Fic: Shouting Into a Hurricane
Title: Shouting Into a Hurricane
Fandom: The X-Files
Author: rachg82
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Mulder/Scully
Word Count: 4,600 words
Spoilers: Oh, yes. This entire thing is simply my speculation based solely on the spoilers that have come out for the upcoming revival. Consider yourselves warned.
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Fandom: The X-Files
Author: rachg82
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Mulder/Scully
Word Count: 4,600 words
Spoilers: Oh, yes. This entire thing is simply my speculation based solely on the spoilers that have come out for the upcoming revival. Consider yourselves warned.
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Excuse me while I fangirl! Pleeeeease do not concern yourself with your free-verse type writing because it is just gorgeous. You are a fantastic writer.
Imma quote the hell outta this now... I had to devour it all in one go first and then go back...
those words were beginning to feel fruitless & absurd,
like shouting into a hurricane.
His presence in her life had always been a force of nature
Nice. Love the shout out to the title.
all the planets in the solar system
aligning beside them;
distant, fading stars genuflecting in their wake
Beautiful.
a would-be Spartan with blazing eyes,
waging a quixotic kamikaze campaign as only he could
Ha! Perfect Mulder description.
Your Scully is PITCH perfect...
Time for what, Mulder? To save the world?
That whole paragraph made her voice ring in my ears.
And here I thought you said the world hadn't ended.
Agh! Clever and heart breaking - I so felt for Mulder but then again I totally understood why she had to leave.
but in the end,
pure devotion won out.
Not the kind that never goes to bed angry,
but the kind that still remains in full force
after a week spent sleeping on the couch
Oh, hello. I know this kind of devotion. You are a wise one.
Continued....
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I've belonged to you ever since I read that crazy Einstein thesis of yours.
You might as well have stamped 'Property of Dana Scully' on my ass.
Hahaha love him.
She may only have been treading water without him,
aimless in her direction except when moving slowly
towards an aching, hollow
horizon,
but at least she felt like she could breathe
Love this imagery-laden description of exactly how she'd been suffocating and needed to break free for a while.
she'd rediscovered the precise way the light fell on her face
when she stopped fighting the future
& reliving the past
Again, how are you so wise?!
and explain why he'd given up
& surrendered
his child's unwritten future for a few years' worth
of domestic bliss?
This is perfect and I love that you have Scully knowing and acknowledging this but fearing that he can't win, the game rigged from the start.
Her feelings refused to be boxed in by sentences & punctuation marks.
They drifted around the room, instead,
stopping at the bed, the lamp, the nightstand --
all their shared spaces,
now subtracted by one.
♥ this description. Lovely.
crisp & regal, yet hot & vulnerable at the core
Oh yes! That's our Scully!
He had to actually work
at approximating the correct facial expressions
and mannerisms of a casual social being.
and
He couldn't run fast enough to escape the rushing floodwater
she'd unleashed.
(He was gonna need a bigger boat.)
..made me chuckle - love the humour throughout this because that's so them - the drama and the darkness alongside the love and the humour.
"You know, even once you were my wife, I actually missed calling you my partner."
She took his hand, now standing merely an arm's length apart.
"I'll always be your partner."
Gah. Love love love. I want the new series to go JUST like this, pretty please????!
Adore this, sweetie.
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*snort* Far from it. But I have been thinking a lot lately about being present & staying in the moment, so that played a big role in my writing here. Especially because I really do think it's what Scully needed in order to heal & to build up the strength necessary to rejoin the fight later (hopefully with a better balance the second time around).
This is perfect and I love that you have Scully knowing and acknowledging this but fearing that he can't win, the game rigged from the start.
I figured she must've felt that way at some point, because how could you not after everything she'd been through? Plus, I can't imagine she'd have been able to walk away from the cause if she felt like her sacrifices were making a difference. I also was remembering what she said to Mulder in Never Again about them taking two steps forward & three steps back while her own life stood still.
love the humour throughout this
Oh, good, because I didn't want it to come across as TOO angsty or melodramatic.
I want the new series to go JUST like this, pretty please????!
If only I had that power! No, but to be real? In order for my fic to take place on the show itself, I would have to go back & add a director's note to make sure that the kiss at the end be so badly lit that the audience can only make out 25% of their faces!
Thanks so much for your comments here, bb. I especially appreciate you taking the time to let me know which parts worked for you & why. *hugs you*
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Oh, I so needed to hear that, so thank you!
Nice. Love the shout out to the title.
Actually, it was the other way around, heh. The fic came first, then the title followed.
Ha! Perfect Mulder description.
I'm so glad that line worked for you, because I felt persistently insecure about it! I was like, "Can I get away with putting quixotic AND kamikaze together in one sentence? Will my readers get that I know those are two very different things? Especially with the Spartan bit thrown in as well?"
And I was worried my Scully monologue was too wordy/cheesy, too, so thank you for the reassurance there as well!
(to be cont'd in my reply to your next comment)
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