ER Angel by Mulderslady DISCLAIMER: They don't belong to me, wish they did. Only Nickole Buchanan and Gini belong to me RATING: P.G.-13, mild R CLASSIFICATION: S, A, MT, and MSR, AU KEYWORDS: MSR, MT, Scully and Mulder angst, Alternative Reality SPOILERS: None URL: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/5160/angel.txt FEEDBACK: Please! At damacia@home.com ARCHIVE: Oh yeah, anywhere! SUMMARY: Mulder is shot and reevaluates his life. ***************************************************** I'll let you see me; I'll covet your regard I'll invade your demeanor And you'll yield to me like a scent in the breeze And you'll wonder what it is about me Slow like Honey by Fiona Apple ***************************************************** "Dr. Scully! Gun shot victim, cop killer bullets, ripped right through his vest!" "Is he a police officer?" Dr. Scully said following the frantic nurse. "FBI, he was shot point blank." "Ouch, get him up to OR 7 stat!" She looked at his chart as she got prepped for surgery. A regular customer, bruises, concussions, stabbings, gunshot wounds, but nothing this serious. She donned her gloves as her anestesiologist came in "Agent Mulder! I think you purposely get hurt just to see me." She said as she prepped to put him under. "You know I love you Nick, marry me." "If you live through this, I'll think about a date." A weak smile spread on Mulder's face as he blacked out from the pain. Scully walked over and looked at the handsome FBI agent on the table. God I hope he makes it through this, she thought as she looked at Nick. "Ready Nick?" "He's almost completely under." Mulder's eyes shifted to Scully and widened slightly, "Are you an angel?" "Not yet Agent Mulder, when I'm done you'll be as good as new." Scully said blushing slightly "You are an angel, my angel." "Hey, what about me?" Nick teased as she put him fully under. Mulder sat in his room, Reggie and the BSU guys were gone, and his mom had called; now he was alone. I hate this, I hate being alone. Only my mom would miss me if I died. I haven't done anything that I wanted with my life. I want to settle down, have a family, I never would have if I had died. I'm going to start over, it's not too late for me to start my life again, live a little and definitely ask that doctor with the red hair out. Speaking of the vision, he thought as she and Nick walked in the room. "No more visitors?" "No my mom can't come down, her health isn't the best." "What about Skyler?" Nick asked "We called it quits, he couldn't handle my schedule." "Too needy huh? So you really are available." Mulder smiled and turned to Dr. Scully "Dr. . . ." "Scully, Dr. Dana Scully." "Dr. Scully when can I get out of here?" "Two weeks give or take how your lungs do. The bullets nicked them up pretty good. I just want them to heal a little before you leave, then 6 weeks of rest." "Thanks Angel." "Dr Scully." Scully corrected "My angel." Nick giggled slightly and asked "You got enough pain meds?" "Yeah I'm fine, this Demerol cocktail you gave me is very tasty indeed. So Nick, what are you doing later on, maybe I can sneak out of here and . . ." "God, you are such a flirt, I'll see you later Mulder." "Bye Nick." Then turning back to Scully, "Anything else?" "No Agent Mulder good night. "Sweet dreams . . . angel." 3 days later A knock came softly from the door and Mulder's partner Reggie Perdue and his wife Gini came in. "Hey man how you feel?" "Like I was shot point blank, but besides that I'm in heaven." "Yeah he's feeling better, getting ornery and sarcastic." Gini said leaning over and kissing him on the forehead. "No one looking out for you? Where's Skyler?" "I told you they broke that off." Reggie said. "Oh yeah I forgot I liked Skyler." Mulder rolled his eyes at her "So did a lot of people. I have someone looking after me, she's an angel." "Oh my god, he's found religion." Mulder threw Reggie a smirk and said "Hand me the phone will ya and my wallet." "Sure here." Mulder quickly dialed Stranges and ordered, "A dozen long-stemmed roses and one of those cute little I love you teddy bears, yeah the cute one. Thank you for saving my life and claiming my heart, Love Fox William Mulder. Yes Fox no that is my first name. Here let me give you my credit card number so you'll believe me. It's a family name." Mulder gave the clerk his credit card number then asked "When can those be delivered? Ok deliver them to the ER of GUMC care of Dr. Dana Scully. Yes thank you." Mulder hung up and looked at Reggie and Gini, who were looking at him with amused grins. "What?" "Flowers for your doctor? What's that about?" "You haven't seen her. You wouldn't ask if you had." Mulder said, sighing heavily. Gini giggled a little. "What?" "He's got a crush on his doctor, how cute. Mulder smiled "This is more than a crush, I think I'm in love." "Whoa, I got to see this doctor." Reggie said with an amused smiled. As if she knew they were