ext_13169 ([identity profile] denynothing1.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-09-19 08:41 pm
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Synesthesia by Haphazard Method (PG)

Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully UST
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] haphazardmethod
Author Website: Greetings from Haphazard Method

Why this must be read: This is a short, lyrical post-Amor Fati story that shows Scully tangled up in all that has happened to her and trying to see her way clear to what might happen next. Fascinated by the victim in her and Mulder's current case, a synesthete, whose unique brain chemistry enabled her to "see" sounds, Scully wonders what her own tendency to see the world in black and white might be causing her to miss.



They say you never hear it, but maybe you just forget, distracted by fury-hot metal melting flesh, or maybe you remember only the blur, gratefully sinking into an oyster shroud of pain.

Melanie Zweier heard it coming. Melanie -- melody -- who heard all the colors of the rainbow, like Kandinsky, and Nabokov, too, for whom the French long 'a' was the sound of polished ebony. Did they hear more? Hear differently? Or did they just listen with more care?

Synesthesia by Haphazard Method