TITLE: Ruins: Doggett
AUTHOR: stellar_dust
EMAIL: stellar_dust_x@yahoo.com
WEBSITE: http://xfiles.katycat.net/
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SPOILERS: Anything with Luke, season 8; post-col
RATING: PG
PAIRING: DRR
CHALLENGE: Rituals
WORD COUNT: 100
DISCLAIMER: I didn't do it.
SUMMARY: Doggett learns what it is to miss somebody.
DATE: 11/02/2004
NOTE: This is part of my post-col drabbleverse that 
started with 'The City and the Stars.'


It's been a month, and we haven't found Monica.

Thinking those words hurts.

We've got a base just inside the city limits, working 
our way, street by street, clearing out alien corpses 
and rounding up survivors.  It's tough work.

She's not in the Fortress.  We checked there first.

Is this how Dana felt when Mulder was abducted?  
'Cause God damn, I thought I understood - losing Luke 
was hell.  

At least we *knew*.

So every day, after dinner, I hike to the rubble that 
used to be her apartment building.  Sometimes I find 
a trinket I recognize.  Mostly I just hope.