To: Subject: After by Sugarellie Date: Saturday, May 26, 2001 8:27 AM Title: After Author: Sugarellie Email address: sugarellie2000@yahoo.com Rating: Part 1 is PG-13 for some bad language. Part 2 is 17+ for sex. So for all the kiddies and noromo's RUN :) But part 1 should be okay read. Classification: S, MSR Summary: After a difficult case, Mulder has to make a hard decision and Scully's helps him a bit..... Spoilers: Some tiny little spoilers during season 7, up until 'all things', but I doubt you will even find them. I guess 'Closure' and 'all things'. A reference to 'Biogenesis' / 'The sixth Extinction' / 'The sixth extinction ll:amor fati'. Some references to a certain female who won't come along until season 6, and further 'The movie' and 'Small potatoes' Disclaimer: Ah....you know, yada yada yada. Okay....don't own them. At least not their names. Mulder and Scully are property of Fox, 1013 productions, CC and whoever else feels like they have something to claim. I like to think I do own these versions of them, or at least the fanfic writers do. Why? Well, you have to admit you would never see them do this on the show, right? So I guess this is just a story about two people who somehow bear a striking resemblance in appearance and jobs to the Mulder and Scully of 'The X-files', but you're probably not buying and frankly neither am I. Also no money is being made of this, I'm as poor as I was before. So please don't sue me. All I have to give is this laptop and I let it be burnt by a candle :( So leave this poor girl alone. Feedback: Please, please, PLEASE. Send it to sugarellie2000@yahoo.com or just hit the reply-button and I will do a happy dance and jump around my living room. And it won't be *that* much trouble for you, right? So please, please, PLEASE. Distribution: Anywhere, but if you're kind sent me an e-mail so I can come visit :) and please keep author's name and disclaimer attached. Author's note: Part 1 is Scully's POV, Part 2 is Mulder's POV. Just thought I'd mention it, in case you didn't understand from my story :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After Part 1 of 2: PG-13 And the story begins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She was exhausted. After Mulder had finished his profile on the perpetrator, they had been working non-stop to nail him and she was relieved when they had finally arrested him and put him behind bars. It felt good, however sick the man may have been, it had somehow been a relatively normal case. No E.B.E.'s or telepathic people had been involved, and no matter how disgusted Scully was with what the man did - killing people, because of physical 'abnormalities' to 'preserve' the human race - she was glad that he was just that: a psychopath. It provided some closure for her, to know that, due to the relative triviality of the case, the man would most certainly end up behind bars. That was nice for a change, since putting mutants in prison wasn't that easy. After the initial paperwork Mulder had - thank God, although she would never admit this to him - suggested to the local police enforcement that he and agent Scully would both go back to their motel and rest a bit. Now she was in her room and looking longingly to her bed. She hoped Mulder was all right though. He had been affected by this case a lot more than he wanted to admit to both her and himself. The relative triviality that had made this case somewhat easier for her than the unsatisfactory dealings with supposed little gray men and mutants, had done the opposite for Mulder. Every time they had a case like this Scully realized how wise it had been for him to leave the Violent Crime Section. Profiling a madman like he had had to do on this case meant getting inside the perpetrator's head and understand his motives. Scully felt like every time Mulder had to profile in a case like this he lost something of himself in the man he was getting to know so well. Even though after all these years Mulder was now more able to talk about it and acknowledge what a case like this did to him, still she felt he had some inhibitions in sharing his fear with her. Not because he didn't trust her, but because he didn't trust himself. She hoped he would be able to let go. Right now, she wasn't really in any state to help him, sleep was luring her very tantalizing. "Scully?", she heard his familiar face say, while carefully opening the connecting doors of both their rooms. She sighed and then answered in a tone that revealed her exhaustion and annoyance with the fact that he had disturbed her, while she was getting ready for her well-deserved nap. "What is it, Mulder?", when she saw his face, she immediately regretted her annoyed tone. He was clearly disturbed about something. "I just......nothing. You go sleep now." "Mulder", she said in a tone that made clear she wouldn't indulge any argument from his side, "What is it?" "I was just wondering if we could, you know, talk a bit." Scully was now marveled. As normal as this would sound to most people, it was a rare thing between the two of them. Neither