Title - Things Behind The Sun (4/?)
Author - Lady Disdain
E-mail - The_Lady_Disdain@mailcity.com
Rating - G
Category - 
Description - Story
Summary - The repercussions of claiming your having 
your partner's (who was just abducted by aliens) 
baby. 
Spoilers - seventh season finale (Requiem)
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Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, Fox does 
and I'm just borrowing them. I most certainly do not 
own Nick Drake(RIP) and his lyrics.
Author's notes: I realize that most people who read 
these stories do not even think of sending feedback 
but you can not begin to understand how important 
feedback is in the construction of a work. Also I've 
decided to change this into a many-part story. (Time 
Has Told Me is the first installment, A Place In The 
Cloud being the second and Way To Blue the third) I 
also apologize if there are any inaccuracies 
concerning the events of the seventh season finale, 
I'm sorry I didn't tape it and this coming from 
memory...*grimace* please tell me if I'm way off. If 
you haven't noticed this story is *not* a vignette 
like all of the other installments. I guess you could 
read this as a stand-alone but its so much nicer if 
you read all of the other ones too.
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Thy Summer's Play, Part 4
"Little fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing."
 - William Blake "Little Fly"
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Things Behind The Sun by Lady Disdain 
<The_Lady_Disdain@mailcity.com>

"Please beware of them that stare
They'll only smile to see you while
Your time away
And once you've seen what they have been
To win the earth just won't seem worth
Your night or your day
Who'll hear what I say
Look around you find the ground
Is not so far from where you are
Don't Do wise
For down below they never grow
They're always tired on charms are hired
From out of their eyes" 
- Nick Drake "Things Behind The Sun" 

The board director closed the file with a sigh as she 
brushed a stray blonde hair away from her pale face. 
A most unfortunate case, she had once held high 
expectations for Dana Scully. Agent Scully's original 
aberration from the expected career path 
was...forgivable. At a young age a woman could make 
such a mistake. There were more than just a handful 
of women in the FBI that wouldn't mind being Agent 
Mulder's "partner". But this, this was most certainly 
*not* understandable. The case was this, Agent Mulder 
is missing and Agent Scully is claiming that she is 
having Agent Mulder's child. The catch is Agent 
Scully is also claiming rather fervently that there 
was no improper conduct between herself and her 
partner. The board director began the feel a migraine 
coming on. She turned to the Agent Wicks and sternly 
told the young man to bring Agent Scully in.
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Agent Scully sat on the bench outside the boardroom 
door with her head in her hands and her stomach full 
of butterflies, it was not the first time she had 
been under administrative fire. But before she was 
not alone and it was not like this. This time it was 
not the validity of her work in The X-Files that they 
were questioning, it was her own ethics. The rational 
part of her brain said "Why not? You're going to go 
in there and try to explain how you're having your 
partner's baby *but* you didn't have sex with him. 
Doesn't that just kind of go against everything they 
taught you at medical school?" Before the other half 
of her could reply, a kid who looked just out of his 
teens stuck his head out of the door, smile and said 
softly, "Agent Scully? The board is ready to see you 
now."
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As the young woman walked into the room the director 
sat a little straighter in her chair, this was not 
going to be easy. Agent Scully walked into the room 
with her head held high and an air of calm and poise 
about her. 

The older woman took a deep breath and asked her 
first question, "Agent Scully do you have an idea why 
you have been called before this board?"

Agent Scully straightened her shoulders and hoped 
they couldn't see her knees shaking, she should have 
known they were going to do this, they were going to 
make her say it. "I believe that I have been called 
before you today because of some circumstances which 
I can neither deny nor fully explain. These 
circumstances are causing my ethics to come into 
question."

The director locked eyes with Agent Scully and pursed 
her lips, "Good Agent Scully, I'm glad you 
understand. We are hoping you can shed some light 
onto this report. The other board members and I are 
having trouble..." the director paused for a moment 
to find the right word, "...comprehending it."

"May I please have permission to speak freely for a 
moment?" Scully asked.

"You may."

Scully crossed her arms behind her back and slowly 
took a step forward, "In the seven years I have spent 
with the division called The X-Files I have seen many 
cases that neither my scientific knowledge nor my 
medical training can explain, the report which you 
all have in your hands also falls in this category. A 
few weeks ago it was thought that my cancer had 
ridden me barren, that I could never have child. But 
now, somehow I am pregnant. I can not explain how 
this is possible just as much as I can not explain 
how I know the baby is my partners. Because this is 
my claim, you and your superiors are concerned that I 
have had an improper relationship with my partner, a 
very popular rumor I might add but a rumor 
nonetheless."

