From butled3@bray1c.its.rpi.edu Tue Apr 29 18:55:51 1997 Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative Subject: Story: Gone Away (Part 1/1) From: butled3@bray1c.its.rpi.edu (DragonKat) -------- Disclaimer: Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and the other X-Files characters belong to Chris Carter and Ten-Thirteen Productions. The title and the lyrics of the song belong to The Offspring, and whichever company is in charge of their merchandising. These are being used without their permission, and I am only posting it out love for the song and show, and am not making any profit off this, so please don't sue! Title: "Gone Away" Author: DragonKat (Diana E. Butler, butled3@rpi.edu) Archive: Yes, please if possible Category: VA (Death of a character) Rating: G (Nothing bad) Spoilers: Includes a reference to events in "Memento Mori" Summary: Takes place in the near future, where one agent pays a visit to a lost friend, and fellow agent. This idea came to me while listening to the Offspring's new single, "Gone Away." It just seemed to fit Mulder's thoughts if he had lost Scully to the cancer she's suffering from. I tried to put it aside, but couldn't get it out of mind, so here it is. Enjoy! :) Gone Away *************** The hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, the eyes stare straight ahead at the road. One of the hands flips on the radio, and hearing the strains of a familar alternative song, the driver raises the volume whose lyrics seem to echo the sorrowful thoughts of the person. "Maybe in another life I could find you there Pulled away before your time I can't deal it's so unfair And it feels And it feels like Heaven's so far away And it feels Yeah it feels like The world has grown cold Now that you've gone away Leaving flowers on your grave Show that I still care But black roses and Hail Mary's Can't bring back what's taken from me I reach to the sky And call out your name And if I could trade I would And it feels And it feels like Heaven's so far away And it stings Yeah it stings now The world is so cold Now that you've gone away Gone away Gone away..." As the last strains of the song faded, the driver brushed away the tears streaming down from his hazel eyes. He turn the car down the now familar turn off into the cemetary. He parked the car, and stepped out, grabbing the bouquet off the seat next to him as he did so. The flowers in his shaking hands, he approached the gravestone. " "Dana Katherine Scully," with her birthdate and date of death underneath. That's it. Very short and simple. No account of her work with the FBI and with the X-Files. Nothing on how important she was, especially to her partner, Special Agent Fox Mulder. If her mother had around she would have wanted something added, but she came completely unhinged after Scully's death, the only family she had left. Mulder had been sent away, deliberately, he now suspects, on a distant case while Scully had laid dying, and wasn't informed till after her funeral. The tears still streamed down his stricken face as he gently placed the bouquet upon the grave, and removed the old wilted bouquet from the week before. He tries to come here once a week, to pay his respect, and remember his partner, and his friend. No, she was more than just a friend even, she was his only support at times, the only one he could trust completely, even more than Skinner, she was the only one who could keep him sane through all the difficult cases and problems they faced together. Together, that what was wrong, he had become used to her always being around. For her to always be there for him. In the back of his mind, he feared losing her, though he knew it was inevitable. There had been numerous times when he almost did, on many dangerous cases. But he never imagined something so ordinary, so common could take her away from him like this. Though in this case the cancer arrived under strange and very unordinary cicumstances, it still claimed her. Another victim lost in his endless search for the truth. "Forgive me, Scully." he said softly, "I never wanted this to happen to you. If there was only some way, that I could have taken your place..." He stood up, dried his eyes, and turned away to leave. As he left the dismal spot, the lines from the song seemed to ring in his mind, as he looked to the heavens for an answer. "I reach to the sky And call out your name And if I could trade I would And it feels And it feels like Heaven's so far away And it stings Yeah it stings now The world is so cold Now that you've gone away" "I miss you Dana" he said, walked over to the car, got in the car, and drove away. And a reply carried quietly on the wind, a reply from a female voice saying, "And I miss you, Fox." *************************************************** So, what did you think? Comments, remarks, and even flames, can be sent to me at butled3@rpi.edu Bye for now! Diana ==* ----------------------------- "It's not safe out here! It's wonderous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."