Chapter 10
Days had gone by. Days that seemed like months. Before I fully grasped the concept that Mulder was back I was dressed in scrubs about to perform surgery on him with a full team of doctors. Doggett walked in to the room. I walked over to talk to him.
"He's going to make it? " Doggett asked.
"I don't know. I... I really don't know how we could've known." I answer.
" What? "
"That by keeping him on life support we were incubating the virus. We were hastening it along. "
" How'd you figure it out? "
" When Skinner pulled Mulder off of the machines, his temperature dropped rapidly without affecting his vital signs. "
" You mean Skinner saved him. " I nodded "yes".
" What about the vaccine?"
" If we can stabilize him and his temperature we can give him courses of antiviral. I think it could work."
*Ring*
Doggett left the room to answer the phone.