Title: Without You, Part Eight

All other information is in the first part.

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May 16, 2002

2:19 a.m.

Thunder echoes through my small apartment and I wake with a start.

Mulder.

Was it a dream? Did he really call?

I don't remember what happened after that. I pray to God that somehow, someway I didn't dream the phone call. His voice was too real. The way he said my name sent shivers down my spine.

The phone starts to ring, I hurry to the phone.

Hoping.

Praying that it is Mulder.

"Hello?"

"Scully, it's Walter Skinner," the voice on the other end says.

Damn. So much for wishful thinking.

"Sir? What is going on at two in the morning?" I ask somewhat scared of what he might say.

A long pause passes between us and he clears his throat.

"I need you to get down to Georgetown Memorial Hospital as soon as you can," he says urgently.

"Why, sir?" I inquire intently.

"I'd prefer not to talk about it over the phone."

"All right, sir, I'll be there as quick as I can."

Georgetown Memorial Hospital

4:23 a.m.

Skinner and Doggett stand in the lobby with a few other officers that look both FBI and police.

I hurry up to them, my eyes obviously telling them that I can't figure out what the hell is going on.

"Sir? Agent Doggett? What's going on?" I ask looking back and forth between Doggett and Skinner.

Dogget clears his throat and finally his eyes meet mine. The look in his eyes...I've seen it before. He's hurt. Not for himself, but rather for someone else. I saw that look the day of Mulder and Will's funeral. Oh please, God not again.

"I don't know how this is even possible, but umm...there was an accident."

"An accident?"

What the hell is he talking about? Who?

"A truck driver radioed in that it appeared that there was a dead body off to the side of the road--"

"--who the hell is it?" I ask getting angry.

"But the thing is that the person was not dead, but seriously injured." he pauses his blue eyes studying my own. "They found a man that appears to be...Mulder."

"Oh my God," I whisper and then I feel the world start to spin around me as my knees go weak.

I'm falling into the dark oblivion that I thought I'd never see again. A place I went to only in the deepest and darkest of pain. All is a dark nothingness.

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TO BE CONTINUED

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