly down and massaged her there. She closed her eyes again and pressed herself directly against him for the first time, burying her face in his chest. He continued to knead at her ass and she bit at his skin through his shirt. She moaned again when he pushed himself into her belly. She had been enjoying seducing him before because he seemed so miserably helpless and it was so damn fun to see him like that over her. But right now she couldn't hear, she couldn't see, she could barely breathe. All there was was the feel of his huge hands on her body. There was a tickling at the skin of her neck and it took her a moment to realize it was Mulder, his nose pressed there. He wasn't trying to kiss her, but merely breathing steadily and deeply, making the tiniest of groans with every exhale in the back of his throat. It was just as phenomenal feeling as his kiss. His hands drifted lower, nearer to her thighs. He pushed between them and she moved her legs further apart so that he could, would go further. He stayed on her thighs, moving his entire body down hers as he moved his hands up and down her inner thighs. She whimpered and took hold of his wrists behind her to guide them further upward. When the tips of his fingers found their way in her entrance, her head fell back on a moan and she grabbed the sink behind her to catch her balance. He continued this, mixing her own juices with the oil and smoothing it all up toward her clit and back down again. Upon every return to her clit, she pushed her self into his hand to heighten the sensation for the little while he would linger there. Problem was, though, he kept moving away. The next time he moved up there, she cried, begging, "Stay. There. Please." Instead he took one hand away and as she groaned with frustration he shoved three fingers inside her and brought his other hand between them, using it to rub her clit. "Ah-Ohhh!" she gasped and leaned her body fully against the sink, waiting for those incredible sensations he'd given her the other night, the one she swore sometimes she could still feel, to shake her soul again. "Right there, Scully?" He panted out. "Is that it, baby?" "Yeeah, yeeahss, yes...ah. Oh Mmuldeh..." she swallowed hard and began pushing herself even harder, even faster into his hand. Almost. He pumped with his right hand and pushed with his left and it was better and better and... And then he stopped, pulling his hands away from her. "Mulder?" Her eyes were tearing and the burn in her center was nearly painful. "Scully," he breathed. "Scully, I'm sorry. I gotta...uh...ow..." He had his shaking hands on the fly of his jeans. "I gotta get these off, Scully, it...ah...it hurts." He was being so careful as he slowly undid each of the buttons on his jeans, Scully momentarily forgot herself in feeling sorry for him. She wasn't sure if she should try to help him or not. She didn't want to upset anything. God knew he wouldn't deal well with a repeat of their first time. end part one Desideratum III: After by Rachel Anton and Laura Blaurosen part 2/5 The way his cock sprang free when his pulled his jeans and underwear down was almost comical. It was the highest he thought he'd ever seen it. He was gonna have to be careful. Real careful. Scully was gonna get a worthy fuck out of him if he had to have a coronary in order to give it to her. He stepped out of his jeans and underwear, kicking them aside. Again, as Scully pulled his shirt off, he felt a charge of excitement at the fact that his dirty clothes were on Scully's bathroom floor. His cock twitched. Scully licked at one of his nipples and he grabbed her ass again. When she cried out and something inexplicable came over him. He lifted her up onto the sink and shoved himself inside. She cried out again and he was just about to apologize for his abruptness when she started to squirm around him. She wrapped her legs tightly around his waist and started rocking herself back and forth on him. It was incredible. She felt incredible. Breathe, Mulder. Remember to breathe. In. Out. In. God, nobody, nobody had ever felt like this. It was almost as though it was his first time, it was all so different. Even more different than that disaster in the hospital. He could barely recall that anymore. Besides this time, this time, he had time. He could go all night. He would go all night. All night long. "Mmm..." she whimpered and Mulder couldn't help but speed up. Breathe. Breathe. He had no idea that it felt like this. It had never felt like this. She was so warm. And she just kept getting warmer and warmer and warmer... "More..." she begged through a sigh. He grabbed her at the waist and pulled her to him as he thrust inside her. "Ohh more, Mulder, please." Shit, there was that please again. How could he refuse her more? He wouldn't. He was gonna go all night. Except that because of his fun with oil before, he was having trouble getting a solid hold on her and she kept slipping on the sink. Her face was twisting and she kept squirming, still wanting more. She wasn't getting what she needed perched on that sink. He eyed the door and had a sudden inspiration. Something that might help the both of them if he could manage it. But he would, he had no choice. He clutched her to him tightly with both arms and picked her up, carrying her to the door. He slammed it shut and backed her into it. "Kay?" He asked her. "Yeah," she nodded quickly and began to shift herself around him again, digging her heels into the backs of his thighs. "Just keep...go-ing." He pushed into her slowly and evenly, all the while repeating the word "wait" in his head, over and over. Her head was against the door, lolling around. Her eyebrows were pinched together and her bottom lip got sucked into her mouth with her every inward breath. She was gorgeous. He let her set the pace and paid close attention to when she sped up before speeding up his own motions. She was huffing more quickly now and starting to let out constricted moans regularly. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. "No, Mulder, no waiting, I ca-..." she gasped sharply, "Can't wait." "Scully...gotta...wait" He said and then realized she wasn't talking about him. He didn't know he'd been saying it out loud. How long had he been doing that? Probably the whole time. Oh God and now she must be close. Breathe, Mulder, breathe. Not only did she seem to be becoming increasingly hotter, she was also getting tighter. Not good. She was already so fucking tight. That was probably why he'd come so fast the other night. He wasn't prepared. But now he was getting dangerously close because the pressure around him was intensifying. He thought pulling all the way out real quick might help so he tried it. OneonethousandTwoonethousandThreeone thousand. "MULDERWHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?" Scully screamed and frightened him into thrusting back inside her. Shit, she was so hot and now she was pulsating around him, pulling at him with a tightness that was making it nearly impossible to stroke anymore. Oh God and now she was crying his name. Scully you can't do that. Wait wait wait. Good, it seemed to have subsided a little. She was still incredibly tight, but at least it seemed to have let up. He pressed on and she kept calling his name. The faster he pumped, the faster she said his name. "Good, Mulder?" he thought he heard her ask. "Yeah, good. Real good. Really really g...ood." He pumped faster "Oh, Mulder, oh...oh God, right there...that's it...oh my God right there, yeah..." God, this was incredible. He'd on a fluke found some angle, THE spot that felt the best. He'd made her say it felt good, right there. Oh man, it was happening again, she was getting tighter on him again. The warning signal came on in the back of his head that told him these could very well be his last few strokes. Wait wait wait wait. "MULDER! Oh god oh god oh god...Muldermuldermulder... yeah...Mulder yes Mulderyes Mulderyes oh..." Mulder pumped on, the strokes getting ever quicker and shorter. He tasted his sweat as several drips of it landed on his tongue. His lungs were