TITLE: Be Prepared
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://katycat.net/xfiles
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SPOILERS: Unruhe, 731/Nisei
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 111
CHALLENGE: language
SUMMARY: Arms folded, closed in, she stares at Schnauz, Sr.'s headstone.
DISCLAIMER: Aufhören!  Ich habe keine 
Unruhe, Mulder, oder Scully!  Sie gehören 
CC und 1013!
DATE: 05/17/2004


"I think you should learn a language, 
Mulder."

Arms folded, closed in, she stares at 
Schnauz, Sr.'s headstone.

"A language, Scully?  I ... " A light 
dawns.  "...  Your German."  He winces 
slightly and touches her shoulder.  She 
doesn't move.

"It saved me, Mulder.  He came at me with 
the leucotome and I spoke to him.  It 
bought enough time for you to - " She 
reaches for him, frantically, and he 
takes her hand.  "I don't want to lose - 
"

He doesn't tell her he learned Hebrew as 
a boy, Latin at Oxford, and has been 
teaching himself Japanese since the 
train; just pulls her close as she sobs 
for the tortured soul she couldn't save.