From: EvitaRox@aol.com Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:25:43 EDT Subject: To Never Let Go (1/1) Source: direct Title- "To Never Let Go" Author- **Ashley Rebecca** E-Mail address- EvitaRox@aol.com Rated:-PG Catagory- S, A, R , Spoilers- None Keywords- Character dies, Mulder/Scully romance. Summary: I don't want to spoil it?.but all I will tell you is it's rea lly sad so bring out the tissue box. (Especially all you Shippers) PeAcE oUt To Ya All ShIppErz!!!!! <3 Disclaimer: Alright raise your hand if you think Fox Mulder and Dana Scully actually belong to me! See, no one raised there hand (except for my Grandma who only watches the "Discovery Channel"?but we won't go there.LoL) See that is proof that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully belong to Chris Carter and 1013 Productions. Authors Note: This is the first time I did not actually affiliate a song within one of my stories. (Well kind of LoL) If you read any of my past stories they all have songs in them. This time I took a different turn. I was going to call this "Forever Soul mates" but at the very last moment I changed the ending. Metaphorically Speaking, I like "To Never Let Go" better . And hopefully you will understand why. Hope you enjoy!!!! BTW- Feedback is Vital! "To Never Let Go" By: ** Ashley Rebecca ** Mulder's Apartment 10:32 PM "Hey Mulder it's me. I just wanted to tell you that Kersh just called and I have a meeting with him tomorrow. Apparently it has something to do with m y medical skills. I don't know, he wouldn't tell me. I probably have to do an autopsy. You don't need to call me back when you get in I just wanted to t ell you incase you didn't see me tomorrow until later."" Mulder clicked off his answering machine not thinking much about Scully 's message. "They probably want her to do an autopsy or something", he thought. "Just like she said!" The he walked into his room, crashed onto his bed and went to sleep. FBI Headquarters Washington D.C. 11:21 AM About seven FBI Directors and Assistant Directors sat around a long table discussing what would soon to be Special Agent Dana Scully's future. For close to seven years she had been writing field reports for Agent Mulder on The X-Files. "Scully will you please stand up.", a very familiar voice said. It was Assistant Director Kersh. Scully stood up silently. "Over the past few months I have been watching Agent Scully closely and I feel that her work quality has highly exceeded the amount of work needed to be done on The X-Files. " The other Agents sitting in the room with them nodded. Scully stood there astonished . She knew what he was about to do but she wasn't ready to hear it. She was under the impression that this meeting was to be about her medical skills. "I have gotten word that there is an opening at the New York FBI Labs in Albany for a head pathologist. I feel this will give Agent Scully a good chance to improve her medical skills and to teach others. If of course I hav e your permission to transfer her." He looked at the FBI Director who was sitting across the table from him and then looked at Scully. "Very well then, the Director said. You will be transferred immediately." Scully sat down in her chair unable to believe what was just said. She thought of something quickly to say? "I don't know what to say. Director Kersh, I am very pleased with your off er but at this time I feel that I am?" Kersh's expression on his face went from a semi-smile to a harsh tone. "Ag ent Scully we are not "offering" you anything here. We are following protocol which has to be taken out. You are to be reassigned at once!" Scully lowered her eyes and stared at the table. "Yes Director Kersh" "Very well then, you are all excused.", the Director in charge said. Scully watched as the room quickly emptied, Kersh still standing in the corner talking to another Agent in charge. He looked at her looking at them. "Agent Scully, you may leave now!", he said harshly. Scully left the room searching for Assistant Director Skinner. She knew that if there was anyone now who could stop this it could be him. She ran into hi s office. "Can I help you?", the secretary asked. "I need to talk with Skinner immediately!!!", she opened the door but it was locked. "I'm sorry Agent Scully, he is in a meeting right now." "I don't care what the hell he's doing damnit! I need to talk to him now !!!" "Please calm down Agent Scully. Or I will have to call security." "Since when does he lock his doors?", she yelled. "Skinner, open the door now!!!" she banged harder on the door until someone from behind opened it, almost making her fall through. "Is there a problem Scully?" "There is a problem. A pretty damn big problem too!" She happened to glance inside Skinner's office to see the smoking man sitt ing there along with two other Agents. "Please excuse me for a minute" he said to the Agents in his office. He shut the door behind him. Scully led him out into the hallway. "Now what the hell is your problem?" he said. "This!" she handed him a piece of paper talking about her transfer. "Scully, you know I can't do anything about it. I'm not even your superv isor anymore!" "You knew about this didn't you?", she said madly trying to keep it down. "Listen, they don't tell me half the things they use to." "Your one lying Son of?", she happened to glance behind Skinner to see the smoking man coming up behind him. "Can we hurry this up?", he said. "Yes Agent Scully, I am in a meeting. There is nothing I can do to help you.", he handed the paper back to her. "You're a liar. You are all liars!!! ", she couldn't control her anger. "and since when do you lock your door during a meeting?", she managed to choke ou t as her anger began to over come her. He didn't answer and she watched him retrieve back to his office like a do g going back to his masters house for food. Now she was left with the biggest problem. Telling Mulder. Fox Mulder's Office 5 Minutes Later "Mulder?" she said quietly as she entered his basement office. "Oh hey Scully. How did everything go for you this morning? I got your message last night. " "That's what I wanted to talk to you about.", she said trying so hard to choke back her tears. "Is everything okay?", he became concerned with the look on her face. "Mulder, I don't know how to tell you this but?" "What Scully? What's wrong?" " I am being transferred to Albany . Transfer effective Immediately." Mulder dropped the pen he was holding. "This could very well be the last time I stand in here talking to you!" Mulder stood up behind his desk and knocked everything that was on it to the floor. "What do you