By Christine Leigh
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RATING: G
DISCLAIMER: All characters are the products of Chris Carter.
They also belong to Ten-Thirteen Productions and the Fox
Network. No copyright infringement intended.
CATEGORY:  MSR, V
SPOILERS:  None.
SUMMARY: Mulder POV during "One Breath."

The Third Ring
By Christine Leigh

She's left him, and there is nothing more he can do.  He doesn't
know how he knows this; there is no hard evidence, but he
believes it to be true.  It may kill him.  He remembers that he held
her hand and spoke to her.  The words were clumsy, but they
were all he could squeak out.  He remembers laying on the floor
of the apartment and sobbing, and then he doesn't remember
anything more.  He wonders if someone came in and picked him
up, depositing him on the couch.  He thinks he is sitting up, but
isn't sure, and to open his eyes is not an option.  Would it ever
be?

A part of him, the most precious part, that he hadn't even known
was in his possession had gone, and he is frightened in a way that
he has never before experienced.  He hears words that have been
spoken to him by her mother and her sister, and he wants to
share in the wisdom of those words.  He needs to know how the
two women can do this; how they can let her go.  And then he
keeps coming back to the realization that this will never happen.
Their realm is not his.

When the sound comes he knows what it is and he doesn't know
how to face it.  He might as well be a statue for his arms feel as
thought made of cement.  He wants to move them, but isn't able
to do so.  Then, for a split second he sees her face.  Not as it was
last night, but whole, and more beautiful than he's ever seen her.
He wants so to touch her, and tell her in more coherent language
what he is feeling, but then she's gone.  How cruel of her to go.
But she has left him with something, and now he is able to move,
which he somehow manages to force himself to do.  And he
picks up, on the third ring.

- end  -
 

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