From: alberto.liebschner@t-online.d
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 18:04:16 GMT
Subject: Continuance of a journey.William.atxc

Continuance of a journey(1/1)
by
Casandra William

All Characters Mulder,Scully etc. ,names and events referred to or used in
this donīt belong to me, but to Chris Carter,1013productions and to Fox
network.  No infringement intended.  You may archive it ,as long as my
name stays attached to it . 

Hi you readers of Fanfic ,itīs me again with another try to write down
another version for a conclusion of Gethsemane , it appeared in my mind
before I had actually seen Redux 1and 2 on TV.  You can blame me or grill
me ,no use I go on writing.Nevertheless Iīm always happy for comments and
like to have my piece of writing critized. 
e-mail:alberto.liebschner@t-online.de

Now on with the show an enough of talking!

Continuance of a journey :
by Casandra William

Spoiler: 4.Season up to Gethsemane
Rating:PG
Summary: Scully is paid  a visit in the night after Mulderīs pretended
suicide and  she then follows a track that might lead her back to her
partner.
Category:A,Mulder/Scully UST and slight Romance

Washington D.C,8p.m:
Finally the commitee  let her go  and she was allowed to live out her grief
without any questions of commitee members ,staring and anticipating looks ,
just she  and the thoughts about her late partner.
Silently she took the steps down to the parking lot in front of the Edgar
J.Hoover building , so left her life of the past 4 years behind her. Weird
so, still.    She reached her car, a familiar silver Ford,but didnīt dare to
look at her reflection in the window, the feeling of slow tears running down
her face was enough.Now she could live out all the emotion ,having build
during the hearing ,which she had not allowed to find its way out in front
of all the strange people. Just in the end  ,shaken by the thought of
Mulderīs dead body,single tears had freed itself.
Now alone on the drive home ,flashbacks of her past 4 years began to rise in
her head:
-- Mulder asking her for her medical opinion  on their first working day
together.
--sitting together in Mulderīs car in front of  a house with Tooms in it,her
admission of trust in  him.
--hugging Mulder hard in the hospital after Penny Northam īs death,he
kissing her on the forehead.
- he looking at her with a cold expression of shock in his  eyes after   her
admission of his involvement on her disease.
Painfully ,remembering this last memory,she past the last streetlight before
her appartement building and parked the car in front of  a tree next to the
entrance.
She walked through the now dark building , at this time of day,and made her
way to her appartement,opening the door,taking out her real emotional state
and throwing the outward  appearance of formal detachment away in the
corner,stretching out on the sofa, the meaningful one bearing also hard
memories. She closed her eyes, taking a deep breath after all the things
that had broken into her world not within months like her getting sick with
cancer ,but within now almost two days.
Now she felt how alone she really was ,after all,with the little but
meaningful interference by Ed Jerse and Eddie van Blundht, apart from her
partner Mulder.
The damn guy,blowing away his head and leaving his partner-what a word for
them both-alone in her fight against a deadly disease.Cancer... Now in total
view she realised how their partnership had changed after her being
diagnosed with cancer:
First the coming closer,but then separating because of her difficulty to
deal  with the real state of her disease .Her disability of talking  and
