John heard the thumping sound as Monica hit the floor, and he looked up to find Brad Follmer on top of Monica, strangling her.
"MONICA!" John yelled, running over to where Monica lay, quickly running out of air. "Hey! Get off her!" he yelled, as he tried to pull Follmer off her.
Two security guards came over and pulled Brad off Monica. The guards cuffed Follmer and Mulder escorted them to Skinners office, while every ones attention turned to Monica.
Monica lay still, unmoving, with her eyes closed. John feared the worst. "Monica?" he asked tentatively, and knelt down to check her vitals. She has a weak pulse, but she's not breathing." He thought o himself.
John began C.P.R while barking out orders to everyone else. "Some one call an ambulance!" he ordered, then breathed into her mouth.
"Monica? Mon, can you hear me?" John asked, but to no response.
"Come on Monica, come back." He whispered and breathed into her mouth again. Monica's eyes shot open and she breathed in a huge gulp of air, before she fell into a coughing fit.
John helped her to sit up, and the coughing subsided. Monica hugged him and he pulled her as close as he could, stroking her hair, he whispered into her ear. "I thought I'd lost you."
"You thought you'd lost me to Brad? Never." Monica whispered weakly, and smiled before coughing again.
"Doggett?" Scully said appearing behind him, "The ambulance is here." She said.
John picked Monica up and carried her to the ambulance, and put her down on the gurney. The paramedics put a mask over her face to help her breathe, and wheeled her into the van. But she reached out for John, a panicked look in her eyes. John jumped into the van, and Monica removed the mask to speak to him. "No, no hospitals, not after what happened last time."
The paramedic just looked at John confused, and replaced the mask back over Monica's mouth.
"Um okay, well what should we do then?" the young female paramedic asked.
"Drive us to Scully's Apartment, Scully is a doctor she can look after Monica, she won't go to the hospital, no matter how hard you try." John said.
"Why won't she go to the hospital? If you don't mind me asking."
"The last doctor that treated her tried to kill her." He said.
"Oh." Was all the paramedic said. "Well um, does Sully want a ride with us, seeing as we are going to her apartment?"
"Yeah, I'll just get her." He said and left to find Scully.
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At Sculls apartment 30 minutes later
John carried Monica up the stairs to Scully's apartment, with much protest on Monica's behalf that she was fine and could walk.
Scully opened the front door, and John walked into the lounge and put Monica on the couch so that she was lying down.
"How're you feeling?"
"For some one whose ex boyfriend just tried to kill them, I doing great." Monica said slightly sarcastically.
"I'm being serious Monica, are you okay?"
"Well my throat hurts a little bit, and I will probably have bruises on my neck and back tomorrow." Monica admitted.
Scully came into the lounge room at that moment "I need to go to the chemist to get something for your neck, to help with the pain. I'll be back in an hour." Scully said, putting her coat on. "Behave you two." She added sarcastically and then left.
"What were Mulder and Scully saying to you?" Monica asked.
"When?"
"When I was…talking with Brad."
"We weren't the only ones to see the jealous look on Follmer's face when we broke the news to everyone, Mulder and Scully noticed it too. They were worried for our safety and with good reason too." He said as he very lightly touched the side of her neck, were he could see the bruises starting to form.
"They said that they had herd him mumbling insane stuff like, 'How could she do this?' and 'Why is she doing this?' 'She can't do this to me, she will pay' and that wasn't all, they also heard him say he had a 'plan' to get you back."
Monica looked down at her hands as a lone tear escaped her eye and made its slow trek down her face. John saw the tear and tilted her face up towards him "Hey it's okay, I'm here and I'm not going to let him hurt you again, I promise you that. What did he say to you?" John asked sincerely.
"He said he still wanted me, that our relationship wasn't over, he said that I was his. I told him that I was getting married to you, and there was nothing that he could do to stop that. But then-" Monica cut her self off, as she half chocked half sobbed. John wrapped his arms around her, rubbing her back in an attempt to calm her.
"What happened?" he whispered in her ear.
"He- he grabbed me, and he kissed me." She finished looking any where but at John, ashamed that she hadn't seen it coming and let it happen.
John felt the anger rise in him, but he pushed it away, knowing that Monica had to have done something to retaliate, or Follmer wouldn't have been doubled over.
"What happened next?"
"I kneed him between the legs, and he let go of me…you know the rest." Monica said in a small voice.
"Would be wrong for me to be proud of you?"
"Why would you be proud of me?"
"Because you hit where it hurts, and showed him whose boss." John said wiping away the tears that had found there way down Monica's face.
"It's okay." John tried to reassure her as she cried into his chest.
"I can't believe that- that he'd really do that." Monica sobbed.
"I know babe, it was a shock to everyone. We thought that Follmer was out to…oh how to put it…eliminate, me so that he could have you." John said.
"I don't know what I would do with out you." Monica said, and kissed him softly. She held John close, and slowly fell asleep.
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