TITLE: The Good Fairy

AUTHOR: Cecily Sasserbaum (cecilysass@yahoo.com)

DISTRIBUTION: Archive anywhere, Goss, Eph, Xemplary, Spooky site. Anywhere else, sure, just 
let me know, please.

SPOILERS: Requiem.

RATING: R / NC-17, but just barely. 

KEYWORDS: Krycek/Marita, implied MSR, Krycek POV.

CLASSIFICATION: S, A, H, R

SUMMARY: Krycek and Marita are bad, bad, bad. They're also getting it on. (It's not slash, 
whatever the title implies.)

DISCLAIMER: I intend no infringement of copyright. It's just for fun.

FEEDBACK: Would be spiffy: cecilysass@yahoo.com

NOTE: A warning to anyone who pays attention to my fanfic, which may be very few of you: this 
isn't my usual MSR. It's darker. It's dirtier. It's from Krycek's point of view, and he can't always 
be trusted to be nice or even honest. You've been warned.

***

 I'm like the goddamn Good Fairy, really. Because in the end, everyone gets what they want. Their 
dirty little unspoken wishes.

Agent Mulder, for example, gets to meet his boyhood heroes. 

This is maybe my favorite good deed, because sitting here in this soulless office, thinking about what 
the fuck I'm going to do about all of CGB Spender's shitty little unfinished deals, I like to imagine 
Mulder getting all those lovely things shoved up him, and probably still kinda wishing to himself he 
had a little notebook, and maybe a little pencil, to write it all fucking down. 

Because you just know he hasn't given up yet. You just know he's murmurring to himself about how 
he'll get word to Scully and what their plans are and that the Truth can't be submerged forever and 
bullshit bullshit bullshit. He's so mind-numbingly predictable. Just like his father, come to think of 
it.

Second good deed, Agent Scully gets knocked up. 

And conveniently for her, it's without the pain-in-the-ass of Baby's Father. She's free to live out 
every Super Single Mom fantasy she's ever had, and to purchase every self-congratualtory 
empowering self-help book she's ever secretly wanted. I'd bet anything she eats expensive ice cream 
late at night, and fantasizes about colors for the nursery, and muses about private schools, and tries 
not to feel guilty for how little she misses Mulder.

Third, Marita gets laid.

This one is tied close with Mulder's as my favorite. Because Marita, let's face it, is a delectable 
screw. Those half-closed eyes, faintly distrusting, looking up at you. Full pink lips, a slight flick of 
her tongue. Pale smooth limbs falling eagerly open. Cool blonde hair falling over her face. I am 
surprised, of course, at how needy she is, how willing she is to be coaxed into my bed again. But I 
don't deny her, and as I am plowing into her, her legs pressed high above her head, I notice a flicker 
of some undescribable emotion in her eyes. Something like affection, or even, if I were less cynical, 
love.  

Krycek gets .... ?

And this is where it gets muddy. 

Because what is it that I get, after all? What is my great inheritance, besides the pleasure of Marita's 
bed and CGB Spender's splendid apartment? What do I do now, with all the power in the world, 
now that I have it?

"Mulder has turned up," Marita says. 

She's standing in the doorway to CGB Spender's -- I mean my --  office. Leaning, backwards, 
against the frame of the door. Her eyes scared.

"Where have you been all morning?" I say, pleasantly. As if trying to make conversation.

"Did you hear me?" she says. "Mulder's turned up. A John Doe."

"Oh yeah," I say, with deliberate indifference. "Is that so."

"That doesn't bother you?"

"Well, he's hardly a threat right now, is he?"

"No," she says. Her lips are pursed. She has that cautious, worried Marita look, that puckered 
tension in her forehead. She's sexy, inexplicably sexy. 

"Does Scully know where he is?"

"Not yet," she says. "But it will only be a matter of time. He's in a local hospital -- Georgetown, 
Room 910. He turned up in a dumpster in Foggy Bottom."

