Title: Blue Moon Author: CazQ Category: 155 Mulder-words Rated: G 7th Nov 2001 ***** In a safe house near Yellowknife, he sits by the window watching snow fall, flakes of diamond glowing in the light of a blue moon. He imagines them through the snowfall. Perhaps she got a letter today. She wouldn't know how it reached her - he doesn't even know. Perhaps she found it slipped between the pages of her library book, or in the grocery bag with the baby rusks. She'll read it and she won't cry. She'll read what he can't say in the white spaces. She'll hold it to her face, smelling the clean, sharp scent of the snow he can't tell her about. He sits imagining them, his skin shivering with longing for them, and he knows her so well it's as if he never left. She sleeps with a gun under her pillow, and she tells William stories that begin, "Once upon a blue moon, two people tried to save the world..." ***** The End