Rebecca's night went extremely well, she finally felt like she got to sleep soundly for the first time in months. Oh, Mulder…she was dreaming about him. What about him was she so attracted to, she couldn't decipher. She knew she couldn't full on take him from Dr. Scully, but a little innocent flirting never hurt anyone right? Plus she still really enjoyed Dr. Scully, she was friendly and sincere and extremely smart, another person that matched her intelligence, the last thing she wanted to do was try and take what was hers.

Hearing footsteps in the hallway, Rebecca readied herself for the day as best she good, she swung her legs out of her bed and let them hang there for a moment, wiggling her toes, rotating her ankles and stretching out her calves. Taking in a deep breath she heard the door open and looked up to see who was greeting her this morning and couldn't be happier to meet eye to eye with Scully.

"Good morning…" Scully was hesitant, Rebecca usually wasn't his bright eyed in the morning. "How are you feeling?"

"I feel so alive…I can't describe it Doctor, I just feel alive, better than I have in months." She smiled in return at Scully, who grinned back.

"Well that's good news," Scully was silent for several moments as a bit of tension passed over the women, she checked her vitals, which seemed to be extremely good this particular morning. "Mulder will be visiting you today; you two get to have some one on one time. Think you can handle that?" Scully knew it was a pointless question but it brought up the conversation.

Rebecca couldn't answer, her mouth went dry and she flushed a deep red, radiating from her chest up to her cheeks, "…okay." She was soft spoken and Scully took mental note of her reaction to the news. For some reason talking to Dr. Scully about Mulder was when she was most flushed about it, Rebecca knew that they were a couple and yet for some reason she was embarrassed to talk to Scully about him. Maybe a hint of jealousy raged within her and that's why she felt the way she did, deep down she knew their love was strong and that Mulder would never leave Scully but the thought of having him in her own arms was a strong pull.

"Look Becky, I'll level with you ok? Woman to woman…I know you have feelings for Mulder; something is pulling you to him. I sense it, the only reason I'm letting this continue is that you've shown more progress in just talking to him than we've gotten out of the hundreds of tests we've run on you…" Scully sighed and patted the girl's hands which were gathered in her lap. "...I'm honestly wondering if that tumor has triggered an emotional response to an attractive male figure and you feel it tenfold." Scully looked at the girl who met her eyes with concern. "…we are going to try a few tests while you are with Mulder, talking about whatever you really want to talk about, preferably something engaging or something that makes your mind excited." Rebecca nodded in little understanding on what was going to happen. "We are going to figure this out," Scully smiled and rose from the edge of the bed and continued her morning rounds.

She's giving me approval to discuss intriguing conversations with Mulder, Rebecca's mind was reeling with excitement and suddenly felt the urge to move about her hospital room. She was feeling lightheaded and giddy, she couldn't remember the last time she was this attracted to a man. It was in college, Jeremy; she smiled thinking about how they played mind games in their most intimate moments. When he transferred to another college she knew a long distance relationship wasn't going to work and through her friends she had heard he was married and had kids now, not a great job, his brilliant mind was being wasted at a mind numbing so called career.

Rebecca killed time while waiting for her appointment with Mulder later this morning, she went about for a walk, gathering herself and trying to figure out what she could discuss during their conversation. Some sort of mind game, I'm not so sure intimate moments should be discussed since Dr. Scully will be there analyzing brain activity. Maybe he'll humor me. Rebecca grinned to herself thinking about the conversations she could have with this man.

Upon entering her room she saw a dark figure standing there and gleamed ear to ear when she saw him.

"Hey, I was about to send a search party." Mulder smiled at her as she slowly made her way across the room to sit at the small table. "How are you doing, Becky?"

"I'm alright; I just went for a walk. Clear my head you know." She blushed and spoke quietly. It was strange that he was in her room with her and she was so glib around him and yet in the privacy of her brain she ravished him with all she had left living in her.

"Well, Scully tells me it's just you and me for some of these conversations, how do you propose we start? Standard psych or something outside the box?"

