Condoms (2/18) by Lola e-mail: lolabeegood@gmail.com Time: Set during and post-The Truth. Spoilers: Everything up to the end of the series. Summary: Mulder hates condoms for more than the obvious reasons. Overall Rating: NC-17 I do not own the characters. I do not make any money from this. Enjoy! ** They arrived at the motel outside of town and were pleased to see it had parking around back. Mulder knew they wouldn't catch on to the missing SUV they had escaped in for a few days but you can never be too careful. Tomorrow they would ditch it in a lake after sweeping it for all evidence. It would be a long time before the SUV was located. Scully had purchased a couple of big backpacks and, for a while, they would be camping and staying off the radar. Tonight was their last sleep in a bed for a while, a sleep both of them were looking forward to. Again Mulder found himself waiting in the cab of the van while Scully went inside to book the room. Instead of returning to the truck she walked along the path outside the motel and veered into the back of the building. Mulder followed her in the truck knowing she was leading him to their room. He backed into a spot in front of it and hopped out to unload the gear. Scully reached for a bag. "I got it" he said. "Go inside and relax. It's been a long day." "Mulder, if I help we'll get in quicker" she replied hastily while looking around. He relented knowing she was right. They threw all their equipment inside the room on the floor and Mulder turned toward the door. "I saw a path about a 1/2 mile back in the woods. Looked like an old road long abandoned. I'm going to drive the truck up it a bit and leave it there. I don't want anything outside this room that would draw attention to us." Scully leaned over to grab her coat "I'll come with you." "No, it's dark now and I'll just hike through the woods along the road back here. You stay, take a shower, relax. Order us a pizza. I'll only be 20 minutes." "Sounds nice. Please stay off the road though." "I will" he said as he advanced toward her bowing to give her a quick kiss. "And Mulder.." she started, pulling away to look in his eyes. "Yes" he replied looking down. "You'll need a shower too. I'm not waking up naked in a bed filled with sand tomorrow morning" she snickered as she wiped sand off his shoulder. "Ok, we'll get a different kind of dirty" he whispered as he turned to leave. With that, he was off to hide the truck. Mulder knew exactly what Scully was doing. He had known her too long to not know her this well. She wanted to make sure he didn't run off and she was using the promise of sex as a lure to bring him back to her. He knew he wasn't going anywhere. They had decided to do this together and that was how it was going to be. The path was exactly as he thought it would be rough, filled with ruts and very overgrown. Mulder didn't give a shit about the paint job or the struts of the SUV so he plowed through, hoping it would not rain and that he would not have to dig this out tomorrow. He locked it up and headed toward the road, careful to keep a good 30 feet in the brush. As he walked along the rain started. "Shit" he cursed to himself knowing the mud pie that would surround the truck in the morning. He could go back and move it before it got worse but he was tired, hungry and more willing at this point to dig it out then go back. Scully would be pissed but that was another day. By the time he got back to the motel it was pissing rain and he was soaked through. As he entered their room he could still hear the shower going and was happy Scully was taking some time for herself. She deserved it after what they had been through in the last 48 hours. "Hello?" Scully called from the open bathroom door. "It's just me" he replied as he grabbed a towel of the rack next to the bathroom door and rubbed his hair dry, peeled off his sopping clothes and rooted through the bags for new ones. He would have a shower later but he wanted to eat first and didn't want to greet the pizza guy naked. On que a knock banged on the door. Mulder quickly pulled on a pair of jeans and grabbed a t-shirt to pull over his head. "That's the pizza" Scully called from the shower. "Give me second and I'll answer the door." "I got it" Mulder replied knowing that it was probably safe to get it. He paid the kid who didn't even take out his ear buds through the whole transaction and locked the door as he shut it. "Smells great! Come and eat. I'm starving!" The shower stopped. "You go ahead. I want to dry my hair first before it goes all kinky." "I like it when you're kinky" he muttered "I heard that' she replied as he heard the hair dryer start up. "My stomach can't wait" he guiltily admitted as he reached into the box and grabbed his first slice. The pizza was delicious and before he knew it Mulder had eaten 4 slices. Scully emerged from the washroom all clean and dry reaching immediately into the box for a slice. She was just as hungry as he was. He looked at her and noticed the raised eyebrow. Half the pizza was gone. "What? I was hungry" was his only reply. She sat on the bed, he on the floor as she ate in quiet. 3 slices later she went to wash her hands and came back to lay on the bed. "What are you thinking?" she asked from her perch lying on top of the bed. "I'm thinking, that I'm a guilty man. I've failed in every respect I deserve the harshest punishment" he began the conversation. ** Continued in Part 3