Accustomed
Posted originally on the Archive of Our Own at [Link]
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Category: F/M
Fandom: The X-Files
Relationship: Fox Mulder/Dana Scully
Character: Dana Scully
Additional Tags: Episode: s02e13 Irresistible, Episode: s04e17 Tempus Fugit, Angst,
Vignette, Episode: s01e04 Jersey Devil, Episode: s02e08 One Breath,
Unresolved Sexual Tension
Collections: The Spooky Awards 2004
Stats: Published: 2004-10-01 Words: 233
Accustomed
by Pattie [archived by spookyawards_archivist]
Summary
155 words. Scully wonders just when she became so accustoned to Mulder.
Notes
Note from alice ttlg, the archivist: this story was originally archived at Spooky Awards, and
was moved to the AO3 as part of the Open Doors project in 2018. I tried to reach out to all
creators about the move and posted announcements, but may not have reached everyone. If
you are the creator and would like to claim this work, please contact me using the e-mail
address on SpookyAwards' collection profile.
Title: 155 Words: Accustomed
Author: Pattie
Rated: PG
Category: 155 word count, Scully POV.
Spoilers: References to Jersey Devil, Irresistible, One Breath, Tempus Fugit.
Summary: Scully wonders just how she became so comfortable with Mulder, anfdd when she knew
it.
Archive: Gossamer, Ephemeral. Others please ask.
Disclaimers: Mulder, Scully, The X-Files are owned by Chris Carter, 1013 Productions, and Fox
Studios. No money gathered; no intentional copyright trespass.
If anyone were to ask when I first knew, I would have to go and think about it. This isn't something
that you clue in to the instant it happens. It's a sense, a feeling that grows over time.
A human grows from egg meeting sperm, forming a viable person in nine months. A natural
progression. Birth, infancy, toddlerhood, childhood, adolescence and adulthood until death are all
on a continuum. This is a good analogy of the process I've been going through.
Was it the night he gave me the Apollo Eleven keychain for my birthday? The cold, dark night he
found me shut in a closet by Donnie Pfaster, I hung onto him for dear life? Perhaps the day I
regained consciousness after my abduction? Or, was it the night we spent in the forest when I tried
to keep him alive?
All I know is that now I am totally accustoned to Mulder.
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