The Night Shift Series - Part 10 The Miracle of Life and Death by Mulderslady DISCLAIMER: They don't belong to me, wish they did. RATING: P.G.-13 later stories maybe mild R CLASSIFICATION: S, Alternative Universe, X-file, A KEYWORDS: UST/MSR, Mulder and Scully angst, AU SPOILERS: From All seasons URL: http:/ /www.geocities.com/Area51/Capsule/5160/Nightshift.html FEEDBACK: Please!!! at damacia@home.com ARCHIVE: Oh yeah, anywhere!! SUMMARY: Off-Kilter veteran Paramedic Fox Mulder meets the new Medical Examiner for Georgetown Medical Center, Dr. Dana Scully. A deep friendship instantly develops as they have numerous X-file like adventures on the night shift. Tenth part of the Night Shift series. "What no Mulder? I kinda wanted to meet this guy." Scully older brother Bill jr. said. Scully smiled and shook her head. "No, you just wanted to scare him. Don't worry, we're just friends." "Good. Mom said you went to the doc, what about?" "Nothing too serious, Women problems." Scully said, with extra emphasis on women. Bill nodded and left it alone, talking about work and everything else till his very pregnant wife called him to do something. Her mother came over and looked at her concerned. Scully threw her a sad smile and continued with her doctor visit. "He says the reason I'm not having my period is, I don't have any ova left. I'm completely sterile. I did an ultrasound and everything. He says if I want to, I could get a hysterectomy, wouldn't hurt." Mrs. Scully held her daughter saying nothing, there was noting TO say. Scully's tears came and went quickly and she continued "Mom, I found something else out that I don't know what to do about." "What dear?" "I'm a mother. I don't know how, but Mulder brought a little girl into the ER who was suffering from something, then Mulder drew an extra sample because he said the baby looked like a Scully. We had the lab run it and it's true." "But how? I mean it's not yours and . . ." "No, Her name is Emily Sage Smith, she's 3 years old and suffering from some toxic blood disorder. Mulder thinks that during my abduction a few years back, the people who took me took my ova so they could do experiments on them. I just laughed it off, you know Mulder, he's not exactly normal. But the more I think about it, it was definitely a medical setting I was in. When I was returned, my condition I don't know how I would have survived long enough without the machines to be transported. Mom, could some really have kidnapped me to do the things . . ." Her mother said nothing, she didn't understand why anyone would kidnap her in the first place. "Have you called Mulder yet?" Scully looked at her mom a minute with questioning eyes, then understanding dawned and she dialed his pager number. "Scully " she answered as she picked up the ringing phone. "Scully? Oh good Scully. You really can read my mind. You won't believe what happened. You need to get here right now, something's happening with Emily. I don't know what." "I'll be there in 30 minutes." Bill came down the stairs as Scully was running out the door. "I'm sorry Bill I have to go, I'll call you later with details mom." Mulder met her at the main entrance. "Some toxic gas came out of the swelling on her neck. The X-ray tech is dead." "Dead? The toxin . .. could it be the . . ." "The what?" "I got to autopsy that body. Is it down in the morgue?" "Yeah. What about Emily? Aren't you going to see her?" "Why? Aren't her parents here?" "No they were killed in a car accident yesterday." Scully stopped cold and looked at Mulder. He stared back at her confused. "Where is she?" Mulder smiled a little and showed her. She looks so much like Melissa when she was little, how can she be mine? I missed so much of her life, now I'll never know her. What ever she is fighting in not natural, it was given to her. She was made up like a lab rat. She must be one of the rejects left to die with no parents, no one who loves her. Well almost, Mulder and me love her. I'm surprised I feel such a strong bond this quick, she's going to die, I need to adjust, but I can't, it's not fair. How many more of my children are dying like her? How many more children do I have? Who did this to her and why? If only I knew, if only I knew who. Mulder is a comfort, but he hurts for me. He knows what she means to me, he knows I'll never have another one. He held me tight as she breathed her last breath. My brother paged me less than a second later with the news that his wife just had a son and that they were on the sixth floor. Matthew David Scully was born, alive, and health, Emily Sage Smith, was dead, dead from something I'll never understand. I petted Emily's fair red hair and squeezed Mulder's hand as I went upstairs to see my brother's new family. She is so strong. I would never be able to say goodbye to my only child and go congratulate my brother on the birth of his first. I now stare at the small chestnut casket, as the father says some words and feel her hand brush past mine. I hold it between mine and squeeze it gently. Our eyes lock, we are joined in our pain. I feel her shift against me, and I put my arm around her kissing her reassuringly on the temple. We stay behind and Scully opens the casket to glance at her little girl one last time. I turn quickly when she gasps. "She's gone, They took her." She said quietly. I looked into the casket to see sand. Sand and Scully's golden cross necklace. She palmed her necklace and closed the casket, angry tears brimming in her eyes as she walked away. So strong, in so much pain and there is nothing I can do. I'm helpless, powerless to soothe her pain. I know she needs support, but I feel I've failed her somehow. 2 weeks later 6 am "Hey Scully, where are you?" "In my office Mulder." He found her staring at her Wolverine and Spiderman posters "Superheroes with human fragilities. A tragic flaw, kinda like me huh?" "Well kinda like all of us. No ones perfect, I mean it even Superman had a flaw, Kryptonite!." Scully smiled and chuckled a little "Scully, there are so many other options for having a child. That's not what we need to worry about. We need to find out who and why someone did this to you. The truth will save you Scully, it will save both of us." Mulder pulled her into a tight hug and kissed her forehead, resting his head on hers. Then he grasped her head in his hands gently and pulled it towards his awaiting lips. There lips touched, light and magical. Scully took his perfectly pouty lower lip into her mouth, and suckled it lightly as Mulder's tongue started its exploration of her mouth. Her hands ran through his soft, silky hair, caressing each strand as they flowed through her fingers, when a deep throat clearing startled them back to reality, and they pulled away quickly. They tried to regain their composure under Mr. Skinner's powerful gaze. "Dr. Scully about your autopsy results on the X-ray tech." Mr. Skinner started trying unsuccessfully to hide a smirk as Mulder said later and exited the room reluctantly. "OH and what are you doing next week, there's a conference I think you need to go to." Skinner started while Scully closed her office door.