TITLE:  Secret Eulogy
AUTHOR:  mountainphile
RATING:  R, to be safe
CATEGORY: A "short" vignette
SPOILERS:  Fight The Future

NOTES:  In response to Haven's "Extreme Possibilities"
Challenge. Sybil, you sucked me in, babe, though the 155
limit blossomed to 225 words!  My bad ;)

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DISCLAIMER: No monetary gain sought, no disrespect or
illegality intended toward Chris Carter, 1013, or anyone
else who retains ownership and rights over these characters.

SUMMARY:  Personal sacrifice is more than a necessary evil

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Secret Eulogy
By mountainphile


Ordering all others away, he disrobes her gently and
unhurriedly inside the metallic pod.  He wants her alone
these last brief minutes before the tube and final
entombment.

A private farewell.  Indulgence of an old man's fantasy.

Her limbs resemble bone china.  Pale, slim, cold as ice.
Yet, possessing a velvety softness that startles his hand,
arrests his breath.  He coughs, clouding the frigid air over
her nakedness.  That peaceful face, her exquisiteness,
touches him and mars his resolve.

Hidden charms, exposed.  Nipples shrunken pink, taut in the
circle of his tentative fingertips.  Below, her secret
garden.  Curious, reverent fingers stir the curls,
contemplating invasion.  But he resists, merely resting a
quiet palm over her mound in benediction before drawing
back.

Yes, he rues the Plan -- its despicable ruthlessness
forfeiting such beauty and potential.  He regrets, above
all, the extinguishing of her fiery spirit, her pluck and
charisma.  Tempered always by a loyalty for her FBI partner,
which defies reason.

Her partner, his son.  Another man who reveres this autumn-
haired woman, loving her with similar covert ineptitude.
Family trait?

He stands up, fingering the icy gold cross of her necklace,
disassociating.  Dropping it near her bare toes, he
acknowledges a reality more potent than nicotine.

The Plan must continue forward at all costs.  It's
imperative, therefore, that Fox Mulder make the same
lamentable, ultimate sacrifice...

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The End


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