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    ‘What if I never wake up, Mulder?’

    ‘You can’t talk like that, Scully. You can’t say that.’

    ‘I’m.. scared,’ she admitted softly into the darkness.

    He was cut down by those words, floored, emptied, hallowed out and stung. She never uttered such things, never shared any weaknesses with anyone. He was filled with an agonising helplessness. He wanted to put her back in her body, to watch the two halves of her become one again.

    The Scully in his bed, reunited with her soul, her warmth and her movement.
    The Scully at his side, rejoined with her muscles and cells and choices.

    Tears clung at his lashes and his jaw ached from pretending that he had any control over anything.

    ‘I’m scared, too. But we can’t give up. I’ll show them the proof. I’ll… I’ll fight, Scully. They won’t do anything to you.’

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