mean transfer!!!??? They can't split us up! They can't do this to us he yelled at papers went flying." "Stop it Mulder! Stop It!!!", she screamed. "I can't take this anymore . I don't want to hear this from you? I?I?", she looked down at the floo r. "I just don't know what to say Mulder." She calmed herself down. "I'm sorry.", she fled out of the room sobbing. Mulder wanted to run after her bu t he felt like his legs were cemented to the ground so he sat back down on his desk putting his hands on his face. Washington International Airport 12:32 PM Two Days Later Scully sat in a chair staring at the people walking by in a daze. She hadn't talked to Mulder even to say her final goodbye for two days, when s he stormed out of his office. "It's not like I'll never see Mulder again." She thought to herself. "There will be holidays and vacations?.and maybe even cases where he will visit?" "Flight 473 to Albany New York is now boarding at gate 17." Scully picke d up her bags. "Once again Flight 473 is now boarding at gate 17." She got up but just as she began to walk over to the gate a hand from behind grabbed her shoulder. "Scully, I wanted to say good-bye but I got caught in traffic." "Mulder!", she looked into his deep green eyes. "Mulder, I'm so sorry about the other day. I thought you would come af ter me like you always do." "When you left I went straight to Kersh's and Skinner's office to se e if I could stop anything." "Did you do anything?", she said hopefully knowing that the odds were fa r against anything happening. He signaled with his head "no". "Once again Flight 473 to Albany New York please board at gate 17." "Is that your flight?", Mulder asked. Scully nodded her head. He put his hands on her shoulders. "I guess I don't even need to begin to tell you how much I'll miss y ou.", Scully said trying not to burst into tears. A tear trickled down Mulder's cheek and she wiped it away and kissed him on the far head. "But it's not like we'll never see each other again. We can call each other and e-mail and?" she couldn't keep her composer any longer. As she began to weep ha rd Mulder pulled her into his big bear hug and kissed her on the head. "Last call for flight 473 to Albany New York. Last call." "I'd better go now." She said. "I can't miss my flight!" Just as sh e began to turn away Mulder grabbed her again by the shoulder. His sad eyes me t her sad eyes again for the last time. He brought her face closer to his face , as their lips met she felt as if she would stay with him forever. As soon as Mulder pulled away he quickly reached into his pocket for something. "Don't go yet Scully.", he said. "I have something for you!" He pulled out a small green box with a note taped securely to it. "Don't open this until you are in flight on the plane. She took the box from him and then looked at the gate that was now near empty. "Flight 473 to Albany New York is now getting ready to depart." She glanced at Mulder then glanced at the gate as if to say "I really have to go but I don't want to." "I know you have to go now Scully. But before you go I want you to know that everything that I wrote in that note you are holding is the truth." By now he couldn't even hold back the tears. "But I wanted to tell you someth ing in person also?" "Hey you, over there?are you coming or not!?", the flight attendant yelled to Scully. "I have to go now.", she said sadly. She gave him another kiss on the cheek. She began to walk away. Mulder walked with her up to the gate as soon as she handed in her boarding pass began to walk out of site onto her plane. She turned around one more time to get one more good look at Mulder. "I Love You.", he said. Though she could no longer hear what he was saying she read his lips and she responded with an "I Love You Too". At that moment she slowly walked out of site. And that would be the last time Fox Mulder and Dana Scully ever saw each other. * * * * * * * * * * * * Scully's plane had now been in flight for about twenty minutes. She ha d been so engulfed in sadness that she forgot about the small box Mulder had gave her as she began to unravel it the captain turned on the "fasten seat belt" sign. "Attention everyone, will you please fasten your seat belts. We are approaching some turbulence." Scully fastened her seat belt, thinking nothin g of it and began to read the note Mulder had written. "Dear Scully" it read. "I know you are reading this on the plane. And I couldn't say Everythi ng to you that I wanted to say in the airport, so I wrote it in a letter. Now, don't open this box until you are done reading this. First of all I want to say that at this very moment I probably have Skinner pinned to the ground for even allowing this to happen and I hoping that in a month or so everything will be straightened out so you can come back here, where you belong." Scully chuckled then went back to the letter. "The next thing is on a more serious note? I want to tell you that the pas t seven years have been the best years of my life because of you. Ever since the day you walked into that door I have loved you but I never fully realize d it until you were gone.( No offense or anything) I guess that is kind of foolish of me. Anyway, I am running out of space to write and time to give this to you so I hope you enjoy it. I just want you also to know that this i s the last time I will ever let you go. I Love You Always -Fox Mulder" By now Scully was sobbing again. She quickly opened the small green box and unwrapped the cotton that was wrapped tightly around it. When she saw what Mulder had gotten for her she didn't know how to react. It was a gold heart on a chain with a small picture of the two of them inside the heart. When she turned over the heart the words "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully" were written. Followed by "Forever Partners, Forever Soul mates". Scully froze when she read it. "Forever Partners, Forever Soul mates " she thought to herself. "It's the truth!" She tried not to loose her compo ser on the plane like she did in the airport but this time she couldn't help i t. She took the two ends of the golden chain and clicked them together behind her neck. The necklace looked magnificent on her. