#dr. yonechi

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Dr. Yonechi: I was wondering where I knew this actor's face from. Turns out he was in TXF (as three different characters!), The Lone Gunmen, and Millennium. Actually he has a really interesting resume from sculpture to rock music to Supernatural. Mainly a playwright now, but his acting career is lowkey thriving rn: Shōgun, Sozin in the live action avatar, Kronos in the PJO adaptation.

Colleen Azar & Carol:

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Synchrony: Mulder and Scully investigate a homicide for which the suspect presents an incredible alibi — that the death was foretold by an old man able to see into the future.

all things: While Mulder is away in England, Scully is led by coincidences, chance, fate and possibly a higher power to a married man with whom she had an affair during medical school, and a look at the life she didn't choose, forcing her to make choices about her future.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

how to bend, not how to break

(shoutout to @alittlemorelight for suggesting Jon Foreman's "Learning How To Die" as a cancer arc song!!)

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1. Her best friend kisses her under glaring flourescent lights in a hospital hallway, or maybe she kisses him, or maybe it's both of them at once that does it; her seeking refuge in him, feeling safer in his arms than she has since her diagnosis, him needing to convey and confess something he can't put into words. They don't talk about it, but she doesn't push him away, even when she sees how hard it is for him to watch her slip away. Her nose bleeds and she lets him hand her tissues he keeps in his pockets nowadays. They don't talk about that, either, but she doesn't push him away.

2. She doesn't kiss him when he sees her slight shudder, the shiver she can't quite hide after the cryobiology case in Massachusetts, and puts his coat around her shoulders. She has a hard time staying warm these days, even under her usual layers; even at home, curled under extra blankets with her knees pulled up to her chest. Turning up the thermostat in her apartment would be like admiting defeat, and she is not ready to concede that yet. Mulder sees her shiver, standing beside the car as they finish giving their statements, and silently slips out of his coat and tucks it around her. She tries to protest, tells him like always that she's fine, the memory of Dr. Yonechi bursting into flames just bothers her, but he offers a tiny smile, his head leaned close to her, and just says "it's alright." He means her weakness, but he won't say it, and that is enough to make her stop talking and slide her arms into the too-long sleeves. Mulder's hands rest on her shoulders for a little too long to be normal, and she does not push him away. She doesn't kiss him again, like she suddenly wants to, but she doesn't push him away, either.

3. She does not kiss her best friend when she is wine drunk on her own couch and feeling warmer than she has in weeks; she doesn't, because it's not her partner. The real Mulder wears a vaguely stricken look for the rest of the evening and won't move from his place at her shoulder as she speaks with the police officers who come to take Eddie van Blundht away. She doesn't give him a disapproving look or sigh that she's alright, he doesn't need to hover like this, like she's something fragile (she is). She doesn't push him away. Maybe it's the lingering effects of the wine, in vino veritas and such, but the truth is, she wants him close.

4. She does not kiss him in the back stairwell of a mental hospital after she has seen a ghost. This time, she does push him away. She cannot believe, refuses to. It's the same as the Boggs case, back in the first year of their partnership: she is afraid to believe. She confesses, tells him what she's seen so that it is not kept to her, and she sees the desperation light in his eyes when he snaps at her; he only does that when he's afraid. She wants him to kiss her when he says that he is, that he's scared of the same thing she is, but she is frightened and frustrated, and she pushes him away. They still haven't talked about Philadelphia or why it happened.

5. She finally kisses her partner again, this time in a hospital in Rhode Island because he can't stop apologizing; she is not angry with him, just frustrated and afraid, because if he'll go to such lengths with her arguing against it every step of the way, put himself in that danger with her fighting to keep him safe, she doesn't want to think about what he'll do once she's gone. He can't stop apologizing, avoids touching her even though she can see how deeply he craves comfort; she can't stop remembering how small and broken he looked on the floor of that house. She kisses him while they wait for the doctors to discharge him, and she can taste his tears.

"Scully," he whispers unsteadily, after, "I'm so-"

She kisses him again so that he knows she will not push him away. They cannot lose each other any earlier than they must. He doesn't push her away, either.

6. They still don't talk about it, but he kisses her at her dining room table with her for once taller than him. She leans down, kisses him back. It happens just before another nosebleed starts, and then she is standing, shaky, in front of the sink, and Mulder looks like he wants to hold her tight enough that even cancer can't take her. She wishes he could; she asks him to turn up the thermostat and does not kiss him again before he leaves. He is faking his own death, and she is approaching hers. She doesn't push him away, in fact she'd give nearly anything to hold him close, not let him walk out her apartment door and leave her alone, but she doesn't kiss him.

7. She does not kiss her best friend and partner when she is lying on what will be her deathbed. He comes to her, aggravates the nurses and her brother, and kisses just about every part of her but her lips. There is a boundary, just now, and the boundary is death. He stares into her eyes when he presses his lips to her knuckles, then whispers her name, barely audible because her mother and brother are standing in the doorway.

"Scully," he breathes, "I-"

She shakes her head. "Don't," she pleads. She cannot let him say it and then lose her.

She doesn't let him tell her what she already knows; she doesn't tell him her part either. But she doesn't push him away, instead clings to him when he leaves. She does not have a thermostat to turn up, here, and she doesn't know if she will ever be warm again. She wants him close.

