Story 93: "Moment of Inertia" by Pteropod
It's been a long time since my last entry here, for which I apologize. I've been very preoccupied with the impending closure of Geocities fan sites. In any case, this week's story was nominated by amyhit. For those readers who are utterly uninterested in season 8 fic and wish we would just get on with it already, that's okay. Just nominate something else
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This is so John Doggett:
He catches her drooling on the desk blotter at 6:40 one
morning, still in the outfit she was wearing the day before.
If he was her friend he'd suggest therapy. As it is, he
offers to get her coffee. She refuses, of course. She
doesn't drink coffee.
I love this bit because I'm one of those who holds on to voice mail and phone numbers of people who are long gone. It's as though you hope that this time, somehow, dialing that same number will produce a response. And it never does:
She paid for Mulder's cellphone service for three months, and
called his number every day. His voicemail message never
changed, and he never called back.
I love the way it incorporates the episodes. It feels like watching the eps on fast forward, but with all the behind the scenes and thoughts that we didn't get to see. Come to think of it, it was fic that helped me get through and make much greater sense of S8 & 9. I'm not one of the haters of the final two seasons, but they sure were difficult at times.
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I only wish I had both my memory and my information/bookmarks for S8 & 9 fic. There was some great stuff out there. Shame people chose to ignore it.
Thank you also for saving these stories. Even though it's been way too long since I've read fic, it still seems sad to have them all disappear.
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The best fan fiction does enrich our experience of problematic episodes, doesn't it?
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