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed Mulder's number. He picked up, surprisingly the reception was really good. "Mulder, it's me!", she said. "Hey Scully?how is everything?" "I don't know where to begin to thank you for the necklace.", she said . "Oh Scully, I just thought of you the minute I saw it. I thought it woul d look beautiful on you." "The saying is beautiful.",. Scully said. "But it's true." Suddenly the reception got really bad. The plane began to shake rapidly and then fall. Scully didn't know what was going on until she smelled smok e. She looked behind her to see raging flames and then everything went black. * * * * * * "Scully? Scully??", Mulder yelled. "Damn the reception went bad.", he thought. He tried hard to call back but the operator said the phone was "out of use". He figured she would call back when they landed. Mulder decided to curl up on the couch and watch TV until Scully landed which would be about 4:15. He clicked through the channels quickly until he had to go to the bathroom. Since he still couldn't find anything to watch on TV he left it on MSNBC, the news channel. Not paying much attention to the TV, he left for the bathroom. When he came back to his surprise, the news wa s covering a breaking story. "Plane Crash over Allentown PA. 236 People abroad, no found survivors yet.", the reporter said. "We don't have any video tape of the wreckage bu t we do know that the plane was headed to Albany New York. At around 2:36 ther e were reports of smoke in the cockpit and then from what witnesses said the plane turned into a huge ball of fire and crashed into the woods. Please sta y tuned to MSNBC for any news." Mulder couldn't move. He knew that Scully wa s aboard that plane. "I need to go to Allentown." He thought. He ran out into his car and head out onto his long journey ahead. "I will never let her go again!" he yelled. "Never again!!!" The Crash Site Allentown PA 8:00 PM Mulder arrived at the site at about 7:00 PM. At that time they were stil l recovering bodies. Mulder was relieved to hear that there were three survivors of the crash. Two ladies and a young boy. They were in critical condition though at Allentown Memorial Hospital. Mulder quickly raced over hoping that one of them were Scully. "I need to speak with the doctor in charge around here!", Mulder yelled as he entered the Intensive Care Unit. "Now!" "What is the problem mister?" a nurse said. "I'm with the FBI I need to see the three survivors of flight 473.", he yelled. " I'm sorry but there is only one survivor left. The other two died a couple hours ago. Are you family here to identify her? Only family can see her!" "Yes.", he quickly said. "I have reason to believe that may be my wife i n there." "Okay sir. But let me just warn you that she may not be recognizable." "How is she doing?", he yelled. "She is unconscience. Over 85 percent of her body has been burnt and her face has been burnt beyond recognition. To tell you the truth we are amazed she is alive." "Well let me see her anyway.", Mulder said. "Follow me." The nurse led him down the hall. Mulder followed her hoping with all his heart that it was Scully in there. "Okay sir here she is." The nurse led him into a room. Is this your wife?" Mulder took one look at her and knew by her shape and her size that it was definitely not Scully. "No, no.", he said. "This isn't her." "I'm sorry sir." Mulder nodded his head sadly and then left the hospit al. The Crash Site 9:00 PM "Hey can someone help me?", he yelled as he got out of his car. "Yes, I can.", another Agent who was drinking a cup of coffee stood near his car said. "Did they discover all of the bodies?", he asked. "Yes, they discovered most of them. I think they are missing like ten." "Do you know where they brought them?", Mulder asked. "Yes, they brought them to a hanger near here. At the Fort Aura Air Base . It's up the road from here to the left. They are working on putting the pl ane back together as we speak." "Thank you.", he said running back to his car. "Did you loose someone?", she asked. Mulder looked at the young agent with sadness in his eyes trying to avoid the question. Then he got in his ca r. Fort Aura Air Base 9:18 PM Mulder rushed though crowds of people who were there recovering bodies. He looked for someone in charge. "Excuse me. I am here to recover the body of someone.", Mulder said. "Yes, name please?" "Fox Mulder.", he said. "Okay who is the person you are trying to recover?" "Dana Scully. Special Agent Dana Scully." "Dana Scully." He fingered through a bunch of papers. "There was a Dana Scully who's body was already identified this afternoon. Is this who you are talking about?", Mulder's heart sank as tea rs began to fall down his cheeks. The man pulled out a picture and handed it t o Mulder. Mulder stared at the picture. It was Scully. She was wearing sunglasses standing near a boat smiling. It was a picture he recognized from a trip she took to Maine a few years ago. "Where did you get this picture?", he asked. "Her family was here this afternoon. It was her mother and her brother. Actually, they left a message here for you." He pulled out a piece of paper. "Your Fox Mulder right?" Mulder nodded. "Call them at this number.= " Mulder took the paper. "Thank you." "Oh yes you can keep the picture. The Scully's gave it to us to give t o you. Apparently they knew you were coming?" Mulder nodded his head then walked back to his car. When he got back int o his car he pulled out the picture of Scully and began to cry. A Small Restaurant Near the Crash Site Allentown PA 9:26 AM Mulder sat in a booth waiting for the arrival of Mrs. Scully and Scully 's brother Bill. He had not been able to sleep at all the night before and so finally the sleep was trying to catch up with him. "Fox!", a small lady wearing jeans and a purple sweater stood up next to him. "Hello Mrs. Scully. I'm so sorry about Dana." He got up and gave her a hug. "Thank you!", she said. "Thank you." "Bill.", he turned to Scully's brother and gave him a hug. "I'm so sorry." All three of them sat in the booth. "I presume we should start making funeral arrangements soon.", Bill said . "We?", Mulder said in disbelief. For years now, Bill and Mulder never go t along well. He was surprised now when Bill wanted to include him. "Yes, we have thought it over and already started making calls" said Mrs . Scully. "And we want you to be a part of this. After all you were the closes t to Dana. She was just so devastated when she was reassigned. She called me right away. I truly believed that you and Dana were meant to be together. " Mulder agreed with her. "She was very special.", he tried to fight back tears again. "I just can't begin to even comprehend that she is dead." "We already decided thought that we should have the funeral in Washingto n D.C.then, probably next weekend." Mulder nodded. "We were going to leave right now then to get back and schedule everything." "What about the body?", Mulder asked. "The body will be in Washington in a few