#established romance

Excuses Excuses by: mldrgrl Rating:PG

She awakes to a noise of some kind - a door shutting or steps on hardwood.  Her eyes open slightly and her brow furrows.  It’s dark and she’s disoriented.  

“Caught you red handed, Goldilocks,” Mulder says.

“Mulder?”  She rubs her eyes with one hand and tries to push herself up onto her elbow with the other.  “What’re you doing here?”

“What am I doing here?”  He laughs and turns the bedside lamp on, making her squint and turn her hand in front of her eyes.  “I live here.  What are you doing here?”

“I was feeding the fish.”

“Now, that’s talent.  With the fish being out there and you being in here.  Practicing telekenesis?”

She brushes the hair out of her eyes and blinks at him.  He helps her with a few unruly locks by pushing them over her ears.  

“No, I…”  She realizes she’s got one of his t-shirts tucked under her arm - the one she fell asleep hugging.  He glances down when she does and while she blushes, he smiles.

“Miss me?” he asks.

“You weren’t supposed to be back until tomorrow.”

“It is tomorrow.  Technically.”  He tips his wrist and shows her his watch.  It’s after 1am.  “I just decided not to stay overnight.”

“Oh.”

“I missed you.”

She blushes again, this time with a smile.  “Mulder,” she whispers.

“Besides, I thought I might find you here.”

“You did?”

“Don’t think I never noticed how when I’d be gone for a weekend you would ‘feed the fish,’” he said, lifting his hands to make air quotes with his fingers.  “And that was before we were even…”

“How could you possibly know that?”

“Your perfume lingered quite nicely on the couch.  They don’t pay me the big bucks at the FBI to not notice these things.”

“Maybe a time or two.”

“I’m glad you upgraded to drooling on my pillows instead of the cushions.”

“I don’t…”  Her protest dies when she glances down and sees a tiny wet mark on Mulder’s pillow.

“It’s okay, you can drool on my pillow anytime, Scully.”  

She tracks him with her eyes as he kicks off his shoes and then crawls over her to lay down behind her.  He pulls her into his chest and she folds her arm over his.  He chuckles as he plucks the t-shirt out from under them and she takes it from him before he can toss it away, hugging it while he hugs her.

“My bed felt too big without you,” she says.

“The car was too quiet without you.”

“Take me with you next time?”

“Then who would feed the fish?”  He kisses the shell of her ear and then reaches over and turns out the lamp.

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Romance doesn’t end with “I Do” 

I’m with you on the 80% 5 seasons. I mean I guess they could do the following two season as an exploration of the troubles of leading a new society and all. How would their romance factor in?

Well I’m kind of hoping for an end to the will they won’t they new romance and actually a return to their partnership of season 1 but this time as an established couple. This show isn’t about romance, so they could totally make their love into the backbone of the show without it being about sexual tension. There would still be room for other characters to have the new romances and sexual tension. And it really could be about the way they work together and lead. Because they are NOT just two kids who are hot for each other, and they’ve spent three season WITHOUT canon romance when the writers have explicitly said they are NOT telling a bellarke romance. So an established relationship between Bellarke would not harm the story they are telling, would it? Because the story is not about getting them together. Right?