From: ephemeral@ephemeralfic.org
Date: 8 Oct 2003 19:27:16 -0000
Subject: What Will Tomorrow Bring? by Semantics
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Title: What Will Tomorrow Bring?
Vignette 
Rating: G
Spoilers: Redux
Author's note: This is written from Scully's
point of view.
Disclaimer: I do not own the credit for
creating the characters 
of Mulder and Scully or anyone else from the
X-files, they belong  to Chris Carter and the
folks at Fox.  
This is merely my interpretation of a moment
from the show.
Feedback: Can be sent to
Semantics@writeme.com.


What Will Tomorrow Bring?
***********************


The days blur with the smell of antiseptic
and the stiff rustle of hospital sheets,
although I can't say that I am completely
unaware of the passage  of time.  This truth
is reinforced each time I feel the sharp
sting of my intravenous line tugging against
my blankets as I raise  my hand to the
throbbing point of pressure on my forehead. 
Then I realize that it has been four hours
since the last dose of my pain medication. 
The harshest reality for me in this, is that
the doctor in me has been pushed aside by a
woman desperate for pain relief.  I no longer
remember what I am being given.

I have fought before and come back from where
there should have been no return.   I had
believed that this would be no different,
that despite the odds, and with Mulder's
help, that I would make my triumphant return
to work and to myself.  However, late last
evening, my knight in shining armor showed up
in mourning clothes.  He crept in quietly in
the dark to stand over my bedside, but even
in my medicated sleep, the soft sounds of his
sorrow reached me.  All I could do for him at
the moment was to be there for him, to be
something solid, although silent, to touch. 
My fear is that soon, too soon, I will no
longer be around to do so.

Quietly I think in the few moments that allow
me to do so, and I stare at the and the
bright glare of florescent lighting on the
stark white walls and I wonder, for Mulder as
much as for me, what will tomorrow bring?

-Semantics