"I've done standard, I want to see what you can do to actually help me with this problem." She was blunt, she wanted answers, and she didn't want to pussyfoot around. More like Scully every time I talk to her, Mulder made a mental note.

"Well then…" Mulder grinned at her, "…you and I are going to get along swimmingly." Rebecca caught his gaze and smiled a toothy grin back at him. "So after discussing you with Dr. Scully, she told me some interesting facts about the flirty girl behind the green eyes, who is attracted to yours truly…" Mulder raised his brows at her and she blushed profusely. Rebecca lowered her head, how the hell is he so brazen?! She toyed with her fingers and played with the edge of her robe.

"I—umm—ok so what? So I have a school girl crush. It just happens that you are my doctor's boyfriend or whatever the hell you want to be called…can't a girl be attracted to a guy from a psychological perspective? It's all in the brain, it's—it's all in how we perceive we want our mates, natural selection."She was on the defensive and Mulder noticed the change in her attitude as well as her skin tone, taking notes in the midst of their conversation.

"Well what is it? Personality, looks, or…?"

Rebecca looked at him straight in the eyes, not sure what to tell him but she was fishing for a response. He did nothing more than stare right back at her, trying to figure out her next move.

"You are a very smart man, Mulder. I admire your brain, your intelligence…can I come clean? This is not something I could share with the hospital staff here…" Mulder nodded in hopes that she finally opened up. "I had a boyfriend in college, great guy of course, he matched my intelligence, so well that our 'intimate' relationship was phenomenal he made my body and mind explode with passion…" she blushed slightly and he looked at his notepad, taking down notes, "…when he transferred I started getting sick, I didn't know why, still no hard evidence as to why. I got messages from my friends that he didn't end up staying in school, met a girl, married, etc. And here I am now in this predicament, sick and single, not looking to get better. I'm hoping between your unorthodox methods and Dr. Scully's knowledge we can come up with a treatment plan." She sighed as she spilled the beans of her personal life to a stranger. Mulder wasn't sure what to think or ask next, he had cracked her shell, made her come out of the darkness that was her life, as if she'd not had anyone to tell that to for years.

"What makes you think there is a cure?" Mulder was hesitant to ask, he'd never wish death upon anybody but Rebecca was so sure there was something they could do to help.

"Why would you have jumped in here to help me if you weren't drawn to me? I'm just a nobody…" she was brazen as he was with the first couple questions and he was taken aback.

"You are much more than 'nobody.'" Mulder stated his case and felt confident in helping Rebecca.

Feeling like she was intruding Scully had been witness to the latter part of the conversation that Mulder and Rebecca had been going on about. She was encouraged by the woman's confidence in them as a team, it had been a long time since they were able to work on something together and it stimulated her own brain. Knocking lightly on the door she entered and smiled at Rebecca, who seemed very much alive and well upon looking at her. Apparently the conversation with Mulder had worked well.

"We are ready for a MRI if you two are about finished." She was interested to see Rebecca's brain activity during a conversation with Mulder; this would be a fascinating experiment that she hoped she and colleagues could learn from.

"Yeah, Scully, how am I going to talk to her during her procedure?" Mulder knew MRI scans were loud and having much conversation was damn near impossible.

"We've got a special pair of headphones she can wear during the scan," Scully was seeming excited more and more by the minute. Taking that as cue Rebecca rose from the table she was sitting, into a standing position, stretching out her legs and getting the blood to rush through her entire body. She smiled at the couple and was ready for the MRI, from a medical viewpoint this should be exciting.

"Let's roll." She had a bounce in her step as she walked out of the room followed by Mulder and Scully, who looked at each other in shock. The girl was peppy and alive, hopefully her scan will show something compared to what her previous ones shown.

Entering the exam room, like the many times she had done before, she laid herself down on the table and Scully directed Mulder into the radiologist area and prepped Rebecca with the headphones.

