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top five annoying mulder moments <3
okay, i have two lists for you: annoying moments that i find endearing, and annoying moments that make me want to beat him over the head with a chair
annoying moments that i find endearing:
(as of today, these could all be different tomorrow)
1/ "you mean i might get my 29.95 worth after all?" (731)
insane thing to say with 6 minutes to live about the mail-order VHS tape that might save your life. the way he casually cracked jokes in front of that bomb haunts me. unfortunately, this joke made me laugh so hard when i first watched this episode, that it became a core memory of the show to me, and it's still one of my favorite lines
related: putting on a comedy show for the nazis in the pine bluff variant
"ooh, is this the pepsi challenge? how 'bout some fresh air, boys" "you can just call me a cab, that'd be fine" sir they are about to execute you in a field
2/ his general behavior with the neighbors in arcadia
not his behavior towards scully, that's a different thing. i'm talking about mulder showing up in a neighborhood that deeply values regulations and appearances, and dragging out his basketball hoop at 10:30 at night. kicking mailboxes. putting that plastic flamingo in the lawn.
he went undercover in this subdivision to investigate the disappearances of multiple missing families, and his entire investigative strategy, is to fuck around and find out.
the fact that the neighbors start off concerned for him, worried that the monster is going to kill him for violating the HOA rules, and trying to warn him and help him, but eventually are so irritated that they decide to just leave him to die
is without a doubt my favorite thing about this episode.
3/ running in front of a car (colony)
literally made eye contact with the driver and kept running into traffic....busted up that guy's whole windshield.....like he went THROUGH that guy's windshield.....once again, i say, do you have ANY IDEA HOW PISSED I WOULD BE to just be minding my own business driving home from work, and end up with a MULDER-SHAPED HOLE in my windshield.....and then he just mumbled something about getting the wind knocked out of him?? and got up and kept running?? you KNOW he didn't pay for that guy's car. used "i got hit by a car" as an excuse for not filing his report on time??? i love him but he is not serious people
4/ reading the articles in a porno mag at the office (the jersey devil)
the jersey devil my most beloved most watched episode ever....cannot even express to you how funny i find it that when scully got into work, he's just sitting there staring intently at porn and starts telling her about the articles. he turns the magazine so that she can see. kinda the funniest thing that he ever did.
+ scully's lil "workin hard, mulder?" and "sorry to interrupt your serious investigation" ...they're best friends
5/ "why don't you take that gun and shoot yourself in the head like you shot my father" (piper maru)
girl WHAAAAAATTTTT??
BONUS: all of his comments about religion (various episodes)
i put this one on the list and took it back off so many times but i have to speak my truth. every last one of them. i know they're mean and judgmental. i like it.
honorable mention: the mulder ditchâą (too many episodes in too many circumstances to make one of the lists but the way he constantly just leaves scully places deserves to be included. he literally has the object permanence of a 3-month old)
annoying moments that make me contemplate violence:
(only came up with 4 for now...but they're serious to me)
1/ "when he's old enough, tell the kid i went down swinging." (vienen)
me when i'm two weeks out of the grave and have purposefully endangered my ass on a boat full of killer alien goo and my idea of a funny sarcastic joke is to goad my partner into saving me by JOKING!!!! about her having to tell my baby that i'm DEAD!!!
what compelled him to say this. this is my "WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THIS" infographic mulder moment.
my favorite part is how scully doesn't even address it she just gives that kind of "jesus fucking christ" sigh and tells him to put doggett on the phone lol
2/ âall this because i didnât get you a desk?â (never again)
literally god forbid a girl have an existential crisis in some FUCKING PEACEEEEE
3/ "diana saw it too. and no matter what you think, she's certainly not going to go around saying that just because science can't prove it, it isn't true." (the beginning)
lolololololol
listen, i defend him for the diana stuff, and i get it. i could write you a dissertation on the complications and emotions of it and why he says things like this or whatever. but it still annoys the ever-loving fucking hell out of me.
this one bothers me more than "scully, you're making this personal" because it's such a direct blow to the core of their dynamic and to what she tries to do for him. this comes so soon after he looked at her in the hallway and told her that her rationalism and science saved him.
which is a moment that meant so much to her and that she references in this same episode. she grabs his hand and she says "you told me that my science kept you honest. that it made you question your assumptions. that by it, i'd made you a whole person."
she has memorized everything that he's ever said and she heard him so deeply in that hallway. she stays so dedicated to offering that science and rationalism that she knows he needs, that she heard him say was best for him.
that moment in that hallway changed them for the rest of their lives, and this is when skepticism and belief start to morph from genuine ideology into roles that they play for each other.
she's doing her part, she's offering him her side, she's playing her role. and he throws it back in her face, says he'll just go play with diana then, because diana would never counter him with science.
LOLLLL okay then spooky, we'll fucking see if it's diana that comes to save your ass in the bermuda triangle
4/ "you act like you're surprised" (three words)
debated putting this one on here because everyone knows i loveeee three words and i loveeee s8 mulder and i'm obsessed with this scene, i've written multiple pieces about the fish in it, i wouldn't change a word of it
but i just have to because this is the other one that grates at me in the back of my head from time to time...because it's not that he doesn't think resurrection is surprising. it's not that he thinks it's a given that he'll always be around.
he just cannot hear and acknowledge how painful and difficult losing him was for her. because it would mean hearing and acknowledging that what he does matters, not because of what he can do or find, but because it matters that he's there. because it matters whether he lives or dies.
this episode is so heartbreakingly cruel in a way that they just aren't to each other, and that's what i love about it and what makes it stand out to me.
she's pregnant with his baby and she buried him. she was ripped off of his corpse screaming and she planned a funeral and decorated a nursery at the same time, alone. she sat in a hospital chair and held his hand for days when she knew he couldn't feel it.
for six months, he was gone. for three months, he wasn't ever coming back. that first day that they were looking for him, she teared up and whispered, "i just can't take the chance that i'm never gonna see him again," to skinner, and then she lived in a reality where she was never going to see him again. for three months.
she prayed and she prayed and she prayed and then she got to cry and laugh and hold onto him and take him home. and she tried to tell him, quietly, about the last six months. about how she doesn't think he could ever understand what it was like. about how she prayed, and about how her prayers "have been answered."
she told him how hard it was to learn he was missing, to search, to find him dead. "and now to have you back...," she smiled and said through tears.
"well, you act like you're surprised."
in less than 24 hours he is going to run towards death again and she is going to be left again with nothing to do but pray, and he cannot hear that it matters.
(yâall, remind me to do a post about mulder + humor in s8)
BONUS: referring to his mother's house as "the vineyard" (various episodes)
this one isn't that deep to me but "scully, i'm at the vineyard" just IRKS me like it gets on my NERVES. just an obnoxious ass thing to say
#mulder just muldering his mulderest#i love him more than anything#and ily!!#someone needs to make me do a nice mulder one next#honorable mention: dearest dana i cannot go on living#or whatever that fucking email said#asks#all of this comes from love but anyone who knows me knows that#kae meta
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s5 episode 2 thoughts
i wrote the following episode writeup two days ago, and still, there is so much to process. but let past me take over as we begin our adventure into some DELICIOUS angst with a happy ending content:
i wasnât going to watch this episode tonight because i am feeling tired and sick, but then i scrolled down a little bit and read some of the next episodeâs descriptions, and boy. i want answers. which i will not receive if i do not watch the episodes prior to them. so. here we are.
iâve also heard that this episode is really good, so iâm excited to dive in, even if i have a headache while watching it. usually i try to preserve my watching experiences for when i donât feel ill, but sometimes you just have to push through it.
(it WAS really really REAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLY GOOD. my sickness was not fixed but some other part of me was)
okay. the description... mulder is looking for a cure and the FBI snitch. and he receives help from an unlikely sourceâŠ. is it krycek??? let us see
(it was not krycek)
we begin with the recap, and again, the combination of skinnerâs gruff âcall a doctorâ while holding scully's limp body and mulderâs defeated face at hearing the vial just has water in it is crazyÂ
mulder is at the hospital at 5 am!!! heâs looking for scully :( no one is helping him!! he is getting maaaaad omg
âiâll calm down when i have a REASON TO CALM DOWN!!â<- OHHHH he is always going to cause a scene in a hospital. someone please pair up this scene with one breath to make a nice matching gifset thank you <3
the doctor wants to know who tf he is when skinner comes out of the room!!! OH FUCK, I FORGOT SKINNER THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD LMAOOOO âyou move pretty good for a dead manâ <- well yes he does!Â
âiâm only half deadâ now what do you mean by thatâŠÂ is he saying that without scully he is only half alive.......
oh skinner is PISSED! he is following him into scullyâs room⊠please save the fighting for when she is not trying to get rest, thank you very much
oh my GOD, mulder sees her in the room and he literally has to put his hands on his knees and breath, and he cannot do it⊠holy fuck⊠he asks skinner what happened, and when he doesnât answer right away he asks âDUE TO WHAT?â again, and skinner has to say sheâs dying
(i immediately hit replay to watch him collapsing in on himself and gasping for air again. pain. pain and angst. feels good. like pressing into a bruise)
SKINNER AND MULDER START FIGHTING???? throwing hands. âdonât make me put you under arrest. DONâTâ <- this is escalating. very quickly. we havenât even had the intro yet. holy fuck.
(my skinner and mulder angst heart is deeply satisfied)
oh my god⊠how heâs watching her through the windowâŠâŠâŠâŠâŠ..
the intro was cut short, but i expected thisÂ
ohhhh no, mulder is here before section chief blevins⊠heâs in troooOOooOouble!!!
âthe fact of you being here alive, it gives the effect of shaping this investigation into something altogether differentâ <- well yeah. that is very much the case. let's all state the obvious together.
blevins and the squad seem to be surprisingly patient with him as they explain they need to know who the real dead guy found in his apartment was. they say, well, you know, this is going to be a murder charge. so please say something to help yourself out here. and he says idgaf bye <- LEGENDARY!!!
ohhh skinner is following him out⊠skinner says he has been withholding evidence. he knows mulder shot the guy, killed him, then shot him again to hide his identity!!!! woahhhh!!! this is huge!!!!
skinner tells him to admit why scully lied on his behalf, and he says that her disease was given to her by someone at the FBI. he takes a moment to process that, then asks who, and there is a whole lotta guilt in mulderâs reply: âi failed to find that out, sirâ <- NOOOOOOO iâm sad :(
oh mulder, and your intrinsic, ancient guilt.......
âyou donât want to forget who your friends are, agent mulder- to remember who you can trustâ <- oh my god oh my gooooood. you KNOW i am a SUCKER for the whole mulder/scully and skinner dynamic, and he knows that skinner made the deal with the devil for him but scully doesnât know that and she doesnât trust skinner and oh my goooosh
mulder nods, while skinner watches him leave. i hope he has taken this talk to heart.
section chief blevins is at the racetrack again with CSM?? and heâs watching senator kennedy speak about human cloning. which seems random. how is he even watching that while at the racetrack? they didn't have ipads
CSM points out he said mulderâs not to be underestimated <- haha yeah THATâS my boy!!Â
ohhhh, but blevins knows CSM let him escapeâŠ. and CSM isnât alarmed by this! heâs all smirky, even as blevins says their FBI man has been exposed.
âmulderâs in trouble. he needs help. we can give it to himâ âin exchange for?â âhis new loyalty. to usâ <- WOAHHHH
some dude was behind blevins the whole time and he says âyou can proceed nowâ so is he off to go get mulder???!?!?!
scully is waking up!! OHHHH look at his smile when he sees herâŠ. oh somebody kill me. he loves her SO much
(author's note: tearing up just thinking about this as i make these notes readable. goddddddddd)
sheâs so worried that someone is going to see him, but OH MY GOD he grabs her hand, sits on the bed, tells her itâs okay, and kisses her cheek âiâm officially among the undeadâ <- WAAAAAAAAAH I LOVE HIM
(and while in the moment this only inspired the deepest of affection, i now find myself thinking of a vampire au, and who would be the vampire... but let's get back on track)
she asks what happened, and he says he didnât come there to talk about that <- YEAH THAT IS WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR!!! you tell her not to worry sweet girl
but she wonât take it, says he doesnât need to protect her!!! and that is just like her, to die arguing. so he fesses up that he will have to testify everything that he knowsÂ
he does NOT want her to worry oh my god âit doesnât matterâ âyes it doesâ (gently) âhey scully, how about those yankees?â<- OHHHH MY GOD i cannot stop saying oh my god, but what even is there else to say?
i just. he loves her so much. he wants her to relax and be calm and be okay even when she would never let that happen in a million years. and the fact that she is worried about HIM while she is literally dying⊠bro. iâm emo.
scully is trying to warn him that skinner is the mole, and heâs touching her face, saying no, itâs not him, and oh, iâm melting. my heart is melting.Â
WOAH WHAT??? she is saying to tell the committe he has to testify before that SHE KILLED THAT GUY??? to keep him safe???
he smiles and shakes his head, saying he canât do that, but she responds with âmulder, if i can save you, let meâ oh my god???
âlet me give at least some meaning to whatâs happened to meâ <- OH MY GOD??????? no no no no no no no.Â
(the implications here... trying to find meaning... nobility in sacrifice... the religious imagery it inspires....... we need to unpack this at length someday)
OH enter maggie and bill scully, watching as mulder sits on her bed holding her hand, smiling like the dutiful son-in-law he appears to be, which is especially crazy, when you consider the whole âand where has this mulder guy beenâ thing bill had going on when we last saw him. but mulder says he was just on his way out.Â
AND he kisses her hands as he leaves⊠the tenderness which i feel towards this man is so sensitive and indescribable
and oh my god, mulder introduces himself to bill. he says heâs sorry about his sister⊠but bill has something else to say- WHAT IS IT??
âmr. mulder⊠i know something about you, about what danaâs been through with you, so⊠letâs leave the work away from here, okay? let her die with dignityâ <- OH MY GOD????? WHAT THE FUCK???????
bill you literally SUCK what the HELL?? you donât know ANYTHING about what they have been through!!!Â
he looks like he was just slapped :( and bill goes in and holds her hand while mulder is there just standing opened mouthed, unable to believe what he just heard :(
what the fuck.
bill count ur days.
so now the guy from the racetrack that was with blevins seems to be on the loose with a sniper gun!!
ohhhh, mulder is leaving the hospital when he sees CSM!!!! âplease tell me youâre here with severe chest painsâ <- JHDJSJDJ okay yes i laughed.
OHHHH he says that the water he got in the facility is essential to scullyâs survival???? and that heâs here tonight as a friend?? so they go outside to talk about it⊠but the sniper, isnât he loose????
cutscene to the lone gunmenâs headquarters, where mulder is emptying the water vial into a little dish, saying CSM promised him something would be in there. and there is some⊠thing?? a microchip??
OH! he says that maybe it has to do with when the chip was removed from her neck!! because she got very sick shortly after it was removed!!! woah... that is wild to think about. so maybe if it had stayed in there this wouldn't have happened??? but she would have kept getting abducted because they would have known her location? but earlier someone said it was the procedure that takes their eggs that makes them sick. but how does that involve the alien? who knows. probably not chris carter.
kritschgau is here now; heâs been summoned before the committee
he confesses to giving classified information because he knows what the government is hiding from the people!!!! developing a moral compass late in life
but he denies knowing who killed the guy found dead in mulder's apartment, whose name is scottâŠ
âiâm aware of one connected death, thoughâ <- is he going to say scully???
NO!!! his son, who died that morning!!!!! oh no :( i feel bad nowÂ
he says that part of his work comes from a congressional lobbying firm?? called âroushâ. blevins and some other guy exchange looks but skinner asks what it means. and kritschgau says idk. well. me neitherÂ
back in scullyâs room, mulder is being yelled at by bill as he tries to explain the microchip from the tube might make her better. maggie seems to want bill to settle down, while scully is staring hard at it.
she says that everyone has their heart in the right place, but it needs to be her call⊠oh, so diplomatic⊠and she decides to try it
bill looks like he wants to kill mulder, and mulder tries to dodge his eye contact. it was very emotionally charged.... but also a little bit funnyÂ
so now the sniper guy is back. heâs setting up the rifle, but where???? and to shoot which of our characters???
bill comes out of the hospital room and mulder is working overtime to try and avoid his gaze until he realizes it is impossible.
âsee, sheâs your big defender, but i think the truth is, she just doesnât want to disappoint youâ <- bro WHAT?? how fucking infantilizing can you be??? just because sheâs your little sister doesnât mean she canât make her own informed decisions about living and dying??
bill, we are GOING to throw hands at some pointÂ
OHHHHHHHH bill blames MULDER for all of this AND for missyâs deathâŠâŠâŠ againâŠ. not very fairâŠ. scully made her own decisions⊠but if i were bill, i might feel the same if it were my familyâŠ.
ohhh my god this whole exchange needs to be on my blog:
âhas it been worth it? to you, i mean, have you found what youâve been looking for?â
(mulder pauses, before answering in a whisper) ânoâ
âyou know how that makes me feel?â
âin a way, i think i do. i lost someone very close to me- i lost a sister, i lost my father- all because of this thing iâm looking forâ
âthis what? little green aliens?â
(mulder looks down, before smiling) âyeah. little green aliensâ
âyouâre one sorry son of a bitch. not a whole lot more to sayâ
holy FUCK
1. i love a man who loves so unabashedly and so unapologetically. i love a man with his heart on his sleeve, and i love mulder for this reason, even if he is terribly stubborn and often infuriating. look at him. look how dedicated to the truth he is. look at how much he loves her.
and 2. for their own sake, i hope they elope when they get married, but for the sake of pissing bill off, i hope they get married in a traditional fashion, and he has to sit there and watch and regret everything he said when this inevitably saves her life and they get to grow very old and happy together because of his quest for aliens. and then they say their vows and kiss and bill writhes in the knowledge that he is a mean person. that is all. for now. because i will probably have more to say later.
fuck you bill. all my friends hate bill.Â
mulder's phone rings⊠he answers it, saying âone sorry son of a bitch speakingâ and itâs CSM??? asking howâs our patient? well. i guess he can take some credit here for the potential recovery, but âourâ feels strong.
he says heâs arranged a meeting he will want to attend??? hmm. hmmmmm. hmmmmm. much to ponder here. mulder do NOT make any deals, CSM is a NASTY FUGLY SLUT!!
so mulderâs sitting in a diner, sipping coffee, when someone pulls into the parking lot??? itâs CSM himself.Â
WITH THE CLONE SAMANTHA FROM BEFORE???
âyou know 'em or something?â âi think thatâs my sisterâ, he says to the waitress <- WHAT??
obviously though, he realizes itâs the fake samantha, right? like this trick wonât work on him twice... right?
she looks at CSM and says âmy fatherâ <- HUH??
nah, i do not believe itâs her at all. she says she was frightened, and she tried to forget everything from that night. she was told she was going to see her father. and CSM said basically that she was an affair baby and he's the bio dad. and he took her in and was so kind.
nah. iâm not buying it at allâŠ.
but mulder is cryingâŠâŠâŠ.. heâs had a rough go of it though these past few days, okay?!?!?! so don't be mean to him for believing what HAS to be an obvious lie
he tries to explain that CSM is probably lying to her about many, many things, because he has obviously known mulderâs whereabouts for a very long time, and has never told her
he says that she should come see their mom⊠but she says she canât do it, she needs time, she has children of their own, and she wonât tell him where to find her. I DONâT BUY IT iâm glad she left before her mom could see her, because she doesnât deserve that heartbreak AGAIN.
he assures her they will reunite on her time and he lets her go. even though he very much does not want to. which is a lot for his character. how he lets go of the iron grip he had on her arm...
i wonder if he doesn't believe it, deep down.
she says sheâll think about it, and she leaves, getting into the car with CSM. mulder is utterly gagged.Â
hmm. HMMM. CSM is trying HARD to get him to pledge to the dark side. but will the same tricks work again???
meanwhile, scully is being injected with something. but she looks so sad as her doctor doesnât seem hopeful.Â
she asks if heâs ever seen a miracle, and he says heâs seen recovery from the brink, but he wonât dare call them that
sniper guy?????? has his rife aimed at CSM??? or mulder??? or both???? because they are standing next to each other
theyâre meeting up. âyou give me these things- the only things iâve ever wanted- and i canât think of any reason for you to do soâ <- HEâS LYING ABOUT THE SAMANTHA STUFF, HE HAS TO BE. WE SAW A WHOLE CLONE ARMY OF PEOPLE WITH THAT FACE. IT CANNOT REALLY BE YOUR SAMANTHA, MULDER.
but he says he will offer him the truth, about the project. mulder says he knows the truth. CSM fires back that kritschgau was the one lying!!!Â
âin exchange for what?â âquit the FBI, come work for meâ <- WOAH he was shockingly forward there. i can kind of admire that. now please say no, mr. mulder.Â
AND HE DOES SAY NO!!!!
âwhat have you given me? a claim of a cure for scully? is she cured?â (oh the way he said that was SO sassy, it felt like a read)
âyou show me my sister, only to take her right backâ <- again. DID he do that, though?
âyou murdered my father. you killed scullyâs sister, and if scully dies, i will kill youâ TELL HIM BABY!!
âi donât care whose father you are, i will put you downâ OUGHHH GET HIMÂ
sniper guy puts his gun away when mulder leaves!!! so must be itâs mulder heâs after!!!
cut to scully cam⊠itâs her mom!! she called to see her and gives her a big hug.
âi fight, and i fight and i fight⊠but iâve been so stupidâ hey what do you mean. hey sweetheart what do you MEAN by that.
