Story 4: Belmont, Ohio, 3:36 P.M. by Sarah Segretti

[wendelah1]

This week's post was nominated bywendelah1. That would be me. I read this story for the first time this year, although it was originally posted back in September 2000. It is rated PG for a couple of naughty words, the category is VRA, although I haven't a clue what that is supposed to mean. The author's summary says: "A minivan, some classic rock, and a trunk full of babygear. All is not as it appears." Yes folks, this is AU, MSR, babyfic and songfic. Happy Holidays! I hope you enjoy it, too. I don't know why Sarah Segretti never archived it but here it is:

http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.tv.x-files.creative/msg/92d0d0913d9895c0?dmode=source

Let us know what you think; let the author know what you think; and please, let us know your suggestions for next time.
Come on, people, we know you are out there! Please,  I am at home on disability and I am lonely and bored! Don't make me beg...

Edit: as pointed out, by tree, this story is also at Gossamer, and on her webpage, which is somewhere out there in cyberspace. My bad, folks. I should have looked closer... her webpage is now down. But Gossamer lives!

Comments

Re: And baby makes three

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

I found the resolution of the William arc to be so heartrending that I resisted even watching the episode for the longest time. In fact, I resisted season nine in its entirety. Those DVDs sat in their box unopened, their owner sticking to her sworn path of "Deny Everything." When I finally broke down and watched the episode, I was shocked at the cruelty of the writers toward Scully.

I avoid babyfic for this reason. It just makes me sad, because I want to believe in a happy ending for the perfect little family that we got to view, so briefly at the end of season eight. I want to believe and I can't. It didn't happen, something else did, something unimaginable to me, as a mother.

I haven't watched that episode, and I'm not going to. Cruelty is exactly right, but beyond that I can't see the scenario as psychologically realistic at all. Giving a baby up for adoption at birth? Possible, albeit heartrending. I can imagine Scully doing that in season one, say, if she had gotten pregnant accidentally and been unable as a Catholic to go through with an abortion. But in season nine, after her infertility, and having lost and found Mulder, and having given birth to and raised their baby... no. I can't see that she would ever choose that, and if she had to, it would destroy her.

Enough said. I am depressing myself.

Re: And baby makes three

[wendelah1]

I quite agree. I am sorry to be depressing you. I have been thinking a lot about the end of the series, I suppose, because of the second movie filming. I keep trying to come up with a plausible scenario for M&S to be reinstated (and to have retrieved William) but none comes to mind, unfortunately. They really did a number on my head with the adoption. I can't imagine Scully going on after that, either. I can imagine, though, the torment she was in. She wasn't able to keep William safe. She tried contacting Mulder and only ended up nearly getting him killed in the process. She was between a rock and a hard place. Stupid writers. She was betrayed by her creators.