Closing Doors

I miss you

There will never be anyone else for me but you

I love you

Just wanted to let you know I was thinking about you

She takes one more look at his email and then closes her laptop, fighting back the tears that are stinging her eyes.

Everything is packed and her mother is waiting in the car for her. She detaches the cord from the wall and places it into her purse. The movers are coming by tomorrow to pick up the rest of her furniture and it will all meet her in California later on in the week.

She didn't tell him that she was leaving. She hasn't spoken to him properly in a week. He has sent her emails, telling her how much he misses her, loves her, but he knows that this is for the best and that they are not meant to be. She didn't respond.

She has filed all of the necessary paperwork with Skinner, surprised that he does not ask the real reason for her resignation. She had told him she will be moving to San Diego with her mother. Once Charlie had decided to move back to the States, living in Chula Vista, her mom had decided she wanted to be closer to her grandkids. Scully wants to start a new chapter in her life and agreed to go with her. Finding a nice two bedroom apartment on the outskirts of San Diego. Close to her mother's new house and to Bill and Charlie.

She turns one last time and takes another look at her apartment. So many memories, good and bad. All of them filled with Mulder. She asked Skinner to make sure that Mulder will not be able to find her, she doesn't want him following her. Their lives are better off apart, this she knows is true. Skinner has reassured her that he was the only one who knew where she is going and that it is not on record.

One last call to the gunmen last night, making sure no matter what he offers them, they will not help him find her. Things are better this way. It is finally time to let go, to turn over a new leaf and finally figure out who she is once again.

But she does miss him. With all her heart. But she won't cave in, because if she does the cycle will repeat itself and she will be back in this same situation in 3 months time.

She steps through the threshold one last time and pulls the door shut on her Georgetown apartment, on her life as Special Agent Dana Scully.