Epilogue

1985 APARTMENT OF DANA SCULLY AND SAMANTHA MULDER.

"Sam, I can't go out with you and your new boyfriend tonight, I have to study for my MCats." Dana yelled from her bedroom.

"Danes please, you have too! It just won't be the same unless you come." Sam hollered back from the bathroom. "Please, you know I hate first dates and besides…" she's cut off by a knock on the door. "Can you go let him in please. See he's early or I'm late great!"

Dana walks to the door she's dressed in sweatpants and one of her brother Bill's navy t-shirts. Her hair pulled back in a ponytail. She opens the door, and her breath catches as she looks up into a face she has dreamt of her entire life.

Before she can utter a word, he leans and captures her lips in a soul searing kiss, she responds then pulls back and smacks him across the face. "How dare you!" She hisses in anger. "Sam your boyfriend is here and he kissed me!" She hollers.

Samantha comes flying out of the bathroom anger written all over her face. "George I told you my brother is an FBI Agent and your kissing my roommate!" She stops short "FOX!" She screeches launching herself into her brother's arms. "Dana this isn't George this is my brother Fox William Mulder. Fox my roommate and best friend, Dana Scully." She laughs.

"Fox why'd you kiss her?" Sam asks as she notices the two can't take their eyes off each other.

"She has the most amazing red hair." He whispers.

Sam looks at her brother, then at her roommate. "Fox how do you know she has red hair, did mom tell you?" She asks.

"No, I can see it, like a beacon calling me home."

1990: Home of Captain and Margaret Scully

"Ahab, please be nice to him." Dana asks her father as she sets the table for dinner.

"Starbuck, I'll be nice as soon as I know what his intentions are towards my daughter." He responds.

"Mom, please will you tell daddy to be nice!" She begs her mother as she finishes the table setting.

Margret Scully laughs as she knows there must be something special about this Mulder boy, for Dana to be concerned about the way her father will be treating him. The bell rings and Dana races to the front door. When she opens it there he is Fox Mulder. She stretches up on tip toes kissing him softly before her father has a chance to object.

Mulder pulls away gazing into the clear blue of her eyes and smiles as she wipes her lipstick off his lips. "I need to speak to your dad for a moment if that's okay?" he whispers. She takes his hand and leads him into the living. He glances at her nervously, "alone." She smiles and joins her mother in the kitchen.

"Uhm. Mist,, I mean Captain Scully, sir." He stammers out. "I'd like your permission sir to marry your daughter." He rushes out.

The Captain eyes this young man standing in his living room, without so much as giving his name. "What makes you think you're good enough for my daughter that I would do such a thing Mr. Mulder?" He asks.

"Oh, I'm not sir. I'm not good enough for her sir, but I love her. She is one of the most intelligent, beautiful women I have ever met, and I love her." He answers.

Ahab noticed two things, in that statement. First he admitted that he wasn't good enough for his Starbuck, and secondly he admired her intelligence over her beauty. "What makes you think she wants to marry you son?" He asks.

"I don't know if she wants to, or will even say yes; but before I could even think of asking her, I knew I needed your permission to ask." He answers.

"Starbuck, could you and your mother come out here please?" Ahab yells. They wait patiently while Maggie pulls the pie from the oven and joins them. Dana sitting on the couch next to her father while Mulder continues to stand fidgeting while Mrs. Scully takes her time making her way to her husband and daughter. "Starbuck this young man has a question for you." Ahab announces as he pulls Margret onto his lap.

Nervously Mulder clears his throat, "Dana…Dana…Ahh hell" he mumbles as he struggles to pull the box from his coat pocket. Finally freeing it, he takes the ring out the box and drops to one knee in front of her. "from the first moment I saw you I knew my life would never be the same without you in it. Would you do me the great honor of agreeing to be my wife?" he asks.

Maggie gasps as her daughter leaps from the couch into Mulder's arms. "Yes!" she shrieks kissing him without abandon.

1994 : Residence of Fox and Dana Mulder

"Mulder will you out the food on the table please?" She asks. "I'm afraid I'll drop everything because your child can not sit still and thinks my bladder is an amazing punching bag!" She laughs. Captain Scully watches his youngest daughter as she waddles from the kitchen to dining room. There's something off about her walk and he suspects that she's in the early stages of labor.