days. We already got all of that information. It is currently at the morgue. "Would you like to ride back with us?" asked Mrs. Scully. "It's an awfully long ride for someone to do alone especially after so much. Anyway, Charles will be here so I could get a ride back with him.: "No, that's okay." Mulder said. "Are you sure?" She insisted. "Also, you are more then welcomed to stay at our house for the week. So we could all mourn together. We wouldn't want you to be alone." "Okay.", said Mulder. "I'd like that but I want to go back to the cras h site. Just to finish up something." "I ensure you everything is taken care of.", Bill said. "No but there is something I need to do.", Mulder said. "I will see you both in Maryland" The Crash Site Later that Afternoon Mulder sat on a downed tree looking at the wreckage. He had been searching for the gold heart all afternoon but couldn't find it. All of the jewelry that any of the passengers were wearing was confiscated and put together in a pile. Mulder had been though the pile thre e times making sure he didn't miss it. He founded over 100 gold crosses but didn't take any because he wasn't sure which one was Scully's.. "Are you sure you took the jewelry of every passenger?" Mulder asked. "Every passenger that was on the plane. Hey it could be possible that th e piece of jewelry you are looking for could have gotten melted into her body. The plane was a fiery inferno before it crashed." "No, I checked that already." He responded, not wanting to know any of the details. "What are you looking for anyway, a wedding ring?" "No, a gold heart necklace.", Mulder said. "Oh, I'm sorry then, I can't help you!" the man said as he began to walk away. "Hey wait a second." Mulder said. "Do you happen to know what happened t o the survivor of the crash? Did she make it?" The man nodded his head sadly. "No, she slipped into a coma and died. We were surprised she made it as long as she did you know." "Oh I see.", Mulder replied. "Thank you anyway." Mulder walked back to his car and prepared to ride back to Maryland. Saint Veronica's Church Washington D.C. One Week Later To much of Mulder's surprise the FBI had prepared a slide show showing all of Scully's accomplishments and pictures of her working to show at the funeral to the song "Fly" By Celine Dion. As the song began to play he remembered all of their times together. "Fly, fly little wing. Fly beyond imagining The softest cloud, the whitest dove Upon the wing of heaven's love Past the planets and the stars Leave this lonely world of ours Escape the sorrow and the pain And fly again?" As the song played on their whole life together flashed before his eyes . He remembered the day they met, the day Duane Barry took her and she was found in the hospital. He hoped to find her again this time in the hospital but the unthinkable had occurred... "Fly, fly precious one Your endless Journey has begun Take your gentle happiness Far to beautiful for this Cross over to the other shore There is peace forevermore But hold this memory bittersweet Until we meet?" "The words in this song are true", he thought. He sat in the front Church pew next to Mrs. Scully , Scully's brothers and the rest of her family. In front of them Father McCue spoke finishing up the mass. "Let us celebrate the life of Dana Scully", he began. "Though she will missed greatly this isn't a time to look at death it is a time to look at life?" * * * * * After the funeral procession and the burial Mulder went back to his apartment. He hadn't been back to his apartment in over a week because he had stayed with Scully's family in Maryland until the funeral that day. When h e arrived back at his apartment he noticed something odd sitting by his door. It was a small green box, just like the one he had gave to Scully. He picked up the box and held it in his hands for a minute. "What kind of a sick joke is this?", he thought. He opened his door and walked inside his apartment placing the box next to his answering machine. "You have Twelve New Messages", the machine said. "Thursday April Twenty Second, 3:21 PM." "That was the day the plane crashed.", Mulder thought. That day would forever haunt him. But it was after he had left. "Hello Mulder, this is Skinner. I just wanted to tell you that everythin g has been changed. They already found a doctor for the lab in Albany so we'= ve decided that Agent Scully will be reassigned back to The X-Files. She will b e noticed as soon as she lands in Albany which will be around 4:00 or 4:15 PM.= " Mulder froze as he played the message from over a week ago over again. "So if the FBI would have made up their damn minds in the first place Agent Scully wouldn't be six feet underground in the Saint Veronica Cemete ry right now! " He yelled loudly! "I hope you all rot in hell for this!!!", he yelled again. This time he realized no one could hear him nor help him. Then he glanced a t the box laying next to the machine. He picked it up and walked over to his couch and sat down. As he began to open the box a strange feeling came over him. When he opened it he glanced inside at a beautiful golden chain with something on it. He pulled it out staring in disbelief what he was looking at. It was a heart, the same heart that he had gave to Scully before her departure on the plane. It had the same picture of the two of them on the front. But when he turned it over this time it just read "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully," "Forever Soul Mates". The saying hit him like one thousand knives. "Though we may not always be partners", he said to himself. "We will always be soul mates" However, before he shut the box he noticed another chain sitting at the bottom of the box. He lifted it out to see a gold cross, the same exact gold cross Scully use to wear that no one found in the wreckage. "Could it be?", he thought. "Could this really be happening?" He shut the box and held the two pieces of jewelry in his hands. Though the full road of healing had not yet been traced, nor will ever be. This was a start. He fastened the gold chain around his neck. This was a part of Scully he would never let go of. The part that will stay with him forever. For the rest of the night Fox Mulder sat in his apartment surrendering t o his emotions? until the following morning when he was found by the with a bullet through his left temple holding the gold heart in his right hand. After all, what goes around comes around, in the strangest ways. "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, (Once Again Partners) Forever Soul Mates" THE END Hey! My name is Ashley and I went to your web