Title: Shalom Haver: Sunshine
Author: Rotem Shahar
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Category: SAR
Keywords: MSR, character death, AU
Spoilers: cancer arc, Christmas Carol, Emily
Summary: Part of the Shalom Haver series. It can be found at 
http://rosfics.tripod.com/rosfic/id10.html
Disclaimer: These characters dont belong to me, they belong to Chris Carter, 
FOX, and 1013 Productions. The song in the fic isnt mine either. No 
infringement is intended.

~*~

It was her birthday.
He wanted to do something special for her.

~*~

"Fox?" Mrs. Scully asked as she knocked on his door.
The door slowly opened revealing a dishelved Mulder.
"I was going to go visit Dana and wanted to know if you'd like to come 
along." She told him kindly.
"I can't - I need to do it alone." He said, trying to explain. She'd asked 
him many times before, but he'd always refused. But now, on her birthday, he 
figured he could at least give her an explanation. He knew it was important 
to her.

Mrs. Scully looked at him with compassion and understanding. 

"I'm sorry. I just can't -" He said.
"It's ok Fox," She cut him off. "We all need to handle this in our own way."

He closed the door as she walked away.

~*~

A few hours later he left the apartment.

~*~

He entered the flower shop and looked around. So many different flowers to 
choose from; he didn't know where to begin.

He wandered through the isles, picking out the flowers he'd seen at Scully's 
apartment when he'd been there. 

He stopped and stared at the sunflowers. They came in a variety of sizes and 
he was trying to figure out which size would fit best with the rest of the 
flowers.

He picked up a sunflower. He put it back down. He picked up another. That one 
didn't fit either. 

Seeing someone out of the corner of his eye, he turned around.

~*~

It was Emily.

~*~

She stared at him for a few seconds, trying to figure out what he was 
thinking, feeling.

~*~

In her off beat, squeaky childrens voice, she sang.

"You are my sunshine
my only sunshine
you make me happy
when skys are grey
you'll never know dear
how much i love you
please dont take
my sunshine
away."

She walked over to him and picked out a sunflower. She handed it to him and 
sang the song again.

"You are my sunshine
my only sunshine
you make me happy
when skys are grey
you'll never know dear
how much i love you
please dont take
my sunshine
away."

She knew how he was feeling; how he felt about her and Dana.

A tear rolled down his cheek.

As she finished the song she walked away from him and turned the corner 
towards the register.

He followed.

~*~

When he turned the corner she was gone.

~*~

He paid for the flowers and left. He had one more stop to make.

~*~
~*~

He arrived at the cemetary, flowers one hand and a plaque in the other.

He slowly approached her grave and set the flowers down in a heart-shaped 
pattern.

In the shadows someone watched and listened.

Then he placed the plaque in the middle of the floral design. 

Tears streamed down his face as he talked to her, told her about how he was 
dealing with everything, how he felt.

He felt better after talking to her, even if she wasn't there to talk back.

After making sure that the flowers were still in place, he walked back to his 
car and went home.

~*~

Mrs. Scully stepped out of the shadows. She had been waiting there for him 
ever since she had left his apartment. She was worried about him, worried 
about how he was hold up, worried about whether or not he was taking care of 
himself.

She looked at what he had left Dana.

She saw the heart-shaped pattern and saw the plaque in the middle.

"You are my sunshine..." it read.

~*~
~*~

The End.