I’ve rewritten my own ending for MSIV:))
Our struggle chapter 2
Scully: Well Uh, I should probably get ready.
Mulder: Scu
Scully cuts him off.
Scully: No Mulder. I can’t. I can’t sit here and cry all day. I did it my last pregnancy, and I’m certainly not going to do it this time.
Mulder: You don’t want to talk about this?
Scully: No. I have a therapist Mulder. Isn’t that what it’s for??
Mulder: Scully, take it easy. You were just sick.
Scully: I know Mulder. Don’t worry, I’m fine.
He roles his eyes at ‘I’m fine’. Such a lie. He has known Scully for 25 years and knows when she says she’s fine, you should not believe her.
She gets dressed in a sweatshirt and some leggings and sneakers. She deserved to be comfortable after all that has happened. Mulder finds her crying as she puts on her makeup and finishes getting dressed. He can’t bare to watch her do this to herself. She’s trying to act like she’s fine. But she’s not.
Mulder: Scully, where are you going?Scully: To the hospital. We need to see skinner before... before it’s too late.
Mulder: It’s not good for you Scully. You don’t need more stress. You know what will happen, you’re a doctor. I shouldn’t have to tell you.
Scully: Mulder you have to let me.
Mulder: Fine.
His phone starts ringing.
Mulder: Hello?
“You should probably come here quick sir, Walter just woke up.”
Mulder: We’ll Be Right There.
Scully: What??
Mulder: He’s conscious. Let’s go.
They sit beside his hospital bed next to each other holding hands, and skinner tries to talk, but had a hard time due to all of the drugs and ventilator he was on.
Scully: I’m sorry Walter, we can’t stay for too much longer. I have a doctors appointment.
Skinner: Is everything ok Agent Scully?
Scully: I think so.
Mulder nudges her knee a little bit, trying to let her know it’s ok to tell her.
Skinner: Whats going on? I feel like I’m in high school again wanting to know all the gossip.
Scully: Sir, me and Mulder are expecting.
Skinner: Oh my god!! Dana and Mulder, you’re going to be great parents.
Scully: Thank you. One more thing, our son got shot by that cigarette smoking son of a bitch. He’s dead.
She choked out.
Skinner: Oh my gosh Dana. He killed his own son.
Scully: No, Mulders actually. We ran DNA tests. He is Mulder and I’s child.
Mulder: Guess I have magic sperm!
He says with a big smile.
Scully puts her head down, and her cheeks turn rosy.
Scully: Mulder you better not say that one more time or I’m kicking you out.
Skinner: Boy or girl?
Scully: We don’t know yet. I am only about 8 weeks along I’m assuming. We will find out the exact week I am soon.
Skinner: I’m sorry about wi...
Scully: Walter, William is our son. When we found his body, I ran a DNA test against mine, and Mulders. We are his biological parents.
Skinner: But what about...
Scully: Tests don’t lie. But people do. And cigarette man was a lying asshole. But he’s gone. He’s dead. And as long as we are safe now, I am fine.
Skinner: But your son is dead!
Scully: Yes, he is.
Those words were like knives stabbing Scully and Mulder in the heart.
Scully: He didn’t have a normal life. We tried to give him one, but he didn’t want it. There was nothing else we could have possibly done.
Skinner: What about Monica? She’s still behind this whole thing.
Mulder: Monica’s dead. Remember? You shot her.
Skinner: Shit, I guess I remember now. I thought she was going to run over me, but she started to steer in the other direction just as I fired the bullet. Cigarette man was trying to run over me. Not Monica. She meant well at the last minute of her life.
Scully: She was so much to me... I mean, she was my best friend when I had nobody else. When I was a single mother, and had nobody else, she was there. She was the best aunt to my son. Then to see her work for the people that gave me cancer, then make Mulder die and make me have to give up my son for adoption, was heartbreaking. I was so angry at the world. I always New she was holding back though. I always knew there was still good left in her.
Scully lays on the exam table with her shirt rolled up just above the slight swell of her stomach, and a paper sheet is draped below, underneath her stomach.
Doctor: Well, it seams like a healthy baby to me. Now we just have to make sure we have also got a healthy Momma.
She smiles back from the ultrasound monitor, then at Scully.
Scully: What are we looking at?
Scully says in a concerned doctors voice as she tightly grips Mulders hand waiting for bad news. She was expecting to hear that Scully is going to probably miscarry or have a stillbirth or another condition physically affecting herself.