The director propped an elbow on the desk and rested 
a hand under her cheek, "Agent Scully, I see you are 
not going to be forthcoming with these matters so we 
will have to proceed with questioning you." She 
turned to the older man sitting next to her, "A.D. 
Clarkson you may commence questioning."

The white hared man shifted in his chair, "Agent 
Scully, how would you describe your relationship with 
your partner?"

"I would say we have a very close and understanding 
relationship."

"Friends?"

"More than that sir. Although Agent Mulder cannot be 
here to testify to this, I would say we are best-
friends."

"Agent Scully, has your partner ever made any sexual 
advances toward you?"

Suddenly there was a flash of memories in Scully's 
mind, Eddie Van Blunt nearly kissing her, the near 
kiss in the Mulder's hallway, laying together in the 
motel room...
"No sir, Agent Mulder has never made any advances 
toward me. He cannot attest to this but I think we 
love each other very much but we both know not to 
cross that line."

Agent Clarkson said with a sneer "Its very nice, 
Agent Scully, that you are defending your partner 
since he could not be present today. I must ask, have 
you ever kissed your partner?"

"Yes sir but not romantically just a New Year's Eve 
kiss."

"I want you to think about this next question and 
carefully consider your answer, Agent Scully. Did you 
ever have improper relations with your partner?"

Scully stood there and thought of all of the times 
they held each other in their arms, one or both 
crying about something. She crossed her arms and 
said, "No Sir."

A.D Clarkson's face began to get red and his brow 
furrowed. "Agent Scully, I am not going to sit here 
and baby you any longer. You can most certainly may 
not come before this board claiming that you are 
pregnant with your partner's baby and say that your 
are very close to your partner but your never had sex 
with him. Agent Scully, babies are not just made 
without the knowledge of the parents!"

Scully, thinking about little Emily, tried hard to 
hold back the tears.

"Agent Scully, I want you to answer this question 
truthfully. Did you ever have sex with your partner?"

She took in a deep breath and raised her voice a 
little louder than she should have, "Have you ever 
been so close to a person, have you ever *loved* them 
*so* much that a physical relationship with them 
would be a step *down*?" By the end of that sentence 
Scully's voice was shaking, the entire boardroom was 
silent.

The board director leaned over the desk and into her 
mike as she stared coldly at the agent, "The board 
sees that you will not be forthcoming on these 
matters. As a last resort, Agent Scully, when you 
child is born it will undergo DNA testing. *That* 
should settle these matters. Understood?"

Agent Scully shook her head, "No m'am, I'd like to 
know how you have possession of Agent Mulder's DNA."

The director crossed her arms and rested them on the 
table and looked straight at Scully, "I suggest you 
not question our resources, Agent Scully, we have our 
ways. Until Agent Mulder comes back from *where-ever* 
he has gone, I am assigning you a new partner." The 
young agent sitting in the corner smiled and nodded 
in Scully's direction, "Agent Wicks you may introduce 
yourself later. Agent Scully, FBI policy states that 
you may take maternity leave as soon as you and your 
doctor deem it necessary. With some luck, Agent 
Scully, you will not have to appear in front of this 
board until after the testing of your child. Agent 
Scully, Agent Wicks, you may return to your work 
now."
***************************************************** 
Scully walked out the door as Agent Wicks held it 
open for her. After shutting the door behind him he 
turned to her and smiled. "Hi, I'm Agent Wicks, I'll 
be your new partner."

Scully sized up the man, no, boy as she shook his 
hand. He could be no more than three inches taller 
than herself. His black hair was cut close to his 
head making the agent look even younger. There was 
not even a single line on his face. She somehow 
mustered a weak smile back at him. "Please to meet 
you, let me show to my office." Scully did not bother 
to correct herself and say 'our office'.

Wicks smiled again, he was always smiling, "Great! 
Let me go get my stuff, wait right here." 

So once again Scully sat on the bench outside the 
boardroom, but this time her head was not in her 
hands, it was looking up at the ceiling. She was 
thinking, "Mulder, give me strength."

"And open wide the hymns you hide
You find renown while people frown
At things that you say
But say what you'll say
About the farmers and the fun
And the things behind the sun
And the people round your head
Who say everything's been said
And the movement in your brain
Sends you out into the rain"
- Nick Drake "Things Behind The Sun"
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