From: sabo727@tampabay.rr.com   
      
   Title: So Still	   
   Author: Sara B.    E-mail:   sabo727@tampabay.rr.com   
   Feedback: Greatly appreciated and worshiped.   
   Spoilers: None, references to the Pilot		   
   Category: MSR   
   Rating: PG at the very most.   
   Archive: I'd be honored.  Please keep my name attached and let me   
   know where it will be.   
   Summary: Mulder watches Scully and ruminates about the past.   
      
   Disclaimer: The characters in this story belong to C. Carter and   
   Co., Fox and the wonderful actors who breathed life into written   
   words, most notably G. Anderson and D. Duchovny who were able make   
   us believe in the improbable.  The story belongs to me.   
      
   Gratitude: To Kim Knight, my `sort of' child.  We have never   
   met but we share too many interests not to be related somehow, thank   
   you girl.  Dennis for just about everything.  CC and Company, who   
   created the X-Files.  Lastly to the readers who, I hope will enjoy   
   this.   
      
   So Still   
   Sara B.   
      
   She was so still. I've been posting vigil at her bedside,   
   watching her.   
      
   She's been so still.   
      
   I remember that first day when she walked into my office.  Her hair   
   was darker then, a mousy brown.  I once asked her about it; her   
   answer didn't surprise me.  `Whenever I walked into a room,   
   two things happened.  The men looked at the hair and this stupid   
   birthmark.'  She pointed to the mole above her lip.  `Then it   
   was thank you for coming Miss Scully but we don't think...'   
   she paused shaking her head.  `You fill in the rest.  They   
   dismissed me.  It didn't take me long to figure out that I needed   
   to tone it down.'  She toned it down all right.  When she walked   
   into the room that first time, I took one look at her and decided her   
   `Ice Queen' nickname suited her.  It didn't take long to   
   find out just how wrong I was.  Spitfire, Stormy or Hurricane maybe   
   but Ice Queen was wrong for so many reasons.   
      
   She's so still, not even a twitch.   
      
   She's changed a lot since then, not just externally.  Gone were   
   the boxy jackets, her hair was `closer' to her real color and   
   the style was sleek.  The real changes are the ones you can't   
   see.  Her beliefs have evolved and her soul carries the deepest   
   scars.  She is still a staunch skeptic but she is strong enough to   
   admit that she now knows of things that shouldn't exist.  She   
   grew up in a home where duty and trust in the government were only   
   behind the belief in God.  She still believes in duty but to whom   
   that duty is for has greatly shifted.   
      
   She has yet to move.   
      
   This woman in the bed is a distant cousin to the woman I met so many   
   years ago.  Or so I thought.  They really are the same person it   
   just took me a long time to see beyond the facade, to discover the   
   treasure inside.  Yet I look back on that other woman with   
   fondness.  If `this' Dana Scully had walked into my office   
   then I would have missed out on the fun of unwrapping the many   
   layers.  I also couldn't have been able to keep my hands off her.   
      
   She remains unmoving. "Please move Scully."  I implore   
   quietly.   
      
   Her quiet sleepy voice breaks the silence, "dammit Mulder if you   
   want me to move, get that body of yours over here and move me."   
   A full Scully smile graces her lovely face.   
      
   I know my face mirrors hers.  "My pleasure Scully," and I   
   climb into bed with her.   
      
   "Mine too, Mulder, mine too."   
      
   End   
      
      
      
   ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~-->   
   Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar.   
   Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free!   
   http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/QsMolB/TM   
   --------------------------------------------------------------------~->   
      
   AXF is your list for ALL X-Files Fanfic... all genres, all characters, all   
   ratings.   
      
    Automatic newsgroup posting too! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/all-xf   
   Yahoo! Groups Links   
      
   <*> To visit your group on the web, go to:   
       http://groups.yahoo.com/group/all-xf/   
      
   <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:   
       all-xf-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com   
      
   <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:   
       http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)