Those Days are Gone

Title: Those days are gone Part 7
Author: Mary Eve Parker ms.parker@gmx.at
Rating: NC 17 Category: Crossover Pretender / X-Files ~~ Parker POV, Scully POV
Timeline: tP-before season 3; XF- around season 5
Note: sorry that it took me so long but a block unfortunately doesn’t goes away on command and I really haven't been in the big writing mood at the moment 
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Those days are gone
By Mary Eve Parker


“Mulder, just shut up okay. I mean you fucked her; she obviously needed it because her hormones are racing at the moment and well, you did a good job. I am not interested in details.”

“Do you want it to be your business?” he asked me again.

In exactly this moment Jarod came into the room and I was more than thankful for it. He broke the silence that had been before killing me.

“Dana, I want to talk to you too in the living room if you have a moment."

He was a handsome guy, really - tall, a little taller than Mulder and more muscular with dark hair and chocolate brown eyes. His lips were regular and his shoulders tighter than Mulder's. His nose was smaller but his eyes a little bigger.
God can I only compare every male to Mulder? Yes, and this had been the problem ever since I met him. I really tried to date several guys but I never got them near my bed because they weren’t as funny as Mulder, their humour was just boring or their stories about their job less adventurous. They were not sporty enough or their hair wasn’t as Mulder's, their eye weren’t hazel. I really hated myself for doing that but I couldn’t change it, not anymore.

Sure I want it to be my business, sure. Hell, he was mine and I really wanted him to act like that. Parker, Sarah wasn’t the first woman he’d laid eyes on since we'd worked together but this had been so obvious. But from what he told me and how Sarah’s eyes started glowing when she saw Jarod standing in the door, she would never let Mulder touch her in this way.
She had never told me about Jarod, not really, just here and there a name or a small note about their childhood but she seems to hide it deep in her soul, and it still seemed to hurt.

I stood up and went with Jarod into the living room. I looked slowly back at Mulder who went to take Caroline with him. God, he’d be a good father.

“Sit down please,” Sarah told us.

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Dana was blushing. Had I interrupted something when I sent Jarod in? I think he’d told me or at least smirked when he re-entered the living room. Dana was still in her pyjamas and Mulder in his boxershorts and a t-shirt. His hair wasn’t made and I remembered how cute he looked when he was younger.

“What can we do for you?” Mulder asked me and I smiled at him.

Jarod sat next to me and held my hand. He looked so good and it felt so right to have him here. His kisses feel like so many years ago and his touch so familiar even if he’d never touched me like that before. We agreed that we couldn’t make out here in the living room. God because if he really would have started, I wouldn’t have been able to stop him. Not this time, after such a long need to see him.

“I asked her to marry me!” Jarod said and smiled at me. God this had been the most significant moment in my life when he knelt down and proposed.

“I want her to marry me as soon as possible. I want to go tomorrow to town and speak with the priest. And after getting married I want to go with her forouplouple of days, so say four, to Salzburg or even Vienna, and wanted to ask you if you could stay with Caroline.”
Mulder looked at Dana and that she smiled at him and nodded.

“Okay it’s not a problem,” he said to Jarod with a smile on his lips.

Can I say that a knot loosened in my chest when I saw those two happy faces smiling at me after we told them this?

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Is that like a fairytale or not? They seem to fit so perfectly together. I didn’t know in the beginning what this would be about but now … I’d never told them not to take the baby. She is a lovely little girl and I am good with kids, I’ve been told.
I smiled at them and their entwined fingers. Will this ever happen to me?

“Tomorrow when I am there at church I want to ask the priest to baptize our little Caroline.” Parker said, “And I want you two to be their godparents.” She took a deep breath. “I’ve known you for so long Mulder that I really have to ask you if you feel okay with this job and you Dana; you seem to be … you seem to be able to read his mind. Okay I reallye toe to say this now. God … you two fit together like fire and water, lightning and thunder.” I started to blush instantly. “I don’t understand why you, Mulder, haven't made a pass at her yet because I remember that you were pretty good at that a couple of years ago.”

Parker really has said it. I can't remember the moment I went from crimson into a new shade of deep red, maybe getting violet or something like that. I only noticed that even my hands and arms changed into this colour.

