Title: Step #1: The Unexpected Curve Ball
Author: Susan Frankovich
E-mail: sus...@ticnet.com or filesfa...@yahoo.com
Classification: vignette
Spoiler: all things
Archive: No.
Disclaimer: These characters belong to each other,
not me.

Author's notes: This is the first in a series of
vignettes occurring late in season seven that
chronicle the start of Mulder and Scully's romantic
relationship.

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The Unexpected Curve Ball
by Susan Frankovich
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It wasn't planned.

No, that's not true.  I've actually been planning it
for quite some time.  It's just that, well, I wasn't
planning for it to be tonight.

And I sure as hell wasn't expecting Scully to be the
one who put everything into motion.

When I left her in the office two days ago, I was
irritated at her for not wanting to come with me to
England, and I was more than a little hurt.

Sure, I was being selfish and arrogant and all those
other things I can be sometimes, but when I told her
I'd booked us two tickets to England, I didn't think
she'd be so bitchy about it.

And yet she was, her sharp tone of voice slicing right
through me.

Later that same day when I called her on the phone,
she softened towards me a bit, but still there was
an edge in her voice that bothered me.

Did the things I do really irritate her that much or
was there something else bothering her?

I spent more than half my flight to England pondering
that very question.

But despite the reservations I had about what was
going on with us, once I found out the whole crop
circle thing was a hoax, I immediately got a ticket
for the first available flight back.

Sure, I was a little nervous about what her reaction
towards me might be once we saw each other again, but
I was prepared to deal with whatever she threw at me.

And boy, did she throw something big.

A curve ball from way out in left field.

Which leads me to where we are this very moment, her
hand between my thighs, my hand cupped around her
breast.

And oh yeah, did I happen to mention we're both naked?

I knew there was a reason why I liked baseball so much.

~step one completed~