OH she is having a crisis of faithâŠ. she feels guilty for being closed off to father mccue. ohhhh....... is the blaming herself for being too scared to turn to god??
she tells maggie she has no improvement, and they hug and they cry; âi know youâre afraid', maggie says, "i know youâre afraid to tell me, but you have to tell someoneâ
blevins is watching more press about human cloning. is that why they do these experiments with the women? for cloning purposes? is that what i am supposed to believe from this?
blevins calls someone, and sees skinner in the background of the hearings on cloning⊠now what is he doing there. blevins says their colleague was supposed to fix the FBI problem, and then he will fix it for good⊠is he talking about the sniper?????
back to scullyâs room, where she is sleeping, and mulder is entering. heâs watching her sleep, then laying his head next to her and SOBBING. WHYYYYY???? OHHHHH....... he couldn't bear to wake her up. someone please hit me with a hammer.
then he is here at a meeting with blevins, who says something urgent has arrived. itâs the analysis that shows he fired the shot into the dead guy!!! from an undisclosed source!!! and unless he offers someone else up, all evidence points to him being the killer!!
is he bluffing??? did skinner sell him out?? no, that cannot be it...
blevins claims that scully was going to name skinner as the mole, and that they have found substantial evidence against him, which mulder refuses to believe. well⊠he is A mole, but not THE or THIS mole!!!
heâs basically saying name skinner and you walk free????? mulder doesnât answer, just says heâll see blevins at the hearing. verrrrry shady
he goes back to scully, who asks why heâs here, he has a hearing!! this has never stopped him in the past. and he confesses to having stopped by last night, but not having the heart to wake her up :( sheâs asking whyâŠ
he says he was going to take the deal with CSM, but changed his mind after blevins tried to get him to implicate skinner!!!
(skinner being his grounding force to returning to his sense of morality... no no no it's fine i'm definitely super cool about that)
scully offers again to take the blame, but he refuses, saying he couldnât do that to her family or live that lie (the truth motif)
âwe all have our faith⊠and mine is in the truthâ <- YESSSSS the comparison to religion in his dedication⊠everyone has been saying and observing it for the past 4 seasons, but now HE has!!!Â
âthen whyâd you come here if youâd already made up your mind?â (laughing) âbecause i knew youâd talk me out of it if i was making a mistakeâ <- OHHHH to be known is to be lovedâŠ. <3
and father mccue walks in right then!! she says âyouâll be in my prayersâ and he kisses her cheek, saying âhave the father say a few hail mulders for me, okay?â <- LMAOOO AWWWWW BABY
sheâs crying as father mccue walks in and mulder walks outâŠ
and her honesty in telling him that she will pray for him, after running from her own belief for so long; it was as if she thought praying would be a declaration of weakness, and maybe it is, to submit yourself to something higher, to ask for a mercy you cannot earn... but she is going to, and not only for herself on the brink of death, but for her best friend who is going through his own turmoil..... oh scully........
now for the hearing. he's late! fashionably so!
theyâre setting the stage- we know that man was killed with your weapon- and mulder says he wants to set the record straight.
skinner asks for a break??? but mulder says heâs ready to proceedâŠ.. oooo what are they each getting atâŠ. skinner looks stressed af
he says he was assigned to work with scully, who he thinks was to spy on himâŠ
âthat agent scully did not follow these orders is a testament to her integrity as an investigator, a scientist, and a human beingâ <- YESSS đ„that is my girl who is motivated by the eternal burden of doing the Morally Correct Thing :,)
heâs explaining that she lied about his death because he asked her to, because she was a victim of the grand conspiracy that is killing her (this is cut with footage of the sniper looking at CSM through the scope of his rifle, and scully praying with father mccue)
heâs saying he will name the people responsible for this tonight!!! but they just want to know if he shot scott!!!! it's getting more and more tense and loud, before we boil over to a yell:
âi canât do that sir, because the section chief is the man iâm about to name!â (murmuring) <- OHHHHHHHHHH HE DROPPED A BOMBSHELL ON THE VILLA
(we enter slo mo) (sniper fires at CSM) (blevins is shot by some other guy, who puts the pistol in his dead hand) (CSM lays on the floor, bloody, holding the picture of baby mulder and samantha)
DID CSM JUST DIE????? i refuse to believe it. that bitch canât be killedâŠâŠ. nope nope no way. unless i see his corpse (NOT his headstone or his funeral, his actual CORPSE) i shanât buy it.
so much just happened????
the next morning, skinner is with mulder at the hospital. who, as if just hearing me, tells mulder that CSM is dead, shot holding the photo of him and samantha
NO BODY WAS FOUND??? but it was too much blood loss for anyone to have survived. so someone took the body?? OR someone brought extra blood to dump on the ground and fake a death!!! makes you think!!
mulder claims he just guessed it was blevins behind it all- do i believe it? or do you think it was his years of solving crimes that allowed him to pick up on it subconsciously? i'm going with that interpretation
and blevins had been on roushâs payroll for four years!!! a biotechnology company!!! for cloning??? for aliens?? and of course all connections are now being erased.
BUT NOT EVERYTHINGâŠ. SCULLYâS IN REMISSION!!! skinner is shocked and mulder says itâs the best news heâs ever heard đđ„ș my BABY
when skinner asks what turned it around, he says he doesnât know, and theyâll never knowâŠ
oh my god, i love that their beliefs combined to cure her⊠his obsession with the Truth and her literal coming to God, and which of them was actually responsible is entirely impossible to tell. oh i actually LOVE THAT SO FUCKING MUCH. RAHHHHHH THAT IS SO POETIC. their guiding forces in life, and we have no way of knowing which is responsible for her life being saved. but it happened.
and skinner wants to see her!!!! leaving mulder to hold the bloody photograph of his baby self⊠and heâs crying⊠itâs been a very long few days for himÂ
oh my god⊠i need some time to think on this allâŠ.
so, 2 days have passed since i watched this episode, and i still have SO many emotions. in no particular order, some things i am dwelling on: bill's cruelty to mulder; mulder smiling as he held scully's hand, trying to distract her; him unable to hold himself up as he sees her in the hospital room; skinner telling mulder to know who his friends are; skinner trying to pause the meeting before it even began so he could offer some sort of advice to mulder; scully crying into her mom's arms, surrendering to god; scully, who knows that mulder is not a believer, and has ridiculed her for being so in the past, telling him that she will pray for him; scully worrying about him when she is the one who is dying; scully reclaiming her agency when she decides that she wants to use the microchip; mulder saying that her remission is the best news he could ever have possibly heard; and skinner going in to see her while she was still surrounded by her family
WAAHHHHHHHHHH
so. a lot on my mind. a very, very, very good episode. i thought the blevins reveal kinda came out of nowhere since he has mostly been a set piece rather than a real character, but honestly, that wasn't the heart of the matter here, so we can disregard it.
i'm not sure how i feel about the potential samantha reintroduction. actually, i do know how i feel: i just didn't much care for it. frankly, i just don't buy it at all, and it felt like a lot to cram into one episode, especially since they've used the whole "is it really her?" plot point before. so it felt like a bit much on top of the already incredibly high emotional stakes.
but other than these thoughts, the episode was fantastic. finally, we get something happy! the potential end of scully's illness! mulder and skinner basking in her presence as she recovers!! her surrender to the omnipotent! his surrender to the truth, but not at the extent of his morals!!! everyone is so happy and the wedding is tomorrow!! i will see you there!!!
(what did you think?? did you like this one as much as i did?? did any moments make you tear up?? anything you noticed that i missed? please tell me!!! i'm really excited and want to chat on the subject :D)
#i am happy :)#angst with a happy ending is the best kind. and the angst here was EXCELLENT too#in the last season it was just too much all at once but here it felt like a natural culmination of what they had been leading to#i hope it takes her some time to recover just for plot and pacing purposes and she isn't just magically all better#because that would make the whole arc feel very unbalanced if this was the end#but. angst with a happy ending. angst with an open-ended space for hope.#sorry to mulder about your sister but we have time to figure it out and CSM is def lying anyway#and i refuse to accept that he is dead. i am not silly. if he IS dead i will lowkey be annoyed because he was consistent#and because i like the way he talks. he's intriguing. and i don't want another deep throat! i want to learn about the ones we already had!#anyway. very good episode. cannot wait to hear what they people think.#juni's x files liveblog#the x files#txf
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S1E21: Tooms
Case: Guess who's back, back, back! Back again, again, again! Eugene Victor Tooms is back, back, back! Tell a friend!Â
Anyway, Tooms is back.
After being rehabilitated and made totally normal and non-cannibalistic by his psychiatrist, the Baltimore court decides that Eugene Victor Tooms is ready to leave the crazy houseâwhere he was serving time for assaulting Scully (he was never charged with eating livers)âand is now free to rejoin society, despite Mulder's attempts to sway the court otherwise, by using his skills as an expert PowerPoint presentation maker. Tooms, of course, has every intention of finishing what he started before being apprehended, so that he can take a nice long hibernation in his bile cocoon, and Mulder has every intention of stopping him before he does. Mulder engages in some mild-to-moderate stalking behaviors; Scully tries not to kill Mulder and then herself out of pure mortification during the world's most uncomfortable slideshow presentation; a retired old cop in a wheelchair returns and makes fewer references to the Holocaust, and is slightly clairvoyant; I have a moment during the episode where I think, "Oh no, shit, wait, I think he does a gross thing here, is this where heâah man, yep, it sure is," right as Tooms licks his fingers that are covered in roadkill juice; and, most importantly, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WALTER SKINNER HAS ENTERED THE MFING CHAT!!!!
All rise for that big, bald, beautiful man!
Does someone die in the cold open: Ofc not, Tooms is a fully rehabilitated, mentally sound, non-homicidal freak of nature, who would never hurt a fly, because flies don't have livers. (It's entirely possible I just googled "do flies have livers"...)
Does Mulder present a slideshow: Unfortunately yeah, he does. Kinda wanted to die alongside Scully as he presented his PowerPoint presentation to the courtroom. I'm all for having the strengths of your convictions, babe, but c'mon, even you had to know that wasn't gonna work.
(^ me and scully suffering from immense secondhand embarrassment)
Does the evidence survive the investigation: Actually, yes, I believe it does. They have their findings, and the findings of the retired old cop in a wheelchair (who straight up just. had part of a victim's liver in his apartment? who let him have that?? mulder and scully are out here literally fighting for their lives just to hold onto one shred of evidence, and this hoe just takes biohazardous material with him after his retirement party and holds onto it as a keepsake of his biggest failure as a cop, smh)
Whodunit: Eugene Victor Tooms once again!
Convictions: Escalator did the justice system's work for them.
Did they solve it: I will say yes. The killings have stopped, the perpetrator is dead, they wrote a report with evidence to cite, and even though Skinner is skeptical, Smoking Man tells him he believes their take on things. It's more solved than most of their cases, anyway. WHICH REMINDS ME. There's a bit in the beginning where Scully tells Skinner that their solve rate is at 75%, which is ABOVE BUREAU STANDARDS, like????? Really FBI? The fucking *X-Files division* is doing better than the rest of your departments? And you wonder why people distrust law enforcement, jfc
[how do i determine if a case is solved? check the scale here: x]
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General Total Stats:
(green means stat has changed since last ep; red means new stat added to list)
Total Cases *Definitively* Solved So Far: 11 (first time they've solved two in a row for a while. must bc they're so high above bureau standards...)
Total Number of "Mulder/Scully, It's Me" Phone Calls: 1
Total Number of Times Scully Has Conveniently Not Seen Something Crucial: 5
Total Number of Times Mulder Has Been in Mortal Danger: 7 (i mean, tooms chased him through the escalator thingy with murderous intent, right?)
Total Number of Times Scully Has Been in Mortal Danger: 8
Total Number of Sexually Charged, Uncomfortably Intimate, and/or Flirty Moments Between Friendly Coworkers: 11 ("mulder, i wouldn't put myself on the line for anybody but you" đ„ș actually that whole little exchange is cute af. mulder's like "don't get in trouble bc of me," and scully is like, "don't tell me what to do, bitch, i love you," and mulder's like, "i don't know how to handle genuine compliments, so i'll just say that if you have iced tea for me i will go down on you right now, no hesitation, forget the stakeout, sit on my face" but then she only has root beer đ or at least that's what i remember happening, i might be paraphrasing)
Total Number of Autopsies Scully Has Performed On Screen: 2
Total Number of Times Scully Plays Doctor: 2
Total Number of Times Mulder Talks to an Informant: 10Â
Total Number of Times People Making Out in a Car Are Hurt or Killed: 2
Total Number of Nosebleeds: 4
Total Number of Times Mulder Has Tasted/Sniffed/Touched Something Questionable Without Following Proper Safety Procedures: 2Â (but tooms definitely did :( )
Total Number of Times Someone Says "Trust No One": 1Â
Total Number of Times Someone Says "I Want to Believe": 3
Total Number of Times Someone Says "The Truth is Out There": 1
Total Number of Cigarettes Cigarette Smoking Man Has Smoked: 6 (lol that stat hasn't gone up since the pilot, and then he shows up in one episode and smokes four of 'em)
Total Number of Maggie Scully Sightings: 1
Total Number of Lone Gunmen Sightings: 1
Total Number of Alex Krycek Sightings: 0 :(
Total Number of Times I Had to Look Up What State the Episode Takes Place in Even Though I Literally Just Watched It: 7œ (i remembered from squeeze, bc sometimes my memory works like how it's supposed to)
Total Number of Times I Had to Look at an Episode's Wikipedia Page to Fill This Out Because It Was Fucking Confusing and/or Too Boring for Me to Pay Attention: 5
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Prompt? Mulder and Scully pick out baby furniture and later talk about baby names? Or one or the other, I'm happy either way! đ
Look who's answering a five-year-old prompt! I think this was supposed to be about the new baby, but I wrote about William instead.
Fluff, set after "Alone": With Mulder being unemployed, and Scully on maternity leave, they spend their time thinking about furniture, baby names, and all the ways their lives will change. (wc: 1,378)
Tagging @today-in-fic @xffictober2023
Fictober Day 14: Preparation is Everything
Fox Mulder is a new man.
His naked body is still adorned with pale scars, but theyâre healing, slowly fading away. Soon, they will be gone, and with them the only proof of what he went through. How many people can claim to have come back from the death? Mulder doesnât even want to know.
The other day, Scully left a pamphlet for group therapy on his coffee table. His first instinct was to throw it into the trash, but then he reconsidered. Scully isnât pushing him. No one is. Theyâre all just glad heâs back among the living. Well, most of them. He bets that Kersh canât wait for him to die for real. That feeling, he realizes, is mutual.
When he stood in front of Kersh's desk, his former boss barely able to contain his glee, he was ready to fight. To defend himself and go on another rampage. That feeling lasted all of five seconds. Not worth it, a voice inside him whispered. He thought of Scully, and the baby, and knew that they were the only thing that mattered to him now. They didnât need him jumping off oil rigs. Heâs caused Scully seven years of grief and he was done. Enough was enough. Someone else could take over the X-Files. He may not trust Doggett yet, but Scully does. And when Scully trusts someone, he knows theyâre good people.
So, heâs Fox Mulder now. Just Fox Mulder. Unemployed bum, spending time at his partnerâs apartment whenever she lets him, and trying to figure out what to do next.
âWhat are you doing?â Mulder asks as he steps into the living room where Scully sits on the couch, engrossed in a colorful catalog.
âLooking at baby furniture,â she replies with a sigh.
âI thought- I thought you already had everything.â
âI thought Iâd have more time,â she admits sheepishly, biting her lip. Seeing his Scully unprepared for anything just makes him love her more. But he knows better than to tease her.
âWell, youâre in luck,â Mulder says, sitting down next to her. âWe both have plenty of time. With me being fired, and you on maternity leave, we have all the time in the world. Letâs go shopping.â
âMulder, we have the catalog.â She points at a crib with a smiling baby inside of it. Mulder thinks it looks a bit like an alien. âWe can order everything we need.â
âOr,â he says, drawing the word out. âWe can go into a store and pick things out.â
âAre you sure?â
âIâm sure I donât want the kid to sleep in a thing that looks like this.â He points at the ugliest crib heâs ever seen. â$1000? Does it come with the whole apartment? Come on, Scully. Itâs going to be a nice trip to Babies'R'Us.â
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âDoes no one work anymore?â Mulder mumbles as he and Scully step into the crowded baby store. There are squeaky bright colors everywhere and Mulder doesnât know where to start. He keeps close to Scullyâs side, but she, too, seems overwhelmed by the sheer size of this place.
âWish you were hunting monsters instead?â he asks Scully and she gives him a small smile.
âAt least we have experience with that.â
âWeâll figure it out,â Mulder assures her. âLook, thatâs the baby section. Letâs start there.â
In the end, itâs not as difficult as either of them thought it would be. It doesnât take them long to find the essentials. They both fall in love with the same crib and Mulder gets so excited that he kisses her quickly and noisily in front of another family, not caring at all.
âMulder.â Her cheeks are coloring and sheâs looking around nervously. Old habits die hard.
âI doubt weâll run into Skinner or Kersh here, Scully. Or anyone we know. Either way, weâre not working together anymore, are we?â The realization hits him that heâs telling the truth. As of right now, theyâre no longer work partners. Thereâs nothing holding them together. Heâs not even FBI anymore.
âAre you all right?â Scully touches his chest.
âIâm- I just realized that weâre no longer partners.â
âAre you leaving me?â Thereâs no worry in her voice, but rather amusement.
âYou know what I mean.â
âMulder, we donât need to be working together in the basement to be partners. You know that, right? We are partners in this.â She takes his hand and puts it on her stomach. âUnless you-â
âOh, I want. Iâm all in, Scully. I hope you know that?â She nods, and he sees a few tears pool in the corner of her eyes. He almost ruined another moment with his insecurities.
âDo you think we have everything we need for now?â
âYouâre tired,â Mulder states and she doesnât deny it.
âAnd hungry,â she says with an apologetic smile.
âWeâll get you and Junior something to eat. Letâs get out of here.â
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Their baby is a pizza lover. They may not know much about their child yet, but they do know that. Mulder watches Scully happily lick her fingers clean after eating a slice of greasy pepperoni pizza and thinks he might even be a little turned out by her enjoyment of it.
âHappy now?â he asks her, unable to hide his own happiness.
âVery much so. I just- I need to get comfortable.â Sheâs half sitting, half lying on the couch, and watching him with curious eyes. Sheâs been doing that a lot lately. Who can blame her? After all, she had to bury him. Had to try and make peace with him being gone and having to do all of this on her own. He doesnât want to think about missing all of this. Heâs missed so much already. The moment she found out. The morning sickness. Her growing belly. He missed all of it. He can only try to make up for all of it now. But they will never get that time back.
âMulder, stop,â she says gently, a hand on his thigh. âI can feel you thinking.â
âCan you?â he asks with a sad smile.
âI wish I could turn back the time and-â
âNone of this is your fault, Scully.â
âItâs not your fault either.â
âDebatable.â
âNot debatable,â she says firmly. âYouâre here now and itâs everything- Mulder, itâs everything.â
âYou know youâll see a lot of me now, right? With me being out of a job. I need to- I will find something. We canât let Junior think Iâm some kind of slob.â
âYouâre going to be an amazing father,â Scully whispers as if she were sharing a secret.
âLetâs hope youâre right.â
âIâm always right.â She winks at him and they both laugh softly. A truce.
âHave you thought about names for Junior?â Mulder asks as Scully snuggles into his side. He puts his arm around her and, a bit more hesitantly, lets his hand wander to her stomach. What a miracle theyâve created together.
âI have a few ideas. What about you?â
âItâs your decision.â
âMulder.â
âNo, I think you should decide. Iâll veto if itâs something like⊠Nimrod.â
âToo bad. That was my favorite.â She grins up at him. âI was thinking about all the people we lost. Samantha and Melissa. We could pick something similar to that, to honor them. Or give them a name with no memories attached. Give them a fresh start.â
âThey deserve a fresh start.â Mulder kisses her temple.
âAll of us do,â Scully says, putting her hand on top of Mulderâs on her stomach. âWeâll know what to call him when we see him.â
âHim?â Mulder asks.
âOr her.â
âYou know,â Mulder says, closing his eyes, and letting his imagination take over. âI think our child is going to change the world. Save it even, maybe. Theyâre going to do great things.â He can see it. Can see their child grow up from baby to child, to teenager and adult. He canât wait to be there and watch every single step they take. Holding their hand if they need him to.
âI think youâre right, Mulder,â Scully says.
