DISCLAIMER: The X-Files characters are the property of Fox, Chris Carter, 1013, etc. The story contents are the creation and property of Djinn and are copyright (c) 2000 by Djinn. This story is Rated PG-13.
Musings of
a Bitter Heart
by Djinn
So, it's done. It's over. I've willingly
brought about my own destruction. And what I can't figure out, what I really
can't understand...is why? I've played for years on the side of
self-preservation. I've betrayed those I loved and all the ideals I held to in
my youth. And I thought I could go on doing it. That to win, to survive, was
worth any cost. And it was. Except that in the end, I couldn't betray Fox. I
couldn't let him die. Even if it meant letting her have him. Even though it
meant helping the woman I have come to hate and pity. Even if
it means that I will be dead soon. I couldn't let him die.
So I helped her. Special
Agent Dana Scully. Small, petite, cold as ice bitch.
She hated me. And she loved him. And the really pathetic thing is that I don't
think either of them have the courage to act on it. And she hated me because I
had known what it was to love Mulder. To physically love Mulder. And she
knew that I still loved him.
It was amusing actually. Watching
her cringe every time I called him "Fox." Something she either
chose not to do, or was forbidden to do. I actually enjoyed doing it. "Is
Fox there?" "Agent Scully, where's Fox?" "Fox, it's
Diana." Interesting isn't it, how similar our names were. Diana, Dana. In
numerology they add up to the same thing, mine is 20, hers is 11, both a 2.
I've always been interested in coincidences. I guess it is no accident though
that her number, 11, is ultimately a more powerful number than my 20. Because she's won, in the end. She gets him. Even if she doesn't know what to do with him.
I guess because my way is to use sex to seal
a relationship, I just can't imagine being around Mulder
for that long, loving him for that long, and not sleeping with him. My god, when I remember the nights and days and afternoons we
shared. The hours we spent in bed. He could let go then, in a way he
wouldn't any other time. It's when I got to know him best. Afterwards, when
most men would have fallen asleep, my sweet spooky insomniac would pour his
heart out to me. I learned to treasure those times. And I still treasure them.
Because it is something she has never known. And I pray to god she never does.
But who am I kidding. If I thought he wasn't
in love with her, I'd still be standing guard over him in that awful place.
Looking at the blasphemous way they had laid him out. Waiting
for him to wake up, to come back to me. If I thought he didn't love her,
that he could love me again, I would never have betrayed myself. I would have
kept him with me for all eternity if I could. But I could see it in his eyes
when he looked at her. He loved her. More than he could ever love me. Possibly
more than he ever did love me. He went to the ends of the earth to get her back, he wouldn't even come to
And, despite the distaste I feel for Special
Agent Scully, I believe she loves him too. Deeply,
desperately, steadfastly. She will never betray him. She will always protect him. She too will journey to wherever he is
to save him, to help him, to stand by him.
And why do I care. Why should I care a damn
about either of them? I could have let him die. I should have let him die.
Moved on and placed my trust and body firmly with the one man who could have
saved me. But I didn't. And now that man will be here shortly. For this, he
will send no trusted associate. He will do it himself. And I will see in his
eyes the betrayal he feels. And the ultimate coldness as he
pulls the trigger. And my only defense will be to say, "I couldn't
let him die..."
FIN