Character: Dana Scully
Fandom: The X-files
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 245
Prompt: 021-Beloved of Women for 100_fairytales
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are you among women…
Scully had murmured that prayer her entire life, the petition she had heard whispered off her mother's lips every time her father left for sea. Hail Mary, most beloved of women, the virgin mother of the miracle child, Christ.
"Dana, this is a blessing." Her mother sounded so sure of it, holding her hand, beaming with the thought that her barren daughter would produce a child. "You thought this would never happen."
She had never thought…but she had hoped once. "Why?" It was the fearful word burning into her heart, even as she felt the first stirrings of new life in her womb.
Maggie's frowned, dark eyebrows working together in worry over a question she couldn't bring herself to ask. "Do you have to ask that for a miracle?"
It was so simple for her mother. It was a matter of faith. But Scully's faith was never so simple, questions poured out of her, flooded out of her, carrying her away on a sea of terrified doubt. And her one anchor in the storm, the one who could always make her believe when even her reason could not was lost somewhere, so far away from her.
Blessed is the fruit of your womb…
There was no such thing as a simple miracle.