Here is part 2 of Ariel 3
by. graphixchick@yahoo.com

Wow I am getting ahead of myself here. We are just on a
date here having a wonderful dinner. Mulder is gently
stroking the back of my hand with this thumb again. He is
defiantly distracting.

What's that he is asking now? I really have to start to pay
attention to what he is saying.

"Scully? Are you ok?" He asks me

"Huh? Oh yes, Mulder I m just fine, I was just thinking
that's all."

"I asked you if you wanted to dance?"

Man I must look like an idiot by now. But some how I don't
think Mulder cares at this point.

"I'd love to Mulder." I say to him. He takes my hand and
gently swings me around to face him. We are so close
together I am not sure we will make it to 10pm.

The feel of his body against mine, it's creating a friction so
intense that heat must be flowing off of us in waves and
affecting everyone in the restaurant.

Slowly I feel him pull me into a waltz. It's memorizing, the
movements between us. Mulder lowers his head to kiss me
fully but lightly on the lips. A promise of what's to come
later on. Can I make it until then I have no idea.

"Scully, I just wanted to tell you one thing. I love you. I
love you so much."

"Oh Mulder I feel the same way, I love you." I tell him as
my hands make their way up his lean back. This man feels
so good, even through a suit.

"Mulder let's get of here, as much as I like dancing with
you like this I want to get out of here." I say to him

"Sure Scully, we can get dessert at this great little place I
found. They make the best Italian Pastry, does that sound
okay with you?" Mulder asks as he leads me back to our
table. I want to add with a hand on the small of my back
and one holding the other. I wonder if he really knows what
he does to me when he touches me on my lower back? It
makes me feel loved, erotic, powerless to him, oh and
much more, but what he is doing to me right now, words
fail me.

Mulder leans down and gently nibbles at my ear that sends
shivers down my back. "Scully, lets blow this Popsicle
stand." And then he kisses my neck just below my ear.

Wow is all that goes through my mind. I look up at him and
gently kiss him on the lips. He hands me my shawl and we
are out the door. I didn't even see him pay the bill. It does
not matter at this point.

We end up at Ferras Italian Pastry shop. I can tell that this
is going to totally blow my diet to hell. But like everything
tonight, I do not care at all.

Mulder orders coffee for both of us and asks me what I
want.

"It doesn't matter, you choose. We would get into some
serious trouble if I got what I really wanted here." I say to
him and the utter look of, I am not sure what it is on his
face. Maybe embarrassment, or true love, I am not sure
what it is.

He brings back some chocolate covered strawberries and
napoleons. A man after my own heart. Actually he has my
heart already, and he knows it.

"Mulder can you read minds? Is there something you
haven't told me about your profiling skills?" I ask him, I get
the raised eyebrow.

"You certainly know a way to my heart. But you already
knew that right?"I say as I start to go for a strawberry. He
stops me.

"Scully I have a better idea, put that back." He tells me as
he grabs my wrist and pulls it back to the box. "Drop that
strawberry."

"Mulder what is going on? I do not want to drop the
strawberry."

"I have a better idea of how and where to eat these." He
leans in and whispers in my ear. I shiver slightly. He knows
exactly how to get me to do whatever he wants me to do.

Then it clicks in my head, I know exactly what he wants to
do and where to go. I stand up grab his hand and practically
drag him out of the pastry shop.

He better have those strawberries and napoleons with him.

"Scully wait up will ya. I didn't know you were so easy to
get into bed. I would of bought strawberries and Italian
pastry a long time ago."

"Mulder, I always have been that easy to get into bed, but
you never bothered to look for that, did you?"

I didn't think so Mulder. Really I am that easy, well if I
really truly love the man that is. It really doesn't even have
to take Italian pastry.

He is speechless, and blushing. This is so new to both of us.
I know he really does not know the Dana part of me yet. I
am totally different then the at work, Special Agent Dana
Katherine Scully, pathologist, person he is used to seeing.
He has seen a little of me through the years, but not much.

I have seen the real Mulder a number of times. I get the
feeling that this is how he is all the time. I know his passion
for his work, and I am certain that it is carried out into his
personal life as well. I know the passion he has for me and
in what he does for me.