one of them was very good in expressing their feelings verbally so they mostly talked with silent glances and looks in their own private language that no one else understood. It was the kind of language only people who know each other very well can share and it often left others they worked with thinking that they were not only partners in a law-enforcement-way, but also romantically speaking. Scully however had always felt reluctant, to say the very least, towards a relationship of that kind. Not that she didn't want to. Hell no, she had her share of midnight - and sometimes daytime - fantasies about Mulder in that way, but she knew he didn't. He needed her to keep him stable and grounded and to prevent him from losing his mind completely in the search for The Truth. He needed her as a partner and as friend. He didn't need her sexually. He wasn't physically attracted to her. Maybe in the beginning, when they hadn't been true friends yet, he had felt an attraction to her, but she was sure that attraction - if it had ever been there - had faded along with his sexual innuendoes. Lately the talking had improved though. After what she had discovered in Ivory Coast, after Mulder's sickness and disappearance during that, after Mulder's astonishing discoveries about his sister's abduction and Scully's own encounter with what life meant to her and what the choices she made implicated in her life, they had been more open with each other. More capable of sharing their personal feelings with each other. However these moments were still rare and most of them were triggered by something traumatizing. Although, she could probably count this among one of those traumatizing times for him. "Sure, sit down", she said and patted on her bed so that he would sit down next to her. "What's wrong?" "Well, uhm, I, uhm, was, you know, kinda wondering if I, well, could, uhm, sleep with you", he looked up at her with that puppy-dog face she could never resist, no matter how hard she tried. "Excuse me, Mulder?", she said and lifted an eyebrow. Mulder's face immediately changed from the puppy-dog look to the guilt-ridden one. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean, oh hell, I just wanted to, you know, ask if I could sleep in your bed, or on the chair in your room. I don't want to be alone tonight." She quickly gave him a little smile to let him now she wasn't offended by his words. "Alright, on one condition." He looked truly delighted she hadn't turned him down. "What's that?", he inquired. "You tell me why you don't want to be alone tonight and why you think you are alone if you are not in my room, okay?" He looked puzzled, but nodded anyway. "Mulder, of course you can spend the night in my room if that's what you need, but even if I'm not in the same room, you're still not alone. I'm still your friend. You know that, right?" He nodded. "Now, what's wrong?" She knew this was going to be hard. He was clearly deeply troubled by something and Scully assumed it was their case. It had been a while since he had needed to use his profiling skills so in dept, and her experience told her that he always suffered somewhat of a depression after he had been forced to go into a madman's mind and make it as familiar as his own. He looked up at her with the look of the twelve-year old that part of him had always stayed. "I am scared." She looked at him surprised. Not per se with the notion he was scared - that had happened before - but mostly with the fact that he had told her so bluntly. He must have taken her look of surprise as a look of wonder, because he continued. "He was sick, you know. And I can't help but feel sick too." "Mulder......" "No, Scully, let me finish", he said with a pleading look on his face. "I, I feel dirty. I always do after a case like this, but lately, I don't know. I just feel like I can't clean myself anymore; like you can't clean me anymore." Scully was surprised by the way he put this. He had told her something like this before, but different. Then he had told her she saved him, that she was his touchstone too, that he couldn't continue his quest without her. Well, had that turned out great. Actually in the beginning it had, the almost-kiss had been so close, he had dropped his walls and had torn down hers along with his. She had opened himself up to him that moment, seeing his pain and his need for her. Then that bee had messed everything up. In retrospect though she thought it to be for the best. He hadn't been ready, he hadn't thought through the results of his actions, of their actions. That kiss could have changed everything, at least for her. After that she wouldn't have been able to go back to the way things were before. For him though, everything would have probably remained the same and to be honest, she didn't know whether she couldn't have stood that. That kiss had been merely his last attempt to keep her with him, not a declaration of love. Still she couldn't help herself dreaming about the what-ifs sometimes. "You know, Scully, you have saved me, not only physically, but also mentally over