I like both poetic and more simple prose, but poetic prose done well is just so gorgeous. I mean, I should be really annoyed with this fic, because character bashing in general gets my hackles up like nothing else, but I'm all O_O oh pretty.

That last feeling really got me*, too, because it resonated a lot with me and what I usually feel about the people around me. All the same, that's not how I see them usually (they have their moments, of course), which is why I can't help wondering if it's just a consequence of her really hating Scully, or if it was written at a particularly place in canon when it was a common interpretation of the true nature of their relationship.

*Particularly, because I can only rarely verbalize a general feeling a story gave me, and that last part made it clear consciously for me that it was about alienation.