<The Way You Love
Charge version 1.1
X-Files fic by the BuffyOtaku
Disclaimer: “Fox Mulder” and “Dana Scully” are the property of the actors, Chris Carter, Ten Fifteen, Fox, and other people who are not me. Don’t sue.
Lyrics from the song “Charge” by Splendid, and as accurate as I can get without some printed in the CD cover.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sort of a companion piece to my Angel short, using the same song as inspiration. And this really isn’t fic -- it’s sort of an alternate script for the final scene of this season’s premiere episode. ( Come on, this is my first X-Fic. And it’s not really blatant plagiarism!)
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the way you love
have you got a name for it?
because I don’t understand it
“Mulder? Mulder, it’s me...” Dana Scully shook her head at him, even though he couldn’t see her face through the thin veneer of his apartment door. Her red hair shook with the exasperated motion and she pursed her lips. “Open up!”
The muffled “Coming!” finally silenced the woman’s frustrated knocking. “Be right there, don’t get your undies in a bunch.”
Despite herself, Scully grinned until the door swung open. Schooling her expression to its usual serenity, she walked into the dimly lit living room and turned to face her partner. “What took you so long?”
“I was shaving.” He gestured with the towel in his hand.
“Oh.” She paused and looked more closely at him. “You seem better.”
“I feel better.”
“I was...worried.” She sighed and sat down on the sofa. “Fox? They found Diana murdered this morning. I know she was your friend.”
Mulder paused midstep. “Diana?”
“I’m sorry, Mulder.”
“Oh. God.” He ran a hand over his face and took a deep breath.
“I never trusted her, but she was the one who sent me the book. It was her keycard that let me in to get you. She saved you and now she’s dead...” Tears overflowed from her eyes and she leaned back into the lumpy cushions and covered them with one hand.
Mulder threw his towel onto the back of a dining room chair and crossed over to her. Kneeling down to face her, he said, “You couldn’t have known that would happen.”
“Mulder,” she said, “I’m scared.”
you’ll find a magical key attatched
my heart’s unlatched
and I charge
“I don’t know who to trust anymore. Everyone I trust goes away, and people that I should trust, I don’t. I don’t know what to do.” Tears filled her eyelids, and she fought visibly to control them.
He put one hand on her knee and reached the other up to run his knuckles across her cheek. The tears spilled over, wetting his hand, and she pressed her face closer. “I was like you once. Wasn’t sure who to trust, where to go. I gave up this life for one full of creature comforts, one with my sister.”
Her stunned eyes locked with his and he continued. “The only thing that was the same in that world, and this one, was you. You were the only one who told me to get up and keep fighting after everyone else was dead. You were my rock.” He sat up between her knees and moved his face closer to hers. “You still are. You’re my Gibraltar.”
She could smell the salt tears on his chin, and her mouth was uncontrollably drawn to it, placing a moist openmouthed kiss there softly. Mulder stiffened and Scully pulled away.
“I...I’m sorry I --” she whispered as his finger touched her lower lip. She looked up at him, silent, staring into his eyes. He pulled his finger away and lowered his mouth to the spot, pulling it into his mouth and sucking on it. She leaned up into the kiss.
His hands trembled as he reached up to cup her face, run them through her hair, pull her closer to him, and her back arched, pushing her torso up to meet his, as though she couldn’t get close enough to him, as though she thought she would die without him. It was slowly sucking her soul to his. It was union and more.
And then it stopped, and she pulled away. “Mulder. Fox.”
“Dana.” He said softly, standing up and pulling her to her feet.
“You’re my rock.”
He nodded, and she moved away from him and towards the door. It shut behind her with a soft clack.
what do you say
to a dream that won’t go away?
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