From: Erilyn <erilyn_c@yahoo.com>
Date: 22 Sep 1998 11:57:24 GMT
Subject: New: The Peach and the Black (1/1)

The Peach and the Black
by Erilyn (erilyn_c@yahoo.com)

Classification: Vignette - Humour
Rating: G 
Spoilers: The Red and the Black
Archive: Gossamer, yes.  Anywhere else, ask first please.
Disclaimer: Not mine (dammit!)
Summary: "Missing scene" from "The Red and the Black".
Feedback: Feed me, feed me :)

I wrote this just after I saw "The Red and the Black",
and it's been sitting on my hard drive since (poor thing!)
It is a scene I felt should have been in it, in between 
Mulder and Scully leaving his apartment and 
arriving at the Airforce base.   
Warning: silliness ahead!

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"What is this?"

"May be an answer, to a question you and I seem 
to have been destined to ask."

Scully watched her tall partner stride from his dark 
apartment, and quickly followed him out of apartment 
and downstairs.

"You haven't told me what you've found out yet.  
Or how?"

They reached the car, Mulder automatically hopping 
into the driver's seat.  As Scully slid into the 
passenger seat she got a good look at Mulder's right 
side, illuminated by the internal car light. 

She froze.

"Mulder", she said, very quietly, very deliberately.

He froze.  It was the tone of Scully's voice which he 
always thought of as the 'danger, danger, warning Fox 
Mulder' tone of voice.

She continued, "You've got lipstick on your face."

"What the hell!" he exclaimed, twisting the rear 
view mirror so he could see his face.  There was 
a smear of peach lipstick on his cheek and lips.

"He wears lipstick?" he asked disbelievingly, not 
thinking about the consequences of his words 
until he saw Scully's eyebrows almost disappear
of the top of her forehead.

"He? *Who* have you been kissing, Mulder?" 
the pitch of her voice rising sharply.

He mumbled something inaudible, starting the 
car and backing out into the street.

"Who?" her voice was like a whip crack.

"Krycek, but he kissed me I didn't kiss him it 
wasn't like that Scully it was just a kiss on the 
cheek you know how these Russians are", the
words came tumbling out as he took a corner 
just a little quickly.

Scully didn't say anything.  Mulder waved his 
hand in front of her face, just to check she hadn't 
flaked out on him, relieved when she swatted him.

Scully remained silent and composed during 
Mulder's account of Krycek's ambush and 
bizarre tale of warring aliens.

"Frankly, I don't know what to think", he offered, 
trying to discern her response to all this.

She replied seriously, "I know. Peach is entirely 
the wrong colour for Krycek, he should go for 
something darker."

"What!"

"Do you think he wears mascara, because he has
gorgeous eyelashes?  It's not fair, if that's mascara
I want to know what he's using.  Eyelashes like 
that are wasted on a guy."

Mulder stared at his partner silently, then shook his 
head and floored the car.

Inextricable relationships indeed.

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Yep, it was pretty silly, but that was what I was thinking
during RatB :)  Tell me what you think, I dare ya!
(erilyn_c@yahoo.com)