"Oh, brilliant," I laugh."That's brilliant."

"I don't understand, Alex," she says, sharply. "I don't understand why you're not worried. Wasn't 
the point that he would be gone indefinitely?"

"He's comatose, right? In a fucking vegetable state?"

"But he could recover."

"Yeah," I smile. "and he probably will. Because Mulder, like you and me, has this tendency to 
bounce back, doesn't he?"

She doesn't answer. Looks sullen. Disapproving. 

God, I'd like to push her back against the wall right now and lay into her. To surprise her into soft 
moans, unexpected.

"I was thinking about a new attitude towards Mulder and Scully," I say. "A more laissez-faire 
approach. I'm not so sure they are our enemies. Not like they were his, the cigarette-smoking man."

"Really."

"Yeah," I say. I'm not really convinced of it yet myself. "I think we can work with them."

"Work with them. Mulder and Scully."

"Yeah," I say again. "Exactly."  

It bothers me that she seems to think she knows more than me, that she doesn't think I know what 
I'm doing like old Spender did.

"Should I ..." She pauses, open and closing her mouth. "...give Scully a call then?"

"Give Scully a call?" I say, not comprehending. 

"Yeah, you know, tell her Mulder's room number? In the hospital? Maybe send flowers?"

"Oh, I get it. You're being a smartass."

"Maybe give them Xeroxs of all Spender's files? Offer to let them have a cut of his money? Throw 
them a goddamn baby shower?"

She's pissing me off. She lacks vision. She lacks perspective. She's dumb, cold, mercenary, unable 
to care about things like I care about them.

I'll show her.

I pick up the phone.

I dial, and she stands there, gaping. I hit speakerphone, just so she can fucking hear. So she can 
fucking hear what I'll say.

"Agent Scully speaking."

There's a pause. I clear my throat a little.

What does Scully do there all day, at the office? She probably knits? Yes, knits. Baby booties.  I 
picture her knitting.

"Scully...? It's Alex Krycek."

There's another pause. Scully's sharpening her knitting needles, presumably.

"Yeah. What do you want."

"I wanted to tell you that Mulder's back in town. Alive. Georgetown Hospital, Room 910."

Another pause. Marita's giving me this outraged look, this fucking-I-know-what's-what look.

"Why are you ..." Scully begins. She stops. 

"Is this for real?" Her voice is surprisingly small, surprisingly vulnerable. Pregnancy hormones, I 
guess. I bet she's dropped her balls of yarn in shock.

"Yeah, it's for real. He's comatose. I'd get my ass over there, if I was you, agent," I say.

And hang up the phone.

Marita's glowering. She's pissed as hell.

"I know what I'm doing," I say. 

"Oh, I'm sure," she hisses back. She'll probably storm out now, disappear for a while.

 But she doesn't move from the door. She's not leaving.

"I know what I'm doing," I repeat. More in control this time. 

And the thing is, I'm only half lying.

***

We arrive at the hospital right before Scully does.

"Vegetative, as expected," I comment, gesturing to Mulder.

"He doesn't look that unhealthy," Marita says. Her arms are crossed over her chest, at the foot of 
Mulder's bed. Her foot's tapping. Her brow's puckered. "He looks like he could walk out of here in 
a week, and be chasing down our asses in two weeks."

"Gosh, I had no idea you were a fucking doctor, Marita," I say sweetly.

"He's back in the picture now. Just look at him."

"Why does that bother you so much? You didn't want to get abducted in the first place. You've 
always been soft on the feds. What's this change of heart about?"

"He wants to kill you, Alex."

"Yeah, well, I want to kill lots of people but don't. If it's good business."

"You think you can make it good business for him not to kill you?"

She's staring at Mulder. Watching his eyes and mouth. 

And I wonder if Marita's ever had it hot for Mulder. I bet she has, I think, as she walks over next to 
him. Women find blind stupidity appealing in some way; I suppose it makes them think of dogs or 
babies and other devoted starry-eyed things.

