From: ephemeral@ephemeralfic.org
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 02:35:54 -0500
Subject: You Can Still Be Free by Invisible sun
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You Can Still Be Free
by Invisible Sun

Disclaimer: Chris Carter, 1013, and the FOX 
Network own anything related to the X-Files.
Savage Garden owns the song.

Spoilers: none

Keywords: Mulder/Scully Romance, character death,
angst, Mulder POV

Archive: Yes, please!  Just let me know so I can
stop by and visit.

Rating: G, PG?  I'm not very good with ratings.

Summary: "Keep moving way up high/ You see the light/
It shines forever/ Sail through the crimson skies/
The purest light/ The light that sets you free/ If
time will set you free" ~Savage Garden "You Can 
Still Be Free"

This is yet another installment of the Savage Garden
Vignette Series.  It's also one of my favorite songs.
To read the others, go to 
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Realm/9526/SavageGardenVignetteSeries.html.
For complete lyrics and to hear the song, go to 
http://www.geocities.com/trulymadlydarren/ :>


You Can Still Be Free
by Invisible Sun


I feel the bullet enter me.  I feel myself fly back
from the force.  I feel my life slip out of my hands. 
I feel you, Scully, by my side, urging me to not give 
up.  

I'm trying to, Scully, believe me.  

I remember seeing us, together.  This morning.  Before
work.  I remember us talking about what we had planned
for the wedding.  God, I was happy.  Now, I'm laying 
here in a puddle of my own blood, feeling my life ebb
slowly away.  I don't want to go, but I can't help it.

I see the light.  I can't stop myself from going toward
the light.  I hear you desperately telling my to hold on.
But you're slowing fading away.  The pain is slowly fading
away.  I feel numb.  I feel good....


Now, I watch you.  Standing at my gravesite.  I see the
mourners coming toward you and offering you their
condolences.  I want to comfort you, but I can't.  It 
tears me apart.  

Now, I fly.  I fly toward the light.  Through the mountain
tops as high as I can.  It's an amazing feeling.  I want
to share it with you, but I can't.  

I fly like a bird.  Free.  No boundaries.  It's amazing.  
But it's not the same.  It's not the same as being with
you, near you, around you.  It's not the same.  It will
never be the same again.  And that pains me.  I feel pain
again.  But, now, nothing can numb it.


The End

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