telling him her fear of  a possible death,and also the including
consequences of all this:
the destroying of hidden dreams to come true.
Hanging with these thoughts for some time ,she felt very tired and her mind
started wandering around away from her body still lying on the sofa,began to
create a new image,or less new but comfortable picture,she always flet to in
bad or hard times:
Herself sitting on a beach,looking out on the sea, awaiting her fatherīs
signals from a passing ship,the sun shining down warm.Just to feel the
warmth and freed from all problems,a great feeling. She loved to let her
mind wander that place, but today also this didnīt help to ease her feeling
of lose.
Finally ,she found sleep and just the cold position on the sofa without a
blanket might have bothered at other circumstances, but not now.Lying asleep
like this she didnīt hear footsteps in the hall in front of her appartment
And then the using of a key ,fitting with the form of her door.
In the dark a large figure came through the door ,and stopped at the sight
of the form lying on the sofa.
Sighting, the dark person ,wearing a long trenchcoat came closer to Scully,
carefully avoiding to make any noise.He sat next to her on the sofa and
touched softly the womanīs red hair.What would her reaction be like,when she
woke up right now. Would she be shocked to see him?Shout at him? Hug him
maybe?
No ,the dark haired man could not imagine this to happen.Not after all that
had happened in the past few weeks:
He breaking into Scullyīs appartement andf interrupting an intimate moment
between  his Scully and Eddie ,the tail man.-Why "his"Scully ?When had he
started to think like this about his partner of four years?
She not telling the truth about the fourth victim she saw  as a kind of
vision in the bathroom and not revealing to him her real state of health.
His thoughts were interrupted by a slight movement by the person lying next
to him?What will her future be like,he thought.A fast dead ,a coma because
of the tumor, a rescue made possible by him?Only time could tell !
Silently he looked  at Scullyīs face ,realising the peace that lay on her
face; no argueing ,no fearing,no laughing
to exspect within the next hours!He smiled  at that thought,stroking her
again.
But he hadnīt that much time to stay,unfortunately.The Crawfords waited for
him to come back,after he had left them to see his partner.They had rescued
him after he had learned that all his search was not for the truth but for
the lies.The dead body found in his appartement was just an exact
reproduction of his genes made by the Crawfords.Together with them he now
searched for a possibility to save Scully.
Looking at his watch and realising what time it was,the man got aware that
since his arrival  a whole hour had gone by. It was really time to leave,as
hard as it was .But he would see her again, if the time for that had come.
Leaning in to her face he lightly touched her forehead with his lips , made
his way to the setting of the tumor amd hovered there for a minute.His heart
pounding with the fear of her waking up ,he went back and stood up.Silently
looking back once more the person left the room and little later the sound
of footsteps was gone in the hall outside.
Scully opened her eyes and streched her arms.She looked at her watch and it
was 3 am.Slowly she made her way to the bathroom and when she saw her own
reflection in the mirror on the wall ,she saw a red mark on her forehead.
Looking at it once again her pulse got faster ,could it have any connection
with her dream?
End of part 1
Comments ,both constructive and destroying are welcome.

