She Is Bleeding By RocketMan ===== She is bleeding, the crimson river flowing right out of her nose and to her lips. She swipes her tongue across before it can reach her mouth; she doesn't want the taste of her coppery blood on her lips all day. She rifles through her purse until the tissue is located, exactly where she left it for such occassion. She holds the white flag of surrender to her nose and leans forward, then back, realizing that the flow of blood is a lot thicker than usual. She walks to her bathroom and glances in the mirror, hating the plae eyes and pale hair blazing back at her. She pulls the Kleenex away and a fresh fountain erupts and dribbles down her face. She sighs and holds the Kleenex back to her nose and reaches for the saline solution. She sniffs some, which the doctor told her should stop the bleeding, but it doesn't. She is afraid and wishes it would just stop. After ten minutes, the river of life still flowing right out of her, she drives to the emergency room. She is still bleeding. She is rushed right to an exam room where the doctor there calls up her chart and then her oncologist and the three of them have a long talk on the dangers of her bleeding. She is hardly listening. The nurse comes in and gives her some medicine that is supposed to contract the blood vessels and coagulate the blood. Hopefully it will work. She asks the nurse if she would mind calling Mulder for her and the woman agrees cheerfully. She lays there, alone finally, afraid and blleding and wishing it would just stop already. The nurse comes back after a ten minute lull and informs her quite cheerfully that all she got was an answering machine, but she did leave a message asking the man to come and get his invalid partner. The nurse leaves. She sighs and looks to the ceiling, wondering where Mulder has gone this time, when she needs him most. She glances out to the rainy streets and imagines trying to get home in the mess. She can't. She's stuck until the drug takes effect or it just stops. She needs Mulder. For once, she needs him. She is bleeding, from the nose and now from the heart. end adios RM