Condoms (12/18) 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! *** Mulder woke because a beam of sunlight was peaking through a spot just under the curtains in their bedroom and hitting him right in the eye. Scully's naked, sweaty, body was literally stuck to him under the sheet they were laying with. Unfortunately, it was for all the wrong reasons. A heat wave had hit Georgia this July and life at the Poteete Creek Campground was very sticky and hot. They spent most of their days in and out of water to keep cool and, because they were so drained at the end of the day, had not had sex in almost a week even though they had taken to sleeping naked to keep cool. One part of Mulder's body was begging for a break in this dry spell. As he tried to lift her off him, her skin peeled painfully from his. "Owww" she grumbled as he unstuck her arm from his shoulder. "Sorry, Scully. I think we have melted together" he quipped as he tried to gently peel her chest off himself. With that, she quickly rolled from him unsticking their skin in one swift movement. "Owwww!" they both gasped. "Was that the whole band aid theory?" Mulder asked as he rubbed his sore chest. "I thought quicker would be better" she said as she grasped her sore nipples "I think I was wrong." "You think?" he griped at her. "Sorry" she replied as she laid a hand over his red chest. "It's okay." "Maybe we should sleep farther apart so this doesn't happen again" she offered. "Are you kidding? Despite the pain," he started as he wrapped an arm around her waist "that is my ultimate fantasy--to be stuck to you, naked." "Really?" she smiled back. "Really" he began "now I need to inspect for further damage." Mulder quickly pulled the sheet off them and straddled her body in one swift movement. "I didn't know you were so agile this early in the morning, especially in the middle of a heat wave" she smiled up at him. "I am going to make my own luck Scully. I'm not waiting for this heat wave to break, I'm tempting fate, dehydration, and possible loss of consciousness and having sex with you, right here, right now." "You romantic fool." He grabbed her wrists and stretched her arms out on either side of her body as he flattened himself against her. He slowly began to kiss her jaw and then down one arm paying particular attention to the inside of her elbow which was always very ticklish. "All's good so far" he said as he nudged the underside of her breast with his nose and kissed his way down her ribs, across her belly, and back up to her breasts. He encased the bulk of one in his mouth and started to suck hard on the tip. Painfully hard, but Scully liked it that way. He suckled her for a long time lightly biting her nipples and teasing them with his tongue. "Mulder, sometimes I think when you do that" she said between pants "you are hoping for a payoff." "My payoff is making you happy" he replied, although he knew exactly what she was referring to. It was not long after Mulder had returned from the dead and discovered that Scully was in danger that he started to spend lots of time at her place. He wanted to keep her and the baby safe and the best way he could do that was to be close by. He fell asleep on her couch the first few evenings he came by and woke up in the middle of the night with a blanket tucked around him. Those nights he went to check on Scully and then went back to the couch. They may have been in a relationship before, but many months had passed, she was pregnant, and he wasn't quite sure what to do about how their relationship had drastically changed overnight. It had actually been months but he had little recollection of that time and it seemed like everything had changed in a few short days. One night he woke up to no blanket and a chilly feeling all over his body. He went to check on Scully as usual, and found himself standing and shivering as he looked down at her in the moonlight. "Mulder," she mumbled "get into bed, your teeth are chattering." "It's okay Scully. I'll go back to the couch" he said as he turned to leave. "Why?" she asked as she opened her eyes. "Why, what?" he tried to act innocent. "Mulder" she called his bluff with a raised eyebrow. "I don't want to..." he started as he looked to the ceiling for guidance "...to...to...crowd you Scully. It's been a while, your feelings may have changed, you have enough on your plate, I just want you to be safe and happy." "I'm safer and happier when you're in my bed Mulder" she replied as she sat up. "I think...I think you want to me hear that but, I also think you are not sure if you mean it." "I do mean it Mulder" she said as she lowered her legs to the floor to stand "really, what's going on right now is what's making me unhappy. Since you've been back..." she began "...I think I know where we stand one minute and then, I'm totally confused the next. I want you in my life Mulder, now and always, I want you in our baby's life, now and always. But....but I need to know that you want it too. Because if you don't we need to stop all this, right now." She reached out and grasped his hand in hers rubbing the back of it with her thumb. "Scully," he sighed "I have to be honest. I don't know how to do this. My parent's relationship was shit, my dad was crappy at the job of being a father, and I'm very scared that I just don't have the knowledge to...to...to do this well. In fact, in the last few weeks I think I have proven I don't know how to do this." "But do you want to?" she whispered. "Very much so" he conceded. "Then we'll figure it out Mulder. We'll figure it out together." He followed her to bed that night and many nights after that. The first few nights they just held each other but one night Scully started to get frisky. "What are you doing?" he asked