TITLE: The Greatest Rewards (2/2)
SPOILERS: "Small hints" from the Pilot all the way through to 
Trust No1 including Fight The Future.
CLASSIFICATION: V / R / MSR
RATING: G
DISCLAIMER: These characters do not belong to any of us. 
Although, I know most of us fanfic writers would do a better 
job! **GRIN** I do not make money off of this. I have no money 
so please do not even bother to sue me. It's all for my fun and 
pleasure anyway.
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KEYWORDS: MSR.  Baby William.  Mulder and Scully POV.
SUMMARY: Mulder's and Scully's thoughts on how they made each 
other complete and found the truest of truths in each other and 
their son.
AUTHORS NOTES: Please e-mail me at xfmns4ever@aol.com and tell 
me what you think! Thanks to Celine Dion for her wonderful gift 
of music and voice. She is such a great inspiration for most of 
my fanfics. 

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The Greatest Rewards by Celine Dion from her new CD "A New Has 
Come" (March 2002)

So suddenly, so strange, life wakes you up, things change, I've 
done my best, I've served my call, I thought I had it all. So 
suddenly, so strong, my prejudice was gone, you needed me. I 
found my place, I'm different now these days. Now the greatest 
reward, is the light in your eyes, the sound of your voice, and 
the touch of your hand. You made me who I am. You trusted me to 
grow, I gave my heart to show, there's nothing else, I cherish 
more. I stand by you for sure. Now the greatest reward is the 
love that I can give. I'm here for you now and for as long as I 
live. You made me who I am. So suddenly, it's clear to me, 
things change. Our future lies in the here and now, we made it 
through somehow. Now the greatest reward is the love that I can 
give. I'm here for you now and for as long as I live. You made 
me who I am.

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SCULLY POV

With her eyelids just barely open, she noticed him lingering in 
the doorway gazing down at her. She could tell he thought she 
was asleep, but she just enjoyed gazing at him through peeping 
eyelids and didn't say anything. He was so handsome with that 
brown hair and those stubborn locks falling down on his 
forehead, his hazel eyes and that pouty bottom lip. William 
slept gently cocooned in her arms. She could Mulder was thinking 
about the early days in their partnership with her. I wonder 
what he is thinking about...probably about me sleeping on the 
couch, she smiled in her hazed look thinking about to a 
conversation they had about his bedroom and why he didn't use 
it.

"Scully, I'm a bachelor. You know how that story goes. Bachelors 
use their "bedrooms" for storage." Her lips curved into a slight 
smile. "Yeah, I know Mulder. Charlie, my brother, was the same 
way before he was married to Sarah." "Well, besides that, my 
couch is comfortable." "Well, I don't think so. I think we need 
to get you a bed and clean out your bedroom. I will even help 
you paint." "Oh, an offer I may not be able to refuse. Can we 
test the bed out?, he said waggling his eyebrows." "Mulder!" 
"What?! I was kidding!" She smiled broadly and laughed. He 
smiled back at her. She wondered why he didn't do it more often 
and decided it suited him. 

The bedroom conversation had taken place not long after being 
partnered with her. During their first case together in Oregon, 
she had laid on the bed of his motel room and listened 
attentively as he told her about his sister's abduction and how 
nothing else mattered to him. He told her it was the main reason 
he had entered the FBI 10 years earlier. He thought his job with 
the FBI could help him find Samantha and the truth he had sought 
for so long and could finally put his demons to rest. In the 
beginning she was very skeptical and prejudiced of everything 
that her science couldn't prove. He had put his all into finding 
Samantha. Scully realized that in Mulder's search for Samantha, 
she had had joined him for the ride, always coming back to him 
no matter what happened. It was as if they belonged to one 
another. Together, they had chased false leads, monsters, and 
ventured into many unknown territories. They had been the 
laughing stock of the bureau, stuck down in their basement 
office, day after day. "Mr. and Mrs. Spooky", everyone had 
called them. Scully knew she had suffered greatly because of 
this partnership, but she had chosen to stay with him and to see 
his quest through to the end because in the end, it had also 
become her own quest. She had lost her sister, been abducted and 
tested on and was now unable conceive. She knew that Mulder 
shouldered all of the guilt and responsibility for everything 
that had ever happened to her or her family. She also knew he 
felt responsible for the rift between herself and Bill. She had 
told him many times none of it was ever his fault, but he still 
shouldered the responsibility. She couldn't change that for him 
and so she kept coming back trying to save him as much as she 
could. After searching for years, she had finally helped him 
come to the realization that Samantha was in a better place. 
When he had been abducted, she knew he was alive and needed her 
to find him so she opened her mind to extreme possibilities, 
taking giant leaps as though Mulder would have done. She found 
this didn't come easy and she struggled with it greatly. After 
he had came back to her, it was then her relationship with 
Mulder finally took a turn, and, of course in her opinion, it 
was for the better. For the longest time, everything had been 
about Samantha and helping Mulder trying to find her. When she 
found she was able to conceive, she wasn't sure how she had the 
courage to ask him help her father a child. He stammered and 
said he would get back to her and needed time to think about it, 
but in the end he had said yes. It was the happiest day of her 
life, or at least before William was born and she would be 
forever grateful to this man who had given her so much. He was 
her other half, the part who made her whole and she knew it. She 
had listened to him tell her in so many words standing in that 
hallway, just as he was about to kiss her, before that stupid 
bee came along. Her thoughts then turned to William sleeping 
peacefully in her arms and she smiled. She thought back to first 
time she held William in her arms. She had been frightened that 
they would take her baby, but they hadn't. She was laying in 
that bed in that dusty abandoned building. Agent Reyes was there 
with her. She had wanted Mulder, but it was too dangerous for 
her, William and Mulder to be together at that time. She 
remembered how Mulder rushed in worried that Scully and the baby 
had been taken or hurt. She realized at that moment, her truth 
had not been about helping Mulder find his sister or helping him 
prove the existence of extraterrestrials, but the real truth she 
had helped him to seek for so long was cradled in her arms and 
kneeling right in front of her. It had just taken her too long 
to realize this real truth, but now she knew she loved him and 
their son and that was the truest of truths for which they had 
searched so long for. With everything they had been through, 
Scully knew that Mulder and William were the people who made her 
who she was right now. They were her future and her greatest 
reward in her quest for the truth and she would cherish and love 
them forever.