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From: ephemeral@ephemeralfic.org
Date: 2 Oct 2004 03:13:58 -0000
Subject: Revised: 155 Words: Accustomed by Pattie
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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, and when she knew it.  

Feedback: pattie@parentpatch.com or trish59@444.net

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 accustomed to Mulder.