The Spectrum of Light
Brown and Hazel is a natural color that evokes a sense of strength and reliability. It is often seen as solid, much like the earth. It is a color often associated with resilience, dependability, security, and safety. Brown and Hazel can also create feelings of loneliness, sadness and isolation.
Ever since Dana Scully was a child she had always been told by her mother what it feels like when you see that special person for the first time.
She had been told that the world erupts into various shades of colours, spreading out across the room like the spectrum of light from a glass prism. They say that your world that had once only consisted of various boring forms and shades of black, white and gray would suddenly become colourful with mixtures of blue, red,green, orange, brown and more in all hues and textures imaginable. Her mother had told her that you would never see things in the same way again. A beautiful idea but surely a metaphorical one.
As a child and even as a teenager (despite the rebellious streak she had quickly adopted), Dana had unquestionably belived what her mother had told her and Melissa when they were little girls, tucked in bed and begging for a bedtime story from their mother while their father(who usually read Moby Dick to them) was away at sea. She had accepted it as a truth, one not only her mother and father spoke of but one seemingly agreed on by society itself. Dana had believed what others had said about this strange phenomenon that somehow made it possible to see in colour once your eyes fell on your soulmate.
Her faith in the colours began to waver after Daniel Waterson, her medical school professor entered her life. For two years Dana Scully was entirely sure she loved the man, sure that he was her soulmate despite the fact the world remained as colorless as before to her. It hadn't matter that he had already seen the colours and had already married the woman who shared the colours with him.
None of it mattered in the slightest to her because Dana Scully was sure that she loved him, was sure that he loved her and she was determined in her empty belief. But their love wouldn't last. It was too dull and unfulfilling. It was black,white and gray.
Time and experience changed her. Somehow along the way she had given up on the utopian ideology that the colours represented. The world was black and white and she couldn't see how one person could change all of that no matter how many people (both of her brothers now included by the year 1993) claimed it. She did accept their beliefs, she just didn't share them.
And even if it was true, Dana never thought it would be him of all people. She never thought it would be the promising young profiler who had abandoned his career to delve headfirst into the paranormal, the unknown and the alien.
Dana Scully never thought that it would be the man that every other agent at the academy called 'Spooky Mulder' who would change her outlook on the soulmates phenomenon, despite the prickle of interest she had felt in the pit of her stomach when she had heard her fellow agents talking animatedly about him at Quantico. At the time she had quelled down the feeling storing it away, chalking it down to ridiculousness. The antics of Fox Mulder had absolutely nothing to do with her.
She wasn't expecting him to come into her life nor was she expecting to come into his, but somehow she couldn't suppress an almost affectionate smirk when Chief Belvins had asked her did she know of Fox Mulder.
"Only by reputation", she replied quickly despite how her heart screamed otherwise.
Little did Dana Scully know that the first colour she would see would be the melting hazel of Fox Mulder's irises, a total contradiction to her beloved science.