Title: Nova

Author: Angel

Feedback: Please! I love every but of it!

Classification: MSR, Colonization fic.

Spoilers: All the way up to 7^th season finale but NOT including even though nothing much is really mentioned.

Rating: NC-17 (for some parts-very mild consensual sex- but to be safe!) Others are probably PG-13 or so for naughty words and implied naughty stuff =).

Summery: The inevitable happens. Mulder has planned ahead and now does everything in his power to keep Scully safe.

You MUST read all parts to understand! Available at Ephemeral and my home page.

Disclaimer: You know the drill. Characters are property of Fox, 1013, ect. No money is being made. No infringement is intended. A few poems and songs are used without permission, names of authors are given. Prayers which I did not write, and I don’t know who wrote are included in some areas.

Homepage: (to find missing parts and sooner or later the completed version, also posted at Ephemeral)

A HUGE thanks to Evie my beta reader! Nova would never be doing this well, or going as fast, without her help! Thank you thank you thank you thank you! Umm… one more! Thank you!

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"Baby don’t look up, the sky is falling." Tori Amos

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Day 204 (continued)

Mulder pressed his smiling lips to Scully’s. "Thank you." He breathed, resting his forehead against hers.

"Thank you?" She asked with amusement.

"Yes, thank you." Was all he said before kissing her again. Without letting go he reached behind her and opened their door, backing her slowly in.

Scully giggled a soft uncharacteristically giddy giggle against his lips. She couldn’t explain this feeling if she had to. It was impossible. She was happy, beyond belief, and nervous for some reason. As a child Scully dreamed of the day she would marry. In college she went through the phase of thinking she didn’t want to. Then in medical school, learning about the development of children and how amazing it all was, to put it simply, she wondered how she would be able to juggle a family and the career as a doctor. When she joined the FBI she became married to her work-to Mulder is an abstract way. She stopped believing that the typical family life was possible for her. Now what she was going to have would be anything other then typical. A miracle baby and married to the only man she could ever love. "I deserve this." She whispered against Mulder’s lips, without realizing it, as the back of her knees hit the bed.

Mulder pulled back slightly, helping to lower her on to the bed. "I don’t." He said humbly as he settled on his side next to her.

"You don’t what?"

He pulled his shirt over his head to stop Scully’s insistent tugging. "I don’t deserve you."

"Don’t start with that." Her voice slightly muffled as she pulled her own shirt off. "You do too deserve this." Scully took his face in her hands, forcing him to look at her. "We both do. We have fought for this, cried and mourned for this, and quite literally shed blood for this."

Mulder fell motionless, his hands locked in their cradle around Scully’s face, his body leaning gently against hers. "So much has been taken from you-from both of us. We’ve changed so much." He paused for a moment, taking her body in with his eyes, letting them linger on her belly.

An uncontrollable smile spread across Scully’s face. She let her hands wonder over the thick muscles of his arms and back as a response.

"We’ve come a long way. And we do deserve this." Mulder said on a sudden whim of self-approval.

Scully nodded slowly. For everything they had done, for everything they were doing and everything they would do, they were entitled to the pleasures of the other’s body, mind and spirit. "We do." She agreed softly. "For the rest of our lives." His lips crushed hers before the words completely left her mouth.

Day 205

Mulder stepped out of the Church with a determined stride, trying his damnedest not to grin like a fool. He wasn’t doing well.

"Mulder?"

He spun around, a little too quickly, and almost knocked Marsha off her feet. "Oh, sorry." Mulder said quickly, trying to shake his thoughts away. "What can I do for you, Marsha?"

"My chimney is a little clogged, could you help my husband clean it out?"

Mulder sucked in a long breath. "Can’t Skinner do it?"

She shook her head. "He just left to help fix the wagon of firewood that broke down. He won’t be back for hours."

"That’s right, its over ten miles away." Mulder said offhandedly under his breath. "Ok… Let’s go do this." Mulder said directing Marsha toward her family’s room.

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"Have you seen Mulder?"

Randy shook his head at Scully. "Sorry, no."

Scully wrinkled her nose in frustration. Mumbling her thanks she continued down the hallway towards the Main Room. She had been looking for what seemed like hours, it only seemed that way because she couldn’t move fast enough for her convenience. Scully rounded the corner into the Main Room and smacked right into someone. "Oof!"

