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| .................................... Scully's head hurt badly. Her eyes began to focus on the dimly lit empty room. There was someone there with her. She couldn't quite make them out but they were out cold. As she stood the throbbing on her head painfully pounded causing her to fall down again. When she regained enough composure to stand she walked tentatively over to the other form. "Hello, are you awake?" Scully heard a low groan. "I'm Dana." She edged a little closer. The groaning shape began to move. It rolled over and in the dim light she made out the face of her former partner John Doggett. "John!" She moved cautiously over to him, bent down and examined his head with the tips of her fingers. She couldn't feel blood, which was a good sign. He did have a small bump just above his left temple. "Dana, what happened?" Doggett flinched as she felt through his hair and found a second sizeable bump at the back of his head. It had taken the assailant two blows to do his dirty work on her former partner. "Your guess is as good as mine. You didn't see anything?" "No. Just pain in my head and then nothing." Scully got up and moved around the room getting her bearings. The only illumination came from moonlight through a small window on one wall just above head height. She glided over to the door and rattled the handle then kicked the wooden, locked exit with her foot in frustration. Doggett got up slowly screwing his face up from the thundering headache. As Scully found a chair to stand on to look out the only window Doggett went to the door to also try the handle. He pounded on the door and called out, "Anyone there?" From habit he was about to say they were federal agents but bit his tongue remembering to keep his cover. "Nothing." Scully climbed down from the chair and wandered around the room looking for any other signs of a way out and their whereabouts. "Let us out man!" Doggett banged on the door again. He thought about kicking it down but from this side he'd probably break a leg in the process. "Looks like we're at his mercy for now." Scully slumped down on the chair, her head resting in her hands. Silence overtook the room as the two agents pondered their next move. "There was a man." Scully said quietly into her hands, frustration tinged her voice. "What?" Doggett said abruptly. "At the bar next to you and Follmer. Both Monica and myself thought him a little odd." "You think this was the man who has us captive here? Why?" Scully stood and moved around the room as she spoke. "Monica said the killer probably had a fixation with gay people." "You don't really believe...," he trailed off seeing Scully's open expression. She lowered her voice as she moved closer to the male agent. "He may be listening." Doggett leant down to Scully to hear her following comment. "I think he really believes we're gay and if we don't find a way to stop him we'll be his next victims." Doggett laughed wryly, "So he's going to make us have sex while he gawks at us and then kill us with poison? No way!" Scully gave a surprised look and Doggett realized that what he'd just said might have been misconstrued. "Dana, you are a very beautiful woman but it's friendship between us." The look on her face suggested that she had not misinterpreted at all. "Never mind." Doggett seemed a little exasperated and to alleviate the situation Scully continued, "If this is indeed the situation we think we're in then we need to tread carefully." Doggett nodded and looked around the room again, annoyed he could even be so unaware that he'd fallen for the perpetrator's trick. "I've been thinkin'." He waited, collecting his thoughts before speaking. "How can two people have sex against their will anyway? I mean bodily functions and all that." "Agent Doggett," Scully was extra quiet. "There are ways. Maybe he uses drugs or there's a way to stimulate the...." Doggett cut her off. "I don't wanna know." Scully rolled her eyes in annoyance and went back to the door. "Hey!" The sound of her fist pounding almost shook the room's foundations. Scully looked at her watch but couldn't make out the time in the dim light. "Ten twenty-five." Scully looked confused. "Illuminated digits." He held out his right wrist for her to see. "Do you think we're going to be left here all night?" "You yourself said the time of death of the other victims was around twelve midnight, they were just found in the early hours." Doggett nodded remembering back and began to look concerned. "Then we have to stay awake and aware at all costs." "Dana," he lowered his voice speaking in a comforting voice. "They'll find us." Scully just nodded thinking 'I hope so'. .............................. If there was a dripping tap it would have been deafening in the silence. Scully sat in the chair leaning back almost lolling to sleep while Doggett sat with his back against one wall, forearms on his knees staring blankly at the floor. A number of times in the last hour he had checked the window for a way to exit and also yelled out for the unknown captor beyond the room. His only hope at this stage was that Reyes and Follmer were finding a way to discover their whereabouts. Reyes must have been frantic for him right then. In his mind's eye he pictured the look of concern on her face but also knew she would not sleep, not leave a stone unturned until she found them. He looked up to see Scully's head bent over on an unusual angle and knew she was lolling to sleep. "Dana!" "Huh?" "We have to stay awake." Doggett needed to find a way for them to stay alert so got up and went to her. Placing a hand on her shoulder he said a little more loudly. "Dana!" She blinked her eyes once, twice then sat upright in the chair. "We're going to have to keep each other awake. We can't afford to lose awareness. Damned if I'm going to let that son of a bitch beat us." "Okay." Scully waited for Doggett's suggestion. "Let's talk about Monica." Even in the dark Doggett could see his former partner's eyes go