Title: Discovery of Hope Author: Erin M. Blair E-Mail: eblair@sonic.net Rating: PG Content Warning: Mulder/Scully Romance. Classification: SR--Story, Romance Summary: Scully receives news regarding her abduction. Spoilers: Redux II. Memento Mori. Distribution: Archive anywhere, especially to Gossamer and other MSR archives. Please forward to ATXC, and please let me know where the story is going as I would like to visit it. Also, retain my e-mail address along with the disclaimer note. Thank you. Author's Notes: This is my first fan fiction so please be gentle. =) And yes, I am a shipper. I would appreciate any feedback that you can offer. I decided to reformat and rewrite some paragraphs. Let me know what you think. Disclaimer: Fox Mulder and Dana Scully belong to Chris Carter, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, and the Fox Network. Don't worry, I will give them back at the end of the story. However, Dr. Livingstone is mine, but Chris Carter, you can use her in future episodes. ------------------------------------------ DISCOVERY OF HOPE Written by: Erin Blair ------------------------------------------- FBI Headquarters X-Files Division 1:30 p.m. "Mulder, were there any phone messages for me?" Dana Scully asked her partner of five years, Fox Mulder. She walked back into their office from visiting her mother at lunch. She sat down at her new desk which was a present from Mulder. Fox Mulder was sitting at his desk, working on their paperwork, as he looked up at his partner, and nodded. "There was just two messages. Nothing big. One from that _creep_ of a brother of yours, Bill Scully Jr." He had a look of disgust when he mentioned her brother. "Let's not get into a debate about how much you hate my brother," Scully replied. "You said there was two messages. What was the second message?" Mulder frowned. "The second message was from your doctor." He had a concerned look on his face. thought himself. "Is there anything that we should be worried about?" "No, I am in remission. You know that," Scully replied. She turned on the computer to access a file that held her report on the last case. She turned towards him. She knew a lot of doctors in the area, and during the years that she had been assigned to the X-Files Division, she got to know several at one time or another especially when something happens to Mulder. She turned around, and faced him. "Did you catch a name?" "Yes. A Dr. Elaine Livingstone," Mulder replied. He frowned, as he was concerned for his partner's health. He hoped that there wasn't anything seriously wrong with her, and he wondered why her doctor was calling her at the office instead of her apartment. "How come she's calling you here instead of your apartment?" "Oh, I don't know, but perhaps she couldn't get in touch with me," Scully replied. "It's a lot easier calling here for various reasons. I am always here." She paused for a moment. "What was the message?" "Some type of error was discovered," Mulder replied. He was puzzled about the message, and from the look on Scully's face, she was concerned as well. This news could be either good or bad. He shrugged. "I don't know the details. Why don't you call her back and see what's wrong." "I think that's a good idea, Mulder. I will do that," Scully answered. She pressed the print button to print up the report. As the printer was printing the document, she called her doctor. "Hello. This is Special Agent Dr. Dana Scully, and I was wondering if I can get an appointment to see Dr. Elaine Livingstone. Noon?" Scully looked up as Mulder nodded. "Noon is fine." Dr. Elaine Livingstone's office The next day Dana Scully was in the waiting room, reading People Magazine with a photograph of Gillian Anderson on the cover. She noticed some similarities of herself and this actress on that television show that she watches every chance she got. "Dana Scully?" the nurse asked. "Dr. Livingstone will see you now." Scully got up from her chair, and replied. "Thank you." As she walked towards the office, she reflected on how she knew Dr. Livingstone since their days at University of Maryland where they both studied medicine. Elaine was more interested in gynecology and obstrectics whereas Dana was interested in forensic medicine. She walked into the office of her friend, and smiled. "I received the message from my partner, and what is this about some kind of error?" she asked, never missing a beat. "Do you remember all those tests that you had me do after your abduction?" Dr. Livingstone asked. "And after you found out that you had cancer?" Scully nodded. "Well, as I was looking at your file, something was amiss," Dr. Livingstone said, looking up at Scully. "The lab results were so screwy so I had it done again. Dana, they didn't take all of your ova. You still can have a normal, healthy pregnancy." Scully was shocked with the news. They hadn't took all of her ova! She can still have children. This was something that she had dreamt about since Mulder had told her what he had found at the Lombard Research Facility while she was at the hospital in Allentown, PA undergoing treatment for her brain cancer. "This is great news, Elaine. Thank you for telling me this." "You're welcome, Dana," Elaine replied. "I can't wait to tell someone about this. He is going to be as happy as I am." "Who?" Elaine said, her brown eyes twinkling. She had an idea who that person is. Scully had told her numerous times that she likes Mulder. "Mulder," Scully smiled. Her blue eyes were twinkling with excitement. This has to be the happiest day in her life since her cancer had been cured. Not to mention the day when she had come back to the world of the living after her abduction and seeing Mulder returning her cross. FBI Headquarters X-Files Division Later that day Dana Scully was still smiling as she entered their office. She saw him watching one of those Alien Abduction videos that he got for $29.95. "What are you watching? Looks like one of those porno movies." "No," Mulder replied, not looking up. "I am watching one of those Alien Autopsy videos that I ordered from that place in Allentown, PA." He paused. "Remember?" "How could I forget," Scully replied. "I still think that it looks fake." She paused. "Are you going to ask me how the appointment went?" "I was going to," Mulder replied, smiling. "I see you are in a good mood." "I have great news! Dr. Elaine Livingstone told me that I can have children. They didn't harvest all my ova. There is still a lot more ova left in my body," Scully said, excitedly. "But I thought..." Mulder said, trailing off. He had thought that there was zero chance of Scully having children since her ova was harvested along with the other female members of the MUFON Network. "I thought that there was zero chance. The clones told me that there were childless." "If you recall, Mulder, they were all abducted several times over the years. I wasn't. I thought that I could never have children because of what they did, but Elaine checked the results herself. No mistakes. No errors. The previous lab results were wrong," Scully replied, assuringly. "That is great news, Scully! I knew how much you wanted to conceive children," Mulder exclaimed, with relief in his voice. He knew how much Scully wanted children, and how devastated when she thought that she couldn't have any. "I am very happy for you. Us." "Us?" Scully replied, quizzically. She never thought that Mulder had deep feelings for her as she does. True, they had a very strong bond with one another but that's what happens when they had been partners as well as best friends for years. She knew that she cared for him, as he cared for her. But was it love? "What do you mean?" "Dana," Mulder replied. He hardly ever called Scully by her first name as he wanted her attention. This revelation was very close to his heart, and he didn't want to jeopardize it. He wanted to let her know the truth. "I am in love with you." Scully was shocked, to say the least, as her faced was flushed by Mulder's revelation that he was in love with her. "I had no idea that you felt this way, but Mulder, I feel the same way. I love you with all of my heart. I had been in love with you since I was returned." "When you were missing, I had realized that I was in love with you, Dana. I didn't tell you because I wasn't sure if you felt the same way about me," Mulder replied. He got up from his desk, and walked near Scully. Their lips were touching, and they kissed with all the feelings that they had kept hidden for five long years. "I feel the same way about you," Scully smiled. "I wish that we had admitted our love years ago!" "So do I," Mulder replied. "So do I." This was his truth after all. It wasn't about alien abductions, conspiracies, it was about love. The truth is the love that they shared together. End of Story Next Story: Discovery of Love Mulder and Scully's romance continues...