Last Wish

Part 10

By

Trycee

Time-Line: Alternative Universe. Season 10 After Home Again and before My Struggle II.

Disclaimer: This is written for fun, not profit.

Scully reentered Williams room and glanced up at Mulder. "Bill and Matthew are on their way. They're going to test for a match. They're coming from Germany as soon as possible."

William smiled at her though he was limp with his eyes caved in. "Mom, what about my grandmother?"

"We forgot to call her," Mulder offered. "We were so focused on you."

Scully immediately pulled out her cellphone, pacing as the phone rang. "Mom!"

"Dana, nice to hear from you"

"Mom! We have William," Scully added. "Mom, he's here at the hospital. I apologize we didn't call you sooner but he's sick and I've been trying to determine his illness."

"William?", her mother, Maggie questioned. "You found William? DANA, you found William?"

"Yes," Scully said, excitedly. "He asked for you, mom."

"You're sure it's him?", Maggie asked, scrambling around her D.C. apartment.

"I'm sure. Can you come here?"

"I'm grabbing my purse and keys right now."

"We're on the third floor of Our Lady in Ward B. I'll let the FBI know to expect you. You have to show your I.D."

"Okay," Maggie said, scrambling around. "I'll be there in a few minutes."

"Okay," Scully said, hanging up. "She'll be here soon," Scully grinned.

Scully looked on, lovingly at her son, straightening his blanket and fluffing his pillows. She checked his tubing and monitors as William watched her busy herself. William knew she didn't want to leave his side. William reached out his hand and slid his hand in hers. She smiled a warm smile before kissing his hand. "How do you feel?"

"Hungry. I could use a big cheesy hamburger right now," he smiled, weakly.

"I promise, the minute you start feeling better, I'll get you that cheeseburger. But, until then," she said, pointing to an IV bag. "That's your cheeseburger."

William shook his head. "Gross."

Scully giggled. "It's whatever you need it to be."

William sighed. "Then I want it to be a Liberty Burger."

Mrs. Van DeKamp smiled and glanced at her husband. They looked at William and he looked back at them.

"What kind, son?", Mr. Van DeKamp asked.

"A Bison Chillerno with the peppers and cheese and piled high. Remember?", he smiled.

Scully moved back as the Van DeKamps stepped up to his side. "We'll get you a triple stacked burger with a nice big shake the minute we get back home," Mrs. Van DeKamp smiled.

"With my friends?", he asked.

Mr. Van DeKamp looked surprised. He hadn't known William to have any friends since he became sick. "With whoever you choose."

The door flew open and a fragile but determined Maggie Scully walked in. She glanced at the Van DeKamps and then looked at the teenage boy laying in the hospital bed. She cupped her hands over her mouth and gasped. Scully immediately came to her side and they both hugged as tears streaked down their cheeks. Scully held her mother's hand as she approached William on the opposite side of the bed from the Van DeKamps.

"William!", Maggie gushed. "You look like my daughter," she said, in a soft wavering voice.

To everyone's surprise, William sat up with his arms wide open and a smile. Maggie touched her grandson for the first time since he was a baby. She cried into his teenage shoulder as he hugged her back. Mulder stood up and placed his arms around Scully's waist, holding her up until she had gripped the edge of Williams bed. Scully watched with a mixture of happiness and intense guilt as Maggie kissed her grandsons cheek and chatted with him, gushing over him. "You look so much like my daughter," she repeated. "I wish your grandfather and your aunt could have lived to see you."

The Van DeKamps decided to step back, once again losing a moment with their son to his biological family.

Scully stepped out and returned with a chair for her mother to sit down in. Margaret was beaming in a way Scully hadn't seen in a long time. She moved her chair next to her mother's as Mulder relocated alongside them. Mulder lifted his arm offering up William's now empty right side for the Van DeKamps who had been sitting alongside the wall since the beginning. They moved up to sit by his side and smiled, grateful to be included. Maggie was busy telling William stories about him as a baby, stories, he hadn't heard from his mother. She too was listening with amazement, getting a glimpse into the periods when she was at work or off with John and Monica searching for the truth.

It was starting to get late and Maggie hugged William and then hugged Scully and Mulder as well. "I'll be back in the morning."

