Disclaimer: Mulder and Scully and everything else ever mentioned on the X-Files belongs to FOX, 1013, and Chris Carter. I didn't mean to infringe anything, although, doesn't free speech come into play here?? Summary: Takes place during "Momento Mori", Mulder learns what people mean when they say 'True Love'. Rating & Category: MSR, S, PG at the most. Author's Notes: Okay, since "Momento Mori" was like the 'Shipper's dream come true, I *had* to write a story on it. It's like my duty to all you fan-fic-aholic's out there. Now this takes place at that scene where *all* of us thought they were going to kiss, at the end where Penny dies, Mulder and Scully hug, he kisses her forehead, and they *look* at each other with his hands on her face. <--sigh--> Comments, flames (it's cold in Michigan!!)get thrown at Dreamer893@aol.com And here be the ramblings of a home-sick high school freshman after the best episode ever. God, I'm pathetic. ========================================================== "Do you believe in 'True Love' Dana?" By Nicole Eriksen ========================================================== Ever since the begining he had known. On some unconsious exsistance of his mind he had always known she loved him. Maybe he had dismissed it as friendship out of safety. The only things that scared him where fire, and being hurt by someone close to him. Maybe that's why he had resisted kissing her. God, or who ever was up there knew he could have kissed her any amount of times. When he held her at Pfaster's house when he had found her, at his Mother's bedside when she had, in his opinion, found him and brought him back when she held him. And in the hallway mearly an hour ago, he could have kissed her then too. Well, really, he did kiss her. A touch of his lips on her hair, then on her forehead when she tried to pull away. He had not wanted to lose that contact. It was so precious to him. Even as he sat here, by her bedside as she slept, he held her hand in one of his, the other running along her cheek in a continuous pattern. "Sir?" Mulder turned to see a young nurse standing in the doorway. "Yes?" "Will you be staying the night? I need to let the night staff know." "Yeah, I'm staying." He said, truning back to Scully "Are you sure she's suppose to be this pale? She looks pale to me." "It's the chemo she had. It does so much to them. I'm sorry to bother you, I'll let you be." The nurse closed the door and Mulder squezzed Scully's hand. "You don't have to worry about me now, everything's going to be fine." Mulder turned to find two beautiful blue eyes staring at him. "I'm always going to worry about you Scully, thats my job." He said, his mouth turning into a small smile. It was good to hear her voice again, it was like....coming home. And that scared the hell out of him. "I'll be alright, I'll go back to work, and be your partner again." She squezzed his hand, trying to communicate her point to him but she could still see something in his eyes. If she let herself believe it she could have called it love but there was no way he could feel that, could he? She hadn't realized it, but her eyes were closing again from the stress of the day. Mulder was watching her the entire time, seeing her lids drop then flutter open again. Slowly he got up and pulled the blanket down to her waist. "Mulder?" Scully asked, wondering, but too tired to care what he was doing. "Shhh, I'm helping you sleep Dana, let me." He said, sitting on the edge of the bed, then draawing his legs under the blankets and pulling them back up so that he was facing her. He snaked his arms around her to hold her, placing a soft kiss on her forehead, over the spot of the tumour. She layed her head against his cheast and breathed in deeply, inhaling his scent. She could always smell him, even in the bleached hospital room. "Thank you." She wispered from his cheast. "For what? Holding you?" He pulled back so he could see her face, looking into her eyes, he saw love. "For holding me. For trying to find the truth for me." She paused for a moment, looking down, hiding her eyes from him. "And....for loving me." Mulder put a finger under her chin and lifted her face to his. As he did, he saw a single tear fall down her face. At that moment, he knew what it was like to fall love. He knew the meaning of 'True Love'. He knew what his married friends where talking about when they said there was nothing greater than holding their wifes at night in their arms, and knowing that there was a heaven. With a loving look on his face he asked her a single question "Do you believe in 'True Love' Dana?" When she shook her head 'no' he smiled and leaned down until his lips touched hers. He felt her gasp, then relax to his kiss. He pulled away and looked in her eyes. "That Dana, is 'True Love'. Did you feel that?" "Yes I did.....Fox." She looked at him and he nodded "I love you. I always will." She said, laying her head back on his cheast. "I love you too. I'll find the truth for you. Your truth. Then we can be together. In heaven for the rest of our lives." He said, rubbing his chin against the top of her head. "Heaven sounds good." She smiled and drifted off to a dream filled sleep that for once, didn't include her hell, but her heaven. ===The End=== I love comments!! Send them to Dreamer893@aol.com