starting to feel like they did after he'd been running a long time. "Mulder." She was still calling his name. "Mulder." Stroke. "Mulder." Stroke. "MULDER!" That time he realized she was trying to get his attention. "Wha?" He panted into her face. "Okay." "Okay? What? You don't like it?" "No Mulder, it WAS good," she panted back. "Oh, Mulder...incredible." WAS? "So it's...over then? No more?" "Mulder, I think it was twice as it is." Twice? But the fact that he hadn't realized it was far outweighed by the fact that he knew he'd fucked her and made her come twice. Then it hit him. Of course she'd come. That was why she felt like she was getting tighter, dumbass. He was certain now that that was the first time he'd ever made any woman come that way. And not any woman. His Scully. "Go ahead, Mulder," he heard her say into his ear. "It's your turn. You certainly deserve it. Give it to me, baby." That was all he needed to lose total control. He ripped into her, pounding her into the door quicker than he thought he was capable. Three short strokes was all it took and he shot inside her, his whole body seeming to be pulled into her from the intense pressure. He grunted and screamed her name, keeping up his movements until finally slowing to a halt. xxxxxx Scully waited as long as she could to give Mulder some time to recover but eventually her legs grew sore and her back cramped. She slipped him out of her and straightened out her legs so that her feet touched the floor once more. He didn't move. His forehead was resting on the wall behind her and his whole body was sagging against her as he struggled to regain his breath. She was actually amazed he was in such good shape. She'd been seriously afraid he was going to have some kind of cardiac event fucking the life out of her like that. Leave it to Mulder to overcompensate. She slipped out from under him and he spun around to face her, leaning his back against the wall. He looked about ready to collapse to the floor but miraculously he managed to hold himself up. He watched as she turned the water on in the tub, filling it as she'd planned on doing in the first place. "I think I really need a bath now Mulder." "Hmm...bath..." he nodded. "Are you hungry, Mulder? Cause I'm starving." "Hmm...hungry..." He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply and she wondered if he would ever speak coherently again. "Mulder, do me a favor and go order that pizza you were talking about before. It'll probably take at least an hour at this time of day so we'll have time to take a bath." "Hmm...bath..." "Mulder go, I'm hungry," she ordered in her most officious tone. It seemed to register somewhere in him because he stumbled his way out of the bathroom mumbling something about slave driving sex maniacs under his breath. She tied her hair up in a bun and poured some bubble bath under the running tap for Mulder's benefit. Poor guy had probably never allowed himself the luxury of a bubble bath in his life. When the tub was full she turned the water off and heard him attempting to call in their order from the other room. He managed to sputter out "Large, the works, thick crust" but he struggled on her address and she had to call it out to him. Numbers seemed to be eluding him at the moment. She'd never understood the power amazing sex had to render even the most intelligent of men completely idiotic. She felt more energized and alert than she had in ages. She walked around the bathroom, lighting a few scented candles and turning off the light. Then she sank into the scalding hot water with a sigh. It felt amazing, just what her body needed after that. She leaned against the back of the tub, closed her eyes and let her arms rest on the sides. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. She was safe, she was home, she had a bubble bath, a pizza on the way, and a Mulder in her living room. How much better could life get? Suddenly she felt a foot poking her and water splashing around and a bunch of indelicate grunts from the other side of the tub. She opened her eyes to see Mulder struggling to squish in on the other side of the tub, on top of the stopper and the tap. "Mulder..." "I don't...I can't...it...I won't fit..." For some reason he seemed positively panicked about that. "Mulder come here. Sit with me. Here, between my legs." She spread her legs wide and raised her knees against the sides of the tub. His eyes widened and he gave her a goofy grin. "Sounds like a plan Scully." He stood up and turned around so that his back was facing her and then he sat back down, right between her legs. Oh yes, life was good. He used her legs as an arm rest and her shoulder as a pillow. The feel of his back pressing into her was more than pleasant and even though he was heavy as hell, having his weight resting on her was wonderful. He sighed contentedly and closed his eyes. For once she could look down at his face and she did, enjoying the play of the candlelight on his features. She picked up the sponge from the shelf next to the tub and dunked it in the water. Then she started slowly running it over his chest and shoulders, gently massaging and washing him. He took a deep breath and let out a long, low groan and she smiled. Life was very very good. They sat silently for a few moments and she continued to wash him in a methodical, almost hypnotizing way. She was still alert but also somehow, amazingly relaxed. And Mulder was beyond relaxed. He felt like a pile of mush. None of the tension that usually wracked his shoulders and neck was present. Maybe they should just stay in this tub forever. "Scully have you ever done it up against a door like that before?" Mulder asked out of the blue. She almost jumped at the sound of his voice breaking through the peaceful silence of the moment. It took a little while for her to register what exactly he'd said. "Um...Mulder?" She couldn't imagine why he would ask such a thing right now. Then again, Mulder was the king of random questions. His mind was an amazing and unfathomable thing. "Like maybe with um...Jack Birnbaum or whatever his name was?" Jack who? What the hell was he talking about? "Mulder...what? Who is Jack Birnbaum?" He shrugged in a phony gesture of nonchalance. "Whatever his name is, that guy, with the...and the...you know what I'm talking about." His tone was almost accusatory and she found that she still in fact had no idea what he was talking about. "Mulder, I honestly don't." He sighed as if there was something wrong with her for not immediately understanding. "You know, with your mom..." Her mom? How the hell had they gone from sex against the door to her mom? This was bewildering even for Mulder. "Mulder?" "And Charlie, when they saw..." "Saw? Saw what?" "You know..." he shifted around uncomfortably and created an incredible friction against her. She would have moaned if she hadn't been so confused. "Saw you...and him...on the um...on the floor." Oh God. Not that. He couldn't be talking about that. Nobody knew about that except her mother and.... "That little shit." "Scully?" "I can't believe he told you that story. I'll kill him." "No, Scully, he was...don't be mad. He was drunk. I was drunk. We were all drunk. Don't be mad at him. He helped me find you Scully." "You were drunk? Mulder, was this the night you "saw" me?" That would certainly go a long way to explaining the whole incident. "Yeah but Scully, that's not...we really did see you Scully." She sighed and shook her head. There was obviously no point in arguing with him over that issue. Besides there were more horrific issues to be dealt with. "I can't believe he told you that story." "He thought I knew about it already. He thought we were...intimate, that you would have told me." Even if they had been intimate at the time she doubted she would have ever told Mulder a story like that. What the hell had Charlie been thinking? She would have to kill him. There was no way around it. "So...you never answered my question Scully." And this is exactly why she never would have told him. He would want to know all the gory details and probably torture