Title: From this moment (1/1)
Author: Tanja
E-mail: voet@tanja-myrna.demon.nl
http://www.angelfire.com/oh/xfshippers/index.html
Ratings: PG
Categories: S, R
Keywords: Mulder/Scully Romance
Summary: Mulder, Scully and a surprise for Diana!

This story can be posted anywhere, just keep my name and e-mail address 
on it and let me know!

Disclaimer: There we go again. I don't own Mulder, Scully and all the 
other X-files characters, they are from CC, 1013 Productions and Fox 
Network. I borrowed them for my little story, so thank you!
From this moment is a song from Shania Twain, which I loved so I 
borrowed it for this story.

Author's note: I was working on another story, when I received one of 
the results of my shippers poll. I loved Kat's idea so much, I couldn't 
stop thinking what a great story ending it would make, that's why I just 
had to write this story first! Kat, thanks so much for the great idea, 
hope you like the story!

From this moment (1/1)

Mulder stood in front of Scully's door, hesitating, wondering if he 
should go in or not.

They had had a fight in the office this afternoon, and she had run away, 
furious. He still didn't know why she had been so angry, but he wanted 
to find out.

He knocked on the door. There was no reaction. After a few minutes he 
decided to use his key to her apartment. He slowly opened the door and 
entered.  

He walked into her living room, but didn't see her.

"Scully?"

Still no reaction.

"Scully, are you home?"

When he didn't get a reaction this time, he started to become a little 
scared, and hoped nothing had happened to her. The last time she hadn't 
reacted, she had been...

He didn't even want to think of that. He decided to take a look in her 
bedroom - she might be sleeping, though it was still early.

He opened the door to her bedroom and peeked his head through the door 
to take a look. To his relief, she was lying on her bed. She looked 
asleep, but the music was still playing. He slowly walked to the bed and 
looked at her. She *was* asleep and he wanted to turn around when he saw 
her face. She had been crying. The tears were still on her face.

He leaned down to her, to wipe the tears away. Then she woke up. For a 
moment she didn't realize it was Mulder and automatically she grabbed 
his hand and twisted it.

"Ouch! Scully, it's me."

"Mulder? What the hell are you doing here?"

"I wanted to talk to you, but if I knew you were going to hurt me, I 
might have stayed away."

"What do you want to talk about?" She was completely awake now and sat 
up in her bed, turning on a light.

"I wanted to know why you were so angry at me this afternoon."

She shrugged her shoulders. "Oh, it was nothing. I'm fine, Mulder."

"So that's why you've been crying?"

She looked away from him.

"What's wrong Scully? Did I do anything wrong? Please tell me if I did - 
I can't stand to see you like this, I love you too much for that." The 
words had left his mouth before he realized and snatched them back.

"You what?!?"

"I love you."

She was speechless now. She was in love with him, but she had thought 
that he was in love with that Diana Fowley. That's why she had been so 
angry this afternoon. He didn't know that she had seen them together in 
that room, since she had left very soon, but when he came back to this 
office, she had exploded because of it. She hadn't told Mulder that, of 
course.

"What about Diana Fowley?"

"What's with her?"

"I thought you loved her."

He looked at her, surprised. "Why the hell do you think I would be in 
love with her?"

"I... I saw you two together this morning, and I assumed..." Her voice 
trailed off.

He realized what she had seen and laughed.

"You want to know what we were talking about?"

She nodded slowly.

"I was telling her that I couldn't have a better partner than you and 
that I wouldn't know what to do without you."

"Oh. Well, I didn't know that..."

"Is that why you were so mad at me this afternoon?"

"Yes, I was jealous. I thought maybe you wanted her back and I..."

"So that means you must like me at least a little bit," he said 
teasingly.

A smile came on her face. "I think I like you a lot."

"That's good, because I really love you, Scully."

"I love you too, Mulder."

At that moment another song began to play on the radio, but they didn't 
even hear it. Mulder pulled Scully closer and kissed her tenderly.

From this moment life has begun
From this moment you are the one
Right beside you is where I belong
From this moment on
                        
From this moment I have been blessed
I live only for your happiness
And for your love I'd give my last breath
From this moment on
                        
I give my hand to you with all my heart
Can't wait to live my life with you, can't wait to start
You and I will never be apart
My dreams came true because of you
                        
From this moment as long as I live
I will love you, I promise you this
There is nothing I wouldn't give 
From this moment on
                        
You're the reason I believe in love
And you're the answer to my prayers from up above
All we need is just the two of us
My dreams came true because of you
                        
From this moment as long as I live
I will love you, I promise you this
From this moment
I will love you as long as I live
From this moment on

And as the words of the song faded away, they knew that from this 
moment, their lives had begun, and they were right were they belonged.

NEXT MORNING

Scully woke up slowly and after a couple of minutes she realized that 
she wasn't alone.

She opened her eyes and looked into a pair of hazel eyes. A smile spread 
across her face, when she remember the night before.

"Hi." She grinned at him.

"Hi," he answered, returning the smile and pulling her closer to kiss 
her.

"Hmm, I think I could get used to waking up like this," she mumbled.

"You'd better. I have no plans to change this for a while." He moved his 
face to hers again and they forgot everything else for a while.

A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER

They had been seeing each other for a couple of weeks now and it had 
been great. Nobody else knew yet, although Scully thought that her 
mother was beginning to suspect something.

Scully had spent the evening before in her own apartment, because she 
had to get some work done. That morning she walked into the basement to 
see Diana Fowley there, talking to Mulder.

Mulder didn't even notice what Diana had been saying: he knew Scully 
would be coming in any minute, so he was looking at the door constantly.

Diana was in the middle of a sentence, when the door flew open. Mulder's 
face lightened, with a huge smile.

"Hi Scully, you're late."

"Sorry, traffic was busy this morning." She grinned at him and gave a 
bag to him. "Thought you might want this back."

He knew what was in there, and so did she, so she didn't expect him to 
say what he said, in front of Diana Fowley.

He opened the bag, took a look at and said, "Scully, last time I 
checked, this thing also had a t-shirt."

"I know."

"So?"

"So, what??"

"Where is it?"

"Sorry, I liked it too much," she grinned.

He sighed, but laughed. "You said that about my last 6 shirts too. 
you're becoming an expensive woman to date, Scully."

They had completely forgotten about Diana, until they heard the door 
being slammed pretty loudly.

Mulder pulled Scully on his lap. "Think she didn't like our 
conversation?"

She was laughing too. "Don't know, did we say anything wrong?"

"I don't remember saying anything wrong." He grinned and kissed her.

The End

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