Disclaimer- All I own of the X-Files are the nine boxsets, Mulder and Scully belong only to each other.

NOTES- okay, bad songfic, but we've got to do it sometime, right? lol. The lyrics are from FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE- HEY JULIE and I have obviously changed them slightly. This bad songfic is running through Mulder's head in season two, while the x files are closed. Ah! Save us all!

Hey Scully

Working all day for a mean little man
With a clip-on tie and a rub-on tan
Skinner's got me running 'round the office like a dog around a track
I wish when I get home,
You'd be there to rub my back

Hey Scully,
Look what they're doing to me
Trying to trip me up
Trying to wear me down
Scully, I swear, it's so hard to bear it
And I'd never make it through without you around

Hours on the phone making pointless calls
I got a desk full of papers that means nothing at all
Sometimes I catch myself staring into space
Counting down the hours 'til I get to see your face

Hey Scully,
Look what they're doing to me
Trying to trip me up
Trying to wear me down
Scully, I swear, it's so hard to bear it
And I'd never make it through with out you around
No, I'd never make it through with out you around

How did it come to be
That you and I must be
Far away from each other every day?
Why must I spend my time
Filling up my mind
With facts and figures that never add up anyway?
They never add up anyway

Working all day for a mean little guy
With a bad toupee and a soup-stained tie
Skinner's got me running 'round the office
Like a gerbil on a wheel
He can tell me what to do
But he can't tell me what to feel

Hey Scully,
Look what they're doing to me
Trying to trip me up
Trying to wear me down
Scully, I swear, it's so hard to bear it
And I'd never make it through with out you around
No, I'd never make it through without you around
No, I'd never make it through with out you around.

It ran through his head exactly like that.

It described exactly how he was feeling.

It was infuriating.

Someone, the same someone that had assigned Scully to the X Files around a year ago, had always been out to get them.

Since the beginning.

It's definitely "really hard to smile through it when they ask you to bend down and grab your ankles."

He had said that to Scully, and it definitely had a lot of truth to it.

The assignments he was being... assigned to were regular.

No specialist required, local law enforcement cases.

Yet Mulder was being stuck with them.

Just to Humiliate, discredit and degrade him?

Probably not, although that did come into it.

To distract him.

To keep him away from Scully.

To keep him away from the x files.

The truth was in there, and someone didn't want him to know it.

He needed them back.

The two things he needed, just to exist.

the x-files... and her.

THE END