That's not fair, really. Mulder's not stupid. He's not a dog or baby. But then he's no Alex Krycek, 
either.

"I know the right buttons to push with Mulder," I say. 

And right on cue, who should make her entrance but the very best button of all. 

Scully, minus the knitting needles. But suitably flustered. Pink-faced. Indignant at our presence. 
She's a swollen cream puff of a fed at this point. Hard to take seriously, if you must know the truth.

"Get out," she says. Her pitch is low and measured. "Get out of his room."

"Excuse me, Dana," I smile, "but don't you remember getting a phone call from me a few minutes 
back? A gesture of my good will?"

"You set him up in the first place," she says. I'm impressed, as usual, with her calm. She's one cool 
cucumber. Even inflated.

"I'm surprised you think that," I say coolly in response. "That's not true."

She's not paying attention to my performance now, though. She's staring at Mulder. Something 
unsteady about her. Like she's going to tip over.

And then she's leaning down, resting her lips against his forehead, releasing a deep breath. Slowly, 
strangely, she moves her head down him, finally leaning her forehead against his rib cage like she's 
imprinting his chest on her brow. Acting out the Pieta or some goddamn bullshit, I guess.

"You want to see his chart?" Marita asks, handing it to Scully. Marita's trying to go along with me, I 
see. She's playing it like I am: helpful, solicitous. She's following my cue. It surpises me. It annoys 
me, too.

Scully, from above Mulder, eyes Marita stonily, snatches the chart from her hands. 

"I'm sorry," she says sarcastically, her voice cracking a little, "but maybe I missed this. Was there 
something you wanted? Alex? Marita?"

"Just trying to be helpful," I say. "Show our good will."

"Oh you've got to be fucking kidding me," she answers. 

"Don't forget that Little Mulder can hear that nasty language," I say, gesturing to her belly. "I'm 
trying to initiate a partnership, or maybe, a truce, between you and Mulder and myself."

She rolls her eyes at me. "Not likely."

"You haven't heard the details, Agent Scully. It's not going to be that hard for you to swallow. Or 
him, either." I gesture to Mulder. 

It occurs to me suddenly that Mulder's motives are much more clear to me than hers. I can manipulate 
him. I know him well. But she's weirder. More opaque. She's the mystery.

"It's not a very good time," she hisses. "Maybe you could come back, when Mulder's not in a coma 
and I'm not days away from giving birth."

"If it weren't for me trying to make a truce," I say, lightly, "you wouldn't have Mulder back, and you 
wouldn't still be pregnant with a healthy baby, either."

That gets her attention. Her head snaps up.

"Get out," she says. 

She almost seems like she will cry, which surprises me. I thought she was made of sterner stuff.

"Let's go," Marita says. She pulls my arm, which annoys me. I get to choreograph exits. Why 
doesn't she realize that? Just me, no one else.

"Oh, we'll talk later, Dana," I say. "Maybe Fox, and dear little Fox, will be around for our next 
meeting, too."

Is that a threat? I don't know. It sounds half-assed to me. I wish I hadn't said it. I'm pissed at Marita.

But Scully, she doesn't look up. Her hand is wrapped around Mulder's. Her eyes are on him.

***

Marita doesn't talk to me the drive back; she stares out the window of the car in dark silence.

"And your issue is ...?" I finally say, as we walk into Spender's old living room, our living room, in 
the Watergate.

"It's wrong, Alex," she says.

I don't answer her. Since when are we worried about wrongness.

"It's not right," she paraphrases. "It didn't feel right, saying those things to Scully. It felt dirty. 
Stupid. Petty."

"Got any more morality lessons, Marita?" I say. "Because I'm already tired of this one."

"You weren't sounding like yourself, Alex," she says. "You knew it was stupid. You knew it 
wouldn't work to approach Scully like that, over Mulder's hospital bed, but you did it anyway."