himself worrying over whether he was as good as the other men she'd been with. And honestly she couldn't remember if she and Jeff had done it against the wall. It was all so long ago. "Mulder, why do you want to know. What difference does it make?" He shrugged and turned his head towards her a little bit. "I dunno Scully, now that we are um, intimate, I want to know everything there is to know about you." "Everything Mulder? Are you sure?" "Yeah. Everything." She didn't even know where to start. Certainly against the wall with Jeff wasn't the best place. "Scully was he...was that um, the time?" "The time?" "Yeah, you know um...the only time." "Only time with Jeff you mean?" Surely he couldn't mean the only time in her life. If he did, this conversation was going to be more difficult than she'd imagined. "Um, no I mean like, the only time up until then, like were there times before that?" "With Jeff?" "No, I mean...with anybody." Ah, THE time. "Are you asking me if that was my first time Mulder?" "Um, yeah, yeah I suppose." She wondered how he would feel about the truth. Would he feel better if it had or hadn't been? She tried to figure out the best thing to tell him but he was so unpredictable, who knew what he wanted to hear? Besides, she could never really lie to him anyway. "Well then, no. It wasn't my first time." "Oh." Great. Wrong answer. For God knows what reason. "Well, um...was it, was he..." "No." "Oh." Why, oh why was he doing this? She realized it probably didn't even matter what her answers were. He would find a way to twist them around and torment himself. "So, um...who then?" She sighed reluctantly and wondered if the rest of the night was going to be an elaborate game of twenty questions. It wasn't that she didn't want him to know about her life, it was just that everything she said seemed to hurt him somehow. "His name was Karl. I met him in Germany when my dad was stationed there." She felt his back stiffen against her as he sucked in a gasp. "When your dad...Scully, weren't you like thirteen when your dad was in Germany?" "I was thirteen when we got there yes." "Scully...please tell me you didn't lose your virginity when you were thirteen." "I didn't lose my virginity when I was thirteen." He let out a deep breath and relaxed against her again. She hated to burst his bubble so to speak, but he seemed to want to know. "I was almost fifteen." "Almost? You mean you were fourteen?" He sounded as horrified as her mother might have, had she known. His shoulders were feeling more and more tight and tensed. "And a half." For some reason this seemed very important. He shook his head and she started massaging his back and chest with the sponge again. "Does that bother you for some reason, Mulder?" "Bother...um....n...no. It doesn't um...I mean, well...how old was he Scully?" "He was sixteen. And a half." "Oh." Oh was quickly turning into her least favorite word. She wondered once again what the hell was bothering him about this so much. He'd been the one to bring it up after all. "Mulder..." "That's just...it's pretty young Scully. I mean...I dunno." "Yeah I guess it is. I was kind of in a hurry to grow up." "I mean it's really really...Mmm..." he sighed as she continued her meticulous washing and closed his eyes, relaxing against her. She wondered hopefully if that was the end of his barrage of questions. For a brief moment she was certain he was through but then he opened his mouth to speak again and she decided to cut him off at the pass. "What about you Mulder? Who was your first?" "Um...oh, you uh, you wanna talk about me?" "Well Mulder, it's only fair." "Um...she was...an older woman." Scully wasn't surprised at that for some reason. She waited for him to continue but he fell silent again. "Well, how old were you Mulder?" He sighed and cleared his throat. He seemed to suddenly find the bubbles fascinating. "Mulder?" "Scully, did you ever see that Brady Bunch episode where they put the bubbles in the washing machine and.." "Mulder! How old were you?" "I was...not as young as you were." "I guessed that much." He nodded as if this were a sufficient answer and started playing with bubbles again. "So um...Mulder, are you gonna answer the question or am I the only one that has to be honest here?" Her tone was a little harsher than she'd intended and it made her realize that she really was getting genuinely annoyed. He wanted to know "everything about her" and yet reveal nothing of himself. Did he really feel like she would judge him over something like this? "I don't...that's not...Scul-lee," he whined and shifted again and she smiled. Annoying or not, he was adorable. "Mulder, you should never ask a question you're not prepared to answer yourse..." "Twenty-one. I was twenty-one years old okay?" end part2 Desideratum III: After by Rachel Anton and Laura Blaurosen part 3/5 Scully smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "See now, was that so hard?" He shrugged and sighed again. "I dunno Scully, it's kind of old for a guy, ya know." "Mulder, do you honestly think I care? Or think any less of you for it? I think it's wonderful that you waited until you were mature enough..." "No Scully, you don't understand. It wasn't like a choice I made. You think I didn't wanna get laid until I was twenty-one? Scully, every teen-aged guy wants to get laid. Every single one. I was just too awkward, too disturbed, nobody wanted to come near me." Scully felt tears stinging the back of her throat but managed to hold them back. The last thing he would want was for her to cry over this. It was just so sad that he could ever think of himself that way, that other people thought of him that way. She wished that people had appreciated what a wonderful person he was at some point in his life. Then again, not everyone saw the sides of him that she did. She was a lucky woman. She dropped the sponge into the water and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, squeezing him tight and placed a kiss on the back of his neck. His skin was wet and warm. "So, how old was she Mulder? You said she was an older woman." "Oh um, she was." "Well...how much older?" "Um...old." "Mulder it wasn't some gray-haired little old lady was it?" "Scully! Jeez, of course not. She was about thirty-seven. Or thirty-eight. I dunno, I'm not even sure. She was um..." He muttered something utterly unintelligible under his breath. "She was what?" "Teacher, she was my teacher." "Mmhmm I'll bet." "Alright, you want me to kick your ass Scully?" "Hey, I'm not complaining. She did a good job." They both laughed and she was so glad. He seemed to have recovered from his momentary lapse into melancholy. "So you boinked the teacher Mulder?" "Scully...it wasn't like that...I mean, I dunno, I thought she loved me." "She didn't?" "No, she, well it turned out that she was married actually which she neglected to tell me until after we'd been sleeping together for a month." His voice was light and she could tell whatever bitterness he might have felt over the incident was long gone but she felt suddenly very angry. How could anyone have taken advantage of him like that? She got an image of a young innocent Fox Mulder trying desperately to please this woman, needing acceptance so badly it hurt and she almost started crying again. "Oh Mulder...I don't...I don't know how she could have not loved you..." she choked out, her voice betraying her feelings. "I don't know how anyone could not love you." "Hey shhh, it's okay Scully." He turned his face towards her and smiled. "It's really okay, I don't really care if anyone else in the universe loves me as long as you do." "I do," she whispered and leaned down to kiss his lips gently. When she pulled back he was still grinning. He snuggled back into her and squeezed her legs and she felt a tremor of excitement. And more unbidden curiosity. "So Mulder, you up for another question?" "Only if you're prepared to answer it yourself, Scully." This stopped her but only momentarily. If he could handle it then so could she. And vice versa. "How many people, not counting me, have you been