Overthinking
A/N: This was previously posted under the title "Sensibility and Sense". I rewrote the chapters I already posted. The story and evolution are the same; I just brought some changes in my writing. Hope it's better and you will like it.
Okay so, there is still a big debate out there to try to guess how this whole "Mulder and Scully as a couple" started. I'm pretty sure that a huge amounts of FF here deal with this. The main subject of this debate remains about what may or may not have happened in all things (ie: sex). Some people think it happened way earlier, between Millennium and Rush others, think that all things was when it all seriously started for good.
I'm not a shipper, I never was. Neither for The X-Files nor for the other shows. However I'm deeply interested and invested in those characters, so of course, I have my own theory on this. I'm not really an FF writer either. I just wrote one for another show but it was actually more of an analysis written in script format. Here is my first attempt at a real fictional narrative.
I see Mulder as the more openly emotional of the duo; the one who is not afraid to be driven by his feelings, while Scully is more secretive and more rational. I think that's why we more saw Mulder being the one who chased after Scully and initiated things between them, and not the other way around. What I'm proposing here is to describe the slow evolution of their relationship in season 7 as I see it. It's some thoughts Mulder and Scully could have had in my imagination. I'm gonna go almost episode by episode starting with Millennium.
Here is my first chapter. There's only Mulder in this one but I already wrote drafts for other chapters where I went into Scully thought process.
Please note that I'm French and that being more of a scriptwriter and essays writer I'm not used to use this kind of narrative format so any advice and criticism is more than welcome! Note that I also write without proofreader or beta reader.
Hope you'll enjoy.
Millennium Aftermath
The World did not end, Mulder mused, as he was getting ready for work. Actually it even seemed as the same as before. All the crazy theories and talks about the New Millennium were just that: crazy.
The craziest thing Mulder did was kissing Scully. He might believe in a lot of things that are considered crazy, he had never believed that anything would have happened on the Millennium. Except that in some way, something did happen. He kissed Scully. On the lips. This time for real. Some part of him stupidly wondered if he would have had the courage to finally do it if it would not have had been for the Millennium. After all, he had thought about it for quite sometime now, but never got the guts to really do it before. The missed kiss in the hallway 2 years ago notwithstanding.
He did not quite get the meaning of her positive response yet, but he could not help feeling good and hopeful at the fact that she kissed him back. After everything that happened in the last year, with Diana especially, he had expected Scully to spurn him. But, no, she just kissed back. Maybe the world was not totally the same as it was before the Millennium, after all.
The first time he told her he loved her, she reacted indifferently, even mocking him before leaving his hospital room. She just simply attributed this sudden confidence to the drug he was on. It had been a huge disappointment but he did not want to give up.
There, not only Scully kissed him back, she then took him back to her apartment. Granted, it had just been because he had been injured, and he couldn't be trusted with meds (her words). But still, it was a good sign, right? After all, Mulder was thinking, she did not have to bring him along to her mom's, for the New Year's celebration lunch but she did it anyway. Okay, technically, since he had still been at her apartment when she had to go, he just tagged along. Maggie was thrilled to see him and it was a very nice day, especially since he managed to steal another kiss from Scully. It had been under some mistletoe, the only moment they had really been alone, but it still counted in his mind. She had not said anything and had just accepted the kiss.
Mulder jumped at the sound of his phone ringing. He was still shaving. Damn! How much time had passed since he went to his bathroom? He was certainly late and this phone call he had just missed was certainly Scully's. Mulder had a step back, a bit startled at the sight of his own reflection, smiling at him horribly like a goof in the mirror.
"Just wait for another sign," he said out loud before rapidly finishing to get ready for work.