Doctor: Oddly, with your age and passed history with being infertile, you are very healthy. Your blood pressure was a little high, but probably just nerves. Nothing to be too worried about. I do want you to take it easy this pregnancy. I want you to take your prenatal vitamins, go on a healthy diet, and stay off your feet as much as you can to prevent risk of anything happening to you or the baby because of your age especially, but also your past.
Scully: Are the risks high for another placental abruption?
Doctor: Well, of course that’s another thing to think about, but we will get there when we get there. Right now let’s focus on getting you past the first trimester.
Mulder: Do you know how many weeks along she is?
Doctor: About 8 weeks. I can actually tell you the date the baby was conceived.
They both look to each other in embarrassment. They didn’t need anything to tell them when it was conceived. There was one night the stood out to both of them. The night at the motel. That was definitely when it was conceived.
Scully: That’s ok. Just wanted to know how far along I am.
Doctor: I am going to fill out a prescription that you need to take every morning with your prenatal vitamins, and remember to not take any heavy medications. Of course the obvious things, no drinking, smoking, avoid coffee, sodas, caffeine, sushi, and I probably don’t have to go over all of the other food because your a doctor but you’d be surprised with how many doctors don’t follow these rules.
Scully: Of course.
Mulder: I’ll make sure she doesn’t.
He winks at the doctor.
Scully: It’s been a while since I’ve drank or smoked. Coffee I am sure I can stay away from.
But sushi. Not sushi! Of course it won’t harm the baby in any major way, but it’s good to avoid it in case of any risk, and she knew that.
Doctor: Is this your first?
With hesitation, she thought about her two previous children. Of course she never actually gave birth or bore Emily, so that must not count, but she did give birth to William, and carried him for 9 months.
Scully: Second.
Doctor: Great, then you should know everything even more!
She wipes the gel off of Scully’s stomach.
Doctors: You can go to the receptionist and make an appointment for 2 more weeks. See you soon! Remember, take it easy!
Scully: Thank you!!!!!
On their way home, they don’t talk much. Scully was pretty much passed out after the long morning she had and could barely keep her eyes open.
Mulder: That went well Scully.
Scully: I guess.
Mulder: What do you mean?
Scully: I’m still so scared. I don’t know what to do with myself. I mean, because of my age and history, I can’t go to work or anything. I mean, what else do I do for these next 8 months. Nothing? Sit around the house and clean?
Mulder: You might not be able to work or workout like a crazy lunatic at the gym like you usually do, but hey, we can still do our morning walks to get breakfast, we can still shop. We can even go on a trip if you want. To Europe, or the Caribbean? I wouldn’t mind that myself Scully. Anything you want, I will do.
Scully: Mmm Thanks.
She takes her elbow off of the window in the car and places her head on Mulders shoulder. He kisses her head, keeping his hands on the steering wheel still.
Mulder: Scully I don’t know about you, but I’m really happy.
Scully: why so?
Mulder: Cuz I’m with you Scully. Whenever I’m with you, I’m happy. Plus, there are technically two Scully’s in this car right now. Are you happy?
Scully: Well, I am with you, and somewhat healthy, and I’m pregnant. I just would be a lot happier if our son was here. I remember this time 17 years ago, when I was driving home from the obgyn, and was scared. My mom took me home, told me how happy she was, because I was pregnant. She asked if i was happy, and I was honest. I said no. I was pregnant with a miracle, but it wasn’t the kind of miracle I had wanted, because you weren’t there. So now I’m thinking back to that moment, and realizing how crazy life is that I thought that was my miracle, but that miracle left, and now I have an even crazier miracle growing inside of me, and I’m trying to forget about our first miracle, but it’s hard. It’s hard Mulder. I just feel like he should still be here.
Mulder: Scully, I know it’s been a crazy last 20 years. But look where we are now.
Scully: Where are we now Mulder?
Mulder: We are happy. William won’t be suffering anymore. He suffered his whole life. He wanted so badly to know you, but he didn’t at the same time. He is with your mom now. And your sister and his adoptive parents that loved him. With Monica. He is with them all and they will take good care of him.
Scully: You sound like my mother Mulder.
She says with a smile. Her mother had always told her the same thing for the 3 months Scully was coping with Mulders death after the funeral.
Mulder: Were gonna have a baby.
He smiles and turns to Scully, still focusing one eye on the road.
Scully: Hey!! Don’t take the credit! I am the one carrying this baby. *I* am having a baby. *I* am having your baby.