wide. He sat on the floor in front of her looking up, speaking softly. "Do you love her?" Scully had very mixed feelings about this. Yes, she did love Monica but with the revelation that she was also in love with someone else made the situation confusing and unpredictable. "How far did you go?" "How far?" "The other night when you slept with Monica." "John, that's personal." "I want to know dammit!" His head hung low and Scully felt like touching his hair to console him but she was in pain too. "I need to know what I'm dealing with here." "We made love." If Doggett's head couldn't get any lower it would have hit the floor. Scully could tell that this was a fear of his. Neither of them wanted this situation but neither of them wanted to lose their love. He seemed to control himself a little and stood, walking to the side of the room that was in shadow. Scully followed his silhouette wondering what he was thinking. Would he give up Reyes to be with her or would he fight for her? Doggett was a fighter but he also could not deny the facts that were set out in front of him. The situation was clear. Reyes loved both him and Scully; the solution was not so lucid. "You've asked her to marry you." He turned quickly indicating the fact that she knew this was news to him. Scully stood and walked over and placed a comforting hand on his arm. "Did you propose because of me?" There was silence as Doggett pondered her question and that Reyes had confided in her to this extent. "I can't give her up John, no matter what you two do." Scully was not one for expressing too many of her feelings but this was her love life at stake. In past with Mulder, too many times she had stood back and let him be with other women without fighting back and telling him she loved him. This was different; it had to be different. She could not lose again, not after Mulder had gone and may never return. In the dimness hidden by the streaming moonlight Doggett peered down into Scully's determined eyes. "So it's you or me then?" "There doesn't have to be a choice." Even with minimal illumination there seemed to be a twinkle in Scully's eye. Doggett gave her a quizzical look just as they heard a sound at the door. .............................. Doggett placed a finger to his lips and indicated for Scully to take hidden refuge while he placed himself behind the door, flat against the wall. There was a long creaking sound as the door slowly opened. Doggett waited silently and alert. Seconds turned to minutes but nothing else occurred. The male agent peered tentatively through the exit but only saw an empty adjoining room. "Dana," he whispered. She followed his movements into the chamber that was set out as a living room. A small, lit lamp was positioned on a table midway between two cabinets filled with books. In the corner was an open fireplace, in front of which was a two seater couch. "The open fire has recently been extinguished." Scully's statement was evident. There was rapidly decreasing warmth to the room suggesting that someone had been there for a while and had recently left. "He's been listening to us." Doggett threw Scully a concerned glance that changed to determination as he made his way to the closed door on the opposite side of the room. "Wait!" Scully's voice was a loud whisper. Doggett swung round to see Scully's beckoning hand. "Look around you and look here." The male agent did a three hundred and sixty degree turn, slowly around the room and then moved to his former partner's side. "Have you seen a connection here John?" Although sparsely furnished the few wall hangings and table ornaments suggested a religious theme. Scully's hands opened a large leather bound Bible that adorned the top of a dresser on one wall. "So this man is a religious freak or somethin'?" Doggett looked over to a large wooden cross on one wall that had the dying form of Jesus Christ carved in relief. "Many of my mother's friends have rooms adorned in such a fashion but I wouldn't called them freaks." Doggett looked down finishing Scully's thoughts, "But this man is different, he's killed. You think he's killed because of his religious beliefs, is that it?" The two agents looked over suddenly as the other door scraped open gradually. Scully took charge this time and led Doggett to the subsequent adjoining room. This room was large with another open fireplace in the corner. It appear that the two were adjoining, but in adjacent rooms. On the floor was a large green and red patterned rug, on the walls again were paintings of the Madonna and child, Jesus dying on the cross, his twelve disciples. Another wooden cross hung on a wall to their right. Occasional ornaments once again matched the biblical theme. Both sets of eyes finally focussed on the king size double bed before them. "Dana." Doggett didn't need to say any more for Scully to understand. "What do you want from us you bastard?" Scully jumped a little at the sudden change in volume. He went and banged his fist on the other door and jiggled the lock. "Come out here you son of a bitch." From within the room came a quiet and what appeared to be, digitally generated voice. "Leviticus 20:13." "What?" Doggett was angry and confused. Scully listened, taking in every clue. "Come and face us you sick bastard!" "If a man has intercourse with a man as with a woman, both commit an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood be on their own head." The voice was calm belying the menace behind it. "Which means?" "The New Testament describes homosexuality as "shameful passions" and "perversion". "What the fuck?" "John," Scully spoke quietly. "Let me do this." He looked down to her with a frown but let her proceed. She paced the room slowly looking up and around as though their captor was all around. "Matthew 7:1" Silence. "Judge not, that you may not be judged." " 1 Corinthians 6:18." The voice remained calm but Doggett could hear a slight change in tone. "Flee from sexual immortality. All other sins are outside the