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Belmont, Ohio, 3:36 P.M. by Sarah Segretti (PG)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: vignette
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Sarah Segretti's The Little Things
Why this must be read: I found the resolution of the William arc to be so heartrending that I resisted even watching the episode for the longest time. In fact, I resisted season nine in its entirety. Those DVDs sat in their box unopened, their owner sticking to her sworn path of "Deny Everything." When I finally broke down and watched the episode, I was shocked at the cruelty of the writers toward Scully.
I avoid babyfic for this reason. It just makes me sad, because I want to believe in a happy ending for the perfect little family that we got to view so briefly at the end of season eight. I want to believe and I can't. It didn't happen, something else did, something unimaginable to me, as a mother.
In "Belmont, Ohio," Sarah Segretti lets me envision an ending to The X-Files that isn't quite as sad, quite as hopeless, quite as heartless, as the one we were left with at the end of "The Truth." Although she wrote this before season nine aired, it is not as bleak as it must have appeared when first posted. It is a happy ending, by comparison, and when I read it, for just a little while, I let myself believe.
Belmont, Ohio, 3:36P.M.
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: vignette
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Sarah Segretti's The Little Things
Why this must be read: I found the resolution of the William arc to be so heartrending that I resisted even watching the episode for the longest time. In fact, I resisted season nine in its entirety. Those DVDs sat in their box unopened, their owner sticking to her sworn path of "Deny Everything." When I finally broke down and watched the episode, I was shocked at the cruelty of the writers toward Scully.
I avoid babyfic for this reason. It just makes me sad, because I want to believe in a happy ending for the perfect little family that we got to view so briefly at the end of season eight. I want to believe and I can't. It didn't happen, something else did, something unimaginable to me, as a mother.
In "Belmont, Ohio," Sarah Segretti lets me envision an ending to The X-Files that isn't quite as sad, quite as hopeless, quite as heartless, as the one we were left with at the end of "The Truth." Although she wrote this before season nine aired, it is not as bleak as it must have appeared when first posted. It is a happy ending, by comparison, and when I read it, for just a little while, I let myself believe.
Belmont, Ohio, 3:36P.M.
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Edit: I fixed it.