Story 111: "Melancholia" by Jeylan

[wendelah1]

"Melancholia" is one of the most unabashedly Romantic stories ever written in this fandom. It seems like it shouldn't work: an old, abandoned house, a graveyard in the rain, Mulder reading Marvell and Shelly and weaving a wreath of flowers for Scully's hair. Her Mulder is mercurial and Byronic, her Scully more earthbound. It's a love story for the ages.

Or is it?

Suggested by estella_c, seconded by me.

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"Melancholia"

Comments

[leucocrystal]

Yeah... pretty much this. I'd add more, but I really do think you and amyhit covered it all.

The most I remember about the first time I read this fic was how odd the whole thing felt to me, and how I thought I might like it (and I did take the necessary moment to bookmark it), but wasn't completely sure (hence my tagging it with "cracked" when I did so). It does have beautiful language, but there was something about it that just seemed so bizarre to me now. Now that I'm reading others' thoughts, it seems much clearer to me why that was.