Date sent: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:24:23 +1000 From: Coggan Subject: story- when it all comes down to you. Title: When it all comes down to you Authors:Nicky and Sarah email:pcoggan@tnt.dynamite.com.au Rating:PG13 Category: SRA Keywords:Mulder /Scully romance-angst Spoiler:none Summary:Scully wants to get far far away from Mulder so she moves to Texas, where she meets a seemingly nice guy called David. Mulder tracks her down and finds out that the `David' she is dating is actually a convicted serial killer who dates , corners , shoots the victim, and then rapes them while they die from the wounds he inflicts. Will Mulder save Scully in time?... ----------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: MR tough guy Carter and his big scary friends 1013 and 20th century fox own the files and the show ad the characters who gives! they own them and I don't I'm sorry I took em ill give em back. cant promise it though. ---------------------------------------------- Hello People..,, I was inspired to write this after reading a different story by someone else, though I forget what it was and who wrote it, any way it was very good and made me sad. Scully died of aids in it and I recommend it to anyone who finds it. Well, since I don't live in America, I don't have many place names so I decided to pick Texas, why not? I am assuming that it is far away from Dc, Alexandria, and Maryland and far away from Scales mothers, if its not, I'm sorry. Oh yeah, and Sarah wrote a few paragraphs of it too.i'll put asterisks around the part that she wrote so you can all marvel at her talents. Anyway, I /we hope you enjoy the story and rah rah rah. ----------------------------------------- WARNING!!!: Scully gets hurt (well Mulder does too I guess, ) but! I promise you I will not let her be raped. But if you don't like the thought of it, you'd better leave or you'll feel woozy. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. --------------------------------------------- When it all comes down to you By Nicky et Sarah. --------------------------------------------- March 9 1999 Silver Taurus on a road ** Scully drove with determination. Her fingers tightly gripping the Grey steering wheel as she calmly manuvered the car around the others on the road. She was determined not to turn back. She had to get away from this place, and start a new life, without him in her mind day after day. It was six months ago when Mulder had started going out with Amy-beth Swanson. She had been one of her good friends at the academy.. until a few weeks ago that is. Mulder and Amy had gotten very close when they were asked to help on a case she was doing, Mulder had asked her out and she'd accepted, now, she had Mulder wrapped around her finger. He never went anywhere with her now, he was always doing something with Amy- Beth. She had fallen in love with him and evidently him with her. Three weeks ago, Mulder had asked Scully to come to a diner with him. She did, hoping he would say he'd broken up with Amy because he belonged with her, but Scully knew that would never happen, still, she crossed her fingers anyway. That fateful day in the diner, Mulder told Scully that he had asked Amy to marry him and she had accepted . Scales heart ripped in two. maybe she should tell him what she felt about him, then maybe he would back out of it. She told him. He laughed it off as a joke. That's when he pulled her heart from her chest and smashed it on the floor, thousands of tiny pieces for her to mend, she'd always thought Mulder did love her, but that night, he proved that he didn't. She didn't want to be near him.She had to get as far away as was physically possible from him, she knew she would never be able to look at him again because her heart would break , and break, and break every time. She quit the FBI. She didn't tell anyone except her mother that she was going. No- one was going to know her anymore, she would change all that she was just to get away . Hopefully he'd be out and far away from her mind, he would just be a faint memory of what she had been , and who she was. But her little fire that burned for him in her heart and soul would never be smothered,she knew she would always carry her love for him with her , hidden deep inside. Mulder was happy now, he had a life, someone to hold and care for. But she didn't, all she had were pillows. She had no love of her life, She'd bought another dog, this one she called Foxie, why not ? shed thought and named him after Mulder.Scully may have wanted to forget, but not forever.Her dreams always seemed to feature him and her, they were happily married and held each- other through the night. But when she woke up each morning she cried, there was no ring on her finger, there was no Mulder holding her tight in a lovers embrace. Just her panting little foozle of a dog. Now, here she was , in an apartment in Texas, far far away from DC, Mulder , and her old life, she had a new job, she was still a profiler though, but