"Love and War"
By Laura C.
"What in the Delta Quadrant is this?" Mulder questioned his partner offhandedly while examining a blob on his plate. Suddenly, Scully's face took on an extremely serious look. She looked up slowly, then checked again, as if seeing him in a new light. She reached to remove the pencil that had been resting quite comfortably in her mouth and placed it on her desk. While she was doing all this, Mulder was oblivious to her, paying attention only to the glop he got from the cafeteria line. It was remarkable. Cafeteria food remained cafeteria food no matter how far up in the line of life you got.
Very slowly Scully replied in all seriousness, "Leola root." Now it was Mulder's turn to stare at her. The "Ice Queen" actually watched Voyager? She knew what he was talking about when he mumbled about the Delta Quadrant?
"Scully, if you can tell me who cooks leola root the most in that Quadrant, this IS love."
"Why, do you happen to mean Neelix, the Talaxian?" Now she was smiling faintly, and gazing into his eyes. "So what's your judgement, is it love?" Leaning forward, she examined the blob.
"I do believe it is Dr. Scully," he laughed. Goodness...she's good with a gun, my best friend, a workaholic, she's starting to believe me, *and* she's a Star Trek fan?
Scully started to laugh, then broke off. It was a little to close to the truth. Now that Mulder knew basically her one closet addiction, and accepted it as a matter of course, what was her reasoning for not throwing herself on him? Oh yes, Bureau regulations...
"So, you watch Voyager?" Mulder questioned, still slightly surprised. He would have never thought of her as the type. Of course, he'd been a Trekkie his whole life, but Scully?
"Yes, Melissa got me hooked on it when I was young, I've been watching it ever since. I'm actually involved in several groups online."
"Really?" Please say that she's not in the Collective. I will never live it down if she discovers I'm in the KoiliTion.
"Mmm-hmm...I'm actually a member of the P/T Collective on AOL, and I'm also in JetC....oh yeah, I also post in the SeventHeaven folder sometimes." He better not be in the KoiliTion. I'll never live this down...I've been kind of a pain in the most recent flame war.
"Ouch, I would never have suspected Scully would hang out with such a bunch of losers" Mulder commented to himself, at least he thought to himself.
"What did you just say?!?!?"
"Nothing..."
"So are you in any groups? Do you post
anywhere?" Nothing. "I asked you...I expect an answer."
"I'm in the KoiliTion," he mumbled.
"The WHAT?"
"The KoiliTion...and I'm proud of it." That was to much for Scully. Her best friend had basically betrayed her. A K/Ter? How low could you go?
"And who would you actually be?" she demanded.
"Umm...TTIOTIAKT." That certainly earned him the leola-root wanna-be on his lap.
"Hey!" he exclaimed, "What was that for?" He hadn't flamed the board...just one individual...a particularly vocal individual. Only ICFMSIAPT would do that to him..."You're not ICFMSIAPT are you?"
"How could you possibly guess?" she inquired, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "Could it possibly be the fact that you sent me the most hate-mail I've ever received?"
Okay, he was going to be nice about this whole thing...but ICFMSIPT had gone to far on to many accounts. He scooped the blob in his lap and smothered it into her hair. Scully quickly grabbed marshmallow from her own lunch that she had been smart enough to pack and started to pelting him with them. Marshmallows...the Collective...it figures. Realizing that just pelting marshmallows was a waste of resources, she started to smuch them together. When her task was completed, she launched herself at Mulder and started to make his hair sick up with the goop. As he was basically doing the same thing with her hair, he didn't realize the whole cafeteria was staring at them. Of course, the whole purpose of the fight was soon los ton them. The proximity of the other was enough to make any other thoughts fly out of their heads. The food fight soon turned into massages–only food was being rubbed in. The temptation grew too much for Mulder. Marshmallows were actually one of his favorite foods...he grabbed Scully's hands and started to lick the marshmallows off of them. She didn't protest.
"Ahem..." Both agents suddenly turned to the source of the sound. It was none other than Assistant Director Skinner. "I thought all agents knew how to act like adults...I'll overlook this once as you're both under extreme pressure with the wizard case, but if this ever happens again I'll transfer one of you to a different office. Understood?" Both agents nodded as one. "Good." He turned on his heel and left.
"Look, Mulder, I'm sorry for anything I've done to insult you..."she trailed off. And yes, your lips on my hands did help.
Mulder was not about to be outdone by his partner. "I'm sorry to...let's just keep to our own boards in the future, ok? Or," he added, "we can just avoid flames and still visit both boards..." he trailed off. Mulder's mind really wasn't on Voyager at the moment, it was on the petit redhead in front of him.
"Sure...let's go get cleaned up...oh, and Mulder, was it love?" she joked
"Most certainly," he said with all seriousness. "I knew you were to good to be true, but now that you have a fault I can love you ‘till my heart's content." He laughed it off, as did she. But deep down they both wondered how much of that was really a joke...and how much of it was true.
Finis
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