Even now he would still be hard pressed to say exactly how long he has really been in love with Scully, to pinpoint when it was that trust and friendship and standing back to back with her as the whole world went to Hell had burst like a nova into something greater and far more terrible, but sometimes he really has to wonder why on earth there was ever a time that he wasn't.
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bravenewcentury in
The Ineffable Aura of Planet Spooky, a post "all things" fic
(WHICH YOU SHOULD ALL READ, along with its partner fic
Lover)