I know exactly where we are going. My place. It does not
bother me either. I know his apartment is not really a home,
it is just a dwelling, a place to lay his head when he gets
over tired and does not care where he can lay down to get a
few hours of shut eye.

He said to me that my apartment was home, I was home to
him. I like that feeling too much. It's comforting to know
that someone loves you that much.

We arrive at my place, and we carefully make it upstairs
and to my door. Not one touch not one graze of hands or
any other bodily parts. Knowing if that happened that
would be the end of us right there, where ever we were.

As soon as we got on the other side of my apartment door,
well that was another story completely. Mulder pushed me
up against the door, I thought we would of fell through it.

"I love you, just in case you did not already know."

"I know that already, I love you too by the way."

Our conservation consisted of 'I love you' for the next few
minutes. We were kissing and touching each other all over.
I am not really sure, I was not paying attention, I noticed
this time that I was standing there in my bra and panties
and Mulder in is boxers, by my front door. Time to change
places and slow down a little.

"Scully I am going to start a fire, why don't you go and get
some wine and glasses?"

"Sure Mulder." I sound breathless. Well maybe because I
am. I am kissing Mulder in my doorway in my underwear. I
am glad it's late at night, I am not expecting visitors.

"Scully hurry up, O miss you." He calls from the living
room. It looks like he found my fluffy aphgan and laid it
out on the floor. I notice he has the pastry as well.

"I missed you too, but I was only getting the wine, you
asked for." I say to him as I hand him the glass.

"I know, but a minute is a very long time. I can't live
without you." He says as he eyes the wine "I know it sounds
trait and corny, but it is true."

Don't I know it? I can not live without this man either. He
ahs followed me to the ends of the earth and back. Truly. I
can never replace him. He has my heart, my soul, and not
my body. I know it is the same for him as well.

"Scully, come here. I want to do something for you."

"What is that Mulder?"

"Lay down on here next to me on your stomach." He
hesitates but continues.

"Okay..Mulder" I do what he ask me to. I trust him.

"Scully I want you to close you eyes and relax. I am going
to make you feel so heavenly, so peaceful." He says to me
as he reaches for a strawberry. What is he going to go with
it I am not sure.

I close my eyes and feel his hands glide up and back down
my back. Then I feel cold, strawberry going around my
tattoo. It feels absolutely wonderful and erotic. I have never
felt like this before. Mulder was right this is heavenly.

I moan at the sensation of all this.

After a good thirty minutes of this treatment I feel Mulder's
lips following the same track as the strawberries did. I am
going to lose it if he keeps this up.

"Oh Mulder. " I actually moan this. I am reduced to a
moaning teenager..What next..

Throughout the night we do this many times. I actually am
starting to really crave this, everyday. Tomorrow is work;
we can not be late. In a way I hope he is still here when the
alarm goes off and a part of me does not want him to be
here. It's going to make it all the harder to get going, if you
catch my drift.

I wake up about fifteen minutes before the alarm goes off.
This is so nice. Is this what it is like to wake up married
every day? Because if it is, I want to get married this
afternoon damn it. I roll over and find Mulder still here, he
is so warm I snuggle closer to him. I really love this man.

"Mulder" I gently shake him. I get absolutely no response at
all. So much for his problem of not being able to sleep.

"Mulder" Again nothing. Geeze. Time for the big guns.

I gently kiss him on the base of his neck and start my way
up towards his ear. This rewards me with a soft moan. I
keep going until I reach his lips, this time he reaches up
and kisses me fully.

I am going to totally be mean to him now; I break away
>from him and get out of bed.

"Scully?" He asks me, no wait plead with me to come back.
But I can't we will be late, very late.

"Mulder we have to go to work today, get up. I am going to
take a shower."

I turn around and I see out of the corner of my eye that he
buried himself under the entire comforter and all the
pillows. I did not want to get up either, but with all the new
changes that have gone on at work; we have to be really
careful.

"Scully I don't want to get up. I am comfortable here, well I
was until you got up."

I hear him get up and out of bed.

"Can I join you in there?" he pleads through the bathroom
door.

"Mulder as much as I would love you to, you need to go
home shower and change. I'll meet you at the office at
eight."