body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body." The male agent was getting visibly peeved. "Cut the bible verse crap Dana. Let me at him!" "No wait," she quietly spoke, placing a hand on his forearm once more. "Jesus can deliver us from any sin and any vice or iniquity. That's why he died on the cross." She walked over calmly to the wooden crucifix and raised a hand to the dying Christ. "At Calvary he paid for both, for all our sins." There was still silence so Scully decided to drive her point home further. "Up to one in ten men in the world and one in twenty women are homosexual. Studies have shown that up to one-third men and half the women population on this planet have had some sort of sexual contact with the same sex. Should they all die for that?" She walked over to where she believed was the sound source, to make her final point. "The prevalence of homosexuality seems to be consistent throughout the world and throughout history which would suggest that it is a consistent variation in behavior. In other words it's a normal part of life." There was silence only a moment before the scratchy voice came back. "The woman you were with at the bar tonight." "Yes?" At least this was getting past the bible quotes and stating statistics. "What is you relationship with her?" Scully looked from the walls to Doggett and saw his pained expression. As she spoke she looked into Doggett's eyes. "I love her, she's my lover." "Then you must pay the price." The voice was deeper and more menacing. .................... "The price?" Scully was tentative, had he considered one word she spoke? "It's your choice repent or die." "What the fu....?" "John." Scully looked up around her again. "What do you want us to do?" "Show me your repentance, with this man, or you both die slowly." "Show you, with this man?" There was another pause as though he was beginning to crack. "Dana, he wants us in bed together." Scully looked up with an 'of course he does' expression and moved over to beside the bed. With a come hither expression she beckoned him over. Sometime Doggett was a little slow to catch on but this time he knew full well what was going on in her mind. "So if I sleep with this man here that will absolve our sins and you will let us free?" "Yes," came the crackly voice. "Come here." Scully turned her attention to Doggett and held out her hands for him to approach. "Are you watching us?" She took his hands in hers and pulled them around her waist. He complied and bent down and began a slow kiss on her soft full lips. Their mouths were going to remain closed until Scully felt her body heating up from the close physical contact of this man. She pushed her tongue between his lips and began licking along the rim. Her hands crept their way involuntarily up his back and drew him in closer. Her excuse was she needed to make it real if this killer was going to be distracted. They would perform in bed together and see where that led. Would he really release them? They hardly heard the heavy breathing over the speaker as their pulses also began to race. Their kisses were heating up and Scully knew that Doggett was also enjoying this 'pretend' foreplay. Breaking the kiss was hard but necessary. She licked up to his ear and spoke, "We have to go through with this but we can make it 'look' real under the covers." She went back to kissing as she lifted his turtleneck and then his T-shirt over his head leaving his chest bare. Doggett fumbled at her shirt buttons and undid them awkwardly. The blouse fell to the ground and Doggett looked at the woman before him, 'acting' in lust, his heart thumping out of control. "Talk more, I want to hear you enjoying this." The voice was even hazier. As Doggett watched, Scully undid her bra and released her breasts. He had every so often imagined how she was shaped but would usually snap out of his reverie when she spoke, bringing him back to reality. The look of her there in front of him topless was hard to resist not staring and wanting to touch. "Touch me John." His hands immediately caressed her breasts, drinking in their silkiness. Fingers massaged them both at once, squeezing and teasing the nipples. He produced a loud sigh as he bent in and began to suck on one breast. With the other hand he undid her jeans button and unzipped her. His mouth moved up to her lips once more as he slipped her jeans over her hips. She jimmied out of them and kicked them to one side and flipped off her shoes, leaving her just in lacy white high cut panties. Scully knew Doggett was aroused by this, in men it was all so obvious. As she undid his belt with one hand the other felt over his crotch making a low groan come from his throat. "Dana," His lips were working their way to her ear. "We're acting remember." Her lips trailed over his cheek to his ear. "We're acting for our lives here. It has to be convincing." Her lips trailed back to his warm, moist open mouth and their tongues collided. This kiss was more impassioned and for a moment Scully forgot she was with a man and not Reyes. In her mind this she was working on a case and this was part of her duties. Her body told her it was very enjoyable and that she was not 'acting'. Body, mind, body, mind, she weighed them both up. Unzipping him, she then tugged on the rim of his jeans and drew him towards the bed. As she got under the covers, he took off his jeans, socks and shoes and slipped inside just in his navy blue briefs. They looked at each other with lust filled eyes and kissed slowly. Almost having forgotten the voyeur captor they jumped a little when they heard his single word. "Underwear." Scully thought they might be able to get away still being partly clothed. The thought of them both being naked, touching bodies, skin on skin contact was a little too arousing. She loved Reyes, how would her lover feel if she had sex with this man all in the name of duty? Also a man who had asked her to marry him." Doggett's thumbs slipped along the rim of her panties. What was on his mind? Was he prepared to go the whole way as perhaps