Title: Nova

Author: Angel

Feedback: Please! I love every but of it!

Classification: MSR, Colonization fic.

Spoilers: All the way up to 7^th season finale but NOT including.

Rating: NC-17 (for some parts-very mild consensual sex- but to be safe!) Others are probably PG-13 or so for naughty words and implied naughty stuff =).

Summery: The inevitable happens. Mulder has planned ahead and now does everything in his power to keep Scully safe.

You MUST read all parts to understand! Available at Ephemeral and my home page.

Disclaimer: You know the drill. Characters are property of Fox, 1013, ect. No money is being made. No infringement is intended. A few poems and songs are used without permission, names of authors are given. Prayers which I did not write, and I don’t know who wrote are included in some areas.

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"Baby don’t look up, the sky is falling." Tori Amos

(22/?)

Day 128

Scully was having that dream again. At least it seemed like it. She couldn’t move due to a weight on her belly, but she was awake. Prying her eyes open she looked around in the dim light and smiled; Mulder’s head was pillowed on her stomach, his face turned up towards her. Reaching down she buried her hand in his hair, scraping her nails along his scalp lightly.

Mulder opened his eyes sleepily. As his eyes focused on her he hummed from the back of his throat as his morning greeting.

She took it as such. "What are you doing way down there?" Scully asked with a smile.

He smiled shyly and rubbed his palm over her stomach. "Bonding?"

Scully laughed softly and ruffled his hair. "Knock yourself out."

Mulder shifted, pushing her shirt up and pressing his lips to her skin. He groaned at a knock on the door, sending soft vibrations through Scully’s body. "How does that always manage to happen to us?" He asked climbing out of bed after pulling Scully’s shirt down.

"Luck." She mumbled sitting upright and running her fingers through her tousled hair.

Mulder swung the door open. "What?" He asked harshly when he saw Langly.

Scully shook her head and laughed softly at his greeting.

"Sorry, I take it I woke you guys up. But you might want to know what water has stopped."

"What?!"

Scully slid out of bed and walked over. "Last night the flow was a little slow, I didn’t think anything of it."

"Does Benjamin know?" Mulder asked as he started pulling clothes out of the dresser.

"I think someone went to get him." Langly said sounding very uncertain.

"We’re going to get dressed. See if you can track him down." Langly obediently turned and shut the door. Mulder immediately started to pull on clothes.

"Why do you think that is happening?" Scully asked as she followed his lead and began to dress.

"I don’t know." Mulder sat to pull his shoes on. "But if it stays like this we are screwed." Mulder stood and opened the door for Scully, with his hand comfortably at the small of her back he led her down to the Main Room.

They walked up just in time for Benjamin to speak. "Don’t worry everyone. Let’s just wait a while and see if it solves itself. The river that feeds into here-"

Mulder cursed under his breath and ignored the rest of what Benjamin was saying.

"What the hell is he talking about?" Skinner’s gruff voice said from behind them.

Mulder shook his head, not bothering to answer. "I’m going to walk along the river, see if I can find the problem."

"Mulder, you aren’t going alone." Scully said quickly. As much as she loved working in the Medical Room she cursed it for grounding her to stay near Nova at all times.

"I’ll go." Skinner said. "I’m sure we can dig up a few others to go along."

Mulder nodded. "Let’s get moving then. Hopefully we won’t have to go too far up the river and will be back soon."

"I’ll see who else I can get to go along."

"Great way to spend a Sunday." Scully mumbled.

"Sorry." Mulder whispered by her ear.

"No it’s not your fault. I’m just… sulking." She gave him a shy smile.

Mulder nodded over at Skinner who had gave waved for him that him and four others were ready. Then he leaned down and kissed Scully quickly. "I’ll try to be back soon." He walked away, calling over his shoulder; "And yes I will be careful."

Amanda and Scully sat in silence, rolling clean bandages in the Medical Room.

"This is truly boring." Amanda said dropping a half rolled bandage on the table.

Scully nodded. "Yes, yes it is. I look forward to Sundays…"

"Yeah." Amanda said in a far away voice. "Walter and I were going to go for a picnic."

Scully stared at Amanda for a moment. Trying her damnedest to picture Skinner on a picnic. It was impossible. She laughed softly under her breath.

"What?"

"I... Nothing." She blushed slightly under Amanda’s searching look. "I just have a difficult time picturing Skinner being so… domestic."

Amanda shrugged. "I have a hard time picturing Mulder not domestic."

Scully looked at her with a furrowed brow. Then copied her shrug.

"What was Walter like before he got here?"

Scully leaned back in chair, oblivious to the fact that one of her hands was rubbing her belly. "The same I guess. A lot like Mulder I suppose. I’ve just never seen him ‘with’ someone before. Do you know what I mean?"

Amanda nodded and picked up her bandage again. "My father doesn’t like him." She said out of the blue.

"I don’t think fathers like any man their daughter’s are involved with." Scully supplied rationally. Amanda just nodded without making eye contact. Remembering what she had said about being afraid of her father Scully took a chance. "Do you think he will try to stop you from seeing him?"

