Title: Continuity Series I (spoilers) Author: Alelou Feedback: Alelou123@aol.com -- please don't forget the 123! Rating: G Disclaimer: Not mine, Chris's. Grrrr. Category: H, Chat Angst Spoilers: "Within" plus SPOILERS for future episodes (none of which may be true) Distribution: Help yourself. Notes: My surly attempt to supply the missing continuity from Season 7 to season 8. This may become a continuing series, though I'd certainly prefer NOT to feel the need. SCENE CUT FROM "ALL THINGS": SCULLY: (waking from sound sleep on the sofa) Oh. (She re-orients herself, then wanders into the bedroom, where Mulder is snoring gently. She looks at her watch and shrugs, then begins to undress.) MULDER: (awakens as she quickly slips under covers). Scully? SCULLY: Mulder, it's me. MULDER: You're naked. SCULLY: That's right. MULDER: Um, did I miss something? SCULLY: That depends on your point of view, I guess. MULDER: We *were* discussing some pretty intense issues when you inexplicably fell asleep. SCULLY: Yeah, we were. MULDER: So, to summarize... SCULLY: I was saying how all things seemed to have led us to this moment... MULDER: Like this one, where you're naked in my bed. SCULLY: Yeah. MULDER: Look, I'm really sorry, Scully, but I have a headache. (SCULLY stares at him.) MULDER: Seriously. SCULLY: (feels his forehead) No fever. You look perfectly fine. MULDER: I know. The picture of health. It's strange. SCULLY: But you have a headache so bad that you can't have sex with me? How about I get you an Advil and we wait twenty minutes? MULDER: Well, it's a little more serious than that -- a little brain inflammation. SCULLY: Brain inflammation. MULDER: Yeah. SCULLY: So, um, shouldn't we be going to the hospital, Mulder? MULDER: No, I've got it all under control. SCULLY: You've got *brain inflammation* under control? MULDER: Doing everything that can be done. Don't worry about it. It's minor, really. SCULLY: (sighs) This just figures. MULDER: But I want you to know that you're still my touchstone, Scully. In fact, I would go so far as to say I consider us romantically involved. SCULLY: Romantically involved? Really? MULDER: Really. SCULLY: Well, in that case... MULDER: Yes? SCULLY: Would that little brain inflammation prevent you from being a sperm donor if I wanted to use some high-tech methods to get pregnant? MULDER: Huh? SCULLY: Because when you mentioned David Crosby on the sofa earlier, it got me thinking. MULDER: You want me to be the father of your child? SCULLY: Well, sure. You're my touchstone too, after all. Even if we apparently can never, ever have sex. MULDER: That's so sweet. Well, I'm sure I could manage to donate some sperm. But I'm not sure how good I'd be as a dad. You know how I'm always running off ... (coughs) disappearing ... what if I wasn't around as much as I should be? SCULLY: Well, it would be hard, but I'm sure I could handle it. No doubt I'd struggle along bravely. MULDER: Well, that's that, then. It's decided. SCULLY: Great. I'll make the appointment. xxxx SCENE CUT FROM "BRAND X": SCULLY: Sorry I disagreed with you about the surgery, doctor. It's just that, well, Mulder's had a chronic headache for a while -- and I think his inflamed brain might make more surgery risky. DOCTOR: Gosh, he seems perfectly healthy except for those bugs hatching in his lungs. I would never have guessed he has a brain inflammation. SCULLY: I know, it's really strange. But he says he has it under control, and I trust him implicitly. xxxx SCENE CUT FROM "JE SOUHAITE" MULDER: So, have you ever had someone who was slowly dying of a rare brain inflammation use one of his wishes to be cured? JEN: No, but I did have a guy suffering from an enlarged prostate ask me to cure him, once. MULDER: So did anything bad happen? JEN: Believe me, you don't want to know. MULDER: Damn. I guess it's just not worth the risk. JEN: Well, your brain and your prostate are not the same thing, you know. MULDER: Pretty closely related if you ask me. xxxx SCENE CUT FROM HOLLYWOOD A.D.: (In the limo, our two agents are relaxed and happy.) MULDER: So Scully, if you have a girl, can we name her Teena? SCULLY: (surprised) Teena? MULDER: And William if it's a boy? SCULLY: Mulder, I didn't think you were all that fond of your family. MULDER: It's really strange, Scully. Ever since Mom died, I feel much closer to her. I'm not sure why. I'm beginning to think it was really Connecticut I didn't like, not her. In North Carolina I feel much more connected to the whole family thing. SCULLY: Mulder, why is your mother buried in North Carolina when your family never lived outside New England? MULDER: Oh, well, you know Mom loved a bargain. Do you have any idea how expensive cemetery plots are in Greenwich? Not to mention flowers? So she saw this plot being auctioned off on the Internet... xxxx SCENE CUT FROM "FIGHT CLUB" (Scully and Mulder usher their guest out of their office and regard each other wanly.) SCULLY: Well, I guess it's safe to say you're not finally going to up for any sex today. MULDER: No. Sorry. SCULLY: Me neither, to tell you the truth. MULDER: Oh well. One nice thing about chronic brain inflammation ^" it really puts all these other minor and disfiguring injuries in perspective. SCULLY: Well, I'm glad it's good for something. xxxx SCENE CUT FROM "REQUIEM" (Mulder and Scully are still spooning on his bed.) SCULLY: Oops! MULDER: What? SCULLY: I forgot to use my Crinone gel. MULDER: Huh? SCULLY: You know, that stuff I have to use every day in case the IVF implantation that I had one and a half weeks ago actually resulted in a viable pregnancy, which we should be able to determine with absolute certainty by Tuesday? MULDER: Oh yeah. Hey -- do you think *that* could be making you dizzy? SCULLY: Dizzy? Gee, I don't see how. MULDER: Oh. Well, I guess you'd know, since you're the medical doctor. SCULLY: And you're still not able to have sex, huh? MULDER: Sorry. This headache just won't quit. SCULLY: But you've still been working out, I see. Pretty darn buff arms, there, Mulder. MULDER: I know. It's really strange. SCULLY: I don't see how I could be pregnant, anyway. I mean, if I were, that would be a complete surprise. I think I'd be happy, though. MULDER: Well, you did have IVF a week and a half ago, so it's not totally beyond the realm of possibility. SCULLY: Still, it's such a long shot I'm sure I'd still be totally and completely surprised. MULDER: I guess I can understand that. By the way, Scully, if anything should (cough) happen to me, you do know that my fish food is the middle drawer of my desk, don't you? SCULLY: I'll try to remember, Mulder. I don't think my memory is all that good lately. I can't even remember how I got this cross. THE END