From: ephemeral@ephemeralfic.org
Date: 25 Nov 2001 00:23:54 -0000
Subject: "Waiting to Hear his Footsteps Behind" by Starrlyte
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"Waiting to Hear his Footsteps Behind"

Author:  Starrlyte ( Tiff Devol)

Rating:  PG?

Category:  MSR

Summary:  Scully struggles with her 
decision of convincing Mulder to leave.

Disclaimer:  All things X belong to CC and
1013 productions.

Author's Notes:  Ok so I have found a new way
to write short fic!  ok so maybe not a new way.
I have been watching a lot of X-Files videos 
lately and I've noticed as I am watching them
that words often come to my head.  And so this
little peice was born, inspired by Lyle's amazing
X-Files video "Scully" set to the breathtaking
music of Hans Zimmer, from Pearl Harbor.  So 
I hope that the folks reading from Ephemeral and
Gossamer like it, God knows i never would have
thought "A Baby's Love" would have done so
well, so we'll see.  And to Lyle if you read this,
write me and let me know some of your video 
recomendations because yours are truly incredible!

Here goes....

"Waiting to Hear his Footsteps Behind"

She opens the door and steps out into the hall, her
heels clicking against the familiar tile.  Many times 
she has walked down this hall with her partner.  Today,
she walks it alone.  She bites her lip refusing to let it all 
go. The phone calls, the hospital visits, writing in journals 
and holding weeping mothers.  She tells herself that she has 
done the right thing, she must believe that she has done the 
right thing.

Tears are her only comfort now as she moves through
the day without him.  Jumping at every sound of the phone,
wishing so badly to hear him speak her name.  He will be
back, she tells herself.  In time, he will be back.

As she walks on down the hall she suddenly feels it.
That familiar shudder in her spine.  The same shudder she 
felt the first time she arrived at Quantico so long ago.  She
smiles to herself as the pride surges within her.  Here she can 
fight where others cannot.  Here she is a hero, and as she 
stands in front of a room full of new Pathology students
she realizes for the first time, that she can show them
 a future of immense possibility.  She will tell them the tales 
she whispers to her newborn son each night.  Each detail,
each discovery, each step along the way to the truth so that
they too can believe.

She knows that Mulder will return, but until then she 
will continue to walk down that hall,  heels echoing 
across the familiar tile, waiting to hear his footsteps behind.