I'd Know You Anywhere. Part 1/1 by Yonada yonada@hotmail.com NC-17 ******************************************* Authors Note: This is my response to Rhondda Lakes Halloween Mask challenge. It's taken me a while to get this posted and I'm not really sure that I am doing this right, but here goes. If is't all screwed up I apologize in advance. Spoilers: None Disclaimers: The characters and situations of the television program "The X Files" are the creations and property of Chris Carter, Fox Broadcasting, and Ten-Thirteen Productions, and have been used without permission. No copyright infringement is intended. The characters of Batman and Cat Woman also do not belong to me. They belong to someone else. I am only borrowing the costumes. Rating: R or NC17. Relationshipers warning: Mulder and Scully romance Summary: Mulder and Scully go to a costume party. Can they find each other and when they do will they know it? ********************************************** J Edgar Hoover Building Washington D.C. Oct. 24th 8:00 a.m. Fox Mulder looked up from the E-mail he had just received. "Hey Scully, did you get a mail message from Skinner about the costume party?" he asked. "Yeah, they turned it into a fund raiser." She answered "Now we're stuck going." "Oh come on it could be fun, you know, dress as your favorite space alien." "You mean you actually want to go?" she asked incredulous. "No. I'm practicing sounding sincere for when we to talk to Skinner." "Well, it is for a worthy cause and I've always liked dressing up for Halloween." She looked across at him with a completely serious expression on her face. "Really?" he was surprised. "No, just practicing for when we talk to Skinner." She smiled at him. "I really hate these things." "I know what you mean, but at least we can dress up as something fun, maybe I'll wear a bald wig and a bad suite. What do you think? Or.. oh, I know, I'll go as something really scary. Do you think they make a mask with Cancerman's face?" "Probably not, it would be too much competition for Freddy Kurger." She dead panned back at him. "So what are you going as Scully?" "I don't know. I really hate this... it so ... stupid. Isn't there an X-File we can go out of town on?" "I thought of that. Not a chance, there's this little note from Skinner attached to my mail. 'This means you Mulder don't even try to get out of it.' I had a great UFO sighting we could have gone on too." "So I guess we're stuck." "You going to take a date." He asked her hoping she would say no. "Oh right Mulder I'm..." "You want to go together?" he interrupted, going with Scully was the only thing that could make this endurable. "What, you don't have a date either?" she asked pretending shock. "I could get a date." He got his injured look. "I just don't want to." "Oh who, Bambi the blow-up doll?" "I could get lots of dates Scully." "You haven't had a date any more recently than I have." She reminded him. "It doesn't mean I couldn't get one. It just means that I don't want one." He hadn't wanted to go out with anyone since not too long after Scully had come back. It seemed like all he did was compare the woman he was with to Scully, and he had finally just given up. "What about you Scully, why don't you bring a date?" "I was....I and get dates too ...never mind that." I gave up dating right after I realized my dates weren't you, she thought, "Your right," she said, "We should just go together." "So, who do you want to dress up as Skinner or Cancerman?" he asked, he smiled, trying to picture Scully in a bald wig and glasses. She gave him one of those looks and then said, "I don't think I'm going to tell you." she stopped, getting an idea. "Mulder lets not tell each other what we're dressing up as, we'll do a really good job of it, then we can meet at the party and see how long it takes us to find each other." "You know, the really frightening thing about that Scully; is that it sounds like one of my ideas. Does that mean we're starting to think alike?" "Don't try to scare me Mulder." She was trying not to smile. "You up to the challenge, or do you think I can fool you and you just don't want to admit it?" "That sounds like you're saying you could do such a good job that I wouldn't be able to find you. Let's take this a step farther. Who ever finds the other one first, wins." "What's the prize? I need to know what I'm going to win." She looked at him smugly. "Humm... okay... I know, who ever wins has to do whatever the other person wants for a day." He gave her that smile. "You still up for it?" "You won't know me, 'till I find you Mulder, so plan for a very busy day." She held her hand out to shake on it. "Done?" she said. "Done," he replied. October 31st Harvard Plaza Hotel 7:30 p.m. Scully slinked into the party. She was wearing a Cat Woman costume: skin tight body suite, with extremely tall spiked heals that added several inches to her height; with the mask, the long dark wig and green contacts, no one had a clue who she was. She had turned a lot of male heads, but none of them had any idea that it was the very proper Dr. Scully they were drooling over. She got a drink at the bar and started to look for Mulder. Mulder made a dashing entrance as Batman. The costume with the full body armor completely disguised his tall thin frame and the mask covered most of his face making him as mysterious as the character he was dressed like. He got a drink and stood at the bar looking around for Scully. She shouldn't be too hard to find; after all he knew her better than anyone. He nearly dropped his drink as Cat Woman walked by. Wow! what a body. He thought about following her, but decided he needed to find Scully first and win the bet. Scully stood by the wall surveying the room. She noticed that her counter part was there in the form of Batman. Wonder who that is? she thought, better find Mulder first. There he is, she spotted a silly looking space alien gray and headed off to win the bet. "Can't you do any better than that?" She asked, walking up behind the alien. "What?" a very feminine voice asked, turning to look at her. "Oh sorry, never mind. I thought you were someone else...nice costume." She hurried off. Mulder spotted Scully; he was sure of it. Yes definitely. Short, big blonde wig, big... Dolly Parton. It had to be. "Okay, got ya, I win." He whispered in Dolly's ear. She turned to look up at him. A face that was definitely not Scully's looked back at him. With a big smile she said." Oh no honey, I think I win." He recognized her as one of the women that worked in the cafeteria and she was...well... not Scully. "Sorry I thought...excuse me." He took off so fast she barely saw him go. It went on that way for a while; they kept not