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Endeavours Too Short of Desires by leiascully (PG)
Fandom: THE X-FILES
Pairing: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Length: ~ 4300 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leiascully
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read:
Far from being the soulmates other fans imagined, Mulder and Scully seemed like very different people to me. And while I loved watching their UST on the show, frankly, the RST in fanfic often bores me. In this retelling of the sixth season,leiascully captures Mulder's feelings of ambivalence toward Scully: wanting her, being annoyed by her, being annoyed by wanting her. He takes her away for the week-end, ostensibly to chase ghosts, sits with her in a hot tub—and does nothing!
He worries that he loves her by association. He worries that she tolerates him simply because she's used to him. In the daylight, in the office, their lives feel so ordinary. Two hired guns for the FBI, overeducated, underpaid, no scope at all for the kind of epic love he wants to believe they could share someday when they get around to saying it. When they find a safe space. "Son," says the bottom of the whiskey bottle some nights, "you're delusional."
He wants to believe.
Yes, indeed. That is the Moose and Squirrel I know and love.
Read Endeavours Too Short of Desires at her Livejournal | her AO3 account.
Pairing: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Length: ~ 4300 words
Author on LJ:
leiascullyAuthor Website: AO3
Why this must be read:
Far from being the soulmates other fans imagined, Mulder and Scully seemed like very different people to me. And while I loved watching their UST on the show, frankly, the RST in fanfic often bores me. In this retelling of the sixth season,
leiascully captures Mulder's feelings of ambivalence toward Scully: wanting her, being annoyed by her, being annoyed by wanting her. He takes her away for the week-end, ostensibly to chase ghosts, sits with her in a hot tub—and does nothing! He worries that he loves her by association. He worries that she tolerates him simply because she's used to him. In the daylight, in the office, their lives feel so ordinary. Two hired guns for the FBI, overeducated, underpaid, no scope at all for the kind of epic love he wants to believe they could share someday when they get around to saying it. When they find a safe space. "Son," says the bottom of the whiskey bottle some nights, "you're delusional."
He wants to believe.
Yes, indeed. That is the Moose and Squirrel I know and love.
Read Endeavours Too Short of Desires at her Livejournal | her AO3 account.