Yes, it's another story. Yes, it's inspired by song. Not sappy ones - 
not yet anyway. Here are some songs I thought explained Our Lady quite
well. Anyway, we'll see how it works out.

Disclaimer: The characters of Fox W. Mulder and Dana K. Scully do not 
            belong to me. They are the property of the holy Trinity:
            Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and Fox Network. No serious
            copyright infringement is intended. This story is not being
            written for profit. In other words, DON'T SUE ME!!!! Look,
            that's as close to a straight disclaimer as I can get.

Rating: Not sure yet. When I'm through writing I'll let you know.

Deconstructing Scully: Forgiven
by 
Tamani R. Green

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Alanis Morissette
Forgiven

You know how us Catholic girls can be
We make up for so much time a little too late
I never forgot it, confusing as it was
No fun with no guilt feelings
The sinners, the saviors, the loverless priests
I'll see you next Sunday

(chorus)
We all had our reasons to be there
We all had a thing or two to learn
We all needed something to cling to
So we did

I sang Alleluia in the choir
I confessed my darkest deeds to an envious man
My brothers they never went blind for what they did
But I may as well have
In the name of the Father, the Skeptic and the Son
I had one more stupid question

(repeat chorus)

What I learned I rejected but I believe again
I will suffer the consequence of this inquisition
If I jump in this fountain, will I be forgiven

(repeat chorus)

We all had delusions in our head
We all had our minds made up for us
We had to belive in something
So we did
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    Dana Katherine Scully had been sitting in her apartment, doing
absolutely nothing, which was quite a change from what normally went 
on during the free time she very rarely had. The place was clean, 
there were no reports to be worked on, no Mulder bugging her to come
here or go there. Just peace and solitude. That was precisely the 
problem. Too much time to dwell on things that had no business being 
dwelled upon.
    She thought about her life, where it had been, where it was, and
where it was going. All the hell and pain that had passed. She drank 
red wine from a chased crystal goblet and recollected on the days when
she was carefree schoolgirl. The days when all she had to worry about
was if she had memorized the catechism correctly for her first
communion. Scully thought about how much the church meant to her then.
And how much it was starting to mean to her again. 
    She had never lost faith. No, that was as inherited as her height
was from her mother and her red hair from her father. And while she
had become disenchanted with the dogma the Catholic church espoused,
the basic faith was never shaken. 
    Scully had been in situations that threatened to bring her faith 
down as surely as the walls of Jerico had tumbled to the ground. Her
ability to come out of these situations only reaffirmed the faith that
had been inculcated in her since the cradle. 
    And there were situations that only bolstered her belief even more.
The things and places she had been in had been a true baptism by fire,
and she had not come through unscathed. Yet through it all, she gained
a quiet inner strength and an even firmer belief.
    Scully thought about the years she had drifted away from the
church. And now she had come back. For a while it had felt like an
admission of defeat and that stuck in her craw for a while. She hated
the fact that the seemingly indestructible Dana Scully actually needed
something other than herself to depend upon.
    And now, the ritual and the ceremony of the church were becoming a
comfort to her. And while she still did not agree with some of the 
things the church endorsed, she was learning to take the bad with the
good and continue on.
    Scully thought about the conversation she had with Mulder about 
faith. And her quiet affirmation seemed to shake him to the core. Yes,
it's unexpected that a scientist who wants hard facts on everything, 
would unquestioningly accept God. And yet she did. Unwaveringly. Even
when she thought that she didn't, she did. And that scared him. 
Immensely.
    And Scully looked at all her life had been up until that point. She
was forgiven. And it was good.