as she reached under his pajama pants. "Checking to make sure everything is in working order" she grinned. "I can assure you it is." "Don't assure me. Show me Mulder." "Scully, shou...shou...should we?'" he stammered. "The baby will be just fine Mulder, but I am having trouble falling asleep and I need your help" she said as she undid the drawstring on his pants. He quickly got to work removing her top and ran his hands up and down her naked, full, belly marveling at the tightness of her skin. "Wow" he commented as he grasped her breast. "Careful," she cautioned "they're sensitive." "They almost require their own zip code" he beamed as he gingerly took one into his mouth suckling it. "Ohhhhh" she gasped as she grabbed for the bedsheets. "You okay?" he asked as he removed his mouth. "Keep...keep doing that" she panted. He gently enveloped her breast with his mouth again and began to suckle on it like he knew she always liked. Within a few minutes in he was greeted with a clear sweet fluid filling his mouth. "Uhhhh, Scully" he said as he looked up at her and she looked down to notice her breast was leaking fluid and his mouth was also dripping it. "Oh Mulder, I'm sorry you must have triggered my let down." "Your what?" he asked as he tried to plug the leak. "Breastfeeding. My body is getting ready for it. You must have triggered a reaction." she said with raised eyebrows "you can just leave them alone and it'll stop." "Will it hurt the baby or cut down on supplies available? Or Scully, does it hurt you?" "What? No. It re-generates. And as for me it actually feels really good" she said as she looked at him confused. "Then I'm in" he grinned as he sucked her breast again. "Ohhhh" she yelled as she gripped the bedsheets. Mulder moved his way down her body from her breasts to her thighs and was quickly stimulating her with his tongue as sweat dripped from his forehead onto her curls. "Mulder" she panted "as much as I like this....I don't know if we'll make it to the act if you keep this up. Let's go quick and dirty for once, ok?" "I love the way you say 'quick and dirty'" he commented as he raised his mouth from her and reached for the condoms sitting out on the bedside table. "Maybe I should say it more often then." "No, not too often. I like taking my time with you" he replied as he sheathed his penis in the latex. He quickly mounted her and was inside gyrating against her as she thrust herself toward him time and time again. They were having wild, sweaty, furtive sex. So, when the banging began on their front door Mulder roughly jerked inside of her as he was coming and she cried out in pain. He winced and pulled out as she scooted away from him and reached for nearby clothes. She was trying to pull shorts onto her sweaty body while he kneeled there stopped in motion by the feeling washing over his body. "Be right there" Scully called as she tugged on a tank top. She walked out of the room and Mulder rolled to the side so he was out of eyesight. He heard some mumbling from a man and Scully and then the door shut. She returned all flushed and out of breath. "He just wanted to know if we had decided to stay on longer or if he should start telling people the trailer will be available soon. I told him we'd be gone at month's end" she said as she ran a hand through her hair. Mulder just starred at the slack condom on his penis, unable to speak as he watched it drip onto the sheets. "Mulder? Mulder, what's the matter?" she asked as she kneeled on the bed beside him. She followed his eyes down to the condom and starred at if for a moment wondering what was different. He knew when the realization hit her because her eyes widened and her hand immediately grabbed between her legs. "It broke." "I know." "I came inside you as well." "I know." "Scully, please tell me your not ovulating." "Quiet. I'm trying to think." He lay there in silence watching her as she closed her eyes and mentally counted dates in her head. He was hoping her response was going to be a good one. Then, he saw her face fall and knew it was not what he had desired. "I need to go into town" she said quietly as she went to get off the bed. He reached to grab her arm. "Scully?" "Not now, Mulder" she said as she pulled away and walked into the kitchen. "Damn it, Scully" he said as he punched the bed and maneuvered to pull off the condom. Noting the lack of fluid inside it he realized he had come almost entirely inside her. Mulder threw the broken latex into the waste bin in the washroom, pulled on some boxers and joined her in the kitchen. She was standing at the sink holding a cup of coffee in her hand and starring out the window at a tree. "Scully," he began as he moved to wrap his arms around her. To his surprise she allowed him to. "Shhhhh" she replied. "But.." "No, buts Mulder, no buts." "I...I...I just don't know what to..." "It was the heat." "What?" "The heat deteriorated the condoms, for gods sakes Mulder we left them sitting in the sun in our bedroom for weeks now. In a heat wave nonetheless." "I thought maybe it was when I..." "That may have contributed" she acquiesced "but it wasn't the only reason it broke." "Oh." "Yeah, oh." "So, you are ovulating?" he asked, already knowing the answer. "Like a fertile bunny" she replied as she took a sip of her coffee. "What do you want to do?" "I need to go into town and find a clinic." "I'm going with you." "No, Mulder. You can't." "I'm going with you" he said as he turned toward the bedroom to find some clothes. While he was dressing he watched her through the open bedroom door as she just stood there starring out at the tree, not moving. He knew he needed to get this birth control issue taken care of or this was going to kill her. ******************* Continued in part 13