page "Chronicle X" I wanted to know if you were looking for any new stories to put on your page. This is my latest called "To Never Let Go". Please let me know what you think? Title: "To Never Let Go" Author: **Ashley** =0) Spoilers: Zero, Zip, Zilch, Rated: PG-13 Keywords: MSR, A Classification: Mulder/Scully Relationship.Mulder Angst E-Mail: EvitaRox@aol.com Summary: I don't want to spoil it?.but all I will tell you is it's rea lly sad so bring out the tissue box. (Especially all you Shippers) PeAcE oUt To Ya All ShIppErz!!!!! <3 Disclaimer: Alright raise your hand if you think Fox Mulder and Dana Scully actually belong to me! See, no one raised there hand (except for my Grandma who only watches the "Discovery Channel"?but we won't go there.LoL) See that is proof that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully belong to Chris Carter and 1013 Productions. Authors Note: This is the first time I did not actually affiliate a song within one of my stories. (Well kind of LoL) If you read any of my past stories they all have songs in them. This time I took a different turn. I was going to call this "Forever Soul mates" but at the very last moment I changed the ending. Metaphorically Speaking, I like "To Never Let Go" better . And hopefully you will understand why. Hope you enjoy!!!! BTW- Feedback is Vital! "To Never Let Go" By: ** Ashley ** =0) Mulder's Apartment 10:32 PM "Hey Mulder it's me. I just wanted to tell you that Kersh just called and I have a meeting with him tomorrow. Apparently it has something to do with m y medical skills. I don't know, he wouldn't tell me. I probably have to do an autopsy. You don't need to call me back when you get in I just wanted to t ell you incase you didn't see me tomorrow until later."" Mulder clicked off his answering machine not thinking much about Scully 's message. "They probably want her to do an autopsy or something", he thought. "Just like she said!" The he walked into his room, crashed onto his bed and went to sleep. FBI Headquarters Washington D.C. 11:21 AM About seven FBI Directors and Assistant Directors sat around a long table discussing what would soon to be Special Agent Dana Scully's future. For close to seven years she had been writing field reports for Agent Mulder on The X-Files. "Scully will you please stand up.", a very familiar voice said. It was Assistant Director Kersh. Scully stood up silently. "Over the past few months I have been watching Agent Scully closely and I feel that her work quality has highly exceeded the amount of work needed to be done on The X-Files. " The other Agents sitting in the room with them nodded. Scully stood there astonished . She knew what he was about to do but she wasn't ready to hear it. She was under the impression that this meeting was to be about her medical skills. "I have gotten word that there is an opening at the New York FBI Labs in Albany for a head pathologist. I feel this will give Agent Scully a good chance to improve her medical skills and to teach others. If of course I hav e your permission to transfer her." He looked at the FBI Director who was sitting across the table from him and then looked at Scully. "Very well then, the Director said. You will be transferred immediately." Scully sat down in her chair unable to believe what was just said. She thought of something quickly to say? "I don't know what to say. Director Kersh, I am very pleased with your off er but at this time I feel that I am?" Kersh's expression on his face went from a semi-smile to a harsh tone. "Ag ent Scully we are not "offering" you anything here. We are following protocol which has to be taken out. You are to be reassigned at once!" Scully lowered her eyes and stared at the table. "Yes Director Kersh" "Very well then, you are all excused.", the Director in charge said. Scully watched as the room quickly emptied, Kersh still standing in the corner talking to another Agent in charge. He looked at her looking at them. "Agent Scully, you may leave now!", he said harshly. Scully left the room searching for Assistant Director Skinner. She knew that if there was anyone now who could stop this it could be him. She ran into hi s office. "Can I help you?", the secretary asked. "I need to talk with Skinner immediately!!!", she opened the door but it was locked. "I'm sorry Agent Scully, he is in a meeting right now." "I don't care what the hell he's doing damnit! I need to talk to him now !!!" "Please calm down Agent Scully. Or I will have to call security." "Since when does he lock his doors?", she yelled. "Skinner, open the door now!!!" she banged harder on the door until someone from behind opened it, almost making her fall through. "Is there a problem Scully?" "There is a problem. A pretty damn big problem too!" She happened to glance inside Skinner's office to see the smoking man sitt ing there along with two other Agents. "Please excuse me for a minute" he said to the Agents in his office. He shut the door behind him. Scully led him out into the hallway. "Now what the hell is your problem?" he said. "This!" she handed him a piece of paper talking about her transfer. "Scully, you know I can't do anything about it. I'm not even your superv isor anymore!" "You knew about this didn't you?", she said madly trying to keep it down. "Listen, they don't tell me half the things they use to." "Your one lying Son of?", she happened to glance behind Skinner to see the smoking man coming up behind him. "Can we hurry this up?", he said. "Yes Agent Scully, I am in a meeting. There is nothing I can do to help you.", he handed the paper back to her. "You're a liar. You are all liars!!! ", she couldn't control her anger. "and since when do you lock your door during a meeting?", she managed to choke ou t as her anger began to over come her. He didn't answer and she watched him retrieve back to his office like a do g going back to his masters house for food. Now she was left with the biggest problem. Telling Mulder. Fox Mulder's Office 5 Minutes Later "Mulder?" she said quietly as she entered his basement office. "Oh hey Scully. How did everything go for you this morning? I got your message last night. " "That's what I wanted to talk to you about.", she said trying so hard to choke back her tears. "Is everything okay?", he became concerned with the look on her face. "Mulder, I don't know how to tell you this but?" "What Scully? What's wrong?" " I am being transferred to Albany . Transfer effective Immediately." Mulder dropped the pen he was holding. "This could very well be the last time I stand in here talking to you!" Mulder stood up behind his desk and knocked everything