Chapter 20 is here! I hope you guys enjoy the chapter. I have got to say after a little inspiration I should be back and writing. :)

After looking around the apartment, Mulder had to admit to himself that he and Doggett had done a pretty magnificent job. It was a fairly easy job, no stripping of wallpaper needed and the walls were all intact, meaning that there were no little holes that had to be filled before painting. He and Doggett had worked on different rooms, and finally they met in the living room; completing hanging the Chinese symbol wallpaper up on the wall. By his surprise they both worked with little breaks and this work load meant that the whole apartment (with the exception of the bathroom and kitchen which was perfectly fine the way they were) had been decorated with a fresh lick of pain or new wallpaper.

Mulder was standing in the bathroom, cleaning out the paintbrushes and rollers of paint when he lolled his eyes back and went into his own little dreamland, thinking methodically to himself. Finally I have a home, after so long of running; I finally have a home. Scully is going to love it here once we have finished decorating. Once we are both settled in I shall work day in and day out to prove to Scully that she made the right choice in following me through this darkness. I will prove to her how much I truly and deeply lover her with my whole heart, from now until the end of...

"Urhm Mulder, I'm just about finishing off hanging the final piece of wallpaper in the living room, it is coming alone nicely." Doggett interrupted Mulder's train of thought as he pops his head into the bathroom.

"Thank you for doing this with me, Doggett." Mulder replied with half a thankful smile.

"Hey, it's no problem at all, Mulder!" Doggett retorted with an equal smile.

They both stood in a comfortable silence whilst Mulder finished up washing the paint out of the paintbrushes before Doggett spoke again. "Are we going to start the flooring today? I mean, it is nearly five thirty already, the girls should be back at the motel by now."

"Urm," Mulder replied contemplating the possibilities of getting some of the flooring done tonight. "How about we try and get as much done in the master bedroom tonight as we can?" He asked, cocking his head to the side and raising one eyebrow at Doggett in a questioning manner.

"Sure," Doggett simply retorted, hoping they would call it night so he could get back to his heavily pregnant wife, Reyes. "Oh, Mulder, do you have a circular saw?" He enquired thinking about the fundamental tool behind cutting and shaping wooden flooring.

Mulder knitted his eyebrows together as he thought deeply to himself. This was one of the things he left off the shopping list when he and Scully had gone to the hardware shop the other day to get decorating supplies. "No Doggett, I didn't actually remember to get one at the hardware store. I guess that plan is out of the window for tonight then," He shrugged off the small disappointed feeling in the pit of his stomach, hoping he would get the refurbishments done as soon as possible. "How about we just rip up the old carpets and put them in the bathroom until we go take a trip to the junk yard?" He compromised with himself.
"Sure." Doggett smiled slightly at the thought of getting back to his wife sooner.

Mulder and Doggett began in the master bedroom and started to rip up the old carpets, then taking up the under floor spike to keep the carpets down and secured. They rolled the carpets up as best they could and then placed them against the walls in the bathroom. The time was nearly seven when they finally finished ripping up all carpets from all the rooms. Out of breath and sweating profusely they called it a day. Doggett left the apartment first followed shortly by Mulder, as he locked up the apartment he couldn't help but let the excitement overrun him at the prospects of the future living in such a beautiful little town with his wonderful lover, friend partner and most of all life; Scully.

On the way home in the car Doggett and Mulder discussed their action plan for the next day. They had worked out the final arrangement of going to the hardware shop as soon as it opened to pick up a few bits such as the circular saw and some skirting boards for the rooms. They were then going to head off to the new apartment and start on the flooring, hoping to get most of it done in the day, ready for the furniture to arrive. Every time the word 'furniture' came up Mulder got a small instinctual pain in his gut telling him that Doggett was ready to let out their location to the FBI and that the person who is in the truck bringing up the furniture is indeed a super soldier who wants to kill Scully and himself. The whole story unravelling inside Mulder's head was becoming more barbaric and unrealistic by the minute – and he knew it. He knew that he was on high alert far too much and that the FBI were probably chasing another nut case who wanted to seek the truth now anyway, and when it comes to super soldiers Mulder could never truly trust anyone apart from Scully. All Mulder really wanted to know was who exactly is the mysterious stranger bringing up the furniture to Fort Nelson, nobody truly sprang to mind of whom he could trust fully with his and Scully's life, nor could he think of anyone who would be truly committed to taking a two day journey to deliver some furniture.

Doggett and Mulder pulled up outside the motel and from the outside he could see that the lights in Doggett and Reyes' room were out, whereas; the lights in Mulder and Scully's room were very much on. They both made their way up to the motel room and when they reached the door they knocked. It wasn't a long wait before Scully answered the door with a huge smile on her face.

"Good evening." She beamed at both Mulder and Doggett, stepping aside to let them in.

"Good evening to you too," Mulder beamed back stepping into the apartment and placing a zealous kiss upon Scully's lips which made her moan slightly in pure shock. "Mmm, dinner sure does smell delicious! What we having?" He complimented as he pulled away from Scully with a cunning smile.

