From: Isahunter@aol.com
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 15:09:11 EDT
Subject: NEW: "Scene 11: Meant To Be" by Diadem (1/1)
Source: xff


Title:  Scene 11: Meant To Be (1/1)

Author:  Diadem

Category: V, A

Rating: G

Spoilers: Emily arc 

Feedback:  Of course!  In fact, as this is kind of an 
     experiment, I would really appreciate it.
     Diadem@cwcom.net

Archive:  Gossamer's fine, anywhere else please let 
     me know first.

Disclaimer:  Mulder and Scully do not belong to me.  
     They belong to CC, 10:13 and Fox, but please remember, 
     imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Notes:  This is the eleventh in a series of unrelated short, 
     experimental pieces, that might be or might only be 
     pretending to be monologues.  The others can be found 
     at  http://www.aliens.mcmail.com/isadiadem

     Scully POV.


Scene 11: Meant To Be (1/1)

What's wrong, Mulder?  I know you are trying your best 
to hide whatever it is you are feeling from me, but I 
know you too well for that.  I can see that something 
is not right, lurking just below your all too fragile 
surface.
     Is it this case?  I know it's been tough on you.  It's 
been tough on me too.  But I don't think I have ever 
seen any case affect you this badly.
     I used to think I could empathise with you when you 
were faced with one of the cases you hate most, notably 
those involving young children.  The disappearance of 
young girls, someone else's sister.  It is only now that 
I realise what it was you were going through.  They were 
all someone else's daughter, too.
     These cases are always difficult, but you have to 
take heart from the fact that we do make a difference.  
Without us, hundreds of children would still be missing.  
Hundreds of sisters and daughters left in the hands of the 
Consortium, instead of just the few.  Don't take that the 
wrong way, I haven't given up on these few, because it 
could be that your sister or my daughter will be among 
them.  While there is still even one child missing, I will 
search for them.
     We rescued all that were there, Mulder.  That is one 
laboratory that will never harm anyone ever again, you 
saw to that.  I know they will in all likelihood move 
somewhere else, target new people.  They may well be one 
step ahead of us for a long time yet.  But as long as they 
are ahead of us we can see them, and we have that chance 
of catching up with them.
     I know it doesn't seem much like a reality at the moment.  
They have snatched the truth away from us more times than 
I can remember, clearing away the evidence.  But we have 
glimpsed it, Mulder, and while I may not always agree with 
your theories or methods, they have always given us the 
edge when we have needed it.  They have never forced us to 
retreat or give up.  They have never managed to separate 
us, and while we are together we cannot be defeated.  They 
may think they have won, but they cannot win in the long 
term.  Too many people would find out, and that would put 
an end to their plans.
     Who knows, maybe it is just us that are keeping the 
rebel alien forces from attacking the planet.  I knew 
that would make you smile, but don't worry, I remain 
unconvinced when it comes to extra terrestrial beings.  But 
I have seen enough to know that it would be foolish to 
discount the possibility all together.  After all, where 
would we be without extreme possibilities?
     We are pretty extreme ourselves, really, now I come 
to think about it.  I mean, can you think of two more 
unlikely people to fight something of this magnitude, and 
yet not know exactly what it is they are fighting?  I'm 
sure this isn't what Blevins had in mind when he assigned 
me to my crackpot partner all those years ago.
     Another smile, a tired smile, but a smile none the 
less.  Missing persons cases are always demanding, but when 
a child is involved there is that added edge, I don't know 
how to describe it, really, but it makes the days long and 
exhausting, and the nights restless.  You know what I mean.  
You suffer with it much more than I do.
     But we found them, Mulder, more than we ever thought 
we would find.  Some of those children had been missing for 
years.  I know you didn't find what you were subconsciously 
looking for, but I know that you will have the strength to 
go on looking.  Over the years you have met terror after 
terror, only to carry on through the next days and weeks and 
months, and carry on looking for her.
     I know how you are feeling right now, Mulder, and 
believe me, I feel it too.  But we will go on.  We have to.  
There are more children out there, and one day we will find 
the ones we are looking for, but think of all the families 
we are saving while we carry on searching.  The sun is still 
in the sky, the earth is still turning, so we are still 
looking.
     It's the way it's meant to be.

End (1/1)

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