Title: Only Just Begun
Author: Lisa Cole
Category: V, post-ep for Requrium,  sequel to "Ironic Miracles" Scully POV
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Mulder is back
Disclaimer: Last time I checked, I didn't surf, and my name wasn't Chris, so I guess that means they're not mine. I'm not Karen either.
Thanks: To  Cheryl. Thank you so much for the feedback and the idea for a sequel!
Author's Notes: I didn't go into a lot of detail about Mulder's experiences, one, because I wouldn't know where to start, and second, because I think that should be left to one's imagination ... There are so many possibilities.

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Before the rising sun we fly.
So many roads to choose.
We start our walking and learn to run.
And yes, we've only just begun.
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Words eluded me when Mulder first came back. I just stood there; breathing, but just beginning to live again. How strange it was to actually feel my blood flow again. I simply wasn't used to it. But when Mulder came to me, planted that first kiss on my lips, I finally realized it really was him. I was finally awakened after seven months of walking death.
I didn't care about anything except that Mulder was standing in front of me.
I didn't even care that he seemed to just appear there. My scientific mind should have invaded the moment, and started to ask the questions: How did this happen? When did you get here?
What did they do to you? Do you feel all right? But I just stood there and let my passion rule me, instead of my sense.
Mulder's simple kiss soon became warm and sultry, filled with a heat I had never experienced before. He started to run his hands down my back, and tiny pinpricked thrills started to rush through me. It was so much better than before. It was like we had just begun again, fresh and new.
I was the first to break the kiss. Still out of breath, with my lips still slightly swollen and ruby red, the rational side of me had finally won the battle inside my head.
"Wait, Mulder."
And I started popping the questions at him, one after the other, like some crazed school teacher. But Mulder just stood there, a small smirk developing on his face.
"I should be asking you the same things," he said.
So, he just threw the same questions back at me again, and I remembered. I had  almost forgotten amidst the frenzy that had just now settled in my brain. "I don't know how to explain it. I'm not even sure if I even believe it. This whole time, I thought I was just going to wake up from a dream, but it's real. No matter how many times I try to convince myself otherwise, it's real. We are going to gave a baby, Mulder."
Mulder didn't do anything right away. I think for once, I had rendered him speechless.
And then, a real smile, the smile I had been craving for so long escaped across his face, and he took me in his arms again.
My voice slightly muffled from laying against his shirt sleeve, I said hoarsely, "Mulder, in all seriousness, are you all right? I think we should take you to the hospital."
"This is the only place, I need to be now, Scully; with you, and our baby."
With that, he smiled again, and held me tighter. But I just couldn't let it go. I had to know he was really all right. "We're here, Mulder, but I should really drive you to the hospital."
He grunted, but obliged, and we made our way to the emergency room. The car ride was fairly uneventful. Mulder just kept staring at me, this tranced look on his face, like some forlorn teenage boy.
"Mulder, what is it?" I asked.
"I was wrong. It's all worth it. It's worth it because you were there. Before I left, I felt like giving up, like it was the end. It may be the end for my quest, but it's just the beginning for us ... and our baby."
I started to cry. I couldn't help it. The tears started to take command, and I couldn't see where I was going, so I had to pull over. Mulder held me, and we both let oceans fall.

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Mulder and I made it safely back home after we finally made it to the hospital. The doctors couldn't find anything physically wrong, but we still had trouble explaining how Mulder could simply appear in the hallway. But for once I didn't demand a "logical explanation." All that really mattered was that Mulder had made it home to me ... to us.
We stayed up all night, and Mulder told me everything. I listened, wide eyed and unbelieving, as Mulder told me first hand about all the things he was trying to prove all these years.
"It was phenomenal, Scully, but all I thought about was you. You are all that matters to me now. We have so many roads to choose in life, but the road that leads me back to you is the only one that matters.
And Mulder wrapped his arms around me, and around my swollen belly, whispering into my ear, "We have only just begun ... We have only just begun."