"Well, Mulder. We are having roasted goose with butter potatoes and carrots," She smiled recalling the evening's meal she had brought earlier from the local butchers and green grocers "A local delicacy that they swear by. Seeing as we are now going to be local I though we may try and conform to standards here in Fort Nelson." She blissfully smiled back at Mulder, who seemed to be in a great mood this evening.

In the background Reyes and Doggett had greeted each other and exchanged pleasantries and kisses. They all gathered around the dining table where they continued conversation about what each party had done today. Reyes and Scully continued to tell Doggett and Mulder about their meal out at the Italian restaurant and then walking down the promenade in the town where they picked up dinner to the moment that they walked into the door – obviously leaving out the information about Scully being pregnant. Mulder and Doggett caught Scully and Reyes up on the progression of the apartment and how all the walls had been completed – and Doggett added in the fact Mulder had forgotten to buy a circular saw from the store and halted their progression for the day. Finally before long the goose was cooked till it was golden brown. Scully was surprised to find it was very similar to chicken just the meat tasted slightly different. The goose had been stuffed with sage and onion stuffing as well as orange to ferment the flavour within the goose, so as Scully carved the goose – which was going to be feeding them for a week – she gave each person some stuffing, taking out the chunks of orange and putting them in the trash. She placed the goose on five plates – one for each of them and one for the left over goose – she then drained the potatoes and carrots before serving – 'Bon Appétit' Scully declared as she served to the two guests and Mulder.

Scully had to acknowledge that she made a mean roasted Goose with butter potatoes; she was salivating at it as she began to carve as the smells hit her nose. As the four of them were sat eating no one cared to speak a word as they all dug in and enjoyed their dinner. By the time that everyone had finished their dinner they were all stuffed, Mulder had gone and unbuttoned his pants whilst Reyes was feeling a little sick at the thought of even consuming another bite. Scully was proud to see that everyone was satisfied by the time that they had all finished and she dared to put the blueberry pie in the oven, knowing nobody would touch it.

The time was encroaching 9pm by the time everyone had finished their dinners and had let them go down a little. Doggett and Reyes were being affected by the travel and workload and it had caught up with them as they both looked conked out.
"I think John and I are going to make a move for tonight." Reyes thanked both Mulder and Scully with a kiss on the cheek before they went to go to their own room. Beforehand, Mulder and Doggett had discussed they were going to meet up at the diner at 8am the next morning to get breakfast before heading off to the hardware store and evidently the apartment to continue decorating.

After Reyes and Doggett left Mulder sat on the couch watching some highlights of some hockey games that had feature earlier that day, he would have preferred football or baseball, but with being up in Canada and hockey being a massive sport he decided to give it a try. Scully however; was in the kitchen washing the plates and cutlery from dinner.

She is stood in front of the sink with her yellow rubber gloves drawn up to the elbows with her hands in the sink full of washing up liquid, washing the plates. Mulder enters the kitchen silently and walks up behind Scully soundlessly treading until he is stood behind her and he wraps his arms around her waist.
"Mulder, I'm doing the dishes." She simply states.

He takes one of his hands from her hip and draws in up to her neck, placing her hair behind her ear before placing his lips upon Scully's neck and replacing his arm back around her waist. They stand unvoiced, cloaked in a silence that fills the room. Scully moves her head to the side and begins to enjoy Mulder kissing upon her neck before she releases an uncontrollable moan; she blushes as the moan escapes her lips. Mulder hears this moan and is moved by this uncontrollably.

He pulls his lips from Scully's neck, keeping his arms around her waist, "You know I love you right, Scully?" He asks, knowing the answer though wanting to reassure himself.

"Of course I do," She retorts, turning her head to the side so she can look Mulder in the eyes. "I also know that some things have happened that not every single person could deal with, that not everyone would have stuck around for." She continues breaking the eye contact with Mulder, almost feeling guilty for bringing it up, she almost feels the tears welling up in her eyes again as he releases his arms from her waist.

He turns Scully around so that she is facing him, her face peering down towards the floor. He places a hand under her chin and brings it up so that her eyes reach his own. "But you did," He simply states with a smile on his face. "I know what I have put you through, Scully. I know that I have selfishly brought you along with me when you gave up everything, the chance of being with your family. I see that now." Mulder sullenly continues tears welling up in his eyes. "I know what you have given up to be with me Scully. I know what you have lost for me. I just want you to know that it all ends, here and now." He gulps deeply, trying to keep the lump down in his throat.

Scully is looking deep in his eyes, on the surface she can see deep heartfelt pain and repent, now spilling over his cheeks. What was he saying? Was it over between them?

"I want you to call your Mother, I want you to call your brothers, I want you to call anybody you want, invite them to see us, stay with us. I want you to know that I don't want to you to begin to– or continue to – resent me Scully because I am a selfish man." He spoke in barely whisper.

"I don't resent you." Scully retorted, the tears beginning to spill over her eyes and down her cheeks as she grabs both his hands. "I – I'm sorry if you have ever come to believe that I have ever – ever stopped loving you, Mulder. Know that could never happen, I can never stop loving you. I love you because of everything that has happened, through thick and thin I have been with you." Scully smiled half a comforting smile as the tears still decided to spill over and join in Mulder with the crying.

