Hold Me - by The One With Red Hair.

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my skin, my money, my website and my stories!  I don't own Mulder,
Scully or anything related to The X-Files (I wish I did), they are the
precious property of Chris I Am God Carter, 1013, Twentieth Century
Fox and probably a bunch of other people.  I'm making no money from
this, it's here just to enlighten people of the goings-on in my strange
little brain.  Don't sue me, I'll plead insanity.  I will!  I mean, come on
now.  They could even prove that I'm unstable.  I *did* write this
disclaimer!!!

Rating: PG

Classification: MSR, V, light A.

Summary: Love is the only escape left in this world.

Author's Notes:  It seems that I'm losing my mind in my old age,
as my fics are becoming shorter and shorter!  Soon I'll be writing
one-liner fanfics (I can see it now - ' "I love you". The End.' Ohhh
dear me), if I carry on like this!

Noromos and Naxis - get out or regret it forever.  Don't bother to
flame me - you shouldn't *be* here!

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Hold Me.
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"What's wrong?"

His voice cut through the night air like glass.  It drifted, thick and
hazy, around their bodies, before settling upon hers like a gauze.
She shivered in the darkness.

"Nothing's wrong, Mulder."

"I don't believe you."  He shifted slightly in the bed, causing the
covers to ripple.  She sighed.

"Nothing.  I'm fine."

She heard him exhale sharply: a bitter bark of laughter.

"Yeah.  Right.  Fine.  Whatever."

Why can't you understand, Mulder, she asked silently.  Why can't
you see that this time nothing can be done?

"There's always a way, Scully," he breathed.  She cursed their
deep bond at this moment:  cursed the fact that he knew what
she felt, knew what she thought, but couldn't see right now
what the matter was.

"Not this time, there isn't."  It was true.  She knew that nothing could
chase this demon away.

"Please tell me, Scully.  Please let me know, so I can help you.
Please."

His imploring tones tugged at her heartstrings.  Suddenly, she
couldn't play this game any longer:  couldn't pretend to be strong
when she was weak.

"Hold me..."

She whispered the words over and over, barely audible.  Mulder
heard:  Mulder understood.
Mulder knew the feeling of isolation when the whole world is
against you, even when a veil of love surrounds you.

He slid across the void between them and wrapped his arms
around her, pressing his warm body against her back.  The air
around them crackled with the tension they two caused by touching.
He pulled her close, and she could surrender.
She let out a gasp of air, and the demon slid away - banished once
again.

And the love they shared protected them both from the evil, leaving
them safe and purified in each other's presence.

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Copyrighted Red 2000, so there.

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