A BABY IS FOREVER: MASTERLIST
*Prompt request for AU where Mulder gets Scully pregnant in high school and they are "forced" to marry but fall in love.*
Prompt | High School AU | Teen Pregnancy | 1980s | Emily AU | Emily Fic |
Part One.
A less rational side of her brain wants to tell her that maybe if she ignores it, it will go away. But no, she took Biology, she knows this will do the opposite of going away. It will grow and continue growing until the final day when out pops a baby. A baby that will need to be cared for, a baby that she will be stuck with for the next eighteen years of her and it's life.
Part Two.
They fall quiet once more. They weren't that close but there had been an equal attraction before, that is what led to this after all but then it fizzled out, they made a promise it wouldn't happen again. Now they're having a baby, now they are to be married. What does that mean for their relationship? For any future relationships? Dana doesn't want to think about it.
Part Three.
"It's a duck," he says. Through the phone, it sounds like he's fumbling with something. "It's yellow with a blue bow and it squeaks." A bit more fumbling with the phone and his voice is replaced by a squeak. "See?" he says, his voice back.
Part Four.
"Do you like that name, Emily?"
The baby kicks and Mulder looks back up to Dana, a massive smile right across his face.
"I think we have a winner."
Part Five.
"They won't let me put it in there with her in case she hurts herself with it."
Scully takes it from his hands, looking at it. She's seen it before, remembers the conversation on the phone when Mulder first told her about it, remembers him saying it squeaks. Her thumb finds the ball in the chest area and squeezes the toy. Sure enough it squeaks. More tears fall as she laughs, a lump caught in her throat.
Part Six.
The decision to give Emily her own room came when Mulder's parents moved out a year ago, leaving them the house. Initially, they were resigned to the basement and it had worked having Emily, still a newborn at the time, right beside them, not having to go far. Everything they needed could fit downstairs with them and rarely did they have to bother anyone upstairs.
But Emily had began to grow, like any child does, and being confined to the basement just wasn't good enough for anyone anymore.
@today-in-fic