she worked in an office, hr own desk and chair, with a window and a view. She had a new partner, her name was Mary, she was taller than her and had curly brown hair that fell to her shoulders. Her friend Pandora had a lived here too, Pandora knew Mulder, but Scully had made Pandora promise she would never tell Mulder where she now lived. Scully had a boyfriend now too, his name was David, he had one green eye and one blue one, she found him sweet and charming, they'd only been going out for three weeks now and she thought he was absolutely wonderful, she was beginning to mend the pieces of her broken heart. ************************************************************************************** ******************** April 2 1999 Scully's apartment #12 Texas state ********* "one fine day, you'll look at me, and you'll know that, you're here for me, one fine day, your gonna want me fro your girl.. your gonna want me for your girl!" Scully quietly sang the words to herself, she was in the kitchen cooking. Her friends Pandora and Mary were coming for dinner that night to watch movies. she thought.< stop thinking about him! you came here to escape him, not remember him!> she sighed. "Can I do something to make you sigh?" a familiar voice said. She spun around quickly. "DAVID!? how did you get in ? its nice to see you!" she ran up to him and jumped into his arms, kissing him passionately. ...................................................................................................................................................................... ........................................................... March 31 1999 Mrs Scully's home, wherever it is, 1;00 PM Mulder begged her again. "Please Mrs. Scully, tell me where she is, I want to know, I need to know, shes my best friend for gods sake!" "you're gonna have to do better than that Fox, you hurt my daughter pretty bad, I promised not to tell." "Please, I love her"Mulder didn't realise until it was too late , he'd let it slip. "do you?" "yes ,please, I have to see her again, I will die without her, I need her, please , where did she go?" "okay Fox, I'll tell you, but you'd better not hurt her like the last time, she was broken. She went to Texas somewhere, she lives in an apartment, number 12she said." "are you sure?" "yep, here, these are the letters she wrote to me , maybe you'll find out more if you read them." "thanks Mrs. Scully I promise I wont hurt her ever again.' `good Fox, now go find her." Mulder turned and left. ...................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................. April 2 1999 Scales apartment #12 Texas State 6;00 PM Scully and her friends sat around the table, eating and talking about the past week. "So Dana,"Mary said. "who is this David guy you are going out with?" "oh he's okay,' "is he sweet?" "not as sweet as Mulder!" Pandora blurted out. An uncomfortable silence fell, Dana stared at her plate at the Mention of Mulders name .Pandora mouthed an"oops" to Mary and Mary raised an eyebrow in question since she didn't know who this ` Mulder was. a knock sounded at the door. "I'll get it" Dana said and got up from the table and went to the door. She stepped back in shock and anger when she saw who it was. She slammed it shut and walked back to the table. "ignore it." she said angrily with slight tinge of heartache in her voice. Pandora got up anyway and went to get the door. She opened it to find a befuddled looking Mulder standing there. "FOX!" Pandora yelled happily and hugged him. She remembered what Dana had said before when she came. Mary was also now at the door, and using her powers of logic , had figured that this must be `Mulder.' "Pandora, I don't think its wise to talk to this Mulder, you saw how Dana reacted." Dana went to her room and shut the doorleaving her friends to deal with it. "M, Mulder, I think you'd better go,"PAndora said softly. "why does she hate me?" Mulder asked. Even though Mary didn't know him, she thought shed better defend Dana anyway. "Mulder, just leave, stop chasing her everywhere, you act like a jealous schoolboy, she has a boyfriend, she doesn't need you , go away." "who is this boy friend of hers?" he asked. "His name is David, it doesn't concern you, please leave" "David who?" "how should I know?, who are you?" "I'm Fox Mulder, I was Danas old partner, and you are?" "I am Mary white, I am Danas NEW partner, why are you here?" "I need to talk to Scully, where is she?" "none of your business, now get lost!" Mary closed the door in his face, Mulder turned and left , hurt by the stranger called Mary . ************************************************************************************** *************************** April 3 1999 Texas State The next day, Mulder visited Pandora and arranged a meeting with her at Tangs Chinese restaurant. He sat now at a table in the corner, away from prying eyes of the public. Finally, the familiar braid of dark red hair walked to him. "Hi Panda, sit down." "Hi Mulder. Hows it going? sorry