talking about her, Scully came though the door. Mulder gave her a nice bright smile. "Hello Agent Mulder, how you feeling? Do you need some more pain medicine?" "No I'm fine Angel." Scully smiled and moved over to him and pulled back the covers slowly to look at his wounds. "Ok they're keeping them clean, any drainage you noticed Agent Mulder?" "No and please just call me Mulder." She nodded, "Or yours" he muttered under his breath, she heard it and blushed slightly. "Ok Mulder, flip over if you can." Mulder slowly flipped on this stomach and turned his head to watch her. Her cool hands smoothed soothing lines up and down his back, and then she started to massage around his exit wounds gently. Mulder tried unsuccessfully to stifle a growl/purr/moan/whimper of pleasure and Scully laughed "You like that huh? If you want, if it will make you feel more comfortable, I could come up and massage them for you later?" "OH yeah . . . uh I mean yes thank you." Scully smiled and pulled the sheet back over him after he turned on his back. "There I'll be back later on to check on you. Try and have a good day." "I will now." Scully blushed again, then acknowledged the other people in the room. "I'm Dr. Dana Scully, the doctor who worked on him in the ER." "Nice to meet you, Reggie Perdue and my wife Gini. I'm his partner." "Oh well nice to meet you." Scully said, then she looked down at her vibrating pager "Dang! Mr. Haynes again gotta go. I'll see you later Mulder. "Ok angel." Scully rolled her eyes and rushed out the room. "See, see what I mean? Gorgeous!" "Oh yeah baby, I see what you mean. Ow! What Gini?" Reggie said rubbing his arm his wife just punched. "Don't you think your being a little forward in your obvious affection for her?" Gini asked concerned "No if I'm not forward how would she know. Look I've made up my mind about something in here. I'm changing my life not taking as many risks maybe. . Maybe even . . .." "Settle down? Oh he has found religion." "Well I just thought about it, I mean what if I had died. I realized that I hadn't done anything I had wanted with my life. I'm 35 years old and I think it's time I grow up." Gini applauded. "Finally, but what's with the doctor?" "I'm in love with the doctor Gini, I want to marry her." Reggie snort laughed "The day I see you near an altar, I'm going to buy a BMW." "Better pick your color, he looks determined Reg." "The flowers are only the first step, now it's time to turn on the charm." 2 weeks later "How's your boyfriend on two?" Nick asked Scully as she looked over charts. "Agent Mulder? He's been discharged; he should be leaving shortly. I'm going to miss the flowers." "No you won't. One thing I know is Special Agent Fox Mulder. He's been in here so many times; I've gotten to know him real well. The flowers are only the beginning, I think he has his eyes on you." "Really, well he's probably cute when he's not all beat up and sick." "Definitely, you going to give him a chance?" "He's still technically my patient, and I don't get involved with patients." "What about Mr. Haynes?" "I'm not involved with him, I just think he is the cutest old man I've ever seen." "Well don't look now, but it looks like your boyfriend came down for a goodbye hug and kiss." "Huh?" Scully said looked where she was pointing. She saw Mulder walking towards her. "Agent Mulder, you should be wheeled out of here." "I was, I had to come back and say thank you, you saved my life in more ways than one and made me realize what's important in life." "Well jeez thanks, I try my best." "Here this is for you." He said handing her a single red rose. "Thank you Mulder." He leaned into her and tentatively put his arms around her for a hug. Scully hugged him back and ruffled his hair lightly as he pulled away and kissed her on the cheek tenderly. "Bye my angel, see you soon." "I hope not." He smiled and walked off, looking back at her briefly and continuing. "Oh man he's really into you Dana." "We'll see if he's serious." Scully said looking back at her charts. 4 weeks later Mulder walked in his bedroom and looked around. "First I need to clean this place up, I can't bring her home with it looking like this!" he said to himself as he cleared away all his porn magazines, boxing them up and writing Gunmen on it. Frohike will love these. He looked at the mahogany bed and smiled, "I forgot how nice a bed I had, even has a canopy." He stripped the sheets and canopy off. He smacked the dust off his mattress and flipped it over. "Mulder! Hey Spooks!" "Back here Reg." "Whoa! You have a bed?" "Yeah shocked me too, can you hand me that broom vac over there." "Here, need some help?" "Yeah, that box load it in my car. I'm making a delivery." "What is it?" "My old playboys, penthouse . . ." "What?! The classics?!" "Plus a few of my favorite videos." "Your crazy!" "Yes crazy in love, which reminds me." He said tucking in the sheets on the bed and grabbing the