- Q ("Q Who", ST:TNG) -- From butled3@bray1c.its.rpi.edu Tue Apr 29 18:55:51 1997 Newsgroups: alt.tv.x-files.creative Subject: Story: Gone Away (Part 1/1) From: butled3@bray1c.its.rpi.edu (DragonKat) -------- Disclaimer: Mulder, Scully, Skinner, and the other X-Files characters belong to Chris Carter and Ten-Thirteen Productions. The title and the lyrics of the song belong to The Offspring, and whichever company is in charge of their merchandising. These are being used without their permission, and I am only posting it out love for the song and show, and am not making any profit off this, so please don't sue! Title: "Gone Away" Author: DragonKat (Diana E. Butler, butled3@rpi.edu) Archive: Yes, please if possible Category: VA (Death of a character) Rating: G (Nothing bad) Spoilers: Includes a reference to events in "Memento Mori" Summary: Takes place in the near future, where one agent pays a visit to a lost friend, and fellow agent. This idea came to me while listening to the Offspring's new single, "Gone Away." It just seemed to fit Mulder's thoughts if he had lost Scully to the cancer she's suffering from. I tried to put it aside, but couldn't get it out of mind, so here it is. Enjoy! :) Gone Away *************** The hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, the eyes stare straight ahead at the road. One of the hands flips on the radio, and hearing the strains of a familar alternative song, the driver raises the volume whose lyrics seem to echo the sorrowful thoughts of the person. "Maybe in another life I could find you there Pulled away before your time I can't deal it's so unfair And it feels And it feels like Heaven's so far away And it feels Yeah it feels like The world has grown cold Now that you've gone away Leaving flowers on your grave Show that I still care But black roses and Hail Mary's Can't bring back what's taken from me I reach to the sky And call out your name And if I could trade I would And it feels And it feels like Heaven's so far away And it stings Yeah it stings now The world is so cold Now that you've gone away Gone away Gone away..." As the last strains of the song faded, the driver brushed away the tears streaming down from his hazel eyes. He turn the car down the now familar turn off into the cemetary. He parked the car, and stepped out, grabbing the bouquet off the seat next to him as he did so. The flowers in his shaking hands, he approached the gravestone. " "Dana Katherine Scully," with her birthdate and date of death underneath. That's it. Very short and simple. No account of her work with the FBI and with the X-Files. Nothing on how important she was, especially to her partner, Special Agent Fox Mulder. If her mother had around she would have wanted something added, but she came completely unhinged after Scully's death, the only family she had left. Mulder had been sent away, deliberately, he now suspects, on a distant case while Scully had laid dying, and wasn't informed till after her funeral. The tears still streamed down his stricken face as he gently placed the bouquet upon the grave, and removed the old wilted bouquet from the week before. He tries to come here once a week, to pay his respect, and remember his partner, and his friend. No, she was more than just a friend even, she was his only support at times, the only one he could trust completely, even more than Skinner, she was the only one who could keep him sane through all the difficult cases and problems they faced together. Together, that what was wrong, he had become used to her always being around. For her to always be there for him. In the back of his mind, he feared losing her, though he knew it was inevitable. There had been numerous times when he almost did, on many dangerous cases. But he never imagined something so ordinary, so common could take her away from him like this. Though in this case the cancer arrived under strange and very unordinary cicumstances, it still claimed her. Another victim lost in his endless search for the truth. "Forgive me, Scully." he said softly, "I never wanted this to happen to you. If there was only some way, that I could have taken your place..." He stood up, dried his eyes, and turned away to leave. As he left the dismal spot, the lines from the song seemed to ring in his mind, as he looked to the heavens for an answer. "I reach to the sky And call out your name And if I could trade I would And it feels And it feels like Heaven's so far away And it stings Yeah it stings now The world is so cold Now that you've gone away" "I miss you Dana" he said, walked over to the car, got in the car, and drove away. And a reply carried quietly on the wind, a reply from a female voice saying, "And I miss you, Fox." *************************************************** So, what did you think? Comments, remarks, and even flames, can be sent to me at butled3@rpi.edu Bye for now! Diana ==* ----------------------------- "It's not safe out here! It's wonderous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."- Q ("Q Who", ST:TNG) --