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Full fic here: Ao3-- Birth Day

Birth Day

Rating: Teen/Mature Timeline: s7 AU Tags: pregnancy/birth, msr, fluff Words: 1.4k

A/N: Look, y’all. Here be some graphic descriptions of birth. I’m not super into babyfic or kidfic, but this right here is my jam. I’m honestly not sure what this is, really, except pure self-indulgence. Like, there is no point to it whatsoever. It’s just a birth. A good, healthy one, and sometimes it’s just nice to think about those (rather than the nonsense depicted on TV).  Also, my headcanon is that, in all possible worlds, Mulder & Scully end up in the unremarkable house because that perfect, messy, isolated cottage at the end of a long driveway, surrounded by tall grass and thick trees, is their destiny.

The “Melissa didn’t die” fic referenced in the prompt is here (but it is absolutely not necessary to read beforehand. Just know that M&S got together in season three—hence the slightly accelerated timeline for baby-making.) Tagging @marinafrenzy for the Labor Day Challenge!

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September 4, 2000 Farrs Corner, VA

The baking heat of August has given way, so that the morning air blows almost cool beneath the leaf-shadow. He holds her hand in his, brushes his thumb across her knuckles. They walk under the trees, in the woods behind their house, alone together for now. She leans into his hand, leans against his bicep, because her gait is not quite steady, now, and every few minutes she squeezes his fingers, breathes heavier. He pauses to look at her, at the flush that has crept onto her face.

“Scully,” he says. “Dana.”

She looks at him and her smile is just this side of forced. “Yeah?”

Hand on her swollen belly: “You okay?”

She tilts her face into the breeze, where a few strands of hair blow across it, escapees from her hasty ponytail. She lets it calm her, the coolish air, then nods and tugs his hand to keep walking. “Mm hmm. Let’s walk.” But as she takes a step, he feels the muscles under his hand go hard, her whole abdomen rigid. She stops.

“Hey,” his face slack in panic, both hands now hold her belly. “Honey, these are contractions.”

She lets out a small grunt. “N-No,” she says. “It’s okay. I’m fine.”

Mulder looks at his watch when the contraction lets up, eyes the sweat-sheen on her forehead. “We are going back,” he says. “Right now.” He is already pulling out his phone, his other arm around her waist to hold her steady as they walk.

“Melissa,” he says when the woman answers. “Yeah… yeah, I think it’s time. Can you come?”

“Melissa, I’m fine!” Scully calls toward the phone at his ear. “It’s not time!”

“Is that Dana?” she hears, tinny and quiet against Mulder’s ear.

“Yeah,” he says. “She says she’s fine, but—” Scully slows again and he looks down to see her breathe heavily into another contraction. He checks his watch. “The last set of contractions was only four minutes apart.”

“I’m on my way,” Melissa says.

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