From: MJ Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:35:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: NEW: Smelling of Wet Smoke (1/1) by Maidenjedi (155 Words) Source: direct TITLE: Smelling of Wet Smoke AUTHOR: Maidenjedi RATING: PG CATEGORY: V, MSF, post-ep 'The End' ARCHIVE: Gossamer, Ephemeral, Spookys, list archives. Others please ask. SPOILERS: The End, again. DISCLAIMER: Not mine, thank you very much. SUMMARY: post-The End in 155 words. *** Author's Notes at the end. *X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X* The office had smelled like wet smoke. She'd stood there holding him, but it had been more like clinging. She knew who'd done this, and she imagined him standing somewhere nearby, gloating over his work. Mulder wasn't reacting. He let her cling to him, but it had yet to register. She'd led him back to her apartment, thinking they might be safer there than at his place. The smell of wet smoke clung to her clothes and his, and she peeled hers off while he sat dumbfounded in another room. When she joined him, he sat as he had stood, silent and with furrowed, confused brow. She offered him a drink, he didn't answer. She sat beside him, close as she could. After awhile her hand searched for his, and he responded at last, grasping and clinging. A single sob escaped, and his head fell to her chest. She held him, wet smoke and all. *X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X*X* Author's Notes: For Erica, to whom I owed a spoonfic. Feedback, criticism, what have you is always welcome. texgoddess@yahoo.com ===== "For the truest truths are what hold us together or keep us painfully, desperately apart." ~ Scully ---------------------- http://envy.nu/officemonkey