âYou hear that, baby?â Mulder presses his ear to her stomach, murmuring the words against the fabric of her shirt. âYour mom just said Iâm right.â
#fictober23#so proud of myself seriously#not the oldest prompt i might add#i was *this* close to writing angst#ohhh and i will#but you get fluff today#msr#xf fanfic#my writing#my fic
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BONES SENTENCE STARTERS / s01e01 - s01e04
â Look, I'm sorry if I embarrassed you in front of your friends but, next time you should identify yourself before attacking me. â
â If you drive one more block, I'm screaming 'kidnap' out the window. â
â What? Do you want me to spit in my hand? We're Scully and Mulder. â
â I hate psychology and you're just horny. â
â I don't know about the rest of my life but I sure as hell wish I was alone right now. â
â I hate it when you make paranoia plausible, it's like sliding off a cliff. â
â My most meaningful relationships are with dead people! â
â You ever think you come off kind of distant because you connect too much? â
â I hate psychology, it's a soft science. â
â Offer up a little bit of yourself every once and awhile. Just... tell somebody something you're not completely certain you want them to know. â
â Don't be nice to me after I got you in trouble. â
â Your heart was in the right place. â
â No, I'm not a heart person, you're a heart person, I'm a brain person. â
â My fight or flight response is heavily weighted toward flight. â
â It's not magic. It's a logical recreation of events based on evidence. â
â You know, you being a good shot and doing martial arts, it's all your way of dealing. â
â Who knows better than you how fragile life can be? â
â That something you don't like to talk about? Families? â
â Partners, they share things, builds trust. â
â Stalk me and I will kick your ass. â
â She only shot him in the leg. Once. â
â Ughh, you need to get out of the lab you know, watch TV, turn on the radio, anything! â
â You know, it's okay to be upset. â
â I wish this is the worst thing I'd seen. â
â So what do we do, group hug? â
â I'm sorry but I don't understand the advantage of compromise. â
â You're making it personal. That doesn't help. â
â All of us die a little bit on one like this. â
â Hard at work? There's a shocker. â
â I think he likes you. God if I were you, I'd buy a ticket on that ride. â
â You know it's not that scary. You have a few drinks. You move to the music. You might even smile. â
â It's best to just ride it out, like an earthquake. â
â You can't make wild accusations about somebody's personal life based on a feeling! â
â I'm a constant surprise. â
â She has enough pent up sexual energy to power a small mid-western city. â
â I'm not angry. Believe me, you do not want to see me angry. That's the last thing you want to see. â
â You can always count on the dead. â
â I need subtitles walking in here. â
â What's the big deal? Is it so odd for you that I have someone in my life? â
â Alright, you know, you have to quit using the word segue and eschew. They sound French. â
â You just said that as though it's a good thing and you know what? It's a very, very sad comment on your personal life. â
â Fanaticism and logic don't go hand in hand. â
â Where are the reinforcements? Aren't there always reinforcements? â
â You know you really picked an odd time to have this conversation. â
â There's no pleasure in taking someone's life. Nothing to celebrate. â
â Somebody is decomposing as we speak. â
â This is a work zone. Do not talk sex at work. â
â All right, look, we've got about a forty-five minute drive. What do you say we pass it in quiet meditation. â
â You know I'm glad we had that little chat about being nice to the locals. â
â Last time you had a gun you shot someone. â
â My gut says it stinks. â
â I thought we understood each other. â
â I don't like people who think they're better than other people. â
â Some people are better than other people. â
â It's sad. Try to remember that. â
â I'm not a sociopath. â
â You're bad with people, okay. No use being offended by the fact. â
â There are some things you learn by doing... riding a bike, driving a car, pleasing a woman. â
â You have no idea of how open minded I can be. â
â Hmm? See, look at that. It stinks. Go ahead, smell it. You know you wanna smell it. It stinks. â
â I promise you I will find out the truth. â
â That was not wild and kinky sex. It was very, very basic beginner stuff. Just so you know. â
â I'm tired of being lied to, so excuse me if I'm indelicate. â
â You're the least objective person I have ever met. â
â Maybe if you opened your mind we could find out the actual truth. â
â Dude, minty burp, still burp. â
â Sometime when you're not busy, I wonder if I could ask you a few questions about sexual positions. â
â I will always know the difference between hope and fact. â
â What I believe doesn't matter. What makes me sad doesn't matter. â
â That cynicism you affect, it's your way of hiding your deeply romantic nature. â
â Well this is where a public school education comes in handy. Divide and conquer was the playground motto. â
â If you don't want to help me just say so. â
â Just do it. Reap the benefits of my sexual wisdom. â
â So, uh, what part of 'this is mine' did you not understand? Do I have to say it in Latin? â
â Just because you say it in that definitive tone doesn't mean it means anything to me. â
â It's time to live a little, connect with other people. â
â Are you suggesting I take this opportunity to have sex with [name] on a field trip? â
â You're a smart ass, you know that? â
â Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass. â
â It's an old FBI trick, I'm going to ask somebody who lives here. â
â What's the fastest way to ship a human arm? â
â It gave me a few ideas if I ever want to kill someone and get rid of the body. â
â Don't forget, the heroine always catches the bad guy. â
â You'd be surprised...when survival instincts kick in⊠â
â According to that Peruvian soccer team that crashed in the Andes, human flesh tastes like frogs' legs. â
â If we were a Peruvian soccer team and crashed into the Andes. Who would you rather eat, me or [name]? â
â What do you think our chances are of keeping this quiet? â
â I don't know if a wall of knives is evidence, but it sure is creepy. â
â Fun and a drink, where do we find that? â
â I shouldn't be talking shop, not with such a beautiful woman in my arms. â
â You're the hottest thing this town has seen in a long time. â
â Now that is somebody who wants to eat your heart. â
â I mean the whole perfect idea of love is that two people become one...now that's a kind of consumption. â
â Look, you're nuts, ok. We get it. We don't need to hear the rambling psycho speech on why you did it. â
#sentence starters#rp meme#rp sentence meme#sentence meme#rp prompt#inbox meme#roleplay meme#roleplay prompts#rp starters#rp memes#rp prompts#sentence starter meme#*tv#*bones
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Heartbeat
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Pairing: Fox Mulder x Reader
A/N: I hope this is ok!! I really enjoyed writing this :)
Request:Â Do you think you could do a Mulder x Reader where the reader has diagnosed anxiety, and the only thing that helps her in panic attacks is listening to recordings of calming heartbeats to the point where sheâs almost in love with the sound? And one of the creatureâs abilities is to distract people by making hallucinations of their biggest weaknesses, and so in the middle of conflict it makes her listen to Mulderâs heartbeat, making her flustered, and she has to abruptly admit her feelings towards him and her fascination with hearts afterwards or while everything is happening? Bonus points if he or Scully find out she has a bunch of heartbeat ASMR in her search history, and they bring it up in conversation before the actual conflict, making her flustered before anything actually happens. (I also want to clarify, Iâm not requesting an NSFW fic since I donât know how you feel about it, I want it to be purely cutesy and romantic.) - Anon
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The sounds of heartbeats played through the headphones as you relaxed backwards in your chair. You closed your eyes and focussed on the soothing pattern. Even if there was no regular pattern to the heartbeats youâd find them.
You breathed in through your nose and held your breath for a couple of seconds before letting it out. Today had been extremely stressful and your anxiety had been through the roof leading to a panic attack. Youâd excused yourself from the situation and had come straight here.
Scully entered your shared office to see you behind your desk, going to her own she put down a file âYou look relaxed.â she commented and when she had no response from you she turned to your desk. âY/N?â
Again no response, the sounds playing through the headphones had consumed your mind.Â
âY/N?â she gently put a hand on your shoulder which had you opening your eyes quickly with a start and scrambling to pull the headphones off.
âDana.â you could feel the embarrassment rise in you. âIâm so sorry I was just listening to a tape and I guess I had the volume up high?â
âWell you either seemed totally engrossed or bored with it. Either way you were relaxed and thatâs all that matters. You gave us a little scare earlier, Iâm sorry I couldnât excuse myself soonerâ she apologised.
âItâs ok.â You reassured. âToday has been stressful. All those people-â you started to recount the event.
âY/N, Y/N please donât worry about it. Itâs the end of our shift anyway you should go home.â
âAre you sure?â
âMore than. Go on, Iâll be here a little while longer until Mulder comes back.â
âI donât mind waiting for him too.â
âNo. Really donât worry. Weâll call you if itâs important, you need a break.â
You smiled âIf you insist.â Standing up you moved to the coat stand to grab your bag and coat. âThank you.â
Dana watched you leave the office and sat back and relaxed for a second before deciding to open the file in front of her. An hour soon passed before she was startled out of her workflow by the phone ringing.
Picking it up quickly she pressed the phone to her ear âDana Scully how may I help?â
âDana. Itâs Y/N. Can you do me a huge favour?â your voice came from the other side of the line.
âSure what is it?â
âI was supposed to return that tape I was listening to to the library tonight. Would you be able to? Iâm so sorry I would have done it myself but I totally forgot and just remembered now.â
âYeah sure. Is there anything else youâd like me to do?â
âUh.â you hesitated and went quiet âActuallyâ you paused again âNevermind, ignore me itâs nothing.â
âAre you sure? If Iâm out I donât mind.â
There was a silence âCan you book me out a tape with heartbeat sounds? Anything will do.â
âSure. Is that all?â
âYeah thatâs it. Thank you Dana.â
âNo problem. Get some rest Y/N Iâll see you tomorrow.â
âHave a lovely night.â
The phone call had ended and Dana had to admit she was slightly confused by your request. Standing up she moved over to your desk and picked up the cassette player. Curiosity took over and she was soon pressing the play button and bringing the headphones up to her ear to try and get a hint of what you were listening to.
The sound of heartbeats filled her ears and she quirked an eyebrow. She put the played and headphones back down before ejecting the tape and putting it back in itâs case.
Picking it up she returned to her desk and slipped it in her bag as footsteps approached her office. She turned to see Mulder approaching.
âHowâd it go?â
He flopped into an empty seat in the office âWe have something big on our hands, and not like weâve seen before.â
âHow urgent?â
âWeâll need to start first thing. For now though get some rest.â
Scully nodded âI will but you have to promise you will too.â
He put his hands up âI will.â he pushed himself to a standing position as he walked with Scully out of the building âHow was Y/N today?â he questioned.
Scully smiled and quirked and quirked an eyebrow, she knew how much he liked her âSheâs good. Had a bit of a wobble earlier but I think sheâs ok. It happens to the best of us.â
âAs long as sheâs ok.â
âYeah she is. Actually, I have to go and run an errand for her so Iâll catch you tomorrow?â
âBright and early.â he replied with a smile before parting.
Dana was soon arriving at the Library, she found the heartbeat tapes and looked through them and their descriptions. She noticed your name on many of the checkout lists and picked one that your name wasnât present on.
She quickly signed back in your old tape and out the new, slipping it into her bag and she continued home.
Youâd had a pretty decent night's sleep and were now entering the office. Putting your bag down on your desk you turned to take off your jacket, not realising someone else was in the room.Â
âDo I not get a good morning?â
You turned in shock towards Mulderâs voice, he was now rounding his desk to perch on the edge. âI didnât even realise. Iâm so sorry.â you hung up your jacket and gave him a smile âGood Morning Mulder.â
âHow was your evening?â
You perched on the edge of your own desk near Mulder âIt was good. Dana sent me home and I just had something to eat and went to bed honestly. I was pretty tired. What about yours? How was yesterday?â
He kicked your foot gently with his own and spoke with a smile âIâm glad you had a nice evening. Mine was good and I pretty much did the same. Yesterday was ok, we do have something big on our hands though.â
âOh yeah?â you questioned âIs it really big or are you just saying that? You have a tendency to over-exaggerate sometimes.â you teased
He grabbed a balled-up piece of paper from his desk and lightly chucked it at you âIâve never exaggerated in my life.
You crossed your arms over your chest and gave him a smug look.
âOk maybe I have but I promise you this one is big.â He emphasised the word with his hands.
Dana heard laughter coming from the office and wasnât surprised at all to see the two of you together in there. âMorning.â she greeted.
Mulder pushed himself off his desk âWe should get a move on.â he gestured to the clock and grabbed his keys âIâll meet you both by the car?â
âSure.â you agreed. Standing up you went to grab your jacket again. Regretting even taking it off in the first place, if youâd known youâd been going out you wouldnât have bothered.
âI managed to get you a new tape,â Dana said pulling it out of her bag and offering it to you.
You looked at her in shock briefly, youâd totally forgotten that youâd asked her to get you a new one, you must have been really tired when youâd called her. âThank you. I really appreciate it.â you could feel the embarrassment rise in you as you took the tape from her and slipped it into the top drawer of your desk.Â
âI noticed you borrow heartbeat sounds a lot from the library. Practically every tape has been taken out by you at least once.â she said lightly with cheer in her voice.
âYeah. Itâs nothing really.â
âIâm just interested.â
âI think we should really get going.â You were getting nervous and your words were falling out. Adjusting your coat you left the office and headed towards the car. Dana knew exactly when to drop a topic and knew sheâd probably pushed a little bit too far but she was soon following you.
The drive to the location didnât take long. Picturesque scenery had stretched out around you as Mulder drove. The three of you practically fell out of the vehicle to be greeted by a farmhouse.
You began to walk towards the property when you felt Mulder gently grasp your wrist âThereâs one thing you should both know.â he let go and the three of you formed a mini circle. âit apparently likes to project your biggest weaknesses when confronted, it uses them to get away and distract you. Just be careful.â
His eyes locked with yours and you nodded. Mulder was the one to lead the group into the house and made some hand gestures to suggest splitting up.
You slowly walked through the house, your footsteps echoing on the floorboards. The house was run down and abandoned but the light streaming through the windows gave it some life. It was abandoned but certainly not empty.
A creak in the next room caught your attention, slowly creeping into the room you laid your eyes immediately on the culprit. They were incredibly tall and had a rugged appearance but were backing themselves into a corner.
âHi. Iâve heard that youâve been causing some problems,â you spoke as you approached carefully. âThatâs ok though, we can help you. You might be confused but if you just come with me and my colleagues.â
Your foot landed on a particularly loud floorboard and the person took an abrupt step towards you before slamming themselves back into the wall. âItâs ok. Itâs ok it was just the floorboard.â
They started to shake their head violently before stopping and looking you dead in the eye. âPleaseâ you pleaded.
You started to hear a heartbeat and brushed it off as your own, thinking you were getting nervous. âIf youâd just come with me.â you took another step closer and the heartbeat got louder and very present in your ears.Â
You took another step forward and it was soon rushing away from you and knocking over some of the last pieces of furniture in the house.
You kept your distance but turned with them. âPlease just donât be scared.â
The heartbeat was getting louder and you could hear your name being called and footsteps running up the stairs. Soon the heartbeat was so loud you couldnât hear much else.
âY/N?â Mulder came into the room and saw the âMonsterâ but his eyes quickly found you and he could quickly see how uncomfortable you were. âWhat is it?âÂ
The manâs heart spiked in concern and the heartbeat that you could hear mirrored this. As he came closer it became unbearable. You knew what was happening and put out your arm to keep him away from you âKeep your distance.ââ
The noise was pounding through your head. Usually, you found it comforting and you suppose there was comfort in the sounds but the amplification of them made them difficult. It was truly turning your biggest weakness into something unpleasant.
âWhat is it?â Mulder tried to take a step towards you.
Looking at the man you could see the concern in his eyes and the heartbeat became irregular, all you could do was shake your head and step away. âMy weakness itâs-â
He wanted to help and his feet were instinctively moving towards you.
âStop.â you shouted.
The man stopped in his tracks as you walked away âI canâtâ you could feel yourself getting emotional, heat rising in your face and eyes getting wet. âJust deal with it.â you called.
âYou need to tell me what youâre weakness is.â Mulder spoke.
âItâs⊠Itâs you. Your heartbeat.â You reversed yourself into a corner.
Mulder looked between you and the creature. âAnd it gets worse the closer I get?â
You nodded and tried to ignore the heartbeat but it was extremely difficult.
Mulder started to approach the monster, there was a screech in your head and the heartbeat amplified more as if the monster was taking it out on you. You backed into a wall and slid down it, hands over your ears trying to gain some relief.
Mulder turned when he heard you sliding down the wall and realised how much you were being affected. Backing up he stood in the corner of the room. The heartbeats amplification lessened and you removed your hands but your eyes were reddened and threatening tears.
âLook. Just stop what youâre doing and come with us. We wonât hurt you, weâll help you understand whatâs happening.â
They took a step into the room. âThatâs it. Just come with me to the car and weâll get you somewhere where they can look after you.â Mulder coaxed
You began to push yourself up off of the floor when you heard a scuffle. Dana had come in through another door and crept up on them and injected them swiftly with a sedative which had them falling to the floor.
Mulder was at your side, putting an arm on the small of your back âItâs gone right?âÂ
You nodded âIâm sorry-â
âDonât apologise I canât even imagine.â
âThank you Dana.â you smiledÂ
âHe wonât be out for long, we should get someone to come collect him.â
Mulder nodded âDo you have any contacts?â
Scully nodded and was soon leaving to arrange a pick up
You moved to be beside Mulder âI think I have to explain what happened.â
âYou donât.âÂ
âI do.â the man moved to perch himself on the old dusty desk and you sat next to him âI use heartbeats to overcome anxiety and ⊠well Iâm pretty much in love with the sound. I think it chose your heartbeat to amplify because I think I like you Mulder. What happened there basically confirms it.â you let out a small laugh.
âIf weâre putting all our cards on the table here.â he looked at you and you turned to him âI have many weaknesses including losing the ones I love and it used that and also used you. When I was walking through the house I saw bodies on the floor and most of them were yours. I kept going because I knew this he hadnât physically killed anyone yet but when I saw you in pain and couldnât have me near you? That really hurt.â
You nodded and looked at your hands âSo what weâre both saying here is that we have feelings for each other.â
âI guess so.â he let out a breath âWill you let me take you for dinner tonight?â
You nodded âThatâd be nice. I think we deserve it.â
âWe do.â he smiled and stood up âI think we should probably get out of here before he wakes up.â
âYeah, we should.â The two of you walked side by side as you left the property to meet Dana by the car, Mulder couldnât wipe the smirk off of his face.
âTheyâre on their way to come get him.â She turned to face Mulder properly âWhatâs got into you?â Scully questioned
Mulder just shrugged and walked over to the driver's side of the car and slid inside. Scully rolled her eyes âLooks like weâre leaving.â She opened the passengerâs side door as you got into the back.
As Scullyâs contacts pulled up Mulder began to pull away. He briefly made eye contact with you in the rear-view mirror and smiled and you flashed him a smile of your own.
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The Annapolis Grant, part 2/?
He was, frankly, shocked when he saw the client. He was used to older women -- women who'd been divorced, widowed. Women who needed company. About half the clients he went out with didn't even want sex -- they just wanted someone to talk to, someone who'd pay attention to them and treat them with kindness and make them feel pretty, looked after, wanted. For men, escorts were about sex. For women, it was about companionship. He supposed beautiful women needed companionship too, but⊠Heâd never had a client who looked like this. She was young. She was stunning. He wouldn't have been surprised to find her likeness carved in marble at the Smithsonian. She had flowing auburn locks and alabaster skin awash with the lightest freckles. And her eyes. Her eyes were a cobalt blue that could make you forget what you were going to say. This was going to make for an interesting job.
âHi,â he said, his voice coming out more lively than heâd planned, âare you Dana?â
âNo,â the woman said, then shook her head. âI mean yes,â she said. He smiled at her â he was used to women being nervous when employing him for the first time, and he found excessive friendliness generally put them at ease. He grabbed the back of the chair opposite her and asked if he could sit. When she nodded, he sat down and immediately shook out the cloth napkin on the table in front of him, draping it across his lap. Then he reached out a hand.
âItâs nice to meet you, Dana.â
She tentatively reached out and took his proffered hand, her own hand small, but her grip firm.
âWhatâs your name?â she asked him, the lashes framing her eyes thick as a field of wheat.
He cleared his throat. This woman was making it difficult to think. âWhat do you want my name to be?â he said, not realizing that it sounded like a creepy pick-up line until the words were out of his mouth.
âThis isnât going to work-â she started, pushing her chair back from the table. He held out a conciliatory hand, feeling terrible.
âIâm sorry,â he said, genuinely. âThat wasnât a come-on. Melvin explained to me your situation. I wondered if youâd given this guy your fiancĂ©âs name? I know Iâm playing a part here, Iâm just trying to figure out what the part is.â
âOh.â She said, looking unsure.
He leaned back in his chair and put both hands on the table.
âLetâs start again,â he said, âDana, itâs nice to meet you, my name is Fox Mulder. You donât have to tell me that it sounds like a stripper name.â He saw a corner of her mouth quirk up. âIf youâd prefer, you can call me Mulder.â
She nodded slowly, her lips still slightly upturned. She reached out a hand once again.
"It's nice to meet you, Mulder."
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"So, how does this work?" she asked.
"You tell me how it works," he said. He was wearing glasses, and she could just make out flecks of gold on his mossy irises through the lens. "I'm at your disposal. Whatever you need⊠Iâm at your beck and call."
"Like Pretty Woman?" she asked.
He chuffed a laugh.
"If you like." He looked over the rim of his spectacles, assessing her for a moment. "Dana, you run the show, here. You're spending a lot of money, and I'll be and do whatever you need."
It felt odd somehow to hear her first name from him.
"Call me... call me Scully. To your Mulder." She knew it was a distancing tactic psychologically, but it made her feel better about what she was doing and who she was doing it with.
"I can do that."
She looked at him a moment with her lips pursed and then all at once, she told him her story in a torrent of words -- her lab, the Annapolis Grant, McKay and his reputation, her spur of the moment white lie about having a fiance, and the domino effect it had had on her life lately. He listened attentively, nodding, his hands on the table in front of himself, his fingertips laced together. He sort of reminded her of a therapist, though she supposed what he did was a kind of therapy. In any event, she felt like she'd exhaled a too-long-held breath, and leaned back in her chair after she was done talking, relieved of a burden.
"Wow," he said.
"Yeah," hearty agreement. She took a breath and leaned forward again, assessing him. She may as well be upfront. "Do you think you can play the part? We'll be running in elite circles... I'll be frank with you -- this whole bonkers idea makes me nervous. Do you think you have the required etiquette to pull this off? I need the Annapolis Grant. Badly. But I'm staking my entire reputation -- personal and professional -- on this. And if there's even a chance..." She fumbled for a moment, a million thoughts running through her head. She had a nightmare picture of him sitting next to her at dinner with McKay, spouting nonsense and being handsy. "I've looked at your medical records and drug tests... I'm not interested in sex," Dana, stop talking! she thought and then plowed ahead. "But you seem clean and polite and... oh God, what am I even trying to say?" She felt flustered and flush (why the hell had she brought up sex?!), and his calm, intense gaze wasn't helping.
