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crack_van2006-08-19 09:52 pm
embroiderama) wrote in crack_van2006-08-19 09:52 pm
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Solace by Pares (NC-17)
Fandom: X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Skinner
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kormantic
Author Website: story listing on DitB archive
Why this must be read: Mulder's freaking out in the aftermath of a case that leaves Scully in the hospital, and Skinner helps him relax. I love the Skinner characterization in this story--how he's at turns captivated by Mulder and frustrated by him, gently loving and then paranoid. And Mulder, exhausted and strung-out, is a thing of beauty.
Mulder was pacing the squalid motel room like a caged coyote. The last one Skinner had seen outside of The Discovery Channel had been at a zoo, where it had moved as fretfully and with as much demented focus as Mulder did now, half mad with seething restlessness. This particular coyote was wearing running shorts and gleaming with sweat in the low, dancing light of one fat candle.
Skinner shoved the door wide open, and folded his arms across his chest. For a long moment, he allowed himself to look past the man's distress, and saw only the muscular, longboned animal grace. He gave himself a guilty start by wishing for his glasses. Skinner had had no intention of rudely ogling this man; he reminded himself that he'd come to talk Mulder down off whatever ledge his self-blame had goaded him onto.
He cleared his throat for effect, and finally, after having pacing his room for nearly half an hour, Mulder came to a halt.
"Do you have any idea what time it is, Agent Mulder?"
"Will I date myself if I say "Howdy Doody Time", sir?"
Solace
(If anybody knows of a website or anything other than an archive listing for Pares, please let me know, and I'll update this.)
Pairing: Mulder/Skinner
Author on LJ:
kormanticAuthor Website: story listing on DitB archive
Why this must be read: Mulder's freaking out in the aftermath of a case that leaves Scully in the hospital, and Skinner helps him relax. I love the Skinner characterization in this story--how he's at turns captivated by Mulder and frustrated by him, gently loving and then paranoid. And Mulder, exhausted and strung-out, is a thing of beauty.
Mulder was pacing the squalid motel room like a caged coyote. The last one Skinner had seen outside of The Discovery Channel had been at a zoo, where it had moved as fretfully and with as much demented focus as Mulder did now, half mad with seething restlessness. This particular coyote was wearing running shorts and gleaming with sweat in the low, dancing light of one fat candle.
Skinner shoved the door wide open, and folded his arms across his chest. For a long moment, he allowed himself to look past the man's distress, and saw only the muscular, longboned animal grace. He gave himself a guilty start by wishing for his glasses. Skinner had had no intention of rudely ogling this man; he reminded himself that he'd come to talk Mulder down off whatever ledge his self-blame had goaded him onto.
He cleared his throat for effect, and finally, after having pacing his room for nearly half an hour, Mulder came to a halt.
"Do you have any idea what time it is, Agent Mulder?"
"Will I date myself if I say "Howdy Doody Time", sir?"
Solace
(If anybody knows of a website or anything other than an archive listing for Pares, please let me know, and I'll update this.)
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