phone. "Hello Fox Mulder again, yes regular account. Can I get a Sunflower and one of those matching bears yeah that one. No I'm coming to pick it up, yes thank you." "Where do you think your going lover boy?" "To see my angel, the object of my affection, my future wife." "You need to be resting, something you haven't done since you got home." "I can't just stay in bed and veg out, I tried that the first week I was going crazy, I need out. I mean it Reggie, I just flipped my mattress and cleaned my apartment I can do anything, especially when it comes to Dr. Dana Scully." Reggie shook his head and smiled "Man you have it bad, when she letting you go back to work?" "2 weeks, Patterson miss me yet?" "Terribly, he gave your cases to Peters, and he's regretting it. Peters was lapping it up but hasn't solved one yet." Mulder laughed "Peters? Got to be kidding, well that will knock him off his pedestal. He always thought he could handle my cases. I'm going to shower and change. I hope she's free for dinner." He said pulling out a fresh pair of boxers. "Ok then see you later Mulder." ER "Um Dr. Dana Scully?" "Over there at the nurses station." "Thank you." Mulder said straightening his tie. He smoothed his hair, which for once was being good, took a deep breath and walked over to her. Scully smelt an intoxicating scent waft to her, Nautica cologne, sunflower seeds and something spicy, very male. "Hey angel." She heard the gravelly voice say and she stopped breathing for a second. It's really him? She looked up and did a double take. Wow, he is beautiful. "Mulder?" "Yeah?" "Wow you look different, you do clean up good." "Thanks you here I got you this." He said handing her the flower and the bear. She smiled and smelled the flower. "Thank you I was wondering if you had forgotten me, I hadn't gotten my flowers for the week." "You'll be getting them more often." "Is that a promise?" "No it's a fact. Um Dr. Scully . . . Dana? I was wondering . . . I mean if you're not on call or busy, if you would like to go out to dinner with me tonight." Mulder stammered out nervously. Scully was acutely aware of most of the ER staff watching her and blushed slightly as she said "Sure I'm free. I actually get off in about 30 minutes if you'd like to wait?" Mulder exhaled heavily and nodded, sitting on a stool by the nurse's station. "I'll be back." Scully said touching his arm lightly, as she walked by. "Dana is that . . ." Nick started "Yeah, you were right he is BEAUTIFUL!" " I know, what he want?" "To ask me out on a date, I said okay. He was hard to resist looking that good." Nick giggled and looked over at Mulder, "I see what you mean, I'm so jealous. Well patient in room 3 needs an epidural or . . ." Nick droned on about pain meds as Scully's eyes drifted back to Mulder, who threw her a gentle smile, his chamleon eyes blazing with love? She hardly knew the guy, he saw her just a handful of times, how can he be so sure, so enamored with her? She struggled to concentrate till 5:30 then she hastily updated the new doc coming in and said to Mulder in passing "I'll be right back, I'm just changing." Why are you feeling this way? Are you just nervous or are you really contemplating what your life would be like with him in it? That's enough to make anyone a little nervous. When he personally didn't come by to see me I thought he'd finally come to his senses, then the bouquet of daisies came, then the carnations, then the roses, and now a sunflower, more stuffed bears than I thought a flower shop had. Nick knows him and says he's a nice guy, but why me? Scully took a deep, calming breath and came back out. "Ready to go?" She asked grabbing her backpack off her desk and looking at Mulder. He was stunned; she's even more beautiful in regular clothes. He nodded and reached for her hand as he stood quickly. She took his hand tentatively and he squeezed it gently. His hands were so warm and soft, she felt like leaning into him, wrapping her arms around him, relaxing into his warmth and intoxicating scent. "Say angel?" "Yeah?" "You don't mind me calling you that, do you?" "No not at all." "Good, what do you have a taste for?" "Chinese, House of Hunan ok for you?" "That's fine, do you need to get your car or anything?" "No took the metro in, I just live in Georgetown. What about you, where do you live?" "Arlington." "Oh nice area. Um can I ask you something Mulder?" "Sure get in." He said opening the car door for her, then getting in and starting up the car. "Why are you pursuing me?" "Cause I'm in love with you Dr. Scully. I have been since I opened my eyes and saw you in the OR that first time. I'm smitten, taken, completely in love with you." "A crush." "No, not a crush, got past that weeks ago." "How can you be so sure?" "I don't know, but this is the only sure thing, certain thing that has happened in my life. I know you don't right now, but I hope you'll love me too." "Well I'm attracted