finding each other, although they passed each other a half dozen times nodding and checking each other out every time. They both decided, that after they found the other, they would definitely have to meet this person and find out who it was. Eventually they both ended up back at the bar frustrated. They looked coolly at each other. He gave her his best seductive look and whispered darkly, "Hi, I'm Batman." This woman was beautiful who was she? She looked back at him and gave him a very sultry "Meeow," who was this guy? The bartender brought them both another drink and they stood next to each other, looking around the room for each other, after a bit Mulder still keeping the Batman whisper said, "So you here with anyone?" Not sure who he was, and not willing to give up her identity, Scully kept up the Cat Woman voice, but she really wasn't sure how to answer. She hadn't found Mulder, but technically she was with him, wherever he was. "Yeesss." She hissed, "Yoou?" "Yes." He nodded. God this woman was sexy. She had beautiful green eyes. He couldn't seem to take his eyes off of her. "Where's your date?" he asked. "Not here yet." She purred. The music had started on the dance floor and before he could talk himself out of it, he whispered, "Do you want to dance?" The music was soft and slow. She look up at him; he was so sexy he took her breath away. "Yesss." He held out his had and guided her to the dance floor. He felt a moment of guilt for dancing when he should be looking for Scully, but he would go look for her in a minuet. In the mean time he pulled this beautiful, mysterious woman into his arms. Batman and Cat Woman started a slow sultry dance around the floor. The song ended and the next one started, they kept dancing, holding each other close; the heat between them was amazing. They were hot enough on the dance floor that other people started to notice and wonder who they were. She hadn't felt like this about anybody except Mulder in...well since she met Mulder, but Mulder was her partner. He didn't want to let her go, he hadn't wanted to hold anyone like this except Scully, but he couldn't hold Scully like this, she was his partner. After a particularly slow sexy song; he leaned down and kissed her. The electricity flew between them, and the kiss deepened. Their mouths locked together, stopping didn't occur to them. They were interrupted by a male voice. "If you two plan to keep that up much longer I suggest you take it outside." They jumped apart to see AD Skinner standing there glaring at them, trying to figure out who they were, so he could have them killed later. Not wanting him to recognize them, they said nothing; and turned quickly to leave the dance floor. Scully had decided to get away from him; confused by her reaction to this nameless stranger, but he took her hand and pulled her down a hallway and into a side room. Crushing her against him in a deeply passionate kiss. She returned the kiss; her tongue dueling hotly with his. His hands roamed over her body sliding over the slick vinyl of the costume. She tried to touch him back, her hands searching for something that didn't feel like body armor. He couldn't believe he was about to do this. He whispered hotly in her ear. "I want you." "Yess." She hissed back, amazed at herself. There were no more words spoken; just the heat of their mouths and their hands touching, searching for ways past the barriers of the costumes. He managed to slid the vinyl costume off her shoulders and down past her hips, his gloved hands playing over her breasts, teasing her nipples to hardness. She found some of the fasteners to the Bat costume and at least managed to slid the bottom half down off his hips. She took him in her hands and stroked him; making him harder than he already was. He lifted her onto a table and covering her mouth in another deep kiss slid into her soft wetness. She gasped and moaned at the sensation. It felt so good, he filled her so nicely. "Oh Mulder..." she moaned into his mouth, not realizing what she had said. He froze, he was still all the way inside her, and broke the kiss. "What did you say?" his voice heavy and low, but, his voice now, not Batman's. "What...?" she asked, confused. Why had he stopped and... wait. Why did he sound like Mulder? He stared at her for a long minuet then. "Scully?" "Oh god.... Mulder? " realization hit. They stayed like that for another long moment, then he remembered he was standing here with a still extremely aroused part of his body buried deeply inside his partner? "Oh god... Scully." He still didn't move. She stared back at him, very aware of how good he felt inside her, but this wasn't some nameless stranger it was Mulder. She didn't know what to do either. Their eyes locked, he was still confused by the green, and the passionate hunger he saw there was something he had only dreamed of. He didn't realize that she was seeing that same hunger burning back at her. "Scully" he asked finally, "what...?" he stopped, not sure how to finish the question. What does one say when they suddenly discover they are having sex with their partner and best friend? "Mulder." She whispered, understanding the question, "this feels really good, but don't you think it would feel even better if we added a little movement?" He couldn't answer her, all that came from his lips was an unintelligible moan. He pulled back out of her and for a brief moment she was afraid he was going to stop, then he rocked his hips and thrust back into her, hard. An animal like moan came from somewhere deep in her throat and just when he would have thought he hurt her, she moved harder against him, taking him even deeper. He claimed her mouth again; their tongues echoing the movement of their bodies. His hips moving hard against hers; her arms holding him, pulling him closer, deeper, until they exploded together in mind altering ecstasy. Coming back to themselves; they were still together; holding each other, amazed, at what had just happened and not really sure what to say. "Well" he said gently, breaking the silence, "who won the bet?" he smiled at her running the back of his hand tenderly down the side of her face. "I'm not sure." her voice unsteady, "I think we both did?" "Yeah...what do we do now?" "I don't know .... go home?...get out of these costumes and..." "And...." he asked. "And..." she answered kissing him. And....... End: I'd Know You Anywhere. **************************************** Well that's' it. My version of their trip to the Costume Ball. I know it's a little silly to think that they wouldn't recognize each other sooner but I could happen....maybe. Let me know what you think. Happy Halloween and Happy Samhain. Yonada@hotmail.com