Oh man he opened the door and walks in. Shit

"Okay Scully, whatever you say, but first I want a kiss
goodbye."

With that he opens the curtain and plants one on me. Then
he is gone. Mulder my man of mystry.

I get to the office at eight sharp. He isn't here yet. Maybe he
should start to keep one or two suits at my place. Will you
listen to me, I am planning for more nights like we had last
night.

I am startled out of my thoughts by my phone ringing.

"Scully"

"Dana, Hi! How was your night last night?" It's Ariel.

"Ariel I should be asking you the same thing."

"Okay well then, how about lunch today then." She asks
me. I can tell she is wearing a huge smile on her face

"Sure thing Ariel. That sounds wonderful, a girls lunch. We
will meet at The Fountain at one pm."

"Okay Dana see you there." She said and then hung up just
as fast.

With that Mulder walked in, looking quite, flustered and
out of breath. He must of ran all the way from the garage.
Aww poor Mulder to much morning activity. I smile at
him. He looks gorgeous.

"Morning Scully, How are you today?" He asks me. Like he
does not already know.

"Oh I am fine Mulder. Do you want some coffee?"

"Sure thing Scully, I had a late night last night." He says
and smiles at me. "Who was that on the phone when I came
in?"

"Oh that was just Ariel, we are going to have lunch together
today. Do you mind?"

He walks over to me and whispers in my ear "No I don't
mind at all Scully, as long as I get you alone tonight."

I smile my answer to him. We have always has this silent
communication. It comes in handy, especially when we
have no idea that is listening to us.

The day passes easily, nothing much out of sync. We go
about filing paper work and whatnot. Everything has been
really slow here; the paranormal must take it slow during
the holiday season. Or maybe people just have better things
to worry about. None the less it is fine with me. More time
to be with the people I care and love.

I still have to go Christmas shopping for Mulder. I will
have to get some ideas from Ariel today.

I am going to pass this next section to Ariel now. See you
afterwards.

Hi all it's Ariel. We are using my laptop for this. So that's
why the new font. Dana likes the classic stuff, can't you tell
anyway here is the rest of this day.

Dana and I meet for lunch at The Fountain for lunch. It's a
bar/tavern type place. I love it here, the atmosphere is great.

A waitress comes over and takes our drink and food order. I
order a beer and persuade Dana to do the same. She puts up
a fight about being on duty and whatever. But I ask her
when is she not on duty. A girl can't live life like that now
can she?

"So Dana are you going to keep last night all to yourself or
are you going to tell me how it went?"

"Ariel.. It is none of your business." She smiles at the
memory "But it was defiantly great."

"Dana Katherine Scully.. Since when are you good at
keeping secrets about dates or men you obviously love?"

I know I can get by her, I always do. She will spill the
beans to me, always does.

I take a sip of my beer and set it back down. She hasn't
touched hers yet. Too much of a dedicated FBI Agent she
is. Remind me to break her of that habit.

"So are you going tell me or what? I really do not have the
energy to drag it out of you." I laugh, I really don't. I was up
way to late, even for me, the night queen.

"Ariel" she says, "You are way to nosey for your own
good."

Somewhere out of nowhere I hear music playing. I think it's
that new song 'Angel', I am not sure whom it is by though.
Great song, it reminds me of Dana and Mulder.

"Hey Dana here is your song. I should find out who its buy
so you can listen to it with Mulder. It reminds me of you
guys."

She looks up and listens a bit to the song. It looks like she
is going into a trance for a bit there. Strange.

"Well I am going to tell you about my date last night, Dana.
Can you hear me?"

"Yes Ariel I can, I am sorry about that." She says to me
"You have my one hundred percent attention."

"I doubt that but here goes anyway."

"Hey Ariel that was not nice." She tells me laughing.

"Okay you have heard me talk about this guy Michael. We
have been good friends for a while now. He takes me out to
lunch or hangs out at my place during his lunch hour. It's
great; we have a blast together. He tells me I test him, I
push him to different places he has never been before." I
pause for a moment "Sound familiar? Are you sure you do
not know him?"

Dana actually laughs. And that is a good thing! She does
not do that enough. But I can tell that is changing, she's
changing.

"So we decided as a mutual decision to go out on our first
date. "

"Mutual decision?"