to you that's a start." "Yeah a good start." Mulder said smiling to himself as he drove off. Later Scully's condo "Dana . . .you want to go . . ." "No, I have to work a double tomorrow." "How about I come by some tomorrow and you catch a much needed break?" "I wish, I can't leave the hospital." "Well how about I bring lunch and /or dinner to you?" Scully looked Mulder deeply in his eyes. He seems so sincere, she thought "Sure that would be fine Mulder, good night." She said getting out of the car, only to have Mulder shut the door behind her and follow her inside. "What are you doing?" "Walking you to your door." Scully smiled and opened the door and turned back to him in time to receive a full, tender kiss on the mouth. He slanted his lips over hers deepening the kiss. He reluctantly pulled away. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to . . ." "It's okay, I liked it. Good night Mulder." She said leaning up and giving him a quick peck on the lips before retreating inside. He walked back out to his car smiling to himself as he drove home. Next day "So how was your date?" Nick asked handing Scully a cup of coffee. "It was nice. He is an Oxford educated psychologist, he's written textbooks on the criminal mind. He studies the occult and mystical arts. I just assumed he was your regular old FBI type. He's a behavioral profiler, gets into the heads of serial killers and the like on a daily basis. He's considered one of the best profilers in the country. He's really sweet, easy to talk to, he listens." "So when you two going out again?" "I don't know I'm working a double tonight and tomorrow." "Well did you tell him that?" Nick said pointing to Mulder coming with two bags in his hands. He was dressed in a nice pair of cords, a V-neck green sweater with a heather gray shirt underneath. Scully smiled at him, hiding it by sipping her coffee. "Hey angel." He said kissing her gently on the cheek, "Brought you some dinner." "Thanks Mulder, you didn't have to." "I wanted to. It's a Chicken Caesar salad, you like those?" "Yes thank you." "You get me anything Mulder?" Nick asked eyeing the other bag longingly "Of course love, got you a burger and fries." "Oh I love you Mulder." Nick said taking the bag from him "What about you?" "I already ate." Scully walked towards the lounge acutely aware he was following. She sat down and opened her salad. He handed her the ranch dressing and she poured it lightly over her salad, mixing it up and took a bite. Man this tastes good she thought " Where'd you get all this?" "A little sandwich shop by the bureau." " You went to work today?" "Yeah just to check in, pick up some paperwork." Mulder said moving his chair closer to her. Scully placed her fork in her salad again when she felt his warm hand close around hers. She locked eyes with him and he smiled. Scully looked away blushing, he gently took the fork from her fingers and moved it to her mouth. She looked at him amused a second, then opened her mouth letting him feed her the bite. Mulder watched in awe as her lips closed on the fork. He pulled it away and speared more salad for her. He feed her another bite and brushed an errant strand of her fiery hair behind her ear. "You are so beautiful Dana." He said softly, "You are such an angel, beautiful inside and out." He feed her another forkful and gently held her hand in his freehand. He brought it to his lips and kissed it tenderly, his eyes never leaving hers. He placed her hand over his heart, "You make me feel complete, you make me whole again. There's nothing I wouldn't do for you." Nick blushed and smiled at Scully, who was crimson from the affectionate words spewing from his mouth. "Mulder I . . ." "I love you so much Dana." He said kissing her hand again, feeding her more salad. Scully could feel everyone in the room staring, but she didn't care. All she could do was stare back into his beautiful hazel eyes and bask in the glow of his love. He kissed her hand again, then the palm, linking his fingers with hers. She was certain he could smell her arousal, she knew she could. This is ridiculous; you just met this guy. He pursues you for weeks, you go out on ONE date with him and your hooked? Are you really that easy? Or is this just something about this man, this Fox Mulder that's different? Mulder scooped up the last of the salad and feed it to her. He released her hand and cleaned up. She started to wipe her mouth when she felt his hand take the napkin from her and finish. He then took her hand in his again and started to lightly kiss her fingertips, his eyes never leaving hers, gauging her reaction. He continued his seduction till Scully's pager went off and she tore her hand for his and looked to see who paged. "Gotta go, I'll call you when I get in okay Mulder?" "Sure thing angel, have fun." "I will, come on Nick." Outside the lounge, Scully exhaled heavily "I think I need to change my underwear first." "Tell