She's alone here, but for him. He could get her to her family, but they wouldn't understand; neither would her friends, whoever her friends are now. Didn't she say something about a book club last year? Maybe she's met people. (She should meet people. She deserves to meet people. But hell if he knows any of them.) The only person in her world is Fox Mulder, and now she knows her cancer isn't a death sentence?

Of course he comes back over, kneeling down beside her with a little creak, and opening his arms. She's alive, and she'll stay alive. That, and the tears threatening to spill over in her big eyes, is all that matters.