and over. But it's just not enough anymore. I'm too fucked up. I feel like any day now, I will finally really lose my mind and become the subject of a FBI-investigation myself. I'm so sorry." "Don't be. It's not your fault. It never was", she answered, not sure of what his point was, but guessing that it probably had to do something with his never-ending guilt "No, that's not true. It is. I don't know my own limits, I never have, but it is unfair of me to rely on you for knowing them. This case, it was nothing special, it doesn't signify anything. It's just a sequel in the story of Fox Mulder's path to insanity. That's how everything has been lately. Things, cases, that are seemingly unrelated make me remember things and realize things and however not important alone, they are important together. Because they make me realize what is important to me. But they also make *me* even more unworthy than I already was. I can't go on like this anymore. But what kind of choice do I have? Continuing would ensure me of losing my mind for good, but breaking this vicious circle I'm in, would mean losing the only thing that keeps me sane. In the end, though, I'm unworthy, and I'm sorry for dragging the purest thing in the world down with me. So I have to stop, I will ask for reassignment tomorrow. You can stay on the X-files. I have found my sister's fate, you still have to revenge your sister'." "Mulder............MULDER", Scully had been silent throughout his monologue, shocked by what he was saying. He was thinking about leaving? How could she not have known this, when he was supposed to be her partner, her best friend? She couldn't let him do this. She didn't want to think about her reasons because a little nagging voice kept saying that she was being selfish. That she didn't want to stop him for his sake, but for her own. That she wanted him to stay because she couldn't function without him anymore. The thought was too scary to even consider. She was considered independent: by others, but mostly by herself. The thought of having to rely on someone else completely was still terrifying her. Even is that someone else was Mulder; the only person she trusted with every other aspect of her life, hell, she even trusted him with her life. But somehow that was easier than trusting him with her heart. Trusting him with her feelings for him could scare him away, or make him withdraw from her. She wasn't really scared that he didn't love her, she knew he did in one way or another, no, she was scared of him being unable to let himself be loved. And his words confirmed that fear. She had to let him know he was worthy. "Mulder, that's not true, you're worthy of everything. You're a good man. You don't have to leave. Of course you can stay. I..." "No Scully, let me finish", he yelled and he sank down next to her on the floor so that he had to look up to be able to look in her eyes. "You don't understand, how could you." He let his head rest on his knees and when he looked up to her again, she could see the tears falling down his cheeks. She reached to wipe away the tears, but he shriveled under her touch and tried to duck away. "No, don't touch me. It will only make it harder. You just don't understand." He was now barely able to speak as his emotions wear getting the best of him. "Then make me, Mulder. Make me understand. Tell me what horrible thing could happen if you would stay." Scully now felt her own tears burning in her eyes. A horrible feeling of helplessness overcame her, mixed with the pain of seeing him hurt and the fear of losing him. He had put his head on his knees again and he was now rocking himself, like a child pretending his own arms were those of someone, maybe a mother, who could protect and comfort him. Of course his mother never had done that for him. Maybe that was why sometimes he still was that child instead of a nearly forty-year old man. For a part of him the time had stopped the night Samantha had been taken. It took seconds before Scully's questions penetrated his brains and for him to register that she was waiting for him to tell her. Then suddenly he blurted it all out. "If I would stay, I wouldn't be able to continue like before. I can't help it, I need more. You can't clean me anymore, the way you used to. Once again my own heart has betrayed me. I'm sorry, I should have realized it earlier, maybe then I would have been able to do something about it. But once again, I was stubborn and I didn't want to see the obvious. I wanted to see what I wanted to believe, that everything could be the way it had always been. I can't tell you more, because I can't cause you anymore pain. I'm sorry." Scully's tears had now started flowing together with Mulder's. He touched his face with his hands and then looked down in his, now wet hands as though wondering when he had started crying. Scully new this was painful for the both of them, and it would only get even more so, but they had to handle this. "Mulder, I would never hold anything you say to me against you. You've got to know, that whatever it is, I won't think