From: Weasel Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:09:45 -0500 Subject: We Should Have Known/FT challenge Source: xff Reply To: zippyweasel@yahoo.com Title: We Should Have Known Author: Weasel Feedback: zippyweasel@yahoo.com Category: V -- Humor . . . or is it? Off screen Character death, Langly POV Disclaimer: These characters belong to FOX, Chris Charter, 1013. Summary: Mulder, Scully and a bottle of wine. ********** We Should Have Known by Weasel ********** We should have seen it coming. I mean you would never know it by looking at her, but she's got one of those Irish fighting streaks in her. But murder? We should have known though -- there were so many signs. Scully first started hanging out with us a lot about six months ago. She needed somebody to listen to her and clean up the broken glass after her whiskey-soaked rages. We were happy enough to do it; we have our weekends free. The threats and the cursing didn't sound so harsh at four-thirty in the morning, and frankly we were all so intimidated by her. I mean what are you going to say to *Scully*? "Hey, Scully, when you describe his death in such active and frightening detail it makes it sound like you're really going to do it?" Sheeeesh. She might have broken another wine bottle and thrust the ragged neck into the sofa about 150 times like she did when we asked if Mulder knew that she was feeling angry. She was especially pissed about that word, "angry." So when she came to us that night with blood drying on her hands, we helped her out. What else could we do? We should have paid more attention to the signs and we felt responsible. So the lovely agent Scully got our highest quality passport job, and the name of a bar in Tampico where we have a buddy who took the one-way trip South of the border. We got an envelope the other day with no return address, postmarked from Brownsville. It had a picture of a sunset on a beach. There was a woman lying on the sand in a blue bikini, her skin the same shade of peachy white as the sand. You couldn't see her head; it had been cut out of the picture. There was one word written in lipstick on the back of the photo, "FREE." I'm thinking about going down there. You know, Mulder was an asshole anyway. Langly -end- Notes: This was actually written as a discussion board post, but I just had to pull it out and brush it off for the challenge on FICTALK to write a story with the summary, "Mulder, Scully and a bottle of wine." I just knew that I had a story somewhere in my bag that had Mulder, Scully, a bottle of wine and the consequences. I hope that sensitive readers were not offended by the delicate content (hey, I don't like character death either), but I tried to handle it with care and respect. Eve11 has a sequel and don't listen if she tries to deny it. Weasel [zippyweasel@yahoo.com] -- ************************************** A Weasel in the Chickenhouse -- the mini-archive http://www.netsys.hn/~mwetzel/files/fic.html