"Okay," Scully sighed.

Maggie turned back to her grandson. "I'll be back sweetie, bright and early. I promise."

"I know," William smiled.

"I'm not losing you again," she smiled.

Mulder glanced at Scully who looked off as the guilt again settled within her bones.

Maggie touched her hand, squeezing it. Letting her daughter know, she hadn't meant to upset her. They embraced again and then Maggie walked out, heading back to her own apartment in the surrounding D.C. area.

Mulder touched Scully's hand encircling it. She sighed. "It is getting late," she said, answering his unspoken statement.

"Are you ready to go to bed?", Mulder asked her.

Scully turned to look him up in the eyes. "Its getting late and I know your tired too."

"I am," Mulder said.

"We'll head down to the doctors quarters here," Scully said as she turned her attention back to the Van DeKamps. "I'll have our best cots brought to you to make you comfortable for the night. And then tomorrow, I can see about our hospital family apartments and have you moved in there."

The Van DeKamps glanced at each other and then back to her. "Thank You. But, how long do you expect William to be here?"

"Well, we have to wait for my brother and his family to come from Germany. And then it'll be a week of shots for him before he can even donate. And then once he does, William will be given the stem cells and then it'll be about two more weeks before we can see if there's an improvement."

The Van DeKamp's glanced at each other. "I guess we need to call the neighbors to keep watch on the farm a little longer," Mrs. Van DeKamp spoke.

"I'm sure they'll get the word out and all the neighbors will pitch in for us, like they've done before."

She nodded and then turned back to Scully. "Alright. We're in."

"I'll let the nurses know to bring plenty of blankets and pillows along with the cots. And if anything changes with William, I'll be right down the hall. The nurses know where to get ahold of us," Scully said, glancing from Mulder back to the Van DeKamp's.

Scully touched her sons forehead and rubbed his cheek with her finger. He was fifteen now and turning into a handsome young man but for Scully, he was still her baby boy. She watched William sleep for a minute before grabbing Mulder's hand. He squeezed it hard. Mulder nodded towards the Van DeKamps as they walked out together.

The FBI Agents had changed but they were still making their presence known standing in front of William's door. Scully instructed the nurses on the floor as well as her fellow doctors on William's care. Mulder watched as two nurses brought in two oversized hospital chairs on wheels, unfolding them into cots for the Van DeKamp's. He watched as the nurses gave them blankets and linens, then turned down the lights, casting the room in darkness except the red blinking machines that were monitoring his sons vitals.

Scully, followed by Mulder, walked down to the end of the ward just short of Two Agents who were guarding the locked double hospital doors on both sides. Scully swiped her I.D. badge and a door opened. A full sized bed, night stand and tv furniture decorated the other words sparse room. He knew Scully had stayed in the private doctors rooms on more than one occasion but he had never seen it for himself. She motioned for the chair and desk with a hospital laptop open and ready for use. "I'm gonna take a shower, unless you want...," she said, her voice falling away. For a moment she had forgotten they had been estranged.

She watched as Mulder's face changed from shock back to normal. "I can take it separately unless..."

She sighed. "I feel like I need you right now," she said, as tears returned to her eyes. "I need your comfort, Mulder. I need your love right now..."

Mulder stepped up to her. "Scully, you always have that."

Scully gulped and nodded her head. "Come with me..."

He nodded his head and followed her into the shower.

Mulder was not surprised that Scully had wanted to make love. It was what they did as a couple. Whenever their emotions ran high, they turned to physical release with eachother to ease their minds and bodies, working out their frustrations with each other over the past few years. This was a situation they could not control. Mulder watched as Scully slept cuddled up to him. He could see her face relaxed for the first time in a long time. He missed the feel of Scullys body and the cries of ectasty that they achieved together. He lay back down stroking his hand through her hair as she peacefully puffed out soft breathes. They were estranged but it wasn't unusual for them to reconnect to satisfy their sexual desires before they would soon return to arguing and then leave each other feeling wounded. Mulder hoped that this time, now that they had found their son, would repair their relationship.

