Title: Falling to the Future
Author: DScully141
written March 2000
Rating- R- for excessive violence, and language.

Category: MSM (Mulder/Scully married)

Distribution: Anywhere as long as these headers and my name stay attatched 
to this:)

Feedback: All Feedback send to me, DScully141@aol.com This is my first 
posting so please...be gentle:P

Spoilers- The entire 7 seasons of the show!

Summery- Tragedy strikes as Scully finds herself dealing with the 
unthinkable. A shooting at a local daycare hits home and a madman threatens 
to rip away her family. Memories haunt her as she finds herself falling to 
the future. 

WARNING- This subject matter may be disturbing to some. Do not let children 
read t his and lastly, read at your OWN risk.

Authors notes: No one helped me write this ...it was all on my own so if you 
hate it blame me:) 

Disclaimer- Fox Mulder and Dana Scully belong to Chris Carter and 1013 
productions. In fact All things X belong to them. This is just for fun:) Oh 
yes and by the way? Sarah and Max are mine!!!! All mine I say!!!!

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It began as a routine day, and ended somewhere in a nightmare. The hairs 
on the back of Scully's neck began to rise as she got the first phone call. 
"Agent Scully..."the hallow voice on the other end began. She knew...she 
knew something was wrong, and the news reports in front of her were not 
promising. There had been a shooting,another in a long string of gun 
violence, but this time...this time it hit right home. Scully stood on 
wobbly knees as she willed her voice to remain calm. 

"Agent Scully, your husband is not answering his cellular phone and we felt 
it best to contact you first before the press finds out." The voice was 
grave, as if already knowing the future. 

Scully nodded silently, a single tear streaming its way down her cheek. "And 
my children?" She asked carefully. 

"We're not sure Dana, the man has hostages...you might want to get down here." 
There was a long pause. "I'm on my way."

Scully sped the 10 minutes to the church run daycare where she sent her 
children. The playground was lined in crimescene tape and she gasped as she 
saw several tiny bodies sprawled on the equipment. Silently praying, that 
she hoped she would not find Max and Sarah amoung them. 

A detective approached her. "Agent Scully, we have confirmed that your husband 
is in the building. As far as we can gather, he went first to pick up Sarah 
but had not made it down the hall for Max yet." Scully breathed in a long ragged 
breath. "In short Dana, we have located Mulder and Sarah...but we have No idea 
where Max is." She felt her stomach drop. "Agent Scully, we have determined that 
there are 23 hostages inside the chapel area. 7 teachers, 14 children, 
Agent Mulder and your daughter." 

Scully sighed softly fighting back the tears."Do we know how many kids were here 
today? Do we know who got home and who didn't?" 

The detective glanced toward the building. "We have only been able to see what's 
outside here. We know so far, 4 teachers and 15 children are confirmed dead. We really 
have no idea Dana what is going on inside...or how many bodies we'll find once we get 
in there. This guy is psycho...he just walked in shooting." He watched her reaction 
before continuing. "We have determined who is still in that room however. The 
children are ages 8 weeks to 8 years. The oldest is a boy, Dylan and the 
youngest is a little girl...Jenna. Your daughter, Agent Scully, is the 3rd 
youngest in that room. There is another baby in there, a 4 month old." 

Scully shifted nervously. "Do we know what the man wants?" 

"The man's wife was killed 6 years ago in a botched robbery attempt. She 
took out 3 officers before the snipers arrived. They didn't know she was 
pregnant. " The detective stepped back. 

"So he has had it out for the FBI ever since? And he figured the best way to 
get federal attention was to shoot up a daycare in DC huh?" Scully rubbed her 
forhead and the man nodded. 

"Only..." 

She looked up. "Only what?" 

The detective shifted uneasily. "Only the guy didn't count on Mulder being in 
there. " 

Scully spoke slowly as if afraid of her own words. "So now....he doesn't need those 
hostages, he's got his man. Shit.....now what?"

Gunshots rang through the building and law enforcement ducked behind cars. 
The doors flew open and 7 women ran with children in their hands towards 
them. "Get behind the cars, get the children down!" The detective yelled to 
the SWAT team. 

Scully looked for Mulder, he didn't come. "That leaves Mulder..." She breathed. 
"And Sarah." Scully looked back to the door and nearly jumped out from behind the 
car. A young boy with dusty brown hair and hazel green eyes was walking towards her. 
Max....her three-year-old son was holding tightly to his father's hand. 

The gunmen was holding her 5 month old daughter in one arm, and had a gun to her 
son's head with the other. 

"Mulder..." She breathed. Scully stepped out from behind the car. 

"Agent Scully you take cover now! Agent Scully that is an order!" The SWAT 
screamed to her. 

Max looked to his mother. "Mommy?"

"It's ok baby, Mommy's here...I'm right here Max." She smiled at him and 
then looked to Mulder. Their eyes met and in that moment Scully knew. Her 
life was about to change forever. Between the three loves in front of her, all 
held hostage by a madman.....she knew in her heart she would lose one. 

Mulder's gaze fell upon her, filled with so much love and desperation. "I 
love you" He mouthed silently. She nodded.