Well we always talk things through first, and then make a
decision on what is the best way to go. We then decided to
take our relationship to a new level. Cool huh. Anyway.

"Yes Dana, Don't ask ok, it's a long story." I pause and she
accepts the answer.

"We went to dinner at Jack's last night. It was very elegant;
you know violins and what have you. We had a great time,
we even danced too. "

"Wow it sounds great Ariel, I am so glad that everything is
working for you too. People say that best friends make the
best couples."

Dana thinks about what she just said to me, she smiles.

"So after dinner I asked him to my place for a night cap.
And boy was it a night cap. We did things that I was sure
could not be done with pears and apples." I blush I can't
help it. Last night was the most moving night I have had
since, since, well I can't remember it's been so long.

"Must have been the night for fruit." Dana whispers so low
I have to strain to hear her. I don't think it was meant for
me to hear but I did.

"And how is that Dana?"

Bingo got her again, she looks radiant today, I wish I had a
camera.

"Oh if you must know you have to go to Ferras and get
some chocolate covered strawberries. They are very useful,
and very erotic."

"Oohh Dana I haven't heard you use that word 'erotic' in a
very long time." I laugh; it is so good to see her this way
and for me to feel this way.

"So Dana, by the look under your eyes you didn't get to bed
at a early hour, was that because of the strawberries or
Mulder?"

She says one word to me "Both"

Dana asks me about Michael and I, and where we are
headed in this newfound relationship.

"We are taking this one day at a time. How else could we
do it, this is so new to both of us and we really do not want
to mess it up. I am sure you two feel the same way."

We sit in silence eating for a while. This is great we have to
do this more often. The food is great, I had manicotti with
cheese and Dana had some sort if salad. Like she needs to
worry about her weight.

"Dana, so where are you and Mulder going with your
relationship. I mean in what direction?"

She thinks about how to answer this. I know exactly where
it's going, but she doesn't have to know that I know.

"Well, I mean we have been through a lot and we care for
each other a lot more than just a ordinary couple would.
We trust each other with our lives, heart and soul, we
would die to protect the other half. So if you really wanted
to get technical you could call us married." She pauses at
the thought.

"We are just going to take this one day at a time, like what
you and Michael are doing."

"That's great Dana, I am thrilled for you.'

"Hey Ariel I have a question for you, I need an idea on
what to get Mulder for Christmas. I am totally clueless on
what to get."

Man she hasn't gotten his Christmas present yet? That is
bad.

"Oh Dana you haven't gotten him a gift yet? What kind of
person are you?"

"Oh don't start, you sound just like my mother. "

Well I am going to send this back to Dana; she is itching to
write more. I need my sleep, so here is Dana and her crazy
font.

Hi guys it's me again! I am just a writing fool today. Ariel is
tired; she is staying up way to late at night with Michael.
Anyway, I am going to finish this section up real quickly.

Great Ariel is starting to sound just like my mother now.
Just what I need. She is being a lot of help, I'll have to go to
the mall and seriously shop sometime this week. I look
down at my watch, shit time to get moving.

"Ariel I have to get going. Lunch is been over for about
fifteen minutes. We will have to do this again. Maybe get
together with all four of us before Saturday and go out to
dinner or something."

"Dana that sounds great. I'll call you tomorrow. It has been
great today, thank you for having lunch with me."

We hug each other and leave the restaurant. I find myself
back at work in record time. I have no figured if it was
because I missed Mulder or just because traffic was light.

"Mulder?" I call as I walk towards our desks. We do not
have an office anymore. Since what happened after
Antarctica and Spender and Fowley getting control over the
X-Files. He is not at his desk. Figures.

I sit there doing some paper work for about thirty minutes
before he arrives back.

"Mulder, where did you go? I was worried."

"Oh nowhere, Kerish wanted to see me about our latest
drive across the country."

I sigh, that was a long and horrifying trip. I felt for him
though.

"Scully, do not think like that, there was nothing you could
of done."

I know this, and so does he. We both drop the subject.

Around five pm, I look over to Mulder. "So, do you want to
come over tonight and have dinner with me?"

"Scully that would be wonderful. By the way are you
coming on to me?"


end "Ariel 3"