It occurs to me that Marita understands Scully better than I do. Is it a woman thing? Are her 
motivations crystal clear to Marita, an open map? That pisses me off even more.

"And why, pray tell, is it wrong to try to ally ourselves with Mulder and Scully? Because we should 
really -- morally, of course -- be trying to kill them? We should be sending Mulder into eternal orbits 
around earth, or kick-starting Scully's cancer cells?"

"You're really trying to get them to work with us? It isn't a trick?"

"No," I sigh patiently. "It's not."

She looks out the window. "I just don't think it would be good for them to be on our side. To be 
working with us. I think the two things are best kept separate. "

"Kept separate," I repeat. "What the hell does that mean?"

"I mean ..." she trails lamely. "Let them do what they do, and let us do what we do. That's what I 
think our plan should be." 

I can't believe that's what she's fucking saying.

"Our plan," I repeat. 

"They're different from us," she says again. "They've got a different ... I don't know, path."

"Let's be very clear, Marita, I'm going to do what I, Alex Krycek, want to do."

She turns and stares back at me, blankly.
 
"That's the whole point of this. It has nothing to do with you. You're not my partner. I'm making all 
the plans now, me. I'm calling the shots. Not Spender, not Scully, and sure as hell not you."

She's silent. She's leaning against the wall, staring at me evenly. This feels good. I should let her 
have it.

"Therefore, if I want to win Mulder and Scully over, I'll get it done. If I want them killed, I'll do 
that, too. If I want their kid here, in my house, calling me daddy and shining my shoes, I'll do that, 
too."

Her eyes slide away from mine, looking at an angle.

"And furthermore, if I want you here, working for me, you'll be here. But if I want you working as a 
roller-skating waitress in Timbuktoo, you'll lace up the skates."

Her face is blank.

"And if I want you on your knees, in front of me, then ..."

But I don't finish. Seems unnecessary. She gets the picture.

She walks away.

Just leaves the room. Just like that. Goes to the kitchen, rummages around in there, where she's out 
of my line of sight.

She's getting ready to leave, I realize. She's getting ready to leave town. I've seen this coming.

There's a bang in the kitchen. She's shut a cabinet door. Getting out her dishes?

Where will she go, I wonder? Where will Marita flee to?

She'll be paranoid I'll try to find her, although she'll be wrong. I won't give a shit. I don't really care 
what she does. She can do whatever she wants. Go anywhere. Hardly matters. 

I bet she'll go somewhere small, anonymous, try to start over. It'll be a crappy life. Boring as hell. 
She'll be pathetic. A schoolteacher maybe. A real estate agent. Lots of small town intrigue, big and 
cheap midwestern houses, trashy bars. She'll indulge in impulsive fucks with big small town men, 
farmers and contstruction workers and policemen. Jesus, policemen. Big built Irish policemen.

She walks back in with a glass of wine, one of Spender's huge red wine glasses, beautiful. She takes 
a sip. Her lips are stained red. She's so sexy, it's maddening, it's ridiculous.

"Alex," she says. Then stops.

And she surprises me. It's so unfathomable, what she does next. So unexpected.

She laughs. 

She laughs, and it's not contrived, not a put-on to save face or to hurt me, she's really laughing. It's 
weirder still because Marita, in the time I've known her, hasn't been much of a laugher. Too 
nervous. But now her face is really soft, her eyes bright. She thinks something's funny.

I'm wondering what it is.

"Alex, I'm not going to betray you," she says finally. "I'm really not."

"What does that mean? What are you talking about?"

"You can call me your partner," she says, with a smile, "or your henchwoman, or your roller-skating 
waitresss, or whatever, Alex, but I'm not going to betray you. Talk smack all you want. I don't 
believe a word."

She's answering a question, I realize, that she thinks I was asking. An unspoken question.

I turn away from her a second.