me about it quite the little seducer, isn't he?" 2 weeks later " Your boyfriend coming by today?" " Who knows he started back to today probably not . . . oh scratch that." Scully said smiling, slightly as Mulder came into the ER; a dark suit and trenchcoat on flowing around him making him look even more regal. "Hey Angel." He said handing her some wildflowers and giving her a kiss on the cheek. "Mulder hi look I . . ." "I know that's why I brought it to you." He said holding up a bag of food. "Thank you, but I can't stop right now. I have to be in surgery in few minutes." "That's fine, I just wanted . . . I needed to see you today." "Why?" "No reason, I like looking at you." Scully blushed and looked up at him in time to get a sweet kiss on the lips. He slanted his lips over hers and deepened the kiss, gently inserting his tongue into her mouth and tasting her. She was so unique tasting she was tangy and sweet like a tangerine. Scully pulled away, blushing even more. "I'll see you tonight?" He said touching her cheek lightly, running his fingers along her jawline. "Yeah tonight, I'll call you when I get off." "Oh here, here's my card, it has my work and cell phone number on it. You'll probably reach me there instead of home." "Okay, don't work yourself to death or I'll be seeing you as a patient." He smiled and kissed her again quickly and left. "Oh! Have I told you before I'm jealous?" "Yes Nick you have." "Let me tell you again. Dang I'm jealous." Mulder's apartment 7:30 Mulder looked around one more time, mood music, flowers, chicken's almost done. Ok everything's perfect, he thought as a knock came at his door. He opened it quickly and smiled at her as she brushed by him. They ate in relative silence till dessert when Scully asked "Who's Skyler?" "My ex." "Ex boyfriend?' Mulder sighed heavily, oh crap. "Yes my ex boyfriend." "Oh, you're not gay and trying to decided whether you are or not, are you?" "No." Mulder said with a chuckle " Sorry that's just happened to me before. You haven't slept with a lot of guys have you?" "No, is something wrong?" "No, no I just wondered, you never brought it up." "We ended badly, plus it's in the past. You shouldn't delve into the past too much, trust me I know." "You seemed so troubled and conflicted when I first met you, now your so different, why?" "I decided I needed to change my life style. I realized that I needed to grow up, settle down. I realized I hadn't done what I wanted with my life and it was almost taken away." Scully reached across the table and held his hand. "Have you done what you wanted with your life now?" "Almost there is one thing unfinished, but that's ok till . . . I don't want to rush anything between us." "Between us?" Mulder blushed slightly and nodded "What exactly do you mean?" "I want to marry you Dana. I love you and want to marry you, grow old with you, experience life with you." "We just . . ." "But I feel like I've known you forever, don't you feel it?" Scully nodded "We're soulmates who have finally found each other." "Was that a proposal?" "Do you want it to be?" "You'd have to meet my parents first." "How about this weekend?" "I was kidding Mulder." "I wasn't, this weekend?" "Well uh sure this weekend." Next day "Some how I got proposed to and invited him to meet my parents." Scully told Nick as she sipped her coffee. "Did you say yes?" "No it wasn't a proposal proposal." "You sure?" Nick said watching Mulder come in the ER, a light gray suit on, trenchcoat flowing behind him, his partner looking at his watch and urgently telling him something. "This will only take a minute Reggie, we got plenty of time." He said as he strode over to Scully. "Hey angel." "Hi, you're early for lunch." "I have to work through lunch so I decided to come early. I wanted to ask you something Dana." "Sure Mulder what?" Her mouth gaping slightly as he got down on one knee. "Whoa!" his partner said covering his mouth quickly in shock. Everything in the ER stopped, focusing on them. He shakily grasped her left hand "Dana Scully, my angel, I love you so much, You complete me like no one else, it would be the greatest honor if you'd let me be your husband." Scully stood in shock and looked at him, he pulled out a delicate looking opal and sapphire ring and put it shakily on her finger. "Please angel marry me." Mulder pleaded "Yes." "What?" "I'll marry you Fox Mulder." Mulder rose slowly to his feet and smiled brightly, his eyes wet with tears. He lifted her into a hug whispering Thank you over and over again. He put her down and kissed her tenderly on the lips, his tears wetting her face. She wiped them away lovingly and looked at the ring on her finger. "It was my mother's engagement ring. When I told her about you, she wanted you to have it." "I'm honored to wear it." She said putting her arms around his waist, pulling him into a tighter hug. He placed sweet kisses in her hair till he felt her tense. "What's