From: Aeb502@aol.com
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 21:57:06 EST
Subject: Sleeping Beauty

Title - Sleeping Beauty - Scheherezade
Rating - PG
Category -  S
Spoilers - X-Files: Fight The Future
Summary:  Has anyone ever thought how much the X-files movie story resembles
Sleeping Beauty??..

Disclaimer:  Mulder, Scully, 1013, et al.:
                     Me no own
                     You no sue
                      We no problem
Dedication:  To Robin-it is all your fault!
 Author's Note: I'm not exactly sure how to progress.  My first X-files fairy
tale did OK, so I started thinking what I would tackle next.  I hit upon
"Sleeping Beauty" and started outlining the plot.  As I did, it occurred to me
how well the movie fit into the basic "Sleeping Beauty" story.  So, here goes?

Sleeping Beauty
By: Scheherezade
      Somewhere, one night, lines blurred, and the world of fairy tales mixed
with the world of film story, and this was the result?
     Scully, the modern day Princess Aurora, had a curse hanging over her.  It
was not in the form of a sharp distaff that she was destined to prick her
finger on, but in the form of a small bee hiding in her collar, who was
destined to prick her with its deadly little stinger.  This prick, wherever it
came from, was not destined to come on the princess's 16th birthday, but
instead at a critical moment in the relationship of Scully and her prince.
Scully's analeptic shock did not have the duration of a hundred year's sleep,
but the 48 hours it lasted were long enough for Mulder.  Mulder did not have
to fight the wall of brambles his princely predecessor did, but instead had to
face the harsh, biting conditions of Antarctica.  But face them he did, and
when he found his princess he awakened her with (what else?) a kiss, of mouth-
to-mouth resuscitation, and some powerful potion, provided by a good wizard (I
can't very well turn the well-manicured man into a fairy, now can I?  Besides,
in some versions, the prince is aided by a mysterious old man, who gives him
the sword that parts the brambles).  Scully awakens, and while she and Mulder
do not live "happily ever after"  they are at least still working together,
even if it is not on the reopened X-Files.  
The End
 Short and sweet. Questions, comments, confusions, queries?  Flames?  Send
them to abander@vt.edu
Hope you liked it, another will be forthcoming.