“Parker you …”Mulder tried to say something.
“Don’t say a word. I don’t want to hear an excuse or anything else. It’s not my business. I know that you blush when I speak of it, so it has to touch you somehow. Talk to her and you Dana talk to him. Now we’ll talk about Caroline.”
“We want Caroline to have godparents who take care of her if something happens to us and it isn’t easy to take care of a small kid. But you can never know nowadays and I want you to know that you two would be the ones …” Jarod said.
“I think we could do that, don’t we Mulder?” I asked him and he nodded. Somehow he seems to be sitting closer to me than before. I felt his body heat ‘touching’ me.
“And I want you two to be there for her when she is older. I mean they never go to their parents if they really have a problem, you two should be her friends, somebody to talk to.”
“I think we can do that too,” Mulder said and grabbed my hand and played with the not existing ring on my finger.
“And I want her to have Dana’s name as her second name,” Parker added and I smiled at her.

I’ve never been godmother of any child of my family because I always found a way to sneak out of it but now I was finally ready and I was happy to be godmother to a child like Caroline- a baby who already has taken a place in my heart.

“It’s not a problem Sarah really.” I said and smiled towards her. I think that smile was as big as the Milky Way.

The day went forward. I helped Sarah in the kitchen and Mulder went with Jarod to chop wood outside.

“You know Dana that there aren’t a lot of people I can trust enough with this.” Sarah said and sat down at the kitchen table, peeling potatoes.
“You mean with Caroline?”
“Yes. She and the baby I am carrying are the only two things which really remind me of my past and of our future. I want Caroline to be safe. I can't tell you the whole story now Dana and it's not important but you have to swear me that whatever will happen, you’ll be taking care of her, raise her like she’d be yours.”
I sat down beside Parker and she put away the knife and turned towards me. She started to hug me and buried her head on my shoulder. “I know how it feels to be lost alone, to be the only one….” I let my hands trail around her back, hugging her and letting her cry. Maybe she really needed it. I do sometimes, just cry and nothing else but normally nobody is there to hug me.
“She will never be alone Sarah, I swear it.” I said and meant it.
“You don’t know how much this means to me Dana, really.” I sobbed and I let her cry for a little longer.

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I really lost it when we sat in the kitchen. I’ve never told anybody about my mum but I told Dana. I told her after I cried how much she’d meant to me and how much I miss her. She’s such a fantastic woman and not a bitch as I thought in the beginning.
She told me about how much she missed her Dad from time to time and her sister. How much she misses them when she sits alone on the sofa in her living room, waiting the telephone to ring. Her sister normally called at night to speak with her, only chit chat but it meant a lot to both.
And she was also Mulder’s best friend and knew about Mulder’s grief for his sister and what he would do to get her back.

In the evening, after my fiancé had been sleeping for several hours we ate dinner and Dana asked me if we have a game here, something to play in the evening.
“What about strip poker” Mulder said and the whole table laughed, even Dana.
“Mulder that’s typical you …” She said and laughed.
“And ?” Jarod asked giggling into the round.
“I don’t think that this is such a perfect idea boys. No free shows today.” That had been my statement towards it. No way, nt tnt to get naked in front of them at the moment. I was so bad at poker.
“Truth and Dare?” Mulder asked.
“Oh yes Parker truth and dare.”
“You can't let it go, can't you Mulder?” Dana asked him seriously.
“How often do I have two such beautiful woman to play with?” he said and grinned. Typical Mulder, really. He loved to play, even years ago.

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It’s really Mister Porn with the triple X collection which didn’t belong to him. But in the end I’ve agreed to this game; don’t ask me what moment it hit me that it could be really fun to play it. Not just torture for me, real fun to get things out of Mulder which he’d normally not tell me.

“Who starts?” Jarod asked.

We were all sitting around the coffee table sipping our coffee, Sarah nursing her tea.

“What about you little redhead,” Mulder teased me with an amazing smile.
“No Mulder you should start, it was your idea.”
“Yes it was yours Foxy,” Sarah agreed with me. We both laughed.

“Okay … I chose“ he looked into the round, “I chose … you Parker …. Truth or Dare?”

~End Part 7 ~
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