Disclaimer: X-Files characters do not belong to me, they belong to Chris Carter.
"Mulder, stop!" Scully said, distracted because of his annoying habits. Well, not so much annoying as sexy… but she shouldn't go there.
"Stop what?" Mulder asked innocently, really not knowing what he did.
They were working on the paperwork for the case they just solved. A police officer went missing in a town where a cult supposedly was based. It had turned out to be a hoax, but there was still a lot of paperwork to be done on it. She had to admit though, most of the time, Mulder's theories made sense, and sometimes they were even right. She had realized a long time ago that she only resisted these theories because it was what she was used to. Even if she did believe, she had to give him another point of view to consider. It was her job, it was what he expected of her, and if nothing else, it was just plain fun. She loved to argue with him, to test his imagination and his intellectual skills.
She was so absorbed in her own thoughts that she didn't hear Mulder's question.
"Scully? Earth to Scully, please respond..." Mulder moved his hand up and down in front of her face.
"Hmm?" She asked, snapping back into reality.
"You kind of zoned out there. You asked me to stop doing something, but I don't even know what I was doing." Mulder looked at her curiously.
"Oh yeah," She suddenly remembered, "You were throwing pencils at the ceiling and eating sunflower seeds and it was distracting. Don't you have work to do? Skinner is expecting these reports in half an hour."
"I'm done. And why is it so annoying to you that I throw pencils and eat sunflower seeds?" He asked.
If he knew why, he would probably run away screaming sexual harassment. She thought that he was so cute when he was concentrating on making the pencils stick. It wasn't even what he was doing, it was how he looked while he was doing it. He squinted his eyes, tilted his chin up, and threw. It was such a simple thing, but she found it the most attractive thing he could do. Well, that and eat those damn sunflower seeds. She loved how his lower lip jutted out when he bit the seed. She loved the look on his face when the seed reached his taste buds. It looked like he was in heaven. She knew that it wasn't actually that cute, but to her, it was the hottest thing he could possibly do.
She had it bad. She was in love with her partner, Fox Mulder. Spooky Mulder. The guy that believed in little green men. Scully knew that she should be mortified, but ever since she admitted it to herself years ago, she felt totally at peace with herself. There was no more internal debate about his hotness or his theories, there was just peace. She realized that because there was no more debate, she worked better. She was able to accept his theories with less argument and she just worked better with him in general. So the answer to his question was that it was distracting because it was hot. Not like she would ever tell him that. She could only imagine how that conversation would go, "Hey Mulder, it's distracting because I think it's really hot. So could you please stop? I have a report to finish." Oh yeah, that would go over real well.
"Really? You think it's hot?" Mulder asked, eyebrows raised.
Scully's mouth dropped open. She had said that out loud! She was absolutely mortified.
"Scully, you're turning about five different shades of red. It's ok, I think it's really hot when you bite your bottom lip when you concentrate," Mulder said and then looked down, apparently engrossed in something important on his desk.
"Thanks Mulder," Scully said, and then started to finish her paperwork. Wow, that was weird. He thought she was hot when she did that. It was an unconscious habit, but she could understand why he thought that.
Half an hour later, Scully finished with the case report and printed it out, completely unaware of Mulder's eyes on her. The phone rang, its shrill tone startling them both. Mulder picked it up and put the receiver to his ear. Thirty seconds later, Mulder put the phone down and turned to Scully.
"Skinner wants the reports. He says he also has a new case for us." And with that, the flustered agents headed up to Skinner's office.
Ok I need ideas, especially about the new case. I would also love a Beta reader with some experience in writing X-Files fanfic. It would be great if a potential beta still went to school so we might have the same schedule. School is gonna suck next week! Lots of pre-exam tests and stuff. I hope I'll get to update soon. I'll probably write more when I'm supposed to be listening to some boring Broadcasting performances.