less of you. It won't change you." "That's not it. You're right, it won't change me. But it will change everything else. I can't. I don't want to scare you." "Let's make a deal. I promise to hold you in my arms if you tell me. I promise I won't go away until you want me to, okay?" He thought about it for a second and then nodded taking a deep breath. "I'm leaving because otherwise I would have to tell you this. And now I am telling you anyway. The problem is you. No. Not you. That's not right. It's my reaction to you. I let you in as a friend and you did the same in good faith. Trusting me not to betray you and your feelings. But I have. My feelings have changed, evolved into something that shouldn't be there, something you wouldn't approve of. Something you *don't* approve of. You've made that pretty clear. Like when I told you, what I'm trying to say no and you all you said as 'Oh Brother'. There were times I thought there was hope for us, like when you almost kissed Eddie, or when you reacted irrational to another woman in my life. But I realized that Eddie was just being what you needed me to be and what I wasn't. That it was just a fantasy of how you wanted me to be, a fantasy that was wrapped up looking like me, but that didn't matter. And I realized your reaction to Diana had nothing to you with you caring about me like I care about you, but with you caring about me like a friend. You wanted to protect me from getting hurt, you didn't want me for yourself. So I know that this doesn't lead anywhere, but I guess I have to say it. And I want to say it right this time. No questions about whether or not I'm drugged. I am perfectly clear right now. I also want no confusion as to what the implications are." He stopped to catch his breath and looked at her with unsure eyes. She nodded to encourage him to proceed. "I guess this is it, I just want you to know, I won't hold it against you if you don't want to hold me after this. It's just.........I love you. And I am in love with you." He couldn't stand to look at her in the eyes anymore and turned away. Scully inhaled sharply. She wanted to say something, but couldn't find the words. He looked her in the eyes one last time. "Scully, I am so sorry." Then he put his arms around himself and started sobbing and murmuring more apologies. Scully let herself slide to the floor next to him and put her arms around him. "You don't have to Scully, you don't", he said. Barely capable of making himself heard through their shared tears. "But I want to. How could you not know? I love you too." "I know you do, but it isn't enough anymore, I want you completely. I know it's selfish, but I want you to be in love with me. I'm sorry." She cupped his face with her hands. "I want you to stop apologizing, you have nothing to be sorry for. *I* am sorry that I didn't show you this before, but I promise I will make it up to you. You are a great profiler and investigator. You always amaze me with your ability to find the little things everyone else overlooks. But you know, sometimes you are as oblivious as hell." Then she pulled his face closer and brushed his lips with hers. After the initial amazement that action caused with Mulder, he withdrew. "No, NO", he yelled, pulling away from her arms. "You don't want this. You are not in love with me." Then he started to get up and tried to walk to the door. Scully quickly rushed after him and caught up with him in the door opening of their connecting doors. "God Mulder, why don't you see it. I *am* in love with you. I have been for so long. Why can't you see I want this as much as you do?" He shook his head to show her that she was wrong, murmuring: "You don't love me, you're not in love with me, you can't be." "Look at me, Mulder, look me in the eyes." He turned his head and looked down on her. His hazel eyes meeting with her ice blue ones. Eyes that were now full of passion. "I love you. I'm in love with you, Fox Mulder." He started shaking his head again, but then something seemed to hit him. "You're in love with me?", he inquired, insecure like the twelve-year old he had once been and still was. She nodded and he let out a breath that he didn't now he had been holding. Then he sank down onto the floor, between their rooms. His back against the doorpost. He sat there for a while with Scully looking down on him. Then she reached out her hand. "Come." He took her hand and she led him to her bed. She let him sit down and then sat down next to him. "I want to be all you need, and I want to give you all you need. You said that the way things were wasn't enough for you, that I couldn't clean you anymore. So I'll clean you in a way that is sufficient. Lie down." