Character: Dana Scully
Fandom: The X-files
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 231
Prompt: 001-The fox as shepherd for 100_fairytales
The stars shown in his darkly intense hazel eyes, turned upwards to the fathomless black above. He couldn't really believe what he was saying, could he, about white lights and alien ships? This was all madness, a trick of the moonlight in the Oregon woods, the brightness of Sheriff Miles' flashlight, nothing more.
"I saw it, Scully," Fox Mulder insisted, awe mingling with delight as his gaze scanned the heavens. "That boy, Billy Miles, was taken somewhere, just for an instant."
"Mulder you saw a flash of light, nothing more." Dana Scully had seen nothing. She had been caught in the woods, waylaid already by the angry sheriff, and forced to try and track down her partner in the darkness.
"But you saw it," Mulder replied, with the insistence of the believer.
"I saw something." She would neither confirm nor deny it. "It could be anything, Mulder, what makes you so sure it was an alien ship?"
"I'm not...but I'm open to believing it was one." He finally cast down his eyes towards hers. "I want to believe it."
"I can't," she gasped, feeling suddenly foolish with herself that she couldn't just buy into these things as easily as he could. He made it sound so easy.
"Than trust me," he replied simply, holding out his hand.