Melancholia by Jeylan (NC-17)

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Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully
Length: 65K
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Jeylan's gossamer page
Why this must be read: Mulder and Scully fight, flirt, ponder deep questions and break into old broken down houses to explore - everything they do best. Jeylan intertwines poetry through the story, and her prose is poetic and full of imagery as well. A beautiful, joyful story that's also really, really hot.


With her face tilted up to the clouding sky, and her eyes closed,
she wrinkled her nose. "I'm tired of demons. Don't you ever get
tired of demons? Don't you wish we could just hang out someplace
like this, I mean all day, and just pretend that this is why we
came? Just to hang out?"

//She's happy. She really could sit on this porch all day, being
happy.// "Yeah, sure, Scully. Just hang out. Sure." //This is
her idea of stable. A kind of order she relates to.
Foundation's a little off, maybe, but nothing that can't be
fixed. She likes this place.//

Mulder's eyes fell unseeing to the opened page. //She actually
likes this place. It's familiar to her.//

Mulder felt an exquisite pressure behind his eyes, behind his
ribs, a tightening, keening, crying sort of sensation like
bittersweet music. Sitting here, suspended between someone
else's past, and Scully. Sitting here, watching butterflies
flutter through apple blossoms from the porch of this abandoned
house, and the awareness of being late, too late for the exorcism
down the road in Marysville. Sun sinking, far from home, and
late. Nothing meshing the way it was supposed to. A fine, drawn
out, whispering wailing sweet sweet sweet sort of feeling.


Melancholia

Comments

[mmmarmalade.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to say......Woooow.
If Jeylan is not a published writer, she should be.