Amanda wouldn’t look up. "No, he’ll just take his anger out on other people, like always."

Mulder kicked his muddy shoes off with a soft thud.

"I’m awake." Scully said sitting up on her elbows.

Mulder torn off his damp clothes and crawled straight into bed. "I’m exhausted." He mumbled.

Scully leaned over and kissed the center of his chest. "Did you find the problem?"

He nodded with his eyes closed. "Beavers."

"Beavers?"

He nodded again. "Fucking beavers built a dam."

Scully tried, but she couldn’t help it. She laughed. "You know you are just going to have to go back and take it down again in a week."

"Thank you, Miss Obvious."

Scully laughing softly, rested her chin on her hands in the center of his chest and looked up at him.

"I’ll tell you what, next time Benjamin can drag his ass out there and do it himself."

Scully just made a soft agreeable noise.

Mulder sucked in a long breath, causing Scully to rise on his chest, then fall as he let it out slowly. "I can’t believe he just wanted to leave it. What an ass."

"Mulder." Scully interrupted. "Let it go."

He let out a sigh. "Sorry." Mulder rubbed his palms up and down her back. "How are you feeling?"

Scully slipped her arms around his waist and turned her head to the side. "Good." She answered in a long breath letting herself slip into sleep against his warm body.

Day 130

"How far along do you think you are?" Mulder asked in a whisper as he traced his fingers over her stomach. Clothes had been shed and Mulder was examining her body with great detail. Noting each and every subtle change.

Scully’s eyes were closed under his gentle caress. "Three months or so." She answered lost in the fog of arousal.

Mulder nodded against her skin. He pressed his lips just above the patch of red curls between her thighs. Scully bit her lip to remain quiet, not wanting to ruin the silent atmosphere of their room. Mulder watched her, closed eyes and head tilted back slightly as he ran his tongue from the spot he just kissed all the way up to junction of her ribs. Scully arched up under him slightly. Mulder slipped both his hands under her waist before she set her body down and held her up to him as he spread open-mouthed kisses over her abdomen. Darting his tongue in and out of her navel summoned a breathy call of his name from the woman beneath him. He placed her back down on the bed and slid up to be level with her face, his erection bumping insistently against her hip. "What, Scully?" He asked pulling her ear lobe into his mouth.

"You’re teasing me." She said with a smile.

"No I’m not." He answered kissing a trail down to the base of her neck.

She encouraged him to move lower with a hand on the nape of his neck. "Certainly seems like it to me." She said softly, not minding his teasing.

Ignoring her gentle push he moved to her lips and kissed her deeply, their tongues tangling languidly. "I’m just savoring you." He whispered with his lips still against hers. Brushing her nose gently with his he moved to kiss her shoulder.

Scully followed him with her hands stroking and kneading whatever flesh she could reach, leaning towards his lips, his hands, any part of him that would touch her.

Mulder pulled the soft skin of her clavicle into his mouth and suckled gently. He didn’t stop until he left a small mark claiming her. Sliding one of his hands from her waist he danced his fingers along the tender flesh of her inner thigh. Struggling to keep her breathing even, Scully raised her leg and bent it up resting on her foot at his waist. She was desperate for more contact now. Mulder slid down her body a little more to pull a swollen nipple in his warm mouth as his fingers stroked her opening with a frustratingly light touch.

Finally surrendering, Scully let the sensations take over her control and she thrust her hips up toward his hand. His fingers slid slightly into her body. Scully whispered his name in a plea for release of the growing tension in her body.

Mulder pressed two of fingers deep into her warmth, then out. In a slow paced rhythm. Another breathy cry escaped Scully's throat as he switch to lave attention onto her other breast. He waited until she was thrust her hips in the rhythm with his hand, before he lowered his mouth from her chest. He spent long moments nuzzling and kissing her tummy as he increased the contact with his fingers on the special spot inside of her body. Feeling her reach that last moment before her release he moved down lower and pulled her swollen bud of nerves between his lips. In the midst of her release Scully called Mulder’s name.

The next thing Scully felt was Mulder tender hand stroking the side of her neck and his erection, hot and hard, pressed against her thigh. She opened her eyes as she felt him nuzzle her neck. Bringing a leaden feeling hand up she touched his cheek lightly.

Mulder picked up his head and kissed her gently. With the urging of Scully’s push he rolled them so he lay on his back with his head resting on the pillows.

Leaning down Scully kissed him again, deeper yet calm and relaxed. She shifted to kneel over him and took Mulder into her body with a practiced thrust.

He pulled his lips away with a pleasant shudder as Scully straightened up and took him fully into her heat. Without a pause Scully moved in a steady rhythm.

Mulder lay still beneath Scully; letting her take control for as long as he could bare. He forced his eyes open as he began to lift his hips to meet her body. Keeping eye contact he pressed his palm against the warm skin of her belly. His hand just resting against her.

Mulder’s eyes snapped closed as Scully pressed down on him one final time.

Scully shut her eyes as she felt the warmth of Mulder’s release in already occupied-but waiting womb. The blissful heat flowed through her veins as she relaxed and lay her head down on Mulder’s shoulder, savoring the quiet moment and rush of endorphins.