that?" She said, her hand brushing his gun holster "That's my gun angel, the safety's on nothing to worry about." "Sorry to interrupt, but you do have a briefing to give in 10 mins." Reggie said smiling slightly "Ok." Mulder said reluctantly releasing her. "I love you, bye Angel." "I love you too Mulder." He froze for second; savoring the words, the first time she said the words he'd wanted to hear for weeks and continued out of the ER Briefing "The UNSUB was an ER doctor but was fired cause of drug use. He's taking his revenge out by blowing ER's up. Now he's doing it in a pattern" Mulder said pointing to a thumbtacked map, "He's blowing them up in the form of a caduceus. Now I predict his next two stops will be in DC and around the Baltimore area, DC being first. You have a picture of the man, you have the ERs on alert we should catch him in no time." "What's his next hit?" "He strikes every three days, his next stop will be here on the 15th . . . " Mulder looked at the map of hospitals and froze. "Oh god what's today's date?" "The 15th why?" "Oh god, he's going to hit GUMC today shoot!" The Agents rose quickly as Mulder bolted out the door, he tried to dial Scully cell and the ER main board. "He cut the phone lines dang it." Mulder said putting on speed as he got outside when he heard the explosion. "OH NOOOO!" He screamed as he headed toward the rubble. The fire department was already there at the scene "Whoa! Where do you think your going buddy?" A fireman said holding Mulder back "I have to . . ." Mulder started, then he whipped out his badge. The fireman let him go, "Sorry about that Agent Mulder, go ahead." "Man you were right spooky." One of the agents from the forensics team said. He looked around and saw Nick "Where is Dana, Nick? Nick? Where's Dana?" Nick shakily pointed to the rubble and broke down crying. "Reggie take her to the ambulance." Reggie handed Nick to a medic and followed Mulder. "Mulder? Mulder? Let the fire department do this. Mulder?" Mulder ignored Reggie "Angel? Dana?" He cried out, "God please Dana?" "What's his problem?" an agent asked watching Mulder wandering around the rubble in a daze. "His fiance is in there somewhere." "He's engaged? Spooky?" "Yeah just got engaged no less that 30 minutes ago." "Man tough break." "Angel? Dana? Please Angel?" Mulder shakily took in a breath, and wiped away the blinding tears from his eyes. "Answer me please." He whispered. There was some movement and Mulder turned quickly. A groan followed by a hand pushing through the rubble and Mulder ran over to it. He saw the opal and sapphire ring on the flexing hand "Dana! Oh god Dana! Hold on!" He said throwing rocks off of her quickly. "Help! I need some help over here! I found someone!" He said as he frantically ripped at the heavy stones that were crushing her. "Mulder?" Scully choked out. "Yeah angel it's me, its going to be ok, I got you. You're going to be alright." "I love you Mulder." "I love you too baby please hang on, you're almost out." More hands joined in as they freed Scully from the rubble. "Got a stretcher free?" "No I could find a board maybe . . ." "That's okay, come on angel, I got you." Mulder said carefully picking her up in his arms and carrying her to the nearest ambulance. "She's breathing, got a pulse." He told the medic "Ok taking her to DC general, no room for you in here follow behind." He said pushing Mulder out of the ambulance. "Come on man get in the car." Reggie said pushing Mulder in the car and following the ambulance. OR Waiting room DC general hospital Mulder paced back and forth in the waiting room, running his fingers through his hair, wiping tears from his eyes. "Mulder? Want some coffee?" Reggie asked concerned "No" He said his voice rough from crying. "Mulder? Why don't you sit down and relax, she won't be out of surgery for awhile." "No! I will not sit down and relax, not while that guy's still out there." Mulder yelled at him then crumpling into a ball and breaking down into hysterical sobs. "Doctor! We need a sedative over here stat!" A nurse screamed coming over to Mulder. "Well that stopped his pacing Reg." Agent Davidson said and Reggie smirked, throwing Mulder a sympathetic look, as nurses dog piled him and tied him to a stretcher. "Man when he wakes up he'll be upset. I kinda feel sorry for the UNSUB." Davidson said to his partner "Yeah when Spooky gets his hands on him there will be no need for a trial." "How is the search going?" Reggie asked "Dead ends, we think he posed as a maintenance guy." Reggie's eyes wandered to the opening doors and smiled when he saw his wife come though them. Gini looked strangely at a cursing, tied down Mulder. "Reggie, what happened?" "GUMC ER was bombed." "OH my Dr. Scully . . ." "Was caught in the rubble." "That's why poor Mulder's tied down. Poor thing must be going crazy." Gini said looking back at Mulder, who was beginning to calm down. "What they give