"Other People" by Pares (unrated; PG-13)

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Fandom: THE X FILES
Pairing: gen
Author on LJ: kormantic
Author Website: Skalab

Why this must be read:

"Monday" is the sixth-season X-Files episode about the repeating day. Everyone in it is trapped in a time loop, over and over and over again, and only one woman is aware of it. Pam watches this day, over and over and over again, with all its death, destruction, and grief; stuck in that day, she never gets to heal, to forget, to hope.

"Other People" is Pam's story.

I forget more than I can remember now; it's all blurring together. I can tell you that the fat man with the gray hair had five kids. That once he kissed his wife on the shoulder before rolling out of bed to take his shower. Only once, though. Just that one time, out of the maybe six times I watched him wake up. I could see him from the ground floor window pretty easily.

I can't remember his name, or the names of any of his kids, even though I brought them a pizza once, after following the officer who'd come to report their father dead in a bombing on 8th street. The mom didn't even seem to notice me. The kids were confused. They were surprisingly young; I mean, his wife must have had them really close together. I saw a T. V. show once about how multiple births run in families. Maybe she'd had two sets of fraternal twins.

"Other People"

Comments

[thete1.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. This is one of my favorite XF stories *ever*. Hell, it's one of my fave stories *period*.

*Good* choice.

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Ah, one of my favorite stories EVER -- and about one of my favorites episodes. It's also one of those that encouraged me to write XFfic from secondary- and tertiary-characters' POV, because it made me see that their sideways perspective could shed a very different light on the XF universe as a whole.

Damn, I love this story. Thanks for reccing it.