with?" "Been with, Scully? Um...that's kind of a tricky question..." "How is that a tricky question?" "Well, I mean, I'm not exactly sure..." "Too many to count Mulder?" He barked out a short laugh and shook his head. "Not by a longshot Scully. I just, I'm not sure what...what you would consider...I mean I think...maybe five..." "Should I be more specific with my question?" "Uh yeah. Yeah I guess so." "Did you stick your pee pee in their wee wee, Mulder?" "So that's what doctors call them. Well, if that's the strict, scientific definition then I guess six although I don't...I don't normally count the um, the last one as such..." "Mulder, I don't even think I wanna know." "No, no you don't. Hey Scully, can I bring my rubber ducky over here sometime?" "Mulder, did you pay for it?" There was a long breathless silence then finally a sigh of resignation. "You really are psychic, Scully. Maybe we ought to open another X-file on you." She laughed through her nose. "Not psychic. Just a woman. A woman who knows you." "All too well apparently." She squeezed him again to let him know that this revelation neither surprised nor concerned her. It was something she could see him doing at a moment of desperation and loneliness, needing release but feeling completely unworthy of true intimacy, feeling a way she hoped he would never feel again. "So Scully..." he began and she felt a pang of anxiety. She was next. He was obviously going to ask her the same stupid question and she'd have to be as honest as he'd been. And how would he feel about that? She'd almost been hoping that he'd been with a ton of women, enough to make her number seem paltry, enough to make him feel like he didn't have a damn thing to worry about. "Do you really have a rubber ducky, Mulder?" "Diversion will get you nowhere." "How about distraction?" she asked, running her tongue around the outside of his ear. "Mmmhhmmm," he moaned, temporarily distracted. But only temporarily. "So did you use this technique on Jeff Bumfold when he asked you if you were really twenty-one?" "Fifteen," she blurted out. "What? He thought you were fifteen?" "No, that's...that's the number." "Oh..." "It's not really that many considering how young I was when I started." "No...no, of course..." She could practically hear the wheels turning in his head, counting the ones he knew about, trying to fill in the blanks. There were a lot of blanks. Blanks Scully didn't feel entirely up to discussing tonight. Most of them centered around her senior year in high school and her undergraduate years. She could count on her left foot the number of people she'd been with since she'd started med school and still have a couple toes left over. "Scully how many...how many since we met?" He sounded small and terrified. She hadn't even bothered to ask him the same question. There were some things she really did not want to know. "None." "None? Really? What about tattoo?" Shit! She'd totally forgotten, hadn't even included that miserable encounter. How could she have forgotten? "Mulder, I never had sex with tattoo. He's too short, even for me." "Scully..." "I know, I know. I kind of didn't really count that. I mean, I've kind of blocked it out." "Scully, you have a memento of it branded onto your back." "That's a separate thing to me. I just...I don't really like to think about the sex, Mulder. It was so awful." One of the worst moments of her life in fact, had been looking up into the deranged visage of Ed Jerse and trying like bloody hell to conger the image of the man she was talking to right now, realizing what she was doing, trying to stop, and then trying to start again when she realized there was no other way. "Awful...really?" "Awful. Probably the worst. Ever." "Scully....Scully...." he took a deep breath and let it out again. "Scully....why?" Good question, profile man. Maybe you can figure it out for me. "I don't...I don't really know exactly." "Oh." Well, she had some vague ideas but she wasn't up for self- psychoanalysis tonight either. She'd done enough of that lately. There was one very obvious reason though that she felt might make him happy to hear. "I dunno, Mulder, I think part of it was that I was so damned frustrated. It had been so long. And Mulder, spending every waking hour with you, I was just so...horny. Ed made me realize though that it was a horniness reserved strictly for you. You've ruined me for other men, Mulder." "Good," he said with such sincerity and force she wanted to cry again for ever making him doubt. "I only wanted you Mulder, from the day I met you, only you. It was just agonizing living side by side and feeling like I couldn't let myself have that..." "I know the feeling, Scully." She laughed at the two of them. The king and queen of denial on their watery throne. "So, Scully, what else did you do to um...relieve the tension?" "Spent a lot of quality time with my good buddy, William." "Whose William?" he demanded and she smirked at his ludicrous jealousy. "William's my vibrator, Mulder." Mulder proceeded to launch into an extended coughing fit followed by a nervous giggle. "I named it that in your honor since it was purchased in your honor." "Scully...Jesus." She didn't need to see his face to know that he was blushing. "Sometimes William wasn't convenient though, so I got to know my hands real well." "Scully...did...did you do that a lot?" "Define a lot." He laughed and shook his head. "I think I did it a lot Mulder. Especially on cases. That was the worst." "You...you mean not just, you didn't just do it in your house?" "Of course not Mulder I..." she gazed down at him and noticed that the bubbles were starting to recede a bit. Enough to expose the fact that he was hard as a rock under the water. Time to have some fun. end part 3 Desideratum III: After by Rachel Anton and Laura Blaurosen part 4/5 Scully, vibrator. Scully and a vibrator. Scully bought a vibrator. Scully went to a store and bought a fucking vibrator. His Scully, in some sleazy dingy sex shop buying a fucking vibrator, for Christ's sake. Mulder was still trying to work around this image and concept in his head, trying to convince himself that maybe she ordered it out of a catalogue, when she started talking about her hands. Her hands and her vibrator on cases, CASES, with him. Not just in her house, no, but out on cases in hotels, motels, with paper thin walls, sleeping practically right next to him, she had done this. A lot. Maybe at the same times he had been doing it, just a few inches of wood between them. Mulder looked down and discovered he had his own few inches of wood to contend with at this thought. And she was still talking. "When we were on cases Mulder, it was too much. I couldn't wait until I got home. Sometimes I couldn't even wait till we got back to the hotel." For a minute, the way she said the words distracted him so completely, he didn't even register what she'd said. There was a timbre to her voice that he'd never heard before, not even that night in the hospital when she'd been driving him crazy. That had been an intimate, sexy tone. This was something beyond that. It was...oh man, what did she just say? "Scully?" Couldn't wait till they got back to the hotel? What the hell did that mean? Had she done it like he had, in public restrooms, alleys, anywhere he could find where he could be alone for two minutes? No, not Scully. Not in an alley. A vibrator he could deal with but that...no. "Sometimes Mulder, I couldn't even wait till I was alone." Okay now...now she was just fucking with him. That had to be it. She couldn't possibly...he would have known. He would have had to. He watched her so intently constantly, when the hell...Jesus Christ what the hell was she talking about? "Could...could you elaborate on that Scully?" She laughed, a low throaty sound like syrup and he felt her moving ever so slightly against his back. He wondered if she was as wet as he was hard right now. "You sure you can handle it Mulder?" "No. But tell me. Tell me...when...how...where Scully? Tell me." "Well, there was one time, I guess it was about a year ago, you came to my door