"I want you to listen, pay attention to the conversation and don't fade out ok? Let us know if you are having any problems or pain…" Scully was firm in her request, she wanted results as much as Rebecca did and knowing the woman had medical background and this test was unheard of she'd listen. Scully made her way next to Mulder who had not really prepped any questions, he was going to roll with it today and see where the conversations took them. "You ready?" she asked him, making sure he was ready for this and he nodded his reply, "Becky are you ready to begin?" she asked through the microphone and Rebecca responded with a thumbs up from the table.

As this was to be a secret that they were running another test, Scully was in charge of starting the MRI herself, the whirring on the machine began to make noise and everyone held their breath.

"Alright, Becky, I'm going to let Mulder have you so just relax your body and let your brain do the work." Scully sat back and watched the scan progress.

"How are you feeling in there, Becky?" Mulder's first question, simple, yet it got them started.

"I'm ok; it's still loud with headphones…what else is new." She was being sarcastic and Mulder laughed a bit before he continued.

"Are you in pain?" he continued simply.

"No…" she was wondering where he was going with these questions and if they'd get any more interesting. Scully looked at Mulder urging for him to go all out.

"Becky what can you tell me about your ex-boyfriend…" he wasn't sure she wanted to talk much about him, but Scully sat upright, looking at the monitor of brain activity. Rebecca was silent for many moments before speaking.

"Jeremy…Oh what can I tell you about him. He was incredible in every aspect; he was my everything, the man that made me whole…" Scully glanced over at Mulder, hearing Rebecca as herself at that point. "…there was just something about the way we got along; there was romance and playfulness, but my favorite thing about him…was his determination in making me happy. It broke his heart more than anything when I wanted to break up because he was leaving, it was all my fault…" she started slowly sobbing and crying. Scully noted her brain activity while talking about her former boyfriend was unusual.

"Ok Becky, calm down, breathe it out, it's ok. You remember me don't you? Mulder…how do you feel about me? Are you enjoying my company?" Mulder was trying to get Rebecca's mind out of the past and her issues. Though she was quiet, she was thinking, her brain reeling with thoughts of Mulder, his intelligence, his good looks. Her brain was showing activity around her tumor that Scully had never seen in any of the previous scans.

"Mulder this is incredible, I just hope I can make sense of it…" she whispered to him, "...we are about finished tell her we are finishing it up."

"Ok, Becky we are about done with the scan, calm your thinking and breathe it out." Mulder was giving her relaxing words to think to but her brain activity wouldn't cease with his voice, on the contrary it was firing at alarming rates.

"Becky, we are turning off the machine just relax a bit…" Scully's voice jumped into the conversation and immediately Rebecca's brain activity slowed.

"I'm ok…" Rebecca was feeling terrified and anxious about the test results. As the machine finished whirring, Scully rose from her seat and came to Rebecca's side as she was coming out of the machine. Scully smiled, obviously happy with the results of the test and Rebecca knew it.

"So I'm assuming we got good results?" She smiled at Scully and Mulder as he rounded the corner.

"Let's get you back to your room before anyone gets suspicious that this room was in use." Scully was trying to hurry. "Do you want me to get a wheel chair? I can have Mulder take you back to your room." Rebecca nodded, her body felt exhausted, maybe the brain activity alone was too much for her to handle.

"Becky, I've got to go over some of these results and I'll meet up with you tomorrow ok?" Scully wanted to put her focus on the girl and an attack plan, maybe get Mulder's insight from a psychological perspective.

"I'll umm, I'll talk to you later Mulder." She smiled at them and made her way in the opposite direction towards her office. Rebecca was wheeled back to her room by Mulder and felt extremely happy over the situation.

"So did the test go well then?" She was trying to make simple conversation.

"Well, Scully looked excited so I'm assuming from a medical point of view that probably a good thing. I'll warn you though, Scully is tenacious when it comes to these things so be prepared." He smiled thinking of how stubborn Scully was with her medical studies and research. "…make sure you get some rest, shut that brain off, I'm sure you'll hear from us in the morning." He got her into her room and bid her good evening. It's going to be an interesting dinner conversation for sure. I hope she remembers how queasy I am thinking about surgeries.