The Work of An Instant
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Scully and Mulder attend a game night at the Gunmen’s lair, and change is in the air. Takes place sometime in season 7.
“She sips at her drink. She feels the burn of the vodka soda down her throat; she feels the pull of recklessness. It’s not the drink or the impulse alone that makes her swing; she’s felt this way plenty of times before, seen it in herself, reeled herself back in. The dance is familiar: a call, and an inevitable response; impulse and restraint the perfect twins. She’s not someone who doesn’t feel the pull of temptation, she’s just exceedingly good at resisting it. But tonight, somehow, her reserve and her discretion, which at times have felt painfully, almost punitively inexhaustible—even to her—have run out.
Maybe this is the moment that changes everything.”
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- Part 1 of The Work of An Instant
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Mulder and Scully take part in an undercover operation, and Mulder learns something about Scully's feelings for him. Takes place in season 6, shortly after The Unnatural.
"He wonders if she’ll find that freeing, knowing that he won't be listening, and no one they know will be listening. In general, they save the truest things for each other. *We neither of us perform to strangers.* But today it might be helpful to perform to an audience of strangers who will soon forget her words."
This is a completed story; Chapter 2 will be posted in the next few days.
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- Part 2 of The Work of An Instant
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Late season 6, Scully comes to a sudden realization about Mulder's feelings for her while in the middle of a Bureau policy meeting. Part of my 'The Work of an Instant' series.
"It will never get old. Scully will never get over this: the feeling of walking down the hall together, of being in sync with one another, of walking into the fire together. Even when the fire is utterly mundane, an internal policy review meeting on the second floor of the Hoover Building. She listens to the click of their shoes on the floor and feels Mulder’s hand on her lower back as they approach the doors at the back of the auditorium and feels—as she often does beside him—that she is exactly where she is meant to be."
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- Part 3 of The Work of An Instant
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Mulder joins Scully for a family dinner at Maggie's house.
"It’s early December and there is snow on the roads as they begin their drive out to Baltimore, late on a Sunday afternoon. Scully drives; she's more confident than he is in the snow. He’s not sure she’s a better driver in bad conditions than he is, but she is more confident. She seems to relish checking the tread on her tires, continually assessing her traction. He likes having the chance to watch her a little, while she drives and they talk. She’s wearing a soft, dark-grey button up sweater, and the pearl earrings she often seems to wear to dinner at her mother’s house."
This is part of my 'The Work of An Instant' series. In each story of this series Mulder and Scully share a moment of sudden realization about their feelings for one another, while they are surrounded by other people. Each story stands alone, and can be read by itself.
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- Part 4 of The Work of An Instant
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In season 6, shortly after the events of The Rain King, Mulder and Scully find themselves with some free time in a small town at the end of a case.
This work is complete; remaining chapters will be posted later this week and early next week.
This is part of my 'The Work of An Instant' series. In each story of this series Mulder and Scully share a moment of sudden realization about their feelings for one another, while they are surrounded by other people. Each story stands alone, and can be read by itself.
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- Part 5 of The Work of An Instant
- Part 2 of One Weekend