From: Gwendolen Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:20:27 -0000 Subject: "Dawn Musing" by Gwendolen (1/1) (Slash) TITLE: Dawn Musing AUTHOR: Gwendolen EMAIL ADDRESS: d.scheele@rol3.com DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT: SPOILER WARNING: None, I think. Correct me if I was wrong. RATING: PG13 CONTENT WARNING: Slash m/m CLASSIFICATION: V SUMMARY: Alex is suffering from insomnia. DISCLAIMER: Unfortunately not mine. But I promise to give them back so that others can also play a bit. NOTES: An older piece which first appeared in *Whereabouts Unknown*. Special thanks to Anne for beta. All remaining faults are mine. FEEDBACK: Do you have to ask? Of course! Pretty Please! Send it to me at Gwendolen: d.scheele@rol3.com XXXXXXX Dawn Musing by Gwendolen July 98 The first light of the coming day falls into the room. It's time to leave. I know you hate it when I leave before you wake up. Is that the romantic in you who dreams off sleeping and waking up in a lover's arms? Or does it simply scare you? Does the night and all we did take on a dreamlike quality when I'm not there anymore? Or is it simply your conscience rearing it's little head and complaining about the stupid things you did last night? I wonder if it sounds like Scully. Anyway, here I am, telling myself that I should leave, be gone when you wake. I hate saying good-bye, but that's not the only reason, leaving you becomes harder and harder every time I have to do it. But how can I leave when you look like this, so young and vulnerable. Your face is relaxed in sleep, no nightmares this time. You're curled up on your side, the sheets around your waist, your beautiful chest and arms bare. I want to touch you, I ache to touch you, but I don't, you need your sleep. My beautiful lover, you're not even aware how much you influence me. It's not only your face and body, as tempting as they are, it's also your mind, this fascinating, twisted, and amazing thing. Listen to me, Fox, how cliched I sound. I don't only love you for your body but also for your mind. I should leave, make sure that no one sees me. We still have to hide this, us and I loathe it. Do you? Could you picture us in a house with a picket fence, a cat and a dog? Domesticated and tamed? I can't but I would love some time alone with you, somewhere safe where we could simply be together, make love, spend some quality time together. No FBI. No Consortium. No past. No future. Just us. But that's just a dream, it won't happen, not in this life. Still, it's a nice dream. I should leave now. It's too dangerous to stay much longer. But how can I leave when you need me here, when you need someone to touch and hold? This is something Scully can't or won't offer. I admit I'm jealous of her, the place she has in your life, her importance. I wish you'd need me this much but you don't. Would you miss me when I suddenly didn't turn up anymore? Or would you be glad? There are times when I still can't believe what we have now. So much happened in the past. So much stood between us. But somehow fate always threw us together again, didn't it? And it's good, isn't it? I should leave, but instead I get back into bed with you and curl myself around you, feeling you shift to accommodate me. This is where I belong. ~ End ~