Mulder jumps from the couch and does as his wife bids. Margret smiles as she sees the devotion he has for her daughter. She couldn't have chosen a better man herself for Dana. As Dana walks towards the bathroom she stops to sneeze and cries out when she gets soaked on her bottom half. "Great!" she mutters. "Mom could you help me clean uuuuuuuuuuuuppp!" she groans.

Ahab jumps to his feet, "Starbuck lets get you to hospital, I think you're in labor." He announces. Margret looks from her son-in-law to her daughter to her husband. If anyone would know it would be her. As she rises from the couch to help Dana, Dana squats with a groan. "Maggie go get the car, Fox go get her bag," he walks over and helps Dana to her feet. "Let's go meet my grandchild." He whispers with a smile.

1995: Hotel Marriott, New York New York

"And this year's Hugo Award for best Science Fiction goes to F. William Mulder for his book Gender Bender"

1996: Residence of Fox and Dana Mulder

He wakes her with soft kisses as his hands roam her body. This is their first night alone since she had Megan. Megan who was safely tucked away at her grandparents' house in Annapolis. Whose sudden arrival right after New Year's saved her grandfather's life when he had a heart attack right in the hospital corridor.

He knew Captain Scully would never let a hair on that little red head to be disturbed by anything. She had him wrapped that tightly around her pinky. He's not disappointed when she wakes and responds. So lost in the moment of being together, no screaming two year old they make love into the wee hours of the morning.

Just before she drifts off to sleep she murmurs how nice it would be if they had another baby, and she forgot to pick up her refill on her birth control. Mulder lays awake wondering if they did indeed.

1997: William Mulder residence.

He's throwing a small dinner party for his daughter in laws birthday. Samantha insisted on it. Dana wasn't just her sister-in-law but her best friend since college. With the baby due in three weeks, and Dana going crazy with Megan getting into everything, Sam insisted that the Mulder's due their fair share of entertaining the couple.

He was so proud of his children, Fox a successful science fiction writer, and Samantha one of the leading geneticist of her time. Researching rare disorders and looking for cures. Teena had hired the caterers, Captain and Mrs. Scully would be attending as were all of her siblings.

He wanted to hire someone to look after Megan, but knew Samantha and the Captain would object. He had the staff setup a high chair for her. Just as all the guests but the guest of honor arrived, his phone rang letting him know that Emily Elizabeth Mulder had arrived just in time for her mommy's birthday.

1998: Residence of Captain and Margret Scully.

"Dana it would be nice if you and Fox would join is in California for the holidays." Margret told her daughter as she washed Megan's face and hands, while Dana fed Emily.

"Mom we would love to, but traveling with these two is going to be near impossible, and Mulder still has to finish the rewrite on "Patient X" and I've just been so light headed these days.

Maggie looks over at her daughter, "just don't announce the pregnancy until after Bill's baby is born. Give him a month to bask in the limelight Dana." She tells her.

"Mom I'm not pregnant. I'm just light headed!" Dana hisses back. Aggravated. She packs up the kids and heads home. She goes into the bedroom and opens the draw where she keeps her birth control. She hasn't missed a dose.

Mulder agrees they should go to California he makes reservations and off they go. Dana shows him around the base she grew up on. While Tara wallows in self-pity that her baby is overdue. Dana after a particular bad spell calls her doctor back in Annapolis for a checkup on her return. Tara goes into labor right after Dana gets the call from her doctor. Her pill had been recalled. Apparently three thousand batches had been nothing but placebo's.

1999: Arcadia

A hugely pregnant Dana Mulder with two toddlers in tow paces the driveway of the house she and Mulder are supposed to be looking at. She looks up and down the street looking for his car. Finally, he arrives, she calls the real estate agent wondering where she is. The office tells her to call the head of the homeowner's association.

A woman named Cami comes and introduces herself. She eye's Mulder first, then two little red haired girls then, their obviously pregnant mother. "You need permission from the association before you purchase any lawn toys." She informs them. Dana looks at Mulder, he looks back.

"I don't think so." Dana fumes as she walks towards Mulder's car. "Mulder take the girls to my mom's house please and meet me at the hospital." She tells him as she climbs into his car. "I won't have anyone telling me what my children can and cannot have in regards to toys." She tells Cami as she climbs into Mulder's car.

"Mulder you had better be at the hospital in under forty-five minutes, I'll call Sam and she can come sit with me while I wait."

"Oh you know Samantha?" Cami asks.

"She's my sister in law and I promise you this she'll be selling and leaving this commie hell hole in a week!" Dana hisses as she backs out.