that was on it to the floor. "What do you mean transfer!!!??? They can't split us up! They can't do this to us he yelled at papers went flying." "Stop it Mulder! Stop It!!!", she screamed. "I can't take this anymore . I don't want to hear this from you? I?I?", she looked down at the floo r. "I just don't know what to say Mulder." She calmed herself down. "I'm sorry.", she fled out of the room sobbing. Mulder wanted to run after her bu t he felt like his legs were cemented to the ground so he sat back down on his desk putting his hands on his face. Washington International Airport 12:32 PM Two Days Later Scully sat in a chair staring at the people walking by in a daze. She hadn't talked to Mulder even to say her final goodbye for two days, when s he stormed out of his office. "It's not like I'll never see Mulder again." She thought to herself. "There will be holidays and vacations?.and maybe even cases where he will visit?" "Flight 473 to Albany New York is now boarding at gate 17." Scully picke d up her bags. "Once again Flight 473 is now boarding at gate 17." She got up but just as she began to walk over to the gate a hand from behind grabbed her shoulder. "Scully, I wanted to say good-bye but I got caught in traffic." "Mulder!", she looked into his deep green eyes. "Mulder, I'm so sorry about the other day. I thought you would come af ter me like you always do." "When you left I went straight to Kersh's and Skinner's office to se e if I could stop anything." "Did you do anything?", she said hopefully knowing that the odds were fa r against anything happening. He signaled with his head "no". "Once again Flight 473 to Albany New York please board at gate 17." "Is that your flight?", Mulder asked. Scully nodded her head. He put his hands on her shoulders. "I guess I don't even need to begin to tell you how much I'll miss y ou.", Scully said trying not to burst into tears. A tear trickled down Mulder's cheek and she wiped it away and kissed him on the far head. "But it's not like we'll never see each other again. We can call each other and e-mail and?" she couldn't keep her composer any longer. As she began to weep ha rd Mulder pulled her into his big bear hug and kissed her on the head. "Last call for flight 473 to Albany New York. Last call." "I'd better go now." She said. "I can't miss my flight!" Just as sh e began to turn away Mulder grabbed her again by the shoulder. His sad eyes me t her sad eyes again for the last time. He brought her face closer to his face , as their lips met she felt as if she would stay with him forever. As soon as Mulder pulled away he quickly reached into his pocket for something. "Don't go yet Scully.", he said. "I have something for you!" He pulled out a small green box with a note taped securely to it. "Don't open this until you are in flight on the plane. She took the box from him and then looked at the gate that was now near empty. "Flight 473 to Albany New York is now getting ready to depart." She glanced at Mulder then glanced at the gate as if to say "I really have to go but I don't want to." "I know you have to go now Scully. But before you go I want you to know that everything that I wrote in that note you are holding is the truth." By now he couldn't even hold back the tears. "But I wanted to tell you someth ing in person also?" "Hey you, over there?are you coming or not!?", the flight attendant yelled to Scully. "I have to go now.", she said sadly. She gave him another kiss on the cheek. She began to walk away. Mulder walked with her up to the gate as soon as she handed in her boarding pass began to walk out of site onto her plane. She turned around one more time to get one more good look at Mulder. "I Love You.", he said. Though she could no longer hear what he was saying she read his lips and she responded with an "I Love You Too". At that moment she slowly walked out of site. And that would be the last time Fox Mulder and Dana Scully ever saw each other. * * * * * * * * * * * * Scully's plane had now been in flight for about twenty minutes. She ha d been so engulfed in sadness that she forgot about the small box Mulder had gave her as she began to unravel it the captain turned on the "fasten seat belt" sign. "Attention everyone, will you please fasten your seat belts. We are approaching some turbulence." Scully fastened her seat belt, thinking nothin g of it and began to read the note Mulder had written. "Dear Scully" it read. "I know you are reading this on the plane. And I couldn't say Everythi ng to you that I wanted to say in the airport, so I wrote it in a letter. Now, don't open this box until you are done reading this. First of all I want to say that at this very moment I probably have Skinner pinned to the ground for even allowing this to happen and I hoping that in a month or so everything will be straightened out so you can come back here, where you belong." Scully chuckled then went back to the letter. "The next thing is on a more serious note? I want to tell you that the pas t seven years have been the best years of my life because of you. Ever since the day you walked into that door I have loved you but I never fully realize d it until you were gone.( No offense or anything) I guess that is kind of foolish of me. Anyway, I am running out of space to write and time to give this to you so I hope you enjoy it. I just want you also to know that this i s the last time I will ever let you go. I Love You Always -Fox Mulder" By now Scully was sobbing again. She quickly opened the small green box and unwrapped the cotton that was wrapped tightly around it. When she saw what Mulder had gotten for her she didn't know how to react. It was a gold heart on a chain with a small picture of the two of them inside the heart. When she turned over the heart the words "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully" were written. Followed by "Forever Partners, Forever Soul mates". Scully froze when she read it. "Forever Partners, Forever Soul mates " she thought to herself. "It's the truth!" She tried not to loose her compo ser on the plane like she did in the airport but this time she couldn't help i t. She took the two ends of the golden chain and clicked them together behind her neck. The necklace looked magnificent on her. