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Entry tags:
Home, Home by onpaperfirst (PG-13)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
onpaperfirst
Author Website: LJ is fic-only
Why this must be read:
One of the best things to have come out of the new X-Files movie is seeing so many writers' versions of what the six years between the end of the series and the beginning of the movie were like. For many writers, it was an angsty several years. In Home, Home, there is some pain, to be sure, but it's also a world of discovery for Mulder and Scully as they buy a house, adjust to no longer being FBI agents and partners, and attempt to conquer the little things, like gardening and making French toast.
This is a gorgeously written story. The author has a true gift with language, making each sentence stand alone as a thing of beauty.
They’d gotten better at talking about their old life, the little things that inhabited it. Little things that were no longer fraught with such meaning. It didn’t feel like a tightrope act to mention six, seven, eight years earlier.
"When did your hair get so long, you hippie?" He finger combed through it, shaking out the tangles. He sometimes woke up with it slung across his lips, soapy sweet.
"You should talk." She reached up and rubbed at his sandpapery chin.
Her hair used to be all sharp angles, glossy strands whipping past her mouth, cornering over her moody eyes.
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." He tugged at an end, twisted it around his finger.
Home, Home
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: One-shot
Author on LJ:
onpaperfirst Author Website: LJ is fic-only
Why this must be read:
One of the best things to have come out of the new X-Files movie is seeing so many writers' versions of what the six years between the end of the series and the beginning of the movie were like. For many writers, it was an angsty several years. In Home, Home, there is some pain, to be sure, but it's also a world of discovery for Mulder and Scully as they buy a house, adjust to no longer being FBI agents and partners, and attempt to conquer the little things, like gardening and making French toast.
This is a gorgeously written story. The author has a true gift with language, making each sentence stand alone as a thing of beauty.
They’d gotten better at talking about their old life, the little things that inhabited it. Little things that were no longer fraught with such meaning. It didn’t feel like a tightrope act to mention six, seven, eight years earlier.
"When did your hair get so long, you hippie?" He finger combed through it, shaking out the tangles. He sometimes woke up with it slung across his lips, soapy sweet.
"You should talk." She reached up and rubbed at his sandpapery chin.
Her hair used to be all sharp angles, glossy strands whipping past her mouth, cornering over her moody eyes.
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." He tugged at an end, twisted it around his finger.
Home, Home