And jealousy a Human Face,
Terrot the Human Form Divine,
And Secrecy the Human Dress.
The Human Dress is forged Iron,
The Human Form is fiery Forge,
The Human Face a Furnace seal'd,
The Human Heart it's hungry Gorge.
-William Blake, Songs of Experience,
('A Divine Image')
Part 3
Things seemed to be going better for Dana and Mulder; that is until Mulder's old partner showed up. A woman at that: and as Dana described, had legs up to her breasts with boobs that could take a guy's eyes out at 20 feet. Dana said she's a bitch too - which made me think of the Julia Roberts film Erin Brockovich, that Dana and I saw together about 3 years ago. I remember Erin telling the female Lawyer "All you've got lady is two wrong feet and Fucking Ugly Shoes to go with it!"
Then, as if things couldn't get worse their office was burnt down and they got reassigned to terrorism duty. Dana said it wasn't so bad, as it kept them busy for which she was grateful. Mulder hadn't been to visit his old partner who was in hospital with a gunshot wound - Dana said it was too bad the bullet hadn't done more damage! I didn't ask what she meant by that - it's safer not to, with Dana.
I didn't hear from Dana for a while but the one time
I did speak to her she sounded distant, distracted.
When I asked her what was up she just gave a clip reply
that she and Mulder were having some trouble, nothing to worry about.
But I knew different, whatever was up with these two if
they didn't sort things out it would break them up,
destroying the friendship, trust and (yes) love they evidently shared for one another.
A few weeks later Mom called. Dana had been accidentally shot - by another agent she was working with - in New York. It was nothing too bad; she had to have a miner op to remove the bullet but Mulder was by her side the whole time she was in hospital. I spoke to Dana a week later and she said things were better between her and Mulder - not perfect, but better.
I didn't hear from Dana for a while but the next time
Dana called I ended up racing to D.C.
Dana was beside herself with worry when I spoke to her
- Mulder had become ill with some sort of brain illness.
He had been hospitalised; put in the psychiatric ward.
She had seen him on the monitors, calling out her name like a deranged man.
During the brief time Dana had gone to Africa he became catatonic,
and was taken from his hospital room under suspicious circumstances.
His mother had checked him out, but Dana was unable to contact her
and so was convinced he had been kidnapped.
I rushed to console her but I don't think I was of much use.
Dana spent most of her time at work trying to find a lead on Mulder's whereabouts.
On my last day in D.C. someone slipped an envelope under Dana's door.
I phoned Dana immediately on her cell phone, and within 40 minutes
Dana was at the apartment. She was like a kid high on sugar
as soon as she saw what it was - a swipe key to some compound in Virginia.
Dana was out of the door quicker than she came in it,
saying something about taking it to some friends of hers
and Mulder's to find out where this building was.
She came back to the apartment later that evening glowing and tired.
I think the adrenaline that had been fuelling her for the past
few days was beginning to fade away but the smile said it all - Mulder was back.
Dana said that she found Mulder in an old government building out in Virginia. She had him airlifted from there to here in D.C. He was going to have to spend a few days in hospital then more time at home until his doctor signed him off sick leave. Apparently he'd whined, asking why Dana couldn't sign him off instead, and what was the use of having a doctor for a partner if they're not going to sign you off sick leave! Dana had told him that he didn't want to be one of her patients, as all of her other patients were dead! She told me Mulder said he could be her only living patient - that she couldn't be all that bad for a doctor seeing as he hadn't heard any of her patients complain! I left that night to return to Ohio and my family.
I think the biggest surprise Dana has ever given me was when I found her in bed with Mulder, having sex! Let me tell you how this came about.
End of Part 3