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed Mulder's number. He picked up, surprisingly the reception was really good. "Mulder, it's me!", she said. "Hey Scully?how is everything?" "I don't know where to begin to thank you for the necklace.", she said . "Oh Scully, I just thought of you the minute I saw it. I thought it woul d look beautiful on you." "The saying is beautiful.",. Scully said. "But it's true." Suddenly the reception got really bad. The plane began to shake rapidly and then fall. Scully didn't know what was going on until she smelled smok e. She looked behind her to see raging flames and then everything went black. * * * * * * "Scully? Scully??", Mulder yelled. "Damn the reception went bad.", he thought. He tried hard to call back but the operator said the phone was "out of use". He figured she would call back when they landed. Mulder decided to curl up on the couch and watch TV until Scully landed which would be about 4:15. He clicked through the channels quickly until he had to go to the bathroom. Since he still couldn't find anything to watch on TV he left it on MSNBC, the news channel. Not paying much attention to the TV, he left for the bathroom. When he came back to his surprise, the news wa s covering a breaking story. "Plane Crash over Allentown PA. 236 People abroad, no found survivors yet.", the reporter said. "We don't have any video tape of the wreckage bu t we do know that the plane was headed to Albany New York. At around 2:36 ther e were reports of smoke in the cockpit and then from what witnesses said the plane turned into a huge ball of fire and crashed into the woods. Please sta y tuned to MSNBC for any news." Mulder couldn't move. He knew that Scully wa s aboard that plane. "I need to go to Allentown." He thought. He ran out into his car and head out onto his long journey ahead. "I will never let her go again!" he yelled. "Never again!!!" The Crash Site Allentown PA 8:00 PM Mulder arrived at the site at about 7:00 PM. At that time they were stil l recovering bodies. Mulder was relieved to hear that there were three survivors of the crash. Two ladies and a young boy. They were in critical condition though at Allentown Memorial Hospital. Mulder quickly raced over hoping that one of them were Scully. "I need to speak with the doctor in charge around here!", Mulder yelled as he entered the Intensive Care Unit. "Now!" "What is the problem mister?" a nurse said. "I'm with the FBI I need to see the three survivors of flight 473.", he yelled. " I'm sorry but there is only one survivor left. The other two died a couple hours ago. Are you family here to identify her? Only family can see her!" "Yes.", he quickly said. "I have reason to believe that may be my wife i n there." "Okay sir. But let me just warn you that she may not be recognizable." "How is she doing?", he yelled. "She is unconscience. Over 85 percent of her body has been burnt and her face has been burnt beyond recognition. To tell you the truth we are amazed she is alive." "Well let me see her anyway.", Mulder said. "Follow me." The nurse led him down the hall. Mulder followed her hoping with all his heart that it was Scully in there. "Okay sir here she is." The nurse led him into a room. Is this your wife?" Mulder took one look at her and knew by her shape and her size that it was definitely not Scully. "No, no.", he said. "This isn't her." "I'm sorry sir." Mulder nodded his head sadly and then left the hospit al. The Crash Site 9:00 PM "Hey can someone help me?", he yelled as he got out of his car. "Yes, I can.", another Agent who was drinking a cup of coffee stood near his car said. "Did they discover all of the bodies?", he asked. "Yes, they discovered most of them. I think they are missing like ten." "Do you know where they brought them?", Mulder asked. "Yes, they brought them to a hanger near here. At the Fort Aura Air Base . It's up the road from here to the left. They are working on putting the pl ane back together as we speak." "Thank you.", he said running back to his car. "Did you loose someone?", she asked. Mulder looked at the young agent with sadness in his eyes trying to avoid the question. Then he got in his ca r. Fort Aura Air Base 9:18 PM Mulder rushed though crowds of people who were there recovering bodies. He looked for someone in charge. "Excuse me. I am here to recover the body of someone.", Mulder said. "Yes, name please?" "Fox Mulder.", he said. "Okay who is the person you are trying to recover?" "Dana Scully. Special Agent Dana Scully." "Dana Scully." He fingered through a bunch of papers. "There was a Dana Scully who's body was already identified this afternoon. Is this who you are talking about?", Mulder's heart sank as tea rs began to fall down his cheeks. The man pulled out a picture and handed it t o Mulder. Mulder stared at the picture. It was Scully. She was wearing sunglasses standing near a boat smiling. It was a picture he recognized from a trip she took to Maine a few years ago. "Where did you get this picture?", he asked. "Her family was here this afternoon. It was her mother and her brother. Actually, they left a message here for you." He pulled out a piece of paper. "Your Fox Mulder right?" Mulder nodded. "Call them at this number.= " Mulder took the paper. "Thank you." "Oh yes you can keep the picture. The Scully's gave it to us to give t o you. Apparently they knew you were coming?" Mulder nodded his head then walked back to his car. When he got back int o his car he pulled out the picture of Scully and began to cry. A Small Restaurant Near the Crash Site Allentown PA 9:26 AM Mulder sat in a booth waiting for the arrival of Mrs. Scully and Scully 's brother Bill. He had not been able to sleep at all the night before and so finally the sleep was trying to catch up with him. "Fox!", a small lady wearing jeans and a purple sweater stood up next to him. "Hello Mrs. Scully. I'm so sorry about Dana." He got up and gave her a hug. "Thank you!", she said. "Thank you." "Bill.", he turned to Scully's brother and gave him a hug. "I'm so sorry." All three of them sat in the booth. "I presume we should start making funeral arrangements soon.", Bill said . "We?", Mulder said in disbelief. For years now, Bill and Mulder never go t along well. He was surprised now when Bill wanted to include him. "Yes, we have thought it over and already started making calls" said Mrs . Scully. "And we want you to be a part of this. After all you were the closes t to Dana. She was just so devastated when she was reassigned. She called me right away. I truly believed that you and Dana were meant to be together. " Mulder agreed with her. "She was very special.", he tried to fight back tears again. "I just can't begin to even comprehend that she is dead." "We already decided thought that we should have the funeral in Washingto n D.C.then, probably next weekend." Mulder nodded. "We were going to leave right now then to get back and schedule everything." "What about the body?", Mulder