Even in Another Time

This is my take on Mulder and Scully's interactions post-Redux. There's angst, UST, Skinner and a scene with a baseball, though no bat, sadly."At some point he gave her his key, they became one another's emergency contacts, and it became acceptable to call past any version of a polite cut-off time. She knows the error of this easy slide, and its forking problems, the way it gives her a sense of entitlement, and the disinterested and in-denial possessiveness it creates in him. She remembers thinking of talking about this to a friend - if she still had friends with whom she could discuss such things - and of saying how hard this all is. But she knows the lie in that; this is the easiest thing; this is the only thing that she knows how to do, that she can do."(Originally posted to Ephemeral/Gossamer in 2009)