title: Socks on the Fourteenth author: ktblle (ktblle@hotmail.com) category: Scullyfic challenge- Scully/love in 155 words (ok, 173) rating:F, for the fluffiest pair of blue socks you can find! Socks on the Fourteenth The small package had been waiting for her at her doorstep. No return address and only "Scully" written in block lettering, but she had known from the moment she saw it that it was from him. She’d held her breath as she’d bent over to retrieve it, juggling an armful of baby and reports, while unlocking her door and flipping on a light. One of the many adjustments of single motherhood was learning to balance her child with her work. Literally, she often thought. He’d sent them both a Valentine’s present. A pair of newborn socks for their five month old son (but then, he’d had no way of knowing the tiny puffs of cotton were *too* small). So, she placed one sock in the basket of quilting scraps her mother was collecting for William’s first birthday. The other sock she laid on the pillow she still thought of as "his". The small blue sock was her only clue that he was still alive, and she couldn’t have asked for a better gift.