at 3 am and dragged me off to some strange place in the middle of nowhere." Could you be more specific Scully? That sounded like any number of Saturday nights in the past six years. "Anyway, you woke me out of a very...interesting dream, involving you and me and a bottle of whipped cream. Your incessant knocking got me out of bed before my dream reached...completion and I was...I was so...tense." She was talking very close to his ear now in that same tone and he started to wish the bubbles weren't disappearing so fast. His hand was twitching on her leg, aching to reach down. "Cream, Scully?" "We got in the car and it was so cold, I was so tired, you gave me your coat to use as a blanket. I curled up under it on the seat next to you and you started driving. Mulder... you're so sexy when you drive. Did you know that?" He shook his head, completely dumbstruck, and she ran her left hand down his arm, over his fingers. "I watched the way your fingers drummed against the steering wheel in time with the quiet music you had on, the way you dipped them into the bag of seeds you had and back to your mouth, your fingers and your lips back and forth and...God, when your tongue brushed over your lips to wipe away the salt, all I could think about was that tongue on me...in me..." She drifted off into a sigh and ground against his back, more deliberately this time, and her hand squeezed his with a passion only their hands were capable of expressing. He felt like crying. If only he'd known that she wanted him that badly back then, he would have pulled the car over to the side of the road and fucked the life out of her. No, that wasn't even true. He would have started stuttering and shaking like an idiot and she would have changed her mind. But still...he would have loved to have known. "So what...what did you do Scully?" "I pretended to fall asleep so you wouldn't know I was watching you out of the corner of my eye. And I started thinking about all the different ways you could take me in that car. And I started to wonder...what would you do if I reached over and ran my hand over your cock as you drove along, would you be angry, aroused, curious..." Dead, Scully. I would have been dead and so would you because I would have driven the car off the road and into a ditch. "I sat there for the longest time, so close to touching you, but so very far. My hands were shaking under your coat from the effort of not touching you. And then I realized, if I didn't touch myself I was going to end up doing something very foolish, very dangerous. So I slipped my hand between my legs and pressed hard. It felt good Mulder but it wasn't enough. I needed to feel more. I unzipped my pants and slipped my hand inside, against the silk panties I was wearing. I could feel how wet I was through the material. For you Mulder, just from looking at you. God you make me so hot Mulder." She practically moaned the last sentence and her tongue flicked out and grazed the outside of his ear. He moaned himself and pressed backwards, hoping to give her some kind of stimulation. His dick was bobbing up and down in the water like some kind of perverted buoy and he was having an increasingly difficult time keeping his hand off it. "What...what color?" "Color Mulder? You mean my panties?" "No...car...car color..." he managed, desperate for any clue as to what night this had been, any kind of memory he could conger. God had she really fucking done that? Right the fuck in front of him? This woman was even more brave than he'd given her credit for. Or more insane. Or more...dirty. God she was so dirty. It was like getting a pony on Christmas morning and then realizing not only was it a pony but it was a pony with magical powers. And wings. And it could talk. And play cards... "Mulder, I don't know. I think it was your car not a rental." "My c...car?" She'd touched herself in HIS CAR? "I think so." "Scully did...did you..." No. God, she couldn't have. He wasn't that dense. He would have known. He would have. Surely. "Even that wasn't enough Mulder. I needed more. I slipped two of my fingers under my panties and rubbed my clit...like this..." She started running her first two fingers in light circles over his wrist and he ran his other hand up her leg, trying desperately to reach between them and mimic her movements. He groaned in frustration when he realized he couldn't reach her in this position any more than she could reach him. "It felt so good Mulder and so bad. So naughty. I kept wondering if you would turn around and see me. If you would hear it, smell it. I was afraid but I think a part of me wanted you to know. I always wanted you to know how you made me feel, what you drove me to. But I was a coward really. When I came I bit down on my lip so that I wouldn't make a sound. But I shuddered a little bit and I think...I think you saw that because a minute later you asked me if I was cold." When she came. She came. Jesus Christ she came in his car right fucking next to him. Asked if she was cold, he asked if she was cold. He scanned his memory frantically, trying to find an instance when they had been driving in his car at night and he'd asked if she was cold. It happened all the fucking time, who the hell would remember that? Shit. "You did NOT," he insisted emphatically. The whole scenario, it was too typical, too familiar, she had just taken an average day in their lives and turned it into this story. That HAD to be it. "What do you mean I did not? Do you think I would lie to you? I would never lie to you Mulder. Never." "Well, not lie, but you're making it up...teasing me...right?" "No Mulder. Wrong. It's true and it's not the only time." Shit. Fucking shit woman. "Mulder don't you know what it's like, being so desperate, needing to be touched so bad you can't even stand it, needing to touch yourself, no matter how hard you try you just can't stop yourself? Don't you know that feeling Mulder?" She stuck her foot under his knee and pulled the stopper out with her toes, letting some of the water drain from the tub. "Uh...are we done here Scully?" "No Mulder, we're not done. We're just starting." When the water level had receded to his hips, when his bent legs and his dick were exposed to the air she pushed the stopper back. His sex twitched a little from the shock of the cold air after the hot water, not to mention the shock of her words. "Scully?" "Do it Mulder." "Do wha....oh shit Scully..." "You know you want to. And I want you to. I wanna see. I want you to show me." "Scully...I don't...I want...I want to touch YOU. I mean, I want to do something we can both...enjoy." "Mulder, I will enjoy it. A lot. And if you do, I'll tell you another story. You wanna hear another story Mulder?" Brother, she sure did know the right questions to ask. Could she possibly enjoy seeing that though? Really? She had told him in the hospital that seeing those photographs of him had turned her on, even told him she wanted to see it in person sometime. Would it do the same thing to her that seeing her had done to him that night? He felt her reaching back behind herself and soon her hand was back next to his holding the bottle of bath oil from before. Oh shit Scully. Shit, shit, shit. "Open up," she ordered and he opened his palm and turned it up automatically. She poured some of the stuff into his hand and put the bottle down on the rim of the tub. "Do it, Mulder. Please." "Scully...I...." he sat there for a moment, rubbing the oil around in his palm, wondering if he could really pull this off. Christ, what if he...there couldn't be anything more embarrassing than masturbatory premature ejaculation. But he was just about that close. One touch and it could all go to hell. No, he could control himself. He could and he would. It was his own hand. Jesus. He could at least try to be somewhat fucking cool for once in his life. "Let me tell you another story, Mulder. Maybe it'll inspire you." "M'kay," he whimpered pathetically. So much for cool. Maybe he could at least look decent. He had an alright penis. It wasn't completely beyond the realm of possibility that she