From: "Melissa Scully" Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:38:22 GMT Subject: My submission Source: direct Title: The Mountain Climber Author: Jennifer Skye Disclaimer: The characters Fox Mulder, Dana Scully are owned by Chris Carter and 1013 productions & FOX. The doctor is mine, but I couln't care less if you take him. Summary: Scully goes to see Mulder in the hospital. Character death !!! Spoilers: None. Category: vignette. Keyword: angst. Rating: G Author's Note: It seems to me that I can only write sad things, and if you are the kind of person who doesn't like sad things (as I usually don't) I hope that you aren't pissed. But I will work harder at mastering the concept of happy fanfiction. Thank you & enjoy. Thank yous: Thank you to ALL my friends @ the Villa for helping me know I can write. A BIG thank you to M.C. for getting me into the X-files. And, a GREAT BIG thank you to Kat, M.C., and Gug for being the supportive best friends that they are. Also, thank you to Michael and Tyler for putting up w/ me & my X-files craze. I luv you all !! *************************************** *************************************** I walked down the hallway of the white hospital. Each step I took echoed in the empty walls surrounding me. I walked slowly, and surely, all the while dazed in the confusion that had become my mind. I stopped when the doctor came up to me holding a clipboard in his hands. He started to speak, but I couldn't hear a word he was saying. I only nodded, and asked if I could see him. After the doctor granted me my only wish, he opened the door and signalled me to step inside. I walked into the room, my face pale as ever, and my hands twitching with nervousness. I looked at him lying lifelessly on the hospital bed. I sat down beside him, at his request, and took his hand. My heart was slowly stopping as I took a deep breath and tried to speak. But he beat me to it. "Scully." he said ever so softly. "I'm going to be fine. I always will be. Don't forget that." I nodded as he smiled at me. But his smile quickly turned into depression, and he started to cry once again. I bent down and took him in my arms, and cradled him like he does when I'm feeling sad and lonely. I was going to miss every part of him. Every smile, every comment he made, every day that passed by I was going to think of him, and how much he had loved me. I knew that eventually, I would have to let him go, but I didn't want to. Not then, not ever. I loved him. And I thought that that would be enough to keep him alive, but it wasn't. I put my head down on his stomach, as it moved up and down slowly at the pace that his heart was now beating. My head slowly lifted as I listened to his breathing, until it reached the top of the mountain, and then slid down the side of it for the very last time. I sighed with his heart like my head did with his body. I died with him in his arms while whispering "Thank you, and I'm sorry." END ************************************************** ************************************************** Author's Notes: Yeah, I know that she didn't tell him she loved him, or viceversa, but hey, they already knew, in my perspective. SEND ME YOUR FEEDBACK!!!!! mulderlove@hotmail.com . Thank you for taking the time to read my fanfic, and I hope that you liked it.