TITLE:  Rescuing Her from the Nightmare Zone
AUTHOR: Erin M. Blair
E-MAIL: eblair@sonic.net / erinmblair@gmail.com
FEEDBACK: Yes, please.
DISTRIBUTION: OK to Gossamer, Ephemeral,
Fandomonium, MSR Fanfic Cheerleaders Archive.
RATING: NC-17
CATEGORIES: SRA -- Story, Romance, Angst.
KEYWORDS: Mulder/Scully Romance. 
SPOILERS: Nisei with references to Scully's
abduction arc.
DISCLAIMER: Mulder and Scully are at a vacation
spot in Canada. When they return looking happy, I'll
give them back to their owner, Chris Carter.
SUMMARY: Mulder's tender loving care for Scully leads 
to comfort sex. 
NOTES: Special thanks to Devin and Jen for beta reading 
this story for me. This story is for Fandomonium's Virtual 
Season of Smut for Season Three.

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She was in the nightmare zone, as Melissa had once described 
it to her over coffee a year ago. They had talked about the fear 
that Scully had about being in cramped places, unaware that 
she had been locked in the truck of her own car after Duane 
Barry took her on that morning in August. After she was 
returned, she refused to deal with her abduction ordeal. 

Although she had shared her feelings with her sister, she 
couldn't let herself talk to Mulder about her foggy 
memories. He prodded her a few times to let him in but she 
was always afraid that he would treat her differently than 
before. She wanted to remain the strong one for him, not be 
a victim. 

Some nightmares placed her back in the truck of the car and 
other times, she was on this table in a bright room having 
tests run by doctors. When Penny and Lottie told her that 
the memory came back in pieces, they were right.

Scully knew she needed to deal with it - it wasn't going 
away anytime soon. She needed to talk someone. She took a 
deep breath, picked up the phone, and then dialed the 
number that she had memorized by heart. "Mulder, it's me. I 
was wondering if you could come over."

"I'll be right there," Mulder told her. 

They talked briefly for a few minutes longer about the 
unsolved questions stemming from their case. They talked 
about what the diplomat wanted from Betsy Hagiopian, but 
nothing substantial had turned up. 

When she heard the knock on the door, she got up and 
answered it to see Mulder standing before her. "Mulder, 
come in." She led him to the sofa where she watched him 
plopped down. She sat down beside him and she saw him 
looking at her with his soulful eyes. In those eyes, she 
felt the warmth of his affection for her.

"I came here as fast as I could," Mulder said, wrapping his 
arms gently around her thin waist. He paused then added 
with a wry smile. "Don't worry, I obeyed the safety laws." 

She sighed. "I hope so. The reason why I called you -"

Mulder interrupted her, disentangling himself from the 
embrace. "You're still worried about what those women said 
to you."

"You know me too well, Mulder." 

"Am I right?"

She nodded. "I'm scared."

He pulled her close to him again, feeling his heartbeat 
quicken. All he wanted was to shield her from all the pain 
in the world, but knew he couldn't. He wanted to be close 
to her - to have her in his arms forever. "Come here." He 
smoothed a stray wisp of auburn hair back from her face. 
"You know I'm here for you, Scully. I need you so much. Let 
me in."

She nodded. "Mulder, you know I will." She disentangled 
herself from his embrace. She decided that this was finally 
the moment she had been waiting for - to show him her love 
for him. "I think we need to take this to the bedroom." She 
paused, noticing his startled look. 

"Bedroom?"

Scully nodded, smiling softly at him. "I'll finally let you 
in." 
 
"I don't want to hurt you."

"You won't, Mulder. I want you to take away how violated I 
feel from my nightmares. I want to show you how I feel 
about you - I can't hold back any longer." She gazed into 
his wondrous hazel eyes and could tell that she had almost 
rendered him speechless. "You know I love you, don't you?"

Mulder appeared to be shocked by this because he didn't 
seem to know how to answer that. He decided to let his 
heart decide for him when his lips pressed against hers. It 
was the start of everything for them. "I know."

**

She felt that she has been making love to him for years, 
even though this was her first time in his arms. Never 
before had she explored her perpetually deep feelings for 
him. Wet kisses bathing on luscious lips, skin to skin 
contact. She remembered the gentle throbbing of his penis 
when he entered her - and it gave her a pleasurable pain. 
This was a release from the frustration of hiding her 
feelings for him. It took awhile before an orgasm hit, but 
when it hit, she took to it like a cowboy on a horse. She 
rode the waves of passion to its fullest potential. This 
was a truly escalating moment for them both, but never 
explored by them until now.

She wished they had made love sooner than they did - like 
when they first met. She wanted him then. She knew if they 
had succumbed to their feelings that it could have been the end 
of them. They didn't know each other well enough like they 
do now - their feelings weren't as deep. 

As she reached out and stroked Mulder's dark brown hair, 
she'd been glad she came to him that night. She loved 
seeing his bare skin in the twilight and bending down to 
give him kisses on his chest leading up to those soft lips 
of his. She hadn't yet said this to him, but he made her 
feel so complete when she was in his arms. 

There would be more nights like these, Scully thought. She 
placed her lips onto his once more to give him another 
kiss. Each kiss was more sensual than the last. 

With his arms around her, she felt safe. For the first time 
since her abduction, she knew she could finally face up to 
the truth surrounding what happened to her. She could feel 
her fears about dying melting away and knew that Mulder was 
the one who had helped her deal with it. 

She remembered how he had held her in his arms after she 
had told him everything about the women she'd met at Betsy's 
house and what they said to her. She told him that she was 
beginning to remember what had happened to her during her 
abduction. 

He rescued her from her perpetual fear; she was out of the 
nightmare zone. There was nothing to be afraid of anymore 
because she didn't need to run from her feelings anymore. 
Mulder was there now, standing right by her side on their 
shared journey to the find the truth.
  
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The End