would like to watch him. As long as he didn't screw it up. "This one was a while ago, a couple years. It was after that case in Commity, you remember? When we almost murdered each other. Or fucked each other. Remember?" He nodded. How could he have forgotten that? "It was about a week later. You took me out to dinner, your treat, I assumed to make up for being such a prick previously." Almost right Scully. Not entirely though. He remembered that night. He remembered that dinner. Clear as a fucking bell. He had taken her to a small, vaguely romantic, dimly lit Italian restaurant, yes in hopes of making things better again, but also for a more selfish and warped reason. He'd noticed her jealousy over that stupid detective whatever her name was and despite the fact that a planetary alignment had partially caused the problem, he hadn't been able to help taking it as a sign. A sign that maybe, just maybe, she wanted him, even a little tiny bit. He had taken her out that night to see if he was right. Well, that had been the plan anyway. They had spent a lovely evening together talking, mostly about work but also about one or two personal things, and eating. It had been absolutely wonderful and the first off duty time he could remember having spent with her. But he hadn't really gotten any particular knowledge about her feelings from it. He'd been to scared to really make any bold moves that night. But God it was a fun night. One of his better memories from the past 6 years. What the hell could that night have to do with any of this, though? "You remember the dinner Mulder?" "S...sure. It was um, it was nice." "Oh it was better than nice Mulder. Do you remember what you had for dessert?" "Uh...ice...ice cream?" "That's right Mulder, very good. Not just any ice cream, though. It was a hot fudge sundae with a cherry on top, remember?" That part he had forgotten. Why in the world would she remember? "Do you know that I was watching you all night Mulder? Watching you drink your wine and suck down your pasta, shifting in my seat because you were making me so crazy. I love watching you eat Mulder. It turns me on more than anything." Oh man. Had she actually snuck off to the bathroom in the middle of their meal for that? Or was it another car story, feigning sleep on the way home? No, he remembered, she had been wide awake when he'd driven her home that night. What the hell, maybe it wasn't the kind of story he was thinking. Maybe it was just about how she liked eating with him. That was okay, that was nice. And it made him feel wonderful to know that she thought of him like that even back then. "When you finished dinner I thought thank God, I can go home and make myself come just thinking about that little spot of spaghetti sauce on your lip. But you wouldn't let it end Mulder. You had to order that sundae." She did. Oh God she did. She did it somewhere in the fucking restaurant. He realized that his hand had drifted to his cock almost without his knowledge. He wrapped his fingers tentatively around the base and pulled out one long, slow stroke over the length. She made a sound he didn't think women really made in real life, something like a whimper but more....something. "That's good Mulder. So good...show me more." He felt both her hands at his shoulders now, massaging him lightly, encouraging him to relax and go with it. He continued stroking himself slowly, languidly, gotta take it slow, draw it out, show some control. He wanted to hear the end of the story dammit. He kept his free hand on her wet thigh, squeezing and rubbing the skin. "Oh yeah Mulder, God I love your cock." What the fuck? Was that Scully behind him? She sounded like...Jesus Christ she sounded like a fucking phone sex operator or something. Not that he was complaining. He felt her grinding into him again and he pushed back. "MmmmMulder, you feel so fucking good." "More Scully...tell me more," he panted, suddenly utterly breathless. "Mulder you have a dangerous tongue. Watching you lick that vanilla ice cream off the spoon, the hot fudge dripping down your lips, the way you sucked that cherry, God Mulder, were you trying to make me cry? I'd never seen anything so sensual in my whole life. I wanted you to lick me like that, to suck my clit the way you sucked the cherry." Motherfucker, he was close. Slow down, slow the fuck down. It was her voice. What the hell was she doing? "I couldn't watch it anymore without doing...something. You wanna know what I did Mulder? Right there in the restaurant, right across the table from you?" Right across the...oh God. Oh no. She had to be kidding. The tablecloth had been pretty long. He remembered actually thinking himself that it would have been a great place to get a blow job. But still...she couldn't have. "That's right baby, right there, I made myself come right in front of you and you never even knew, right in front of your face, you were looking right at me Mulder, in the eye." "Fffuucck," he grunted, his strokes becoming dangerously erratic and quick. "I think you were talking too, something about uranium mining in the Las Vegas desert. I think it was the way you said Las Vegas that did me in. I'm not sure why...God Mulder...you look so good," she moaned and started licking at his ear, working her tongue around and inside. How could he have not known? How the fuck could he not have seen it? Looking right in her eyes for Chrissake. Was he that dense? Was she that good an actress? Jesus. "God Mulder, you're so hot...make me so wet, do it faster Mulder, faster..." Shit Scully, fucking shit. There was no way he could refuse her sounding like that, grinding against him the way she was. He sped up his movements but loosened his grip a little to compensate. It wasn't time yet. God, not yet. "Does it feel good baby? You like it?" "Yahhah," he moaned and nodded. "Would it feel better if it was my mouth? Would you like that Mulder? My tongue tracing circles around your big, throbbing cock, taking you into my mouth, all the way in, down my throat, sucking and licking you, tasting your sweet cum..." "Scuh-leee," he wheezed, his head thrashing back and forth on her shoulder as she made more obscene sounds in his ear. She was certainly observant. His cock was throbbing, and bigger than it usually looked when he did this. Too close, too fucking close. He wanted at least one more story. "Mulder touch your balls with your other hand. Play with them." "Nnnoot...n..no...mo...more...." "What? No more?" "Tellmemore," he gasped in one agonizing breath. She laughed, moaned, rubbed against him again. "You want another story? Is that it?" He nodded and squeaked, unable to create a word after that exertion. "Okay, I'll tell you another one. How about a really recent one? From a couple months ago? Would you like that?" A couple months ago, after the kiss, before Jane, the time of his undoing. The time when he hadn't been able to go four hours without running off to the men's room. The time when he'd come on the floor of their office. Right the fuck in front of HER. He wondered if she'd enjoy hearing that little story as much as he was enjoying this. Again, he merely nodded. "Remember when you went away to the UFO conference this year? You wanted me to feed your fish remember?" Another nod and slowing down, calmer more deliberate strokes. "Well I did that, but then...I dunno Mulder, something in me just couldn't resist doing a little...snooping. I looked in your bedroom Mulder. I'm sorry. I know that's an invasion. I wanted...I wanted to look at your clothes." "Cl...clothes?" "I didn't look in the closets or anything. I didn't need to. They were strewn all over the place, the floor and the dresser, the bed..." Yes indeed. He had a system. Honestly. Clean clothes on the dresser, dirty on the floor, questionable on the bed. Dry-cleaned items hung in the closet. But his off duty clothes, jeans and sweat pants, T-shirts and sweaters, those were in the piles. "I looked through them all Mulder. I tried to put things back where I'd found them but you have quite an inscrutable system there. Anyhow, while I was perusing