Belonging Together

Part one

Mulder's Apt

1998

I already gave Skinner my letter of resignation.

 You can't quit now, Scully.

 I can, Mulder. I debated whether or not even to tell you in person, but ... 

We are close to something here! We're on the verge!

 You're on the verge, Mulder. Please don't do this to me.

(Mulder leaps out of his chair and walks over to Scully.)

 After what you saw last night, after all you've seen, you can just walk away? 

I have, I did, it's done.

 I need you on this, Scully.

 You don't need me, Mulder. You never have. I've just held you back.

(Mulder looks at her with that hurt puppy dog look in his eyes. She drops her eyes from his and turns to leave.)

" I got to go."And with that, Scully left Mulder's apartment, half expecting him to follow her out into the hallway, and was disappointed that he didn't.

Scully choked back a sob as she exited his building.  She didn't want to leave him, nor did she want to be transferred to some boring field office.  She would rather quit and go back to medicine.  And that's just what she planned to do.  

Elizabeth Blackwell Hospital

New York.

2000

Since Scully left the FBI, she has not contacted Mulder and he has not contacted her.  She didn't know what to say to him if she did. What would she do if she ever saw him again; what would he do?  Would he greet her with open arms, or would he hate her for what she has done?  Scully worked at Memorial Hospital in California.  She had decided that she needed a change of scenery after leaving the FBI, and some distance between her and the urge to go to Mulder's apartment.

Scully has been asked to lecture to a group of doctors in New York City at the Elizabeth Blackwell Hospital. She was not to excited about this lecture, but was doing it as a favor for a colleague of hers.  She was between breaks of lectures, now, being that she had lectured all morning.  As she ventured across the street to a little sandwich Shoppe, her cell phone rang.

"Scully."  She said, holding the phone with her neck, as she continued to walk down the street.

"You sound so… professional, Dana."

"Jason!"  Scully said. "What do you want."

"To see how my girl is doing."

"Jason, one date doesn't make me your girl."

"We'll see about that."

"I'm fine, Jason."

"Yeah that's what you always say."

Scully laughed.

Scully had known Jason nearly a year.  They had met, at the hospital, when he began to work there as a doctor.

"Listen, Dana." Jason said. "I have a Agent Fox Mulder, here in the hospital.  Thought that I would ask if you knew him, being that you used to be an Agent yourself.

"Fox Mulder, you say?" Scully asked, a knot forming in her throat. "Yeah, I worked with him once or twice."

"Well, since you know him and everything, you should come down here." Jason said, grimly. "I'm sure that you know the correct people to notify."

"I do." Scully said softly. "What happened to him?"

"I guess he and his partner were on a stakeout. The shit hit the fan, and they were discovered. Agent Mulder was shot    His partner seemed to be a lucky bastard and miss all the bullets that they shot at him. Guess he didn't cover Agent Mulder's back very well did he?"

"Where is his partner now?"  Scully asked, suddenly loosing her appetite and walking back to the hospital.

"That's just it, they don't know." Jason said. " He'd disappeared."

"Alright I'm on my way."

"What about your lectures?"

Screw the lectures." Scully said. "I'll be on the next flight."

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