him?" Reggie asked "50 mg of Valium he'll be out for 2 hours or so what happened?" The nurse asked Reggie "His fiance was caught in that ER bombing a few hours ago." "Fiance?" Gini asked genuinely confused "Yeah he proposed before our meeting this morning." "Did you ever decide on the color BMW you want?" Reggie snort laughed. "Yeah shocked me, I almost had a heart attack when he got down on one knee." Gini walked over to Mulder and petted his hair gently, brushing it out of his eyes. "Dana?" "No sweetie it's me Gini, relax go back to sleep, she'll be fine." Mulder nodded and closed his eyes, trying to relax. Mulder woke with a start, he couldn't move, he couldn't breath. He gasped loudly. "He's coming to." The nurse said walking over to him "It's okay breath Agent Mulder, deep breaths." Mulder relaxed and looked around, I'm still in the hospital. He struggled against the restraints "Let me up. "Not till the doctor says so." "Let me up now!" Mulder growled "He doesn't like to be restrained, he won't cause any trouble I promise." A familiar voice said. Mulder looked up at Nick and smiled "Who'd you attack this time, terminator boy?" "Myself." "That's a new one." She said undoing his restraints. "He's alive!" Reggie said in his best Dr. Frankenstein voice. Mulder threw him a sardonic look and headed for the bathroom. After cleaning up in the bathroom, he came back out. "Anything?" "No still in surgery." "Anything about the UNSUB?" "They prevented the bomb from blowing John Hopkins but his caduceus is complete, who knows what's going to happen now." "What was his hospital, the hospital he worked for?" "Ah . . . Oh man! GUMC!" "As the ER doctor? So he's back in town, he may try to blow this hospital up for spite. We should check the ER. It's a good suggestion that you guys find him before I do." Mulder said checking his gun and replacing it in his holster "Whoa Spooky's on the warpath, come guys. No cell contact, use the radios channel 3." Davidson said heading toward the elevators. "Nick page me if you hear anything about Dana." Mulder said as he followed the others quickly. "Hey Mulder you see him yet?" Reggie asked concerned through radio. "No not yet." "Hey Mulder, guess what else the UNSUB was at GUMC? He was the head ER doc, his drug use was reported by and his position was taken over by guess who?" Davidson said "My angel." "Yep." 'Your angel?" Davidson's partner said with a chuckle "Well at least he doesn't call her his sugar baby like he did Skyler." "Shut up guys" "So you think he'll go after her?" "Probably, he'll wait till she's out of surgery, if she makes it through he'll be after her." Mulder said in a calm detached manner. He can switch into profiler mode so quick, Reggie thought. "I'm going up to the OR, just in case. He'll probably appear up there first." "I'm coming too Mulder, you'll need back up." Reggie heading for the stairs quickly. OR Mulder got off the elevator and looked around quickly. Who shouldn't be here? Come on Spooky work your magic. "I heard one of the ER docs from that GUMC bombing is up here." Mulder heard a middle aged man say. Him! It's him! They locked eyes and the UNSUB smiled "Well Agent Fox." "Special Agent Fox Mulder to you." Mulder growled as he reached for his gun. "I wouldn't do that." He said putting a knife quickly to the head nurse's throat. Screams abounded and Mulder moved his hands away from the holster. "That's better. You know you are the only profiler to figure my little game out. 10 different profilers they bring you in and you figure me out in what a day?" "12 hours to be exact. You weren't that hard to figure out. The caduceus shape is a bit self righteous don't you think?" "What is he doing?" Nick whispered to Gini as they watched from under the waiting room chairs "What he does best, watch him work. He'll have him release his hostage and focused on him in no time." "Self righteous! How dare you!" "If you hadn't mixed the wrong narcs you'd still be a respectable doctor." The UNSUB growled "Now let go of the nurse this is between you and me." The UNSUB complied and stepped towards Mulder. "See told you." Gini said "Wow he's good." Nick replied. "You bet this is between me and you, you're the reason they found the bomb in John Hopkins." Reggie came up the stairs and quickly inched into position "Yep! You didn't think I'd let you blow that ER up did you?" "I got you though didn't I Special Agent Mulder?" He said stepping within arms length of Mulder "What do you mean?" "It was just a stroke of luck that your girlfriend was the head ER doc, then that cute little proposal, it was too perfect. Just engaged then to lose you precious Dana, no what did you call her. Angle?" "Angel." Mulder said, his voice dangerously low. "Angel yeah, how cute. To lose her cause you weren't able to get you team together in time." Mulder's eyes were tearing up from rage. "What's wrong did I hit a soft spot for the big tough FBI