TITLE: Saved My Life AUTHOR: Erin M. Blair E-MAIL: eblair@sonic.net DISTRIBUTION: OK to Gossamer, Ephemeral, After the Fact, and MSR Fanfic Cheerleaders. If you want it, you've got it. :) RATING: PG CATEGORIES: SRA -- Story, Romance, Angst. KEYWORDS: Mulder/Scully UST. SPOILERS: Squeeze. DISCLAIMER: Mulder and Scully belong to Chris Carter. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: I would like to thank my beta reader, Jen, for beta reading this story for me. I would like to thank my brother, Mark, for inspiration. SUMMARY: Scully's feelings after Mulder came bursting in the door after Eugene Tooms tried to kill her. ------------------------------------------------- Saved My Life by Erin M. Blair ------------------------------------------------ You saved my life last night, Mulder. For that, I’m truly grateful. With that act of courage, I will always remember how you looked at me. I could see into your heart. You saved me from a lunatic who was going to kill me by taking my liver. Mulder, I know that you didn’t trust me when we first met. Now I trust you. I trust you as my partner and as my closest friend. I couldn’t say this to you in person. I don’t know you very well. I know this is crazy, but I feel close to you. I want to tell you right now, but I can’t. It’s simply not time for that. I’m afraid, Mulder, because I don’t want to lose you. I don’t want to take this newfound trust and turn it into something more. We’re not ready for that. We will know the truth when the day arrives like a brilliant sun up above. We will look into our hearts and then we’ll know the truth of our love. I want to tell you now, Mulder, but we have so much to offer to everyone in those files. Someday – I will look into your soul and then you’ll know the truth in me. I’m looking forward to that day; I know that day will come around. Until then -- I hope I can draw enough strength to face you. You don’t know this, Mulder, but you have saved not only me, but our future together. For that, I will always remember this moment. - end - Feedback: Yes, please. I always treasure hearing from my readers. Send to: eblair@sonic.net Author's Notes: This story came immediately out of my freewriting. It's amazing what I'm learning in my creative writing course. I've learned so much about writing in the past several months. This story took place in early Season One when Mulder and Scully were both pretty flirtatious and fun. You know, it was time before the conspiracy almost eat them alive. I wanted to touch on the innocence of that period. I wanted to explore Scully's inner feelings during the early days of their relationship. I thought both Mulder and Scully were idealistic before all the bad things happened to them. I hope I succeeded. :) I would like to thank my beta reader, Jen, for her tremendous support and for helping me with my writing. I would also like to thank my readers for sticking with me and providing me with excellent feedback. Most of all, I want to thank my family for their support for my writing.