She was righted before she fully lost her balance by two hands on her elbows. "Whoa. There you are." Mulder said with a chuckle. "I’ve been looking for you."

Scully smiled up at him. "I think we have been chasing each other around Nova most of the day."

Mulder made an agreeable noise as he steered her through the room. "I talked to Father Ryan today, he’s waiting for us."

"Wait." Scully stopped and turned to look up at him. "Today? We are going to get married TODAY?"

Mulder’s jaw worked for a moment before words came out. "But… I thought, I’m sorry, Scully. I just thought when I asked you, right away was ok…. Is it ok?"

"Yes!" She said quickly. "I just didn’t realize…" Scully took his hand, squeezing it once she tugged him toward the Church again. "Come on. Let’s do this."

With a smile Mulder wrapped his arm around Scully’s waist as they entered the empty room. "Father Ryan?" Mulder called towards the closed door of the confessional knowing Father Ryan spent much of the day in the small room waiting.

The older man stepped out with a smile. "Dana, I see Mulder finally tracked you down."

Scully nodded, biting her lip nervously.

The priest directed them over to the front of the room as he sorted through books. "Mulder told me that you both decided for the ceremony to just be the two of you."

"Yes." Scully took Mulder’s hand and gave it a firm excited squeeze. "It seems right that way."

"I understand." Father Ryan stood up with a thick old book in his hands. "Shall we begin?"

Mulder and Scully exchanged glances before nodding.

"All right." Father Ryan started. "I’ll begin with a prayer: Loving God, I thank you for the gift of life you gave and continue to give to me and to all of us. Merciful God, I ask your pardon and forgiveness for my own failure and the failure of all people to respect and foster all forms of life in our universe. Gracious God, I pray that with your grace, I and all people will reverence, protect, and promote all life and that we will be especially sensitive to the life of the unborn, the abused, neglected, disabled, and the elderly. I pray, too, that all who make decisions about life in any form will do so with wisdom, love, and courage. Living God, I praise and glorify you as Father, Source of all life, as Son, Savior of our lives, and as Spirit, Sanctifier of our lives. Amen." Father Ryan paused for a moment as they echoed his last word. "Dana, Mulder, you are both strong people. With wonderful souls, you have given me hope for Nova with the hope you have shown other people in their errors. Together you will only be stronger. Although marriage is not a legal title in the Nova community it is more important to be bonded in this way for your hearts. I believe you both already have this bond, therefore I would like to give you both a moment to express your feelings to each other before you are joined in God’s eyes." He turned to Scully. "Dana."

Scully turned to Mulder and met his moist eyes, interlocking their fingers. "Mulder… There are no words to describe how I feel about you, but I think- I know you understand it. You have given me so much, you have finally learned that everything I have given up and lost, everything we both have lost, has lead up to this moment. It has been worth the pain for everything we have now. We deserve this." Scully ended with the statement she realized they should have learned to say many years ago.

"Mulder, anything you want to add?"

Mulder didn’t break eye contact with Scully, he let his heart speak. "You are everything to me, Scully. I have said it before and I will say it a million times more until the day I die." He shook his head in self amusement. "The only other thing I have to say it that I love you."

"I love you too." Scully added softly. Father Ryan passed the open book to Scully, signaling her to read the passage. "I Dana Scully, take you to be no other than yourself, loving what I know of you, trusting what I do not yet know. I will be true to you in all things, I will share what I have and who I am, I will love enough to risk being hurt, trust in joy, and receive you as my equal, through all our years, and in all that life may bring us."

Mulder took the offered book from Scully’s hands. "I Fox Mulder, take you to be no other than yourself, loving what I know of you, trusting what I do not yet know. I will be true to you in all things, I will share what I have and who I am, I will love enough to risk being hurt, trust in joy, and receive you as my equal, through all our years, and in all that life may bring us."

"Be appeased," Father Ryan began. "What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting." He smiled at them both. "For sake of tradition. You may kiss the bride."

Mulder slowly took Scully’s face in his hands, leaning in just as slowly his pressed his lips against hers for an endless moment.

Notes: Wow, sorry about the wait everyone. So what did you think? Sappy enough? Fluff is good =)… but don’t get used to it (hehe!). Sorry for the lack of smut… it just wasn’t working for me. That’s one reason it took so long to get this part out, I was so stuck on the idea that I needed to write smut and it just wasn’t happening. Any way… I’ll try to write more often. Yell at me when I don’t =). Thanks for reading!