After a few moments Mulder raised his hand to the small of Scully’s back, all four fingers rubbing in a small soothing circle.

Scully shifted, letting Mulder slip from her body so she could lay closer his chest, her head under his chin.

Mulder tugged the crumpled blankets over them. "I love you." He whispered pressing his lips to the sweaty hair at her forehead.

Scully echoed the words in her half sleep state, his fingers still rubbing the base of her spine.

Day 133

Mulder walked in the open door of the Medical Room rubbing his hands together. "Cold out there today." Was his greeting to Scully.

She looked up from the research she was doing. "Season’s are changing." Standing up she took his hands in her smaller ones, rubbing them for warmth. Leaning forward she breathed a hot puff of air into the compartment their fingers made. "Better?" She asked looked up through her lashes at him.

Giving her a half smile he nodded. "A little." He leaned down and pressed his cold nose into her neck. Letting out an embarrassingly girly shriek she jumped away but Mulder caught her waist in his hands. "No you don’t." He said with a laugh, his fingers sliding under her shirt to tickle her sides.

Scully immediately doubled over with laughter, batting him away the best she could. "Cut it out!" She cried twisting and turning in his grasp. But with his hands trapped in her shirt there was no way for her to get away. "Mulder!" She giggled. Changing her plan of fighting away from him she threw her weight onto his body, making him stagger back a step, his hands losing contact for only a second.

"You think you’re so tough." He teased pushing part of his weight back against her so she stumbled. When she lost her balance during a fit of giggles Mulder caught her around the waist.

"That’s enough. Stop!" She said in a wheeze from laughter.

"What the hell are you doing to her?" Benjamin fumed from the open doorway.

Mulder looked up, hands still under Scully’s shirt, his smile fading.

"He’s being a jerk, that’s what he’s doing." Scully said, still grinning.

Mulder looked back at her and couldn’t help but smile at the flush of laughter in her cheeks. "And you love me for it." He said finally pulling his hands out from under her shirt.

"Yes I do." She said softly getting up onto her toes to kiss his cheek. Standing on her feet again she looked over at Benjamin. "What can I do for you today?"

Benjamin was looking at Mulder sternly. "I heard screaming."

"Oh… I was laughing." Scully said wiping tears from her eyes. "Someone was tickling me." She poked Mulder in the side, a look of pure amusement spread over her face as he bent slightly with a smirk. "Oh… look who’s ticklish." She went to poke him again but he caught her hands in his.

"Oh no you don’t." He said shaking his head.

She giggled softly, practically forgetting Benjamin was in the room. "Come on. Let go."

Mulder rotated their hands so that their fingers interlocked. "Are you going to be good?"

"Mulder, I’m always good." She said with a sly smile.

"Ohh… You are wicked today." Mulder said shaking his head. "Too bad I have to go back to work." He let go of her hands and she pouted like a little girl. He leaned down and kissed her quickly. "Benjamin." He said with a curt nod and reluctantly left the two knowing Benjamin would point out his break was over if he didn’t go then.

The moment Mulder stepped out the door Benjamin stepped toward Scully taking her arm in his hand. "Are you ok?"

She looked up at him with an amused expression and gently stepped out of his grasp. "Of course I am. We were just having fun, fooling around."

Benjamin stood frozen in tension. "I don’t believe you." He said bluntly.

Scully turned to him with eyebrows raised. "Excuse me?"

He took a step towards her, causing her to step back and into the table. "Don’t make excuses for Mulder. I saw the way he grabbed your wrists."

She shook her head slowly. "Mulder wasn’t hurting me." She said softly. "He never has and never will."

Benjamin shook his head, his anger toward Scully building. "Don’t you see? He controls you. He held you so you couldn’t move. He is much larger then you and uses it against you all the time. Just covering up his aggression with a game."

Scully unintentionally flinched as a glob of spit flew from Benjamin’s mouth and landed on her cheek. "Could you please stop yelling at me Benjamin." She requested with an eerily calm voice wiping at her cheek.

Benjamin took another step forward causing Scully to lean back over the table slightly. "You aren’t listening to me, Dana. Mulder is dangerous."

"That’s enough, Dad." Amanda said from the doorway.

Benjamin glanced over at her. "Dana and I are talking, Amanda, please leave."

"No." Scully said quickly. "I want you to leave, Benjamin." Scully pressed her hands against his chest, pushing him away. The moment he stepped back Scully took a deep breath, not realizing she wasn’t letting herself breathe with him so close.

"I’ll speak to you again about this, Dana. I want you to think about it." Benjamin spoke as he walked backwards out of the room.

Scully leaned against the table-by choice.

"He didn’t hurt you did he?" Amanda asked slowly.

She forced out a laugh, trying to be reassuring when her inside where shaking with fear. "No, I’m fine Amanda." She sat heavily in a chair. "I’m fine."

Notes: Well… It’s the night after the finale. I’m all a buzz… I wont say anything incase some people haven’t seen it other then OH MY GOD!!! Does that cover it? =)

Nova is 101 pages. Can you believe it? Wow huh? What a night!