a measure to catch this man out? She pulled her underwear off and threw them deliberately over the bed so the camera could see. Her male bed partner did the same. Scully could feel Doggett's arousal between them and wondered what would be his next move. How could they possible pretend now? He rolled on top of her and resumed lip contact, the hot breath from his nose seared her cheek. The bed was an inferno as their bodies became one. They hadn't heard that the audio had gone dead. The commotion on the other side of the door was outside their present realm of being. The rattle of the key in the lock was only a distant sound. It wasn't until the door flew open that they opened their eyes from blissful slumber that they were rudely catapulted into real existence. "Dana? John?" There was Reyes, gun out in front, with Follmer and one other agent taking up posse behind her, staring wide-eyed with shock. ............................. As Reyes lowered the gun Scully could see her eyes water and felt a sudden surge of guilt. She looked to Doggett in bed beside her who was now sitting up exposing his bare chest, seeming a little disorientated. If only she had not been so quick to get the deed over and done with. If she had conversed more or tried to distract him before committing to having sex with Doggett then they may not have needed to be in this situation at all. Follmer walked past Reyes and into the room, glanced across smugly to the naked couple, and then moved closer to the bed and bent down, picking something off the ground. "I believe these are yours." Between thumb and finger he held up some female white underwear and dropped it on the bed. Scully grabbed at the slip of material and pulled it under the covers as if by removing it quickly would mean her lover would never see. Reyes turned and hurriedly fled the room. Seeing her two favorite people in the world in bed together visibly just having had sex was too much overload to her brain. What she had been through in the last torturous hours when her partners had disappeared and perhaps murdered was bad enough but to see them like this was agony. Walking around the room as the couple dressed, Follmer inspected his surroundings. "I would never have believed it." "Believed what?" Doggett had put on his T-shirt and was doing up his jeans beside the bed. Scully was under the covers putting on her bra. "Monica explained the details of the case to me. It made me wonder how this man worked, getting two people to sleep together against their will." Doggett retrieved his socks and shoes and sat on the bed and pulled on the right sock first. The other unknown agent had his back to them at the open door. They were pleased that the rest of the investigative team had been spared this embarrassment. Follmer continued as he studied closely a small print of 'The Last Supper'. "So were you drugged? Were you forced at gunpoint?" He lifted his head to watch the couple that had almost finished dressing. "Explain it to me." He stuck out his lower lip and moved his head from side to side. Doggett resented the sarcasm. "Look Mr. Follmer, we will explain all this back at the office. Dana and myself have just been through an ordeal, cut us some slack." He placed a hand on the small of Scully's back and gestured her towards the exit. "Ordeal." He said in an authoritative voice that made both agents turn. "So will Monica feel you've been through an ordeal?" All sarcasm had disappeared from his face; he was now serious. "What do you want from us Assistant Director?" Scully still seemed a little uncomfortable. "I," he paused emphasizing the personal pronoun, " .. need to talk with you before you go out that door." Doggett showed his usual frustration with this man's methods but reluctantly headed towards the bed to sit, signaling for Scully to do the same. "Good, now firstly, I don't know what transpired here but you had better have one hell of a credible explanation for devastating Monica like that, ordeal or not." He didn't give them any time to speak. "She has been distraught over your disappearance. She told me everything Agent Doggett." The two men glared at each other for a moment. "How did you find us?" Doggett had had enough of Follmer's holier than thou approach. He was not one for wasting time on his own defense when he'd already said they would relate all back at the office. "It was Monica." The assistant director's face suggested he knew full well Doggett's tactics but responded anyway. "She worked with the staff to come up with a computer generated image of the suspect and then ran it through the FBI computer." "Suspect?" Doggett decided to make Follmer work. "Yes, the man you and Monica saw at the bar." His gaze trained on Scully. "So, this man, was he the one holding us captive here?" She was also starting to lose patience. Not long ago this place had been their prison; it was now their interrogation room, all she wanted to do was leave. "It was a long shot because Monica had been watching him while you two were absent and at no time did he leave his stool at the bar." "How do you know it was him?" "We didn't, that's why both Monica and myself went to investigate when you both hadn't reappeared and you were nowhere to be found. When we went back to the bar he had also vanished." ................. "I'm lost here. How did you find us? Look man, Dana and myself have been held here against our will for the past goodness knows how many hours. We're both frikkin' tired. Just tell us and let us go." He began to get up. "Sit down Agent Doggett." Exerting his authority made Doggett frustrated but he had to comply with his superior. "Good, now, this man Brian Daniels has had a string of convictions for petty crimes, shoplifting minor auto theft, drunk and disorderly but nothing to suggest he would murder." "So how?" Scully moved her head from one side to the other. "Now that is an X-file." Both Doggett and Scully turned to each other simultaneously with curious expressions. "An X-file." Doggett reiterated, wanting the