If I was in a hospital bed, with some horrible and unexplained injury -- which isn't a completely 
unrealistic idea, really, it's certainly happened before -- would anyone stand and stare like Scully did, 
would anyone breath soft low sighs of relief that I was okay, would she would press her forehead 
against me and do all that pining and panting and ridiculousness that Mulder and Scully seem to take 
as required behavior?

It's stupid to think about. It's just sex. Just a good lay, a good regular lay.

Right. That's right.

But it's sweet, fucking touching, really. It's so fucking touching, that Marita would reassure me. 
Like we were college sweethearts. Kids going steady. Or Mulder and Scully.

I think she might. I think she might be there by my hospital bed.

It's so fucking comforting. It's unbelievably fucking comforting.

I turn around, and she's still smiling. Leaning against the wall.

"Hey," I say. I swallow a little. I take a step towards her. This sucks, having to do this, but I can't 
seem to fucking help it. "I'm sorry."

"I know," she says.

"We should, uh, discuss what our roles are going to be. I guess."

There's an element of darkness to her smile. Of sadness.

"You know, I'm fated to be here," she says. 

"Oh yeah?" I breath. My tone is gentler.

"You probably don't believe in this stuff, but I think I am. I'm fated to be here with you, continuing 
Spender's work. Getting in Mulder and Scully's way."

And it's weird, but I can almost see what she's saying. It makes a peculiar sense. 

I take a step forward.

"If I were a good woman," she says, "I wouldn't enjoy it."

"But you do," I say, softly.

"Oh yes," she said. The pucker in her brow returns."I enjoy you."

And I'm touching her face, lightly. Stroking her cheekbones. Letting my fingertips travel slowly to 
the back of her neck, burrowing into her hair there. Breathing in her ear. She closes her eyes. Her 
face is flushed.

"You think they should do their thing," I say, whispering deeply into her ear, "and we, together, 
should do ours."

"Yes, that's what I think," she breathes back. 

"That we should be partners. That we could continue his work together," I say.

"That's right, I do. And that they can have their baby and work all they want to but that they will 
never stop us," she says. "Because it's all about two sides to one coin, you know? They're the law, 
and we're ... "

She's distracted by my hands, my wandering groping hands, that are slipping beneath her silk 
blouse, moving slowly to her breasts.

"We're the darkness," she finishes, breathless.

I understand her, I realize.

"You're right," I say softly. "You're very right."

And as I sink into her, as I press myself against her sweet-smelling softness, I realize that she is 
right. She is perfectly and unarguably right, and I need to change my fucking thinking on this. I'm 
not fucking Napolean Bonaparte, after all.

Sure, on some level it pisses me off, it makes me nauseous. But she is right.

We belong together. We're a goddamn partnership. And I need her, desperately, like a fucking 
addict. Because no one wants to be alone in the darkness.

***

A week later, Marita comes back with a fucking ridiculous stuffed animal.

 A big fluffy rabbit, with a big fluffy blue bow around its neck. It's so absurd. What the fuck. 

"What's that?" I say. "A present for me?"

"A present for the baby," she says, straight-faced.

"The baby?" 

"Born today. Seven pounds eight ounces."

She hands me the card, and I read it.

And it's fucking hilarious, what Marita has written. I start to laugh. I laugh so hard I want to pee in 
my pants. It's the funniest fucking thing I've read in a long time.

"I guess you like it," she says, smiling. "It's not too campy, right?"

I scrawl my name under hers on the card, and look up at her. Cock my head.

"It's a masterpiece," I tell her. 

I mean it, too. I like this new identity she's created for us. It's classy, ambiguous, and fucking 
funny. Absolutely hilarious.

Because we are partners. The anti-Mulder and anti-Scully. Boris-and-fucking-Natasha. The two bad 
fairies. Cackling in our hilarious, hilarious evilness. 

"To Little Scully-Mulder, best wishes. From Your Evil, Evil Fairy Godparents. Marita and Alex."

Fuck. I'd give anything to see their faces.

***

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