From: LilithK1013@AOL.com Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:24:02 EDT Subject: xfc: New -- Watch, By Andrina Source: xfc Title: Watch Author: Andrina Feedback: :) Please! (LilithK1013@AOL.com) Rating: PG 13. Read it anyway. Summary: Poor Cecelia. Disclaimer: Not mine. Status: V, part of a series Category: A. I don't think I know how to DO anything else. Spoilers: I don't do spoilers Archive: Sure. Author's Notes: I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. ---------- Watch ---------- I watch my daughter. She smiles and greets a customer with characteristic sweetness. The young man orders, and proceeds to go about openly gaping at her. She goes about her work, completely oblivious to his appreciation. Her co-worker says something and she laughs... Another one bites the dust, I think, a grin of my own splitting my face. She gives the young man his food. "Twenty-two fifty," she says, flipping a curtain of think red curls out of her face. The young man pulls out his wallet and tosses a couple of dollars in her tip jar then proceeds to count out the money for his food. He blushes. "I-I only have eighteen.." She smiles sympathetically. "How much did you put in the tip jar?" "Ah..five." She grins. "Well, thank you." She reaches into her tip jar and pulls out the five. She hands it to him, her hand brushing his innocently. He takes it, pulls the rest of his money from his wallet, and hands the wad of cash to her, smiling sheepishly. "I'm really sorry about that. " "Don't worry about it. You can tip me next time, okay?" He grins and walks away, an obviously peeved girlfriend trailing behind. Grinning, I turn from the scene. The poor schmuck never had a chance. She's just too great a girl, I think as I walk to my car. My grin falters as I realize that's what her father would have been like, had he not lost his sister. It's what I would have been like, if I had been given the chance. It's what Brian would have been like, if he hadn't had to watch his mother die from cancer. But of course, she doesn't know I'm her mother. She doesn't know that she comes by grief and regret genetically. She doesn't know that trouble will find her, now matter how far she runs. Trouble and grief and regret have a tracking system on all the Mulders. I turn back to the picture window at the front of the diner and watch her some more. It breaks my heart to know that the happy, well-adjusted young woman I watch will someday be eaten up with bitterness and heartache that never seems to go away. Poor Cecelia. But for now, I am content to wait for her until she gets out of work, and to give her a few more happy memories before the tragedy strikes. So I wait. And I watch. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I hope the writer in me doesn't kick the s--- out of the director when I watch it. I did the best I could." --David Duchovny, Entertainment Weekly, 23 April 1999. Q: I understand there's a kiss in this episode [6X03]. DD: "Yeah, oh yeah, a big one." GA: "How would I describe that kiss? Umm...wet." DD [in the background]: "It wasn't wet!" DD: "There's no tongue involved, but there's a lot of something there." Canning, Lisa. Interview with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Entertainment Tonight, 27 July 1998. "For Christ's sake, fuck that girl. Look at the way she's looking at you. Are you blind? Why do you think her mouth is always open?" -- David Duchovny to Mulder about Scully "There was a [recent] episode written and directed by Gillian that began and ended in Mulder's bedroom," Carter teases. "That would certainly bring up some questions for me." -- Chris Carter in an interview in June 2, 2000 Entertainment Weekly