8. She does not kiss him when she tells him the cancer is in remission and he falls to his knees in shock and ecstasy, but she does let him tell her he loves her. He says it again and again into her hair and the crook of her neck, until she takes his face in her hands and he goes still, reverent. She smiles a watery smile, and then she does kiss him, soft and slow and salty with tears, even though her mother is about to walk into the room and see.

"I love you too," she says, and now they are both crying. This is the first time they've talked about it.

[dreamingofscully]

4x19. “Synchrony” - X-Files Rewatch

Mulder is gazing at Scully in the beginning in their office. Also WHAT IS HE DOING WITH THAT PENCIL. Then he goes and sits next to her SUPER CLOSE.

Leaning close talking after Dr. Yonechi is killed. Standing close when resuscitating Dr. Yonechi

Talking close after speaking with Lisa outside.

Sitting close on the bed looking at the photo.

The fact that Mulder has memorizes her thesis. ❤️

Talking together at the end.

I mean this episode is a whole giant scene-after-scene of Mulder and Scully standing as CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE. You can just fast forward through the other stuff, though I don’t find the episode terrible, just sorta meh otherwise.

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The X-Files: Synchrony

4X19 Synchrony

On the MIT campus, two young men are approached by an old man, who warns one of them, Jason, that his friend Lucas is going to die at 11:46PM by being hit by a bus and he has to stop it.  He tries to stop it but fails.  The bus driver claims that Jason pushed his friend.  Mulder and Scully get the case.  The old man was arrested by campus security, but he has disappeared, and one of the campus security guards is dead - frozen.  Mulder talks to Jason and learns that he’s been studying cryo-biology, studying the effects of freezing temperatures on biological life forms.  Scully finds Jason’s fingerprints on the security guard. A Dr. Yonechi arrives, met by the old man.  The old man tells Yonechi that he solved the problem, and then the old man kills him by freezing him.   Scully finds a small puncture mark on both of the victims and suggests that Jason Nichols murdered both men.  M&S talk to Jason’s girlfriend, Lisa, and find that he’s been working on a rapid freezing compound, but she tells them that the technology to engineer the compound is 5-10 years away.  They try to resuscitate Dr. Yonechi, but his core temperature soars and he goes up in flames.  Lisa suggests that the compound used to freeze Yonechi was unstable. The old man follows Lisa, and she confronts him.  He tells her he came there to kill her.  Lisa admits that she falsified scientific data to get a grant.  M&S go to the old man’s apartment, and they find an apartment of Jason, Lisa and Dr. Yonechi together.  Mulder thinks that the old man is Jason from the future and is there to change history.  Mulder says they should show the photo to Lisa and ask her if it’s been taken.  Scully is skeptical.  Lisa has realized that the old man is Jason; she goes to see him.  He injects her with the compound.  Mulder tells Jason that the old man is him and that he may be his worst target.  Jason looks at the photo and says it has never happened.  Mulder hypothesizes that the properties of Jason’s compound make time travel possible.  Jason is afraid that what happened to Lisa is his fault.  When Jason and Mulder try to enter the lab, the computer says Jason is already there.  Mulder sends Jason to Scully to tell her that the old man is there.  Scully calls Mulder to tell him that they’ve resuscitated Lisa, but Jason never got to Scully.  Jason confronts his older self, who tells him they helped create a world “without history, without hope, where anyone can know everything that will ever happen.”  The older Jason kills his younger self, despite Mulder’s attempts to save them.  Lisa is okay; Scully tells her that Jason is dead.  Mulder tells Scully that the old man’s corpse couldn’t be found.  Mulder quotes Scully’s own thesis back at her, and tells her he thinks that eventually Jason’s compound and time travel will both be discovered.

Original Airdate: April 13, 1997

Episode Tags: MOTW

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Broken Cisterns (3)

(1), (2)

Huge thanks to @txf-fic-chicks for the boost! This one is NSFW.

Mulder moving over me. Kissing my neck, running his thumbs over my hard nipples, making me squirm. He is hard against my hip and grinds into me.

He’s all muscle, golden skin, and musk a combination that makes me mad for him.

He doesn’t pause until he is poised at my entrance.

“Will this be bad for…” He trails off because we don’t talk about the baby. We don’t even say the words. Another thing added to the taboo topics between us.

William is on that list.

I shake my head even though I know it probably isn’t good for a late-life pregnancy.

I want him to fill me up, to cum in me and fill me with something besides the burning resentment, grief, and a fetus I don’t want. I tilt my hips toward him and take the tip of him in. when I catch another moment’s hesitation I tighten my muscles around him. Mulder groans and drops his head forward with a slight smile that I return.

He is so filled with lust he doesn’t question me. Because why would I lie about something like this?

As we move I leave nail tracks on his back and ass, and he leaves his own marks on my throat and chest.

My orgasm is surprisingly small but I enjoy watching his face as he cums and I kiss him sweetly.

He falls asleep quickly but I am still haunted by sleeplessness so I get up quietly, grabbing my laptop on my way out of the bedroom.

In the living room, I open up my email and compose an email to Lisa Ianelli. I don’t say who I am. I tell her I want to meet and give her a number to call. At the end I say that I know about Jason Nichols and Dr. Yonechi, knowing it will get her attention.

Then I pray that she will answer me.

A headache comes on and I close my eyes. William still plagues me.

A vision of a ramshackle shelter in an alleyway in the rain comes to mind. I’m cold and hungry.

I wonder again if he is alive but the hope that comes with that thought is too much to bear.