Mulder leans in and places his lips upon Scully's forehead pulling her in close for a tight embrace. He moves his lips from her forehead onto her lips, she kisses him back as he flicks his tongue upon her bottom lip she opens her mouth and accepts, meeting with her own tongue. They both moan sensually into the kiss, wrapped around each others tongue and emotions. Mulder pushes Scully into the sink as Scully takes a sharp intake of breath through her teeth.
Mulder releases his tongue from Scully's mouth and looks at her, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."
"I'm fine..." She simply retorted rubbing the small of her back slightly before practically jumping back into Mulder's mouth to seek his tongue for another wrestle.

He picks her up and she instantly wraps her legs around his waist and now she can feel the hardness that is Mulder pokes her through his pants. He sets her down on the couch and begins to unbutton her shirt, replacing each button with a kiss as skin begins to reveal. When the shirt is completely unbuttoned she draws her hand to the waistband of his jeans – his button already open from dinner – and continues to pull them down followed suit with his boxers. Mulder stands dead upright as Scully begins to stroke his length with two hands before taking some of it in her mouth. "Sc-Scully...," He manages to exhale in a quiver. Scully goes about by placing her knees on the floor whilst still sucking onto Mulder and pushing him down so that he is sitting down in the spot where she was sat and continues to play with Mulder's length in her mouth, teasing him by taking it mostly out of her mouth and then placing it back in slowly. Mulder eyes up Scully breast that are strapped into her bra and he reaches out to free them from the cage, Scully flings the bra aside and stops stroking Mulder, the pained expression on his face as she can see that he is nearly at point of climax.

Scully smiles at this and pulls her jeans and panties down, standing in front of Mulder completely starker's. She straddles his large frame and hovers above his length saving the moment for just a while longer. Mulder leans into take one of Scully's nipples into his mouth sucking and teasing upon it, Scully lets out an uncontrolled moan and lowers herself down on him, both releasing a sharp outtake of breath. Mulder places his hands on Scully's back and she has complete trust in him as she leans her body back and begins to move upon Mulder's large member. Scully begins to make some high pitched moaning as she feels the walls that surround Mulder begin to clench, however; the expression and breathlessness of Mulder says it all as he prematurely ejaculates inside of Scully. Mulder is red in both passion and embarrassment as Scully stops.

"S-sorry," He exhales, panting vigorously.

"Hm," Scully simply replies "You haven't done this before," She sighs to herself before un-straddling Mulder and walks cheerlessly to the bedroom where she gets in bed disappointedly.

'We are so out of synch recently; nothing seems to be going for us. He didn't even both trying to finish me off. I know he said he loved me, but does he really. I mean, we used to climax together, it's almost as though he is turned off by me, that he wants to get it over with as soon as possible.'

Scully hears Mulder enter the bedroom and turns off the light, she turns the opposite side of him as he draws the covers back and enters the bed, sighing to himself for his earlier performance.

Scully closes her eyes and pretends to sleep, Mulder can tell from the energy coming off Scully that she too is disappointed. He warms up his hands before making their way onto Scully's breasts, she turns towards him, pain held deep with her voice, "You don't have to do this," She whispered.

"I know," He simply retorted, a smile on his face through the darkness, "I want to."
He takes his arms and places them either side of Scully, and leans himself up on his elbows, he then places small butterfly kisses from Scully's lips down her jaw line over her shoulders until his lips reach her breast. He latches on her nipples where he begins to suck and play teasingly upon them, his hands massaging her other breast where his mouth is not paying attention, upon this action Scully unconsciously bucks her hips and Mulder knows that she wants him, however; he isn't going to give him.

He takes one of his hands from her breast and traces lines down her body until it reaches the top of her thigh, she moans enthusiastically at this notion and opens her legs. Mulder begins to stimulate the clitoris, this causes Scully's nipples to become extremely hard and she moans inaudible sounds. Mulder can feel how wet she has become and enters two fingers into her opening, continuing to rub at her clit with his thumb she moves her hips to meet with his fingers, creating greater pleasure between impact. Mulder from this action as well as the sounds is close to ejaculating all over Scully's stomach and he knows that she wont appreciate a cum shower across her. From his finder Mulder and tell that Scully is nearly at her own climax and takes it upon himself to enter his hard member inside her before he explodes. Scully groans at this introduction and tosses her head back as Mulder releases his lips from her nipple and sucks upon Scully's jugular, pulsating in and out of her. As their climaxes pound within their loins Mulder bites down upon Scully's neck as he feels her walls clench around him which triggers his own climax, his name rings out across the room as he does one last sharp thrust before he collapses onto the bed next to him.

He pants breathlessly, "I'm – I'm Sorry I couldn't solely pleasure you. Ag-Again I was selfish and wanted you so bad."
Scully brings her head to Mulder's chest, listening to the thumping of his heart beat, "I wanted you, no matter how you did it, it was amazing." She breathlessly retorted.

Before long both Mulder and Scully had fallen asleep, awoken in the morning by a thumping at the door.

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