From: Livia Balaban <liviabalaban@xoommail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:27:16 -0700
Subject: xfc New-180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate,
Source: xfc

180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version Four
by Livia Balaban
(liviabalaban@xoommail.com)

Rating: G
Content: Angsty Musings
Classification: V, Mulder POV
Archiving: Sure.
Summary:  The little things prove the greatest truths.

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180-Word Self-Imposed Challenge: Samantha's Fate - Version Four
by Livia Balaban


I didn't believe her, and who could blame me?

This wasn't the first one.  She looked, spoke like the other.
Why should she be any different?

She wept, she missed me.  She was ordered to stay away.  If she
got close they would have killed us.  Me, Mom, her.  Later, when
she married and Scully entered my life, the threats expanded to
include them as well.

Five lives bound up in one lie.

And now a new lie.  That she is my sister.  I look into her
unblinking Hazel gaze, and shake my head.  Fool me twice, shame on me.

She appeared offended.  *Aw.*  Go back to your petri dish and leave
me the hell alone.

She left, and I drank.

The next morning a little cooler arrived, filled with fiddlehead greens.

And I fell apart.

Mom used to make them, knowing Samantha would be the only one to eat them.

A note:  "These aren't for you.  Call me and I'll come over and
relieve you of them.  Dinner on Saturday?"

I wept.   I called.   She came.

My sister's alive.



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End.



                                           
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