Title - Thy Summer's Play - A Place In The Cloud - 
Part 2 of ?
Author - Lady Disdain
E-mail - The_Lady_Disdain@mailcity.com
Rating - G
Category - 
Archive - Please don't send this to Gossamer, they already have it. 
Anywhere else is fine, just tell me about it first. 
Description - Vignette
Summary - I'm at my best when I'm at my weirdest and 
I must admit, this is pretty weird. Scully reflects 
in her hospital room about the events at the motel.
Spoilers - seventh season finale
Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, Fox does 
and I'm just borrowing them. I also do not own Nick 
Drake's lyrics. 
ATTENTION: This is a many part story and should be 
listed as such: Thy Summer's Play - Time Has Told Me 
- Part 1 of ?, Thy Summer's Play - A Place In The 
Cloud - Part 2 of ?, etc. I apologize to all of the 
archivists I must be driving crazy. :-)
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Thy Summer's Play, Part 2
"Little fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.

Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?

For I dance
And drink and sing
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing."
- William Blake "Little Fly"
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"A Place In The Cloud" by Lady Disdain 
<The_Lady_Disdai@mailcity.com>

"Strange face, with your eyes
So pale and sincere.
Underneath you know well
You have nothing to fear.
For the dreams that came to you when so young
Told of a life
Where spring is sprung

You would seem so frail
In the cold of the night
When the armies of emotion
Go out to fight
But while the earth sinks to its grave
You sail to the sky
On the crest of a wave"
- Nick Drake "Cello Song"

As I sit here in this hospital bed I tell Walter 
Skinner the impossible, that I am pregnant. With a 
questioning look on his face he asks, "What is your 
relationship with Mulder?" I lie and tell him we are 
just friends. Mulder and I have a deeper relationship 
than just friends, we got even closer that night in 
the motel room. But Skinner looks relieved at the 
sound of my false reply and then asks who the father 
is. I tell him, "Mulder." Walter shakes his head as 
he 
walks out the door. I know he is not disgusted with 
me, just merely confused. He is the Assistant 
Director after all, not an investigator of The X-
Files.

Skinner came to my room today to tell me what I 
already know, that they have taken Mulder. But unlike 
all the other times my partner has gone missing, I 
make no frantic calls to his cell phone. I let him 
go. I know that he wants to go as much as they want 
to take him. That realization is what made me so 
shaken that night. It is what caused me to knock on 
his motel room door.

While I slept next to Mulder that night a voice came 
to me and told me not to be afraid. It was at that 
point that I realized the voice belonged to Melissa. 
She said his abduction would be peaceful and not full 
of the terror and pain like mine. Melissa told me 
they would not hurt him because he is partly one of 
them. 

"Mulder is both a child of the stars and the earth." 
She said. "The earth has had him for nearly 
forty years, it is time for the stars to claim him." 

She told me that I would not be left alone 
here, I would miraculously conceive and bear Mulder's 
daughter and name her Samantha. Our daughter would be 
the Truth, the endpoint of the search.

After the voice left me I felt more at peace than I 
ever have in my life. It was then that I began to 
hear Mulder's thoughts as he lay next to me. He is 
thinking about how he much he loves me. He questions 
my faith which based on the immaculate conception. He 
laments on how he couldn't protect me from being 
abducted. I cry in my sleep for him, for the fact 
that the earth can no longer be the home of this 
sweet man that I love so dearly. I cry because this 
will be my last time in his arms for a long while.

Later when he tells me to leave Oregon for my own 
safety, I go with a silent protest in my heart even 
though I know it is what is right. I feel it when 
they take him, the feeling is so strong that I pass 
out.

Now I lay in my hospital bed with a perturbed Skinner 
outside my door and Mulder in the clouds. I know that 
someday he will return to take Samantha and me with 
him. The people of this earth will not be able to 
accept me as her mother or her that matter. She too, 
is a child of the stars.

So I close my eyes and rest my head on the pillow and 
concentrate, I want to send a message to Mulder up 
there. I tell him, "I believe."

"So forget this cruel world
Where I belong
I'll just sit and wait
And sing my song.
And if one day you should see me in the crowd
Lend a hand and lift me
To your place in the cloud."
- Nick Drake "Cello Song"
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