"My name is Michael, you must be Dana." It was the gunmen speaking to her 
now. "Come Dana, come for your daughter." He looked Scully up and down and 
his eyes rested on her breasts. "Come mother, and feed your baby. It's 6 
o'clock you must be swollen and she staving by now." 

Scully cringed at the last sentence. The man knew she breastfed. And if that 
wasn't disgusting in and of itself, he wanted her to nurse in front of him. 
Mulder was angry. Scully could tell. His face was flushed and his hands 
clenched...but he was powerless to save his wife or his children. And Scully 
knew that thought alone, was driving him mad inside. Scully stepped forward 
slowly and lifted her daughter from the mans arms. She sat on the bench and 
unbottoned her blouse, allowing her tiny daughter access to her breast. If the 
fucker wanted to see her breastfeed then fine, as long as it saved her children. 

She looked again to Mulder and then to her daughter who began to cry. The 
milk wasn't letting down. Scully was to nervous. The man snapped.

"You stupid bitch feed your child!" Sarah startled and began to scream 
louder, tears were running down Scully's face as well. The man pushed the 
boy towards his mother and sister. Turning the gun on Mulder. "You think 
your life is perfect G-man huh? You stupid fucking FBI! You meet the woman, 
marry the woman, knock her up twice and then get to watch her tits drip milk. 
Does she turn you on? Do you want her right now? You think you can rid the 
world of crazies like you did my wife when you killed her! She was pregnant 
you know! When the fucking FBI put a bullet in her heart! Just because she 
went off the straight path!"

Mulder was infuriated that the man was speaking suggestivly about Scully, 
watching her breasts-his children. In that instant, Fox Mulder snapped. 
"Your wife murdered 3 people in cold blood and attacked a federal officer!"

"Shut up! Shut up...I did not give you permission to talk!" 

"Why don't you shut the fuck up you son of a bitch! Let my wife and my 
children go home. It can be just you and me...and we can settle this right 
now. "

The gunmen shifted and looked around wildly. He was losing it and Scully was 
afraid. She bent down to her small son. "Max, I need you to do mommy a 
favor ok?" Max nodded smiling up at his mother. "Max, I need you to hold 
Sarah very tight in your arms like this..." She put her daughter into her 
sons arms. "And then I want you to walk over to those cars with the lights 
and people." Scully unclipped her ID and attatched it to her son's jacket. 
"Max I promise, mommy will be there soon...but please go." 

Max looked at her, tears streaming down his chubby face. "Please mommy..." 
The little boy pleaded. "Please don't die...please don't bleed like Andrew 
and Caleb, and Jessica...please mommy..don't bleed." 

Scully was shocked. Max knew what it meant to die. He was three years old and 
he knew his playmates were not coming back. 

She took his face in her hands. "Max I promise you with all that is 
in me...I WILL not die...I will come for you Max...I will never leave you 
baby...ever." She pressed her lips to his forhead. "I love you Maxy...mommy 
loves you." With that she gave him a little push and he walked towards the 
cars. 

The man smiled. "How clever Dana, but that's alright. It wasn't your children 
that I wanted." He pushed Mulder to her. "One last kiss before we say goodbye?" 
The man laughed. 

Scully looked into her husbands eyes, he was frightened."Dana I....I love you." 
Tears streamed down her cheeks as she threw herself into his strong arms. 

"And I love you..." She pressed her lips to his for a last, sweet reverant kiss. 
She wanted to hold onto him, onto this moment forever. Mulder withdrew from the 
kiss and held her against his body. His heat filling her heart. 

"Now which shall it be?" The gunmen paced in front of them. "You're both FBI, 
should it be the husband or the wife, the mother or the father? Tell me kids...
who wants to spend the rest of their life raising two children alone?" 

Scully stepped forward, but stoped short when she heard a tiny voice from 
across the yard. "Mommy! Is it time for dinner yet...mommy!" Her baby boy's voice 
rang in her ears. Tears struck her as she heaved a sob. "Oh God..." She cried. 

Scully turned and grabbed hold of Mulder. His arms encircled her and he rested his 
chin on her head. This was it...the Alpha and the Omega...beginning and end.

"Alpha team stand by....take him when you get a clear shot" The SWAT captain 
spoke into his radio."

The gunbarrel was raised to the back of Mulder's head.

"Alpha take em now!" From somewhere above a young SWAT team member had the 
gunmen in his sights. He released the trigger gaurd and slid his finger over 
it. "Roger am I go?"

"Alpha...you are go" :nothing: "Alpha I repeat you are go take him now!" 

"Sir...it's a misfire....the guard is locked, I repeat...it's locked! Oh 
God...someone else...get him in your sights now!" SWAT members scrambled to 
get a clear shot. 

Mulder looked down into his wife's eyes. "I will always love you baby." 

Dana Scully nodded and held him tighter. They both heard the click of the 
cock and closed their eyes tight. "Mulder....."- 

A loud pop interrupted her and Fox Mulder's head was thrown to one side, his 
body slumping into his wife's arms, blood spilling over her face and clothes. 
She felt the scream rise in her throat and the SWAT sprang into action. 
Several more pops and the gunmen had been taken out, he too bleeding to death 
on a children's playground. 

