This House
Title: This House
Authoress: Matty Dreamer
Rated:G
Spoilers for: Conduit
Summary: This takes place during the episode Conduit. It's Mulder's thoughts after the NSA takes the little boy away and searches the house. It's before he sees the top of the trailer. Finished
Reviews: Yes please!
This house lies in an unnatural turmoil; a lifetime's worth of possessions strewn about like so much trash. The white noise of the television fills the house, a sullen and bitter sound. I close my eyes and listen hard, trying to hear what the boy had heard, but all I can hear is the angry rumble of the empty air space. Just for a moment, I can hear the anguish of a sanctuary desecrated, the faint and powerful demand for healing and revenge, but I don't know if I can. I don't even know where to start. Wandering through the wreckage, I set the furniture back on its feet. Try as I might, I can't remember just how it stood before. A slow, burning rage flares hotly in my chest. I slam my fist down on the end table. I don't want it to be different when the family returns. I don't want them to remember how their house was violated; raped. Will this place ever feel safe again? Can they still call it home? Upstairs in the room at the far end of the hall, I imagine a sea of toys scattered across the floor. In my mind, the toys asre cast in an insidious light, a light that tells you that these toys were not left here by loving hands. The walls are naked, stripped of childhood masterpieces. Story books lay in a puddle like interrupted dreams. I walk up the stairs to the room and step in, eyes closed tight.