Part 2: Hope will come along sometimes
Spoiler and rating :See part 1
By Casandra William

In the morning ,Scully woke up by a phone call;momentarily her next thought
was Mulder calling for some change in their working schedule,but then she
began to realise what things were like now.No calls in the night anymore
.For one a relief but also somethig to miss terribly.
She picked up the cell phon after some more rings and answered,when she
first heard just a slow breathing in the phone and then the signal for
disconnection.A familiar sign from her first year ,when Deep Throat wanted a
meeting with Mulder.But after Deep Throatīs death this tradition stopped
with Mr.X.Now that he was dead too,there was no informant she knew
about.Just once her partner had asked her to find a number in DC, when he
needed help and information on the Tunguska rock:Maybe just a fake.She would
have forgotten the  call ,if there hadnīt be  a blond figure next to her
car,a woman she hadnīt seen before.Scully made her way to the car and when
she approached the driverīs side  the woman asked:
-Ms.Dana Scully?
-Yeah ,what do you want?
I have information, that we should not discuss on the street
-Who do I have the honor with?
-Marita Covarrubias,from D.C!
-Youīre an informant for Mulder ,right?,Scully remembered the name.
-Yes!
-So common in.
Scully had to fight with her temper , but opened the car and the woman
followed.
-So what information do you have?
Heīs alive.-
-Who?
-Mulder!
-How is...?she didnīt get further, the body in Mulderīs appartement in  her
mind, printed like a photograph.-
-He has found a safe place and told me to inform you about his being alive.
--For the first seconds  Scully was stunned.But then had her composure back
and asked.
-Where is his safe place?Are you here to tell  me this too?
-Yes,he wanted  me to tell you to meet him tonight at a road diner ,on the
way to Pittsburgh ,you knew  about it.
-A road diner?
-Right ,wait there  from 19.00 hours time ,everything will be arranged by
then.Trust him. Bye then itīs a nice car the FBI provides its agents.
And with these words the blond young woman left the car to dissapear the
next moment.
So , so much for that. Scully  started the car and made her way through the
morning traffic towards the FBI-office-building,once again.While driving she
thought about her conversation only minutes ago.Was it the truth?
Was he alive? Who was the dead  then in the appartment?Just a hoax,the
second
in a week?Should she believe the message  ? Or was it a trap,only this time
for her?Enough for now,she could  decide it  later.With that, she parked in
front of the  FBI-office and went to their pavement buro of four years .
Down there nothing had changed,all the posters and photos still very
familiar,also her still new desk. The desk...but that was another story.She
sat down and right then  A.D. Skinner came in.
- Agent Scully how are you today?
-Quite good ,sir.Thank you for your concern. Anything new?
-No unfortunately, there is no development in the lab report about the two
other victims in the warehouse with the faked alien.If thereīll be one at
all.You know.
-I know .Thanks anyway sir.Anything else?
-No .Iīm sorry.I contact you if there is anything new.Alright?
-Thank you sir.
She saw the  unspoken anticipation in Skinnerīs face and was relieved when
the A.D left.Enough to think about in here.A slight smile came to her face.
She had come to sort through the cases that were still without solution to
maybe follow one path.Right after seeing the dead body,she had thought about
giving up her work and becoming an Agent in another section ,but had given
up the thought little later.It had become her life ,finally she had accepted
that.
Why now?It could saved her many tears and pain,just one move.But too late
for that.Or maybe not.He wanted to meet with her.She couldnīt think of work
now.Although,what she was actually thinking about was her working
partner.Funny somehow.Should she go to  that diner,in fact "that" diner
,they had used it quite a few times.A good sign for once.So why not try
,nothing to lose.-Donīt be always that sceptic.You knew the informantīs
name.Well then,still some time left.It was  approxmately 100 miles to the
diner,could be made in three hours at maximum.Decision made,you owe it to
him.He would do the same.-
Scully looked at her watch.It was 14.00h.She had spent four hours here with
thinking.Time to leave,this place made her feel only worse.Also she had to
pack for the ride,and prepare for it.Literally.