He unlaced his fingers.
"In the course of my... work," he said, his voice even and gentle, "I've attended State Dinners and Kennedy Center Honors. I've been at tables with Senators, Congressman. I can be who you need me to be. I can do what you need me to do." She felt tension drain out of her shoulders. "I guess the real question is... can you?" There it was. The real crux of the issue in this madcap scheme. Then, his voice a honeyed rumble, "I can be the person you need me to be with you. Do you think you can be it with me?"
"Yes," she said, the word out of her mouth before she could think it. She felt a steely resolve. "I think I can."
He reached across the table and took her hand, running his thumb over the skin of her wrist.
"Then you've got yourself a fiance. Let's say we go get you a grant."
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They had discussed logistics but not minutiae, though they had a five hour flight ahead of them, and she supposed they could tackle it mid-air. She fluffed out her hair and checked her reflection in the passenger-side visor for the fifth time in 20 minutes.
"You need to relax, Dana," Missy said as she flipped the signal for the exit to Reagan National, "if you're going to be this nudgy the entire trip, you should call it off."
"It's just nerves," Scully said, irritation creeping into her voice, flipping the visor back up with a whack.
Missy gave her a side eye and then proceeded to merge toward Departures. "Maybe you should avail yourself of this guy's services right off the bat," she said cheekily.
"I'm not sleeping with him!" Scully didn't know why she was being so defensive.
"Why not, youâre paying for it,â Missy said, smiling, âAnyway, orgasms are good for 'nerves.'"
"Stop."
"I'm just saying, get your money's worth."
"Missy!"
Melissa pulled her car up to the curb, and threw it in park. She turned to Scully.
"It's going to be fine, Dana. One week. From everything you said, this guy has impeccable manners and is fairly intelligent. Just relax about it, okay? Enjoy yourself-"
"Missy-"
"Not like that. Just... try to have a good time? You're going to be on a megayacht for God's sake. Revel a little."
Scully let out a slow breath. "Okay," she said.
Melissa smiled at her reassuringly and popped the trunk.
"Is he meeting you here?" Missy asked.
Scully looked at the window at the various people milling about the sidewalk and skycap.
"Yes," she said absently, scanning the crowd for him.
"Is he cute?"
"Yes," she said, before she realized what her sister was asking. Missy laughed and got out of the car. Scully was just reaching for her own door handle, when the door opened on its own.
Standing there with a smile was Mulder, his hair a glinting chocolate in the hot Virginia sunshine. He was dressed in a tan linen suit, the white shirt underneath buttoned casually. He was wearing glasses and had a large, expensive-looking garment bag looped over his shoulder.
"Scully," he said, holding out his hand to help her from the car. When she stood, she saw her sister standing at the rear of the car watching them, her mouth slightly open, not quite gaping.
"Oh," Mulder said, noticing her by the trunk, "let me get that."
He moved quickly to the trunk and pulled out Scully's suitcase, which he extended the handle of, setting it on the ground. While he was doing this, Melissa connected eyes with Scully, mouthed oh my god! and fanned herself. Scully could feel her face go crimson.
Mulder closed the trunk with a thud.
"Hi," he said to Melissa, holding out his hand, "I'm Mulder."
Missy extended her hand slowly.
"I'm Melissa, Dana's sister," she said, shaking it once, "it's a real pleasure."
"Pleasure is all mine," Mulder said, then looked to Scully expectantly. "You ready to get checked in?" Scully nodded and reached for her suitcase. âI got it,â he said with a smile.
Scully gave him a tight smile back and then waved once to Melissa, turning on her heel toward the airport doors. She could feel Missy's eyes on her, and then felt Mulder's hand come to rest gently on the small of her back, leading her forward into the unknown.
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First Family Stakeout
William suddenly seems to be carrying a lot on his mind. Scully is concerned and brings it up to Mulder, who talks to him and finds out it is an easy fix to help their boy.Â
A friend created an AU idea and I had to add it to this series.Â
December 2o, 2007 New Castle, Pennsylvania 10:30 p.m.
âHeâs been awfully quiet the last couple of days,â Scully said to Mulder as they wrapped Christmas presents at the card table in their bedroom after William had gone to bed. âLike heâs got something weighing on him.â
âMaybe heâs trying to figure out the âis Santa realâ conundrum?â he suggested with a smile and Scully looked at him with sad eyes.
âI hope not. Not yet anyway. I know the day will come, but not for a bit I hope.â
âYou know, for someone who doesnât exactly believe in the fantastic, you sure surprise me with what you do choose to believe in,â he teased, with a smile.
âWell, there were stories of Santa, or Saint Nicholas, who helped people by bringing gifts or money to those who desperately needed it. He, unlike the things you choose to believe in, was real,â she said, staring at him with her eyebrows raised.
âNot the man we know from the North Pole?â he asked.
âExactly. He wasnât some weird man living with little elves who did all the work while he got all the praise. Typical manâŠâ she said, shaking her head and rolling her eyes as he laughed.
âYet you want William to believe in him?â he said with a chuckle, peeling the backing off a red and white striped bow and pressing it to the package she had wrapped.
âI⊠I want him to believe in the magic of Christmas, yes,â she said with a nod. âThe happiness, joy, surprise. How you can feel the weather change and then smell snow in the air and how the first time it falls, it just feels different.â
âWinter. Youâre describing winter,â he said and she tossed a gold bow at him, shaking her head as he laughed.
âThatâs not what I mean and you know it.â
âI do. I understand because I want him to believe in the possibilities of fairies, lake monstersââ
âAlligator,â she interrupted, glancing at him as she placed the next gift on top of the rolled out paper, and he narrowed his eyes at her, which caused her to laugh.
âLake monsters,â he continued. âAliens, Bigfoot, Chupacabraââ
âOh, God, that story terrified him.â
âFor a week,â he said, shrugging his shoulders, but feeling bad that he had made the story too real, Williamâs eyes huge as he listened.
âAnd he slept with us every night.â
âAnd you loved it.â
âI didnât love the reason,â she said, the scissors in her hand sliding through the paper in one long fluid motion. âBut I did like having him snuggled close, holding him as he slept. It reminded me of when he was a baby.â
âI know,â he said, smiling at her. âAnd I am sorry I scared him.â
âButâŠ?â she prompted, looking at him as she began to wrap the paper around the rock tumbler they had gotten William for Christmas.
âBut it was nice having him with us, hearing him breathing and watching him sleep. We slept that way for so long, it was like muscle memory.â
âI donât want to say I miss those days, considering how hard it was to always be on the move, but I did like how it kept us close.â
âWe still are,â he said and she gave him a look.
âYou know what I mean. Hand me the tape, please.â He tore off a piece and gave it to her, repeating the process until the box was wrapped and she slid it to him for the bow. âOur lives have been much better these past three years. Youâre free⊠weâve put down roots in this house, a place I didnât think weâd ever have when we were always on the run. But being here and living our lives, weâve been able to stop worrying. So when our normally talkative son is suddenly quiet, it makes me feel that old sense of unease. â
âYeah,â he said with a nod, putting on the bow. âIâll talk to him tomorrow when he and I are out on our annual Christmas shopping trip.â
âGood. Thank you,â she said with a sigh, lifting another package onto the table. âJust a few more to finish and we can go to bed.â
âIâm here for any and all of your bow sticking needs,â he replied and this time she threw a green bow at him.
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December 21st
Mulder and William left yet another store in the small mall by their home without finding a gift for Scully or Maggie, who would be joining them for Christmas. Nothing Mulder suggested met his approval, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders as he looked around, but did not seem to see the items in the store.
Recognizing that they were not going to get anywhere, Mulder suggested taking a break and getting something from the food court. William perked up and they headed in that direction, Mulder planning to use that moment to have a chat with him.
They sat down with a large cinnamon roll, two large milks, a huge stack of napkins, four forks and two knives. After William had dropped his fork twice during recent trips, Mulder always grabbed extras to avoid the need to leave him alone at the table to get a replacement.
Cutting William a large piece, he placed it onto a plate and allowed him to then cut it into bite sized pieces, watching him smile when he had done it on his own.
âI think we might have better luck finding something for Mommy and Grandma after we eat this, what do you think?â
âYeah,â William said, chewing a bite, frosting on his mouth. Mulder smiled as he took his own bite, handing William a napkin.
âBud,â Mulder said, diving in with his questions. âMommy and I have noticed that youâre kind of quiet lately. You okay? Feeling alright?â
âYeah,â William answered with a sigh.
âYou sure? Nothingâs on your mind at all?â He pushed a little, wanting to help if he could. William sighed again and put down his fork.
Oh, Mulder thought. Itâs seriousâŠ
âThe other day I was looking at that book Grandma gave me last Christmas. The one about the stars and planets.â
âOkay,â Mulder said, wiping his hands on a napkin and nodding his head.
âAnd⊠I was thinking about what you told me about them when she gave it to me. How there are so many planets and stars and who knows what else is really out there.â
âOkay,â Mulder said again, thinking he was beginning to understand.
âI was looking at the book and I thought about aliens and the planets and⊠do you think they all live on one planet? Are aliens even real? If they are, do they all speak the same language or do you think there are different alien languages? We speak English, but my friend at school, Carla, speaks English and Spanish. And on the Miracle on 34th Street movie, Santa talks to that little girl in⊠in Dutch. If the earth has so many languages, do you think aliens do too? And what do you think the languages are?
William stopped for a breath and Mulder blinked his eyes, opening his mouth to say what... he was not sure, when William began to speak again.
âAnd do you think the stars we always see are the only stars in the world? Do we all see the same stars no matter where we live? Do you think that when itâs night here and day in other places that the stars just stop glowing or are they always glowing, but the sun is so much brighter than the moon, that we donât see it? âCause sometimes, the moon is out when itâs daytime, but you canât see it as well as at night, and thatâs weird.â
Again, Mulder attempted to speak, but William kept talking.
âDo you think we will ever see a star up close? Like in a rocket ship? Do you think a star is really hot like the sun, or maybe itâs a cold hot? It looks hot, but when you touch it itâs cold? I know stars are hot, but what if they were cold? Wouldnât that be so interesting, Daddy? And we could travel to them, and we could touch them to see if they are cold or not. I wonder if you could stand on a star. But if it's pointy, it might be hard to do it. Not like a cloud. I know you canât stand on a cloud because itâs mostly air and even if it looks like we could lay down on them, we would fall right through. Mommy told me that when I said clouds would be nice to lay on because theyâre so fluffy, like cotton candy. Do you think you would like to sit on a cloud or a star, Daddy? I think a star becauseâŠâ He smiled and Mulder shook his head at the sheer amount of words that had just poured out of his sonâs mouth. âWhen Mommy told me about the clouds, I was in the hammock with her and she said it probably felt the same way a cloud would feel, because being in the hammock is kind of like floating. Mommy is really smart, so if it is like being in the hammock, then I already know how that feels. But I would really like to touch a star or stand on one to see how it feels. What do you think, Daddy?â
William stared at him, his blue eyes shining and his cheeks pink from the exertion of speaking, the warmth of the mall, and the excitement of his thoughts that he had just shared.
âWow⊠what do I think?â Mulder laughed slightly and then put his hand on Williamâs cheek, rubbing it with his thumb. âI think that you, William Scully Mulder, are an amazing kid. Do you know how many people never ever would even consider thinking those thoughts? And here you are, at six years old, thinking such amazing things in your head.â
âIâm six and a half, Daddy,â he said with a smile.
âThat you are,â he said, patting his cheek gently and then moving his hand. âThat you are. Have you been thinking about all of that for the past couple of days?â
âYeah,â William said with a nod.
âWhy didnât you talk to me about it?â
âI donât know. I was trying to form a hypothesis.â
âOh. Well now, thatâs a word you learned from your Mommy,â Mulder said, smiling at him as he cut a bite of cinnamon roll, William smiling and nodding at him.
âShe said itâs like a guess. But itâs about something pacific.â
âSpecific,â Mulder said with a chuckle. âAnd yes it is. So, what were you hypothesizing?â
âI was thinking of the things I just told you,â he replied, cutting into his piece of cinnamon roll.
âRight,â Mulder said, smiling at him and then he nodded. âSo your hypothesis is that aliens might exist, they may or may not speak several languages, and that stars could possibly be cold?â
âYeah,â William said, smiling as he chewed a large bite.
âAn excellent hypothesis, Iâd say. Especially the bit about the star. I think a cold star would be an amazing discovery. So, how do you suppose you could prove your ideas?â
âI donât know, Daddy,â he said with a deep sigh, poking at his cinnamon roll. âWe canât fly up in a rocket ship and I donât know where we could find aliens.â
âWell, I happen to know that there are places to find aliens, or more importantly, that there are times to wait and hope to see an alien,â Mulder said and watched Williamâs eyes widen.
âIs that true, Daddy?â he whispered, as he leaned forward, a piece of cinnamon roll falling off his fork, and Mulder grinned slowly.
âIt is true, bud.â
âCan we go? Can we try to⊠I just want to see them though, Daddy. I donât⊠will they be nice? Not mean?â
âYes,â Mulder said, ruffling his hair, knowing full well they would not see anything anyway. âWe can just see them if thatâs all you want. Now, how about we finish this and find gifts for Mom and Grandma?â
âOkay, Daddy,â William said, shoving another bite into his mouth.
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âHe said all of that?â Scully asked Mulder later that evening as they sat on their screened-in porch, a fire dying out, watching the falling snow and drinking a glass of wine.
âScully, I swear, in six and a half years, Iâve never heard him say so much in one sitting. It was like⊠I donât know,â Mulder said, shaking his head. âBut it was more than the words, it was the thoughts he had been holding onto. Huge thoughts which he expressed so well and articulately. I was absolutely blown away.â
âWe talked about the clouds when we were in the hammock in⊠August, I think,â she mused with a quiet sigh. âThat means heâs had it simmering in there all this time. Thinking about how heâs basically floated on a cloud, because we laid in the hammock when it was windy. God, MulderâŠâ She looked at him and shook her head. He could see tears in her eyes and he reached for her hand.
âHeâs an amazing kid,â he said, gently squeezing her fingers.
âHe used the word hypothesisâŠâ she said, shaking her head again and chuckling as she wiped her eyes. âRead and looked at books, the sky and stars, called up memories and began to analyze what it meant to him. I⊠I donât know if I've ever felt so proud. Heâs got a scientific mind.â
âTaking after his mama,â he said, kissing her fingers.
âSeems only fair as I am the one who gave birth to him,â she said with a smile. âBut he also is so much like you. Being unable to stop talking at times? Head full of so many ideas that they are veering off here and there? Thatâs definitely you.â She squeezed his hand and he chuckled softly.
âYeah,â he agreed with a nod and they were silent for a couple of minutes, the snow falling steadily.
âI told him we would try and see an alien,â he said softly and she turned her head to look at him.
âWhat? Mulder⊠itâs Christmas.â
âWhich is why I told him December 23rd was the best night to wait and see if we can.â
âWhy the 23rd?â she asked with a smile.
âA few reasons. One, so we had a day to prepare and make a plan. Two, your mom is arriving the morning of the 24th and I donât think she would enjoy sitting out in the cold later that night, hoping for the chance to spot an alien.â He grinned and she nodded with a chuckle.
âQuite right.â
âThird, I told him that the 24th was when Santa was out and he and the aliens had made an agreement years ago to not get in each other's way on that night. Seeing that Santa flies through the sky on his way to deliver so many gifts to so many children, he didnât want to chance being hit by a spaceship. Likewise, he didnât want to get in their way as they were out exploring the skies, so they made their agreement.â
âFox Mulder,â she whispered with a smile. âHow is it possible that I could find you even more attractive?â
âI know. Itâs hard to believe butâŠâ he replied with a shrug and she got out of her chair, climbing into his lap and kissing him deeply.
âThank you,â she whispered, hugging him and sighing. âFor including both beliefs, for keeping the Christmas magic alive and adding your own spin to it.â
âHmm,â he hummed, holding her close. âI do what I can.â She laughed and whispered in his ear, causing his eyes to widen as he pushed her to her feet, rising with her.
On their way to their room, she stopped outside of Williamâs door.
âI just want to see him real quick,â she whispered and he smiled in understanding. Turning the knob silently, they walked into the room.
William was sleeping on his back with his mouth open and his arm hanging off the bed. The room was lit with a soft white glow from the small Christmas tree sitting on his dresser, ornaments he had claimed as his own, Â hanging from it.
Around the tree were the deer, bear, and pair of foxes they had taken from a cabin in Tennessee where they had spent their first Christmas together. Every animal was well loved and missing fur in some spots, but they were a family favorite. Every year they were the first decorations unpacked as they were always the last to be packed away, William sad to see them go.
âHeâs such a beautiful boy,â Scully whispered, gently brushing his hair back and running her fingers over his head as he turned toward the wall and sighed deeply.
She smiled at him, bent to kiss his head, and looked at the animals around the tree, catching Mulderâs eye as she did.
âWorth every penny,â she whispered and he nodded with a smile, thinking the fifty dollars they had spent on four small forest animals had paid for itself many times over.
Walking quietly out of Williamâs room, they closed the door behind them, and continued down the hall to their bedroom.
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December 23rd 8:30 p.m.
âYouâre warm enough?â Mulder asked as he set up the telescope he had found in the basement, and William nodded excitedly.
âDaddy, do you think weâre going to see a UFO?â
âI donât know, kiddo. Maybe,â Mulder said with a smile. âAll we can do is try, right?â
âYeah.â
âWill, could you come help me with the chairs?â Scully called out.
She was standing by the back of the car they had loaded with camping chairs, heavy blankets, a box of doughnuts, two thermoses of hot chocolate, and extra clothes in case they would be needed. Sleeping bags had been added as well, just in case a sleeping area would be needed.
They were parked in a field near their house, no one else around as they were smartly inside where it was warm. Snow covered the ground, but was not too deep. It was the perfect spot for them to spend what he knew would probably be no more than maybe an hour and a half, William most likely falling asleep as it was already past his bedtime.
âYes, Mommy! Iâm coming!â he called back to her, Mulder smiling as he watched him running over in his snow boots and puffy coat.
Fiddling with the knobs on the telescope, wearing his glasses even though they kept fogging up in the cold weather, knowing what was in focus without glasses, would be blurry to William. When he had it right, he stepped back with a grin and nodded, taking off his glasses and putting them away.
âIf you give Daddy the chair,â Scully said as they walked up, looking over at Mulder with a smile. âWill, you can go get the blankets and bring them over.â
âOkay. Here you go, Daddy.â He gave the camping chair to Mulder and ran back to the car.
âHeâs really excited,â Scully said. âI am too, truth be told. Stakeouts, snacks⊠and, well not coffee, but hot chocolate⊠it feels like old times.â
âI knew you missed it,â he said, taking the chair from its bag, opening it, and setting it down in the snow, tying the bag to the frame of the chair.
âI didnât say that,â she laughed. âBut⊠this is fun.â
The chairs arranged, William came back with the blankets and set them down on a chair, as Scully walked back to get the food and drinks.
âCome here, Will,â Mulder said, helping him to look in the eyepiece and asking him what he saw.
âThe stars,â he said softly. âTheyâre so bright.â He looked at Mulder and grinned.
They all sat down in their chairs, eating doughnuts and drinking hot chocolate, William getting up many times to look through the telescope, Mulder and Scully sharing smiles as he did.
âWhat if we donât see one tonight?â William asked, looking at Mulder with a yawn, about a half an hour later.
âWell, thatâs whatâs great about research, kiddo, you keep trying,â Mulder said and William walked over to him, standing in front of him with his hands on Mulderâs arms.
âBut⊠I wanted to see them tonight,â he said quietly, playing with the cuff of Mulderâs coat sleeve, his lip wobbling as he tried not to cry.
âOh, I know you did, Bud.â He pulled him into his lap and hugged him, hearing him crying softly into his neck. Scully looked at him with a concerned look and he smiled, knowing how he could change the sad moment. âDo you know how many nights Iâve spent waiting and looking for UFOs and aliens, Will?â
âNo,â came his muffled reply and Mulder smiled.
âSo many. I started from about the time I was your age. I would wait and wait and so many times I would see absolutely nothing. But then sometimes, there was just the tiniest bit of evidence and thatâs all I needed to keep looking. And look at me now.â He leaned back and smiled at William. âIâm old now, much older than you, but I still believe one day I will see a UFO or have an alien cross my path.â
âYou really think you will?â
âNo actually, I think we will,â Mulder said, wiping Williamâs cheeks. âMaybe not tonight, but one day.â William stared at him and then nodded with a sigh.
âI think we will too,â he said, cuddling into Mulder with a sniff and Mulder smiled, rubbing his back.
A clicking sound made him look up and he saw Scully taking pictures with their digital camera. He nodded, closing his eyes as he took a deep breath and let it out, looking up at the starry sky.
William remained on Mulderâs lap, listening to stories of nights his mommy and daddy had spent in forests looking for phenomena in nature. Within minutes he was asleep, Scully taking more pictures of them, kissing Williamâs forehead and smiling at Mulder.
âHe made it longer than I thought he would,â she said softly and Mulder smiled with a nod, looking down as he slept.
âGod, heâs so big,â Mulder said, brushing his cheek against Williamâs forehead. âHe is and he isnât, you know? When heâs sitting on my lap like this, he seems like heâs made up of exceptionally long arms and legs.â
âI know what you mean. Sometimes I see my little boy and sometimes heâll look at me or stand a certain way and I can only see you in miniature.â She smiled at him and he nodded.
âBut not yet,â he whispered to her.
âNo. Not yet,â she whispered back, rubbing her hand across Williamâs puffy jacket. âYou want to go home?â
âA few more minutes more,â he said softly, staring down at William again.