2000: Residence of Fox and Dana Mulder

"All things considered Mulder, I want to try one more time for a boy." Dana whispers in his ear. He rolls over looking at his wife of ten years. "Megan has started school and loves it, Emily is in pre-school and loves it. It's just Colleen and I here." He looks into the blue of her eyes and knows there is nothing he can ever deny her.

"Today at the hospital, I ran into Dr. Waterston's daughter Maggie," she tells him.

"The creepy handy professor of yours from college?" He asks.

She nods her head yes, as she leans in and starts to kiss him, " mmmhmm, he left his wife and family and followed us here to DC, and he's dying and it's sad because she's all he has and all he can think about is the student who reported him for sexual harassment." She murmurs as he begins to return her kiss.

"What does this have to do with a son?" he asks.

"It's the only thing you haven't given me Mulder!" She exclaims with a pout,

"Well I did promise Ahab that I would never deny you anything. "He murmurs as he deepens the kiss.

2001: Democrat Hot Springs, GA

"Mulder how could you forget to fill the tank?" She whispers as she wanders around the ghost town he's researching for his next novel.

"I'm sorry Scully, at least the girls are with your mom and dad, and…look a cars coming I'll just catch a ride to the nearest gas station and be back in no time."

"I don't think so Mulder, " she tells him as she makes her way onto the porch of one of the buildings.

"Hi, I'm with the Park Rangers office this area is restricted from public use." She informs them.

"I have permission to be here mam, and we were just getting ready to leave when I realized we ran out of gas." Mulder informs her.

"Mulder ask the nice ranger lady for a ride to the hospital please." Dana asks.

"Why do we need a ride to the hospital Scully?" he asks as another car pulls up.

"FBI Nobody move!" A male voice hollers out.

"I'm in labor you idiot and I know that man is not pointing a gun at my head!" She fumes as she bends over from the pain of another contraction.

"Special Agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes FBI. Nobody move," the driver yells as she climbs from the car. Her partner keeps his gun on the ranger.

"I don't care who you are, I am moving and I'm going into this building right here behind me!" Dana yells back. "Damn it FOX MULDER, and Damn you too! My babies are coming and I told you I just did not feel like exploring today!" Scully yells, tears streaming down her face.

She waddles into the building while Mulder runs after. John cuffs the Park Ranger and Monica follows. Thirty-five minutes Melissa Hope and William Charles Mulder are delivered in the middle of a drug bust. Giving their father the perfect idea for his next novel.

2002: Residence of Fox and Dana Mulder

"Come on you two, why don't we let mommy sleep in today." Mulder whispers to the twins as he takes them from their cribs. He can hear the older girls down stairs, and all he can hope to do is get down there before they trash the kitchen.

Silently he makes his way down and sighs with relief that Maggie and Ahab are already there. He passes William to Ahab and Melissa to Maggie, Megan, Emily and Collen are already at the table eating breakfast.

"Fox are sure about this?" Ahab asks as he straps William into his high chair.

"Ahab, I'm sure. I'm the luckiest hump in the universe to have her, and she's not keen on leaving the kids with anyone but you two. She doesn't trust anyone with these guys but you! I can't think of a better way to thank her than this," he tells them as he heads back up the stairs to his wife.

He wakes her a trail of soft kisses from her ear to her mouth. "What are you thinking Mulder?" she whispers to him.

"That I am a guilty man." He whisper's back

"Guilty of what Mulder?" she asks.

"If you do not know, O most beautiful of women.."

"I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine" she whispers back.

"I am guilty of loving you, and wanting nothing more in this world then your happiness wife, and that is why your parents are down stairs watching the kids. They brought enough clothes for two weeks and I am taking you the wonderful Hawaiian Islands for two weeks where I can love you, and spoil you and maybe, may be convince you that our family is big enough." He whispers.

"Would you like a pardon Mr. Mulder?" She laughs.

"No your honor I think my sentence is just." He whispers as she snuggles into him.

"And what pray tell is that?" she asks.

"Life."

2055: It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our parents F. William Mulder and Dana C. Mulder. They passed away peacefully and of natural causes in their Richmond Virginia home early yesterday evening. Ass you know our father was extremely devoted to our mother and she him, and it is fitting that as long as they lived and loved together, that they passed away together as well.

So were the words that came from Samantha Joy Mulder. Youngest of the Mulder's children while her siblings stood in the background.