#like idk for some reason im not convinced that film career was worth this sacrifice

[pennyserenade]

every time i think about the william storyline my eye twitches because for all intents and purposes that was SO perfect for mulder and scully and they fucked it up. they spent years and years on this myopic journey of mulder's, searching heedlessly for the truth in every dark corner of the world, and then they found it, and it was awful and made everything seem wrong, but he was happy to be freed from it. he was ready to move on. and eventually the world gave him a win: a child of his very own, with scully, who never thought she'd ever have any but hoped against hope anyway. and they loved that kid, and each other, and that should've been the end because it was the perfect arc for these two people who spent so much time feeling broken and wronged. the kid was a simple miracle, borne of pure love, to two people who needed and deserved him very much.