Title: Red Light Authors: JayBird, Dana, and Jessica Beth Rating: PG Spoilers: Millennium Category: MSR Archive: Yes! You may. Feedback: Would love to have. JayBird- jaybird_scrub@yahoo.com Dana- dana_xfpc@yahoo.com, Jessica Beth- jezziebeth@yahoo.com Disclaimer: Mulder and Scully belong to each other and to Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and the FOX Network. Not us. Boo hoo. They both crept towards the old building. The old, abandoned building that used to be a factory of some sort. A scribbled address on a scrap of paper was all they had been given from their alternate source, which lead them here. On another wild goose chase for the ever evading truth. Of course they were both tired of it. Tired of the search for the truth, tired of their same old positions of skeptic doctor and believer agent . . . tired of, also, not being able to ever really relax or savor the good things in life. Including each other. Mulder opened the door, and as if out of a comic book it let out a rusty creek. To his surprise, the room was lit. But it was entirely by red light. Large factory lamps all over, with red bulbs. This brought on a memory he had of something a friend had once told him. He couldnt help but grin at the memory. For some reason he felt compelled to tell his partner. Shed find it amusing, anyway. "Hey, Scully, do you know the effect of red light on people?" "Effect? What effect?" she asked, almost wearily. His grin broadened. "A psychologist once did a study on it. He invited his students, equal number of men and women, to a party. By the end of the party they were all paired off and, ah, amorously involved . . .the party was lit by only red light." She raised an eyebrow at him. "Hmm. Well, just let me know if you feel any tendencies, and we can go back outside." she said, with a rarely seen wicked smile. He was a bit shocked on her sly rebuttal, so before he could reply, she had stepped inside the building. He stepped in after her. Swish! Like stepping through a portal, he entered the red lit world. Its interesting how light can make things look so different. Everything was bathed in blood red, and seemed to move in slow motion. The agents scanned the room, slowly making their way through the building. They werent sure exactly what they were looking for, just anything out of the ordinary. Mulder was thinking about the red lights, amused at the thought that they might actually do something. He tried to feel if they had effected him. Not really, he thought. He didnt feel any different. Its just the world had changed to red. They combed over the area carefully, breaking up to search the downstairs. They werent, however, having much luck. "Im not finding anything. We better check upstairs." They ascended the stairway together, cautious as years of being careful had made them. The silly red light story still played at the back of Mulders mind. As he was a believer of many things, he did not entirely dismiss the idea and thought it to be a good way of testing it. Focusing ahead of himself, he did realize with some degree of shock that Scully did look better in the red light. He looked at her beautiful red hair, illuminated and even red-der than normal. Her maroon pantsuit, almost black in the light. Her red lipstick shining brightly. Those lips...those pouty lips...the ones he had once kissed. His thoughts went back to New Year's Eve in the hospital. Was that kiss 'just' a friendly kiss? Was it a sympathy kiss? Could it lead to something else? He shook his head, trying to clear his mind. He focused on the task ahead...*what are we looking for?* he thought. He had completely forgotten. He cleared his throat before speaking. "Scully...um...this is gonna sound stupid..." She cut him off with a strangled chuckle. The kind that sounds like it's coming out of your nose. He glanced at her sideways. "What?" he asked, pretending to be hurt. "Nothing." she said, "What were you going to say?" He sighed, "What...exactly are we looking for?" She stopped dead in her tracks. "Mulder...are you feeling OK?" "What do you mean?" "I'm usually the one asking that question." "Well..." he said, twitching sheepishly, "...it's my turn. Now, what are we looking for?" Scully sighed, a smile on her face. "We were called down here by a tenant from the apartment building across the street. He says that lots of people living there have moved out, complaining about noises heard here. This has been going on for the past 3 months. A few daredevils volunteered to spend the night to find out what it was and they never came back. They supposedly disappeared." "Oh yeah," Mulder said, staring at the wall behind her, "I remember now." Scully rolled her eyes and continued up the stairs, leaving Mulder to trail behind. They entered the door at the top of the staircase, the room the missing people slept in. It was light outside, but you couldn't tell from the inside of the room. All the windows were boarded up and any way of escape was impossible, save the door. Scully ventured off to the right, while Mulder headed left. He was searching through a closet when Scully called out his name. He quickly appeared at her side. "Look at this, Mulder," she said, dipping her gloved hand into a gooey substance. "What is it?" he asked. He couldn't tell because of the red light. "It's blood." Suddenly the door they had entered, the only way out, slammed shut. Mulder was trying to re-open it when the red lights flickered off. "Mulder!" Scully shouted. "Scully! Are you OK?" "Yeah, I'm fine. Where are you?" He walked blindly through the room, bumping into her. They both cried out, then clasped their hands together. "What the hell just happened?" she asked. "I have no idea." The light suddenly came back on. The two partners noticed that they had gotten closer to each other than just holding hands. They were in a full embrace. Scully looked up at Mulder, her lower lip shaking. Mulder smirked, his heart pounding. "Scully?" "Yeah?" she whispered. "Remember when you told me to let you know if I had any tendencies?" "Yeah." "I'm having some." She blinked nervously, looking away. He heard her mumble something, but didn't quite understand it. "What Scully?" he asked, forcing her to face him, their lips inches apart. "I'm having tendencies, too" she said softly, looking into Mulder's eyes. Mulder looked at her, trying to read her mind and saw the look of need and want in her eyes. Mulder bent his down closer to Scully's and his lips gently touched hers. Memories of their 'Millennium' kiss flooded into Mulder's brain as he softly kissed her lips. He felt Scully gently pull away and saw her look away. "Scully?" She looked at Mulder and without a word, kissed him. The two gently kissed each other for a few moments before they pulled away. The red light was still beaming overhead. "Still having tendencies?" Mulder asked. Scully nodded. Mulder took that as his cue and leaned in to kiss Scully more passionately. The passion within his soul unwind as he kissed her deeply. The passion that he kept hidden for 7 long years was finally free to run it's course. He felt Scully's kiss flow through his system. and felt a burst of total relaxation flower through out. Scully let out a moan when she felt Mulder wrapping his arms around her neck. She couldn't believe that hadn't done this sooner. She felt Mulder's soft lips part from hers and they both took a minute to breathe. "I guess I now know what red light does to a person," Scully said, looking at Mulder who was wearing a slight grin. "Yeah, guess so." He leaned to kiss Scully's lip again, but the red lights flickered and the door mysteriously opened with a creaking noise. Mulder looked at Scully in amazement. "You think we should go?" Mulder asked pointing to the door. "Yes, I think we should," his partner answer as she was already walking toward the door. Mulder followed her to the car. "What do you think happened in there?" "I don't know how to explain the disappearances..." Scully trailed off. She looked at Mulder and sighed. "But what..we did, it's because of the red light, just as you said." Mulder's frown tighten. He looked at Scully. "Did you...did you want that?" he asked her gently. She looked at Mulder feeling her cheeks start to grow warm. She did want Mulder to kiss her. She did want that happen. And this time, there was not going to be any covering it up, either. "Yes, I have for so long...it seems like the knot in my stomach as untangled since we've kissed," she confessed. Mulder smiled slowly. "I feel the same way." Scully smiled as she opened the passenger side door and slid inside the car. Mulder moved to the other side of the car and got in. He turned to Scully, who was still smiling. "You think we need to test and see if it was the red light that caused us to do that?" Mulder asked grinning. Scully shot him a look, but with a smile. "I think we could test it." ~~~~~ Fin Feedback much appreciated!!!
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