I love this story's prose, too. I'm seduced by it. I end up liking Scully, too, despite how unsympathetically she's been written (take that, Jeylan!).

I also got very plugged into the last lines where Mulder is feeling alone, because even the person he loves and who loves him back doesn't understand him. I felt that way, all the time when I was growing up, so that sense of alienation feels familiar, and she writes that beautifully. What I think Jeylan has missed the boat on to some extent, in her portrayal of Special Snowflake Mulder, is that the alienation is not anyone's fault and that the distancing is to a great extent, self-protective. She is a much better stylist than she is a student of human nature.