No One Gets There Alone
By: Olivia
"I'm never alone/I'm alone all the time/ Are you at one/Or do you lie/We live in a wheel/Where everyone steals/But when we rise it's like strawberry fields."-Bush-"Glyercine"
"Two are better than one because they have good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up...And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."-Ecclesiastes, 4: 9-10, 12
No one gets there alone.
The words echo in my ears as I walk down the hospital corridor away from the room where Agents Mulder and Scully are talking to Agent Leyla Harrison.
And yet I feel alone. Just as alone the day I saw an Agent Scully crying for joy over a revived Fox Mulder. I knew I would soon be replaced as her partner on the X-Files.
Maybe alone is not the right word. The phrase "on the outside" seems to fit better.
If anything, I'm never alone. When I was out there on this case facing certain death, who comes along to pull my proverbial butt out of the fire-Agents Mulder and Scully. They hover around me like guardian angels, risking their own lives and reputations to protect me. I nearly lost it when I thought I had accidentally killed Agent Mulder. Other agents may laugh or scoff at my assignment to the X-Files, but personally I would rather be down in the basement with them than with any other Agent in the Bureau. Agent Reyes would of course be the exception to that rule. At least with them, I know my back is being watched and no one is trying to put a knife there, literally or figuratively.
It's interesting watching Agents Mulder and Scully together. The two of them have a partnership cemented on years of trust, respect, friendship, and maybe even something else that I hesitate to mention. It is a bond I am allowed to see, but never completely allowed to be part of.
So I stand here on the outside looking in. But they have moved out of the X-Files office-Agent Mulder by force and Agent Scully by choice. Perhaps they will never return. And I'm left here with the X-Files, with their "legacy." Perhaps inside looking out is more appropriate now.
I know the Agents are worried about me being left behind alone. With Agent Harrison no longer continuing with the X-Files, I wonder if and when Kersh will assign me a new partner. If this case has made anything clear to me, it is that I do need a partner who is open minded and more of a believer in these types of cases than myself, but who also is qualified to handle them. The X-Files office will be lacking if I am the only investigating Agent. For even though I now know that I'm never alone because Agents Mulder and Scully will be there when I need them, I'm alone all the time now that they've left. And no one gets there alone.
By: Olivia
"I'm never alone/I'm alone all the time/ Are you at one/Or do you lie/We live in a wheel/Where everyone steals/But when we rise it's like strawberry fields."-Bush-"Glyercine"
"Two are better than one because they have good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up...And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."-Ecclesiastes, 4: 9-10, 12
No one gets there alone.
The words echo in my ears as I walk down the hospital corridor away from the room where Agents Mulder and Scully are talking to Agent Leyla Harrison.
And yet I feel alone. Just as alone the day I saw an Agent Scully crying for joy over a revived Fox Mulder. I knew I would soon be replaced as her partner on the X-Files.
Maybe alone is not the right word. The phrase "on the outside" seems to fit better.
If anything, I'm never alone. When I was out there on this case facing certain death, who comes along to pull my proverbial butt out of the fire-Agents Mulder and Scully. They hover around me like guardian angels, risking their own lives and reputations to protect me. I nearly lost it when I thought I had accidentally killed Agent Mulder. Other agents may laugh or scoff at my assignment to the X-Files, but personally I would rather be down in the basement with them than with any other Agent in the Bureau. Agent Reyes would of course be the exception to that rule. At least with them, I know my back is being watched and no one is trying to put a knife there, literally or figuratively.
It's interesting watching Agents Mulder and Scully together. The two of them have a partnership cemented on years of trust, respect, friendship, and maybe even something else that I hesitate to mention. It is a bond I am allowed to see, but never completely allowed to be part of.
So I stand here on the outside looking in. But they have moved out of the X-Files office-Agent Mulder by force and Agent Scully by choice. Perhaps they will never return. And I'm left here with the X-Files, with their "legacy." Perhaps inside looking out is more appropriate now.
I know the Agents are worried about me being left behind alone. With Agent Harrison no longer continuing with the X-Files, I wonder if and when Kersh will assign me a new partner. If this case has made anything clear to me, it is that I do need a partner who is open minded and more of a believer in these types of cases than myself, but who also is qualified to handle them. The X-Files office will be lacking if I am the only investigating Agent. For even though I now know that I'm never alone because Agents Mulder and Scully will be there when I need them, I'm alone all the time now that they've left. And no one gets there alone.