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“What is it?” she said “What’s wrong?”
“Go and get changed,” he said softly “There’s been an accident. Your Mom has been taken to Georgetown Memorial. I’ve just spoken to Bill, he’s on his way.”
“Oh my god!” she stood knocking her coffee over in her haste “Shit,” she grabbed a wad of paper towels and started trying to clean up “What happened?”
He stilled her hands, placing both of his over hers “Look at me please” he said gently, his tone reassuring. She didn’t want to, she knew one look at him and she’d crumble but she did it anyway. His eyes were soft and reassuring brimming with concern.
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31 May 2026
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“What have you got there Agent Scully?”
“Wine.” She said simply
“I see that, contraband from the reunion I take it?” he asked teasingly, “and on duty agent Scully, now that is risky.” He tried to feign appalled indignancy but the lines at the corners of his eyes betrayed him.
“Are you going to share with the rest of the class?” he asked.
She smiled looking up at him in that way she rarely did these days. It was the mischievous look of the Scully that laughed in the rain and the Scully that ate ribs with fuck me eyes. The Scully that the abduction and the cancer had tried to kill. The girl who had burned like a flame petered into the woman that lived in the embers. It was the flicker of combustion she let slip very occasionally.
It was compelling. It was the rare moment that made him stand up and listen. It spoke to something primal.“That was the plan” she grinned “The night is still young… and so are we”
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- Part 5 of Living in the Embers
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31 May 2026
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He usually liked this part; the darkness enveloping them in close proximity, the oncoming headlights lighting her face for split seconds at a time, the calm, the crackle of the radio and the good-natured arguments about station choice. It usually felt comfortable. It was low stakes time in the presence of a beautiful woman; his scale dwarfing hers in a way it never seemed to in the field, the scent of her perfume and her hair. He could snatch the briefest of looks at her profile with little recourse, catch the flame of her hair in the headlights the chiaroscuro that settled on her features. That face was built to be rendered by a great master he thought, Rembrandt maybe. No, he corrected, Caravaggio; dramatic and reverential, like she was, and lit from within.
He realised that he shouldn’t really be so aware of all of this, it wasn’t entirely professional. She had an effect on him that he tried hard to deny.
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- Part 1 of Living in the Embers
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31 May 2026
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Over six years, 42 Hegel Place had changed. Mulder’s bachelor pad had been rearranged, reflecting his mercurial moods. Since his brain had been lobbed into by their enemies, Scully was spending more time there than ever; influencing its arrangement. It is where they both retreated at the end of a long week.
Their Friday movie-routine, however, becomes disrupted when Mulder starts “accidentally” leaving his adult films in the VHS player for Scully to find.
Was he trying to shock her, inspire interest, or tell her about himself?
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30 Apr 2026
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For all her hemming and hawing and perfunctory dubiety, she does, in the end, walk hand in hand with him.
a series of vignettes as mulder and scully are assigned to cases in virginia over the years.
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03 Apr 2026