Part 3:
Getting aquainted  with news
By Casandra William

Spoiler:See first two parts

Scully was now driving for already two hours,but had still 30 miles ahead.So
what else was waiting for her ?
Good question.Next one.But it wasnīt that simple.She just had begun to live
with the thought of her partner being dead,now all of this was about to
change again.And the worst she had no one to share these thoughts with.
She had worked four years for the x-files ,but hadīnt had a life in the
ordinary manner, friends to meet for example ,, but how else with aliens and
serial killers and other phenomenon interfering.She just passed a road- mark
announcing Pittsburgh in 60 miles.
The last time they had visited the diner ,where the meeting should be held
today ,was about two years ago ,little time after abduction .Again, memories
coming back.-Well let them flow,they are you-
They- you always think of yourself  and Mulder together ,isnīt it tragic
.-No, she no longer denied the dreams she had about them both ,in the
past.Maybe there was still enough time to make them become  real.Well,they
actually had visited the diner ,"Tomīs kitchen"to be precise,after the chase
for a blood sample dealer ,who had given the blood of his victims  over to
so-called Vampires.Weird as always back in those days.  On that trip they
had had luck with the seasonīs end game in the football league right in
Pittsburgh and because of the fanatics,their diner was also full packed.As
consequence she had to share a room with Mulder,but the room also had  a
couch in it.So there hadnīt been another severe probleme.What might have
happened two years later?
She now was interrupted ,because the diner was announced in big letters on
an add-poster on the left side next to the road.  Two kilometers to the
future.
She took the exit and seconds later she got to see the the familiar parking
side with the building of the diner.
She parked and made her way to the store.She was there.Now?A black car
racing by,bringing Mulder back to the surface?An Ufo  ,hovering over the
site ,sending out rays to the ground,beaming down Mulder.Questions ,to whose
answers she would have to wait longer.How long?
When she entered the little room of the diner and  she was welcomed by a
cloud of thick smoke,deliverd probably by some truckdrivers,yeah ,now she
could see them around the counter.She greeted the waitress and chose a place
in a corner next to the  window.Now her work was done,waiting for them to do
theirīs.She ordered  an egg sandwich and a cup of coffee,to make the hours
of waiting more comfortable.One hour.Two hours.The television hanging on the
ceiling now had again flipped to another channel,other Truckers had arrived
and then gone again,just Scully hadnīt moved .How long was she going to
wait?Her informant hadnīt told her when Mulder or someone else would show
up.So she couldnīt tell when something would happen.By now outside the
lights of the passing vehicles could be seen and so Scully had to think
about checking in in the diner ,that also included a small motel behind its
main building.In the moment that this thought raised in her head, the door
of the diner ,that could be perfectly  seen  in from Scullyīs
position,opened again and a familiar face came into view.The man wore a
brown trenchcoat and came to Scullyīs table.Hey Beyers what brings you
here?Hey Agent Scully.I just came by to tell you that someone is waiting for
you .I here have keys to a room of the motel, about two miles from here.Are
you interested?This comment  won  the LGM a sharp look.
Here are also keys to a red Toyota outside,donīt use your own car.We will
handle it.Go on we may not waste any timeThanks Beyers.Just one thing how do
you come to work with Ms.Covaburrias?
Well she was checked by us and we learned that she doesnīt work with our
lung cancer friend.She is trusted.Sounds weired.But I think you are used to
that with your partner.Scully had to laugh on that one,patted
Beyers on the arm and then turned to leave the diner.Outside her eyes needed
some time to cope  with the change of lights,but the car was found easy on
the parking site.She looked on her watch,10.15 pm.
Scully entered the red car and put on the seat belt.Having done that she
took a deep breath .What would happen now?Would she meet Mulder?It seemed
right like this.Was she on a drive right to him?What would her reaction be
like?She started the ignition and drove back on  to the road ,after five
hundred meters the add  of the next motel ,the one Beyers talked about
,announced the exit in 2,5  miles.- 2,5miles to my rescue?
Could it be so near, so possible?Where is your scepticism? Now, only minutes
later the exit got in sight and Scully begun to brake and drove through the
exit .The motel looked alike all the motels she had visited in the past, but
it didnīt bother her now.What was now important was something else.Was it
the unusual trust in other
People worth.Stop this self-questioning.The real answers are out here.She
parked the car next to the appartement house and got out.So time was running
out.Slowly she made her way to the appartement, that showed the number on
the key that Beyers had given to her.She used the key,took a deep breath and
turned the doornob.The door fling open,but inside there was no light.What
now?Had she awaited to meet Mulder sitting on a table and reading a
magazine?She switched the light on and looked around :It was a room with a
double bed ,a set of  funiture , a table and  Tv.The room was clean and no
sign of another person.She sat down on the bed and begun to unpack her
bag,that she had brought with her.What for?Intuition.What was this all
about?Waiting time again.Beyers could have told her more.Then ,was there a
knocking on the door? A fake of her ears and her mind?