âOkay,â she agreed, taking a blanket and covering them, Mulder pulling it around William as he shifted slightly.
Scully moved her chair closer to them, covering her bottom half with a blanket. Laying her head on Mulderâs arm, she placed her hand on top of Mulderâs blanket, rubbing Williamâs leg gently.
âJust a few minutes, Scully,â Mulder promised and she hummed quietly.
âThereâs no hurry, Mulder. Weâve got time.â
âFor everything,â he agreed with a sigh, kissing the top of her head as he wished time could be captured and held, keeping them frozen forever in one perfect solitary moment.
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December 24th
A muffled shout was heard early in the morning, waking Mulder with a grunt, his eyes flying open as he sat up quickly, breathing hard. Scully hummed out a moan and then she sat up.
âWhat⊠what was that?â she asked and he shook his head.
âI think it was William,â he said and they both sprang up, opening their door and running down the hall to his bedroom.
Opening the door, they hurried in, looking around quickly for any type of threat, before looking at William who was standing in front of his dresser holding something in each of his hands.
âHoney, are you okay?â Scully asked, breathing hard, a hand at her chest.
âMommy! Daddy! Look! I think it might be from the aliens!â He grinned as he showed them what he was holding: two small, shiny beanie type yellow stars. Stars! And when I picked them up, they were cold!â
âAre you serious?â Mulder asked, reaching out his hand and William placed a star into it.
âDoes it feel cold to you, Daddy?â William whispered, staring up at him expectantly.
âI think it just might,â Mulder said, nodding with a smile. âI think you may have a star thatâs like the ones they see all time. This is an amazing gift.â
âI know!â William said, taking the star back and staring at it.
Smiling at him, he glanced at Scully, finding her eyes on him as she shook her head with a smile, beginning to figure out what he had done.
William showed the stars to Scully and then took the animals down, playing with all of them together, which gave Scully a chance to step over to Mulder. Wrapping her arms around his waist, she smiled up at him, and shook her head.
âAlways full of surprises, you areâŠâ she said and he nodded.
âGotta keep the belief in the fantastic alive as long as possible,â he said, gripping gently onto her upper arms and smiling at her.
âCould not agree with you more,â she whispered, tilting her head and silently asking for a kiss.
Happy to oblige, he bent his head to kiss her, as William introduced the forest animals to the stars, telling them about aliens who might speak different languages, how he hoped to one day fly across the galaxies in a rocketship, and be able to stand on the highest point of a star.
#25 Days of Ficmas#The X-Files#XF Fanfic#Living together#Family#Family Life#Heavy Thoughts#Discussions#Helpfulness#Christmas#New Adventures#Stakeouts#Aliens
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Fox Mulder, Closet Romantic Ch. 20: Nattduksbord
Previous Chapter - AO3 - MSR, rated E
This means something; Mulder can feel it.
This signifies a shift in their relationship; a step forward, from platonic partners to a romantic couple. Itâs a shared experience that has the potential to change their dynamic forever. Years of trust, fighting together against a common enemy, seeking the truth⊠it could all come crashing down today, in a shopping mall in Woodbridge, Virginia.
Theyâre going to IKEA.
Summer is on the rise, and the humidity is close to stifling as they buckle into his car. Scullyâs wearing a little striped t-shirt, capri pants, and sandals, revealing sky blue painted toes. For a disorienting moment Mulder wonders if heâs going to develop a foot fetish. Probably not, but Dana Scully could make even the most vanilla of men want to do crazy things.
âDo you have your shopping list?â Scully asks as he starts the car.
He pulls the folded scrap of paper out of the chest pocket of his white t-shirt. âRight here,â he replies, eyes darting over to her for one more look as he holds out the list.
She takes it, catching his eyes momentarily. âWhy do you keep looking at me like that?â she asks.
I want to suck your toes. âYou look nice today, thatâs all.â
âOh. Well, thank you.â
Scully can probably tell heâs desperate for her; she can read him like a dog-eared, yellowed paperback. Heâs simultaneously grateful for her sharp instincts and embarrassed by his carnal desires. He hasnât gotten laid in four years, and he fears heâll be too eager when the time comes. As it is, he can barely believe sheâs let him have even the smallest glimpses of her as a sexual being. Sheâs intoxicating, and heâs dizzy with the knowledge that this beautiful, brilliant, downright edible woman actually wants him. Him, a mortal man of aliens and bad ties and a porn collection thatâs gradually becoming least seventy-five percent redheads. A man without a bed.
Hence their Saturday morning pilgrimage to the shrine where all new couples journey to find furnishings, low prices, and themselves.
âSo, weâre looking for one tall bookshelf, a locking filing cabinet, a bed, and two night tables,â Scully reads. She refolds the paper and reaches across him to tuck it back into his shirt pocket. âThatâs clearly not all going to fit in this car,â she notes.
âIâll get the bigger stuff delivered,â he says.
Itâs only a twenty minute drive from Mulderâs place, and they have the air-conditioning on. Mulder is starting to relax; itâs been a long time since heâs had a partner, in the domestic sense, and heâd forgotten that it makes the mundane more bearable.
Scully clears her throat almost imperceptibly. âIâm proud of you, by the way.â
âReally? Why?â Mulder asks.
âYou managed to get rid of a lot of stuff,â she says, turning up the dial on the carâs air conditioner. âAnd organization is very clearly not your strong suit, so progress should be acknowledged and celebrated.â
âYippee,â Mulder deadpans.
âYou know, itâs odd; weâve known each other for all these years and I never asked⊠why donât you have a bed, Mulder?â
There it is, the question he knew would come up at some point. He clears his throat, grips the steering wheel a little tighter. âI, uh⊠I lived with someone, around â91. Another agent, actually. We were together for a while, and then one day she took some assignment in Europe and that was that. I got rid of everything that was hers, and that, uh, included the bed.â Technically our bed, he thinks. He winces. Heâs never talked to Scully about Diana before, and he wonders if sheâll be upset that he was withholding such a large piece of personal information.
Scully is quiet. âIâm sorry,â she says softly. âThatâs⊠I didnât know.â
âIâm sorry I never mentioned it,â Mulder says. âItâs not like itâs some big painful secret. I just⊠donât really think about her anymore.â
âItâs alright,â Scully says. âI think itâs best for these kinds of things to come up naturally. And⊠I was dating someone when we met,â Scully confesses. âWe broke up as soon as I got back from Bellefleur.â
Mulder looks at her quickly. âReally? Why?â
She furrows her brow. âMultiple reasons, but primarily I realized that this job, my assignment, was bigger than Iâd anticipated. And the things you and I went through together, the things Iâd seen⊠when I was honest with myself, I didnât want to be tied down to him. To have to go home and have this man ask me how my day was, as though he could ever understand even half of what we do.â
âSo you chose the job over him,â Mulder muses.
âIn essence⊠I chose you,â Scully points out. âWhether I knew it then or not. Iâd never be able to turn my back on you.â
Mulder exhales slowly. Heâs strangely moved.
âTake a left at the next light,â Scully prompts softly. âAnd yes, I do realize the irony in breaking things off with a man because of his normalcy, only to continue trying to date so-called ânormalâ men.â
Mulder shrugs. âNo, it makes sense. Maybe he just wasnât right for you, but the next normal guy could be, right?â
âRight,â Scully sighs. âEinsteinâs definition of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results.â
âIâve been led to believe that being with me is another type of insanity,â Mulder points out. âAnd objectively, I canât disagree.â
âYou do make me crazy,â Scully agrees, voice low. âBut thatâs not always a bad thing.â He feels her small hand squeeze his thigh. âAnd I fully intend to return the favor.â
Mulder lets out a quiet groan, hands sweaty on the steering wheel. âYou planning on giving me some roadside assistance, Agent Scully? Because Iâm gonna need it if you keep doing that.â
She removes her hand, tucks her hair behind her ear. âI didnât do anything,â she says innocently.
âUh huh.â He pulls into the IKEA parking lot. âWell, weâre here. You ready?â
âAs ready as a person can be for a labyrinthian furniture store on a muggy Saturday,â she replies.
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âThis is fucking ridiculous,â Mulder says from his spot on the bedroom floor, surrounded by scattered pieces of a âHOLLEBYâ bedside table. âThese instructions are useless and-â he flips through the booklet, â-thirty-two pages long, Jesus.â
Scully doesnât respond; her eyes are glued to her own manual as she assembles a drawer from the second of the two nightstands. âShh,â she hushes him softly. âIâm concentrating.â
âHow have you managed to put any of these pieces together?â he asks, scooting across the floor to her. âThere arenât even words, just vague illustrations.â
She has a screw between her lips as she lines up two of the wood pieces. âI took wood shop in high school,â she says around the metal pin. She removes it and inserts it into a pre-drilled hole. âI guess that was some kind of preparation for assembling flatpack furniture?â
âThatâs adorable,â Mulder says, rising to open a window. The room is stuffy with the dayâs heat, and his t-shirt is glued to his back. âDo you still have any of the things you made in class?â
âThe step stool in my kitchen,â she replies. âAnd my mom might have some things Iâve forgotten about.â
He casually strips off his sweaty t-shirt and tosses it in the laundry basket. âRemind me to look at that stool the next time weâre at your place,â he says. âAlso Iâm gonna order a pizza, you interested?â
Scully looks up at him then and is seemingly surprised by the absence of his shirt. âItâs hot in here,â Mulder explains, almost defensive.
âOh, Iâm not complaining,â Scully says, eyes shamelessly traveling his torso. âAnd Iâm always interested.â
âAre we still talking about pizza here, orâŠâ
âMake my half one with everything, please,â she says, attention returning to her project.
âWait a minute,â he says, dropping to his knees next to her on the carpet. âIâm not done here.â He leans in and presses his mouth to the juncture of her neck and shoulder, tasting the salt on her skin. How she can still smell so good on a sticky June day, he doesnât know; but he wants to lick her entire body.
âMulder,â she sighs, putting down her screwdriver, âYouâre distracting me.â
âThatâs the idea,â he says, lips wandering up her neck and behind her ear. He flicks his tongue against her earlobe. âForget the furniture, honey,â he says, all hot breath and lust. âWe donât need it for what I have in mind.â
Suddenly sheâs facing him, looping her arms around his neck. âIâm doing this for you,â she purrs. âDo you think I like putting together IKEA furniture? No one likes it, Mulder. Itâs like a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle.â
He pulls her onto his lap. âOh, but I think you do,â he says, nibbling her ear. âYou like being capable Doctor Scully, in charge of things⊠showing me what those hands can do.â
She leans in, licking his full lower lip. âNot everything is about you, Mulder,â she says, pressing a scorching kiss to his mouth. âIâm just doing my coworker a favor.â
âIs that what they call this nowadays?â he asks, hands clasping her hips as she grinds down on his lap.
She shuts him up with a kiss, the furniture and pizza forgotten.
#god this took me FOREVER#lol Iâm busy freaking out over my second covid shot okay donât @ me#my fic#fmcr#xfiles#txf fic#fox mulder closet romantic#msr#they go to ikea
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Only One Choice, Chapter 11
Read it here on AO3 / Tagging @today-in-fic
Spark.
She watches Ethan from the couch as he pulls a tin of muffins out of the oven, arranging a few on a plate. Sheâs been thinking a lot about what Mulder said about not having a spark with his ex. She wonders if she and Ethan have a spark, or if they did at one point. When she thinks about her relationship with Ethan, what stands out to her is commitment, dedication, stability. And love, of course, she does love him.
When they first met through mutual friends, she wasnât particularly interested. He was perfectly nice, and good looking enough, but struck her more as a potential friend than a boyfriend. He was steadfast, kept showing up, kept gently working to get to know her, and eventually she started to grow fond of him. Theyâve joked that while his attraction to her was immediate, hers to him was more of a slow burn. This is what mature, adult relationships are like, right? Measured, practical, logical. When youâre young, wild, and free, you date whoever you have the most fun with, chasing the next exciting experience and the rush of a first kiss. But the person you marry should be someone who you know will be a dependable partner, a good parent, and a lifelong support. That has always been her belief.
Ethan returns to sit with her on the couch, setting the muffins on the coffee table to cool. He picks up her feet and puts them in his lap, casting her a brief smile before he goes to work pressing his thumbs into her arches as he watches TV.
Spark.
Is that what she feels when sheâs with Mulder? A spark? Is that why her stomach goes into knots when he looks at her? Why she feels the overwhelming urge to touch him? The sensation that there is an electrical current passing between them is not one sheâs ever felt with Ethan, thatâs for sure. There was no adrenaline in their first kiss, only contentment. Comfort, safety, security. These are good feelings, ones you can build a life on. Can you build a life on a spark?
âYou still going to try on dresses tomorrow with Missy?â he asks, his eyes glued to the TV screen.
âMhmm,â she answers over her book, which she hasnât gotten through a page of in over thirty minutes.
âAre you gonna let me see what you pick?â he asks, glancing at her from the corner of his eye with a surreptitious smirk.
She sets the book on her stomach and gives him a chastising smile. âOf course not, Ethan. Thatâs against the rules.â
âWho made that rule, anyway? Iâve already seen you naked, I should be able to see you in a fancy dress before the big day,â he says with a pointed look.
She swats him with the book.
âThe fact that youâve already seen me naked is also against the rules, so I guess weâre 0 for 2. Donât tell my mother that,â she lectures playfully.
âIâm sure she has her suspicions, given that we live together,â he says dryly.
âLeave the woman to her ignorant bliss,â she retorts, and they hold eye contact for a moment, exchanging affectionate smiles.
Not a spark, but maybe an ember. Burning steady, carrying them through the dark nights. Sparks die out quickly. She only hopes her spark with Mulder fades soon, because right now itâs burning so bright itâs distracting her from the ember sitting right at her feet.
âââ
She frowns at herself in the mirror.
âThis one is really pretty, Sis, you donât like it?â Missy asks, tugging at the train to straighten it out.
âI donât know. Maybe. No.â
She looks forlornly at the rack of dresses sheâs already tried on. Every length and cut, style of bodice and neckline. They all seemed wrong.
âI mean, I know youâre generally hard to please, Dana, but this is getting ridiculous,â Missy laments.
âI know, Iâm sorry,â she replies, casting Missy an apologetic look.
âWhich one do you think Ethan would like? Would that help you decide?â Missy offers helpfully.
Ethan. Right. She realizes that sheâs been thinking about what Mulder would make of her in a white dress. She suspects heâd go for the mermaid fit.
âCan we just try again another day, maybe? I think Iâm just not in the right headspace for this,â she pleads with her big sister.
âSure, whatever you want. Letâs go get coffee or something,â Missy says as she ushers Dana back into the changing room.
They go to her favorite local spot, finding two open armchairs near the fireplace, which is off for the summer. Dana tucks her legs under her torso, sipping at an indulgent white chocolate mocha; she feels the need for small pleasures right now. Missy eyes her appraisingly, and she can feel the third degree that is about to commence.
âSo whatâs up with you?â she finally asks, her tone inquisitive but not abrasive.
âWhat do you mean?â Dana asks in reply, avoiding her eyes.
Missyâs head drops to the side in exasperation. âAre you really going to make me spell it out for you, Dana? Iâm trying to be supportive of your decision to marry Ethan, but youâre making it really hard being so openly miserable all the time.â
Dana looks at her with surprise and indignation. âI am not miserable.â
âCoulda fooled me,â Missy says sarcastically.
Dana shakes her head. âIâm just...I donât know, I have a lot on my mind.â
âCare to elaborate?â Missy asks with an expectant look.
She sighs and sets her shoulders. She needs to talk to someone about this, and Missy is literally her only option.
âOkay, but first I need you to promise me youâre not going to make a big deal about this, because itâs really not a big deal,â she prefaces with a stern look.
âYou know me, I donât do big deals,â Missy replies, working hard to hide her anticipation for whatever her little sister is about to reveal.
âOkay. So, I met this man at work,â she starts, and Missyâs eyes go as round as oranges. âMissy, donât look at me like that.â
âI didnât say anything,â Missy defends, âgo on.â Sheâs leaning forward in her chair, creating less space between them.
âHeâs an agent, he was just picking something up for a case heâs working on, but he asked me out, and weâve kind of been...weâve become friends,â she says hesitantly, glancing at Missy to gage her reaction. Missy is forcing a blank expression.
âSo...youâre dating him?â she asks flatly.
âNo! Oh god, no. I mean, he asked me out and I told him that I have a boyfriend, but now weâre just kind of friends, andâŠ.Jesus Christ.â She drops her forehead into her palm. Even describing whatâs going on with Mulder is apparently impossible. âWe are just friends, but...but Iâm having a hard time reconciling how I feel about him.â
âHow do you feel about him?â Missy asks.
Dana shakes her head. âI donât know how to describe it, Missy. I love Ethan, Iâm not having doubts about him, but this man...I feel so drawn to him. Being around him feels...almost electric.â
âLike you have a spark?â Missy asks, and Danaâs head snaps to look at her. Sheâs open, curious.
âYeah...exactly like that,â she replies regretfully.
Missy nods in understanding, and it somehow makes Dana feel a little better, like sheâs not totally crazy. âTell me about him,â she requests, and Dana canât help but smile.
âUm, heâs a criminal behavioral analyst, in the Behavioral Science Unit. Oxford educated. Heâs funny, but in a dry, intellectual way. He has some pretty outlandish ideas, but heâs so passionate about what he believes in, itâs impossible not to take him seriously. Heâs kind of intense, but really alluring.â She pauses, knowing she canât go on much further without veering into gushing.
âIs he cute?â Missy asks, and Dana closes her eyes.
âSO good looking. Painfully so.â She opens them and Missy is smiling knowingly at her.
âSounds like a real catch, Sis.â
âYeah, but Iâm engaged to someone who is also a great catch in his own right. I feel like Iâm in a romcom.â
âSo what are you gonna do?â Missy asks earnestly.
Dana looks at her with surprise. âWhat do you mean? Iâm not going to do anything. Itâs just distracting, but obviously nothing can or will come of it.â
Missy gives her a doubtful expression, but then raises her eyes to meet with someone over Danaâs shoulder, giving them a questioning look. Dana turns to see Mulder standing beside her, a cup in his hand and that damn boyish smile on his mouth.
âHey, Scully, we meet again,â he says, glancing between her and Missy.
âMulder, hi,â she stumbles, bringing her feet to the floor and squirming around as though heâd caught her in a compromised position. âUm, Mulder, this is my sister, Melissa. Missy, this is Fox Mulder.â
He steps forward and extends his hand to Missy, and she shakes it with a flirtatious smile. âNice to meet you, Fox.â
âOh, please call me Mulder,â he replies.
âAlright, Mulder, would you like to join us?â Missy asks, and Dana shoots her a look.
âUm, yeah, I can hang out for a minute,â he replies cautiously, pulling up a chair between the two of theirs.
âSo, how do you and Dana know each other?â she asks, and Dana isnât sure if sheâs asking because she realizes who he is, or because she doesnât.
âWe work together, technically speaking. Iâm a criminal behavioral analyst in the Behavioral Science Unit.â Missy gives Dana a look that tells her it was the latter. âWhat are you two up to today?â he asks, running his palm over a stubbled cheek. She can hear the scratch of the short hairs against his skin and it sets off a tingle at the back of her neck.
âWe were just doing some wedding dress shopping,â Missy offers, watching his reaction closely.
âAh,â he says, only moderately concealing his dissatisfaction, âsounds like a good time.â His tone is dry and not at all genuine. âSo, Scully,â he says, directing his words to Dana, âPriscilla was wondering if you could stop by next weekend. She has something to show you.â
She smiles coyly. âDoes she? Not a hairball, I hope?â
Mulder chuckles. âNo, itâs a file, actually. Her personal favorite, sheâd love to share it with you.â
âI think I might be free on Saturday,â she replies, âI just need to check, umâŠâ
âCheck with Ethan, right,â he finishes, his smile fading a bit.
âRight,â she confirms, her own smile quickly extinguishing.
Mulder stands. âIâll email you, to confirm.â He turns to Missy, âIt was nice to meet you, Melissa.â
Missy beams at him. âLikewise.â
Mulder turns to Scully and gives her a longing glance, then leaves. They watch him go, waiting until the door has closed behind him to speak.
Missy slaps Danaâs arm. âOh. My. GOD, Sis!â she exclaims with wide eyes and an open mouth.
âWhat?â Dana returns.
âSpark? That is a goddamn bonfire. Even I could feel it,â she says with a look of wonder.
Dana gives her a pained expression then drops her head into her hands with a groan.
âWhy does he call you Scully? And who the hell is Priscilla?â Missy adds.
Dana lifts her head, looking at her sister regretfully with a shrug.
âHe said I donât look like a Dana. Priscilla is his cat.â
Missy closes her eyes for a moment and gently shakes her head, her eyebrows furrowing like sheâs trying to reconcile all this information in her brain.
âWhoa, so youâve been to his place?â Missy asks incredulously.
Dana nods hesitantly.
âSis, what are you doing? If you were to tell me that youâre going to break it off with Ethan and run away with that beautiful man I would honestly support you. But if youâre trying to keep things on the up and up here, a private rendezvous at his apartment seems like a really bad idea.â Missy is deeply confused, not used to being in the position to tell her sister what decisions are unwise. That is typically Danaâs role in their relationship.
Dana glares at her sister defensively. âWeâre just friends, Missy. Men and women can be just friends.â
Missy shoots her a âdo you think I was born yesterday?â look.
âSure they can, if they arenât insanely attracted to each other. That man practically devoured you with his eyes, Dana. He wants to be more than your friend,â she says emphatically.
