From: erinmblair@gmail.com   
      
   TITLE: William's Fifth Birthday   
   AUTHOR: Erin M. Blair   
   E-MAIL: eblair@sonic.net / erinmblair@gmail.com   
   FEEDBACK: Yes, please.   
   DISTRIBUTION: OK to Gossamer, Ephemeral, The   
   Nursery Files, and MSR Fanfic Cheerleaders Archive.   
   RATING: PG   
   CATEGORIES: SRA -- Story, Romance, Angst.   
   KEYWORDS: Mulder/Scully Married.   
   SPOILERS: Existence then AU.   
   DISCLAIMER: Mulder, Scully, William Scully-Mulder, Emily Sim   
   (now Mulder) and Maggie Scully belong to Chris Carter. Melissa,   
   Katherine, Elizabeth, David and Megan Mulder belong to me.   
   SUMMARY: William turns five years old; Mulder and Scully's twins   
   are born on May 20, 2006.   
   NOTES: This story is for "William's Fifth Birthday Challenge" at   
   the Nursery Files. Elements at the end of the story. I would   
   like to thank Sally Bahnson for beta reading my story. This   
   story is a sequel to "Happy Birthday William" when he   
   turned three.   
      
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   "Mommy, Daddy - are you going to wake up!"   
      
   William tapped his parents, trying to get them to wake up.  He   
   saw his mother stirring, moaning softly from his incessant   
   attempts. "It's my birthday!"   
      
   Scully opened her eyes and focused on her son. "I know, William.   
   You're five years old today." She looked at Mulder and noticed   
   that he was still asleep. It didn't look like he was going to   
   wake up anytime soon. She got up and put on her robe. She walked   
   out to the hallway with William, hoping to get the excited boy   
   back in his room.   
      
   Unfortunately, there was no stopping the birthday boy. All he   
   wanted was to stay up as long as he wanted. He was looking at his   
   beautifully wrapped presents, especially the weirdly shaped one   
   that he couldn't guess. "Can we open the presents now?"   
      
   "Not yet, William. Your father and sisters haven't woken up yet."   
      
   "Mommy, come on! Let's wake up Daddy, Emily, Melissa, Katherine,   
   and Elizabeth!"   
      
   She laughed at his persistence. Just like Mulder, she thought   
   with a smile. "You remind me so much of your Daddy."   
      
   "Really?"   
      
   She nodded while gently rubbing her pregnant stomach. She was   
   about to say something when her oldest daughter was standing in   
   the hallway.   
      
   Scully and Mulder was blessed with another miracle   their   
   daughter, Emily Christine Mulder, who used to go by Emily Sim.   
      
   Shortly after William was born, Scully found out that Emily was   
   alive. And she found out comparing Mulder's PCR & DNA tests with   
   little Emily's that she was also his daughter. "Did Will wake   
   you, Emily?"   
      
   Twelve-year-old Emily nodded and frowned at her brother. "Yes, he   
   did."   
      
   "I did not!"   
      
   Emily sighed. "William, you woke me up with your screaming,  it's   
   my birthday!'throughout the house."   
      
   "You can go back to sleep. It's still too early for breakfast.   
   You can wait for a while."   
      
   "Mommy, I'm not tired. I want to stay up. Since Daddy, Melissa   
   Katherine, and Elizabeth are still sleeping, maybe you can tell   
   us about when you first met Daddy?"   
      
   "Mommy, I want to hear it again," William murmured excitedly.   
      
   Scully smiled. The kids always wanted to hear about the time when   
   she first was assigned to Mulder on the X-Files. "All right." She   
   paused briefly, looking at the faces of her children and then at   
   her pregnant stomach. She was still amazed, after all these   
   years, at how lucky she was. "I met your father when I was   
   assigned to debunk his work on the X-Files. I think you know   
   this, right? Well, that was our  official' version - all of our   
   friends know that, but the fact is that we'd always seen each   
   other before. We had brief meetings over coffee a few times.   
   Until the day that I was assigned to him as his partner on the X-   
   Files, our relationship deepened."   
      
   "Did these coffee meetings equal dates, Mom?" Emily wondered.   
      
   William groaned. "Mommy, did you and Daddy kiss a lot?"   
      
   Scully laughed. "I think you're getting ahead of yourself, Will.   
   The meetings at the coffeehouse didn't exactly equal dates,   
   Emily. We just happened to be there at the right time to get our   
   coffees but it did blossom into something more."   
      
   Emily mumbled. "Mom, back to the official version..."   
      
   "OK, Emily. Our first case took place in Bellefleur, Oregon. A   
   group of high school graduates was disappearing by an unknown   
   force - your Daddy thought they were being abducted by aliens   
   and I thought that it could be explained away by scientific   
   facts. Let's just say that it turned out that your father was   
   right."   
      
   "Mommy, was this the same case that you reopened when you   
   discovered I was in your tummy?"   
      
   "Yes, William. Years later, one of the graduates   Billy Miles   
   called us to report a string of disappearances by some locals.   
   Many locals were being abducted. Your Daddy felt that they   
   wouldn't return no matter how hard we tried to search for them."   
      
   Mulder walked into the hallway and hugged his wife. They walked   
   down to the living room. He sat down on the sofa with Scully   
   sitting beside him. William ran over to stare with his big hazel   
   eyes looking at the huge present. Mulder grinned at their kids.   
   "Are you telling them an X-File, Scully?"   
      
   "Mulder, I thought you were sleeping."   
      
   "I finally woke up when I didn't see you on our bed," Mulder   
   said.   
      
   Finally tearing away from looking at the big present, William   
   smiled at his father. "Daddy, I woke up Mommy and Emily! Today's   
   my birthday!"   
      
   "I know, Will. You're the big five years old today!" Mulder   
   tousled his son's hair. "And you're going to receive two big   
   surprises today."   
      
   "Two surprises, Daddy?"   
      
   Mulder nodded. He looked at Scully. "You didn't tell him, did   
   you?"   
      
   "Mulder, you know that I can keep secrets very well."   
      
   "What is he getting?" Emily asked.   
      
   "Your little brother or sister is due today," Scully said,   
   smiling. "But we're not going to say what we got him."   
      
   Emily looked at her almost-hyper brother and moaned. "But Mom,   
   he'll find out anyway... "   
      
   Mulder gave a knowing glance at Scully as they both knew that   
   Emily was right. "He's a smart kid, Scully."   
      
   "I know. We can't tell Emily with Will looking at his presents.   
   And my mom is coming over today for the party."   
      
   "Grandma's coming over to my birthday party?" William asked.   
   "Yay!"   
      
   "Yes, she's coming over, Will."   
      
   "Yay!"   
      
   * * *   
      
   After they got the kids to go back to bed for a couple of hours,   
   Scully snuggled with Mulder in their bed. "Mulder, what are you   
   thinking?"   
      
   "How lucky we are, Scully. I heard what you told Emily and   
   William."   
      
   "Oh."   
      
   Mulder fingered Scully's pregnant stomach. "I wish I was there   
   for you when you found out about William." He paused. "Sometimes,   
   I keep wondering what our life would have been like if I hadn't   
   gone back to Oregon with Skinner."   
      
   Scully was starting to feel pain in her lower back. "Mulder, I   
   know you feel like you've missed out, but you were there for us   
   when it mattered the most."   
      
   "I wasn't there when you gave birth to him. Monica was there."   
      
   "I know. You were there to bring us to safety and everything   
   afterwards." She paused. "When you came back to me, you were so   
   lost and so unsure what your place was in my life. After William   
      
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