asked. "The body will be in Washington in a few days. We already got all of that information. It is currently at the morgue. "Would you like to ride back with us?" asked Mrs. Scully. "It's an awfully long ride for someone to do alone especially after so much. Anyway, Charles will be here so I could get a ride back with him.: "No, that's okay." Mulder said. "Are you sure?" She insisted. "Also, you are more then welcomed to stay at our house for the week. So we could all mourn together. We wouldn't want you to be alone." "Okay.", said Mulder. "I'd like that but I want to go back to the cras h site. Just to finish up something." "I ensure you everything is taken care of.", Bill said. "No but there is something I need to do.", Mulder said. "I will see you both in Maryland" The Crash Site Later that Afternoon Mulder sat on a downed tree looking at the wreckage. He had been searching for the gold heart all afternoon but couldn't find it. All of the jewelry that any of the passengers were wearing was confiscated and put together in a pile. Mulder had been though the pile thre e times making sure he didn't miss it. He founded over 100 gold crosses but didn't take any because he wasn't sure which one was Scully's.. "Are you sure you took the jewelry of every passenger?" Mulder asked. "Every passenger that was on the plane. Hey it could be possible that th e piece of jewelry you are looking for could have gotten melted into her body. The plane was a fiery inferno before it crashed." "No, I checked that already." He responded, not wanting to know any of the details. "What are you looking for anyway, a wedding ring?" "No, a gold heart necklace.", Mulder said. "Oh, I'm sorry then, I can't help you!" the man said as he began to walk away. "Hey wait a second." Mulder said. "Do you happen to know what happened t o the survivor of the crash? Did she make it?" The man nodded his head sadly. "No, she slipped into a coma and died. We were surprised she made it as long as she did you know." "Oh I see.", Mulder replied. "Thank you anyway." Mulder walked back to his car and prepared to ride back to Maryland. Saint Veronica's Church Washington D.C. One Week Later To much of Mulder's surprise the FBI had prepared a slide show showing all of Scully's accomplishments and pictures of her working to show at the funeral to the song "Fly" By Celine Dion. As the song began to play he remembered all of their times together. "Fly, fly little wing. Fly beyond imagining The softest cloud, the whitest dove Upon the wing of heaven's love Past the planets and the stars Leave this lonely world of ours Escape the sorrow and the pain And fly again?" As the song played on their whole life together flashed before his eyes . He remembered the day they met, the day Duane Barry took her and she was found in the hospital. He hoped to find her again this time in the hospital but the unthinkable had occurred... "Fly, fly precious one Your endless Journey has begun Take your gentle happiness Far to beautiful for this Cross over to the other shore There is peace forevermore But hold this memory bittersweet Until we meet?" "The words in this song are true", he thought. He sat in the front Church pew next to Mrs. Scully , Scully's brothers and the rest of her family. In front of them Father McCue spoke finishing up the mass. "Let us celebrate the life of Dana Scully", he began. "Though she will missed greatly this isn't a time to look at death it is a time to look at life?" * * * * * After the funeral procession and the burial Mulder went back to his apartment. He hadn't been back to his apartment in over a week because he had stayed with Scully's family in Maryland until the funeral that day. When h e arrived back at his apartment he noticed something odd sitting by his door. It was a small green box, just like the one he had gave to Scully. He picked up the box and held it in his hands for a minute. "What kind of a sick joke is this?", he thought. He opened his door and walked inside his apartment placing the box next to his answering machine. "You have Twelve New Messages", the machine said. "Thursday April Twenty Second, 3:21 PM." "That was the day the plane crashed.", Mulder thought. That day would forever haunt him. But it was after he had left. "Hello Mulder, this is Skinner. I just wanted to tell you that everythin g has been changed. They already found a doctor for the lab in Albany so we'= ve decided that Agent Scully will be reassigned back to The X-Files. She will b e noticed as soon as she lands in Albany which will be around 4:00 or 4:15 PM.= " Mulder froze as he played the message from over a week ago over again. "So if the FBI would have made up their damn minds in the first place Agent Scully wouldn't be six feet underground in the Saint Veronica Cemete ry right now! " He yelled loudly! "I hope you all rot in hell for this!!!", he yelled again. This time he realized no one could hear him nor help him. Then he glanced a t the box laying next to the machine. He picked it up and walked over to his couch and sat down. As he began to open the box a strange feeling came over him. When he opened it he glanced inside at a beautiful golden chain with something on it. He pulled it out staring in disbelief what he was looking at. It was a heart, the same heart that he had gave to Scully before her departure on the plane. It had the same picture of the two of them on the front. But when he turned it over this time it just read "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully," "Forever Soul Mates". The saying hit him like one thousand knives. "Though we may not always be partners", he said to himself. "We will always be soul mates" However, before he shut the box he noticed another chain sitting at the bottom of the box. He lifted it out to see a gold cross, the same exact gold cross Scully use to wear that no one found in the wreckage. "Could it be?", he thought. "Could this really be happening?" He shut the box and held the two pieces of jewelry in his hands. Though the full road of healing had not yet been traced, nor will ever be. This was a start. He fastened the gold chain around his neck. This was a part of Scully he would never let go of. The part that will stay with him forever. For the rest of the night Fox Mulder sat in his apartment surrendering t o his emotions? until the following morning when he was found by the with a bullet through his left temple holding the gold heart in his right hand. After all, what goes around comes around, in the strangest ways. "Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, (Once Again Partners) Forever Soul Mates" THE END