blond haired man to continue. "Apparently the bar owner had had some problems with vandalism in the rest rooms a while back and decided to install video surveillance cameras." "So you saw this man on tape?" "Not exactly. What we saw was the both of you appearing to be struck down from behind." "Appearing sir?" Scully was trying hard to make sense of all this. "It appeared you were hit over the heads but there was no third party. You were knocked unconscious by a ghost." Both Scully's and Doggett's mouths dropped in disbelief and Follmer nodded emphasizing that it was truly what he saw. "Monica and myself went to check when you hadn't returned but you were nowhere to be found. We hurriedly went back to the bar but the suspect had gone. No one had seen him leave." "Maybe this is all just coincidence. It wasn't him at all." "Oh yes it was him." Follmer's head indicated towards the door. "We caught him in another room. There's no doubt. All we have to do is find out how." "And why." Scully added. "We know why. That was Monica again. Just before we'd decided to go and check on you, she told me she happened to notice a bracelet on Mr. Daniels' wrist." "Bracelet?" Doggett shook his head slightly. "A charm bracelet, a moon, sun, star and....." ".... A heart." Scully broke him off. Doggett gave Scully a quizzical look and then his face showed understanding. "This man had a fixation with that song by Marvin Gaye 'It Takes Two'." Follmer nodded affirmation then continued, "The song happened to be playing in the bar just as we decided we needed to check on you. Monica noticed he looked agitated at the time but was more concerned with the both of you." "Agitated? How?" "Yes, Agent Scully, so we did some digging and found out also that our Mr. Daniels has been under psychiatric care for the past six years, ever since both parents died in a car crash leaving him alone in the world. It took some digging but we also found that he has been harboring deep homosexual denial. It seems that with the strict Catholic upbringing he had and his parents being well known homophobes, he truly believes that he is sinful. He believes that gays are not in God's plan and takes this out on the gay community." 'So by making gay people sleep together is his way of absolving their evil." To Scully it was all making sense. "And he kills them because....?" Doggett still couldn't understand. "The first couple he killed because they wouldn't have sex and their punishment was to die." "The second couple had had sex, why kill them too?" "But what if they hadn't had sex with each other but with their gay partners? I didn't test for that." "That would make them still sinners in his eyes who needed God's wrath." Follmer comprehended also. Doggett the thorough person that he was needed those loose ends tied. "That just leaves how. I'm sure you or Monica will come up with something farfetched that will close this x-file case." He looked across to Scully out of the corner of his eye and her eyes went wide in mild aggravation. Doggett then laughed and only then did she know he was joking. "Sir?" A voice came from the door and all three looked over to see the other agent who had taken up posse at the exit. "Looks like we're ready to go." "Okay," All three stood and began walking to the door. "Assistant Director Skinner will take your statements in the morning. I advise you to talk with Monica before then. You three need to have a serious round table discussion." ................ Epilogue "It Takes Two" Three weeks later The bathroom had been prepared especially for her lover's arrival upstairs. Scully had paid very special attention to creating just the right atmosphere conducive to pleasure and sex. Various lit candles were strewn in no particular pattern around the room casting a golden flicker on the shiny white tiles. Added to the foamy water were fragrant oils that sent wafts of perfume straight to Scully's nose and the pleasure centers of her body. Fluffy pale blue towels hung on a rack on one wall looking inviting for the after bath towel down. Her toes fondled the matching blue mat beneath her feet sending the feathery feel up over her curves, pushing up the corners of her lips into a smile. Dressed in a short white bathrobe tied loosely at the waist Scully surveyed the room with contentment. She poured two glasses of the French champagne she'd bought for this very occasion and placed them on the narrow shelf near the bath faucets. Plucking a piece of fruit from the small bowl of grapes and strawberries, she popped it in her mouth and sucked the sweet juices as she untied her robe. The look of contentment on her face mirrored the sense of repletion deep inside her. As the robe slowly slid down over her shoulders her mind stepped back to the night she and Doggett were found safe from the killer's clutches. The moment between them had changed her life forever. She had initially felt guilt that she'd been too swift to be free from their captivity by sleeping with him, but in hind sight she was aware that she would do exactly the same if put into the same situation. Neither of them was to know they would be found alive and safe so soon afterwards. The robe fell to the ground in an elegant bundle and she stepped out of it. The golden light from the candles coated her gentle curves in warmth. Retrieving a hair tie from the cabinet she leisurely tied up her silken red hair into a high tail. Her lover would be there soon to join her and she wanted to be ready physically as well as mentally. A toe felt the water temperature and then a foot. Part by part her calves, thighs then her torso became used to the roasting heat. Finally her whole body glided into the water until the light foamy bubbles danced around her shoulders. Taking a sip from her glass she felt those bubbles slide down her throat giving her a sudden hit of euphoria. As she lay back savoring the effects, imaginary hands wandered up her body under the water beginning with her legs. Smooth fingers made an erotic path over her thighs to