âWell, heâs not going to be. Iâm with Ethan. And Iâm an adult who can control myself enough to maintain boundaries with a platonic friend who happens to be an attractive man. Iâm not a Neanderthal, Missy.â Sheâs using her professor voice, presenting the topic with supporting evidence. Only the facts, folks.
âOkay,â Missy says, acquiescing. âIf you trust yourself then great, have fun with your friend. Does Ethan know youâre gallivanting around with a sexy behavioral analyst?â
The guilty look that overtakes Danaâs face is answer enough.
âWell,â Missy continues, âjust donât do anything I wouldnât do,â she brings levity back to the conversation with a little smirk.
âThat leaves me with a lot of options, Missy,â Dana retorts, and Missy slaps her arm again.
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Story #7 "David Duchovny"
What can you do in three minutes? In three minutes, you can boil water for tea or eat a banana. You can make a phone call, brush your teeth, or take an extremely quick shower. If you are on the subway, you can hop on the train and travel to the next not-so-far station. Three minutes seem to be just enough. Three minutes might take forever if youâre waiting for an answer from a girl you finally summoned up the courage to ask out. If youâre a defendant in a court waiting for the jury to reach a verdict, three minutes might drag on agonizingly slow. One hundred and eighty seconds of tickling as if a bomb is about to set off. All-in-your-head ticking.
However, if you talk to someone like David Duchovny, a person you were dreaming of having a conversation with, three minutes pass in the blink of an eye. Literally. You blink and then itâs over. David says that they are counting on us, and it is nice to see you again and then heâs gone. You are left with a mixture of euphoria and disappointment but unable to process it at the moment. Itâs four in the morning and though you are so tired you cannot see straight, sleep is elusive. Your emotions are too raw to let go and grab so well-needed rest. So instead, you do some writing, keeping in mind what David has just told you - itâs all about discipline. And you write till letters start jumping on the screen and everything gets blurry. And then you brew some more coffee. A real thing. Not that decaffeinated crap you bought on a whim convincing yourself that this is what mindful people do. For they say itâs healthy. Sure. Fine. Whatever.
I got over my Duchovny crush in my early twenties, too busy to lust after anyone but my first-time-ever long-term boyfriend and struggling to major in English and Law simultaneously. Once my puberty was complete, I forgot about âThe X-Filesâ. I didnât think about David until I turned 33, which was 2018, the year when we moved to Moscow. It was a period of boring days dragging one after another in nothing but taking round-the-clock care of kids. Being acutely aware of my routine existence and suffering from the lack of babysitters, work-related stuff, and English altogether, I tried to fill an expanding void with books and series. I could read up to hundreds of pages a day and binge-watch Netflix every single minute whenever I had free time. It was my sea of tranquillity, and I was literally drowning in it.
I started watching Californication, the series Iâd been deliberately neglecting for a little over 10 years (first released in 2007), due to my reluctance to shape Duchovny as anyone else but Fox Mulder. One more year later, I stumbled upon the news, that two more seasons of the X-files had been shot. You are so out of the loop, girl, exactly my thoughts. What are you? Some freak, living off the grid? How could you miss it? For what itâs worth, I loved it.
One day, almost accidentally, driving along the city center, I caught a glimpse of the billboard with his name and the word concert next to it. A concert? What the hell, the guy is an actor! Well, also a novelist now, but what does it have to do with music? Upon my arrival at home, I googled him thoroughly only to be struck by the fact that David indeed was a singer and it wasnât even his first album. The same day I bought a ticket, including the meet-and-greet session pass, downloaded some of his previous tracks, and just like that, my affection was resurrected.
That first meeting we didnât really talk. I remember my shy âMay I hug you?â and his encouraging coarse âYeahâ. I remember warm strong arms around my shoulders. We took a photo, he sighed whatever it is I had on me to sign. It happened to be a tiny red notebook as nothing else seemed to fit in my ladyâs purse. And then, there was an hour of pure bliss as the concert began. He may or may not be a good singer. If truth be told, itâs probably the latter. But heâs full of the heady dark intensity that shakes you to the core and makes the overall experience simply unforgettable. I could only hope that it wouldnât be the last first time.
But then. Pandemic. It brought several good tidings, albeit being a catastrophe of the world. Virtual interaction is still booming. Back in the day, you either hoped that the flame of your heart would honor your country with a visit, or traveled over the ocean for the slightest chance to get a glimpse of them. Now all you need is broadband and a cell. Well, and some extra bucks on you. Virtual meet and greets, zooming, 1-on-1 calls, livestreams. You can get up to 10 minutes with the celebrity of your choice. At times, you can enter raffles they organize to raise money for charity, and then itâs a chance to win up to half an hour of a private talk. How cool is that?
So, the question posed, is it expensive? You bet. Is it worth it? Every second of it. Will I see him again? Well, I might. But then again, I might not. After all, Iâve already seen him three times. And two out of three I had a chance to talk with him. However, since weâve already established that it was worth doing, I could only add that anything that is worth doing is worth doing well.
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s4 episode 17 thoughts
hey guys. i need answersâŠ. i need them.
but i have a strict âone episode a dayâ and âpost the thoughts from last episode before starting the new oneâ rule and!!! i must follow the rules.
i wish this episode relied less on the assumption that the audience knows how planes work. but. i digress.
back to who i was before this episode....
a lot of you may know that it is scully and mulder time.Â
ohhhh iâm reading the episode description and i see what is going on here⊠a two parter!!! well, i am prepared to handle this, yes i am. we have been due for a two parter, so i look forward to learning about this UFO.
let us open with a pretty shot of the sky⊠we are somewhere over upstate new york⊠a good place to be
in a plane. this guy seems drunk. i do not care for how he looked at this woman.
âyou could fly every day for the next 26,000 years before youâd have an accidentâ, says drunk guy that will most certainly manifest a plane crash
shaggy redhead sitting next to drunk man seems very afraid of the dude on the back of the plane in a suit. uh oh! let me guessâŠ. alien bounty hunter?
(author's note: nah. it was a good guess, though!)
suit man just locked himself in the bathroom and pulled out the spring in a pen to a dramatic flourish. is the pen spring supposed to indicate something to me? because i do not associate them with danger.
oh! he made a little gun out of pieces. huh. kinda neat. even if it is terrifying. just from a DIY perspective.
sometimes i forget that before 9/11 you could just do stuff on planes and no one really gave a damn
but now the plane is shaking. man with gun is watching all the screaming and jostling go down. redhead seems very scared while bright lights shine into the plane. oh! and then a window/door thing gets sucked outside??
deeply unfortunate.
(cue spooky intro)
WAIT! we are at a restaurant with mulder and scully and someone is bringing out a cake??? and they are singing happy birthday to her!!! oh my gosh, is it her birthday or is this a ploy by mulder to get free cake?
âI DIDNâT KNOW IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY, SCULLYâ <- JDHDJJDJD IS HE REALLY ABOUT GETTING THAT FREE CAKE LIFE????
no, no, it IS in fact dana scully's birthday, a remarkable occasion indeed. however. there is no funnier thing than faking a birthday to get cake at a restaurant. and maybe i need to write that fic someday.
oh my gosh, she says he has never once remembered her birthday, so he says something about it being the way he likes to celebrate them, every 4 years...... THIS IDIOT đđ
i cannot believe this man... he can remember any myth he read when he was 11, but he cannot keep his best friend's birthday in his head. and while that is a tragic flaw and indication of his ahab-ness, the fact that he knew scully was sick so he stepped it up still says a lot.
oh he brought a GIFT shut up!!!!!! and he pulls out a tiny little box... she says âoh you have GOT to be kidding meâ and he jokes about turning the alien implants into earrings but itâs an apollo 11 keychain đđđ STOP this is so sweet!!!!! oh my gosh he wanted to make sure she knew she was lovedÂ
(her birthday is in february so iâm not sure i see the connection to her and apollo 11 beyond her being a general nerd, and i think her birth and the moon landing happened in the same year, but i digress)
someone is talking to them! âoh promise me this isnât leading to something embarrassingâ she says <- HDHSJDHJEÂ
but no! this woman- sharon- confesses to have followed them there??? well that is very creepy. and that she was told to talk to them if something happened.
GIRL!!!! LET HER HAVE A NICE DINNER đ
sharon says that her brother, max fenig, was bringing them something that night, but the plane he was on went down.
and how did he know where they were going to be? i am going to assume that he is simply a stalker and not that mulder arranged for a UFO information exchange on scully's birthday. no ma'am. i refuse.
(also, i was distracted by mulder chewing on something this whole scene. at first i thought it was a cigarette, but then clearly it wasnât, so maybe a lollipop? looked too big to be a toothpick. oh god, donât tell me heâs a toothpick guy)
anyway. plane crash time. let's go to the conference where the plane people discuss such news.
initial reports say no survivors. people are smoking in here which is crazy. i understand that this show takes place in the 90's, but sometimes i lowkey forget until i see stuff like that and go ohhhhh right right.
this has been a sad turn to date night!!!
theyâre listening to the last audio recording from the plane, and the pilot is yelling âmy god!â and âmayday!â which is not inspiring any warm and fuzzy feelings
so mulder asks if there was any evidence that the plane was intercepted, because we heard the voice say it was, but plane guy who is in charge of this meeting says hmm, nope, not that i know of.
(is the pilot saying that there was an interception.... not evidence... of an interception??)
mulder says well, there was a famous alien abductee on the plane. which gets the crowd giggling.
scully is watching like ohhh my god and when plane guy asks if this is an official FBI position he turns and looks to her and then says no. plane guy says he is trivializing this tragedy. WHICH I DISAGREE WITH!
IF there was a man claiming to be abducted by UFOs, and the plane he was on mysteriously went down, and the pilot said it was intercepted, but for some reason the fact that the pilot SAID THAT is being disregarded- i'm sorry, my red flags would be going off. for multiple different reasons. if i were plane guy i'd be thinking, gee, maybe this max character was a government target- i mean, if he got famous off of UFOs, who is to say he wasn't up to more shady activities? maybe he was planning a coup in the dominican republic, or smuggling government secrets of a nature that is still important but less outlandish than UFOs, or embezzling, etc. all i am saying, from my reasonable skeptic point of view, is i would think hmm, that's odd. we'll have to note that for our investigation, mr. mulder. maybe max was targeted for a specific reason, aliens or no aliens.
of course, this plane guy claims there WAS no max fenig on the plane, but it seemed pretty easy to lie pre-TSA
âsure know how to make a girl feel special on her birthdayâ HDHJSJDKSJDJDJDJDJÂ
nooo... i feel bad for birthday scully :( why is he always up to some sort of alien shenanigans instead of cherishing her? :( i GET it, i get his life's mission, etc etc but cherishing your friends should be mandatory, especially when it is a friend as lovely as scully
at the crash site, things are looking very very very sad. many bodies are in bags.Â
but where is the plane??
poor scully has to shout due to all the helicopter noises, which had to be a pain to film.
what would finding max fenig prove? mulder doesnât know. but perhaps that 1 life was worth sacrificing 133 others.Â
damn. thatâs a downer. and we started on such a high note!!!!
the guy who had the DIY gun on the plane has been entirely cut in half. but one of the people from the IIC (and what the hell even IS the IIC?) took his gun!! it was the guy with the big mustache! and theyâre spraying him with some stuff? that canât be normal practice, can it?
scully sees a watch on a corpseâs arm :( mulder sees some glasses :(
they each find a watch!! and the watches from the victims say 8:01, but the time of the crash was listened as 7:52!!!! so⊠what is the truth??
ânine minutes, scully. do you remember the last time you were missing nine minutes?â <- is that a rhetorical question or a throwback to the pilot
mulder seems to think now that perhaps max was on the plane, but did not finish the journey with the rest of the passengers⊠hmm⊠like they shot him??? what do you mean, cryptic man???
oh! one of the people from the crash is alive!!! get a medic NOW!!!! scully is here!!!!! she is telling you what he is going to need and you had better get it quick!!!
now scully is waiting for a plane in the cold. what!!! she is cold!!!! get her inside!!!
she was waiting for sharon from before, who brought all of her letters from her brother max. scully says that they think she isnât telling them everything, and that she had better do so. NOW. she is not messing around.
oh!!!! the man who was alive has burns that are associated with a high level of radiation!! see, i assumed he just was hit by a piece of flaming sky junk. that foreshadowing went right over my head.Â
it was drunk man from before who was burnt!!! so is it whatever max had on him that was radioactive??? they confirm that it was max, he was just using a pen name, which he had a lot of.Â
max worked at job with plutonium and uranium. well. maybe that could do it. not sure what heâd to do with all that or how it got on a plane. maybe it could have caused the crash.
mulder is launching into his âmax HAD to have been abductedâ theory and about how no one will ever believe him and it will go unsolved forever. scully keeps trying to cut him offâŠ
max is back!!!! where from???
oh. he is dead. that is how they found him.
mulder still doesnât think the crash is explained.
sigh. you just want to have a nice birthday dinner with the guy you've thought was cute for the last 4 years, and he never once remembered your birthday until now, but then he gets an alien call and slips into ahab mode. scully has truly suffered so much.
sharon is reading many many many letters when a flashing and shaking occurs!!! more aliens???? oh man. this is intense.Â
CUT TO BLACK??? rude as hell. where did sharon go!!!
(i think i know where sharon went)
okay, now mulder is walking among the many bodies recovered from the crash scene. he finds max and unzips him. and in his pocket he had mulderâs business card!!! despite it being covered in blood, he puts it in his pocket, and seems very sad. it cannot be an easy thing to see. but still. blood-borne illnesses, man.
he is now unzipping more and more bodies. what do you think, you beautiful tortured man?
he is furious that the IIC is going to claim that they donât know what went on. and i still don't know what the IIC is. maybe they don't even know about the alien stuff. not everyone has CSM levels of alien knowledge.
(side note... why do you think deep throat was snitching to mulder?? was it part of CSM's plan, or did the fight? was it toxic old man yaoi?)
back to the matter at hand. âmulder, why canât you just accept the facts?â (with his hand on her back, walking her away) âbecause there are no facts, scully. what theyâre telling you, what theyâre going to report, theyâre the opposite of facts- a claim to ignorance of the factsâ oh man, heâs yapping! but he has a point.
âclaimed steadfastly, ignorance becomes as acceptable as the truthâ <- heâs lowkey right though⊠he ate with that one thing
still pissed he cannot remember birthdays.
he points out that all of the watches have been stolen that show the difference in 9 minutes between the reported and the actual crash time!!! and that somehow they need to figure out what happened in those 9 minutes. hmm. is this a possible task?
well, with a rental car, you can go anywhere, including to this military base.
oh no!!! someone already came and asked this military man (later revealed to be named louis frish) about the crash, the night it happened! oh no⊠someone else has a lead
hmmâŠ.. hmmâŠ. some discrepancies in stories are occurring here. it must be CSM.
uh oh... the minute they leave, louis frish says to his buddy that he told them âwhat he was supposed to sayâ⊠there is STRANGENESS afoot!!! this other guy says if they come back, heâs gonna tell them the truth.
back to the motelâŠ. well, sharon is no longer there!!! surely you recall the lights and the shaking, etc etc! the landlord seems to think that she trashed the room and dipped, and is telling our agents they MUST pay for it. she was making her 5 seconds of screen time COUNT.
âokay scully, hit me with your best shot, what do you think happened here?â (deep sigh) âi havenât a clueâ <- i love when they admit they donât know wtf is going on. i think itâs very endearing.
plane guy shows up!!! mulder is being snippy with him about the lack of evidence, but he comes with evidence in hand!!! he wonât make an announcement though, because heâs afraid heâll sound as crazy as mulder. woah⊠plane guy redemption arc??
the plane had wear and tear marks, but the gag is it was a brand new plane!!! and all of the cracks radiate from the door they think was blown off!!!
big shoutout to mulder for trusting his door launching instincts.Â
back at the air force baseâŠ.. the one guy who said he was gonna snitch has a bullet hole in his head!!! and three cars are rapidly approaching!!! including one with shady mustache man who was spraying drunk guyâs body!!!
louis frish is hiding on the roof. hmm. hope they don't climb up there to check.
mulder is rocking back and forth, listening to the audio from the flight. then he busts out a rotary phone and spins it with great determination. another forcible reminder of the 90's. also, him rocking back and forth was funny. it was giving old man on a porch energy.
heâs calling scully!! she sounds very sleepy and points out that they have been up for over 36 hours, but he asks if she can please come over, as he thinks he has heard this voice before
yayyy, they can say they know who the voice belongs to, and then fall asleep all cuddled up <3 and everyone lived happily ever after- the end!
NO!!! when she gets out of her room, someone GRABS HER!!! this guy is closing her mouth and saying not to scream, which really makes a person want to scream more, i can imagine.
itâs louis frish??? saying he caused the plane crash???
girl. i was ready for some snuggling.... gtfo with this nonsense.
ooooookay, so it was frish whose voice they heard on the recording! frish says he was ordered to lie about what happened to the flightâŠ. and now heâs fessing up that he saw a second aircraft shadowing it, then an explosion, then the disappearance.Â
plane guy is saying that this guy must be a liar. but mulder says there has to be a THIRD aircraft, shot down by the intercept aircraft, which caused this crash. so there has to be a second crash site.
man, i was still thinking about them cuddling, but sure. sure, we have 3 aircraft now. i'm getting lost but i'll just roll with it.
plane guy says that if there is a second crash site they need to find it. i cannot get a read on him. also, frish the whistleblower needs to be kept somewhere safe because the military is clearly gonna kill him.
time to head outâŠ. but cars are approaching!!! can a man who hasnât slept in 36 hours do a high speed chase? well, he sure can, but the question is more about the ethics than the actual possibility.Â
mulderâs crazy idea is to drive straight into a landing plane which just BARELY works and scully straight up was looking death in the face.Â
plane guy goes to the OG crash site and sees a UFO!!! it has a beam it is scanning down on the wreckage!!!! he seems entirely gagged and runs towards it, which is not what i would do in that situation. i would be hiding. and then it wooshes away!!!
NO!!!!! it is above him now!!!!!! the beam is shining upon himâŠ. but it wooshes away again. phew. that was very close.
however, a woman is wailing in the trees. SHARON??? is that you??? plane guy is running toward the voice!!!! and it is sharon!!!
plane guy holds sharon as she sobs and begs him not to let them take her againâŠâŠ.. which is a lot of responsibility to place on a random guy, but clearly she has been through a lot.
mulder and scully and frish are trying to get on a plane now. but mulder says what if there IS no second crash site because the second aircraft never fell??
well, i was just getting used to the idea of there being a second crash site, and now it has been taken away from me!!! but i assume he is saying that the UFO must have gotten away fine???
(author's note: no! no, i assumed wrong, for he surmised correctly that it crashed underwater? again, was i supposed to be following that? because i wasn't)
scully does not want to take frish back to DC by herself, and who can blame her? thatâs a long drive with a strange man! and surely now mulder is going to run off and engage in some sort of antics!! probably to get himself kidnapped and all that!!!!
aww, but he waves goodbye as their airplane takes off. and then he sets out into the night.Â
he drives out to the lake where he thinks maybe the UFO got away, where some guy is telling him there is a hovering light flying over every now and then
scully brings this frish guy back to her HOUSE??? she says she needs to get some stuff before she talks to her agent in charge and iâm thinking no!!! what if heâs lying!?! you brought him into your house!!! what if he gets you?!?
heâs having a crisis of faith on if heâll get arrested for lying about the plane crash, and iâm sorry to hear he has to live with that guilt, but letâs do this in a place where she doesn't live.Â
she says she will do her best to tell his story to someone who can help him. which is very kind of her. but again. let us not bring strangers to our residence.
and he asks to make a phone call to his girlfriend and say heâs safe but iâm thinking noOooOoo why does it have to be on HER phone???? i donât trust this man at all!!!!!
mulder is sailing out into the lake with this random guy. oh heâs gonna scuba dive. you see, that isnât something you should do without experience, but here he is. that's the kinda crazy fox mulder brings to the table.
scully takes frish to a restaurant, and who is here but PENDRELL!!! yelling about her birthday. he tries to buy her a drink, and she points out she is with somebody. he laughs and says well let me buy him one too. good for him!Â
BUT MUSTACHE MAN IS HERE. he is trying to SHOOT frish. and pendrell is bringing his drinks over and HE GETS SHOT as SCULLY SHOOTS MUSTACHE GUY.
oh my god. is she gonna watch PENDRELL DIE RIGHT THEN AND THERE???
well i thought he was a bit weird, but i didnât want to see him BLEED OUT!!!
mulder is diving. into god knows what. iâm scared heâll get the bends or something. or run out of air. or any other horrific scuba related phenomenon.Â
but there is something down there!!! something big and metal. iâm scared some sort of evil creature is going to jump out.Â
BAH! ALIEN!!!!
okay, he didnât jump out, but he was unexpected.Â
and the light is back!!!! it must be the UFO!!! come to get the alien and maybe the mulder in the process!
end scene.
woaughâŠ.Â
we started with birthday dinner and ended with dead alien and dying pendrell. what a piece of TV.
honestly, the episode was good, donât get me wrong. but there was so much happening so quickly that i was a little lost. can you blame me? first we had two aircraft and then three and then two crash sites and then one and then two but the other one was underwater. and it was going really fast.Â
i firmly believe that in media like this when the world is always about to blow up, you need to take time to make me care about the characters living or dying. you can't replace character development with a ticking time bomb or blow after blow after blow and expect that to be compelling writing. and while i think in the past seasons there has been an excellent balance of character development to character torture or fighting the end of the world, this season has been very heavy handed on the character torture. and i want to make it clear: i am an angst enthusiast. but also, after a certain point, it's like, are we here to just watch these guys suffer? is that what brings us before the TV screen? you don't need an even ratio of character happy time to character sad time- a small amount of character happy time can go a long, long way, so i'm glad we started with some today- perhaps the first all season?
what i'm trying to say is that the opening is going to to get me through a lot of hard times. but still... mulder doesnât remember birthdaysâŠâŠâŠ. this man... i want to shake him like a rag doll and knock some sense into his head.
oh pendrell... how i wonder where your story will go next!