Part4:
Dreams do become real in times of mistery

By Casandra William
Spoiler:up to Gethsemane
Hey folks,still with me?If yes you are worth to read a solution .Hey,
waiting will be a good training for your nerves.Just kidding.Iīm planning to
reveal some things.But an end,not yet,still some parts to come!
But now on with the show:
Scully listened again and yes she was right.A knock on  the door.A waitress
?Or someone else?
-Yeah, whoīs out there?
-Steven Spielberg!
This joke,this voice.Scully ran to the door and left her gun lying on the
bed.She opened and looked right at the tall figure of a familiar
person,wearing a beard over the upper lip  , RayBan
Sunglasses and a big hat.Surprisement could be seen in her face , but also
relief to see Mulder again.Mulder
realised the stunned expression on his partners face and the silence between
them.A lot was there to talk about. Fast he  closed the door of the room and
tried to end the silence with a joke.
-Hey Scully ,what do you think of my hat?
Still shocked she found her words again:
-It is a bit unusual but I could get used to it.But I wouldnīt mind to see
you without this masquerade.
He smiled,but was also aware of the tension lying in her voice.A lot of
walls were to be pulled down.
As you wish!
He took off his hat and also lifted the sunglasses from his  eyes .
-Mulder!Where have you been? What did really happen?
Other questions hung in the air.
All the time since he entered the room she had stood without any
movement,just asking with her eyes,quite FBI-profile.He went to her and
placed his hands to her shoulders:
-Itīs a long story and I have come to tell you about it.
She looked at him and let her feelings flow and flung her arms around his
waist.,finally together.She felt his touch on her back and his hand on her
hair.
-Iīve really thought you were dead.You damn bastard.A partner doesn`t fool
the other.
Do you really believe that?
He grinned and they looked at one another.A smile appeared round her mouth.
I happened to ,but not with you.
They stood for some minutes in still agreement and just enjoyed the otherīs
presence so near.Words werenīt needed.
-How long do we have for the story?Itīs up to you!
She let go of him and he followed her to the bed.They sat down next to each
other.
-So ...Well where to start?Give me a clue.,Mulder said.
The last time we met was,she sighed,Told you that they gave me cancer...I
guess you know what I mean.
He saw her pain and grapped her hand to comfort her.
-Yeah,then I was furious and I went back home .
I was shocked,because I knew what your words meant.
-I shouldnīt have told it this way.,she wispered.
-No,but is o.k.now.At home I couldnīt forget that everything I ever believed
in and trusted could be  a hoax.I thought
you had killed yourself because of your confusion.And because of my
words.Her voice trembled.
She couldnīt keep herself.The memory of him lying next to the couch,was too
painful.He couldnīt say anything and just moved closer to her and put his
arms around her.He felt her body against him and held her tight. She reacted
also quite the same and held him as fast as she could.
- I felt responsible for your death and ...she didnīt go any further.
She let the sentence open and a comfortable silence settled between.
Mulder didnīt find any words to explain the feelings he was having right now
and he just tightned his hug.
Aware of Mulderīs reaction ,she straightned herself and touched his cheek
where she felt hot tears.
She moved his face to make him look right at her and he didnīt resist.
-Agent Mulder ,I think we need to talk.Really talk.
He first avoided her eyes ,but then nodded.
She gently stroked a strand of hair out of his face and he took her hand in
his.
-I guess youīre right.We should īve done that for long.
-Yeah,but now we have plenty of time.
Their eyes met and she saw the emotion burning in  her opposite
.-Iīve ...,he shrugghed.,..been meaning to tell you something for
long.But...
-But??
-I hadnīt the courage...Now he leaned forward and kissed her lightly on the
cheek .-
-And now..,he trailed off.
-If Iīm not going to tell anyone?Scully said teasing him.
A smile appeared on his face and he took a deep breath.
-Agent Scully , you..are the love of my life.
She blushed and took th admission she just heard in.Words she had been
longing to hear...but hadnīt dared to dream of.
-I love you,Mulder.
He felt a big stone falling from his chest.Finally...
-And what do we do then?A teasing smile appeared on his cheeks
.-You canīt be serious for one moment ,do you?
-Do you want me to be?she said.
-You know what I want you to be.
-What?I have no idea!
Now her face came even closer and her mouth hovered over his,teasing him.
--What is that sopposed to mean?,he whispered gently.Now her mouth always
touched him,only inches away from him.Finally he closed his eyes and he
closed the distance between them.
Gently their lips met and touched gently for the first seconds,getting used
to the closeness after a waiting for four years.Then he opened his mouth and
their kiss got more intense.After the kiss lingered for three minutes both
broke apart and took a deep breath .---Any ideas now ,Agent Mulder?
-Would you mind to repeat the last sentence before that?Somehow I missed
there something."
She laughed and kissed him again.
End

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