Fic: The Last Time (Scully/Mulder)
Title: The Last Time
Fandom: The X Files
Characters: Scully/Mulder
Prompt: #056 Argument & In XF:IWTB, Mulder agrees to work on the case on one condition. Expand on that.
Word Count: 246
Rating: T+
Summary: "What condition?" Scully asks. She fixes cool blue eyes on Mulder. Careful. Cautious.
Notes: Written for 100_situations and phyrelight. 17/8/09.
"What condition?" Scully asks. She fixes cool blue eyes on Mulder. Careful. Cautious.
Often Mulder was the most predictable person she knew. He had patterns, ways of behaving that he was set in.
Sometimes though, he threw a curve ball. Now seems a likely time for a curve ball.
Mulder shrugs and tilts his head to the side, giving her a clear view of his beard. He clears his throat. "I think you know what."
"Even so, tell me." Firm.
"Come with me. Help me on this, Scully," Mulder very nearly pleads. "It'll be just like old times."
Scully sighs, covers her face with one hand. "Mulder, I thought we'd agreed. No more cases. And I - "
"You put me onto this. It's all you, Scully."
She removes her hand and studies him. Sees the determination written all over his face. Realises it's a lost cause.
She no longer has a choice in the matter. Mulder is in (all in, it appears from his expression) and she has always followed him, blindly more often than not.
Why change now?
And anyway, she had gotten him onto the case. It was her fault, her duty to follow it through.
"Okay, okay," she caves. "I'll help. But if it goes too far..."
"You're out," Mulder finishes.
"And this is the last time."
Mulder races in and kisses her and she can't hold back the laugh that escapes her lips. "The last time," she repeats, kissing him back.
Fandom: The X Files
Characters: Scully/Mulder
Prompt: #056 Argument & In XF:IWTB, Mulder agrees to work on the case on one condition. Expand on that.
Word Count: 246
Rating: T+
Summary: "What condition?" Scully asks. She fixes cool blue eyes on Mulder. Careful. Cautious.
Notes: Written for 100_situations and phyrelight. 17/8/09.
"What condition?" Scully asks. She fixes cool blue eyes on Mulder. Careful. Cautious.
Often Mulder was the most predictable person she knew. He had patterns, ways of behaving that he was set in.
Sometimes though, he threw a curve ball. Now seems a likely time for a curve ball.
Mulder shrugs and tilts his head to the side, giving her a clear view of his beard. He clears his throat. "I think you know what."
"Even so, tell me." Firm.
"Come with me. Help me on this, Scully," Mulder very nearly pleads. "It'll be just like old times."
Scully sighs, covers her face with one hand. "Mulder, I thought we'd agreed. No more cases. And I - "
"You put me onto this. It's all you, Scully."
She removes her hand and studies him. Sees the determination written all over his face. Realises it's a lost cause.
She no longer has a choice in the matter. Mulder is in (all in, it appears from his expression) and she has always followed him, blindly more often than not.
Why change now?
And anyway, she had gotten him onto the case. It was her fault, her duty to follow it through.
"Okay, okay," she caves. "I'll help. But if it goes too far..."
"You're out," Mulder finishes.
"And this is the last time."
Mulder races in and kisses her and she can't hold back the laugh that escapes her lips. "The last time," she repeats, kissing him back.