her hips, across her stomach up to her breasts. She remembered Doggett's hands as he had massaged her breasts that night. How she had been made weak at the knees with his touch and then he'd kissed her and she'd almost passed out. Flesh to flesh contact in the bed had blotted out the present danger together with all sense of right and wrong. Scully took another sip of champagne to top up her current mood and to help remember that evening three weeks ago and the decisions that needed to be made. She sighed as her mind's eye remembered Reyes' face as she'd witnessed them in bed together and her tormented look just before she'd fled from the room. All had been explained and understood later but it was a sight that never could be entirely erased from memory. It had been the factor to urge Reyes to think through where she wanted her love life to lead. A decision had been made that night, one that was fair to all. The little sadness in her heart that Scully felt was swept aside, for all had truly worked out for the best. It was a few weeks since then and never in her wildest dreams did she imagine her life turning out this way. There was a sudden rush of cool air from the open door and in walked the handsome face of her partner. The dinner had been wonderfully romantic and a leisurely hot bath had been mutually decided. Scully was to run the bath while the table and dishes were cleared downstairs. As the layers came off the body before her, Scully smiled and listened to the mellifluous voice of her lover. "Dana, you look so beautiful." She took a deep breath in and responded, "Come here and show me how beautiful you think I am." With a smile and a silent chuckle the naked form moved over to the cabinet and produced something which was kept hidden from Scully's view, then stepped into the water and took up position at the opposite end, looking into her lover's eyes. ....................... "Hmmm, that feels good." Reyes' legs moved under Scully's causing her legs to part. The device was placed on the bath rim looking very inviting. The thought of her lover using that on her body was stirring up emotions inside her that she had been anticipating all day. Working beside Reyes as often as she did made it difficult for her not just to touch her, to steal her away, to take moments just to admire her from afar. There had been times in the last three weeks, since the biggest decision of her life, that she had been tempted to pull Reyes into a vacant office and plant her with kisses but they had firmly agreed to keep work and love-life separate. At all costs they were to keep these living arrangements undisclosed if they were to keep their FBI positions. Scully felt fingers trail down her legs under the water, over her quads and calves to her toes. Her hands massaged her feet, thumbs rubbing the inner soles. As her hands retraced their steps up her body Reyes lifted herself partly out of the water and looked into her lover's eyes, partly smiling. Very slowly her hands traveled her shoulders and down her arms to her hands where they linked and squeezed. "I've waited all day for this Dana, I've want you so badly." Scully smiled and handed a champagne glass to Reyes. Both ladies took a few sips before setting their glasses down. "Want some fruit?" Scully's head turned to the bowl close by. "Very soon. First I just want to feel you." Her hands traveled down from her shoulders and over her breasts just grazing the nipples. Scully's chest rose and fell as hands trailed over her abdomen and down her legs once more feeling every area of skin. "Dana, you're so soft." Hands terminated at her breasts where they squeezed and massaged. Scully's eyes closed as she took in the exquisite sensations this gave her. As one hand left her body she opened her eyes to see her partner reach for a strawberry and suck its juices as though they were her own. She took another and placed it near her lover's lips and she took a bite. Reyes caught the rest into her mouth and leaned over Scully, resting her hands on the bath rim for support. As they kissed they exchanged sweet juices as well as all the heated emotion that had built up since last they'd touched. The kiss was long and slow, their tongues waltzing together, every so often picking up tempo then slowing again. Reyes reached for something behind her, which broke the kiss. Without a word she moved the penis dildo to Scully's mouth. Reyes licked her lips while her lover lusciously sucked on the tip, opening her mouth and showing snaky tongue movements over the head. It then trailed over her chin to circle her breasts, bobbing over each nipple. The anticipation of where this device would end up was almost too much to bear. She wanted it so badly. "Just fuck me Monica." Scully's words were whispers. The dildo moved to her navel then down through her neatly trimmed hair to between her parted legs. All was opaque under the water but Reyes felt her way around, over every sensitive part between her legs, using longs strokes that caused her to buck up in ecstasy. "In me." She could barely talk. Reyes loved being able to arouse her mate to this extent and wanted to see her squirm. She pushed the penis slowly inside her, going all the way in. Reyes almost felt Scully's hot breath on her face as she moved it in and out, picking up speed as she neared release. With the other hand Reyes spread her fingers on her lover's pubic area and light toyed with the hair as her thumb glided over her clit. Before long Scully was reaching a climax that racked her body with so much pleasure she thought she would black out. Reyes kept up her actions as her lover reached the peek and then ebbed slowly towards Earth. She loved the way Scully let her take control. Her lying back accepting what she was given made it all the more pleasurable. During the working day she could only take glimpses of her attractive partner or suspicion could ensue, there in each other's solitude she could stare all she wanted. To observe a woman come was gratifying, to also feel her