#if mulder was wearing a pretty lil necklace in the car at that moment she would have reached out and straightened it for him

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Thinking about Scully in Tooms saying: "Mulder I wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you", and obviously it's IMPORTANT, it's their cute little rootbeer stakeout moment, but it's made even MORE important by the fact that it happens in the specific sequel episode to Squeeze ??? Bc in ep 3 Scully had been putting in overtime with the Violent Crime Section and going out to lunch with Tom Colton and working with agents who asked her to do things that were 'a little more down to earth' so she 'won't have to be Mrs Spooky anymore', and they chose to humiliate and villify Mulder and obviously she defended him the first time around BUT when they run back into Tooms for the second time in in ep 21 Mulder's probably a bit on edge and he's wondering whether they're going to have to work with more of the same people who'll try to drag Scully away from him and I think she KNOWS that ??? She knows how wary is and how desperate he is not to have that happen so she takes it upon herself to be Territorial™️ this time (by using his first name even though it doesn't work), and she comes out and says that he has nothing to worry about. She knows where her loyalties lie and to hell with everybody else. She'd quite like to be Mrs Spooky forever actually.