something caught my eye. Your Patriots jersey was hanging off the edge of your dresser and for some reason, I just...I wanted it. I wanted to be in it. I thought maybe...maybe you'd been running in it, or playing basketball, maybe it would smell like you. So I...I took off all my clothes and..." "Pant...panties?" "Yes, panties, bra, everything. Just my skin and that shirt. It went down to my knees but I remember wishing it could reach down to my ankles, cover every inch of me. I felt surrounded by you. And then I went back into the living room. I looked...I looked through your tapes..." Tapes? Not those tapes. God Scully, how embarrassing. "Do you have any idea how it felt Mulder, sitting on your couch, watching those movies, thinking of you there..." "Scu....why?" "Why? Because I wanted to know Mulder. I wanted to see. I wanted to watch what you watch and see what you like, what turns you on, what you think about us doing. And Mulder, I liked what I saw. I saw us on that screen Mulder, I heard us, and it made me crazy thinking of you sitting where I was, doing the same thing. I started running my hands over the shirt, pretending it was you, that you were sitting there next to me wearing it and that I was feeling you. I rubbed the fabric over my skin, pretending it was your skin pressing against me, everywhere on my body, my breasts. It was so odd, so arousing, seeing my nipples hardening against your shirt. I pressed the material between my legs and touched my pussy through it. I could feel the wetness soaking through the cotton." Wetness..cotton...shirt...pussy, Scully's pussy and his shirt. His Patriots jersey. He wore that shirt...Jesus Christ he wore that shirt running all the fucking time. If she had put it back on the dresser when she was through with it...Fucking A, he'd worn the fucking thing after that, with her juices still on it, touching his stomach as he ran. "Ooohh, that's it Mulder, faster, like that." She was rotating her hips almost constantly now, pressing into his back, and her legs were ever tightening around his waist. "Scu...uh...did...didjew....didjew come in my sh...shi-hirt?" "Oh yeah Mulder, I came in your shirt, on your shirt, on your couch, every....oh....God....everywhere. Mulder...oh Mulder, I wanna see you come. Come for me now baby, now." Her thighs were trembling. It was time. There was simply no delaying it anymore. He reached his other hand between his legs and stroked his balls as she'd asked earlier. They were so tight, it was only a matter of seconds. "Scu...wh...where...where did you put...put it a-after?" "I put it back where I found it Mulder...the dress..." "Oh JESUS," he cried as spurts of white fluid began shooting out of him in every direction. He continued jerking himself hard and fast, pulling his dick so that it was facing the ceiling and watching the show, getting the most out of the moment and grinding into her in the process, causing her to cry out herself and buck against him. "Oh God Mulder, I'm coming," she whimpered into his ear, causing a few more eruptions from his cock in response. Her nails dug into his back and she bit down on his ear as she rode out the waves of her own mysterious orgasm and he collapsed against her, dropping both his hands into the water. He looked down at himself and noticed a few globs on his chest and stomach. He wouldn't be surprised if there were a few on her ceiling. He'd been shooting like a fucking geyser. And no fucking wonder with the goddess of dirty talk back there. She was still panting and moaning a bit herself. But after a few moments he felt her hands on his chest, her fingers dipping into the cum, wiping it off his skin. He turned and watched her bring her fingers to her mouth and suck them dry with her eyes closed, a smile of utter satisfaction on her lips and the sight was enough to bring tears to his eyes. Enough to make him collapse back against her with a snivel and to pray to God that this woman never stopped loving him the way that she did. end part 4 Desideratum III: After by Rachel Anton and Laura Blaurosen part 5/5 "Mulder. Mulder, come on, get up. Get the door." He just lay there, one hand still on his now limp dick, his head pressed firmly in the crook of her neck. His hot breath spilled over her breasts as he continued to pant heavily. "Mulder, come on, before he leaves. I'm starving." "Can't," he breathed. "Can't move. Just give...me...minute." His breathing slowed and his head rolled to the side, snuggling his nose into her neck. "Uh-uh, don't do that, Mulder," she said as she tried to push on his back. "You're gonna fall asleep. Come on Mulder, please? I'm so hungry." He nodded and rose slowly, eyes still shut as he lifted himself upright. Scully couldn't help chuckling at him as she helped him up by pushing on his ass. Excepting his outward appearance, he seemed like some arthritic eighty year old man trying to get out of the bath. He lifted one leg over the tub and then the other, plopping each foot down like a gorilla, and standing there until he regained his balance. He looked around the bathroom blindly. "Towels, Scully?" "Uh...Oh shit, I don't have any big clean ones, I forgot. I needed to do laundry since before...just...just use my robe." He grabbed the satin, magnolia-covered garment and turned toward her again with a "you've gotta be kidding me" look. "Why don't you go out there?" "I'd be naked under there, Mulder. You want the pizza boy to have a peek at my wet breasts pressing through my robe?" He gave her a miserable look that said he wanted neither of those options. The doorbell rang again. "Mulder, hurry. He's gonna leave." He quickly put the robe on and tried to cover up the necessary areas, swearing the whole time because it was so small and sticking to his wet skin. The sleeves ended somewhere around his elbow and the bottom barely reached his mid-thigh. "I feel like fucking Cary Grant in the Philadelphia Story." "And you look just as handsome. Now go fetch my supper, boy." He grimaced but he went. She was now convinced there was absolutely nothing that man would not do for her. From the largest, most vital parts of her existence to the simplest and the silliest, he was there for her one hundred and twenty percent. Was there another man in the universe who would save her life, kill for her, die for her, endure her insanity, her abuse, come back for more, keep loving her, save her from herself, get her pizza dressed in a size 3 silk robe from Victoria's Secret? She knew Mulder thought she was a saint for putting up with him. He was really the saint though. Her lunatic savior. She thought of Jane for the first time in a long while. She didn't feel her usual tremor of fear at the thought, she felt a strange and deep sympathy. She and Mulder, they thought they were better than people like Jane. They spent their lives trying to catch them, prosecute them for their crimes, protect society from them. But in the end, they really weren't all that different. Love was an insanity, as plain as any other. Mulder really hadn't acted much differently than Jane might have through this entire thing.. So crazed with the thought of protecting her, of avenging her wrongdoers, Mulder would have surely killed Jane had Charlie not been there to stop him. And she herself couldn't help but sympathize with Jane even for all the awful things she'd done to her. She could not honestly admit that she wouldn't do all of those things if it was for Mulder's sake. She had done things she never would have even imagined doing before knowing Mulder. Including falling in love with him. She had lied for him, killed for him, gone to any lengths in order to save his life, she'd even sung for him. She laughed out loud at herself at that memory. Only for Mulder would she have done such a thing. She shivered when a cool breeze came in through the bathroom window. The wind was blowing through the trees in, signaling that rain was immanent, perhaps even a storm. She got out of the tub and let what was left of the water out. She watched it swirl out down the drain and felt a bit sad. She wasn't ready for