come was heightened sexual fulfillment for her. Her heart felt immense love at that moment seeing the look of harmony written all over her face. The penis dildo was slowly extracted and placed on the bath rim before both ladies had one long final kiss. As Scully lay back basking in her recent release, Reyes also reclined, sipping on champagne and leisurely eating the fruit. She wanted sexual satisfaction too, but if this were not to be the pure fact that she had given her lover so much contentment would be enough. "Let's go to bed." Reyes whispered when she thought Scully was going to sleep from the heat and the pleasure she had just received. All Scully could do was nod. Energy to even lift herself being minimal, Reyes helped her lover out of the bath and toweled her down. Taking the tie from her hair she ran slow fingers through her red silken hair. "Monica, if I don't lie down soon I'll fall." Quickly toweling herself also she took Scully's hand and they made their way to the bedroom and the inviting double bed she had been in many times before this evening. The covers had already been turned down so Scully climbed underneath and sank her head into the fluffy softness. "Wait here, I'll be back soon with the refreshments." She leant down and kissed her on the forehead and smiled as Scully closed her eyes, purring. The combination of the freshness of newly laundered sheets together with the effects of the bath and the wonderful sex Scully found herself nodding off to sleep. She wasn't aware of Reyes' return with the refreshments and placing them on a table nearby. She was oblivious to Reyes' sighs as she slipped under the covers. An arm went around her and someone snuggled close by, the warm breath on her neck was the last sensation she felt. ......................... Scully couldn't remember the last time she had slept like a baby. It may have had something to do with the fact that William was in the other room being watched by someone other than her. Being content that she didn't need to jump when he stirred caused her to smile and sigh with contentment. Waking up with her lover so close beside her was one of those pleasures in life that made her feel special. She'd woken up with Reyes facing the other way. Scully cocooned herself into her and squeezed. Reyes moved only slightly. Remembering it was Saturday morning and they had been given permission to sleep as long as they wanted started the wheels turning in her mind. As the cobwebs fell from her brain, the images and sensations of the previous night returned. Experiencing a little short-lived guilt at not satisfying her lover she knew that Reyes would understand. Mutual love between women was a give and take thing. Gratification could be gleaned by just giving the other pleasure and that was what she had wanted to do then. Beginning with fingers in her hair, Scully combed through Reyes' dark tresses, laying her head back just feeling the softness as she caressed slowly, one long stroke after the other. The purring in her partner's neck began and she knew she was half awake. Scully closed her eyes and nestled her face into the dark hair beside her and traced the backs of her fingers over Reyes cheeks. The smoothness of the skin there caught her by surprise. She laughed to herself remembering that women had such soft texture. Fingers roamed over her neck and Scully could feel it getting warmer and knew her lover was stirring from sleep and accepting the tactile attention. Hands moved down to her bare breasts and Reyes groaned as Scully cupped one and squeezed. Her hand felt over her soft abdomen and pulled her in closer then went back to the other breast as Reyes rolled to give more access to her upper body. The nipples were already hard as Scully rolled them between thumb and finger. "Keep doing that. Ahhh." Her lover's first words of the dawn rang melodiously in her ears. "Good morning lover." Scully smiled into the dark hair. "Hmmm, yes it is....lower." A flat hand moved over her stomach and felt down her thighs. Downy fingers gave just enough pressure to delight rather than tickle. Like the sweeping motion of seaweed in a tidal pool Scully ran fingers along her inner thighs teasing her legs apart with every brush. Reyes leant her head back into her and spread her legs further inviting her inside. "Please..." The pressure from Reyes pulse pounded on Scully's lips as she kissed her neck. Fingers slipped through her pubic hairs and slid into the heat and wetness. This woman was hot and slippery for her and writhed to her touch as she made long, slow movement with her fingers. Scully kissed down her neck to her breasts and sucked on the nipples, all the while keeping up the rhythm below. Reyes took a tight grip on Scully's hair as she nibbled and lightly bit each nipple. The tighter the pull the more forceful the bite. The rumbles coming from Reyes chest urged Scully on with an intensity that was all new to her. Legs open wider, fingers slipped inside and pumped as Scully's tongue, teeth and mouth did wonders on Reyes' chest. When the pulls on Scully's hair began to hurt that's when she could feel the pressure building on her fingers inside her lover. Like the shaking of the earth before a volcanic eruption Reyes' body quivered. She was lava hot inside and her clit was rock hard as the vibrations became more frequent. "Ohhhh," Scully almost lost control of Reyes' breasts as she heaved her chest. Scully was careful not to change the rhythm but to keep it constant until she felt the final evidence that she had brought her partner to orgasm once again. Scully felt some heavy spasms on her fingers and a rush of hot juices and then it seemed Reyes held her breath for so long while she came over and over. The heat radiating from her euphoric partner was almost too much to bear but she rode out this massive release almost matching the same intense pleasure. "Ffffff," Reyes let out a huge breath as she sank into the sheets, her heart beating wildly for minutes. Scully rested her head on her partners