profiler? AW! So you know about your precious girlfriend? How she ratted me out and took my position? I mean it, she just finished her residency, how could they even think she could replace me!" Mulder took a step towards him "She's a looker though, I don't blame you for being so enamored. Say one guy to another, what's she' like in bed?" Mulder's eyes widened and he snapped putting a death grip on the UNSUB's neck. "I'm going to kill you, you bastard!" "Oh so you haven't slept with her yet?" He choked out, reaching into his pocket for his knife. Dang it, I can't get a good shot with Mulder there, Reggie thought moving to the side a little. Mulder increased the pressure on his throat. "Now I'm going to get you for good." He said slashing Mulder across the stomach. Mulder on instinct let go, grabbed his gun and fired right at the UNSUB's head. "Mulder don't!" Reggie screamed too late. "Dang it!" he said when he came over and looked at the UNSUB who was missing his head. "Jeez, you blew his head off Mulder!" "I didn't mean to, he slashed me" Mulder said falling to his knees "Help we need help over here! Agent down!" Mulder looked down to see his intestines and fainted. "Well no need for anestestisa he's out cold." Nick said as they rushed him to the OR. 3 days later Mulder woke up disoriented "Where am I?" He said quietly "DC general hospital." Reggie answered, glad to see him awake. "Oh yeah Dana? How's my angel?" "She's okay, but she's in full traction for 4 weeks. You on the other hand, can leave by the end of next week." "UNSUB?" "Missing a head. Oh yeah OPR wants to discuss that with you." "Why?" "They understand self defense, but you emptied your clip in his head. They were wondering if you lost your head, since your fiance was involved." "I . . . well maybe a little. I was temporarily insane anyone could see that, plus I saved them a trial." "You still killed a man. Whoa where you going?" Reggie said as Mulder suddenly stood up. "To see Dana. Where is she? "Fourth floor. Look man, the doc said you need to stay put . . ." "I don't care what he says I'm seeing Dana. Now hand me that pair of pajama bottoms." Reggie did and started "Mulder . . ." "No Reggie." He said slipping on the pants and padding out of the room. "Mr. Mulder? What are you doing up? Your stitches!" A nurse said as Mulder made his way to the elevator. "Mr. Mulder?" "I'll keep an eye on him." Reggie said following him quickly on the elevator. "Mulder you're not going to like what you see." "I don't care. I have to see her, I have to let her know I'm there." Reggie sighed and conceded defeat as the elevator door opened on the 4th floor. "What room Reggie?" "405." Mulder walked in and gasped slightly. Her arms and legs were held up by traction boards, she looked surreal, her face relatively unmarred only a small scratch on her face. Some of her fingers were in splints, but his engagement ring was still on her left hand. He clasped it gently in his hands and kissed her hand gently. "Hey angel it's me, I love you." Mulder said caressing her cheek lightly, she leaned into his touch and he petted her hair. Members of the OPR came onto the ward, and went to Reggie, who was standing outside Dana's room. "I heard Agent Mulder was up here?" Reggie jumped slightly, then relaxed saying "Yeah he's in with his fiance . . ." the OPR pushed past Reggie into the room "I wouldn't . . ." The OPR stood watching and listening as Mulder caressed Scully's cheek again and said. "I'm so sorry, This is my fault. If only I could have briefed them earlier, if only I could have gotten the case sooner. I love you Dana, you're my angel and I didn't protect you. I got him at least, I didn't mean to kill him, it was an accident. He stabbed me and I reacted, I lost my head. OPR wants my badge cause I fired too many shots at him. I literally blew his head off, a full clip, I thought it was only 1 or 2 shots. I couldn't stop, I wasn't thinking, all I saw was you laying in a pile of rubble fighting for you life and he was the bastard that put you there. I'm so sorry angel, try and forgive me. I love you so much, please forgive me." Mulder said tears running down his face as he held her left hand in his. She squeezed his gently and he looked at her quickly. "Dana?" "Mulder, I forgive you. It's not your fault and I love you too.' Mulder smiled and kissed her hand again. "I love you more." "Don't go there." She said, her voice cracking from dryness. Mulder poured her some water and gave her some. "Thank you why are you in a hospital gown?" Mulder lifted it and showed her the stitched slash mark. "He gutted me like a pig." Scully rolled her eyes and smiled at the analogy. "You just can't stay away for the hospital, can you? Your apartment isn't that bad Mulder." Mulder chuckled and winced a little at the pain. "Your in pain, you need to go back to your room love." Mulder sighed and held her hand again. "Just a few more minutes."