From: Isahunter@aol.com
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 15:04:55 EDT
Subject: NEW: "Scene 10: Turning Point" by Diadem (1/1)
Source: xff


Title:  Scene 10: Turning Point (1/1)

Author:  Diadem

Category: V, A

Rating: G

Spoilers: Pilot

Feedback:  Of course!  In fact, as this is kind of an 
     experiment, I would really appreciate it.
     Diadem@cwcom.net

Archive:  Gossamer's fine, anywhere else please let 
     me know first.

Disclaimer:  Mulder and Scully do not belong to me.  
     They belong to CC, 10:13 and Fox, but please remember, 
     imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!

Notes:  This is the tenth in a series of unrelated short, 
     experimental pieces, that might be or might only be 
     pretending to be monologues.  The others can be found 
     at  http://www.aliens.mcmail.com/isadiadem

     Mulder POV.


Scene 10: Turning Point (1/1)

I have finally met my match.  Or so it would seem, 
and I'm usually a pretty good judge of character when 
I only have first impressions to go on.  And first 
impressions are all I have at the moment, but believe 
me, I hope to have a lot more impressions very soon.
     Dana Scully is... intriguing.  It seems so 
degrading to narrow everything about her into one 
word, but if I had to, that would be my chosen word.
I don't know why.  I guess it's because I do know 
so little about her.
     Before I met her I had researched her extensively.  
Einstein?  Please.  How could she be anything but a 
career centred control freak, accepting this little 
assignment to get rid of the lunatic in the basement 
who is taking up valuable storage space with his weird  
hobby.  She would attempt to push me out, I'd drag her
along to a graveyard in the middle of the night, and 
she would run screaming.  I should have known to change 
my tactics - just my luck to end up with a forensic 
pathologist.
     So that was my usual trick down the metaphorical 
drain.  What to do next?  Before I even get a chance 
to dream up a suitably horrible "experience" she's at 
my door, tearful and scared, and drops her robe.  I 
tried, I really did, but I am a warm blooded male 
after all.
     She trusted me.  Why?  What on earth have I done 
to deserve that trust?  I pull her to the exhumation 
of a grave - no reaction from her, but it's not exactly 
easing her gently into the work, now is it?
     I think that's why I am so attracted to her - she 
is totally unfazed by anything I throw in her direction.  
Be it a rainy graveyard in the middle of the night, or 
a decomposing extra terrestrial corpse, she doesn't 
bat an eyelid.
     She is wonderfully honest, almost two dimensionally 
so, keeping nothing back, trusting me with everything, 
and yet I just know that there are many facets to 
Dana Scully, each more fascinating than the last.  Does 
that sound cliched?  Need I even ask - of course it does.  
But somehow it doesn't matter, not with her.
     I was so determined not to like her.  I think I'm 
trying to convince myself she's a traitor, even now, 
but it's not going to work.  We reached a turning 
point in that graveyard.  As she stood across from me, 
not six feet away, laughing almost hysterically with 
the rain water dripping from her face and hair, I knew 
she wouldn't give up on me.  Sure, she thinks I'm 
crazy, but I'm used to that.  What I was not used to 
was the sudden realisation that I don't want her to 
leave.  There, I've said it.  I do not want Dana Scully 
to leave me.
     She argues with me almost before I have even 
opened my mouth.  She seems to know what I am about to 
say, and she is always right.  She's a little confused, 
but that's only to be expected, and she sure as hell 
isn't going to let me know it.  She only gave me a 
glimpse, but that is enough for me.  Enough to prove 
she is human.  Enough to prove she is not one of them.
     By all accounts she should hate me.  By all 
accounts I should hate her, I guess.  But I don't, not 
by a long shot.  In fact, I am beginning to suspect 
my feelings towards my new partner may be leaning in 
completely the opposite direction.  Best not to think 
about it.
     But it's difficult not to think about it.  All 
my other so called partners irritated me beyond 
belief when they offered me "alternative" theories.  
But when she does it, I feel great.  I relish it.  It 
defies all logic.  But then, that's my job, to apply 
logic to those things which defy it by their very nature.  
And Dana Scully seems to have a very defiant character.
     But I can't let her know, not yet, maybe not ever.  
She came into this assignment expecting it to be tough, 
with difficult cases and a difficult partner as a bonus.
     I wouldn't want to disappoint her.

End (1/1)

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