about Mary, she can get a little aggressive sometimes." "okay , this is what I wanted to talk about, this David guy Scales dating, what do you know about him?" "you're not still on about that are you?" "yes, just tell me what you know, I have a suspicion about him." "You're paranoid Fox, but I'll tell you, I owe you that much." "well?" "Well, I'm pretty sure she said his last name was Martiniand he has no middle nname.She mentioned his birthday was April15th, 1952, so that makes him um, 45 , so, woah! he's 15 years older than Dana!" "Have you seen him before?" "uh, yeah, actually I have, he came around once, he seemed almost lunical or hysterical or whatever you call it, like a madman he seemed. He gave me this weird feeling, I felt .. I felt , uh, threatened think is a good way to put it. any way, I didn't feel good around him. HE had Blonde hair and he was strongly built , oh , and hes one of those weirdo people with different coloured eyes, one is green and the other is blue, and he has some sort of tattoo on his arm." How long have they been together, and where did she meet him?" "why do you want to know all this Fox?" "because I have a hunch about this `David of hers, I need to know so I can protect her if he is who I think he is." "who do think he is?" "cant say yet, I need to know how long they've been going out and where they met." "Okay, she met him at the Sky High hotel and pub. He came up to her and bought her a drink then asked her out, thyve been at it for three weeks already." "Does she trust him?" "hmm, I don't think so, no, she doesn't trust him that much, hes just the person she's going out with, I don't think its going to last much longer. They're not that closely tied." "You said three weeks?" "yeah" "His name *IS * David martin? are you 100% sure?" "yes! would you expect me, Pandora Box, gifted with ESP? to lie to you or be wrong?" "I guess not, I'm sorry I doubted you." "that's ok." "but , its your turn to say sorry now" "why?" "you didnt believe I was trying to protect Dana, your description of this David, exactly fits the profile given for serial killer Martin Davis, hes been on the loose fro one year, we've been warning all women to keep away from him, either Scully refuses to believe its him , or hasn't heard the warning. HE dates his victim for approximately three weeks , then he attacks them and rapes their fatally injured bodies while the victim is istill half alive. He is fast and cunning, I need to protect Scully from him, I'll need your help too, since she wont talk to me. She's in great danger Pandora , great danger, I need your help, I need you to warn her, I need you to tell her to be very very careful when she gets home each night, I need you to tell her to break up with David fast , before its too late, please Pandora, we cant let her get killed." Pandora looked at Mulder and regarded his aura, and saw all she needed to see. "You love her don't you Fox?" "yes.": "more than your wife?" "yes I realised that inthe last few moths of our marriage, that's why we got divorced, I couldn't lie to myself anymore." "so what are we going to do?" "I thought we should organise a stakeotu at her apartment, so we can catchDavies without him knowing were there, if he finds out, hell get away, as I said , hes very cunning." "okay, but I will tell Dana, I wont tell her you told me or that you will be there, because then she probably wont Co-operate." "why not? why did she leave?" "She's still trying to mend all the pieces of her broken heart,. You broke it, that night when you told her you were going to marry Amy -Beth, and how you laughed away her confession of love to you, it broke. You dragged her heart from her breast and dropped it on the floor where it shattered into thousands of tiny fragments, she moved away so she could fix it, hoping that if she never saw or heard of you again , she could get on with her life,. She wanted to be away from you, she wanted to start over again, to be far away from you so she could forget. But it hasn't happened, her heart is still broken, she thinks shes fixed itbut she hasn't , she thinks her fire for you has finally gone out, but it hasn't, its still burning strongly for you each day, and her heart will stay broken until you come and mend it for her. She tells me she dreams of you and her togheter each and every night. You may be out of her sight, but I don't think you'll ever be out of her mind, she cant forget you. She loves you, she needs you. But she doesn't want to go near you again for fear that her heart will only be broken again, and she wont be able to fix it. Think about it Fox, Think about it. I know." Pandora squeezed Mulders hand and left him to ponder over her words. ...................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................ April 5 1999 IN a stakeout car in front of Dana Scully's apartment. Texas State. 