Story 231: "In Oculus Mentis" by adrenalin211

[wendelah1]

If memory serves, I first read "In Oculus Mentis" back when it was posted in 2011 for that year's het big bang. It was a good read, so good that I feel stupid for not posting it here sooner. It's an alternate universe version of "Requiem." Fix-it fic, you could call it. Some days we need that.

In Oculus Mentis (40078 words) by adrenalin211
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[tri_sbr]

(tried to post this reply ~a week ago; second try)

I think Mulder was trying to send a message to Scully that there was more in the letter than what you could discern from the surface, while genuinely warning her off from pursuing it. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by Scully not understanding the message right away. She took the letter right to the Lonegunmen to get their help.

Good point, she did go straight to the Gunmen. When I said Scully didn't understand the message right away, the passage I was thinking of was this:
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“No,” Frohike said casually. “No, he definitely wrote it.” He squinted at the lines on the paper, as though by doing so he could read between them. He looked at her, apologetic. “I’m just wondering why.”

As Scully calmed down she heard the question behind his confusion before Frohike needed to spell it out. He’d realized something she would have herself, had it not been the fact she’d been overcome by emotion and unable to stand up straight, let alone decipher anything about the letter beyond the wonder of reading the physicality of his words, the sight of his handwriting, familiar, on paper.

What Frohike didn’t understand was Mulder’s reason for providing this intel when, by Mulder’s own admission, the knowledge was dangerous and something about which, according to the letter, she was to do nothing.

Now that this had been brought to her attention, in fact, she couldn’t understand it either.
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but you are right - she clearly caught on that something was amiss right away.

(I'll figure out how to do better formatting soon...maybe.)