Title: Beep
by Tabula Rasa ( tabulaxrasa@yahoo.com )
for Scullyfic's 155-word Scully challenge.
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Spoilers: Redux II

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Beep.

That was the heart monitor.  That was hers.

Clack.

Some nurse walks by.

Kussssssssssh.

For a moment, she hears a machine breathing for
someone.  She should be grateful it hasn't come to
that yet.  

Mmh.

Hers again, the loudest sound she will make for this. 
It hurts.  It hurts everywhere, deep inside her bones.
 She's so tired and she feels nauseous, and *god* how
her head hurts.

Ssssssss.

The sweep of her mother's hand across her hair, down
her arm, across the sheet.  She is sorry to admit that
she is indifferent to it, but it helps her mother,
somehow. 

Hff.

The noise her brother makes as he exits.  Every time.

Squeak.

The doctor's shoes as he comes in, smiles, and tries
not to look too sorry for her.

...
 
The silent skip of her heart every time Mulder presses
his mouth, soft and dry and large, against her cheek,
forehead, hand.  

Please don't leave.  

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