9:00 PM Pandora and Mulder sat in the car waiting for Scully togo inside. Scully didn't know that Mulder was helping, so she'd agreed to help catch her boyfriend of which she had just mentally dumped. "There she is Mulder." Pandora said, handing him the binoculars. "When did she say that Davis was coming?" "9:15 on the dot , she said he was never late." "right." .......................................................................................... Scully unlocked her apartment door, they wenrent like the ones in Maryland, all high rise and on top of each-other, they were kind of like those little house motel things that she and Mulder had so often stayed in on cases.She opened the door and found that the light had already been turned on, she thought she must have left it on that morning. She chucked her coat onto the couch and went to make some coffee. She brought it back to the couch and sat down , turning on the television. ...................................................................................... "Mulder, I have a feeling that's spooking me out." "What is it Pandora, can you sense him?" "Yeah, I've got that bad feeling I had when I saw Martin." .................................................................................... Footsteps came down the hall from her bedroom. Scully looked up and dropped her cup. "David? why are you early?" David advanced menacingly slowly towards Scully, producing a gun. Scully knew this was her cue to scream. ............................................................................... Pandora and Mulder bolted out of the car when they heard her scream for help. "Hes here! " Mulder did a count of three at the door and kicked it open Pandora followed their pistols drawn. There they saw Martin Davis , serial killer, looming over Scully, desperately trying to fight him off. Davis looked up for a split second he aimed the pistol. Mulder saw it coming. "drop your weapon!" he shouted .Scully looked up too, at the sound of Mulders voice. "Mulder? Mulder! help me!" "drop the gun, don't you dare fire at her!" he yelled. His gun aimed for Davis head. Davis paid no heed, before Mulder or Pandora could stop him he'd fired three shots . Mulder watched in horror as each leaden bullet ripped through Scully. One in her shoulder, then one in her leg and one in her stomach. She fell back with a cry of pain. "Mulder!" "Scully!~ noo!" Mulder fired at Davis and hit him in the head , Davis evil eyes rolled back and he fell over, dead, on the floor. Mulder ran to Scales side. "Scully, Scully, hold on. Pandora, get the paramedics down here." "okay." Pandora rushed to the phone and dialled 1-400 they said they'd be there in about three minutes. "They're coming Dana don't worry , hold on." She said , coming to her friends side and holding her hand. "I think Mulder has something to say to you." She looked over to Mulder. "Scully? open your eyes , don't go to sleep, hold on , breathe, fight, if you don't you'll never hear me, " Scully painfully opened her eyes. "thanks Scully, I want you to know that I'm sorry, I'm sorry for breaking your heart, I should have taken you seriously, I realised I love you, I do, trust me, I love you Scully, you are my life, the past year has been hell without you, I cant live without you Scul;ly, I love you." Scully tried to smile, but her shoulder and leg and stomach hurt too much. "thankyou Mulder. That is what I've been longing to hear for a long long time, but you hurt me Mulder, you hurt me bad, you broke my heart, I thought you loved me, so I told you, but you laughed me away, please Mulder don't do that again, I love you too, please take that seriously, I'm not joking, I love you so much. The past year has Been hell for me too. Kiss me, please?" She let out a pained breath. "later, when we get you to the hospital , and your all fixed up, I'll kiss you, I'll show you how much you mean to me, and how deep my love is for you. Now just keep your eyes open, breath , don't panic." Finally the flashing red and blue lights of the ambulance team showed up, Pandora showed them where Scully was ling and they paramedics gave her oxygen and pound up her wounded parts. Applying pressure to the wounds to slow the bleeding. Soon they were at the hospital, Mulder waited for her to come out of surgery with Pandora, who smiled happily for the two re-united lovers. She knew they were bound by fate, and here they were , the two people who loved each other so much, with just one more promise to fulfil. =================================================================== THE END!!! =================================================================== Sorry I kind a' left `em hanging, my brain ran out of shoe polish so I had to end it fast, if you have comments, ideas, flames., send them to me at : pcoggan@tnt,dynamite.com.au I am going to write another part for this story, but if you don't want me to, you'd better get those complaints in , or it will be too late! Okay people, have a nice day/night! Nicky. - He who eats Jell-o on the seventh day can go to hell. -the truth is out there, but what is `the truth', and where is `there'?- the lexicon