The morning came and Scully arranged for Mulder's dry cleaning to be picked up and delivered to their hospital room. The FBI Agents intercepted Mulder's clothes and knocked on the door, handing it off to Mulder. Scully dressed in some clean scrubs and returned to Williams room. Mulder followed behind her after dressing in his newly cleaned suits.

The Van DeKamps greeted them, ready for another long day of testing and probing. Scully kept a careful watch on her son. With the only patient in the ward being William and with Scully fully occupied with her son, Our Lady of Sorrows was in a scramble to try to replace the irreplaceable Dr. Scully.

Hours past slowly but the dullness of the hospital routine was interrupted by a phone call from the Van DeKamps Private Investigation friend, Joe. "Hey," he said. "I'm just checking in on you. Are you back at the hotel? Is the boys still in the hospital?"

"Joe," she sighed. "We're right where we were in the hospital for nearly three days now."

"You sure you don't want me to fly out? I could lean a hand...I know the area."

"No, no," she said. "We found William's parents."

"You mean his mother...Dr. Dana Scully."

"And his father."

"Wait. Wait," Joe said. "I have his death certificate in front of me."

"He's alive and well...," Mrs. Van DeKamp stated, looking at Mulder.

"Could I...," Joe stuttered. "Is he there? Could I talk to him?"

"Mr. Mulder?", she asked. "This is my high school friend Joseph. He's the reason we found you both."

Mulder stayed silent as he watched Mrs. Van DeKamp approach him.

"He wanted to speak to you."

Mulder looked perplexed but took the phone from Mrs. Van DeKamps hands. "Mulder."

"Mr. Mulder, I'm Joe. I'm a Private Eye. I have a quesiton for you."

"Why is that?'

"I'm holding in my hand your death certificate dated just a few months before William was born. I'm curious. Can you explain to me how that happened? Out of all the years I've worked as a P.I., I've never seen anyone have a death certificate unless they faked their own deaths."

"Let's just say, it's complicated and leave it at that."

"That doesn't answer my question."

Mulder was getting irritated. "I'm a Federal Agent. I can't divulge that information," Mulder said, handing the phone back to Mrs. Van DeKamp.

Mrs. Van DeKamp looked surprised. "Joe?", she said.

She listened as her friends chuckled into the phone. "Not quite friendly is he? Sounds like to me that he has something to hide. And you told me that someone was threatening their safety before William was born."

"Yes."

"Could be mob related or someone they arrested that came after them."

"Such a shame...," she sighed.

Mulder cocked his head as he looked at Mrs. Van DeKamp. She smiled in his direction. Mulder turned away from her, chatting with Scully as they sat by their sons side. Mrs. Van DeKamp observed Mulder and Scully, who were gripping each other tightly as they laughed and talked with William whose sunken in blue eyes seemed to shimmer whenever he saw his parents. She could see the intense love between the couple and it made her blush. They held an intensity between them that everyone else could feel. Even when they were apart, it was obvious they were still tethered together. Mrs. Van DeKamp glanced over to her own husband who was reading from a magazine and she knew that she loved her husband dearly but she was fascinated at the way that Mulder and Scully looked at each other and seemed to communicate without words.

"Well, when we get back home, William will be safe again," Mrs. Van DeKamp continued with her phone call with Joe.

Scully overhearing, turned to look back at Mrs. Van DeKamp. She then searched Mulder's eyes. He communicated with her wordlessly, trying to calm her fears, letting her know that everything would be okay. Mulder assured her that they weren't going to lose their son again. Scully breathed out slowly as she turned her attention back to William, noticing a bright smile on his face. "He's right," William added.

"He didn't say anything," Scully said, cocking her head to the side.

"You won't lose me. Not this time."

Scully looked at her son with so much love. It amazed Mulder. Scully was complete, he noticed. The hole in her heart, after having lost Emily and with all the years she'd gone without William, had never healed over but was now starting to heal right in front of Mulder's eyes. But there was still a small leak there. Unless they could cure William, that hole in her heart would rip back open. Mulder could see that Scully was strong as she sat beside him but she was also vulnerable and he knew it. He slid his hand over hers. Scully leaned into him, needing his touch. Mulder continued to listen to William's jokes, laughing at his sons similar sense of humor. All they could do was wait for Bill's arrival and hope that their son could be cured.

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