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�Where�d you run off to?� Harm asked as I headed over to him and the good doctor.
�Agent Mulder said he didn�t want to piss off the Admiral so I was showing him where to go,� I said. �Chegwidden called. We�re staying here to assist on some mystery case. Courier�s coming at 1200 with the details.�
�Yeah, Harriet called to tell me,� Harm said.
�I�d� um, I�d better go. Mulder has a tendency to enrage military personnel,� Scully said apologetically, looking at me with a questioning glance. I shook my head slightly to indicate that he hadn�t done anything to piss me off and she relaxed a little. �Which way to the Admiral�s office?�
Harm gave her directions and Scully nodded, smiling at him fondly and rising up on her tiptoes to kiss his cheek before heading off to join her partner.
Arching an eyebrow at him, I waited for Harm to explain.
It took a minute, but he caved.
He always did.
�Dana and I met when I was about fifteen. She was about twelve, all pigtails and freckles, barely four feet tall when I was pushing six. Her father was a Commander at that time and this was after mom married Frank but before he bought the house in La Jolla, so we were still living in base housing. The Scully family moved in next door. Dana�s dad was on carrier duty and wasn�t around much, but Bill seemed to enjoy that �cause he got to be the man of the house.�
�I never would have guessed,� I said, rolling my eyes. We were wandering toward the small office we had been given for the duration of our investigation, not in any hurry because we had a few hours to kill before we even found out what our next assignment was.
�Yeah, I know,� Harm laughed. �Bill was a few years older than me. He sort of adopted me as a younger brother, pulling me into the Scully family. Then he went off to the Academy and left me in charge of everything. Melissa, the oldest daughter, was my age and mom and Maggie�Mrs. Scully�used to tease us about how we were going to end up together.�
�Did you ever date?� I inquired.