And if I stepped out of my body by leiascully (PG)

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Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Mulder/Scully (ish)
Length: a spare 850 words
Author on LJ: leiascully
Author Website: fic tag
Why this must be read:

..."Because Mulder" is a totally insufficient reason, but it's mine. I'm an unrepentant Mulderist, and this is a beautiful little crawl around (the nicer parts of) his head. And then there's the language, which is spare and beautiful:

His good works were not enough: he was untouched by grace. He was no more than the shape described by his bones, barely three-dimensional, slipping through the Bureau's cracks accidentally on purpose until he found his lair, shoving out the copy machines and making a space for himself, or what was left of him. He built an altar to worship the shreds of hope in the void, the preternatural happenings so improbable as to approach, through a glass darkly, miracles.

This is technically a Per Manum infill, but it contains only a single sentence reference to the episode; it's a character study through and through.

And if I stepped out of my body