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Borrowed the song from the Beatles (Lennon and McCartney especially).

Any elements not recognized as being taken from the show copyright
Christina Shuy. 

Comments and other things sent to cshuy@netcom.com are much appreciated. 

Rating:  G, MSR
Spoilers:  *Very* vague ones... plus the one from Leonard Betts/Momento Mori.
Summary:  Mulder sings his wife and new son to sleep, at the same time 
Margaret Scully reaches out to Walter Skinner.
   
The Beatles Files:  "From Me To You"
by Christina Shuy
cshuy@netcom.com

     Walter Skinner stood in front of the nursery, his expression stoic. 
He never took death well, most especially when it seemed he had been
helpless to do anything.  At the moment, he was looking more at his own
reflection in the glass than at the new lives that were in view. 
    "Walter?"  Margaret Scully's voice was behind him.  He turned to look 
at her.
    "Hello, Margaret..." he said, tiredly, his voice sounding clearly 
with unshed tears.
    "Congratulations on the birth of Clare... though my condolences on 
Sharon's passing."
    Sharon had made it through the birth just long enough to name their 
daughter... and Walter had granted her the middle name of Elisabeth.  But 
then, there was a seizure, and she'd slipped away.
    "I wonder if God's got a sense of humour... 'cause I'm not laughing 
if he thinks this is funny."
    "I'm sure He doesn't think this is funny..."
    "Shouldn't you be with your daughter?  Or your granddaughter?"
    "She and Fox are doing fine, and Michelle is with her other
grandmother at the moment.  It was you I was more concerned about.  I 
know what it is like to lose a spouse, and I knew you could use a friend." 
   
     Dana Scully was still in the hospital after having given birth.  The 
birth itself had gone normally, but the doctors wanted to test both her 
and the baby for any abnormalities since Dana had cancer, though it was 
in remission and had been for several years.  Her husband had yet to leave 
her side, and it seemed their son didn't want to either.
     "David isn't sleeping...  Geez, Mulder, he's taking exactly after 
you.  That figures." Dana held him close, though he still was whining softly.
     "Hey!  I sleep!  Very well, as a matter of fact, thankyouverymuch.  
Of course, if you're not there..."
     "Ah-ha!  So you admit it!"
     They grinned at each other.
     "I could try with him what I do with Michelle..."
     "I'd love to hear that... I could use the lullaby myself."
     Fox Mulder held his son in his arms while sitting on his wife's 
hospital bed and started to sing, softly.

  "If there's anything that you want,
   If there's anything I can do,
   Just call on me and I'll send it along
   With love from me to you.
   
   I've got everything that you want,
   Like a heart that is oh so true.
   Just call on me and I'll send it along
   With love from me to you."

     "I would like that very much, Margaret... Forgive me, but I'm really 
in no mood for conversation." Skinner's voice was strained.
     "That's okay." She continued to stand there, however, so he wouldn't 
have to be alone.

     'Mulder's a wonderful father...' Dana thought as he continued to 
sing, softly, and as she remembered how he always sang their older child 
to sleep.
      Mulder had always been involved with the children, even starting to 
spoil them the moment they'd found out they were going to have Michelle 
nearly two years ago.

  "I got arms that long to hold you
   And keep you by my side.
   I got lips that long to kiss you
   And keep you satisfied, oooh.
   
   If there's anything that you want,
   If there's anything I can do,
   Just call on me and I'll send it along
   With love from me to you.
   From me, to you."

     Dana watched and listened as Mulder's low, soft voice worked magic 
and was gradually putting their days-old son to sleep.

    Walter Skinner watched as his daughter, Clare Elisabeth Skinner, slept
on with the peace all newborns had.  It was then he realised, as he
studied the last, best thing Sharon had left with him, that their daughter
- even at this early stage - looked exactly like her mother. 
   
  "Just call on me and I'll send it along
   With love from me to you.
   
   I got arms that long to hold you
   And keep you by my side.
   I got lips that long to kiss you
   And keep you satisfied, oooh."

      As Mulder finished the song, he put the newborn back into the 
hospital bassenet and hit the non-emergency nurse-call button.  Then, he 
settled into the chair beside Dana's bed and finished the song while she 
drifted off as well.  The nurse arrived immediately and set off returning 
David to the nursery.

     "Walter, I just want you to know... if there is anything I can do 
for you, please let me know."
     Skinner said nothing, but nodded his affirmation.

     Mulder, in the meantime, started on the next verse of the song.
   
  "If there's anything that you want,
   If there's anything I can do,
   Just call on me and I'll send it along
   With love from me to you.
   To you, to you, to you."
   
     WHen he finished the song, Dana had fallen asleep.  The nurses had
brought in a roll-away bed for him to sleep on in their half of the
private room.  
     Lightly planting a kiss on his wife's lips, he turned off the light 
and curled up as close as he could get and held her hand as he dozed off.

    "Walter, come on.  Visiting hours are over.  You're going to spend 
the night over at my house where I am going to see that you get some food 
and some sleep.  Clare is going to need her father soon."
     "Thank you, Margaret, you're very kind to do that."
    Walter Skinner and Margaret Scully left the hospital together.  
Skinner looked dead tired and infinitely sad.

    Dana Scully and Fox Mulder both dreamed of the future... their happy 
family with their two beautiful children.

-the end-


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