28th July

"OK officer, no bodies I understand. But there isn't another way out, only the doorway?" Mulder stood leant against the framework of Maggie's house "I didn't think so. I'm sorry to trouble you" He placed the handset down and shook his head "I'm sorry Maggie. This is really my fault I shouldn't have made her stay for one more case" Maggie looked at the man in front of her, he hadn't shaved for days and by looking at him hadn't slept in as long. "My Sister is gone and all you can say is sorry?" Bill Jr. Bellowed at Mulder "I see you are back to normal!" Mulder looked at him. "Bill, you are wrong. It's not Fox's fault. I am to blame, I asked you to make her stay." She looked around; it had been a long and stressful two weeks for all concerned. Dana was gone, no body had been recovered and there was no other exit from the tunnel. The good side, or so Mulder thought was the return of Bill Scully, but even this had proven to cause more upset for Maggie. She had recovered from her illness and had started to look better when Mulder had broken the news that they had lost Dana; Maggie told him that she had to be alive his answer to that was "No one could have survived that."

Bill had turned up two days later; Mulder didn't want to say anything in case he didn't come. Maggie had taken it upon herself to arrange Dana's funeral and was talking with Charlie when Bill finally showed up on the doorstep of his former home, "Mulder" he said as the door opened "Bill, I didn't think you would come here." Mulder grabbed him and pulled him outside "I never told them about you in case. Well in case you didn't come back. Bill Jr already thinks I'm nuts" Bill smiled at the last comment "Yes, I should think he would. So what has been happening? I stayed to offer a hand in finding Dana but we turned up nothing." Water filled the eyes of the man in front of Mulder "So I've come home." Neither of them has seen Maggie standing at the door "Bill?" both men turned towards her "Is that you?" Bill nodded and walked towards his wife "But you're dead. I saw you die in the hospital, I know I did." Maggie looked at him shaking her head.

Sorry it took so long, there will be a new chapter and if anyone has ideas as to how this should end then I'd like to hear them. W x