#bonks mulder with the LOVE YOUR FRIENDS stick#aliens. aliens underwater. dead alien body underwater.#aliens are secondary to the plot. i watch for the hetbait.#juni's x files liveblog#the x files#txf
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Bridges and Buffers
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The airport is loud but the thoughts in Danaâs head drown it out. She hasnât seen Charlie in three years, since she attended Melissaâs Halloween party and he was in town. Missy isnât with them anymore; she canât act as a buffer between them, a bridge. They have to interact on their own now.
Missy and Charlie were always closer, leaving Dana to spend time with Bill, which was akin to spending time with a small replica of their father. Dwelling on the past isnât going to fix the present, though. Not when Dana can pinpoint Charlieâs shock of red hair from her vantage point on the second floor of the airport, leaning against the railing. Baggage claim is on the first floor, so she takes the escalator down and meets her brother by the entrance to baggage claim.
Dana gives him a tap on the shoulder with a tremulous smile on her lips as he turns around. âCharlie.â
âDana.â He hugs her, and she replies in kind.
âItâs good to see you,â she says, as if the past twelve years are something other than what they are.
Charlie nods. As long as the next few days donât go to shit, everything will be alright.
â
Of course, things do go to shit. Dana makes it through her memorial speech without devolving into sobs and hugs Charlie as he makes his way behind Missyâs grave to give his own. Unfortunately, their mother tries to get him alone to talk when the funeralâs over.
âHeâs not interested, Mom,â Dana says, one hand on her motherâs forearm.
âHeâs my son, Dana. I have the right to talk to him.â
âHeâs not interested. Donât do this.â Both women are in tears. âLet him be.â
âWhatâs going on here?â Bill comes up and stands next to them, eyes flicking from Danaâs hand on their motherâs arm to his sisterâs eyes.
âNothing, Billy. Dana and I were just having a chat.â
Margaret gazes at Charlie for a moment before she hangs her head and walks away.
âWhat was that about?â Bill asks, looking over at their brother with mild suspicion. Heâs bent down as if theyâre going to share secrets between siblings.
âNone of your business, Bill,â Dana says, walking around him towards Charlie, whoâs been waiting by her car.
The eldest Scully sibling lets out a mirthless laugh and sidesteps her, putting a hand out so that she has to stop. âI think it is my business. I donât want to be left out of shit that happens in this family again! I have a right to know!â
Dana shakes her head and looks up at her older brother, anger building up inside. âThis isnât about you, Bill!â she eventually exclaims. âYouâyou always viewed this as a slight against you when it has nothing to fucking do with you! Charlie is who he is and it shouldnât matter who he loves because what actually matters is family! Andâand that is something that, as much as Iâve denied it and hate to admit it, you and Dad and Mom have never truly understood. And for a long time, I didnât, either. But Missy understood that. She understood that family comes first and that love should be unconditional.â
Billâs lips are pursed and his eyes look sad, as if he feels regretful, but he doesnât say anything as he steps away from Dana. She takes a moment to compose herself before heading over to Charlie, head held high. âI want to go to Missyâs place,â he tells her, and she nods, starting the car.
â
Missyâs apartment is barren of all her personal touches now. Dana and Charlie sit on the floor, backs against the couch, and pass a cigarette between them, as well as a bottle of booze. Neither of them bothered to check what it was.
âCan I tell you something, Day?â he starts, blowing out smoke.
âSure.â Dana takes a swig from the bottle.
âYou fucked up.â
To her credit, she doesnât even look phased. She canât say sheâs surprised that heâs bringing this up. âI know.â
âWell, you continued fucking up, so if you were intending to isolate yourself from your little brother, you sure as hell succeeded.â
Just because she expected it doesnât mean sheâs immune to the sting of Charlieâs words, though.
âIâm sorry,â she whispers, trying not to cry. If she cries, itâll look like she canât take valid criticism, and their relationship is on the rocks already.
Dana takes the cigarette back and thinks of how Missy stopped dating part of the way through college. She thinks of how Missy cried to an unprepared Dana when they were seventeen and nineteen, respectively, about how she was broken because she didnât love her boyfriendâor any of the other guys sheâd dated. She thinks of the girl in her algebra class with the kind eyes and kissable lips; the guy she sat next to in her AP Physics class and the notes they passed; the girl she kissed as a freshman in college; and all the girls sheâd wanted to kiss but didnât out of fear.
âCan I tell you something, Charlie?â Dana asks.
âGo for it.â
She takes a drag and blows it out. âI like women,â she says, voice shaking. âI also like men.â Sheâs ashamed that sheâs crying despite her best efforts not to. âI thought there was something wrong with me... And you know how I practically worshipped Daddy...â Danaâs breath hitches as she stares at the wall. âI was scared, Charlie, and I thought, Well, thereâs lots of people like you, but Iâve never heard of a person like me.â
He places his hand over hers and takes the cigarette away, putting it out in the tray. âDanes, thereâs lots of people like you. I know that youâre gonna say something about knowing that based on statistics but seriouslyâI know lots of people like you, just like I know lots of people like me, and lots of people who arenât like either of us. Be proud of who you are. This is D.C.âIâm sure thereâs places thatâll appreciate your sexuality, and people whoâll appreciate it, too.â
Dana doesnât say anything immediately, choosing to lean over and hug Charlie instead. âThank you.â
âYou should visit me in Seattle, meet my fiancĂ©.â He sighs and takes a sip from the bottle. âMissy was so excited when I told her. Weâve got a little pupper named Benjy. Youâll love him. Youâll like Marcus, too.â
She nods, taking the bottle when he passes it to her. âI will. Iâll bunch together some vacation days to take a week off. You can show me around and Iâll tell Marcus embarrassing stories from when we were kids.â
Charlie lets out a chuckle and leans his head on Danaâs shoulder. She leans her head on his and looks out the window at the night sky. âDâyou think Daddyâll accept us up in heaven?â she asks.
âI wouldnât know. I have my sights set elsewhere.â
âMissy did, too.â
â
She heads into work on Monday feeling hollow now that Charlieâs flown back to Seattle. âMorning, Scully,â Mulder greets. Dana gives him a feeble smile as he vacates his chair with a gesture for her to sit in it. âBoy, do I have a case for us, Scully. Weâre going to Kansas tomorrow.â
At her lack of response after she sits down, he drops the cheery act. âSorry,â she whispers, letting her head fall into her hands. âI donâtââ
âNo, itâs fineââ
âMy brothers were in town for Missyâs funeral, and...â
âYou donât have to explain. We can stay in town for a while if youâd like.â
âI donât know...â To Danaâs great shame, she begins to cry. âIâm sorry.â
âOh, Dana...â Mulder murmurs, brushing his hand through her hair before pulling her into an awkward hug. She sniffles and tries to calm herself down, letting her tears stain her partnerâs shirt. âYou should take a day off. Itâs fine if you need time to process, toâto find yourself again.â
At his words, Dana peels her face away from his shoulder and makes eye contact for a brief moment. Mulderâs gaze is too intense to hold for long, though, so her own skitters away. âI donât know if I ever knew myself in the first place, Mulder. Iâm not the same person I was when I met you.â
He reaches out and tucks her hair behind her ear, tenderly stroking her cheek with his thumb. âAnd Iâm not the man I was when I met you, but that doesnât mean I lost anything along the way. Iâm still a bachelor chasing lights in the sky.â
Dana lets out a watery laugh at that and wipes away her tears. âAnd Iâm still here to make sure you donât injure yourself along the way,â she tosses back.
âYou always are. And, who knows; maybe our sisters are hanging out in the afterlife together. I think they wouldâve gotten along nicely.â Mulder shoots her a sad smile and takes her hands in his. âTake some time off. I promise Iâll manage for a few days without you.â
She gives him a small smile and, after a moment of deliberation, leans forward to press a kiss to his forehead. âThank you, Mulder. Iâll see you in a few days, then.â
They stand up and Mulder steps away so she can walk back to the coat hanger by the door. âJust a few days, Scully,â he repeats, giving her a small wave as she adjusts her coat and leaves the office, bag in hand.
â
Dana sits on her couch, freshly-showered with a glass of wine in one hand and her phone in the other, holding it to her face. Someone answers from the other end and she starts, setting the wine glass down. âYes, hi! Iâm Dana Scully. Iâm looking for Nancy Dasilva? No, no, just give her my number, if you could, and tell her that I asked her to call me. Thank you.â The conversation ends, and Dana replaces the phone in its cradle with an exhale, a small smile on her lips.
Missy was right when she told her little sister to loosen up and have fun. It feels liberating to be acting on her feelings after so adamantly repressing them. She just has to hope that theyâre reciprocated, now; but Dana can make an educated guess that they are.
#txf#mine#fanfiction#it's not exactly what i imagined#but it hits up on all the themes so i'm satisfied#i will genuinely get confused when charlie isn't gay in fic#same thing happens when monica isn't sapphic#like. she's sapphic to me. the only man i can accept as someone she'd date is doggett#anyways. scully is bi <3
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Hope you guys are not too busy with Fictober đ thank you, as always, for your amazing feedback!
Felix Felicis
MSR. AU. PG-13. | tagging @today-in-fic | read on AO3
Chapter 26 - A Pivotal Peppermint Mocha
[ DS ]
He respects my wishes, of course he does, and I donât see him before or after Thanksgiving break, except for a few glimpses from afar, across the school yard or at the farmerâs market. As time passes, each time I see him, it gets less and less painful and my funk begins to lift. My kids at school breathe a sigh of relief and my friends stop tiptoeing around me. The nights get easier, too, and I manage at least a few hours of shut-eye.
I just got home from school, a little earlier than usual and I can hear the girls chatting and laughing in the kitchen.
ââŠand then Squirrel rolled her eyes and said: âBut Felix, thatâs impossible, no-one can stuff 100 marshmallows into their mouth, not even your dad!â I get such a kick out of this kid, he insisted over and over again that Moose could do it and heâll prove it to her. You shouldâve seen the exasperated look on Squirrelâs face!â
What the hell? That conversation is eerily familiar because Iâve just had it this morning at recess. Why the fuck are they referring to us as Moose and Squirrel?
They jump about a mile as I step into the kitchen, guilty looks plastered all over their faces. Sarah, who just told the story, starts to speak first. âUuuh.. hey D, youâre home earlyâŠâ My hands on my hips, I give them each a long, hard stare.
âWho. The Fuck. Are Moose and Squirrel?â They share a look I canât decipher and Holly pulls out a chair.
âYou better sit down for this, D.â I do as Iâm told and glance around the table, waiting for someone to start explaining whatâs going on.
Sarah and Holly both make it clear by silently staring at Alex, the calm one of our group, the one they trust can explain in a way I wonât kick their asses afterwards.
Alex folds her hands in front of her and takes a deep breath. âOkay. Iâd like to preface this with stating that everything we did was done with love and because we care about you and your happiness.â âOh goody, I canât wait to see where this is goingâŠâ
âWeâve been talking about Moo- Mulder a lot at our Friday night dinners and we could tell that you liked him. When nothing happened and no-one made the first move, we thought weâd give fate little pushes in the right direction.â I stare at her, starting to panic.
âOh God, what did you do? Is anyone else in on this thing? Is he in on this whole thing?â
âNo, no, no-one knows except for us. And Miss Hannigan, but only because we needed her help with the costumes and we swore her to secrecy.â I snort, you canât swear the town gossip to secrecy.
âSo the Halloween costume was your doing? That we went to the town fair in a coupleâs costume?â Alex nods. âWhat else?â
âJust little things, I swear. Remember when we were at the Farmerâs Market and we all had various errands to run? We saw Felix and Mulder were heading over, so we scattered to give you some alone time.â Which led to our first quasi-semi-letâs not call it a date-date, yes I remember.
âSo whatâs the Moose and Squirrel business then?â
âWell, since it was all a secret operation, we needed codenames. Sarah came up with a play on the first letters of your last names and we thought it was cute, especially since thereâs such a big height difference between these characters too. This was how Operation: Bullwinkle was born. Of course, after the basketball fiasco, we called it off⊠are you mad, D?â I sit in silence for a while, taking in the things my friends came up with to set Mulder and I up.
They eye me anxiously, trying to gauge my reaction and if they should run for cover right about now.
âNo, Iâm not mad. It was actually a really clever secret operation and Iâm kind of sad it didnât work out the way we all wanted.â Holly lifts her shoulders, relieved that I understood that they didnât mean to cause any harm.
âNever say never, D.â
âââââ
[ FM ]
My mom has taken Felix with her while sheâs out grocery shopping, which gives me a good part of the afternoon to leave the house and roam the streets. A good way to clear my head. Itâs the first week of December, but New England hasnât been graced with snow yet, just a misty cold that seeps into your coat and straight through to your bones.
My hands are freezing because I forgot to take my gloves, so when the green logo of the local Starbucks catches my eye, I go in to warm up and get a cup of coffee.
Usually, I avoid this place like the plague, I donât possess the fast decision making skills required to choose from the 999 combinations, just to have a cup of freakishly overpriced coffee.
I can barely get through the door, the place is jam packed and soon, I can smell why. Peppermint Mocha season starts today. The prospect of standing in line for hours almost makes me turn back, but something stops me from leaving.
Most of the people are holding a cup in their hands gleefully already, so I push my way through the crowd to where the line starts. When I reach it, I find myself dumbly staring at the back of a fiery head of hair, a shade Iâd recognize anywhere in the world and in the most crowded places.
Shi-hit, does this break the âgiving spaceâ rule? No, Iâm just getting a cup of coffee on a cold winter day, no big deal. I donât even have to talk to her. Yeah right, who am I kidding?
âââââ
[ DS ]
Iâm way too excited about the start of Peppermint Mocha season, so here I am, in a place packed with people, patiently waiting in line to finally get my hands on that glorious to-go cup of Christmas Spirit.
Iâm next in line when the person in front of me turns a little too quickly, making me take a step backwards to let them pass, bumping into the person standing behind. I mumble a âIâm sorry!â over my shoulder and freeze when I hear a familiar voice respond with an âDonât worry about it.â
Counting to ten in my head before I turn my head, I come to face with a grinning Fox Mulder, who adds âFancy bumping into you here!â His silly pun elicits the first genuine smile Iâve given in weeks.
âTechnically, you didnât bump into me, I bumped into you.â
He grins even wider and nudges my shoulder with his index finger. âThere. So, Iâm new in town, whatâs good here?â
I order my Peppermint Mocha with sweet cream foam and an extra espresso shot while he pretends to gag, he orders his black coffee to my snort and the baristaâs comment on what kind of first name âMulderâ is. We move to stand at the end of the counter to wait for our coffees.
âSometimes, I just want to tell them my name is Bob, just so I donât have to explain Mulder or Fox to another barista.â
âDonât ask me how many timeâs Iâve been Donna, Danny or Dinara and one time, Daniel. I think they do it on purpose. At least yours is easy to spell, Eff - Oh - Ex.â
âOh I bet you were a regular hit at the spelling bee, with those mad skills of yours!â
âIâm a woman of many talents, Bob.â
The barista calls out our names, âPeppermint Mocha for Daisy, black coffee for Mouldyâ and we reach out to accept our respective cups. Pushing out way to the crowd, we continue our conversation.
âDaisy? That's not even remotely close to my real name⊠but Mouldy is freaking priceless!â Her giggle at their slip up almost makes it worth it to have a shitty first name.
âYeah, yeah, make fun of the guy with the funny name. I kind of like Daisy, though, itâs a pretty name!â
Iâm so happy to see that we turn to head in the same direction, strolling along the crowded sidewalk, sipping our coffee. I have to walk pretty fast to keep up with his long strides.
âIt is, yeah! So tell me, Eff- Oh- Ex, how much flak did you have to take way back in the day, when âWhat does the Fox say?â came out?â I shudder at the memory.
âThey didnât tease me with it. Much. Just a lot of ring-ding-dingalinging. It became a thing in my friend group, whenever they asked me something, theyâd add âSo what does the Fox say?â. It went on a long time and they still do it sometimes, when we get together, just to drive me nuts!â
âI hope for your sake that Felix never discovers that song, heâd have a field day!â Oh God, sheâs right. Must keep him away from it at all costs. At my panic face, she laughs an evil laugh. âWe do listen to a lot of music at recessâŠâ
âOh no, you wouldnât!â I point an icy finger at her. âPromise me you wouldnât!â
âWell, it does have a lot of educational material in it, with all the animal soundsâŠâ
âIâll have you know that you hold my sanity in your hands, handle with care!â
âI hear they have a lot of fun pills at the asylum, maybe Iâll come visit so you can sneak me some!â
We come to stand at the junction where we have to part ways and she raises her cup.
âHave a good day, Mouldy!â
âYou too, Daisy!â
âââââ
[ DS ]
I think about the strange but fun encounter all the way home, the world didnât end like I thought it would when we met again and it was a rather pleasant conversation. Like a conversation between long-time friends, even though friendship is not exactly what Iâm looking for here. But itâll have to do, for now. Itâs just nice to talk to him again.
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Prompt if you are interested: Daggoo trying to get into Scullyâs bath a la Stella and Gillian. Mulder can be wherever you want him to be. I want to play with Stella she so cute I literally canât form coherent thoughts đ„șđ„ș
Iâm still thinking about that video of Stella. So cute. This is revival fic and pure fluff.
Tagging @today-in-fic
Perfection
Peace engulfs her as she steps into the bathtub, the scalding water kissing her bare skin. She sighs as her eyes flutter close. Warm vanilla embraces her as she takes a deep breath. She makes a mental note to thank Mulder again for gifting her this heavenly bath bomb for Christmas. Though sheâs thanked him plenty that night and the next morning.
She sinks deeper into the water and the bubbles surrounding her pop gently as if afraid to disturb her peace. Soft classical music sloshes in from the bedroom and she relaxes every muscle in her body.
As exaggerated as the word feels in her mind, this moment, this bath, is perfection.
Long weeks are behind them. While the X-Files have been closed again â sealed tight, Skinner has promised â theyâre both still employed by the FBI, both teaching the younger generations. Occasionally, she sees someone with shaggy hair, a gait so like Mulder that she thinks sheâs back in 1993, still trying to find her own way. But no matter how hard she imagines it, itâs never Jackson, never their son.
They hear from him sometimes; they get postcards, or on special occasions, a text, or an email. Still, part of her is always searching for him in the halls that shaped her, and Mulder, wondering how things could have gone differently.
But not today.
Today, as Mulder reminded her this morning, is about resting. He might have called it âchillingâ, winking at her with that boyish gleam in his eyes that she hopes heâll never lose, no matter how old he is. And thereâs no denying that theyâre old now. The thought makes her smile. After all theyâve been through, who could have known theyâd get here? To middle age? Mulder has died a dozen times and so has she.
Scully takes a deep breath, holds it, and ducks her head under water, just like she did as a child. Of all the Scully children, sheâd always been the one to hold her breath the longest. It made Bill grumble, and her father chuckle. She comes back to the surface, bubbles on her face and in her hair, taking a deep, vanilla-scented breath. A bathtub or the ocean, water has always remained her friend.
Downstairs she hears the door squeak open and little paws run around excitedly. Mulder says something, his voice deep and soothing, but she canât make out any words. A moment later, she not only hears little dog feet, she sees them, too, when Daggoo barges into the bathroom.
âHey you,â Scully says as the dog gets on his hind legs to show her his face. His tongue is lolling about and catches a few bubbles, making him lick his nose.
âDaggoo, no,â she says, but sheâs laughing, and the dog doesnât listen. âWhat are you doing?â The small dog continues to lick at the bubbles and her hand.
âI tried keeping him downstairs.â Mulder walks into the bathroom, running a hand over his face. Â
âItâs fine. If he throws up after drinking bathwater, youâll clean it up.â Mulder signs a promise over his heart before he gets on his knees, gently coaxing Daggoo away from the bathtub. He leans his cheek against the porcelain and glances at Scully.
âDid you two have a good run?â she asks gently, running her fingers through his messy hair, trying to smooth it down. Leaning more into her touch, Mulder nods. âYou need a shower,â she says.
âBathtub is occupied.â
âHm, I think thereâs enough space for both of us in here.â
âYou think?â He smiles at her; he knows there is. When they bought the house, they bought a bathtub big enough for the two of them.
âGet naked, G-man.â
âAs you wish.â
Scully watches him languidly as he takes off his running clothes. She marvels at his strength, at the play of his muscles; her favorite piece of art.
âAre you watching me?â he asks without even turning to her and she blushes. Almost 30 years by his side, decades of loving each other, and still, he has that effect on her.
âHurry before the water gets cold,â she says. Finally, heâs gloriously naked and only wearing his most charming smile. She scoots forward, throwing him a look over her shoulder. He gets in behind her and as soon as heâs settled in, she leans back against him. Mulder puts his arms around her, his head on her shoulder.
âIâm not sure this is the best way to get clean,â he admits, whispering into her ear. âI think Iâm only getting you sweaty and dirty.â
âI donât mind,â she says honestly. Feeling forgotten, Daggoo starts whimpering, getting on his hind legs again, trying to get at the bubbles.
âNo, Mulder,â Scully says, half turning to him.
