Dear John-
We are safe. For now we are laying low out west and enjoying, if you will, a much-needed vacation. I don't know how long we will be out here, but we have contacts letting us know when it is safe. Please let Monica know all is well for now.
I've heard through the grapevine everything that has happened since we left, to you and to Monica and your careers. I'm sorry. I wish that it didn't have to be this way, that you weren't catching the brunt of our actions. I can't thank you enough for what you did in New Mexico. It saved us. But I know what it cost you. You made a stand in a fight that wasn't your own, neither of you have a personal stake in. And because of it you both have injured your careers. I can only hope that now the X-files are gone and we have left you can somehow put them back together again. Perhaps you will never be completely trusted, reputations always proceed you in the FBI, but with time people do forget, just as long as you know what buttons not to push.
When you became my partner after Mulder's disappearance, I had no idea things would become so complicated, that you would be sucked into it. Frankly I wanted you off the work and away from me as soon as possible. That was unfair of me, I know that, and I apologize for my behavior then, and of course everything that's happened now. You've been a good friend and a good partner, and it's a shame that you won't get to continue our work. I think you and Monica would have been good at it.
We will contact you soon when we get settled. We are thinking someplace out east, the one place they likely won't want to look for us. Till then I'm trying to convince Mulder it's OK to not sleep with one eye open and the value of eating meals that aren't delivered in boxes. Ten years and I'm still fighting an uphill battle...and I wouldn't have it any other way. Normalcy is a good thing for us, I think.
Take care, and I'll stay in touch-
Dana