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please also read Part 2, also feedback would be really nice :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After Author: Sugarellie Part 2 of 2: NC-17 The sex starts her . Also this is only story, disclaimer and other stuff is on top of part 1 (didn't mean the double meaning there, really ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He did as he was told to. Then she reached for his shirt and started unfastening the buttons. He tried to pull away. "No Scully, don't." "I want to Mulder." She resumed the work on his buttons. After she had removed his shirt she started to work on his belt. Again he protested. "Scully, I don't want to. I will believe you want to, but I don't care for a pity fuck, and I know you will regret it too." "Mulder, this is *not* a pity fuck. This is something we both need. You won't be dirty anymore after tonight." She removed his trousers and put down his boxers with it. His penis was semi-erect. He wasn't fully aroused, because he wasn't able to let himself go like that. He was so afraid that she would change her mind and leave him. He could have stood it if he had been the one to leave. In some twisted way it would feel better if he was the only one to blame. But now it wasn't only him anymore. He had let Scully in his heart. He had let her into his mind years ago, which had been terrifying enough by itself, and now he was opening his heart to her too. He knew that if she would make one wrong move, he would withdraw from her completely and shut his heart forever. He hoped she knew that and the fact he couldn't let himself get aroused, that he couldn't let her make love to him. He thought she knew, because right now Scully wasn't trying to seduce and arouse him. She was trying to comfort him and that was exactly what he needed. She probably counted on him to be ready to let her in and make love to her when he was comforted. And he was supposed to be the psychologist. "Mulder, I want you to see this for what it is", she said and then she bent over him and started licking his forehead. "I want to clean you." In response Mulder closed his eyes and tried to relax. She moved to one cheek and firmly licked it as to lick the dirt off that he felt covered him. Mulder let himself be cleaned. She moved to his earlobe and gave it one lick. She did it just right. Just hard enough and fast enough to make it seem like actual cleaning and to not provoke a physical reaction from him. She licked his other cheek and earlobe and moved to his neck. Mulder now felt totally relaxed. He was able to give himself over to Scully's touch and imagine how her tongue made him feel like he was being reborn. She worked on his neck down to his chest. Still firmly licking instead of teasing him, to make sure he wouldn't withdraw from her. He loved her for that. For that and so many other things. Never had a woman been able to make him feel so relaxed and comfortable with her. Never had a woman given him just what he needed without thinking of her own needs. But Scully did. He loved her so much. She had licked her way over his entire chest, avoiding only his nipples. After that she took his left leg in her arms and licked his toes and his foot. Then his strong muscles on the back of his leg until she came to his knee. After his other leg had received the same treatment, they both knew the time had come for the next move. "Mulder?" "Yeah" "You okay?" "Yeah" "Do you trust me?" "Of course I do." "Can you give yourself over to me?" He shuffled a bit, and tried to stay relaxed. He hoped he could do this. "I think so." "Okay" Then she positioned herself on top of him. "You know, there are a few places that still have to be cleaned", she said in a tone that was definitely seductive now. "I'm scared, Scully. I don't know if I can do this." "You don't have to do anything. Just let this happen to you. Let me do this for you." Then she licked his full bottom lip with her tongue flipping out of her mouth. For a second he tried to back away but then he gave himself over to her touch. She had now captured his lip in her mouth and was sucking on it. He moaned involuntary. She stopped her work on his mouth and moved to his right earlobe. She started to suck on it and give it little bites. He had never known his earlobe was such a sensitive zone. But God it felt so good. He felt his erection pressing against her crotch and thought he could feel her wetness through the clothes she was still wearing. Her hands found his nipples, while she continued sucking his earlobe. She pinched them a bit and he couldn't help himself bucking his hips into hers. As a reaction she pinched a bit harder. "Oh my God", he murmured. She apparently took that as an encouragement and moved her mouth to his nipples. Her hands left them and started caressing his lower belly. His cock twitched under her and she moved her hands even lower so that they were touching his pubic hair. His cock was now even harder then it had been before. But then she started to move lower and placed her mouth above his cock. "No Scully", he felt himself lose all his calmness, "No, it's degrading and I don't want you to do it." "Mulder please. I want to do this for you. I like it. You know me well enough to realize that I would never do something against my own will. Just relax", and with that she lowered herself on him. Relaxing wasn't really one of his options. He was torn between ecstasy over the