their time in the tub to be over so she plugged the drain again and ran the water. The sea is good for your soul, her father would say to her often, especially when he would come home on shore leave. He said coming back was like a fresh start every time because he had taken what troubled him and left them in the water. Likewise, he would often take her to the ocean when she was feeling down, just her and dad, and he'd tell her to clean it off, let it go into the ocean, because the water would always wash the bad things away, leaving not emptiness, but a cleaner version of the good that was there before. A fresh start with the old, another chance to make things perfect. Whatever it was that Rena had done for her seemed nearly miraculous, but Scully was want to know if Rena's 'magic' was what actually made her better. Or if it was mainly her own intense desire to make things new again. To be able to just put the Donnie Pfasters, the smoking men, the diseases, and the Janes far behind her forever in order to be happy, and be happy with Mulder. Another breeze came through the window and this time she could smell the rain that had begun to fall. Her teeth chattered and she put her hand under the running tap to warm herself. She shut out the bathroom light again and sunk into the tub of fresh water. Her hair had long since come undone and she let it just fall into the water, closing her eyes briefly as she waited for Mulder's return. xxxxxx "Alright, keep your pants on, wouldja? I'm comin already." She'd sure as hell better appreciate this, Mulder thought as he took a deep breath, preparing himself to open the door. "Looks like you could take your own advice," the tall and muscular, dark haired delivery guy taunted him. "Just give me the pizza already will ya?" Mulder responded with affected annoyance, hoping to convey some degree of masculinity to the guy, despite his questionable attire. "$18.64." Oh, money, yeah. Out of habit, Mulder reached behind him to get his wallet. Realizing again he was wearing a woman's robe, he smiled uncomfortably. "Just a minute, I've gotta find-" He looked around Scully's apartment and tried desperately to remember where it was that she had taken his jeans off at. It would have been simple, if he could only see. Or walk. He still felt like he'd been hit by a truck. His limbs were shaking like jello. "Ah just a minute, I gotta find...uh..." "Money?" "Right. Money. Lemme just...I don't know where my part...ner... keeps" "Scully! Where's some money?" He called to the bathroom, but he only heard the running of the water in the tub. He looked at the pizza guy, who raised his eyebrows at him and sighed in impatience. "Not my house. My part-ner's..." Mulder cut himself off, realizing for the first time that he didn't know what to call her anymore. His girlfriend? That seemed so junior high. His lover? Yeah, this is Dana Scully, we work together and she's also my lover. That wasn't right either. "Listen, it ain't none of my business what goes on in the privacy of peoples' lives, just give me the money so I can get the hell out of here." He found Scully's wallet, neatly laying on the kitchen table. He handed the guy a ten. "Uh, it's $18.64, mister." "18 bucks? Isn't that a bit much?" "You know, you complain a lot for a guy in a floral robe." It finally occurred to Mulder what this guy must have concluded about him. For an instant, he felt self-conscious, but that soon passed when the memory of Scully, facial expression wracked with intense pleasure, pleasure that he himself had given her, popped into his head. Oh yeah, he was a real man. He had no doubt about it. He handed the guy another ten and gave him a sarcastic nod and smile. "Just give me the pizza." Which, if you're interested, I'm planning to hand feed to the most beautiful woman who ever walked this planet; the same woman who I just had the most incredible sex of my life with, up against her bathroom door; the same woman who at this moment is waiting, naked, for me in a huge tub of water; the same woman I'll be having incredible sex with another four times yet tonight. Don't think you can say the same, can you now, pizza boy? Once the door was shut, he took the robe off and threw it over the back of the couch. In doing so, he lost his balance slightly. Well, maybe not four more times. "Mulder, there's a bottle of wine in the fridge, bring that with you, please?" Scully called to him as he headed back to the bathroom. He fumbled around the darkened kitchen, shivering now, holding the bottle of freezing cold chardonay against his naked skin, looking for wine glasses. "In the rack under the cupboard," she called from the bathroom. He smiled and shook his head. Whether it was woman's intuition or psychic ability, the fact remained that she knew him better than anyone in his entire life had. She knew him in ways that he didn't think were possible. It was almost as if she'd known him his entire life. Before they'd ever met. Like she was born knowing him. She had to have been born loving him, because he still felt like it was an absolute miracle that she could. "In the drawer next to the stove," she called again, before he'd even begun opening drawers for the corkscrew. Absolutely amazing. Or not. Maybe this was something that was completely normal to other people. Or at least to Scully. Balancing the bottle and two glasses on the pizza box, he carefully used his foot to push the bathroom door all the way open again. As he set the box and glasses on the floor and climbed back into the bath, he said, "Ya know, being with you these past few days I have suffered more affronts to my masculinity than I ever imagined possible." "What does that mean?" she asked as she settled herself in between his legs this time. "It means that I've given the pizza guy a helluva a story to take back to work with him." He reached over the side of the tub to grab the glasses of wine for them. "I mean think about it, Scully, premature ejaculation, dressing in floral robes...What's next, Scully? Gonna do my hair?" Scully sipped her wine and laughed a bit. "Well, would you rather I have gone out there? Might have given him some good fodder for writing letters to Penthouse, though . 'Dear Forum, I never thought this would happen to me...' " As she bit off the end of the slice of pizza he offered her, his eyes grew wide at her comment. "Scully, how..." "How what?" she said with her mouth full. "How do you know..." "Mulder, you must think I live in a bubble." "Well, I know you don't, I mean I know that you...," He trailed off and took a bite of pizza. With a mouthful, he asked, "Scully, did you really watch my movies?" "What would make you think I made that up? Contrary to what you might have thought about me before, Mulder, I do in fact think about sex." "Yeah, I know that. It's just that, well, all those things you said before, those things you told me you did..." "Yes? I thought you said it didn't bother you to hear those things." "Scully, I just...I just didn't realize you could be so...dirty." She laughed again at him and finished off the rest of the slice of pizza they'd been working on. She turned her body more toward him and noticed a glob of sauce that had landed on his torso. In an exaggerated motion, she licked it off with a flattened tongue. Speaking in a low, husky tone, she asked him, "Don't you like me dirty? Because I'd be willing to keep it in check if you think you can't handle it. But I'd say you were pretty lucky man." "Scully, you don't know the half of it." "Oh, but I think I do." She placed an open mouthed kiss on his neck and nuzzled him there. "Mmmulder, I want some more." "Scully, I can't...just...yet...I-" "Pizza, Mulder. I want some more pizza." "Oh." He reached down over the side of the tub and grabbed another slice. He was just about to feed it to her when he suddenly remembered something else he'd wanted to ask. "Scully, were you really afraid of that stupid little clown?" She sighed through her already open mouth that had been waiting for the pizza. She shook her head. "Mulder, shuddup and feed me." END Desideratum