She wraps herself tightly in her arms. He's reminded of a caterpillar bound in its cocoon, except Scully has never been a caterpillar. She's always been a butterfly. Butterflies belong in the sunlight;they can't survive buried beneath the dirt with the grubs. There's a beautiful illustration that was done for this story here: storybycorey dot tumblr dot com/post/157356900534/
X-Files - Rated: M - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,234 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 6 - Published: 3/29/2017 - F. Mulder, D. Scully