CHAPTER SEVEN

William!

William is being chased.

He is being chased by people that she doesn't know, but fears. The same people that attacked her in the hospital, yes, they work together. They are trying to kill him! But he can get away because he is special, he is such a special boy. Her boy.

Mulder!

Mulder is dead.

He is dead in the car and she cannot save him. Because she has not found William, and she has failed. She has failed in so many ways. When she cradles him and wails to the high heavens his name in utter devastation, she closes her eyes as the beam from the UFO engulfs her into flames, and now, she is dead too, she is burning, but at least now her and Mulder will both be dead together..

"NOOOO!"

She opens her eyes wide in terror and sits up in the bed.

Screaming, she is screaming and can't stop.

She tries to breathe but can't. She is in a total state of complete panic and tears stream down her face. She lifts her hands to her head and pushes them against her head to crush her skull, as if that would ease her suffering..

As she closes her eyes she hears the distant pounding of his feet, up the stairs and into the bedroom. His panic stricken "Scully!" fills her ears but she doesn't believe that it's real. Nothing is real. Everything is just a message from William, and now, he has told her that Mulder is going to die.

As she gasps for air and loses all grip on reality, she feels a pair of arms wrap around her and hug her so tightly into his chest, and he runs his hands through her long hair down her back, comforting her as best as he can. He is whispering her name very tenderly into her ear, but she isn't sure whether to believe it's really him…

After hugging her tightly and wondering what the hell he was going to do, whether he should be calling the ambulance or not, as he was scared she was seizing again, he reached one hand to cup her cheek and guided her to look up at his eyes. She blinked a couple of times and he and wiped her tears away with his thumb gently..

"Scully..Scully…Scully.." He whispered her name over and over with so much concern and worry as he studied her.

She shook her head in disbelief, not knowing if he was real or if he was just another figment of her imagination or vision or whatever..

"Scully, please calm down honey.." He whispered, and she heard the word 'honey' again. It hit her hard and she didn't know what to do with that. She knew she liked it though, very much.

As she finally looked around her surroundings, she was shocked to find that she was in the same bedroom where she had spent just over a decade of her life, with Mulder, in this house. She gasped and looked back at him, confused.

"What.. what's going on?" She whispered so quiet and fragile, Mulder had to struggle to hear it.

He frowned heavily with concern. "You had a nightmare I think. You're at home, at-at my home.." he corrected quickly, "You fell asleep on the couch so I carried you upstairs."

"I was.. I saw.." She blurted out, tearful. "I saw you die Mulder!"

"Scully please, come on.. shh now.. I've told you already, I'm not dying, I'm right here.."

"No Mulder!" She almost shouted at him. He shook his head and rested his forehead against hers and closed his eyes, desperately trying to calm her now.

"Please calm down, please, Scully I don't want you to seize again, shhh now.." He soothed her, his heart was almost in his throat.

"But… Mulder!" She blurted out in frustration.

"Shhh.." He soothed again, and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear.

She was so stubborn, she needed to calm the hell down.

"I saw you… you were dead!" She started to sob. He sighed heavily and felt his heart breaking for her, so he wrapped his arms around her again and hugged her tightly, and she hid in his shoulder. He squeezed his eyes shut with so much worry for her, and sympathy. He just wanted to make it all go away..

"I'm right here, I'm right here. It was just a dream Scully, I am sure it was just a nightmare this time." He reassured himself as well as her. When she seized, it was like she was comatose, and he had coaxed her through many nightmares in the past, and this was a similar reaction to them. Hundreds of nightmares over the years, usually around William's birthday, when she was feeling particularly guilty and worried about their son. And she had done the same for him, when he had had nightmares about colonization, which got really bad towards the end.. "Come on now, it's all right. You said yourself, he's gonna come to us. None of what you saw is going to happen because we are going to stop it, and he is gonna help us, right?" He was talking, but he wasn't sure what he was saying and if it made any sense. He just hoped it was helping her. Mulder sighed heavily again and ran his hands up and down her back to calm her and held her with his strong arms protectively.

After a long while, her sobs died down and she was just sniffing a little, clutching onto his clothes and hiding there in the crook of his neck. He didn't let go of her, he was never going to let go. It touched him, in a way, that his potential death had affected her in such a way. Perhaps he was being selfish, but may be she still loved him, after everything. He had to hold onto that hope.

He finally felt her pulling away a little and he let her, and looked down at her tear stricken face. She was so beautiful, even when crying that much. His heart almost smashed into pieces when he saw her, so fragile and beautiful like that. He couldn't help it, and against his better judgement he cupped her cheek again and ran his thumb along her cheek bone and then it was impossible to stop, and he leant in to kiss her forehead, firmly, then down to her closed eyes, and kissed her eyelids, one, then the other. When his lips pressed against her pale soft skin, he felt all his body melt. He wanted more, he wanted so much more. But that was already may be too much, so he pulled away again after a few long seconds and then ran his hands up and down her arms soothingly, trying not to focus on her lips, and trying to calm his raging heart pounding against his ribs..

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Sorry, its took me a while again, it took me a while to recover from the Series finale...