chest smiling as she felt the pulses slowly abate. They lay like that for ages, each caressing the part of the body their fingers were closest to. "Mmmm Dana. That was truly unique. No man could do it to me quite like that." "You weren't so bad yourself last night." Both women finally had enough energy to break the hold and face each other in the bed grinning. The morning light lit the room suggesting it was still early. Being given permission to sleep in this bed for the night had been a decision that was long in coming but well worth the wait. Scully knew there would be many more delightful nights like this also. "I'm sorry about Brian Daniels." Monica spoke softly. Scully nodded, her faced dropping a little. "The tests were going so well. I think that life's stresses were all just too hard for him to cope in this reality." "Do you think he would have ever come out of that coma?" "Not without constant life support. He was tormented enough in this life." "What exactly did you find?" "That he was indeed telekinetic. The pent up emotion of his parents dying suddenly together with his father's constant agonizing over his son's homosexuality built up this side of him so much that it manifested itself in energy that was transferred outside his body." "You and John were struck down by this energy back at the gay bar that night." "And the fact that he used this power to mask our prone bodies from your plane of vision excited me. I wanted to study this further Monica, my tests were only just touching the rim of the volcano crater deep inside." "I know." She wrapped her arms around her lover as Scully pulled the bedcovers over them. The faint sound of a baby crying could be heard from another room. Scully's eyes widened at the sound but Reyes' hand stroking her arm and the soft voice comforted her. "William is in good hands, remember this is our morning." She smiled and snuggled back into her lover's shoulder and contented embrace. ......................... A short time later there was a faint knock at the door. "Dana, Monica honey." "Yes?" The bedroom door opened and the first thing Scully saw was a contented William in his strong arms. "He just needed a diaper change. I'll go give him some breakfast. Sorry to disturb you two." Doggett moved over to the bed and holding William tightly he bent down and kissed Scully on the cheek. "Good morning." Scully reached a hand out and stroked her son's cheek. She then kissed her fingertips and placed them just where her touch had been on his cheek. William gurgled in Doggett's hold. Doggett smiled and leant over to Reyes. She moved her head up to meet his lips and their kiss was long and gratifying even though William wriggled in his arms. "Good morning beautiful." He leant into her ear and whispered. "Just wait until tonight and the next and the next." Reyes smiled sweetly and kissed him once more. Doggett straightened his body and adjusted William in his grip. "John, last night's dinner was wonderful." Scully could tell that Reyes was in love and the man in her life reciprocated all that love. He smiled a gorgeous wide smile and went to leave, but before reaching the door to exit he turned around. "Oh I forgot." He moved back and held out his hand. "You left these on the kitchen bench. I wouldn't want them falling down the sink." Doggett placed Reyes' engagement and wedding rings on the bedside table. After he had left and closed the door both women relaxed in each other's arms content in the fact that they all had come to a decision where their mutual love was concerned. That night three weeks ago had been the turning point for all three of them. The decision to deem all three winners was the only fair resolution they could make. For Reyes to choose just one of them was out of the question. Before Scully also dozed off next to her sleeping partner, she had one last thought. The song 'It Takes Two' that was stuck in her head three weeks ago, the one that helped them solve the case, came back to her. 'One can talk about bein' in love, two can say how it really feels' but three?' she mused. There was so much more than love between two. It was like a ready-made family. In her wildest dreams a month ago she would never have believed she could be in living arrangements such as these. She smiled at the image of William on her mind and lay back contentedly knowing he would grow up realizing how lucky he was to have two moms and a dad. There was a long way to go to truly accept all the contingencies of this unusual arrangement but Scully knew that in all their best interests they would try to make it work. Content for now that she was in bed with her favorite woman in the world she snuggled closer and lapped up the warmth of two inseparable bodies. She gently hummed to herself as slumber took over, "It takes three, baby, it takes three, baby, to make a dream come true, just takes three." The End IT TAKES TWO HER: One can have a dream, baby HIM: Two can make that dream so real HER: One can talk about bein' in love HIM: Two can say how it really feels HER: One can wish upon a star HIM: Two can make that wish come true, yeah HER: One can stand alone in the dark HIM: Two can make the light shine through CHORUS (BOTH): It takes two, baby It takes two, baby Me and you, just takes two It takes two, baby It takes two, baby To make a dream come true, just takes two HER: One can have a broken heart, livin' in misery HIM: Two can really ease the pain like a perfect remedy HER: One can be alone in a car, on a night like these all alone HIM: Two can make just any place seem just like bein' at home (chorus) (instrumental) Just takes two, just takes two HER: One can go out to a movie, lookin' for a special treat HIM: Two can make that single movie somethin' really kinda sweet HER: One can take a walk in the moonlight, thinkin' that it's really nice HIM: But two walkin' hand-in-hand is like addin' just a pinch of spice (repeat chorus and fade) Performed by: Marvin Gaye/Kim Weston) |
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