From: pecan@hotmail.com   
      
   Title: Enchanted Shores   
   Author: Truthwebothknow1 dragonrider1@ntlworld.com   
   Rating: PG. One or two naughty words and lascivious thoughts in the romantic   
   sense. estabished relationship.   
   Category: MSR, FLUFF,  A, X   
   Spoilers: None really, various stories from the Virtual season. IMTP   
   Feedback: Yes, love it but after two exclusive weeks on the VS Circuit.   
   Disclaimer: CC and FOX owns the whole kit and caboodle. I'm just having fun   
   with them for my own amusement and no profit. I send them home clean to   
   Chris. LOL   
   Archive. Anyone who wants it is welcome. Please ask me though .   
   Enchanted Shores   
   Blue anchor Bay Shore. Early morning.   
      
   White horses lapped the shore as the stiff early breeze hurried it along,   
   licking foamily over rocks and at exposed timbers of the old quay. Bringing   
   with it a delightful spray of salt breeze and ozone. Scully inhaled it all   
   in as she watched Mulder pick up rocks and tried to hit the red and white   
   buoy, bobbing just a few yards out in the shallows. Even though it was cold,   
   she felt a sudden warmth flood her soul.   
      
   She smiled at the ever-present kid that hovered just below the surface of   
   the man she loved. He liked to take her away from the bustle of D.C. as much   
   as he could and Valentines Day was no exception. They had both needed to get   
   right away this year with all the bad things that had plagued their lives;   
   the revelations in his mother's journals, their own brushes with death,   
   Charlie's dark complicity within the consortium and the untimely death of   
   her only other sibling she felt she still loved, Bill.   
      
   So this was what Mulder had been planning for more than a month, his   
   secretive behaviour worrying at times, but when she found out that his treat   
   this year was a weekend in an old colonial lighthouse in Maine, she almost   
   jumped for joy. Just the two of them away from crowds, endless sea and sky,   
   great food, a real log fire and just each other's company. He called this   
   The Enchanted coast and it certainly was. Just natural beauty that made her   
   feel fresh and alive and whole again. Miles from anywhere and filled with   
   all the peace and solitude they could handle. Together. A celebration of   
   what they had become to each other.   
      
   She adored the sea of course, but as he had been raised in small towns in   
   various old money places all up and down the New England coast she knew it   
   pounded calming surf through his heart too.   
      
   The soft crunch of feet through wet sand broke her out of her reverie as her   
   partner approached her, grinning like a little boy bringing her a natural   
   sea treasure.   
      
   The man with the child in his eyes.   
      
   "Look Scully, a horseshoe crab. Must be a really early spring this year." He   
   hefted up the cumbersome creature so she could have a better look.   
      
   She smiled at him broadly, wiping her wind blown hair from her eyes and   
   running slim fingers over the smooth rounded shell of the crab.   
      
   "Mulder I love your impromptu show and tell but he really looks like he   
   might pee on you or snap off your finger. "   
      
   Mulder laughed, "Nah, he's reaaaal laid back, kinda smooth like Skin man's   
   head...sorta looks like one of those German soldier helmets from "Hogan's   
   heroes", don't it?"   
      
   "Umm Nazi helmet with attitude..." She giggled as the predicted crab pee   
   suddenly cascaded all down his best Levis."   
      
   "Aw shit Scullee!" Mulder yelped jumping back in alarm and falling on his   
   ass with a soft thud in the sand.   
      
   " That could be his encore. Best let the angry little fellow go back to the   
   sea." She did try to curb her giggles but he looked so funny hopping up and   
   down with wet sand encrusted denims and the errant crab scuttling to get out   
   of his grip, it was near impossible.   
      
   To his horror she produced her digital camera from her coat pocket and   
   snapped his misfortune while he struggled to stand on the uneven sand, the   
   odd little crab's legs flailing about with him.   
      
   "Hey not fair,.. What the f...Ow!!" he yelled as it suddenly latched onto   
   his little finger with extreme gusto. "Damn thing", he cried dropping the   
   crab like a hot potato and stuffing his abused finger in his mouth and   
   sucking hard. Eyes looking watery and childlike.   
      
   "Oh Mulder, you dropped the poor thing, look there he goes, back to the   
   sea." Mulder scowled still nursing his finger as they both watched the newly   
   liberated crustacean scurry down the sand in readiness for the next waves to   
   take him away from his abuser.   
      
   "Poor thing my ass, look what it did to my finger." He stuck it under her   
   nose so she couldn't miss it, or the pout that had taken form on his bottom   
   lip." Look".   
      
   "It's a good job we are not on an actual case. Just love to see you fill in   
   a medical insurance form that says, " Finger snacked on and lacerated by an   
   angry Limulus polyphemus."   
      
   " Ha, ha. Clever clogs, Bob Ballard. They're not supposed to bite!!" he   
   whined, cringing as she poked at it."   
      
   "Well this one certainly did. Be glad it's too cold for sporting your   
   Speedos. A nasty nip elsewhere might have ruined our romantic weekend plans.   
   "   
      
   "Hmmph!....ouch!"   
      
   "Sorry, now hold still."   
      
      
   Scully attempted to pull her face into doctor mode as she carefully   
   inspected the now swelling pinkie. It did look painful. She stifled another   
   giggle as she chanced another look up at his face. Yes the pout was still   
   there. So irresistible and sexy. At least it was only his finger and pride   
   that was hurt. She had plans for him later with certain un-abused   
   extremities. Her tongue flicked over salty lips with some unbidden erotic   
   images. At the same time she heard Mulder take a deep breath but that could   
   have been due to her ministration of his finger.   
      
   "There, there, G-man, be brave. I have some ointment I can put on this once   
   were back at the lighthouse. You did piss it off you know. Teach you to put   
   your fingers where they shouldn't go."   
      
   His face broke into a smile at that, humor and innuendo warring within his   
   hazel depths. Scully snorted. "Don't even go there."   
      
   "What? What did I do? "   
      
   "It's not what you did, its what is going on in that unscrupulous mind of   
   yours. " He was about to make a suitably solicitous retort when the sun   
   suddenly blazed through Scully's hair and lit her eyes a riot of blue fire   
   that almost stopped his heart. She looked like a sea siren and he felt a   
   magical lure to disappear into her and never come out again.   
      
   His feral grin melted into one of awe and he suddenly leaned over, took her   
   head in both his large hands and pressed his lips to hers. First her lips,   
   which she opened to accommodate his questing full mouth and then peppered   
   tiny kisses all down her neck along the curve of her jaw. She tasted like   
   heaven and salt and he loved every inch of her. For a second his eyes   
   levelled with hers as she opened them again, making his catch fire almost   
   with the love they seared into his own.   
      
   They stayed like that for a long time, letting the rising sun warm them and   
      
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