âI didnât do anything!â
âYouâre thinking about letting Daggoo in here.â
âWell, he has been running, too, you know.â
âYou can give him a bath after.â
âI had different plans for after.â He gently bites into her earlobe. âI doubt he could make the jump anyway.â Daggoo whines again. âSorry, buddy. The lady of the house says no.â The dog tries one more time, but when Scully gives him a stern look, he accepts defeat. Â
âThis is nice,â Mulder says, shifting behind her and making waves.
âIâve been telling you that for years. You never listen.â
âHmm, Iâll listen from now on,â he says, kissing her cheek. âYou taste like vanilla.â
âSo do you.â She leans her head against his arm as it rests against the edge of the tub, his soft hair tickling her cheek. She was wrong earlier; this right here, this is perfection.
âI never knew vanilla was my favorite flavor,â he says, awe in his voice. Scully smiles.
#will i write fluff every day?#it's likely#i'd apologize but writing this made me so happy#hope you guys like it too#msr#xf fanfic#my writing#my fic#Anonymous
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Just Business
Summary: Youâre a loan shark looking to expand your enterprise to the League of Villains. Lucky for you, Dabi might just be willing to hear you out. As long as you can prove your loyalty to him, that is.Â
Rating: E for not everyone. Explicit. Do I release anything else?
Babyâs first Dabi fic. Just testing the waters, folks. I know nothing about this man. Literally nothing.
Money lending is such a nasty business.Â
Some poor sap shuffles in nervously shifting his fingers and recites some rehearsed script about why he needs the cash and how heâs good for it, and then you throw him a wad and pretend to make up some important deadline. He thanks you profusely and thumbs through the cash as he leaves, and youâve still got your heels kicked up on your desk as you tell a goon to keep an eye on him.Â
Sometimes their reaction to your âcharityâ varies, but one thing always stays the same. They can never pay it back.Â
Some run. Some try to hide. Some bolt the second the cash hits their fists, boarding the first train out of town. Some genuinely try to do the right thing. The result is the same.Â
You track them down. Your boot, their neck. They cry, you extort.Â
Itâs not about the money. It never is. Wealth is fine and good but no amount of monetary fortune can amount to having another thread in the network web youâre building. Youâll let them off the hook and theyâll spy for you, lie for you, even put their neck on the line because they have no other choice. Info is worth infinitely more than a petty loan, and what you invest in their short sighted schemes is repaid tenfold.Â
You knew something was up with the shifty little prick the second he walked in the door. He asked for an exorbitant amount and could never meet your eyes when he told you just what he planned to do with it. It sounded too rehearsed, even for your usual clientele. Almost like someone told him what to say and just how to say it.Â
In this business, you learn to call a spade a spade, but even as he sat on his knees with his gaze shifted away from you and practically screaming tells, you felt there was something deeper. A truth buried deep within his lies. Something interesting. Something you wanted to know.Â
You give the poor bastard the money.Â
Sending a runner to watch his schedule confirms your beliefs. He walks into a dilapidated abandoned building not long after leaving the meeting with your thick wad of cash in hand and leaves with only a few bills, though he looks relieved for his trouble. You have his face, his name, a dossier on his entire life. Heâs far too unguarded for someone into something so nefarious. Someone sent this little gnat into your domain and didnât expect you to follow the thread. They were mistaken. Whoever this man works for, heâs the only lead into something deeper.Â
Your little flies swarm the building only to find it empty. No trace of who you had been dealing with, no clues to lead you to the heart of your curiosity. Only dust splayed across concrete and a fire with the ashes still warm.Â
All your contacts and all your pull only give you one lead: the League of Villains.Â
A down-on-their-luck outfit of outcasts and outlaws. Their leader had been making some big moves with a large financier some months ago, but things turned disastrous and no one had heard a peep since. It doesnât surprise you to hear theyâre rebuilding, but what intrigues you is that theyâre making such risky pulls to do it. Borrowing money they clearly cannot pay back from a loan shark with a reputation of ruthlessness.Â
It should make you mad, being ripped off and deceived like that.Â
It doesnât.Â
If anything, it tickles you. You didnât even have to put out any feelers and they had loitered into your web. Youâd had your eyes on them for some time, curious about their leader and their members. They could prove a worthy investment, if given the chance. You never had an in with them since they never needed your services, but it seems that they hand delivered one in desperation.
It becomes a matter of baiting and trapping.Â
You wait and you listen. The debt date approaches and itâs only a matter of time. It doesnât surprise you when the same man wanders back into your office and hands you a thick stack of bills, more than twice what you had offered him. You most definitely are surprised to find him returning but you accept his offering with a smile, running your finger along the bills to keep up appearances.Â
âIt seems you find yourself quite wealthy! You simply must tell me how youâve made such a grand turn around!â
He swallows hard at your compliment, raising a hand to the back of his head and scratching nervously. âLuck, Maâam. Nothing more. I find myself in fortune and simply wish to repay your great kindness.âÂ
âOf course.â You smile at him, allowing him to take his leave. Now the real game begins.Â
Your little spies follow him as he weaves through the streets into the industrial part of town. He ducks into another decrepit building, closing the door firmly behind him. He emerges a few moments later only to tuck a receipt of payment and a few more bills into his shirt. The pace he has is slower now, more relaxed. He believes heâs free, shaken clean of your webbing and can breathe without fear now.Â
How wrong he is.Â
The look of terror on his face as you block his exit from the alley almost makes you feel sorry for him. He immediately becomes defensive, backing up several feet despite the absence of your body guards. Heâs not afraid of you. Heâs afraid of who is watching.Â
âWhat are you doing here? I paid you!âÂ
âYou have.â You acknowledge, bowing your head. âIâm not here for money. I simply ask for information. Thatâs not so terrible, is it? This doesnât have to be unpleasant.â
âI donât know anything!âÂ
âBut of course you do!â You draw closer and he trips over his own feet, falling flat to the alley floor. âThat money wasnât for you, was it? You have no prospects, no family or land or investments of your own. Only a crippling gambling debt, yes? Paying debt doesnât accumulate currency, so clearly you must have had some grand scheme. Iâm very interested in your process.âÂ
You bend down, venom gathering behind your fangs as you stroke his petrified face with a cool finger. âFrom one brilliant mind to another. Iâll keep it a secret. I promise.â
âI- Well-â He looks around anxiously, stumbling over words but so close to breaking. It wonât take much on your part to get him to crack.Â
Or it wouldnât have, anyway.Â
A bolt of vibrant blue flame speeds toward you from around a corner almost quicker than you can process and itâs only barely that you manage to dodge it by shoving yourself clumsily backward. The unbelievable heat from the blast doesnât escape you, and you cover your face as the alleyway erupts in fire, engulfing your only lead in flames and incinerating him before you could make a move to save him and whatever it is he had to say. The smell of charred flesh is overwhelming and despite the obvious threat, you canât help but smile.Â
A tall figure walks fearlessly through the inferno, hands in his pockets and seeming almost bored as he kicks over the ashen figure that was human only seconds ago. âI knew we shouldnât have trusted this idiot.âÂ
You stay silent, face shielded from the encompassing heat by your palm as he approaches. Inky black hair and a pale body covered in muldering skin, maroon scars stapled together with metal and sheer force of will. His threadbare coat billows around his feet as he trudges down the alleyway toward you. His eyes are a striking shade of blue, focused on you with an empty expression.Â
The ends of your hair have singed and your face itches, but itâs nothing compared to the accomplishment you feel. You had a feeling that toying with some strings might bring the cat out to play.Â
âSo youâre one of the League.âÂ
You stand up, brushing the dirt off your knees and stabilizing yourself on the wall despite the overwhelming heat.Â
âSure. Youâre that babe that lent us the money, right? That was nice of you.â He stops just short of you, arms withdrawing from his pockets and igniting with indigo flame. âNow why donât you scram? You got your money, what happens from here isnât your business.â
âOh, itâs not all business.â You coyly tell him, running him once over with your eyes. âSometimes itâs just pleasure. Are there other fine, strapping young lads like you in the League or am I just one lucky girl?â
âThat depends.â He scoffs, puffing air out of his stapled cheeks. âDo you get any better at prying for information or is this the best you can do?âÂ
âOh!â A dramatic gesture and you cross your hands over your heart, already coating your hands in sticky, silken thread. âYou wound me!âÂ
âIâll wound you a hell of a lot worse if you donât get out of here.â His fist clenches, and a burst of ever increasing heat emanates from the fire engulfing his hand. âLast I checked, fire still kills spiders.âÂ
âYouâd burn down your own home to kill a single little spider? Iâm flattered.âÂ
Before he can retort, you kick one of your feet out behind you, jumping toward him and latching your legs around his midsection. Your hands are quick to wrap around his own as he tumbles to the ground, burning through the layers of webbing drooling from your fingers. The viscous cobweb coats his palms and successfully extinguishes his flames, if only for a moment. It wonât be long, but hopefully it will give you the time you need. You slather the mixture onto the ground next to his head, immobilizing his arms and trapping him beneath you.Â
He looks panicked for a moment, trying desperately to activate his quirk, but it canât get the air his fire needs to breathe through your gossamer web. You keep steady on his bucking hips, as chuckling he tries to pry his hands free of your thick, durable weave. Once he realizes itâs not going to happen and you havenât killed him yet, he seems to relax, if only slightly.Â
âSo, itâs not just a nickname.â He muses, teal eyes focused on your fangs through your grinning lips. âYou know, I kill spiders when theyâre in my house.âÂ
You throw him a faux pout, grabbing his jaw with your middle finger and thumb and holding him steady as you inspect the staples that line his jaw. âYouâre so cruel. Iâm just trying to protect my web. You canât truly blame me, can you? Youâd do the same.âÂ
His hips thrash again and this time you donât hold back the little moan it coaxes from you, His pupils dilate and for a brief second he seems frozen. At least before a smarmy smirk tugs at his upper lip. âYou got your money, doll. Iâm starting to think this isnât business after all.â
âMaybe itâs not.â You lean down, running your tongue across the textured expanse of his neck and stifling a giggle when he stiffens. âMaybe I see potential in your little group and I want in.âÂ
âThatâs nice of you.â He juts his face toward you only for you to pull back. âBut itâs really not up to me.âÂ
You withdraw your hand from his jaw and run it down his chest instead, fingertips slowly stimulating the rough, scarred skin beneath his neck. âThen who is it up to?âÂ
âThat would be the boss.â He grins, one hand breaking free of your web and immediately finding purchase in your hair. You go to grab his wrist but he tuts you, threatening you with a familiar warmth on your scalp. Long, skinny fingers coil around your roots and yank your head back, and eventually his other hand breaks free, coming up to grip at your waist. âAnd heâs going to want nothing to do with you.âÂ
He pulls you down closer to him, the moist heat from his breath collecting on the side of your neck as he keeps you steady on top of him. You can feel him hardening between your legs and you canât help but wiggle your hips to bolster the sensation.Â
âWhat do I need to do, then?âÂ
âIâd be willing to put in a good word for you,â The hand on your waist slides down to grip your ass, clenching the fatty skin and slowly moving you back and forth atop his hips. âIf youâre okay with working for it.âÂ
âYouâd be so generous, yeah?â You gyrate your lower body against him, feeling the head of his cock poking your clit through his rough jeans.Â
âYouâd be surprised what Iâll do if you make it worth it.â
âI guess I have no choice then.â Your tongue runs over the point of your fangs, swallowing back all the venom youâd had so ready. Sometimes itâs easier to catch flies with honey than vinegar, and you had the sweetest honey of all right between your thighs.Â
âSay the word and Iâll let you walk away, babe.â His fingers loosen their hold on your body but donât relinquish entirely. âBut if you donât, Iâm going to need you to prove your loyalty.â
You push his body down with your chest until the back of his head meets the gravel, allowing him to keep his hold on you. âIâm very loyal.âÂ
Your tits squish against his pecs and he sneaks a less than inconspicuous peak at them, cock throbbing against your apex. âProve it.â
You donât need any further prompting. He almost protests as you shake his hand free and scoot back farther down his legs, at least until he realizes what youâre doing. Your deft fingers work at the buttons of his jeans, yanking them down to his thighs before resituating yourself and working on your own buttons, pulling at them painfully slowly. Once youâve both exposed yourself to the open air, you canât help but look at his cock, thick and bobbing against his stomach. Itâs one of the only parts of him that isnât scarred and latched with metal, but the weeping tip looks so inviting. Every bone in your body wants to take him in your mouth and make him see God through sheer force of tongue, but youâve got a job to do and thereâs no time for play. Not this time anyway.Â
You sit up on your knees until heâs aligned with your hole, sinking down just enough to tease him with your tightness. He groans, trying to pull you down further, but youâre not having it. You arch your back, keeping your knees steady and allowing only the very tip of his cock to enter you.Â
âFuck- hurry it up, would you?âÂ
You grab his hands and push them down by his head again, sinking down on him as slow as you possibly can. His eyes roll back in his head, and he hisses all manner of curses as you situate him nice and snug between your suffocating walls. The head of his cock prods at your cervix as you sit on top of him but the fullness stuffed between your thighs forces a breathy moan from you.Â
He gives you no time to adjust to his girth, pumping his hips up into you as youâre still catching your breath. âShit! Youâre pretty fuckin tight, babe!â A shiver rolls down his back as his hands move to your hips and try to force you harder up and down against him
âSo impatient.â You croon, licking up his neck again before sinking your fangs deep into the rough tissue.Â
âFuck!âÂ
Heâs almost ready to shove you off of him before you start rolling your hips, letting his cock burrow deep into your silken cunt again and again, running your tongue along the column of his throat and nipping softly to gain his trust. Youâre not trying to poison him, not now. Your job right now is to gift him pleasure, and so you will.Â
âRisky-â He huffs in your ear, one hand smacking down hard enough on your ass that you yelp. âToying with me like that. I can guess what those fangs can do.âÂ
âIf only you knew everything.â You sigh, letting his hands go in favor of pulling back, your palms finding his knees behind you as your back arches and puts your tits on display for him.Â
He canât resist. The only thing separating him from your chest is a flimsy shirt which he quickly disposes of, heating his fingers enough that the fabric begins to shred before he swiftly pulls it apart. He quickly takes advantage of the fact that your milky tits are within reaching distance, latching on to a nipple and sucking almost painfully.Â
A high pitched keen escapes your throat as he puffs and hollows his cheeks, slobbering on your chest with one hand on the crook of your shoulder to keep you anchored close. His cock pummels your insides, pelvis stimulating your clit as you ride him. Youâre clinging to control but you can feel it slipping with every sloppy lick of his tongue and every brutal thrust of his hips. His heaving becomes more and more erratic, moist breath practically burning your chest on the odd second he pulls away to watch your face. Your eyes close and you lose yourself in the euphoria of his cock, letting him hit you deep and hard just where you need it. Eventually, he releases your nipple from his mouth and you figure youâre both about to cum.Â
That comes to a screeching halt when he slows his pistoning, grabbing your waist with both hands and keeping you from riding him either.Â
âWhat the hell!â You whine, trying and failing to chase your rapidly disappearing orgasm.Â
âDabi.â He hisses, bringing a hand up and kneading your breast with fingers that are too hot to handle, squeezing your nipple and sending another jolt of hot pleasure between your legs.Â
âWhat?âÂ
Your teeth are clenching, active frustration boiling in your gut. You were so close. Somehow he knows, but he knocks you off of him, watching with mirthful eyes as you land on your butt beside him. Instead of mocking you, he sits up and quickly pulls off his coat, throwing to the ground behind him and spreading it around haphazardly. Before you have time to question, he lurches forward, grabbing you by the throat and throwing you down onto the fabric beneath him.Â
âI wanna hear you say it.â He says, maneuvering your legs open and placing his thick cock back at your drooling cunt. âWhen you cum on my dick, I wanna hear you say my name.âÂ
He refuses to move until you acknowledge him, so you do.Â
âP-please? Dabi?âÂ
âGood girlâ He purrs, plunging inside you again so fast you hardly have time to recover. The hand around your neck heats and you scream, at least until a pair of charred lips forces themselves against your open ones. He pounds into you with renewed energy, slamming with a force that jerks your head back with every thrust. The hand that isnât firmly clasped around your throat finds its way between your legs and rubs in tight, calculated circles. His slick tongue worms into your throat, licking the front of your teeth.
âYouâre cute-â he huffs into your open mouth. âI might keep you around. Youâre more useful to me as a whore than a loan shark. Is that what you want, doll? To take my loads in your warm little holes? Iâll take real good care of you.â
You want to tell him no. You have a business, a mission. But as he drills deeper inside you, youâre so close to saying whatever he wants so long as he doesnât stop. The electric warmth between your thighs is rapidly building, coiling up and ready to burst and youâll say whatever he wants as long as he keeps fucking you.Â
Some part of him must sense this, because he pulls away from your throat, weaving his fingers up through the crown of your head again and pulling you up to face him. His eyes are glazed, sweat dripping down his temple and he huffs breath through his nostrils thatâs practically steam at this point.Â
âBeg me to cum.âÂ
âPlease-âÂ
His fingers work against your clit but just enough to keep the pleasure from fading. You need it faster. You need it harder.
âMore!âÂ
He hums and licks up your lips, slipping his tongue between your teeth again for a brief second. âWhatâs the magic word?âÂ
The fingers on your pussy heat slightly as he applies more pressure, watching you through heavily lidded eyes as you writhe and squirm.Â
âD-Dabi!âÂ
âSuch a good girl. Say âDabi please let me cum!â
Itâs degrading and filthy but fuck you want it. Plus, remember, this is just business. Right?
âDabi! P-Please let me cum on your cock! Please! I-I need-!âÂ
He bites down on your bottom lip before the words can leave your swollen tongue. Your body wiggles restlessly as you wait for him to give you what he promised.Â
âGood girls get rewards.âÂ
His hips pull back and shove almost impossibly deep inside, forcing a loud cry from you before he slams mouth down onto yours. His fingers work overtime on your engorged clit, utilizing the wetness seeping from your hole as his cock thrusts in and out. His tongue worms past your lips again and explores every inch he can reach, chuckling as you moan shamelessly into his mouth.Â
Though he starts off with a precise rhythm, it quickly becomes erratic as he chases his own pleasure while delivering yours. The hand at your apex is working overtime and the one in your hair is warm enough that youâd likely be a bit worried if you had the mental capacity. He uses both of them to maneuver you to his precise liking, fucking into you like youâre a pliable little doll built solely for his pleasure.Â
Heâs mumbling incoherently, breathing hot and heavy against your cheek. Your needy moans and whimpers only drive him to move faster and harder as your own hips work double time to meet his powerful pulsating. If you werenât the one making the noises, you never would have believed it was you.Â
âFuck- shit! Gunna cum nice and deep in your pretty little cunt! Gunna make sure youâre dripping for days-â He cuts off partway through to let out a heafy groan as you clench your muscles tighter to milk him. âGod, so fucking tight-â
Your orgasm is approaching quickly, pain from his bony hips digging into the fleshy fat of your thighs barely a whisper compared to the white hot pressure building at the base of your spine. You can feel his cock twitch against your cervix with every punch against it and you know heâs close too.Â
You dig your nails in, fingers clamped against his shoulders and using his movements to build your own momentum. The cacophony of moans between you two becomes louder and more unhinged, him whispering depraved fantasies in your ear that only drive you further to completion. Your head falls back down to the ground as you lose the ability to keep it up any longer, cord finally snapping and unraveling as he throws you over the edge.Â
You practically scream as he continues fucking you through your orgasm, legs constricting ever tighter around his narrow hips as you push yourself up harder to chase every ounce of sensation he has to offer you. Stars dance behind your shut eyes and your entire body buzzes with prickling bliss that radiates from your core. You canât feel the pain in your knees from the asphalt before he flipped you or the localized ache from him ripping at your hair; only the overwhelming, pulsing euphoria as he continues to hit that sweet, spongy spot deep inside you as you ride out your peak.Â
His animalistic grunts turn even more primal as your walls flutter around his thick cock, clenching and pulsing around him until he canât hold back the tide of cresting pleasure anymore. Hot cum floods your insides, so warm you swear it nearly burns you. He continues pumping as it begins to leak from inside you, obscene squelching echoing from the point of entry. He turns his head, finding the crook of your neck and biting down hard enough you cry out, marking you one last time as he continues to stroke himself with your cunt until every last drop has been drained.Â
His cock throbs for a moment before slowly softening inside you as he tries to see straight. Youâve yet to open your eyes, only twitching in overstimulation as he withdraws his hand from between your slippery thighs. He allows you to catch your breath for a moment before lightly pushing himself up off of you, careful not to hurt you.Â
You slowly regain the ability to move your body and rollout from underneath him, wobbling legs dropping you back onto the cement instead of allowing you to stand when you try. Itâs a struggle to pull up your pants since your legs have decided they no longer want to work, but somehow you manage to get them pulled up and buttoned, Dabiâs cum seeping from between your thighs and staining onto the fabric. Dabi himself hoists himself to his feet, using the wall as support. Heâs trying desperately to seem unaffected but you donât miss the falter of his legs like a newborn fawn when he first rises to his feet.Â
âThanks doll, that was fun.â He somehow manages to bend over and grab his coat from the floor, snaking his arms through the armholes and readjusting it over his chest. âI think Iâll be in touch.â
You raise your head, cocking an eyebrow at him. âYou think?â
âI dunno.â He shrugs, beginning his walk back down the alleyway where he came from. He turns to look at you one last time, sly grin tugging at the corners of his lips. âI might need some more convincing.âÂ
#Dabi x Reader#nsft#Baby's first dabi fic#do not be too hard on me this is low effort and just to test out Dabi lmao#I edited sorta kinda I swear#Not a whole lot but you know#Reader has a spider quirk that gives her fangs and lovely webbing she can make from her pores#ahaha Iâm a fucking pathetic failure.
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