Title: When Forever Ends
Author: Abigail
Rating: G
Summary: Clyde Bruckman said you would live forever, but what happens
when forever ends?
Class: V, A, Mulder POV, Character Death

Timeframe: None, really, although it is some time after Redux 2.

Spoilers: A little one for Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose. Although, if
you've never seen the episode, you won't know what I'm talking about
anyway!

Disclaimer: Mulder and Scully, and Clyde Bruckman are not mine. They
are CC's, too bad... I just "borrowed" them for this fic, and I will
return them as unscathed as possible...But the yellow roses and baby's
breath are mine, I say!

Archive: Archive anywhere you want, just tell me so I can come look! 

Acknowledgments: To everyone that wanted more angst, who said that my
other vignettes didn't fulfill their love of sadness. I'm doing it for
you guys!

Author's Note Uno: I don't mention when or how Scully dies, except
that she has an illness, but don't assume it's the cancer. Because
this would be later than Redux 1 and 2. But, hey, it went into
remission, so who says I didn't make it come back? ;) I don't
know...I'll just leave that to your imagination...bwahahaha... ~maniacal
laughter~

Feedback: Welcomed, loved at littlemiss_spookymulder@hotmail.com

On into the ficage...

Xxxxxxx

(Forever, Adj. 1. Lasting eternally. 2. Ceaseless. 3. An infinite
amount of time. 4. Without end.)

Xxxxxxx

I will always remember the night you told me what he said, as you laid
in your hospital bed, me kneeling over you, clutching your hand in
mine. Desperately trying to give you back the life you were once full
of. Trying to give you what your illness stole away.

Clyde Bruckman said you would live forever. But I saw the life slowly
creep out of your eyes. And yet, the bouquet of yellow roses and
baby's breath that I placed ever so carefully next to your bed so you
could see and smell were vibrant and healthy. Kind of ironic, now that
I think about it. Almost like they were thriving from you, taking your
life away. Taking my life along with it.

He said you would live forever. So what happens when forever ends?

Your life left, your soul went up to the god you so firmly believed
in. Leaving me behind. Alone, so alone.

What can I tell myself? That he was wrong, that you weren't meant to
live forever? Or maybe forever doesn't really last forever.

Where are you? You should be with me now, your auburn hair splayed
across my chest, you baby blue eyes looking up at me with love and
adoration. You fingers laced within mine. Like the way it used to be,
when I could wake up next to you every morning.

Instead, your auburn hair is dull, faded away, broken. Your fingers
are laced within your own, folded gently across your stomach. Your
eyes eternally closed.

I stand here now, staring down at your grave, adorned with a bouquet
of yellow roses and baby's breath.

I miss you, can't you see that? I miss you more than I ever missed my
sister. Please, somehow, come back. I need to tell you how much I love
you. I need to say it, let you hear it one last time.

"I love you!" I scream to the sky. Do you hear me now? I wish you
could know, could tell me that you love me back.

The grave is now adorned with the wetness of my tears, my head bowed
as they flow unashamedly down my face.

Farewell, Scully. And farewell to our happiness, our life together. To
my happiness. For there will never be another to follow you.

That's what happens when forever ends. A life is shattered, like glass
out of a broken window. It can never be put back in its place. A love
is lost, a perfect happiness broken and smashed.

And a truth found.

Clyde Bruckman said you would live forever.

Maybe he was wrong.

Or maybe forever ends sooner than we think.

Xxxxxxx

Finis

Author's Note Dos: Like? Hate? This is only my second vignette that
involves angst and character death, so again, feedback is greatly
needed so I can develop this area of my writing skills. I appreciate
it a lot, thanks!

~Abigail~