Title: Want, Hope, Pray
Author: spooky_xphile
Rating: PG
Fandom: The X-Files
Characters: Scully
Spoilers: The X-Files: I Want to Believe


Don't give up.

Three words.

Ten letters.

The phrase continuously ran through the mind of Doctor Dana Scully. Damn that pedophile Father Joe for implanting her mind with such crazy lore. Instead of God, she wanted to curse the priest. Damn his words.

Don't give up.

What did he mean?

Who was it about? What was it about?

Her patient, Christian?

The missing FBI Agnet Monica Bannan?

Or was it William?

The last thought brought chills down her spine. The son she would never see grow up. The son she could never say she had when asked by concerned parents. The son she did not know if he was dead or alive.

Her luck with children was slowly diminishing. Emily had been set to be sick. William was born out of love but came into a world of hate and fear.

Don't give up.

She wanted it to be about her son. To not give up longing to hold him.

She hoped it to be about her son. For him to want to find her.

She prayed it to be about her son. To God for the hope to live without her baby.