exquisite feeling of her mouth on him and the guilt and fear her actions caused him. She had started linking his shaft firmly up and down and he felt himself getting more and more aroused. She was nibbling on the very top and it just felt so good that for a moment he forgot where he was and all he could think off was the feeling of her mouth on him. He was so close. But then he remembered and he knew he couldn't let Scully do this. He pulled himself out of her mouth and moved away. "I'm so sorry, I can't do this Scully I can't." He felt so helpless and so angry with himself for letting it come this far. For letting her do this for him, out of guilt or pity. "You're better than that, you can do better than me. I can't. I'm so sorry, you're too good for me." He felt his tears again and then they were streaming down his cheeks. How could he have let this happen? She didn't say anything and here eyes weren't betraying. She was probably mad at him for making her do this, for forcing her into giving him a blowjob. A blowjob as something given by hookers, because it was more detached than basic fucking. A blowjob signified distance and when he had said, what he had said, he hadn't meant it as something to increase the distance between them. On the contrary, he had secretly hoped it would make them closer. But deep down inside he had known that it wouldn't. She could never love him, he was unworthy. "Oh Mulder" Her sigh made him realize he had said the last part out loud. Her beautiful eyes were once again full of tears and a new wave of guilt flowed over him, because he was the reason that she was crying. "Oh Mulder, I'm not mad at you. You didn't force me to do anything. I don't know what makes you feel like we have moved apart. I am close to you, and it's not degrading either. It's something given out of love. If it was degrading someone would be in charge, but no one is. I can do whatever I want to do to you and you can stop me anytime." "NO, you're just saying that. You don't mean it." "Mulder, lie down, NOW." He hesitated for a moment, but then obeyed and he lay down on the bed again. "It's okay, if you think a blow-job is detached and degrading, we won't do it." Before he could react she started undressing herself. Mulder couldn't help admire how beautiful she was and how perfect her breats looked. He wanted to stop her, but when he saw her erect nipples he started doubting. Maybe she did want to. She was now working on her trousers and pulled them down together with her panties.Then she lowered herself on his still-erect cock and welcomed him in. He moaned involuntary. Right now not only his heart had betrayed him, but also his body. He was so aroused and it felt so good to be inside her, but he wouldn't do it. Then she started moving. "This is the ultimate act of closeness. We are now connected in every way. I cleaned you, Mulder, I licked your guilt away. Now I want you to let go and make love to me." Next thing he knew she had taken possession of his mouth, effectively making it impossible for him to speak. His hips were taken on her rhythm without him being able to do anything against it. He felt himself give over to the waves of ecstasy. His climax began to build again. Finally she let go of his mouth. "I cleaned your mouth too, now we've got to clean the last of you. Are you ready?" Unsure of what she meant he looked her in the eyes and sought her intentions. When he saw her eyes, he knew what she was going to do. And indeed, she stopped moving and let him slip out of her. "Let it go, Mulder. I love you so much", and with that she took him in her mouth again and started licking up and down his penis with firm strokes. At the end of each stroke she sucked a bit on the top of his cock. Her rhythm was delicious. He felt he was on the very edge. He looked down at her and she looked up. Her eyes full of passion and love. At that moment he came. He tried to prevent his hips from trusting in her face and he closed his eyes to enjoy the unbelievable feeling of his very powerful orgasm. When he opened his eyes again she was next to him, looking him in the eyes. She had swallowed his semen and with that she had swallowed his guilt and his pain and his fear. He kissed her back for the first time that evening. He hadn't done anything for her. She had let him come, but he hadn't done the same for her. As though she could read his mind, Scully said: "This was for you Mulder. I don't want anything back right now. I love you." "I love you too." He felt his eyes fall shut and she nuzzled her head against his chest. "Mulder?" "Yeah" "Tomorrow" "Mmm" "I don't expect you to fully fuck my brains, okay?" She gave him a cute little Scully-smile. And he nodded at her. "It would be nice though." "Let's see what we can do." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The end PS: I do so, SO love feedback. So please just drop a little something off at sugarellie2000@yahoo.com or just hit the reply-button. Oh yeah, constructive criticism is welcome, but flames will only be used to stoke up the fire between Moose and Squirrel