As soon as the light had come, it had disappeared. All Scully could hear was silence.

And then the screams began. Immediately she looked around her. More than half of the people who had been surrounding her in the crowds on this bridge had disappeared. But she knew better than that. She looked into the car, her heart dropping in fear. Somehow, by some miracle, both she and Mulder were still there.

"Agent Mi—" her voice drifted off as she realized that he was gone. "Fuck," she muttered under her breath. It was the worst of times that she saved her cursing for, whether she consciously thought about it or not. She kneeled down in front of Mulder. He had passed out. Or fallen asleep. That was the more optimistic of the two schools of thought.

"Mulder," she grabbed his shoulder. Nothing. "Mulder, come on, I need you to wake up, she put her right hand on the left of his face.

" Scully… 'snot gonna happen," he mumbled and barely opened his eyes. She immediately pulled his left arm out towards her to shove the IV in. He winced. "Jesus Christ," he nearly yelled. "Use that thing on someone who is going to make it," he pulled his arm back and rubbed his elbow.

"You are going to make it, Mulder," she looked into his eyes.

"No, I heard what you said, and I won't let you do it," he shook his head. "No way in hell. And besides, he probably doesn't even know we exist. So how do you plan to tell him about this? Or his parents? It isn't happening, Scully." He closed his eyes again.

"It has to happen, Mulder. And if he has any of my DNA then he probably already knows that he is somehow different from his parents," she stopped short. "Mulder, he will agree," she said, more to herself, than to him. "He has to," she whispered.

"He's 15 years old, it's not going to happen, I won't let this happen," he reiterated.

"Mulder you're delirious," she rubbed his arm.

"How do you even plan to find him?" He yelled. "He's gone, Scully, and he isn't coming back," he used his other hand to rub his forehead.

"Well I'm not going to let you die. Not after all of… this," she said.

"All of what? The last 23 years? You sure picked a fine time to not walk away," he pulled his arm back. "After "all this", Scully, you walked away from me. You left me, Scully, and you now say you can't let me die?" He questioned.

She reeled. This was not him. This had to be the fever. The untreated pain. This was not Fox Mulder.

"I…" she shook her head. "Mulder, having you dead is a whole lot different than having you 20 minutes away. And I've already gone through that once," she stood up. "If you're not going to let me put an IV in you, then at least let me help you get to sleep?" she pulled out a syringe and a liquid bottle. "It's a sedative. I absolutely will not kill you, but if you refuse help then at least you can get some sleep until some semblance of control is gathered around here," she looked around.

He looked up at her. "Why did you leave me, Scully?" He studied her face. "And don't tell me it has anything to do with the damn "darkness"," he reached out with his right hand and took her left in his.

"I…" she shook her head and kneeled in front of him again. "Honestly, because I needed to see if I still had a life outside of you. That you weren't the only thing holding me together. That there was more than our history full of pain," she said looking into his eyes.

"There was a hell of a lot more in our history than pain," he responded instantly. "A hell of a lot more."

"Yes. But Mulder I needed interaction with other human beings. I was being sucked in to your hermit life. And while it may work for you, I needed to know I was still a functioning member of society," she inserted the needle into his vein. "Mulder, please know, I love you. I always have….. And I always will," she said and then injected the cold liquid into his arm.

"We don't need anyone else, Scully," he lifted his right arm to her face and caressed it. "Our love…. 'senough," he said and his arm dropped as he passed out.

"Finally," she mumbled and jammed the iv into his right hand.

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