Scully looked frantically around her, all of the people, the lights, the blood all 
over her hands. She tried to scoop it up and press it back to his head...she tried 
to hold in his tissue, tried to breath for him into his mouth. Her hands moved 
fruitlessly over his body, too shocked to cry, she talked to him. 

"Mulder just a minute...just a minute and you'll be fine." The tears began to roll 
and she sobbed the words. " Oh God Mulder please be fine..." Reality began to sink 
in and she felt her self falling, falling into her future. He was gone....her husband, 
her soulmate, her partner was gone. She fell to her knees beside him, her body 
wretching. 14 years rushed back upon her as she let out a primal wail....dying.

"I was under the impression you were sent to spy on me...If there's an ice 
tea in that bag Scully, could be love...Dana, I'm sorry about your 
dad.......After all you've seen,Scully after all you've been through, why 
can't you believe?*****I'm afraid Mulder***** ....Hey Scully, what are you 
wearing?.....Fight Scully, I need you.......Marry me Scully.....You kept me 
honest, made me a whole person......Scully, I love you*****Mulder, I love 
you*****.....Happy New year Scully......I Fox Mulder, take thee Dana Scully, 
to be my lawful wedded wife, to have and to hold.....Dana, a boy, a beautiful 
boy!....Scully, he's walking!......Another baby! Dana we're gonna have 
another baby? Can it be a girl this time Scully? I want her to look just 
like you.....in sickness and in health.....I love you.....for richer for 
poorer....Scully, the housepayment isnt THAT bad!....until 
death...Scully,you're beautiful....until Death......Dana I love you...until 
death do you part.......Scully, I'm gonna pick up the kids, meet you at home 
my love..........until death do you part.....*****I do.*****"

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5 years later

Scully stood up from the grave of the young woman placing flowers on the 
headstone. "Rest in peace Angelica Whittman. I pray that you and your 
unborn infant may rest forever in peace." She stretched and looked to the 
grave beside the woman. -Thomas Whittman- "I don't know if I can forgive 
you Tom for taking away my whole life, my children's life. But I want you to 
know.....that we won. We have risen above the pain and I do hope that 
wherever you are....you can to." Dana Scully let her fingers run over her 
tiny gold cross and stopped a moment to glance down at her wedding ring. 

"Mommy! Mommeeeyyyyyy!!!!!" Sarah bounded towards Scully with a boquet of 
dandelions. "Mommy look what I found! They're for luck! Dandelions are 
always for luck!" The little girl handed her the flowers, beaming with 
pride. "Happy birthday mommy." Scully smiled down at her daughter and then 
scooped her up into her arms smoothing the little yellow dress. 

"Where's Max?" Scully questioned her 5 year old daughter. Sarah pointed over 
her mother's shoulder. Dana looked down the hill to her son. 

Max was standing alone by a white marbel headstone. Scully walked up behind 
him and put her arms around his shoulders. Max spoke to the stone. "It's mom's 
birthday, Dad, so we're taking her out to eat tonight with grandma. She misses 
you, we all miss you." 

Scully smiled softly at her son. Max wiped a tear from his cheek and took his sister's 
hand. 

Sarah looked from her mother to her brother and to the headstone. She smiled and kissed 
the marble. "Love you daddy! I'm hungry now so im gonna go eat! BYE!" She bounded down 
the hill to the car. 

"Max....we're ok.....you and I and Sarah....we're ok." Max nodded and 
followed his sister down the hill. 

Scully looked up to the sky. Tears sliding down her cheeks. Memories flooding her.

"Mulder...."
"Shhh Scully......it's alright I know....I know everything....how you 
feel..what you want....just let go...Dana just let go and let me be with you."
"I Fox Mulder, take thee Dana Scully..."
"Mulder, I know all that...yes we do...now shut up and kiss me!"
"Max, it's a potty...you sit on it like daddy..and do your business."
"But Daddy, you don't sit down when you potty!"
"Well Max, mommy sits down when she potties?"
"Yes daddy, but mommy has a Bajinah not a Peenus like me and you."
"Scully push...come on Scully..push"
"Code BLue! We lost the heart beat...prep for a Csection now!"
"Oh God Mulder it hurts...this isnt supposed to happen this way! MULDER!"
"Dana.....dont give up baby....dont give up...remember....:holds out a 
dandelion: Dandelions for luck."
"Is she breathing...Mulder! Mulder is she breathing?"
"Yeah baby...She's breathing....she's breathing."
"Dana, im gonna get the kids and meet you at home. I'm taking you out for 
your birthday this year....I love you babe....I will call you from the 
daycare....just think...in 5 years from now....you'll look back on this night 
and smile...because im gonna show you the time of your life! You're never 
gonna forget it."
"Dana....I love you...."

Scully blinked back tears and rose from the ground. "I love you too Fox" 
She laid her golden cross over his headstone and saluted to the sky with two 
fingers. "Goodbye." She turned and began to walk down the hill, the warm 
sun hitting her face.... Falling to her future.

The End